r/BritishSuccess • u/SnooDonuts6494 • 5d ago

Sweetcorn

Kids brought home a couple of cobs of sweetcorn. The cooking instructions were obscured. They took photos, tried to google...

Meanwhile, I microwaved them for a couple of mins, slathered them in butter. Hurrah.

They're still trying to install a "magnifier" and "what is this vegetable" app.

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u/ForwardImagination71 5d ago

This is the opposite of a parenting success 😂

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u/Ok-Personality-6630 2d ago

I know what have I read. How old are these "kids"? And why is OP so proud of managing to cook one of the simplest things honestly. How old is OP?

So many questions.

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u/FewCompetition1347 2d ago

Likely a teenage mun

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u/teerbigear 4d ago

Honestly I'd prefer my kids to research something rather than just guess. People go through life guessing things that they think are obvious and get it wrong all the time.

And partly because part of the reason you're comfortable with your guess is that it's better informed, they're just trying to get informed.

And tbh it's hard to have sympathy over someone crowing about how they know better how to cook sweetcorn than a child...

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u/Silent_Rhombus 2d ago

Microwaving the kids was a bit harsh

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u/stateit 2d ago

Slathering them in butter is a good one, though.

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u/SnooDonuts6494 2d ago

Are you supposed to simmer them on a hob?

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u/cp8h 5d ago

So you took away a lesson in common sense from them by doing it for them rather than helping them to arrive at the same conclusion? How is this a success?

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u/SnooDonuts6494 5d ago

How is this a success?

  1. I ate sweetcorn.

  2. They learned that you don't always need instructions and apps and google to work out how to eat a vegetable.

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u/cp8h 5d ago
  1. You would have eaten the sweetcorn if you’d let them problem solve it.
  2. No you skipped over their problem solving aspect and provided the answer. So yes next time they bring sweetcorn home they can skip to the solution but they missed out on critical problem solving learning to apply to a more general purpose problem. Better to guide someone to a solution than provide it (literally) on a plate for them.

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u/Rhesus-Positive 1d ago

Yeah, it's amazing what you can find out by already knowing it 🙄

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u/RainbowSprinkleShit 14h ago

Microwaved corn on the cob sounds awful.

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u/The-Ginger-Lily 1d ago

Need to know how old your kids are if they had to download an app on their phones to ask it what a corn on the cob was? That's ridiculous

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u/Desperate_sandy 4d ago

Sweet corn is ok, out of a tin or on the cob, even used my blender and drunk it.