Crispy Pata
May 1st, 2012 by nanay
“Your baby is so cute I can eat him!”
“He looks delicious!”
These are common things we hear about Benig. Â I wonder where this idea of eating a baby for being so cute comes from. Â Did people actually used to eat babies? Â Are they just so fat that, if they were any other animal, you’d go in for the kill knowing the meat would be calorie packed?
Anyway, this idea of eating a baby for being so cute seems to cross cultures. Â In our family, we’ve been telling Benig that he has crispy pata, a Filipino dish consisting of fried, meaty pig legs. Â Just look at those legs. Â Who can resist?
We also couldn’t resist dressing him up as if he were the prey of other animals. Â Pictured below is Benig the Bunny, with a “gator bait” onesie. Â There must really be something to this “so cute one can eat the baby” thing.
mom said we were even fatter than that. how is that possible?