Ben's hankering for an after-school snack. "Mom, can you get me some food? I want the N-word."
"No noodles!" I replied. He's had about five separate servings of ramen noodles, pasta, or mac-and-cheese in the past three days. N-nough is N-nough!
(If you're looking for perspective on Michael Richards' racist outburst, read Leonard Pitts' column in the Chicago Tribune, arguing against the use of that other N-word. Free registration required.)
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I wanted to say something meaningful on the post about your geandmother, because it was really a great tribute and i loved it, but i just couldn't think of anything.
I love Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner. I think it's the color.
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Thanks for linking to that article. There's another interesting take on Michael Richards at Kung fu Monkey
My kids are head-over-tail in LURV with that Kraft microwavable mac-and-cheese stuff in flavors like lasagna and cheesy beefy mac. Damn those grocery store ladies and their free samples!
Does Ben like Soba noodles? My boy is also a noodleholic, and I like to feed him the soba b/c it's buckwheat and has a bit more substance than most semolina or rice variety noodles. He loves it with cashew-ginger sauce or esp. peanut sauce (so much so that a mom at his preschool asked my Old Man for our recipe for noodles and peanut sauce b/c our son has talked it up so much to her son!)
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