Is that beef or beaver you are eating?

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Is that beef or beaver you are eating?
Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM
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- Kajenloca
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It was lunch time. I was contemplating our gourmet options: hot dogs, scraping out the remnants of the peanut butter at the bottom of the jar, some kind of leftover from a dinner of a past life...my four-year-old added his suggestion as he pulled out a container from the cupboard. We had a winner, Ramon Noodles. Luckily, we *did* have the added special ingredient--water!

This was the conversation that followed as we waited on the noodles to boil.

Son: "Is this beef flavored?"

Mom: I picked up the crinkly wrapper and studied it. I tried not to read the "health" facts (or should I say "un-healthy" facts) located on the plastic though. It clearly stated in bold letters that the flavor was beef. In smaller print it went on to confess that the product contained absolutely nothing beef oriented in it... "Yes, this is beef flavor." I emphasized the word flavor and not the word beef. My son was too young to discuss the different theories of how the company got something to taste like beef without actually using beef...

Son: "Is it roast beef?"

Mom: "I'm not sure?"

Son: "I think it is roast beef."

Mom: "Okay."

Son: "You know how they get roast beef? Do ya?"

I was really curious as to what his answer would be, so I played along.

Mom: "No, how do they get roast beef?"

Son: "Well, first they kill a beaver."

Mom: "What?" I wasn't quite sure I had heard him correctly.

Son: "They kill a beaver." He added in a very authoritative voice.

Mom: I stifled a giggle. "How do you know that?"

I was quite impressed at how his young eyes "rolled", like he had been doing it forever...

Son: "Mom." This was said in the perfect tone that goes along with an eye roll. The kind of tone that tells you the word "Mom" could very easily be substituted with dim wit, moron, or many other less than favorable word choices.

Son: "Mom." He repeated. "It's called BEEF flavored." He loudly proclaimed!

It was at this time that I heard his words clearly. It wasn't beef he was saying after all...it was BEEV!

Son: "Yeah, Mom. It's Roast Beev!" Duh.

Well, folks. There you have it. Now you know where they get the beef flavoring from without actually using beef products...they kill a beaver!

ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Back to enjoying my Beev flavored noodles...Bon Appetite'