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
::shhh, you can come only if you can keep a secret. That is one of the ways I slip veggies to my kids::
:)
....*drool*.....
Drool???.....I'd think your jaws would collapse inward from the sourness.
"As a kid I remember hating green beens in a can."
I found a roach in a can of green beans once. Dead, of course. Another picture of me dashing to the bathroom to vomit. Almost made it to my mouth. Ugh! Still gag just thinking about it!!!!
>>>>I found a roach in a can of green beans once.
That was just a complete meal in a can.
::ducks!::
I have zucchini chocolate chip cookies on my counter right now. The kids have no idea they are eating a green vegetable. Ha! :o)
I've slipped them into cookies a few times too. I moved on to waffles and pancakes once my kids blacklisted oatmeal cookies though.
Don't forget the tendons.
I only eat food that has no veins or eyes. Not counting potato eyes.
Mmmm....protein and green veggies! ;o)
YESSSSSSSSSSSS!
My mom always said she knew I'd be a vegetarian because I turned my nose up at any meat as a kid, even burgers.
Larry, Sam I Am has some cookies to share with you :)
Ewh,
yeah,
the icky parts of meat.
--->Sam I Am <--
For fun and of interest:
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic
The only way my mother could get me to eat it was to cut up the awful stuff into pieces of varying sizes. Her trick was to convince me (I was about 3 - 4 years old) that I was helping win the war (WW11 that is). Each piece had a name with the two biggest pieces left till last. These were Mussolini and Hitler.
The reluctant little cannibal did her duty and that was that - until the next time.
Zucchini chocolate cake is very moist and no one knows there's zucchini in it.
To everyone who is going EEEEWWWWWW, just remember that pumpkin is a squash too, and no one complains about adding pumpkin to baked goods for moistness.
Being a conservative doesn't mean you have to eat meat!
See how many animals I conserve by not eating them.
:-)
Actually I am surprised no one has mentioned lutefisk and other horrors of Scandinavian cuisine. I didn't think of it on my first post because I only ate such food once and I've tried to repress the memory as well. I was about 12 and at my grandparents' house in northern Minnesota. My grandma brought out a big glass jar of some sort of Finnish snack food, possibly a version of lutefisk, not really sure what it was called. The jar was full of a frothy white-gray cream and floating in the cream were dark, slimy, chunks of fish (?) that had been pickled. My counsin and I each had a bite of the meat on a cracker. Neither of us could even swallow it tasted so horrible. My grandma wasn't upset but she was surprised, saying "oh you don't like it? I could eat the whole jar of it!" Yikes!
We all must be about the same age (children of the 50s?), But I, for one, loved creamed chipped beef - saltiness, flavorlessness and soggy toast and all...and I still like it. It's right up there with biscuits and gravy!
I used to like canned spinach, too, but the mere thought of it has made me feel queasy for about 4 decades now. I'm older and maybe a LITTLE wiser!
Those are great! I hadn't seen that before! The actual Sam I am is Sammy Hagar, though. My brother was a Van Halen junkie back in the olden days and I had hair like Sammy's back then. Hence, I became Sammy to him! Just fyi!
Leni
Honest mistake from a Ted Geizel junkie :)
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