The potato bush and the cheese plant.

[Workingman]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22730613

Not to mention that tomatoes are tubers and fish fingers are chicken.

This report is scary and shows just how far down the "knowledge" chain we have gone. How is it possible NOT to know where common foods come from? Just what are parents and schools teaching our children?

I can understand people, children specially, being unaware of the nature of some exotic foods, but as for thinking that bread and pasta are made from meat!?

Words fail me.

[pederito1]

Of course cheese does come from plants, rather indirectly though.

[Rodo]

I find all of that quite shocking. Don't parents speak to their children any more, or teach them any basic things?

[Suff]

I find all of that quite shocking. Don't parents speak to their children any more, or teach them any basic things?

That's for the schools. A parents job now appears to be buying a little peace with junk, using the TV nanny and slapping the kids when they get in the way.

I blame trash TV and psychobabble idiots in government.

[cromwell]

I find all of that quite shocking. Don't parents speak to their children any more, or teach them any basic things?

Some don't, no. When you get kids turning up at infants school who can't actually talk, there's no other conclusion you can come to. It's still a minority but it shouldn't happen at all.

[KateLMead]

And the percentage who leave school illiterate is unbelievable, everything is taken to the lowest level, the required interpreters in the class rooms, no wonder children have problems, along with the parents who allow their offspring to have TV's in their bedrooms with ipads etc, including my youngest daughters children, who go to bed at 7.30 after dinner and homework, I don't approve of the TV's, they are well mannered however and their school work is A1 as are their reports so I suppose there are many exceptions.