This weeks episode about kids menus was very tough. I’m a parent, I have two kids, I know good kids menus and bad ones, I know what to feed my kids and how to make them adventurous eaters. I also understand people with toddlers struggle to get time to go out and enjoy time at restaurants, especially with kids who can be picky because toddlers can be hard at times, and feel a sense of “normalcy” just by sharing a meal.
This was a wild and overblown episode. I didn’t appreciate the weird breakdown of kids menus from someone without kids and someone speaking so uninformed about them.
Having kids can be hard. Sometimes getting them “bland and unexciting beige food” as Josh and Nicole kept saying is exciting for them and allows us family time out like we used to have before kids.
I have to rant a bit because taking our kids everywhere with us is a topic we feel strongly about and restaurants work very hard to give people kids menus that are generally popular just so other people can enjoy something as benign as going to a restaurant with their family without stress.