How Far In Grizzlyville?: Jamie's School Dinners

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!

Jamie's School Dinners: An Insight Into Eating Disorders

If any parents were as grizzly as the main character's parents of this Grizzly Tales story, they'd probably need some therapeutic training and experimentation on their hands. But through my lens, this story, titled 'Jamie's School Dinners', is not cited as a cautionary tale for 'lovers of Squeam' as promised, but a warning about ignoring the needs and habits of a child with an eating disorder, like Jamie. This essay will give you a better understanding of the themes portrayed rather negatively in the episode.

The story starts by introducing Jamie and his habit of eating chicken nuggets every day, day in, day out, and goes on to explain that his parents gave him their brains so he can know more, thus making them careless enough to refuse to understand their son's needs and habits, and only force him to eat greasy plates of meat and lard. Even temptation to eat healthy things from the new head teacher at his school goes awry, thus showcasing his dislike for healthy, balanced food.

However, the arrival of the main villain, an evil dinner lady, makes Jamie's experience with everyone around him neglecting his eating disorder worse, as she keeps force feeding him, leading to endless teasing and days and days of ignorance and refusal. As the days fly by, Jamie's experience with being force fed gets worse and worse, from getting morbidly obese to developing worse acne on his face.

All these side effects of Jamie's mistreatment represent those a child with an eating disorder thinks he or she loves not giving them the healthy, balanced diet they wanted, and only giving them big portions instead of one little portion a day. If you give a child big platefuls of meat, or one of the same food, they might think it's a healthy, balanced diet, and might demand more. The theme of greed is present in every Grizzly Tales story, so this one takes its main character's bad eating habits - or, disorder as we call it these days - waaaaaaaaaaaay too far.

This is documented near the story's shocking climax, where the wicked villain plants a time bomb in Tom's abdomen and lures him back to her rustic kitchen lair, where she uses him as an ingredient for her cooking show which a family of trolls from hell watch fiercely.

The shocking twist might thrill and gross out kids watching, but can also warn parents about what might happen if they ignore the needs, habits and preferences of their eating disorder-diagnosed kids, and encourages them in a sinister manner to balance their one favourite food with food they've never tried before, such as rice, bananas, beans, veggies, fruits and other healthy food, which is what's needed to build a healthy, growing body.

It also encourages them in a startling, sloppy manner to give their kids 5 minutes of exercise a day, not a lot, because it may hurt their bodies. Too much exercise for unfit people can tear their muscles and cause endless, daily stitches which may need bucketloads of Voltarol.

Good job, Honeycomb Animation. Maybe if you sold Grizzly Tales to the USA, you'd use this episode to teach about America's confrontation with their parents' worries about their kids' obsession with pigging out on junk food while watching Spongebob all day.

Teen Titans Go airing all the time on Cartoon Network is getting a bit boring, right, Honeycomb?

Dinner With Furaha & Orko

 

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When My Dog 'Brother' & I Fight Over Dinner & Transformers Cybertron

Friendly Thoughts - Just Siblings

Siblings. They've been on this planet since the beginning of our time on Earth. There were cave siblings, Roman siblings, Greek siblings and Georgian siblings. But when I think of siblings, I always think of my dog as a sibling to me - me? I'm Horrid Henry. My dog? Perfect Peter.

It all started yesterday at lunch, when we were fighting over air-fryer cooked chicken nuggets - I can talk, Mylo can't so he can't scream "MUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!" like Perfect Peter does. And this morning, we were fighting over Shreddies because it kept spilling on my pyjamas like Adult Swim-produced toxic waste. We were fighting over who gets the bowl of milk as I took it into the kitchen, and as a result my dog ripped up a pair of my pyjamas so I had to lure him away with TreatOs.

As for Horrid Henry and Perfect Peter themselves, their aggressive relationships continue throughout every single book their creator Francesca Simon spews out - so much so that we have repeated catchphrases, the yell of "Don't be horrid, Henry!", and sometimes the occasional repeat of the time when Horrid Henry read some books, or engaged in a bake off, or...I can't even remember that. However in the TV show, Horrid Henry and Peter's relationship slowly changed.

At the beginning of the series, which remained faithful to the original books, Henry and Peter were fighting a lot, but when the series was toned down to feature stuff like modern technology and Number Gnomes and Fimbles references, Henry and Peter suddenly got on very well, and almost every single episode produced at the time showed Henry becoming less and less horrid until he wasn't as horrid as he used to be anymore. Now he is 'Humble Henry'.

Speaking of which...

My characters Furaha and Orko have been siblings ever since Orko welcomed Furaha into her life when she was born. Now, the two get on extremely well, unlike Henry and Peter. They share their interests and secrets, giggle over the funniest things and share the same relationships with their family and friends, neither of them ever gets jealous. That's because Orko had developed a healthy relationship with his sister the moment she was born, and whatever they did from cuddling Furaha's favourite rabbit to tickling and cradling, Furaha wasn't just a pet to Orko, it was like he had a second daughter.

He is so lucky to have a nice, gentle little sister like Furaha.

"Friends like us will never part,

I'll always keep you close to my heart."

- Orko to baby Furaha

When It's Chicken Nuggets For Dinner With Batman Cartoons Tonight...

Timon and Pumbaa are trying new foods

A trip to KFC should set their mood

Fried chicken tastes better than grub any time

And a free balloon should do just fine!

A Trip To McDonald's

At last, my support worker returned with the food. She ordered me to pull down the middle bit of the seat so I could put my drink in it. Once I did, she gave me a whole box full of chicken nugs and French fries. They looked so delicious, and tasted so tempting! That disturbing Listiverse article was still swimming around in my head like a skeletal seal swimming in toxic green acid, but I ignored it and started eating my chicken nuggets. All the while, instead I thought about the moment in The Lion King when Simba was introduced to the art of bug eating by his new friends Timon and Pumbaa, during the Hakuna Matata sequence in the film. “He comes, with a very pleasant crunch.” I crunched as I downed mouthfuls of the chicken nuggets that came with my meal. Then I took an interest in the French fries and downed every morsel I could get my mucky paws on. “Slow down, mate,” said Kangaroo Jack, “Save some for me!” So I lent Jack some, and boy were they delicious to a kangaroo’s taste. “Still, uh….where’s the brownie?”