Vindication

capnjb shared a link said Fri, Jun 2nd 2023 at 9:29am ET

Not sure if I qualify for the worst father ever or the best. Probably somewhere in the middle

When my daughter was a baby we told her that cottage cheese was ice cream and she gobbled it up. Loved it. This worked for two years. She was clueless… her mom and I high-fived a lot.

Then.

A Sunday dinner at my folks house and as dinner was wrapping up my dad left the room with kiddo. After a few minutes I got up and went into the kitchen and there was my daughter, sitting on the counter with a spoon deep into a tub of Eddy’s vanilla ice cream. And my father with a grin on his face. The jig was up. Everything was ruined. Ice cream had been redefined. Thanks, dad.

Yesterday my wife sent me an article about the new trend of cottage cheese being used for ice cream. We were so far ahead of our time We could have been dozenaires!

https://www.thestar.com/life/2023/05/19/cottage-cheese-ice-cream-is-the-latest-viral-trend-is-the-protein-packed-treat-actually-better-for-you.html

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macromeh said Fri, Jun 2nd 2023 at 11:22am ET:

When I make stir fry with broccoli, I usually cut up some of the stem along with the florets. At first, I just cut them into sticks julienne style. My kids would complain and pick out the stem pieces. Then I tried cutting them across the stem into thin slices and I told the kids that they were “tree stars” (something from one of their animated videos at the time). Then they would eat them and even argue over who got the last ones.
Kids…

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- @macromeh Parenthood is wonderful. And full of deception
  
  capnjb said Fri, Jun 2nd 2023 at 12:20pm ET
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ybmuG said Fri, Jun 2nd 2023 at 8:06pm ET:

Seems only appropriate that I make this in the ice cream maker I got from Meh!

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phendrick said Sat, Jun 3rd 2023 at 12:08am ET:

Wasn’t that a quote from Latin class?
Veni, vidi, vindication!

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blaineg said Sun, Jun 4th 2023 at 4:19am ET:

After some baby teeth feel out, a friend told his kid he also had baby eyes that would fall out when they were ready.

The jig was up when mom saw him poking at his eyes, like you would a tooth, to hurry the process along.

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  sounds like something Calvin’s dad would say!
  
  chienfou said Mon, Jun 5th 2023 at 2:15am ET
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syllable said Mon, Jun 5th 2023 at 7:36am ET:

So funny, and now that I’m the grandfather . . . we also make the cottage cheese “nice cream” and everyone loves it. We still do real ice cream from time to time. But, that is a good, and inspiring, story, one of potential payback for all the late night worrying and such, lol.

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