“How did humans know they could drink cows’ milk?”
“The cows told them. They could talk back then.”
“Really?”
“Of course. Why else would a human drink their milk?”
He nodded uncertainly, stirring his cereal, the milk changing colour.
“Wait.”
“What?”
“How did the cows know it was safe?”
“The chickens told them.”
“How did the chickens know?”
“The humans were safely eating their eggs. It was an educated guess.”
“Ok.”
His dad bit his cheeks against a laugh. This was almost as good as his own dad telling him that trees were people who had swallowed apple cores.
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