Ok, so I was just watching a show on the food network, the one with Sandra Lee.
She's making french toast with a gran marnier strawberry topping. To make it, she adds a drizzle of GM and some sugar to some strawberries, then reminds the audience that this breakfast is for the adults, because the strawberries are uncooked so the alcohol will stay in.
Seriously? Is it that big of a deal that you'd want to keep that away from your kids? I didn't realize that a drop of liqueur will poison a child for life.
Maybe its because I grew up first generation (parents are Italian), but alcohol was never a big deal at all, let alone worrying about a tiny bit of it that may be present in our food. As a kid, we got some heavily diluted wine with ginger ale with our meals most Sundays. If we had pizza on a lazy weeknight, we got a sip of beer because they "go together" according to my grandmother. We grew up definitely being told that there was potential for abuse when it came to alcohol, but never being treated like a little bit of consumption was a big deal. My folks weren't really drinkers, either, so its not like they weren't keeping it from us out of irresponsibility or anything. It was just a part of the food and a part of the culture and and having a little wasn't a big deal.
As we got older, it was don't drink and drive, stay the night where you are. As we went away to college, the responsibility we learned meant that we didn't dive off the deep end and drink our way out of school (or even ever land in jail, get a drunk in public, driving home, etc).
I know this argument commutes to a whole laundry list of things that we absolutely can't harm the children with in the US, but seriously, isn't the prohibitionist attitude a little much?
/weak rant
She's making french toast with a gran marnier strawberry topping. To make it, she adds a drizzle of GM and some sugar to some strawberries, then reminds the audience that this breakfast is for the adults, because the strawberries are uncooked so the alcohol will stay in.
Seriously? Is it that big of a deal that you'd want to keep that away from your kids? I didn't realize that a drop of liqueur will poison a child for life.
Maybe its because I grew up first generation (parents are Italian), but alcohol was never a big deal at all, let alone worrying about a tiny bit of it that may be present in our food. As a kid, we got some heavily diluted wine with ginger ale with our meals most Sundays. If we had pizza on a lazy weeknight, we got a sip of beer because they "go together" according to my grandmother. We grew up definitely being told that there was potential for abuse when it came to alcohol, but never being treated like a little bit of consumption was a big deal. My folks weren't really drinkers, either, so its not like they weren't keeping it from us out of irresponsibility or anything. It was just a part of the food and a part of the culture and and having a little wasn't a big deal.
As we got older, it was don't drink and drive, stay the night where you are. As we went away to college, the responsibility we learned meant that we didn't dive off the deep end and drink our way out of school (or even ever land in jail, get a drunk in public, driving home, etc).
I know this argument commutes to a whole laundry list of things that we absolutely can't harm the children with in the US, but seriously, isn't the prohibitionist attitude a little much?
/weak rant
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