My older relatives always said they could "eat him/her up" when cuddling the newest baby arrival to the family. Bit it's bum what another term of endearment that puzzled me as a small child.
Definitely only human babies and only fluffy kittens - the latter with those really really big eyes -you know the ones I mean? However , we could perhaps discuss the rights and wrongs of drowning less attractive kittens but that would muddy the water of this particular thread
I do not think it's right to eat baby vegetables. It must be a waste of energy. There must be an optimum size for all vegetables. Oh, and I am vegetarian.
I expect you are, as usual, right Bluebell. Anybody who is rich and votes Tory is bound to. They'd draw the line at puppies obviously, so useful when trained for hunting and shooting purposes
I can only go back to the old joke that I love babies but I couldn't eat a whole one. I knew a village in Cornwall where the inhabitants were said to eat their young - but that may not have been true
My in laws family always talked about babies being so lovely you could just eat them. Or used the phrase "Couldn't you just bite his/her bottom." ?? That was decidedly a term of endearment.