Monday, February 18, 2008

FISH FOOD

I would LOVE for my sister to be here and have to watch these kids eat their fish. It is kind of a stretch for me to have to cook whole fish in the first place. But they way they eat with their hands and suck every single bone clean is really quite amazing. They eat everything; scales, fins, insides, etc. When Victoria stuck her finger in the eye socket and popped an eyeball into her mouth Ned just looked at me and said, “please go get the camera.”

This is what we started with.


This is what our plates look like when we are finished.

This is Jackie in the process. Nothing is done with the fingertips, she picks up a whole chunk of meat and holds in the palm of her hands.

This is her plate when she is finished.

You know how in cartoons they put a whole fish in their mouth, pull it out by the tail and are left holding a skeleton of a fish? It is pretty much like this, except yesterday Vivi actually ate her chicken bones. SHE ATE HER CHICKEN BONES!

We are going to start working on table manners….

3 comments:

AmyP said...

Oh My goodness! Wait a minute, I was just gagging! You are right we Americans are so spoiled, (me espcially!) I can't imagine eating that. I never thought II would say this but Thank goodness for Fillet O'Fish at Mickey D's.

Amy

Trenton said...

My friend in Kenya said that in the Lake region, where fish is a staple, they would laugh at you if you ate your fish any other way. Of course, he related this as he was gouging out the brains and eyeballs of the fish he was eating.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.