Okay, so today was all about “meatball fighting.” Sounds weird, right? It started when my kid was messing around with his meatballs at dinner, flicking them at his sister. Instead of getting mad, I thought, “Hey, let’s make this a thing!”
The Prep Work
First, I cooked up a big batch of meatballs. I used my usual recipe – ground beef, breadcrumbs, an egg, some spices. Nothing fancy. I made sure they were all roughly the same size, you know, for fair play. I divided into two teams, red team and blue team. For coloring I just added food coloring into the meatball mixture before making them into balls.
Next, I cleared out the dining room. Pushed the table against the wall, moved the chairs. We needed a battlefield, and a clear one at that. I even laid down some old towels, because I knew this was going to get messy.
The Rules (Such as They Were)
- Each person gets five meatballs.
- You can only flick them with your fingers. No throwing!
- If a meatball hits the floor, it’s out.
- Last person with a meatball still on the table wins.
Pretty simple, right? We didn’t want anything too complicated.
The Great Meatball War
So, we started. My kid, surprisingly, was a natural. He had this flicking technique down, sending meatballs spinning across the table. My wife, she was more of a strategist, trying to knock our meatballs out of the way. Me? I was just trying not to make too much of a mess.
Meatballs were flying everywhere. Some landed on the floor, some stuck to the wall (oops), and some even collided mid-air. It was chaos, but the good kind of chaos. We were all laughing so hard, our stomachs hurt.
The Aftermath
After about 15 minutes, it was all over. My son was the champion, with one lonely meatball still on the table. The dining room? Well, it looked like a food fight had exploded. But you know what? It was worth it.
We spent the next half hour cleaning up, picking meatball bits off the floor and wiping down the walls. And even then, we were still giggling about it.
So, that was my “meatball fighting” experiment. Totally silly, totally messy, and totally worth it. Might even become a family tradition. You should try, remember to have fun with it!