Kate is Premium

A good friend of mine has 1 ½ year old baby girl, Kate, which acts like a typical person her age. This same friend also has a problem with cats… as in he has too many of them. To be fair, I’m not sure if the cat-problem is really his issue, his wife’s, or (most likely) a combination of the two but that’s immaterial.

Anyway I’m talking with him on the phone a couple months back and all the sudden I hear him yelling Kate’s name and saying he has to go. A while later I get the photo below from him:

Now I’m no expert on kids but there are several things wrong with this picture. First is that the cat doesn’t seem to mind that macaroni and cheese is in its fur. Granted there are only ten or so noodles trapped, probably just enough for a meal for later.

More importantly I am horrified that, after careful study, this is a generic mac and cheese, not the premium noodles with real cheese. The noodles in this photo are obviously from the “standard” package… notice the thinness of the noodles and how they are just barely covered with the “cheese” mix.

If my friend loved his daughter, or had any gumption to be a good parent and provider, those noodles would be up to half inch diameter, and the cheese sauce would be generously and thickly applied to each individual noodle. The cheese on the pictured noodles appears to have come from a powdered source mixed with water. I bet they eat better in prison.

So to my parent audience, please don’t make this same mistake. Think of the kids after all…

UPDATE:  I've been informed that the noodles are organic, home-cooked and were slathered in real cheese before the cat licked the cheese off.