I will forever revel in the best April Fools joke pulled on my kids...ever. Yes, they are only 10 and 9, but statistically as I get older I lose my mind and they get sharper, making me the fool from here on out. Let me set the seen... I recruited 3 different male co-workers to help me devise the best prank ever. I choice the male cohorts for their stereo typical prankster behavior and knew they would get it. However my hypothesis was incorrect because it was I who discovered the prank that will be a story told from generation to generation. I guess that means I have finally worn into the "pants of the family" position well. I will only give part credit to my subscription of 'Family fun' magazine. If you do not know what I am talking about then you're on your own as I really like the credit I have taken so far, after all I paid for the subscription, which means somehow my use of creativity to use something I saw on their pages is still deserved.
I had to go to 3 different stores to obtain all the ingredients. The fish sticks were really sugar wafer cookies, frosted with peanut butter, then rolled in crumbled corn flakes, the pea's were Airhead taffy candy broken into small pieces and rolled into balls and the orange soda was orange gelatin. I consulted with one of the above mentioned co-workers on how to "make" such dinner with the kids around. I came home, pretending to be tired and irritated and just needing my space, requesting with a hint of begging them to go outside and play, that I would call them when dinner was ready.
When dinner was ready... this is how it went down.
The boys sit down...staring at this plate of food, I am sure contemplating on whether going to bed hungry might actually be the better alternative at this point.
Kace: Is this a granola bar?
Mom: No, its fish stick's, just try it, it wont kill anybody.
Kace: Cris, don't say 'Ewww I don't like it' because than you're going to discourage me and I'm not going to try it.
(kace grabs BBQ sauce and starts putting it on his plate)
Cris: Ewwww
Kace: Cris! Are you dumb! You Dummy!
Cris: yuck!
Kace: CRIS! I tried to try it and every time you go "eeeww"
The boys still stare at the plate for a while and then realize that they can drink their orange soda to kinda delay a little longer...
sip..sip...slurp..sip... nothing is coming out, I'm trying SOOO hard to not bust up.
Kace: Something is caught up in my straw
Just then Cris pulls out his straw from his drink.. a little bit of Jello is attached to the straw. he investigates then looks at me.
Cris: JELLO?!!! (starts laughing)You tricked us!
Cris: wait a second, these aren't fish sticks! Kace, these aren't fish sticks they're too hard, they should be cooked and they smell like peanut butter!
Cris: APRIL FOOLS! That's why!
Kace: Mommy! (joins in the laughter) I put BBQ sauce on my plate!
Kace: Wait? Does that mean these are pea's?
Mom: eat a pea, they're really good for you
Kace: Cris, they're sticky
Cris: There FROZEN PEAS!
Mom: No, put them in your mouth
Cris puts one in his mouth and contemplates for a moment...
Cris: What are these?
Kace: HEY! this isn't fish sticks!
Mom: what is it?
Kace: Its those nutter butter bars we just bought and that means you used all of them!
Mom to Cris: are those good pea's?
Cris: THERE NOT PEAS! (laughing hysterically)
Mom: then what are they?
Cris: I can't tell (as he ponders the flavor in his mouth)
Cris: THERE AIRHEADS!
Mom: April Fools Guys!
Cris: Thanks!
kace grabs a pea and says " I can't believe these weren't pea's"
Cris: yeah because they're good!
This was a dish that was consumed in its entirety.. the plate below is Kace's a few of his "pea's" rolled into the BBQ, therefore surrendering them to a very untasteful demise and were sacrificed to spare a real "ewww".
2013. Phhhhht!
10 years ago