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My stepson tries to argue that video games involve/count as reading because you have to read instructions and signs and stuff. I counter-argue that "recognizing words" is not the same thing as "reading."
A few days ago we had sauteed chard with dinner. Yesterday he was nibbling some Trader Joe's root-vegetable chips in the car (I was driving), and remarked,
"Apparently, when they make these chips, when they deep-fry them, they drain the oil on chard."
"Huh?" I said. "I doubt that."
"Well, that's what it says, right here! I mean, it says 'Manufactured on chard,' and I don't think they chop up the vegetables on chard, so I assume they drain them on it."
"Okay, now I'm curious. Geoff, would you take the bag and figure out what he's looking at?"
The bag actually said, "Manufactured on shared equipment with wheat, milk, and soy." With a line break after "shared."
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My stepson tries to argue that video games involve/count as reading because you have to read instructions and signs and stuff. I counter-argue that "recognizing words" is not the same thing as "reading."
A few days ago we had sauteed chard with dinner. Yesterday he was nibbling some Trader Joe's root-vegetable chips in the car (I was driving), and remarked,
"Apparently, when they make these chips, when they deep-fry them, they drain the oil on chard."
"Huh?" I said. "I doubt that."
"Well, that's what it says, right here! I mean, it says 'Manufactured on chard,' and I don't think they chop up the vegetables on chard, so I assume they drain them on it."
"Okay, now I'm curious. Geoff, would you take the bag and figure out what he's looking at?"
The bag actually said, "Manufactured on shared equipment with wheat, milk, and soy." With a line break after "shared."
Yikes.
(And, gentle temple massage for your headache.)