{"id":828272,"date":"2026-04-10T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/?p=828272"},"modified":"2026-04-10T22:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:40:20","slug":"the-thing-about-raising-food-snobs-from-a-dads-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/the-thing-about-raising-food-snobs-from-a-dads-perspective","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Raising Food Snobs \u2026 From a Dad’s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food has changed a lot in 40 years. I remember as a kid seeing ads for things like Sunny D that referred to other products as “purple stuff” and suggested Sunny D was somehow better. Cereals loaded with sugar were sold as a key part of a balanced breakfast<\/a> with many vitamins and minerals! And unnaturally colored items with labels that read “prepared cheese product” (looking at you Kraft singles) were the only way to make a grilled cheese<\/a>. To be clear, I ate and drank all this stuff, and I loved it. <\/p>

These days, I attempt to eat healthier, but there’s no denying how tasty a grilled cheese made from a stack of plastic-wrapped orange cheese-like squares remains. My oldest daughter, however, would disagree. She, along with our other two kids, are decided food snobs. <\/p>

It’s not their fault. <\/h2>
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My wife is an excellent cook, and we’re all the lucky recipients of nearly nightly new meals that taste amazing. This is tremendous but has inadvertently led to a lifestyle where the kids don’t eat out much. (Cue the tiny violins, I know.) All of which came to a hilarious head one day in Columbia, Missouri, about five years ago. <\/p>

We were visiting the University of Missouri with friends who were alumni and always raved about a dive bar by the name of Booches that specialized in countertop sliders.<\/p>

During the day, it’s family friendly-ish, so we took all the kids in for lunch. <\/h2>
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Along with hot dogs and burgers, grilled cheese is on the menu — the latter of which my daughter ordered. A few minutes after the food arrived, she found her way to me … held half the sandwich up three inches from my face … and demanded to know what she was looking at.<\/p>

“That’s a grilled cheese,” I told her. “No, that’s not cheese,” she replied while pointing at the orange goo. I can’t honestly recall if she was willing to take a bite and try it, though I’m sure I asked. I do, however, remember she flat-out refused to consume it, which I found quite funny as Booches is really not the place for the burgeoning food snob to have lunch. (To be clear, their sliders and grilled cheeses are EXCELLENT and I highly recommend both.) I know, because I ate both while our good friend — and savior — Becky, brought my daughter down the street to find something else to eat. <\/p>

She returned with perhaps the most outrageously opposite food to a Kraft singles sandwich at an old bar — smashed avocado on fancy seeded toast with pickled red onions and a sprinkling of sprouts. I already knew we had been raising food snobs, but up to that point, I had not seen the impacts so clearly and to such hilarious effect. <\/p>

They might be in for a rude awakening one day.<\/h2>
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My wife and I are already laughing about what the kids are going to do when they encounter the next level of nonfancy food at college.<\/p>

The lesson? Teaching kids to eat quality food is a good thing, but you might want to throw a grilled cheese made with Kraft singles into the mix once in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Food has changed a lot in 40 years. I remember as a kid seeing ads for things like Sunny D that referred to other products as “purple stuff” and suggested Sunny D was somehow better. Cereals loaded with sugar were sold as a key part of a balanced breakfast with many vitamins and minerals! 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