Where do they learn this stuff??

We went out for dinner tonight at our local beer-and-wings joint. We ordered a burger and fries for Carter. He isn't ready to handle a whole burger yet, so we generally put the bun aside, cut up the burger and let him eat it as finger food. Today's bun had been covered liberally in ketchup, and we realized that this was Carter's first ketchup experience. Neither Thomas or I use it on fries or anything else. Carter took a bite of the bun and seemed pretty excited about it, but then he moved on to his burger and fries. It was only a little later that Thomas and I noticed that Carter had begun dipping his french fries in the ketchup on his bun. Seriously. Where did he learn that??

We gave him more ketchup, and he was a happy kid. We don't do fried food very often, but Carter LOVES french fries. I didn't think that there would be a food to top french fries, until the discovery of french fries with ketchup.

And then, after he'd wolfed down his burger and fries (with ketchup), we pulled out the little packet of Oreos that had come with his meal. The kid has never eaten an Oreo before. As far as I know, he's never seen an Oreo before, and besides, the package didn't even have a picture of a cookie - just the logo. But still, he went crazy when I pulled out that packet of cookies (I suppose after the wonder of fries and ketchup, he just figured life had to keep getting better?). I twisted one cookie open (half the white stuff came off on one wafer, half on the other) and gave him one of the halves. By the time we gave him the other half, he had figured out - all on his own - to turn the cookie over and scrape the white stuff off with his teeth before eating the rest of the cookie.

Innate knowledge of how to eat junk food?? Scary.