"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> This has to be one of the dumbest idea to sell a product yet. Kraft wants
> to sell salad dressing to kids by calling it "frosting"
>
> https://www.delish.com/food-news/a27...alad-frosting/
>
> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kraft...b04e90f1c8eda0

When I was a kid, I loved salad with no dressing. My mom always ate hers
with no dressing. And yet when we went out to eat, she insisted that I try
all the dressings. Why? I don't know. Why spoil a good thing? In my mind, if
I like it like that, let me eat it like that!

Angela was the same. She loved salad when she was little. Then about the the
time she entered school, she went off of it. Why? She was given salad
drowned in Ranch dressing. Not by me. She didn't like the dressing. Took a
great many years for her to like salad again. Now she will eat it plain,
with honey mustard or balsamic vinaigrette.

Angela and I have always liked our veggies. Not all veggies but quite a lot
of them, especially raw.

My brother OTOH has *never* liked veggies. Still doesn't. He has to drown
his salad in blue cheese dressing and even then he eats mainly just the
dressing.

I hate it when adults tell kids the wrong name for things. For instance, my
parents used to tell my nephew that he was eating little trees when he ate
broccoli. They told Angela that the letter "S" was called "Sneaky Snake". I
remember her teacher calling me and telling me that she knew all of her
letters except for the letter "S". Doing stuff like that to a kid can be
embarrassing to them and perhaps even damaging if they believe the wrong
information. Can you imagine some kid eating at their friend's house and
asking for the salad frosting?