Hamburgers, Pizza and Fried Chicken

My youngest class today was awesome.  We were learning about sound and how sound starts out as a vibration and ends up as an electronic signal to our brain.  I push these students to be writing more and so I was prompting them to be thinking about the process of smell now that they had learned about the process of sound.  So I asked them what sorts of things smell good expecting roses, flowers, perfume etc.  The answers I got were awesome.  Hamburger, pizza and fried chicken.  I had to agree with them on every single one of those.  Which made me think:  If there’s an anniversary for silver, tin, gold, and paper, why couldn’t there be one for fried foods or baked goods?  Who’s to say a fried catfish, hushpuppies and wedge fries is any less romantic than a dozen roses?  Who’s the governing body that decides that perfumes and flowers have a more romantic fragrance than fresh banana or orange muffins?  Just thinking outside the box with my kiddos here.  Also I was a little hungry (go figure).