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
rhubarb ping!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1488008/posts?page=108#108
You see this thread yet Gabz?
>>>>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.
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.
It has been getting more humid than usual here too. So it is a toss up between weather and my brown thumb :))
1. Liver
2. Lima Beans
3. Orange Mashed Potatos (Sweet Potatos)
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.
Kinda like hot head cheese, huh?
"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.
Yep, I preferred the dry toast.
Thanks for the ping - hadn't seen this yet - will come back and read after I finish tending the blueberries I'm cooking!!!!
They started for one customer but fried baloney is now more popular than country ham.
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
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!
Can I come?
And if there's strawberry-rhubarb pie for later, all the better! Mmmm....
Underdone chicken with (shudder) veins.
Maybe part of the reason I'm a vegetarian today.
And gristle. Any kind.
Oh yeah, I forgot about veins.
Gag!
>>>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.
....*drool*.....
Drool???.....I'd think your jaws would collapse inward from the sourness.
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