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The 11 yo: Is this corn the 94% or the 6%?

The Mom: The what?

The 11 yo: Modified. GMO’s. Which is it?

The Mom: It’s corn. Eat it.

The 11 yo: It has pepper on it. Why does pepper always make people sneeze in cartoons?

The Mom: I have no idea. Maybe some animator a long time ago was allergic to pepper and then others copied it. Like why A113 appears in every Pixar movie. 

The 11 yo: Because that was their classroom. Which has nothing to do with pepper. Or GMO corn. Try again, mom.

The Mom: SQUIRREL!

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