Calm. You can keep the stones. This is just a tease.
Today, Wednesday, October 12th, Children’s Day, I posted once again a video that is always successful on social networks.
It is an old French TV show, which the composer Serge Gainsbourg attended as an honoree. Surprisingly, many boys appear dressed as Serge – holding unlit cigarettes, glasses of something that is supposed to look like whiskey, wearing a blazer, sunglasses and makeup to imitate stubble.
The children’s choir performs “On Est Venu Te Dire Qu’on T’aime Bien”, a beautiful song by Serge. He, his face disfigured by alcohol and smoking in the studio, is moved and breaks down in tears.
It’s all absolutely surreal. All unthinkable nowadays, even in France – which for a long time resisted as the last bastion of tobacco activism. People think it’s funny how bizarre it is.
Cut to 2022 and the post of a restaurant, presumably French, in São Paulo.
Paris 6 posted on Instagram its children’s menu options – the infamous kids menu – for this holiday. The first photo has a sad and grayish filet, with pasta garnish with tomato sauce.
So we have two extreme situations for children. We went from a breakdown where exposure to tobacco and alcohol was considered OK. We have reached the point where restaurants, out of laziness of themselves or of parents in general, make food for kids stupid.
I will never resign myself to the fact that children are always pushed filezinho with noodles, hamburguinho with potato smile and chicken with rice.
We can protect our children without treating them like idiots.
You can improve a lot the children’s menu without even getting close to serving whiskey for minors. How about serving the same thing that adults eat, so that children expand their food horizons?
Oh no. It’s a lot of work. Luca (post-Enzo) doesn’t eat any of that. Then take soft noodles for pivetada.
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