| Seymour Skinner: | Superintendent, I hope you’re ready for mouth-watering hamburgers. | |
| Superintendent Chalmers: | I thought we were having steamed clams. | |
| Seymour Skinner: | Oh, no, I said steamed hams. That’s what I call hamburgers. | |
| Superintendent Chalmers: | You call hamburgers steamed hams? | |
| Seymour Skinner: | Yes, it’s a regional dialect. | |
| Superintendent Chalmers: | Uh-huh. What region? | |
| Seymour Skinner: | Uhh … Upstate New York. | |
| Superintendent Chalmers: | Really? Well, I’m from Utica, and I’ve never heard anyone use the phrase ‘steamed hams.’ | |
| Seymour Skinner: | Oh, not in Utica. No, it’s an Albany expression. | |
| Superintendent Chalmers: | I see. |
Pru’s first attempt at eating solid foods:
Sweet potatoes are nutritious, palatable and extremely unlikely to cause an allergic reaction. The same is true of bananas, but bananas are so delicious that there’s a concern that if you start a baby off on bananas she’ll reject less sweet veggies, like, for example, sweet potatoes. So, we started with the sweet potatoes.
Victory! The spoon is in, the food is in: we are go for eating!
Or, not.
Stiff arm!
The many faces of first-feeding Pru:
Intoxicated?
Pensive?
Happy!
Final disposition of steamed and pureed sweet potatoes from first feeding: 95% still on container, 4% on bib, 1% in mouth. I’d call that a very successful first feeding.
Dwyeropolis 
Sweet potatoes were a favorite for all three of our babies, and they still like them. Pureed peas were appreciated, but we never could get them to like pureed green beans.
You never forget your first…..
Tyler’s was squash. Hoo boy.
If what you say is true about the influence upon a baby’s first food toward their tastes later in life, upon what might you think our friend Ravid Dice was weened?
Certainly wasn’t sweet potatoes. Or anything green.