- A 10-year-old boy was watching a cooking show when the host called oysters an aphrodisiac, his mom wrote in a Reddit post
- “My son immediately asked me what that meant, and I told him that it’s a food that’s supposed to make you want to have sex,” she wrote
- The mom said her son thought the explanation was “gross,” but was even more grossed out when he saw what his dad brought home for date night
A mother is sharing the very memorable story about one recent addition to her son’s vocabulary.
In a post on Reddit’s “Today I F—– Up” forum, a mother said that her 10-year-old son was watching a cooking show when “the presenter of the show mentioned that oysters (which were in the recipe) were aphrodisiacs.”
“My son immediately asked me what that meant, and I told him that it’s a food that’s supposed to make you want to have sex,” the mother wrote. “He said gross, then carried on watching.”
The story ended up taking an interesting twist after her husband — who had been out shopping for their weekly date night — came home.
He intended to surprise his with dinner at home, she wrote, and wanted to get the ingredients himself.
“When my husband came home with the groceries, he called the kids over to help him put them away,” she wrote, but about a minute later, their 10-year-old son shouted “‘Ew!’ ”
“My husband then laughed and asked what was wrong, and our son said, ‘I know what oysters are for, dad,’ ” she continued, noting that her son used “the most disappointed tone I’ve ever heard him use.”
As if that wasn’t enough, she said that for the rest of the afternoon he kept “shooting both of us the most withering looks you can imagine.”
To make matters even better, the woman said that her son did have the right read on the situation and correctly guessed what they “had in mind after dinner.”
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The comments section was filled with fellow Redditors sharing their own similar — and hysterical — stories.
“My 13 year old asked me what castration meat during dinner the other night while watching a video about livestock,” wrote one social media user. “She was not happy about the answer. She just looked at me and said ‘this conversation is done now.’ And stared at her dinner.”
Another commenter wrote that after learning about breeding on a farm, her colleague’s 10-year-old son “connected the dots” and then asked his mom if that means moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas all had sex.
Afterwards, the commenter said the boy promptly told his dad, “in a very pissed off” tone of voice, that he had to have sex — which was shocking until he explained “well I want to have kids and that means I have to have sex.”
“The lunch room was howling with laughter when he told us this story,” the commenter continued. “That was a good day lol.”
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