The “Friendship Blog”

November 12, 2010   ·   Jeff Robbins   ·   Jump to comments

In between her frequent demands for more Backyardigans videos and her alarming tendency to use me as a punching bag, my three-year-old daughter will often ask her mother or me to make her a “friendship snack.”
Now, for those of you reading this column who do not presently attend preschool (and my editor does say that most of my page views come from daycares and prisons), a “friendship snack” is a concoction that is produced when several kids combine their individual favorite munchies into a huge, group-sized treat.
(For the Record, the snack usually ends up being pretty similar to Chex Mix or Crispix Mix, though most preschools frown on the inclusion of nuts due to allergies. In addition, there is usually one kid who brings in something a little more bizarre, like Twizzlers or gummy bears.)
I started thinking about this method of producing something unique out of a collection of unrelated items when it came time to post this week’s...

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