When the magic's gone | Pad Patter 2.22.18

[bellbird]

Life is full of wonderful things but has something been demystified for you and it's just not the same after that? What did you learn?

So @GlazeFamily3 educated me in the gallery this week that although all these years I have believed 'the grey stuff' to be delicious and some kind of wonderful exotic flavour, it's just cookies and cream, which is generally fine, don't get me wrong, but not just the kind of magical I imagined.

My son also has/had a love-hate relationship with sour candy and WarHeads particularly - the sour ones almost turn his face inside out - and earlier this week there was an episode on the FoodNetwork of 'Unwrapped' (i think it's called, with the 80's 'Fresh Prince from BelAir's' cousin as the host) where they showed the production of WarHeads and these bubblegum lollypops and seeing them add rubber to the melting pot and a few other things turned him greener than any sourapple candy i've ever seen. That and there are times when thinking about the mystical origins of gelatine makes my fave red frog gummy lollies (Allen's Frogs Alive) just too hard to mentally swallow.

 

[GlazeFamily3]

@bellbird I feel completely responsible for taking the magic out of the gray stuff. If it helps... it may not be as exotic as the blackberry you imagined, but it has been really yummy each time we’ve had it. I do have to say I enjoyed gray stuff most when used as frosting on a cupcake.

The time I remember feeling most like the magic was gone was when I found out about Santa Claus. I was definitely old enough to know, but I was on the fence. My mom started talking to me in the car one day like I knew. It confirmed it for me of course, but I was so heartbroken. I didn’t tell my mom because I didn’t want to make her feel bad.

It has definitely made me think a lot about how to handle it with my own daughter. She is nine and incredibly intelligent and it baffles me with everything she still believes in! But she is a believer and a dreamer with every fiber of her being. I think she must know deep down but she just wants to keep the magic going.

 

[bellbird]

My mom started talking to me in the car one day like I knew. It confirmed it for me of course, but I was so heartbroken

I did a lot of last minute re-wrapping on Christmas Eve after picking DS up from somewhere and having a similar car moment last year (where he reminded me we still need to put cookies, milk and carrots out, even after questioning the whole Situation a bunch earlier in the month and having heard from other parents of his classmates so I figured wrong like your mother) He was 8 and i was sad it was ending but it meant i didn't have to use so many kinds of wrapping paper. By Xmas Eve, I had a recycle box half full of wrapping paper, so much for being organised before the big nite but it was still quite magical (he even wrote WarHeads on his Xmas list!)

(And LOL, don't worry, at one point I did wonder if grey stuff was like a weird caviar or those 'truffles that look like a rock from the woods' that had been turned into a dip thing, and not being much of a fan of caviar or savoury in general, would have been reluctant to try it - cookies and cream is far more preferrable to caviar to me!

 

[tkradtke]

So @GlazeFamily3 educated me in the gallery this week that although all these years I have believed 'the grey stuff' to be delicious and some kind of wonderful exotic flavour, it's just cookies and cream, which is generally fine, don't get me wrong, but not just the kind of magical I imagined.

It's different at Disneyland!


Well... the actual grey part is cookies and cream-ish... but there's a surprise in the middle!

 

[keepscrappin]

Finding out about Santa was a magic killer for me too. I've tried to really be sensitive about it with my kids too. I didn't want them to believe too long and get teased for it, but I also wanted the fun to last as long as it could.

 

[MrsGaramer]

Finding out about Santa was a magic killer for me too. I've tried to really be sensitive about it with my kids too. I didn't want them to believe too long and get teased for it, but I also wanted the fun to last as long as it could.

My kids are 6 & 8 and at the point I want to tell them about Santa! I do but I don't. It's not as magical for me as they get older. It seems like more work (I hate to say that). So being Santa has lost it's magical appeal for me.

 

[KarenW]

I was so relieved that Santa wasn't real, he freaked me out as a child! My youngest believed for a long time although his belief most definitely did not stretch to the Easter Bunny or the Tooth fairy (totally my fault there, I kept forgetting to swap the tooth for the money- the tooth fairy had a couple of Very Bad years!)

I had never heard of the grey stuff, I'm not a fan of cookies and cream so I guess I'm not missing out?

I don't ever want to find out how new age magicians like Dynamo do their tricks- that would ruin the magic for me...

 

[Tree City]

My mom is a lefty and has horrible handwriting. Horrible. So as soon as I could read, I realized Santa wasn't real because there was NO WAY Santa had such chicken scratch handwriting. IDK if that "ruined the magic" for me since I was probably 4 and my parents weren't huge into Santa anyway.

Now, I knew that HGTV's "House Hunters" show wasn't exactly true reality, but I was so bummed when I learned that [SPOILER ALERT! highlight the "blank space" to see what I wrote!] they already have purchased their home and the real estate agent is just showing them 2 other homes simply for the show as well as re-showing them the house they purchased. It makes sense because House Hunters needs to guarantee that the sale goes through (so they can film them after moving in), but it still felt like some of the magic died.

 

[carrie1977]

My mom is a lefty and has horrible handwriting. Horrible. So as soon as I could read, I realized Santa wasn't real because there was NO WAY Santa had such chicken scratch handwriting. IDK if that "ruined the magic" for me since I was probably 4 and my parents weren't huge into Santa anyway.

Now, I knew that HGTV's "House Hunters" show wasn't exactly true reality, but I was so bummed when I learned that [SPOILER ALERT! highlight the "blank space" to see what I wrote!] they already have purchased their home and the real estate agent is just showing them 2 other homes simply for the show as well as re-showing them the house they purchased. It makes sense because House Hunters needs to guarantee that the sale goes through (so they can film them after moving in), but it still felt like some of the magic died.

That is a bummer...although, I have seen a couple of episodes where they haven't purchased a home at all. Now, I really wonder if that's what really happened or if whatever deal they had intended on making fell thru.

 

[Tree City]

@carrie1977 That's a good point. You got me thinking!

 

[Serena]

To ease some of the pain, Justine, I'd like to point out that the gray stuff in the movie is most likely a pate of sorts, so it's savory and there are SO many ways to make it. The origin of the story is France, they use pate in a lot of things, including pie crusts.

So IN the movie, the gray stuff can be a myriad of things. But.. thinking from Disney's marketing standpoint, they're marketing to children and need the children to find it delicious. Belle was old enough to think pate was good at that point. In the interest of making money, you need the children to LIKE the gray stuff and definitely call it delicious.

Cookies and cream is a relatively safe bet and easy to pull off and gain monetary returns from. So the magic is still there!

@KarenW The gray stuff is from the Beauty in the Beast Disney show where they're singing to her as she enters dinner and then says "the gray stuff is delicious, don't believe me, ask the dishes!" And she proceeds to dip her (probably dirty finger, I mean really, did she stop by the bathroom to wash her hands? Ew.) finger in and taste it and gives an approving look.

There's a few things like magic and whatnot that I simply do NOT want to know, I need to believe, there for, I do my best to stay away.

 

[Justagirl]

Sadly Im not surprised by much at all, but I am on the other hand thinking @Tree City did a very cool thing in her post with the invisible typing and that totally got me excited.

 

[Tree City]

Sadly Im not surprised by much at all, but I am on the other hand thinking @Tree City did a very cool thing in her post with the invisible typing and that totally got me excited.

It works really well in the Reading Pad's book threads since not everyone is on the same page (literally and figuratively--gosh, I love puns). But really, I just didn't want anyone to read my post and blame me for ruining the magic for them!

 

[bellbird]

It works really well in the Reading Pad's book threads since not everyone is on the same page (literally and figuratively--gosh, I love puns). But really, I just didn't want anyone to read my post and blame me for ruining the magic for them!

Typing in white IS magical! I think @ Karen is the genius behind that! (But it's not a 'magic's gone' kind of thing and has been totally fantastic for the spoilers potential posts in the Reading Pad - and great pun work )
That HouseHunters thing though makes total sense to me now - there are so many versions of them, the international, US based, the island hunters and the various reno ones and we binged on them for a few months but they lost their lustre and most of the times we were like 'that's not close to what they asked for or even near their price range' or they were so picky it was annoying to watch (are dual sinks so much of a deal breaker to so many people!?) - we've learnt 'price negotiable' in the US is waaay different to here (Sydney & South Coast) for housing but Carrie makes a good point

 

[bellbird]

To ease some of the pain, Justine, I'd like to point out that the gray stuff in the movie is most likely a pate of sorts, so it's savory and there are SO many ways to make it. The origin of the story is France, they use pate in a lot of things, including pie crusts.

So IN the movie, the gray stuff can be a myriad of things. But.. thinking from Disney's marketing standpoint, they're marketing to children and need the children to find it delicious. Belle was old enough to think pate was good at that point. In the interest of making money, you need the children to LIKE the gray stuff and definitely call it delicious.

Cookies and cream is a relatively safe bet and easy to pull off and gain monetary returns from. So the magic is still there!

@KarenW The gray stuff is from the Beauty in the Beast Disney show where they're singing to her as she enters dinner and then says "the gray stuff is delicious, don't believe me, ask the dishes!" And she proceeds to dip her (probably dirty finger, I mean really, did she stop by the bathroom to wash her hands? Ew.) finger in and taste it and gives an approving look.

There's a few things like magic and whatnot that I simply do NOT want to know, I need to believe, there for, I do my best to stay away.

learning what goes in pate was one of those moments for me like DS and his WarHeads lollies - you're right, in Belle's Provincial life this would be a total delish dish! You're making cookies and cream look even better! They have spicy Korean squid on a stick as a snack in the HKDL park, i guess everywhere has it's own unique Disney delicacies!

 

[bellbird]

Sadly Im not surprised by much at all, but I am on the other hand thinking @Tree City did a very cool thing in her post with the invisible typing and that totally got me excited.

my kids surprise me a lot (not always in a good way!) & i love Penn & Teller's Fool Me show (it used to be on the ABC) - i guess i avoid those 'magic demystified' type shows like @KarenW said, i dont really want to know the tricks behind the tricks, i like being amazed by literal magic!

 

[bellbird]

It seems like more work (I hate to say that)

yep i know what you mean! the kids have interpreted the Elf not showing up here for the last 2 Dec's as 'we must have been on the 'Nice' List all year this year!!) Umm, don't think so, more just Dec is too busy as it is without a month of creating midnight magic!

 

[Serena]

I'm laughing here! Sorry I ruined it more for you!! Think magical thoughts!! I have a magical hug for you!!! ::HUGS!!!:: Nothing weird in that, it's all natural and ... well, please don't 'taste' my hugs, okay?

 

[Justagirl]

@bellbird actually you know what Dynamo does blow my mind hehe

 

[Tree City]

Typing in white IS magical! I think @ Karen is the genius behind that! (But it's not a 'magic's gone' kind of thing and has been totally fantastic for the spoilers potential posts in the Reading Pad - and great pun work )
That HouseHunters thing though makes total sense to me now - there are so many versions of them, the international, US based, the island hunters and the various reno ones and we binged on them for a few months but they lost their lustre and most of the times we were like 'that's not close to what they asked for or even near their price range' or they were so picky it was annoying to watch (are dual sinks so much of a deal breaker to so many people!?) - we've learnt 'price negotiable' in the US is waaay different to here (Sydney & South Coast) for housing but Carrie makes a good point

I didn't realize Karen was the original white text magician! I just knew I picked it up from the reading pad lol!

Oh, it drives me nuts when people nix a house cuz of the dual sink thing (or some other minor issue). Just brush your teeth after your spouse. I'd rather have counter space for all of our stuff instead of an extra sink to clean! Or when they say, "Ew. I don't like that wall color" cuz you can buy a gallon of paint for like $35! It's one of the easiest things to change. Sorry, this is way off your original topic, but I had to say it!