Potato or Tomato?
March 29th, 2010 - 8:44 am
Watch this, and then join me in being appalled:
I wouldn’t expect a room of six-year-old kids to all know how to identify all manner of fresh vegetables, because I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have known what an artichoke was had you shown me one at that age, but I would expect them to know a tomato from a potato … at the very, very least. Why the hell would a six-year-old human not know a tomato or potato on sight?! This can’t be blamed on the schools either. Nope, these kids haven’t been in school long enough yet to blame the schools for their utter lack of knowledge about the foods we all eat.
The blame for this falls squarely on the shoulders of the parents. I’m not saying everyone has to start cooking every meal at home from scratch, but if your child can’t identify a potato or tomato as soon as they see one by the age of six, you are failing as a parent.
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I was once at a drive-thru and part of my order was the one dollar side salad. As the teen hands me my order, he asks, ‘Are them things any good?’ Momentarily confused, I hold up the plastic clamshell of the salad order and ask him, ‘You mean this? Yeah, pretty good.’ He replies, ‘Huh, my girlfriend eats that stuff, maybe I should try it.’
I drive off, realizing you can’t make this stuff up, it’s already reality.
My employer is a publicly funded body who are constantly attacked as a waste of money since they spend their time doing things like, well, teaching children that kind of stuff. They even arrange class projects where children plant vegetables and watch them grow.
Everyone who is complaining about public money just assume that children must know about this, doesn’t everyone know it?
I’m going to watch the whole episode of that show later. I’m sure it’s going to totally depress me.
My friends and I used to laugh at “city kids” who hadn’t ever seen a cow in person before. Really no harm in not ever having seen a cow, but we thought it was funny, since we were surrounded by them. Now, kids don’t even know what a TOMATO is, and I have to wonder, do they even know what a COW is?
Seriously, you could have picked me up off the floor after seeing this. My gods. I didn’t start life in the country, but I assure you, my inner city first grade class knew what a freaking tomato or potato was, even if we’d never seen a cow in person before.