How fast food has changed since I was a kid munching on a dried squid tentacle (Japan), or gleefully marching down to the Wharf with my mom or grandparents to feast on freshly caught crab steamed in pots along the pier (San Francisco). Our neighbors owned a taqueria and made tacos with shredded roast beef that they slow-cooked themselves (to die for). "Fast food" to us was street food of a much different sort than hamburgers, fries and a milk shake.
My kids love tofu, sashimi (the real raw fish) and sushi (the rice-wrapped foods), and things I won't describe to you because you'd probably faint (let's just say Pacific Asian), like "chocolate meat" (it's not chocolate). They use only chopsticks to eat their Asian foods, as though it makes a difference. Well, I do, too, haha!
These are kids raised right here in river city in Central Texas, not transplants from another planet (although we've convinced our older son that he is an alien - he requested escargot for his 10th birthday party). My husband is an Anglo-Saxon meat-and-potatoes afficionado. What our kids have learned to love in foods comes largely from being a part of a multi-cultural family. I think that's what makes the difference.
Sure, they like fast food, too - preferably if it's stir-fried, steamed or tossed about on a huge iron griddle. They're likely to go for veggie burgers, but real fries.
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How fast food has changed since I was a kid munching on a dried squid tentacle (Japan), or gleefully marching down to the Wharf with my mom or grandparents to feast on freshly caught crab steamed in pots along the pier (San Francisco). Our neighbors owned a taqueria and made tacos with shredded roast beef that they slow-cooked themselves (to die for). "Fast food" to us was street food of a much different sort than hamburgers, fries and a milk shake.
My kids love tofu, sashimi (the real raw fish) and sushi (the rice-wrapped foods), and things I won't describe to you because you'd probably faint (let's just say Pacific Asian), like "chocolate meat" (it's not chocolate). They use only chopsticks to eat their Asian foods, as though it makes a difference. Well, I do, too, haha!
These are kids raised right here in river city in Central Texas, not transplants from another planet (although we've convinced our older son that he is an alien - he requested escargot for his 10th birthday party). My husband is an Anglo-Saxon meat-and-potatoes afficionado. What our kids have learned to love in foods comes largely from being a part of a multi-cultural family. I think that's what makes the difference.
Sure, they like fast food, too - preferably if it's stir-fried, steamed or tossed about on a huge iron griddle. They're likely to go for veggie burgers, but real fries.
Funny how kids can be about their foods!
June 30, 2008 - 5:00pmThis Comment
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