I'd be honestly amazed at labels coming off so cleanly.
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That was my initial reaction. “Great peeling, junior.”
Post-apocalyptic lootboxes.
This is what "too old to ground" looks like.
The obvious consequence for his actions are right there. Use the mystery cans of food against him (put them inside a pillowcase and use it to thrash the devil out of him)
This reminds me of an episode of Home Improvement. When they bought cans of food with the labels peeled off because they were pretty much free.
Tim said, 'these have no labels on them. They could be artichokes or dog food' and one of the boys (forgot who) said, ' the way mom cooks... I don't think it makes a difference'.
There was also a skit on the Wayne and Schuster show about the "Super No-Frills" grocery store featuring this as one of their cost savings features.
That's most of the next month's dinner for your kid. They get to pick out one can a night.
Real life consequences.
This pic is so old it owes a caveman $20.
Caveman no have can opener. Caveman sad.
Yeah that turns into whatever I open you eat I hope you enjoy Spaghetti with ragu and canned peaches.
Spaghetti with peaches... Kinda sounds like something that would taste.... nice?
Well little Timmy, since you were SO thoughtful taking the labels out of the cans, you are going to play canned flood roulette for the next week. This means, for an entire week you pick one can at random for your dinner, and you are not allowed to have another food outside of what the can offers. In the meanwhile, the rest of us will eat your favorite things in front of you, while you are in your sad corner eating your can of food. Me and your mother are going to place bets to see how long your spirit lasts. Let the games begin
My friend's parents tried this sort of punishment mindset with him when it was a kid. He ended up grounded with increasingly draconian punishments for roughly five years because of the shockingly impressive stubbornness of all people involved until they "gave up on him" after 7th grade (yes, this literally started when he was a 2nd grader). He ended up moving out on his own at 16 and dropping out of school and didn't really have a relationship with them for a good decade and a half.
I don't really have any words of wisdom from this other than never underestimate a person's ability to defy logic. It just ended up ruining the whole family's experience for a long, long time.
Edit: I did just remember something "funny" about the whole thing. My friend didn't really know how to, or enjoy, doing a lot of things that pretty much all kids did because of his seemingly eternal grounding. And he was quite literally the palest person I have ever known because he only went outside to get on the bus for school. His parents turned him into some sort of cave person lol
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Go buy a canned something you know they don't like. Remove the labels and replace some of the cans with it. Require them to eat a mystery can a week.
Lol.
Guess what "kid" is having for dinner for the next month?
"How should I know? You ripped all them labels off, you tell me?"
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Yet another in a long series of examples of why I never wanted kids.
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Asymmetric warfare
Well now everyone's having lucky dip dinners from now on
Nah. We're making a grocery run to get new stuff for everyone else and the shithead gets mystery cans until they're eaten.
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