Don't Say That When I Have My Mouth Full

[elfs]

This joke won't make any sense unless you grew up somewhere between 1976 and 1984.

Getting Kouryou-chan to eat is always something of a struggle. Friday evening we were around the dinner table, and the meal was a delicious saute'd chicken and onions with cous-cous and quick-steamed broccoli. Kouryou-chan was being especially persnickety about the chicken and Omaha started to tell her, "You have to eat the chicken. You have to have protein. You've got to eat some of the meat." Omaha got up to go back into the kitchen for something and as she did so she muttered, "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

I had a mouthful of food right then, and was so sideswiped by her comment I damn near choked to death.

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Hey, I went to boarding school. I guess I'm not old enough for that particular refrain, through. (Of course, being on the swim team and burning 5,000 calories a day, I didn't have that problem, either: I ate everything, and my neighbor's everything too, if I had a chance.)

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

I'm a veteran of English Prep and Public schools: 1959 - 1967. And the food was every bit as bad as the stereotypes.