Flintstone Vitamins

Did you have Flintstone vitamins when you were a child?  I did.  They’re still around, of course.

In Mexico, the Flintstones are still in reruns and are known as Los Picapiedra, starring Pedro and Vilma (Fred and Wilma).  Not too long ago, Shari bought some Flintstone vitamins for Hannah and Nathanael.

Pictured: Non-spicy Flintstone Vitamins

Now, let’s back up a little.  Nathanael and Hannah have a tendency to call anything with a strong flavour "pica".  Pica or picante means spicy-hot.

Now our kids sometimes eat things that are spicy-hot, and sometimes don’t.  Depends on their mood, I guess.  But they also sometimes don’t like to eat things that simply have a strong flavour.  Lately Nathanael seems more sensitive to things like that – not sure why.

So, back to the Flintstones.  These were new vitamins for them, and they complained that they were pica.  No, we told them, they’re not "pica".  Eventually we found Nathanael just wouldn’t eat them, but Hannah did, so they got all used up except one.

By mistake Shari had bought vitamins that were supposed to be taken in 2s (it was a mistake because these are quite a bit more expensive).  So with only 1 vitamin left, I volunteered to eat it so that they could move on to the new vitamins that are taken in 1s.

You guessed it.  They really were spicy hot.  Not just a little, either.  It was pretty obvious.

That’s Mexico for you – pica tacos, pica candy, pica chewing gum… and pica children’s chewable vitamins.

Maybe I should start taking Flintstone vitamins again…