dream_weaselThe dinner my now 5 year old requested for her birthday. Steak, bacon, grapes, and broccoli with cheese
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 The wine is just for the adults
Awww… But it’s their birthday!
We still (😭) live in the US, dammit!
You can do lots of stuff in the US. Just don’t get caught!
Pretty sure giving alcohol to your own children, in your own house, is just fine (er… Legally speaking!). Hell, kids are allowed to partake in drinking the communion wine at church.
Yeah but then you’d have to go in a church.
People often say “god is everywhere”, or whatever. Just invent a religion and decree that your house is a church of it.
As a bonus, it also works for tax evasion.
If God is everywhere, He’s up your ass too.
And also up yours.
God is up all our asses on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself, Ken M
I’ve never given my kid alcohol, but I think the reason kids can have communion wine is that the law addresses a blood alcohol level. This is to accommodate things like communion wine and medicines, like NyQuil, that have small amounts of alcohol as one of their ingredients. (This is based on a post I read back when I used Reddit.)
Pretty sure that if a legal authority saw you hand your five year old a beer or spirit, they’d have something to say about it.
It depends on the state. In 31 of them, it is totally legal for a parent to give their own underage child alcohol. Most of them also specify that it’s only allowed inside your home or as part of religious ceremony, so even there you could be in trouble if you’re giving little Timmy a whiskey sour out in public.
Yeah, I saw the other comment indicating that elsewhere in the thread and tried to edit my comment, but I think lemmy.world and Cloudflare might be having connectivity issues of some sort right now so edits are mostly a no go.
The state I grew up in is not one of the 31, so that’s why the concept is alien to me, I suppose; the state I live in now is one of them, but I doubt I’ll give my kid any alcohol for some time. Regardless, thank you for following up!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
Seventeen states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wyoming) and the District of Columbia have laws against possession of alcohol by minors, but they do not prohibit its consumption by minors.
Fourteen states (Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia) specifically permit minors to drink alcohol given to them by their parents or by someone entrusted by their parents.^[citation needed]^
Many states also permit the drinking of alcohol under the age of 21 for religious or health reasons.
If you’re in one of the above states, it’s probably fine as long as you’re with her. As a backup, just invent your own religion that has a special ceremony at age 5, consisting of this exact meal, with wine.
Well… Our state isn’t listed. But if you can’t trust Lemmy posts then who can you trust?!
I mostly assume it’s one of those “don’t get crazy and get caught” situations. You let them taste some alcohol every once in a while so they don’t get weird ideas about it and go too hard when they get older. But we’re talking tastes, not shots. If they show up drunk with alcohol poisoning, I suspect you will have to answer some unfriendly questions to answer in all of the states. (Also, I mean, it’s bad for them. Don’t do that.)
Nobody snitching!
Iced RaktajinoThankfully, she did not ask for “all the bacon we have”.
There’s always next birthday lol.
🇸🇵🇪🇨🇺🇱🇦🇹🇪🇷What you may hear is, give me a lot of bacon.
What I said is “give me all the bacon you have”.
bremRon would laugh at the broccoli and ask “Why is the things I feed to my food next the the real food?”
It’s got cheese on it and Ron is a man of taste.
He’d eat this shit like it was Tammy II’s tuna tunnel.
Not the broccoli. I love broccoli, but Ron does not. Watch ‘Parks & Rec’. Specifically the episode where Rob Lowe cooks him mushroom steaks. Or the episode where he cooks the pig. Do you even know 'bout Ron Swanson.
Ben ass mofo. Get in touch with lil Sebastian.
Ron would be caught dead eating stunted trees.
Maybe if it were jammed into a Paunch Burger.
FenderStratocasterTIL I am 5.
sp3ctr4lFucking same, apparently, that looks great to me, shit.
Maybe switch to more bitter grapes, and maybe use something like … a mix of gouda and feta with the broccoli?
Throw in a slice or two of french bread?
That’s a feast for a king as far as I’m concerned.
Gouda and feta?
I used to an actually respect you.
Why wouldn’t you?
Its a perfect combo for not only gloriously blasting your tastebuds, but also ass blasting out the creamiest of farts.
As the saying goes:
Get behind me, Satan.
When I was 5 I also liked the leafy broccoli part. Tolerated just a bit of the stem
Stem is my favorite part honestly. But I’d rather not cook it, just cut the hard outer layer off.
BlueLineBaeI’m an adult and I still don’t like the stem. But I’m more strategic about it now. Save the stem for pot pies, stir fry, etc. use the tops for everything else!
At least you won’t have to eat your spaghetti with ketchup and mustard like my youngest wants. We indulge him, but I’m hoping he’ll grow out of it, honestly. Any leftovers on his plate are always inedible because he wants fuckin mustard on all his shit.
Yikes. Both my kids will do ketchup and mustard on a corn dog, but no other mustard for them so far. Putting the combo on spaghetti is… wild. What else do you eat that calls for mustard for littles?
Granny smith slices are heavenly with a dab of brown mustard. Has to be Granny smith though.
Really, apples? We are a honeycrisp house but I’ll try anything.
Apples, sharp cheddar, and mustard is pretty good. I don’t usually like fruit in savory things but that combo is nice. And we are honeycrisp all the way.
Honeycrisp gang, unite!
He’ll want mustard on his noodles whenever we eat Asian wok. Because the noodles look like spaghetti. He’ll want mustard with his Bolognese. Stuff like that. Disgusting.
…health reasons?
No because mustard on spaghetti is disgusting to me. 😆
I am just here to say the shock value of recognizing wine and reading its a menu for a 5yo is working.
I’m glad someone is reading closely.
Add asparagus, shrimp and proper dill and garlic pickles and you have my kid as well.
Idk if she has had dill yet… I can say for sure she likes cheese and asparagus (but the pictures cheese is melted Velveeta so it definitely doesn’t count).
Velveeta isn’t cheese it’s cheez but it’s got the calcium for the wee bones in her spooky skeleton.
Thank!
robocallPretty sophisticated meal for a 5 year old
She specifically requested steak bacon and grapes. The bacon we thought was kinda weird for dinner, but it was a surprisingly satisfying addition.
The next few days will have to be salads to counter the fat though.
Does she eat salad?
Loves it. Been requesting it since she was 2 basically.
Aside from the grapes that’s a hella fine dinner. Heck I’d even do the grapes but fancy . Good life choices here. In my day my day was the metal man Swanson fried chicken dinner with the brownie.
Grapes are awesome, frozen grapes even more so. Not only are they grape great by themselves, but you can use them in lieu of ice cubes to keep your drinks cold without diluting them.
FizzGet a glass of grape juice for the kids it looks like wine snd comes in a wine bottle
At fancy get-togethers, my step used to serve some sort of red or white juice in Bordeaux glasses for the children, when adults had wine and sparkling juice in flutes when when we had champagne. It served two purposes: it prepared children for adult formal events while also making the children feel more important. And if a kid's table was necessary, yes, an adult sat with the kids, to assist as necessary.
FuglyDuckHonestly…. As an adult, the kids table is way more fun.
As a father of a 3 year old who fails at trying to convince my daughter to try something else besides Mac and Cheese and grapes every.single.night for dinner, you’re winning at this parenting thing.
Thanks! This kid will eat anything. Her little brother is a nightmare to feed…