My kid spent the first nine months of his life in Guatemala, eating black beans -- often spicy -- along with mushed-up bananas and a coffee beverage heavy on the milk and sugar. Although his diet in the United States is much different, his early dietary habits affect his current palate quite a bit.
For example, he is a big fan of Sriracha hot sauce and dots it on everything from macaroni and cheese to corn-on-the-cob. Also, he ate a banana every day of his life until he was 5, at which point he declared he was sick of them. (Fair enough.)
So I wasn’t surprised when he fell in love with fresh crab on a recent trip to the Dells. I bought a package of fake crab for him and tried to pass it off as the real deal, but as a budding young foodie he declared, "That’s not crab."
Now, he asks regularly if we can go out for crab legs, and I am trying to find a somewhat affordable, somewhat kid-friendly place where he can bib up and chow down. Any suggestions for us?
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
