Parents are sharing their kids' weirdest food stories, 'the apple is underneath?'

2-year-old wandered away with an apple and came back empty handed. I said “Where’s your apple? Apple cores go in the trash,” and she looked at me funny and said “No, I always put my apple cores underneath.” UNDERNEATH WHAT?? I AM ALARMED.

— Kristen Mulrooney (@missmulrooney) October 17, 2022

Did you know that hot dogs will eventually turn to a sort of meat powder?

I know that, now.

— Lynn Burton (@disasterballet) October 18, 2022

My kids stashed food that they liked in weird places: the older one would forget, so 2 wks later you'd find chunks of cake or raisin toast inside toy trucks😵‍💫 the younger one remembers but then gets offended that I won't let him eat pizza that's been in the cupboard for 2 days

— Dr Angela May O'Connor (@amayoco) October 18, 2022

My little cousin once put a whole peanut butter sandwich into the VCR tape slot. Those apple cores are in Narnia by now.

— Sarah Cormiea (@SarahCormiea) October 18, 2022

My firstborn used to decorate the christmas tree with food he didn't finish. Lots of hot dogs and rotis. I kept trying to take them off as they appeared, but I definitely missed some, which only became apparent when we took the tree down.

— MostlyHarmless 🇺🇦 (@Paraphrased) October 18, 2022

My 8yo would spit out her apple peels as a toddler... Had an apple on the way home from daycare every day. Realized the problem in the spring, when my car started smelling like fermented apples. My backseat was full of tiny baby nibbles of apple peels.

— I'mSorry/You'reWelcome (@ImsorryR) October 17, 2022

My niece used to not be able to sleep unless she had a grapefruit with her in bed. Or an orange if no grapefruit. We called it “sleeping with citrus”.

— Jean Jarvis (@jeanjarvis17) October 18, 2022

I discovered recently that my 3 year old has been taking a hot dog out of the frig to bed every night, "just in case I get sad". And I... what?? Basically, I hope you don't find a pile of apple cores in the bed, bc let me tell you some smells never come out of sheets.

— MrsBearSquared (@MrsBearSquared) October 18, 2022

On a bus with my oldest when he was four, he asked me what was in his pocket? And then pulled out a chicken nugget. I don’t know where he found the nugget or how long it had been in there because it wasn’t from our house.

— Mx.Lorenish (@Dracopi) October 18, 2022

After my son moved out of the house as an adult, we took the kitchen table off for refinishing. In a little nook near his seat at that table, petrified broccoli. Lots of it. I mean, 18 years? SMH

— Terry (@uchida_terry) October 18, 2022

Former 2-year-old, current Ph.D. candidate, once created a entire checkerboard out of sliced cheese that he stuck onto the picture window in our living room. Good times.

— Karen Maxfield (@KLM19464) October 18, 2022

My sister famously used to shove her green beans into a vent when she “went to the bathroom” during dinner. I have never been clear how she managed it but the look of trauma on my mothers face when she described finding them will be with me forever.

— Kate Tooley (@kate_tooley) October 18, 2022

I found a thorough collection of wrappers and apple cores under a couch in my basement, courtesy of my daughter. Horrifying

— Kelly Q. Anderson (she/her) (@KellyQAnderson) October 17, 2022

My nephew’s meat bones often disappear from his plate at dinner. He said they’re in his secret house. He never leaves the table at dinner. We don’t know where the bones go.

— Dizzy (@13silverroses) October 18, 2022

Child: I learned a joke at school.
Me: Ok let’s hear it.
Child: What goes in stiff but comes out soft?
Me:
Child:
Me:
Child:
Me: Is it a-
Wife [running in from other room]: SPAGHETTI IT’S SPAGHETTI

— Rodney Lacroix (@RodLacroix) October 25, 2022