Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

“Mom, you have got to try this!” ScienceKid said as he put another one in his mouth. “Really, they are so good.”

And so I placed a green olive onto my potato chip and popped it into my mouth.

OMG is that good. 1600 chips and olives later I just had to share with you all! No, I am not pregnant and neither is SK.

Earlier in the summer I was chatting with my sister when she mentioned that she was headed off to a workshop with her staff and needed some really strange food item that she had never been willing to taste before.  She is a Director at a day care center and realized that her staff were always telling these little kids — ‘this tastes really great, try it, I’m sure you will like it.’   She had realized too that for many of her staff it had literally been decades since they had tried some new and strange food just because someone had told them it was good.  As part of their workshop each person was required to bring some food they had never eaten before and did not look appealing to them, so they could literally understand what they were asking their charges to do everyday.

Really how many of us try some new food that is strange looking or smelling, or different than our normal routine foods?  I know I rarely do anymore, except for today when I mixed potato chips and olives in one bite.  Ummmm, and it was a good mix.    It is fun to try something different and mix things up a bit.