Edamame

My littlest one, Patch, has such a great sense of humor for a not-quite-four-year-old.

Example:

We’re eating a vegetarian-rice dinner earlier tonight. A round of knock-knock jokes commences, centering on the word “edamame,” those soy bean pea pod thingies my wife mixed in. We pronounce the first “e” long in the word, though I think the correct pronunciation is with a short “e”. We say “ee-duh-MAH-may.”

Here’s Patch’s contribution:


Patch: Knock knock.

Rest of Us: Who’s there?

Patch: Edamame.

Rest of Us: Edamame who?

Patch: (incredulous) Edamame? Why not Eat-a-Daddy?