Having the Talk with your kid - the Cinnamon Talk
By adamg - 3/24/12 - 4:57 pm
After reading this Globe article, I had to know: Had she ever tried swallowing an entire spoonful of cinnamon?
No, she said, but she'd heard of a couple of kids who had.
Phew. Her mother and I are the lucky ones. Because as Ben Jackson reminds us, "cinnamon is the gateway for nutmeg."
But a parent's work is never done. R. Hookup warns us: "All the cool kids do rosemary."
Comments
You know who gave us cinnamon?
Arabs. *dun dun DUNNN!*
The hallucinogenic properties of nutmeg
It is a good thing they haven't been trying this with nutmeg:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/my-nutmeg-bender/8863/
Nutmeg.
According to Cracked: "Some users compare the nutmeg "high" to a hellish case of the flu."
Don't think we have anything to worry about.
You don't want her to be a Cinnamon Girl
All those years of schlepping her over to Latin for this?