For several years now, if you ask Raphaela for the list of her favorite foods, hot dogs and olives appear first and foremost. I have often given her the speech about hot dogs, how there are higher quality meats out there, and I have failed to get through; we instituted a rule in the house that she is not allowed to have them more than twice a week.
Now that I have to pack lunches every day of the week for school, hot dogs make my life a little easier. Once a week, I put them in a heat-able container, and I know she will eat food that day. Since she is not a sandwich person, I have to get creative with my menus.
This afternoon, when I picked up Raphaela from school, she told me that when she took out her lunch today, she was barraged by commentary from her class mates.
"One of my friends told me that hot dogs aren't healthy, because they are made out of melted chicken feathers. Then another friend said that hot dogs are made out of pig meat, and that isn't Kosher! I looked hard and I didn't see any feathers."
I couldn't help but laugh, because in one lunch the girls in her class had managed to turn her against her favorite food. I explained that hot dogs every once in a while will not hurt her, and that at the very least her hot dogs are kosher, so one can hope that they don't contain too much questionable material.
"From now on my favorite foods are pizza and chicken fingers."
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