Telling the twoosh

Tonight while getting getting ready for bed:

- Mummy, on the television at grand-papa's I saw a mean bird eating a baby penguin.

- Well, that's nature sweetheart. Some animals eat other animals to live.

- Why?

- Well it's like us, we eat animals too.

- (incredulous) We don't eat cows!

- Yes we do, we eat cows.

- Papa, do you know what mummy said? She's teasing me! She said we eat cows!

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A (slightly hammy) recreation:


And the look on his face when C told him there's horse's hooves in ice cream - was it very different from the expression of you anglophone readers when you heard me say we eat horses??