Vegetables weren’t for eating they were fighting. They were the bullets in the war of the dinner table.

Video games have continued to wage their never-ending war on the youth of this great nation. I have forgot one of the earliest battles that they launched to destroy the lives of parents, this attack attacked them at home, right at their kitchen table.

When “Super Mario Bros. 2 “came out it was an instant success, what people didn’t realize is that it was teach children that vegetable can and will kill you.

It seemed pretty innocent at first, I mean Mario never did anything too harmful to children in his first game, but he struck hard in his second attempt. Almost as if Mario had played coy in his first game to grab a greater hold on children before they warped his minds. He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Think about it all those kids hucking beets and radishes at every moving object in the game, killing left and right. The freshest vegetables plucked straight from the ground, those were the ones that were most powerful.

Just imagine what kids were doing at the dinner table? Throwing peas and carrots at each other, taking handfuls of mashed potatoes and smooshing them into there kids sisters hair. Vegetables weren’t for eating they were fighting. They were the bullets in the war of the dinner table.

Too many meals ended by children being sent to their room, and unable to recount the school day’s event over some nice meatloaf or potato chip cover casserole.

The chaos has almost destroyed the family meal, forcing parent to move dinner into the living room and in front of the TV. Thank god that TV is able to settle unruly children and keep the good china safe, but it’s couldn’t get kids to eat their vegetables.

Yes, the final boss ingrained in the fragile little minds that eating more than five vegetables would bring about an early grave.

All it took for Mario, Luigi, Toad and Peach to end the life of a powerful video game villain is to have him eat six bites of vegetables. These must be some powerful poisons, and kids learned that fast.

They just stopped eating vegetables all together - so thousands of thousands of deserts went uneaten. Parents then stopped making them homemade, and started buy ice cream novelties and snack cakes in order to stop wasting food. This brought about the end of a fresh-made piping-hot American apple pie, or time consuming painstakingly created devil’s food cake.

Video games did all this. This was one of the first battles, and sadly the American public lost this fight, but it never seemed to be one that they could win. Mario was just too powerful.

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