Kid Cuisine

Those are pretty good, especially if you dip those in ranch.

That's what Kid Cuisine is.

Yeah.

That's why the mascot is a penguin.

Oh, you did not show the...

She look like a, uh, Kids Cuisine brownie.

Woo.

[laughs]

A frozen meal?

You've got some, so you've got some LaCroix, some, some Winn-Dixie brand LaCroix, and a Kid Cuisine.

[laughs] Toaster Strudels.

Um, actually, you guys, it was an Indian meal.

Um, Zach, national TV dinner day.

I've never been a big, like, Swanson or even, like, the Kid Cuisine stuff.

It always was just bleh.

Like, even as a kid, never just...

You know, Pinocchio's a familiar enough story that I don't want to say I didn't pay attention to the story, but I was so distracted by how crazy everything looked that the story was completely secondary to me while I was watching it.

Like, it was just... amazing to look at like i said i probably haven't seen since i was a kid and i don't know that i sat through it start to finish ever as a child it's not a movie i owned so i was like at the mercy of it being on television um my main interaction with the story of pinocchio was this like board game that we had that came on the back of children's frozen dinners it was like i think it was when the vhs came out uh They did a promotion with something called Kid Cuisine, which you should not feed your children.

But my parents are doing their best.

It was the 90s.

I was only able to find the fourth board on eBay because I was like, I wonder if I could source this now.

But I was able to find it, which is more than I can say for the last time I brought it up because I remember bringing it up before.

I thought it was on cereal boxes is why I, And then I was like, oh, I wonder if it was on Kid Cuisine actually.

And then I looked that up and there it was.

She went summers, nights, et cetera, to get done as fast as she could, and I made it work as best as I could.

The kids and I look back at these times and really think it was fun, me picking them up from daycare, cooking, me microwaving Kids Cuisine, and them tagging along to nights with the team.

Things seem to be going great.

Fast-forward to a few years ago, and we're doing so well that I say I want to take her away for a week to her favorite beach for a week, just the two of us as a second honeymoon.

I realized that now when I learned it from you this morning, that, yeah, perhaps I was getting fed, all puns intended, some TV dinner content.

There was a new type of kid cuisine, which is one of the famous TV dinner styles that I think popped off when we were kids in the early 90s.

Yeah.

Still around.

food advertisements.

You don't seem like the main target

market for a kid cuisine.

No, I'm not.