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[TI82]

She took food in her mouth, chewed it, spit it onto a spoon and then fed to him.

Is this one of those white people fads or is it just Costco craziness?

 

[Spring Drive]

What's the relationship between bird feeding and the color of someone's skin?

 

[Sorcerer Supreme]

what

 

[studyguy]

Was it like... a baby or something at least?

 

[FinKL]

Are you talking about a bird or human

 

[Danis Saur]

Maybe the kid has a tooth ache? Somewhat weird.

 

[Princess Viola]

the hell?

 

[| Praxis |]

That's fucking disgusting!

You were in Costco?

 

[entremet]

what

Premastication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premastication

It's incredibly common in non Western societies, especially hunter/gatherers and indigenous populations.

 

[Chariot]

Put an orange piece of paper in your mouth, she will then feed you too.

 

[JeTmAn81]

I do this with my kid. If I don't have a knife and I want to give her a bite of something I'm eating, I just bite it off and then give it to her. It's because I'm lazy. She's under two, though...

 

[andythinkpad]

I read it as "...a mother bird feeding her kid bird at (inside) Costco...with a spoon"

 

[Affeinvasion]

How is that more gross than drinking modified boob sweat. Mammals are disgusting.

 

[Trick_GSF]

I once saw a baby drinking milk from its mothers BOOBS!

Grotesque!

 

[stufte]

It's pretty common. I did it once in a while with my girls when they were just learning to eat solid foods. I also would stick a dropped pacifier in my mouth to clean it off. It's not that big of a deal.

 

[xkramz]

Hey a Spanish person could be a bird too.

But yes that's nasty lol

 

[Zen_Arcade]

What's the relationship between bird feeding and the color of someone's skin?

To be fair, white people are the only people I would envision doing this in this day and age.

 

[Soriku]

I read it as "...a mother bird feeding her kid bird at (inside) Costco...with a spoon"

This. I read mom bird and immediately thought he was talking about a literal mom bird. Then I was very confused when he started talking about white people.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

Sometimes with my kids (under 2), I would take bites of some things and then take it back out of my mouth and give it to them. Basically talking about crunching an ice cube so they could have a small piece (which they loved) when a full ice cube was way too big and cold to give them. Also handy for squishy food that would smoosh everywhere if I tried to tear it by hand when I didn't have a knife handy or to give a small piece of chocolate that would otherwise make a huge mess or choke them (think a hershey kiss).

I didn't chew it up first though. bleh.

 

[Elginer]

What the fuck?

 

[studyguy]

It's pretty common. I did it once in a while with my girls when they were just learning to eat solid foods. I also would stick a dropped pacifier in my mouth to clean it off. It's not that big of a deal.

I thought most parents did that shit anyway. Or like you bite off a tiny piece of banana and give them the little bit you just took off for instance. Like you didn't chew it, just cut off a small bite they could handle. But uh.. OP makes it sound like the mom went to town on it then shoved it in the kid's mouth. So who knows.

 

[Tom Nook]

How old is the Kid?

 

[Muppet of a Man]

In the time before industrially-produced baby food puree, how do you think infants transitioning to eating solid foods ate?

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

How old was the kid and what was the food?

I've bitten off pieces of food in a pinch with my kid when he was 1ish. It's not weird.

 

[Lord Virgin]

So?

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Was it Alicia Silverstone?

 

[Zoe]

I'm pretty sure bird-feeding your children is discouraged--transfer of bacteria and all that.

 

[yukinon]

.

 

[Azerare]

That's fucking disgusting!

You were in Costco?

It's better than Sams Club.

 

[CosmicQueso]

I also would stick a dropped pacifier in my mouth to clean it off.

I've seen and read about some gross shit on the internet. This could top them all.

 

[studyguy]

Don't shit on Costco, that place is fucking dope.

 

[TI82]

Yes, she actively chewed it up, spit back onto the spoon, and then fed her child (small enough to sit in the little seat cart) like regular.

 

[PlatypusDude]

That's okay then, when I read the title I imagined a woman holding out some bird seed in her hand and the child eating it like a bird for some reason.

 

[MrChocolate]

She took food in her mouth, chewed it, spit it onto a spoon and then fed to him.

Is this one of those white people fads or is it just Costco craziness?

Am I missing something?

Nevertheless... what the fuck? Jesus christ, we have cavemans that complain about eating pizza with knife and fork and on the other hand we have a mother chewing food for her kid.

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

I bite off small pieces of food for my baby girl but not sit there and chew it.

 

[bjork]

Was it Alicia Silverstone?

Man... as I scrolled down I was like, "I'm totally gonna post 'was it alicia silverstone?'"

 

[Azerare]

Yes, she actively chewed it up, spit back onto the spoon, and then fed her child (small enough to sit in the little seat cart) like regular.

Wow.... I hope this doesn't become the latest parenting fad. There is a limit and that person passed it.

 

[kevin1025]

How old is the Kid?

I hope this never gets answered so that our imaginations can go wild.

Yes, she actively chewed it up, spit back onto the spoon, and then fed her child (small enough to sit in the little seat cart) like regular.

At least a spoon was involved...

I'm still not sure about all of this.

 

[Sini]

There's three ways I can read the title and I only got what you really meant on the third time

 

[Zen_Arcade]

In the time before industrially-produced baby food puree, how do you think infants transitioning to eating solid foods ate?

People also used to dip their fingers in alcohol and let the kids suck on them to help things like teething. People used to do a lot of dumb things for kids in the past.

It's 2016. We don't need to live like baby food doesn't exist.

 

[Nosgotham]

To be fair, white people are the only people I would envision doing this in this day and age.

lol what?

how old is the kid? if its an infant, yea people do it. my mom did it to me, or so she says. if its like a 5 year old, thats weird.

aldo: misleading title. came in expecting adorable baby bird pics

 

[massoluk]

How old is this kid? It's not that uncommon a practice.

I'm pretty sure bird-feeding your children is discouraged--transfer of bacteria and all that.

Scientists are rethinking that bacteria transfer thing in general. We're over-sterilized and useful bacteria is not getting to kids.
http://www.npr.org/tags/172709084/microbiome
http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/health-and-our-microbiome
http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/health-and-our-microbiome/meet-your-microbiome

 

[Messofanego]

Damn it Alicia Silverstone!

Not exactly healthy cause there's a small chance you could transfer diseases or teeth bacteria. And having a baby chew for themselves is part of development.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

I'm pretty sure bird-feeding your children is discouraged--transfer of bacteria and all that.

My kid's dentist was giving me a mini-lecture on why you shouldn't let kids swap spit with other kids (due to everyone having individualized bacteria or whatever and mixing and matching being bad).

All I could think was how impossible a task that would be in practice.

 

[Sephzilla]

 

[Kater]

I once saw a baby drinking milk from its mothers BOOBS!

Grotesque!

Urgh

That's revolting!

Spoiler

(Seriously though, I don't find it weird at all, neither do I think that feeding your baby food like that is weird. It really isn't.)

 

[Aselith]

What's the relationship between bird feeding and the color of someone's skin?

Because white people do a lot of really weird fad stuff. I'm not sure what white people are more into fads or craft beers. Am white can confirm.

 

[L95]

Yeah, I thought the title was talking about actual birds.

 

[titiklabingapat]

It's how gut flora and fauna can be transfered from parents to kids

The only thing annoying about this is of it becomes a trend and some trendy parents try to sell it off as some trendy thing kinda like free range kids or being organic. Back in the day, those things were just called being a kid or 'food'.

 

[Steeped in a Sea of Games]

Because white people do a lot of really weird fad stuff. I'm not sure what white people are more into fads or craft beers. Am white can confirm.

As a white person who hates fads, I find this offensive.