Little Snacks Big Problems/The Brown Cat

Eric gets ready to watch the big game! Featuring two new stories: “Little Snacks Big Problems,” a medley of musical angst from the world’s most downtrodden foods, written by Cayden, a 9 year old from South Korea, and “The Brown Cat,” written by a 7 year old from Minnesota named Alice. 

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Illustration by Camila Franklin

Listen to the episode, and scroll down for the original stories!

Original Stories

Little Snacks Big Problems

by Cayden, age 9, South Korea

Hot dog
I'm called hot dog but I prefer to change my name to hot weasel.
And you sprinkle onions and make me cry.
And me and hot dog bun don't quite get along.
Bun whines all day long about I, the sausage makes Bun soggy and gets teased by his friend pizza dough.

Lemon curd & Italian meringue

People make lemon meringue pie but the problem is me and lemon curd don't get along.
And I Italian meringue get's blasted with a blow torch and it's very painful.
Please stop that.
And I'm not Italian I'm from Switzerland.

Gum

Hello.
I don't know why I'm here.
This story is for edible things but I'm inedible.
There is two option for being inedible.
Being poisonous and indigestible.
I take 7 years to digest.
Actually I'm sad, jealous and mad at the same time.
The reason I'm sad is some parents keep their children away from me.
The reason I'm mad is I get teased by my friend coconut flavored jellybean.

Durian

I'm the saddest of them all.
I get banned from some public transportations.
I soon have to move to a supermarket in Chicago so that worries our parents.
True, I never wash and eat rotting fish and play in the dumpster.
I don't how much Mrs. Passion fruit asks me to take a shower!

The music for LIttle Snacks Big Problems was written by Eric Gersen and Alexis Simpson and produced by Eric Gersen

The Brown Cat

by Alice, age 7, Minnesota

Once upon a time there lived a brown cat who loved mice! (as friends) but his owners wanted him to catch the mice but he did not want to catch the mice but he had a plan. And then the mice asked what the plan was. The cat said the plan was to get a toy mouse and pretend to kill it. So all the mice agreed and the mice stayed in their hole. So the cat got the toy mouse and killed it and the owners celebrated. So then the cat got to keep his mice friends if he kept them a secret. So they lived happily ever after.