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(Vanity)Yucky Foods from Childhood
Millee

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


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KEYWORDS: badfood; yucky
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To: GraceCoolidge
My mother made something called "Spanish rice." I think it was Minute Rice with tomato sauce and sauteed green peppers and beef. A very 1950s dish,

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.

101 posted on 09/20/2005 11:46:54 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: najida

Oh dear...that's just hideous!


102 posted on 09/20/2005 11:47:03 AM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: Millee

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?


103 posted on 09/20/2005 11:47:45 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Millee

Anything with tomatoes. Stewed tomatoes were the worst.

But spaghetti, pizza, lasagna and tomato soup were okay. Go figure.


104 posted on 09/20/2005 11:49:57 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Millee
Now I'm thinking about this, and some of my father's concoctions come to mind. He would put peanut butter on anything. As an innocent child, I saw:

Peanut Butter on Hot Dogs
Peanut Butter and liverwurst sandwiches
and his favorite, the everpresent
Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise sandwiches...

105 posted on 09/20/2005 11:54:18 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: grellis; Calpernia
I really like a jello salad. I like the shredded cabbage & carrots in lime jello. Or shredded carrots and celery. They are also good in lemon jello. I think I was introduced to this in elementary school.

What I had to get used to and now like also, is tomato aspic.

I am probably the only person in the world who will not eat lobster or crab. Nothing against the flavor since I have never tasted them but the thing is to me they are just big tarantulas. I am serious. To top it off I saw a PBS thing of South Americans roasting and eating tarantulas and the white meat did look exactly like lobster. They even sucked it out of the legs.
106 posted on 09/20/2005 11:54:36 AM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Millee
I absolutely can not stand gravy on bread or any kind of soggy sandwich situation. I love tomatoes, but I quickly pull them off and eat them on the side.

I don't care for the texture of most meat, but will eat it, just cut into small bites.

107 posted on 09/20/2005 11:55:03 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: Larry Lucido

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

108 posted on 09/20/2005 11:57:04 AM PDT by najida (Once upon a a very long time ago, in a land far, far away.....It was still all Bush's fault.)
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To: grellis; Millee
Jello with cabbage

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!

109 posted on 09/20/2005 11:57:23 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: maggief

Creamed corn is the most disgusting thing ever done to a vegetable. Ugh.


110 posted on 09/20/2005 11:58:48 AM PDT by fortunecookie
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To: Millee
Tapioca with raisins.
Bread Pudding
cooked spinach, not only does it smell it's disgusting slim

My aunt used to make fried potatoes and pour syrup all over them
111 posted on 09/20/2005 11:59:54 AM PDT by newfrpr04
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To: Millee

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!


112 posted on 09/20/2005 12:01:04 PM PDT by Lucky2 (Just imagine if Algore or J F'n was President...thank God for our President Bush.)
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To: Millee

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!

MM


113 posted on 09/20/2005 12:01:12 PM PDT by motormouth
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To: najida; Larry Lucido
Stop! Don't scare Larry like that!

Rhubarb is called the pie plant. You put so much sugar in it the pie is as sweet as you like.

The NEW recipe for mincemeat pie:

1. Buy a jar of Nonesuch Mincemeat filling & dump in pie shell and cover with a top crust and bake.

Tastes like a real spicy apple/raisin pie. I don't believe there is any real meat in it.
114 posted on 09/20/2005 12:04:03 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: Larry Lucido

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*


115 posted on 09/20/2005 12:05:21 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: najida

I give to you my lifetime ration of that ghastly Jello salad.


116 posted on 09/20/2005 12:06:53 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: najida

OMG...fish balls...vomit. :(


117 posted on 09/20/2005 12:09:00 PM PDT by EX52D
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To: Ol' Sox
Peanut Butter and Mayonnaise sandwiches...

Oh my God, I'm going to hurl...right now...

118 posted on 09/20/2005 12:10:12 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: A knight without armor; Larry Lucido

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.


119 posted on 09/20/2005 12:13:56 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: maggief

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


120 posted on 09/20/2005 12:14:38 PM PDT by newfrpr04
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