I only wish this is the image I had my head. |
"What do you want for lunch?"
"Grrrrl cheese!" (this has always been pronounced by The Caterpillar exactly as written here; no vowels, just a collection of consonants resembling a word we thought we knew: "grrrrrl cheese")
*teasing* "Don't you want boy cheese?"
"Dad, there's no boy cheese, only grrrl cheese."
*for the first time realizes she's been trying to say 'girl cheese' for the past three years and not 'grilled cheese'.* "Uh, honey. It's called 'grilled cheese.' Not 'girl cheese.'"
"No. It's not."
"Yes. It is. It's grilled because you grill it. Girl cheese is something else."
"Oh."
*short pause, then the inevitable*
"Daddy, what's girl cheese?"
*short pause, then the inevitable*
"Daddy, what's girl cheese?"
*heavy sigh* "Well I don't know, but it's not a sandwich."
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