How comedian Katherine Ryan recovered from her son saying her cooking ‘tastes like dirt’
Katherine Ryan knows all too well how savage kids can be, particularly after her toddler said her food tastes like “dirt”.
“He said, mummy’s cooking is disgusting. Her cooking tasted like dirt was a real blow,” the Canadian comedian recounts of her toddler, Fred.
Ryan has three children – Violet, 14, from a previous relationship, Fred, two, and Fenna, 15 months, with her childhood sweetheart and partner Bobby Kootstra.
Fred is her most difficult child to wrangle at dinnertime, and she’s gone to desperate lengths just to get him to try her food.
“I’ve made a deal with him –