The Katie Chronicles: The Great Sushi Debate Edition

Once a week, I am lucky to be able to eat lunch with Katie at her school and usually it's just the two of us.  While the point of lunch is quality mother-daughter time, it is occasionally enlightening (and amusing) to listen in on Katie's conversations with her friends, so recently I allowed her to bring over a friend to our table.   Last week, part of the conversation involved Katie and her friend debating the merits of grocery store sushi versus restaurant sushi. (Yes, these are 9 year olds.  I can't remember what I was debating at 9 -- Ear piercing? Nancy Drew books? -- but Japanese cuisine wasn't it.) The discussion centered on cost (grocery store) versus quality (restaurant) and the girls seemed to come down on the side of the grocery store because you can get "more for your money" there.  I don't know whether to be happy that Jerome and I are instilling values of frugality or perplexed about Katie liking the fake crab stuff.   I think I'll go with happy that the child who refused to eat even one molecule of green vegetable between the ages of two and three is finally broadening her culinary horizons.