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To: Teacher317

My Mom lived on stewed tomatoes on toast as a kid - for months at a time. Very, VERY poor. Very, VERY Rural.

She will not touch a stewed tomato now, even if she were starving.


54 posted on 04/04/2019 12:49:18 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"She will not touch a stewed tomato now, even if she were starving."

I can related to that. It's like my having had three abdominal surgeries, in three years, and only being able to have liquid diets throughout each hospital stay. It got so I couldn't even eat Jello anymore, and gagged on it whenever I tried to eat it. Still can't stand it.

58 posted on 04/04/2019 12:55:15 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
She will not touch a stewed tomato now, even if she were starving.

When I was a kid I missed out on having pizza for quite a few years, because mom and Aunt Ethel called it tomato pie. I visualized stewed tomatoes in a pie crust and said "no thanks".

63 posted on 04/04/2019 1:42:04 PM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I can so relate to this. For my family, it was green peppers. We had a very small family farm and grew those peppers to sell at farmers markets, but green peppers were included in EVERY meal with the exception of cereal (though I often joked that we added them for garnish). It took me until very, very recently for me to be able to even tolerate them at minimal amounts.


69 posted on 04/04/2019 4:42:06 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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