Educational Nuggets

David came up to me the other day with a kid's recipe book wanting me to make the Chicken Nuggets. Being the wonderful mommy that I am, I agreed.
Part of it entailed smashing dried cubed stuffing in a plastic bag with a rolling pin. David especially enjoyed that part. ;-) As I was dipping the pieces of chicken in the spices/buttermilk mixture and then coating them in the crushed stuffing/parmesan cheese mixture, Angela started this most amusing dialogue with me.

Angela after looking quite concerned with me sticking the chicken in the stuffing mixture: "Mom. It's still bloody."

Moi: "Mmmmmmhmmmm."

Another piece of chicken joins the other in the stuffing mixture.

Angela looking a bit distraught: "Mom! That's even bloodier!" (now mind you, there really wasn't that much blood at all. A couple drops. You would have thought they were dripping blood.)

Moi: "I'm going to cook them dear."

Angela: "But they're raw!!"

Moi: "Yes. That is why we cook them."

Angela is flabbergasted. "But they're RAW!!!!"

Moi: "All meat starts off raw. If you cut a chicken it bleeds. Same with cows. You bleed when you're cut don't you?"

Angela even more horrified: "I'm RAW??????!!!!!!"

At this point, I'm trying not to burst out laughing.

Moi: "Honey, all meat starts off raw. Then you cook it."

Angla--still horrified: "You mean, I'm meat??!! I can be eaten??!"

I then borrowed a line from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Moi: "But that is called "cannibalism," my dear child, and is in fact frowned upon in most societies."

I think it's still sinking in. Obviously we need to have some more Home Ec. classes. I thought she realized meat started off "raw". Hmmmmm.