The Torquido

Thing 1:  "Mommy, wouldn't it be great if you could eat your hands?"  
"Well, what would you do without hands?"  
"Oh, I'd be like a Torquido."  
"A what?"  
"A Torquido.  It's a wild animal that has fried hands.  It eats them, they grow back, they fry in the sun - and there ya go."