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If it ain’t Jemima…

Are my kids the only ones who insist on artificial this or that?

I doubt it.

The other day we ran out of syrup. I didn’t know this until I was about to serve up some Eggos (which shall NOT be eaten without syrup unless specified in advance by young Master Hooligan). Some days it’s okay to have a waffle smeared with peanut butter or jelly or maybe both, but not this day.

Thinking quickly (ha), I offer some maple syrup. Real. Maple. Syrup. The kind that comes from (I’m guessing here) a maple.

You would think I had just poured rat poison on the plate. He wouldn’t even take a bite (it came back out, with a blecchh) and before I could say anything he had run to the sink and dumped the waffles down the disposal. Then we had a bowl of cereal.

Give me high fructose corn syrup, or give me death!

Overheard

Child, between bites of waffles: “Can I have some Jellll-ee?”

Mom: “Why do you want jelly?”

Child: “To put it on my toast!

Mom: “But you have waffles.”

Child (laughing): “Oh, yeah, I forgot!”