Okay I LOVE it every time I see the suggestion that there should be a cooking show judged by young children, where every fancy snobby gourmet chef runs the risk of getting chopped and sent home with a scathing review of his work because “it’s yucky and it has peas in it and peas are gross” or whatever

I think this would be utterly hilarious

But I think it’d be even BETTER if the framing for this– the reason behind the show– was an explicit claim that young children are inherently better judges than anyone else

Like the same reasoning we see in linguistic studies

Where little kids are asked how to say something, and their answer is taken as evidence of what is the objectively most natural way to say something, since their viewpoint is unspoiled by societal conditioning

I want the same thing for culinary judgment

An assertion that “the foods young children like best are the objectively best foods, because everything else is something society has to teach you to like”

Just take chefs with multiple prestigious degrees in cooking gourmet food, and tell them that based on a three-year-old’s pronouncement, their magnum opus is inherently yucky and gross and nobody likes it unless they’re tricked into liking it

I want to see the entire world of snobby food disintegrate under this chaos