the meanest trick Mama ever pulled

[psocoptera]

(was totally an accident, or, well, thoughtlessness, not malice)

So last week I made some banana bread mini muffins with the kids, and put chocolate chips in them. Q *really* liked them. "Mah-fin!" he would demand, and shove the whole mini-muffin into his mouth. "Uh-er one! Mah-fin!" I cut him off at two, for one snack of the day, and oh the sadness when another one did not follow.

This week I thought I would try something different, and pulled up a recipe for "greek pizza muffins" with olives and feta and sauteed red pepper. I told the kids we were making muffins and got out the bowl. "Nana!" Quentin said, excited. (He really liked mashing it.) "Oh, no, honey", I told him, "No banana, these are different muffins this time, but I think you'll like them." The kids helped dump in and mix ingredients, we baked them, the timer rang - "Mah-fin! Hot ov-fen!" So excited. We let them cool. We tried them.

"Mah-fin," Q objected, heartbroken, spitting his out. What was this thing? Not a muffin. He wiggled down from my lap and ran over to the counter near the stove and looked around in confusion. Where were the muffins? Didn't Mama say there were going to be muffins? "Mah-fin!" he called a few times, just in case. But there were no muffins. Only sadness.

(Junie didn't like them either, despite loving olives and red pepper. I could hardly stop eating them, except the whole point was to make something for Junie's lunches and Q's snacks. Sigh.)

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I remember feeling really betrayed when what I thought were chocolate chip things were raisin things. I can imagine being even more confused if it turned out to be olives.

[irilyth]

(a) That is tragic but hilarious.

(b) I have tried these muffins and they are fan fucking tastic. What is wrong with our children.

[mst3kforall.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's expectations -- they thought the muffins would be sweet and cakey like the ones before. That's my guess, anyway.

[eastgategirl.livejournal.com]

You just made them in the wrong order--savory comes before sweet...

[jaipur.livejournal.com]

That is hysterical. I'm sure they will figure out how to generalize "muffins" in time... ;)

[sheepboyofchaos.livejournal.com]

"MAaaawwwhhhh.... fffiinnnn.........."

TheD was once very excited after being told that we were making pizza but was then very upset when she was handed an english muffin pizza instead of a "triangle" pizza. The horror.... the horror....

[sheepboyofchaos.livejournal.com]

This is why you much have video capture capabilities at hand at all times! This is how I a video of TheD dancing to Fraggle Rock while naked. I think I can use that and a threat to post it to whatever social media she is using in a decade to ensure straight A's through high school.

[crystalpyramid]

Speaking as a high school teacher, I really really hope this is a joke.

[amyprime.livejournal.com]

Aw. Guess you'll have to make it up to him next week.

[kelilah.livejournal.com]

Aw, sad! There clearly needs to be another word for savory muffins. Those sound amazing, though.

[irilyth]

I wondered, in retrospect, if the kids would've liked them if they'd called them scones. But given that they were involved in the making of them, and were right there with the muffin tin, and that Junie at least knows that you don't make scones in a muffin tin, it might not have worked.