Jumping food
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There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip and also
between fork and mouth and spoon and tongue.
It is easy to assess what some children have eaten
in the course of a day, as there will be reminders on their clothes. In dire
cases, when clothes have not been washed for several days, they could. be
soaked to form the basis of a soup.
I’ve written about jumping beans before, but this little essay is concerned with other forms of mobile food, like soup or scrambled eggs or curry or kedgeree. As soon as concentration on eating goes, because there’s a theory to be expounded or an explanation to be voiced, the food starts behaving in a most immoderate way. This is sometimes because expansive gestures are used to emphasise a point.
We have a lot of jumping food in our house and I’m
considering creating some large napkins. Actually, I think they could be the size
of a tablecloth, or perhaps an adult sized version of the all-in-one bibs that toddlers
wear. Possibly they could be the moulded silicone type with an inbuilt catch-all food
pocket at the bottom.
Maybe we should return to a Victorian way of life,
sitting formally and precisely – ‘all joints on the table to be carved’ and
that sort of thing, but where would be the pleasure in that? Sharing a meal is
a social occasion and inappropriately positioned food is soon cleared away.
Jumping food is here to stay.
It is interesting that everything to do with health comes back to diet
ReplyDeleteIf only more people realised that and didn't always look to medicine for the answer.
DeleteIn our house we had jumping peas, my hubby taught the kids how to balance a pea on a spoon or fork then tap the handle (I think) and send that pea flying. I don't remember exctly how it's done and won't be teaching the twins.
ReplyDeleteTrust a man to teach bad habits - and also to have fun!
DeleteThe worst type of jumping food is the stuff that leaps from a person's mouth onto your face when they talk with their mouth full.
ReplyDeleteUgh! Yuck! and other expressions of distaste . . . 🤢
DeleteAs a child we had one of our dads shits which we wore the wrong way round, the collar had been removed, nick one of B's to wear, that's half the solution.
ReplyDeleteGood idea! 👍
DeleteHi Janice - I thought that jumping food was the way you fed your animals ... ???!!!! They're good at cleaning up these four-legs - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteThere's never anything left on the floor with our four-legged vacuum cleaners.
DeleteIt's just the two of us, so we eat in front of the tv. I wear a bib, actually just a tea towel.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good boy!
DeleteI know of jumping food but had to Google kedgeree to see what that was all about.
ReplyDeleteI do like the idea of a full-body bib!
Kedgeree is a good supper dish and quick to prepare. Some have it for breakfast.
DeleteJumping food. I could use a bib
ReplyDeleteBibs are handy.
DeleteAdult-sized bibs sound like a very good idea!
ReplyDeleteThere could be a good marketing opportunity there.
DeleteThere could be a good marketing opportunity there.
DeleteSoaking clothes that have not been washed for a while for the base of soup sounds awful.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone ever would do such a thing. I hope not, anyway. 🤢
DeleteSharing a meal is a social occasion (with no mobile phones) just a chance to get-together and enjoy each others company, catch up on the happenings of the day. Any spills etc can easily be sorted!
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Quite so!
DeleteHa ha, I have a lot of jumping food. Adult bibs are needed I think lol
ReplyDeleteJumping food seems to be universal!
ReplyDeleteYour little essay made me laugh, Janice, so thank you for that :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you liked it. 😊
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