To: skkewing@yahoo.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grapple, kids and artificial flavour
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:33:10 -0400
Sarah,
If you want more experiences of kids not knowing what real food is you might
want to watch "Jamie's School Dinners". I think they used to play it on the
Food Network. Anyway, famous chef, British kids, same idea. Most didn't
know what an onion looked like. I think what you're doing at your kids'
school is great.
Personally can't stand chemical grape flavour but it's true that a high
percentage of the population can't get enough of those chemical flavours.
Sad, so sad. The other thing I find sad is the fact that people will only
eat fruit that looks "perfect". In my mind it reminds me of my sons plastic
fruit and vegetables. I have an uncle that lives in South America and I'll
never forget him explaining to me that the sweetest oranges there are
covered in brown lines (sorry for lack of technical terminology) and the
fact that he judges a papaya ready to eat when it's starting to rot on the
outside. Can't see those fruits being picked up at my local supermarket
(although I have found rotten fruit there!).
By the way, the last paragraph is just a personal anecdote, any orange
growers, please don't shoot me down, taste is always a personal thing.
Caren
Quebec.
----- Original Message -----
From: <skkewing@yahoo.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Grapple, kids and artificial flavour
I have some experience that might be insightful here. I've mentioned before
that I have lots of kids before, but I also like to do various food related
things with my kid's classes at school, I never fail to be astonished at the
number of kids who won't even try real food! And the lunches I see: even our
principal comments that she would like to be able to merely identify a food
group in some of the kids lunches! They grow up eating chemical laden food
and they don't want raw foods. I can think of a whole lot of kids who would
eat those Grapples over the original thing! I see this even in my family: my
husband loves junk/garbage anything that I won't touch, its like he doesn't
taste the chemicals like I can.
I have taken in taste tests of carrots I've grown (red, purple, orange,
yellow, and white fleshed, and purple skinned orange). We have looked at
various kinds/colours of squash and some kids even tasted Cranberry Squash
muffins! I've also done apple taste tests: Fuji, Royal Gala, Pink Lady,
Braeburn, MacIntosh, Spartan, etc. where also we located the country where
the apple originated, learned something about each variety and grew a tree
for each student from the seeds. The latest food adventure I tried was
oranges: this year is the first time I've ever been able to locate
Moro/Blood and the pink Cara Cara naval oranges. We tasted mini mandarins,
Moro, Cara Cara, Naval, Tangerines and one more that I can't remember. I
couldn't believe how many kids either refused to try them or spit them out.
Even the normal Naval oranges generated a lot of refusals/regurgitations!
What school age kid doesn't eat oranges?
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
The team who produces Grapple probable received great bonuses.
Ate several slices of grapple in grocery store yesterday. I
thought they were yucky.
I bought a small package of grapples a couple of years ago, under the
mistaken impression that they were just a different type of apple.
Ugh! Well, that will teach me to read the package more closely next time.
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