The other night we were trying to decide what to eat for dinner and I suggested crepes. Alex just looked at me and said “Huh, what’s that?”

“You know, crepes. They’re like thin pancakes. You usually put syrup on them.”

“Grapes?”

“No, crepes, it’s French and anyway you don’t put syrup on grapes.”

“Oh”

To complicate matters Andrew was sitting at the kitchen table eating a bowl full of grapes which I think lead to the confusion in the first place. Alex was going to help me make them and I started getting out the ingredients and when I discovered we didn’t have an flour which brought the crepe making to a quick end. Alex was really disappointed.

“But I wanted crepes.”, translation “But I really wanted to eat something with syrup.”

“I’m sorry son but we don’t have any flour we can’t make any crepes.”

Alex then walked over to me holding a bowl of grapes and said “Can I have syrup on these?”

“No, you have syrup on crepes not grapes.”

“Why?” Oi. We ended up settling on tomato soup with crackers, not syrup.