Meat, It's what's for Dinner

We were grocery shopping the other day, and M went with me to pick out some hamburger. Next to the hamburger there are the more interesting edible parts of the cow. I decided to show M the cow tongue...her expected response - "Ewww. Gross." Just after J came back with E we showed them as well and as we were standing off to the the side, M all the while saying "ewww...gross", a guy came up behind us and selected a cow tongue, so I showed M: "See, he likes cow tongues. I told you some people like to eat them." She screwed up her face and looked at the guy with a 'are you crazy?' smile. I decided it was a learning oportunity and asked him how he cooks/eats it. He was very kind and stopped and explained it all to us and emphasized that it was very good.

M is still unconvinced, but J thinks we should try it.

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Anonymous said…

Love it! The pic is awesome too, they should put it on the packages of cow tongues at the store ;)

November 9, 2011 at 8:11 PM

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