Less Healthy

"You ever had deep fried Twinkies?" me brother Phil asked me the other day.

"Can't say I have."

"I was going into a restaurant one day and there was a sign which said, We have deep fried Twinkies," he explained. "So I bought one."

"Was it any good?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact."

"Why'd you try it? Curiosity?" I asked.

"I suppose," Phil answered. "But mainly I wondered, how can they make something unhealthy even more unhealthy?"

Yeah, you do wonder if there was a brainstorming session for that.

The oatmeal tuna meal

I can't remember exactly which birthday, but when our oldest son turned six or seven we took him to a restaurant and told him he could order anything on the menu for his dinner. You know, a birthday treat. "Anything?" he asked, smiling brightly at such opportunity.

"Anything," we said.

Soon enough the waitress appeared. My wife or I one ordered for our younger children, then each for ourselves. The waitress turned to our eldest. "What would you like, honey?" she questioned him.

After much deliberation he replied, "A bowl of oatmeal and a tuna sandwich."

The woman looked between my wife and I quizzically and we said it was fine. Hey, it was his birthday. If that's what made him happy, we were okay with it.