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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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To: Gabz; najida

rhubarb ping!

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

You see this thread yet Gabz?


141 posted on 09/20/2005 12:57:57 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: najida

>>>>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.


142 posted on 09/20/2005 1:00:13 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia

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.


143 posted on 09/20/2005 1:03:20 PM 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: najida

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


144 posted on 09/20/2005 1:19:49 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Millee

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


145 posted on 09/20/2005 1:55:08 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, unleash hell.)
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To: Calpernia; A knight without armor; najida
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.

146 posted on 09/20/2005 1:55:09 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Petronski; A knight without armor

Kinda like hot head cheese, huh?


147 posted on 09/20/2005 1:56:07 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Millee


"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.


148 posted on 09/20/2005 1:56:33 PM PDT by Maximus of Texas (On my signal, unleash hell.)
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To: Maximus of Texas

Yep, I preferred the dry toast.


149 posted on 09/20/2005 2:01:37 PM PDT by Millee
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To: Calpernia

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


150 posted on 09/20/2005 2:03:53 PM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) Tryin' to Reason with Hurricane season)
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To: Andy'smom; bradactor; politicalwit; Spunky; mplsconservative; don-o; boadecelia; freeangel; ...
**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.
151 posted on 09/20/2005 2:07:19 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy ("If you want to make God laugh tell Him your plans.")
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To: HungarianGypsy
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.
152 posted on 09/20/2005 2:15:14 PM PDT by A knight without armor
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To: tiredoflaundry; Living Free in NH
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.

153 posted on 09/20/2005 2:16:47 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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To: Larry Lucido

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


154 posted on 09/20/2005 2:21:14 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: grellis

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!


155 posted on 09/20/2005 2:21:29 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (You're just jealous because the voices talk only to ME.)
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To: Calpernia

Can I come?

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


156 posted on 09/20/2005 2:22:07 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Pray, hope, and don't worry. - St. Pio)
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To: Millee

Underdone chicken with (shudder) veins.

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


And gristle. Any kind.


157 posted on 09/20/2005 2:22:22 PM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: little jeremiah

Oh yeah, I forgot about veins.

Gag!


158 posted on 09/20/2005 2:23:44 PM 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: HungarianGypsy

>>>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.


159 posted on 09/20/2005 2:24:58 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: RosieCotton

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

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


160 posted on 09/20/2005 2:26:13 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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