I have started reading Grizzly Tales: Gruesome Grown Ups, and the first story, Jamie's School Dinners, was gross and absolutely horrifying at the same time. It made me want to have actual chicken nuggets, no matter how the story portrayed children who only have one thing for meals every day.
When I got up to the bit where Jamie had chicken drumsticks, I was immediately hooked, because the main villain, Ambrosine, was stuffing him up as plump as who everyone calls him now, a 'little goose'. To make matters worse, Jamie's parents' health and concern for their now-heavyweight son deteriorate with every day that goes on, and as Jamie eats countless weights of food, he develops yellow zits on his face, and grows mushrooms all around his neck! Yeuck!
But, I am glad Amazon Kindle had annotations, so I could deliver my own thoughts on the story. Speaking of which, there is a part where the narrator tells us about a spoof of Doctor Who called Doctor Which. And what did I toggle in the annotations box?
"Ooh, burn!"
Typical sci-fi fan on a detox. Anyway, Ambrosine lures the now-obese Jamie towards her island, where she cooks him with horrid, nasty things usually taken out of healthy food for kids, mainly the e-numbers you'd find in Pink Wafers, until Jamie explodes.
The story ends on a dark note as Jamie's parents forget everything about their son, because he is served to another schoolboy in another part of the country during lunchtime, implying that he is about to meet the same fate as our morbidly-weight-gaining hero.
Now, I am not like Jamie, if you can ask me how I keep myself healthy and clean. I have a morning and nightly skincare routine, I put cream on my itchy and stingy spots which frequently appear on my body, and I shower regularly, not to mention I eat a variety of things for every meal, not just chicken nuggets and cheeseburgers.
So please, parents, if you see a child with an eating disorder, don't tell him if his parents offered him their brains. Instead, ask him about his hygiene, habits and diet. You might be able to offer some advice to his parents...but do they have the brains to take it all in?
To be continued...
SILENCE IS GOLDEN!
