(Vanity)Yucky Foods from Childhood

Millee

[Calpernia]

rhubarb ping!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1488008/posts?page=108#108

You see this thread yet Gabz?

[Calpernia]

>>>>A lot of foods are regional.

I'm starting to think that may be the reason I've not had success with artichokes yet. I am going to try again and root them inside during the winter.

[najida]

Well, they won't grow here, that's fer sure...
again, too hot and humid.

You can only grow stuff that likes being steamed to death from the roots up.

[Calpernia]

It has been getting more humid than usual here too. So it is a toss up between weather and my brown thumb :))

[Maximus of Texas]

1. Liver
2. Lima Beans
3. Orange Mashed Potatos (Sweet Potatos)

[Larry Lucido]

Don't add that much sugar! Add strawberries ;)

Add strawberries. Leave the rhubarb out. Rhubarb serves no real purpose if it needs a ton of sugar. Rhubarb pie is just a convenient place to dispose of excess rhubarb. So is zucchini bread.

[Larry Lucido]

Kinda like hot head cheese, huh?

[Maximus of Texas]

"1. Chipped Beef on toast"

Yes, I forgot about that one! We had that whenever we were pushed for time. Very salty and the dry toast didn't help matters.

[Millee]

Yep, I preferred the dry toast.

[Gabz]

Thanks for the ping - hadn't seen this yet - will come back and read after I finish tending the blueberries I'm cooking!!!!

[HungarianGypsy]

**Food Ping!!**
As a kid I remember hating green beens in a can. Which is funny, since I love fresh or fresh-frozen green beans. I assume my parents just did not know how to cook. I love my veggies now. My kids eat their veggies too. LOL! We can't keep the stuff in our house.
One thing I remember, though, is the stink of kale. I also remember fish. Way too much fish. I detest fish now.

[A knight without armor]

My childhood fish I can't buy anywhere now is carp. They would be huge like 60 lbs. out of the Mississippi River and my parents fed me the fried rib pieces because you can easily pull out the long rib bones. The rest of the world considers carp a trash fish but I love it and so did everyone where I'm from.

When I was in the first grade on Fridays I'd go home for lunch and I'd have fish sticks, catsup, and chocolate milk. I still love that combination. I was eating that when Pres. Kennedy was assassinated. When I went back to school the kids were all abuzz about it.

[bert]

As an aside from one who pretty much likes everything, the local grocery store recently added fried baloney to the breakfast takeout menu, Baloney biscuits if you can believe it.

They started for one customer but fried baloney is now more popular than country ham.

[Calpernia]

You don't like zucchini bread!

OMG! I can smell it now! ::imagining::

Well, then I will not extend an invite to you when I make my zucchini pancakes.

:D

[alwaysconservative]

I agree with you about stuffed green peppers and jello with "stuff" in it (usually cream cheese chunks, shredded carrots, and chopped peppers!)

I also hated liver and onions and could push that around my plate for hours. My father used to love liverwurst and pickled pigs feet, which sent me running for cover!

Overall, though, we were pretty lucky that my mom was a very good cook who gardened extensively, and made EVERYTHING from scratch. Saturday morning sugared doughnuts, mmmmmm!

[RosieCotton]

Can I come?

And if there's strawberry-rhubarb pie for later, all the better! Mmmm....

[little jeremiah]

Underdone chicken with (shudder) veins.

Maybe part of the reason I'm a vegetarian today.


And gristle. Any kind.

[najida]

Oh yeah, I forgot about veins.

Gag!

[Calpernia]

>>>I also remember fish. Way too much fish. I detest fish now.

When I was little, at Christmas Eve, my grandmother would have live eels swimming in our bathtub to be prepared for the Feast of the Seven Fishes.

[bert]

....*drool*.....

Drool???.....I'd think your jaws would collapse inward from the sourness.