Posted on 09/20/2005 9:43:01 AM PDT by Millee
Eddie Murphy once did a hilarous skit about how instead of getting a McDonalds hamburger, his mom would make him a soggy ol' burger using wonder bread. So todays' question is: what gross food were you forced to eat as a kid (or how did you sneak it to the dog?) For example:
1. Chipped Beef on toast - Gross, gross, gross! My dinner on those nights usually consisted of dry toast. I'd practially use an eyedropper when applying that white, pasty goop.
2. Canned spinach - like algae from a fish tank.
3. Raisins - My brother liked them so Mom would get them as a snack for both of us! Raisins ONLY belong in oatmeal cookies. Period.
Please use this space to vent regarding any gastronomical childhood traumas you may have experienced. :-p
And a 60's-early 70's thing, too. My mom made spanish rice, no lipton onion mix, and it was yummy. I haven't been able to duplicate it. Maybe the Lipton Onion mix made it yucky? I can't eat onions raw or par-cooked like in the mix, so I just omit it or substitute.
Oh dear...that's just hideous!
Rhubarb pie. What the hell is rhubarb and who would want to put it in a pie?
Mincemeat pie also sounded gross. Just what kind of meat were they putting in it, anyway?
Anything with tomatoes. Stewed tomatoes were the worst.
But spaghetti, pizza, lasagna and tomato soup were okay. Go figure.
Peanut Butter on Hot Dogs
Peanut Butter and liverwurst sandwiches
and his favorite, the everpresent
Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise sandwiches...
I don't care for the texture of most meat, but will eat it, just cut into small bites.
Here's a picture of Rhubarb (the red stems are used in pie)
AND very, very, SCARY
Old Mincemeat Recipe
(Please note the meat and fat first, then the other..."
EEK!)
Ingredients:
8 pounds beef stew meat
2 pounds suet
12 pounds chopped apples
2 pounds raisins
1 tablespoon allspice
1 tablespoon cloves
1 pound chopped citron
3 pounds brown sugar
1 lemon
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons salt
boiled cider
I hate that, too. At my grade school, they served jello with shredded cabbage or shredded carrots or both. While I love cabbage and carrots, I could not abide by that and was popular with the little boys as they would beg me to give them my 'jello'. And then they would pour MILK over it and gobble it up. UGH!
I love stuffed green peppers!
Creamed corn is the most disgusting thing ever done to a vegetable. Ugh.
Tomato Aspec (spelt wrong). It's a tomato jello my mother made with a beef base soup. It was so horrible the dog wouldn't touch it! My sister hid it under a lettuce leaf thinking mother wouldn't find it (she was only about 5 at the time). This stuff was so bad to this day, 40 years later, my stomach still cramps up!
1st, AMEN to the Raisins belong in oatmeal cookies ONLY. I HATED when I would go trick or treating and end up with 15 boxes of them! Bleckkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Cabbage. Good grief, my mother would make it once a week. She knew I didnt eat it and was giving it to our dog..mostly because the next day he would spend outside going to the bathroom! To this day, I cant even pass by it in the market without gagging!
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I'll take your rhubarb pie...I love the stuff.
We had rhubarb plants in our backyard when I was little. Most of it never ended up in pies...we'd eat the stalks dipped in sugar, just like that.
*drool*
I give to you my lifetime ration of that ghastly Jello salad.
OMG...fish balls...vomit. :(
Oh my God, I'm going to hurl...right now...
The reason mince meat is so spicy and brown is that the dish dates back to poor Englanders who could afford nothing but the absolute worst parts of the cow, and suet, and would spice the hell out of it just to make it remotely palatable.
Forgot about cream corn. It's okay every once in a couple of years. My son is disgusting he buys the small cans that have the pull top and just eats them cold out of the can. Loves corn. When to his apt. had like 10-15 of those small cans of cream corn. - sick kid
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