Yesterday morning we headed up to Les Halles to grab some much needed emergency supplies of cheese, pate, sausage, etc and ran into an incredible incident.  Walking around a corner of the cheese counters, we saw a cloud of white chicken feathers and a pack of laughing kids... that can't be good.

What we witnessed was something that would have had Americans calling in trauma counselors, medics, law enforcement, calls for federal food handling reforms, jail time, and repeated appearances of "experts" on CNN and MSNBC offering their dubious opinions.

We saw, live and in colour, children learning about where food comes from!  A group of little kiddos(6 or 7 year olds) was gathered around the central butcher stall as the meat cutter was grabbing different critters out of the meat case and asked them what they were and what noises they make.  Keep in mind when you buy poultry and small animals(rabbits, etc) they all come head on and guts intact so its really onvious what you are getting and how fresh it is.  The kids were laughing and making chicken, duck, goose noises as the butcher showed them the animals, pulled feathers and blew them into the air over the kids heads and generally put on a hilarious educational show for the them.

Its worth noting this is the same butcher that gravely disagreed with my learned opinion that his rabbits looked wonderful, he staunchly insisted that they are were, in fact, very small kangaroos.

Amazing!

No tears, no worries, just kids learning the real source of their food in a way that would have had American kiddos in therapy for decades after the lawsuits were over.

A fun morning.