Childhood memories
Apr. 23rd, 2016 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrHeard a nice story today at Market. A woman stopped in to look at the work, and was inspired to tell a story from her childhood. She was a fussy eater, you see, difficult kid, but her babysitter had a solution to that problem.
If you finish your soup, you get to see the bird in the bottom of your bowl. The dishes all had birds and animals on them, so little miss fussy wouldn't knew which she'd gotten unless and until she finished her food. Cleaned her plate. It worked, too.
They weren't my bowls, she said--mine are much nicer--but seeing the pictures immediately threw her back to childhood. I admit, we both misted up a tiny bit.
So that's my answer to the folks who complain that they can't see the pattern when using the dish. It's just to encourage you to clean your plate.
If you finish your soup, you get to see the bird in the bottom of your bowl. The dishes all had birds and animals on them, so little miss fussy wouldn't knew which she'd gotten unless and until she finished her food. Cleaned her plate. It worked, too.
They weren't my bowls, she said--mine are much nicer--but seeing the pictures immediately threw her back to childhood. I admit, we both misted up a tiny bit.
So that's my answer to the folks who complain that they can't see the pattern when using the dish. It's just to encourage you to clean your plate.