We need to talk about buttered noodles

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Anonymous wrote:It's fine. But unless they are whole wheat noodles, it's junk food.

Egg noodles have a lot of protein. We make homemade spatzle and add butter and parm -- yum!

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Anonymous wrote:Because it's boring and white bread and there are healthier and more adventurous things to try. I never had them growing up, and I think they taste disgusting. It's sad when kids eat them at restaurants with good food.

They have their whole lives to branch out. As long as they are healthy, why do you care?

I don't really, just answering the question. I used to work at an amazing Italian restaurant and only the most annoying tables ordered buttered noodles for their kids--so my experience has colored this opinion.

I think about mess making when eating in a restaurant. Ordering buttered noodles is much safer than ordering red sauce in a restaurant.

But strangely enough, the buttered noodle families left the biggest messes and the smallest tips, and were whiny and critical to boot. The osso bucco families usually kept their tables tidy or left big tips to compensate, and were pleasant and relaxed. Small sample, of course, but enough to make me never want to be that buttered noodle parent.

LOL. Judgmental waitresses? WTF?

What do your kids order at amazing Italian restaurants?

Not judgmental; just observant. Food service employees get to see, observe (and, yes, categorize) a huge cross-section of people and their eating habits. If you think you're exempt from this, you're mistaken.

My kids eat the same foods the adults eat, off the menu.

I guess all those Italians eating classic caccio e peppe are total boors ...

Well, I'm not talking about them, but about typical, middle-class American families who ignored the menu and instead asked for "noodles with butter and nothing else." I also have opinions about people who order ranch dressing, people who make tons of substitutions, and people who let their kids play video games at the table. Somehow, those people always seemed to be dining together. Go ahead and eat your buttered noodles, but don't think that you're somehow "classic" or "traditional" because of it.

Don't forget that you're the servant here.

Um, no. Thinking that restaurant employees are "servants" is a great example of why food culture is better in places like France, where the restaurant employees are rightly viewed as professionals and experts in their crafts. You can think that they are "servants" all you want, but that doesn't make it so.

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If you are not getting all the essential amino acids, then the protein you are consuming is processed like a carb.

By stating this, you are unwittingly proving that you have no actual knowledge about biochemistry but are, as I suspected getting your info from blogs about "clean eating" and other sources at your CrossFit-type gym. Your assertion is flat out incorrect.

(and yes, we know you're a child who's into working out, because you used the word 'retarded' in your PP)

No, I actually wrote it that way to dumb it down for people like you. But fine by me, my kids will be healthy. Keep feeding your kids cheese and bread and not much else. Yours will be skin, bones, and fat.

Are you a biochemist? If not, you know nothing about biochemistry

Materials scientist. I know a little biochem, definitely more than you.

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Why do people assume that if your kid orders buttered noodles at a restaurant that that is all they ever eat? Silly assumption. My DC eats everything, but has a favorite restaurant because they make the BEST buttered noodles in the world, according to him. We go there for the buttered noodles. If we want sushi, we go to a sushi restaurant.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all about homemade food everyday for the family, but, DD is becoming very picky at 4 so I appreciate the idea thanks - what type of noodles do you use?

This has me thinking. Where do I find good egg noodles? Have not had them in decades!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm all about homemade food everyday for the family, but, DD is becoming very picky at 4 so I appreciate the idea thanks - what type of noodles do you use?

This has me thinking. Where do I find good egg noodles? Have not had them in decades!

I see the No Yolks brand at most grocery stores. Not sure if they qualify as "good," since I'm not an egg noodle fan.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do people assume that if your kid orders buttered noodles at a restaurant that that is all they ever eat? Silly assumption. My DC eats everything, but has a favorite restaurant because they make the BEST buttered noodles in the world, according to him. We go there for the buttered noodles. If we want sushi, we go to a sushi restaurant.

I don't think they assume it's ALL they ever eat. But if you go to a restaurant where it's not on the menu and request it, people will assume you and your kid are snowflakes.