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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/DeepPen6984 on 2026-02-27 13:11:42+00:00.
TIFU- So I have a 7yold and a 4yold, both girls. The younger one still likes her food delivered by the "airplane" sometimes, me and my husband normally just play along. She also always did this thing where if she needs longer to chew, she'll ask that the airplane comes from Africa. That just means we start the spoon off as far from her mouth as possible, again, not a problem.
A couple of days ago, I was trying to get her to finish her food and she kept opening her mouth only a sliver at a time, and I was getting a bit frustrated because she also kept insisting that the plane was coming from Africa. I was trying to reason with her and told her "No one comes all the way from Africa for a tiny hole" I obviously meant her mouth, but my husband was also there and just broke down laughing. This caused the girls to immediately hone in on why daddy was laughing and us not really having an answer to save our lives.
Since then, they keep saying that fraise to try to gauge the reaction, and my husband just keeps failing miserably. We've also heard from both my inlaws and my older daughters teacher that they're asking around, trying to figure out why that was funny. I am mortified
TL;DR today I fucked up by potentially enforcing inappropriate ethnic stereotypes