baby food pudding

i was talking to Sissy #2 about what i made for dinner. my random concoction was so delicious that i just wrote the recipe down lest i forget an important step/component. anyway, the main ingredient is butternut squash.

Sissy said "yum" and i reminded her of how she ate bottles of baby food squash mixed with plain yogurt until she was FIFTEEN! she said "that's so embarrassing," so i said "not really. i remember buying baby food pudding in junior high school." Sissy said "why was that any better than regular pudding?"

i was stumped for a minute. was it price that took me to the baby food aisle? no...hmm. AH! it's just that packaged puddings existed only in powder form when i was in junior high school. there were no unrefrigerated, ready-to-eat, perfect servings in plastic cups hanging from the wall in aisle 5 (maybe that's why we didn't have so many fat kids back then), so buying a jar of baby pudding was the only way to get a quick fix at lunchtime.

oh, unless you ate at the cafeteria and got your pud'n on there, but only nerds ate at school. (regardless, always remember to be nice to your lunch ladies.)