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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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: badfood; yucky
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To: RosieCotton

::shhh, you can come only if you can keep a secret. That is one of the ways I slip veggies to my kids::

:)


161 posted on 09/20/2005 2:26:14 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.


162 posted on 09/20/2005 2:26:15 PM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . I smell a dead rat in Baton Rouge!)
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To: HungarianGypsy

"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!!!!


163 posted on 09/20/2005 2:27:17 PM PDT by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)
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To: samiam1972

>>>>I found a roach in a can of green beans once.

That was just a complete meal in a can.



::ducks!::


164 posted on 09/20/2005 2:28:37 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Calpernia; Larry Lucido

I have zucchini chocolate chip cookies on my counter right now. The kids have no idea they are eating a green vegetable. Ha! :o)


165 posted on 09/20/2005 2:29:12 PM PDT by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)
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To: samiam1972

I've slipped them into cookies a few times too. I moved on to waffles and pancakes once my kids blacklisted oatmeal cookies though.


166 posted on 09/20/2005 2:31:37 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: najida

Don't forget the tendons.

I only eat food that has no veins or eyes. Not counting potato eyes.


167 posted on 09/20/2005 2:31:39 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: Calpernia

Mmmm....protein and green veggies! ;o)


168 posted on 09/20/2005 2:32:08 PM PDT by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)
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To: little jeremiah

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.


169 posted on 09/20/2005 2:32:13 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (You're just jealous because the voices talk only to ME.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Larry, Sam I Am has some cookies to share with you :)


170 posted on 09/20/2005 2:32:26 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: little jeremiah

Ewh,
yeah,
the icky parts of meat.


171 posted on 09/20/2005 2:34:09 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: samiam1972

--->Sam I Am <--

For fun and of interest:

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic


172 posted on 09/20/2005 2:34:47 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Millee
Canned corned beef.

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.

173 posted on 09/20/2005 2:34:58 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Anaheim Angels - 2002 World Series Champions)
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To: samiam1972

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.


174 posted on 09/20/2005 2:35:31 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (You're just jealous because the voices talk only to ME.)
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To: alwaysconservative

Being a conservative doesn't mean you have to eat meat!

See how many animals I conserve by not eating them.

:-)


175 posted on 09/20/2005 2:38:47 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: Millee
Cafeteria pizza was heartbreaking. My school had it every Friday and when I saw it on the menu, I couldn't help but hope it would be good. It was pizza after all, how bad could it be? Of course it always tasted horrible. The crust was burnt and soggy and cheese was cold and rubbery and tasted like feet. Every week I hoped the pizza would be better that this time it would taste like Little Caesar's. Never did :-(

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!

176 posted on 09/20/2005 2:39:02 PM PDT by sassbox
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To: Millee

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!


177 posted on 09/20/2005 2:39:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: Calpernia

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!


178 posted on 09/20/2005 2:39:52 PM PDT by samiam1972 (Live simply so that others may simply live!)
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To: Millee
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup (from a can)
Creamed spinach (from the garden)
Buttered boiled cabbage (from the garden)
Creamed kohlrabi (from the garden)
Liver and onions (from Hell)

Leni

179 posted on 09/20/2005 2:41:11 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: samiam1972

Honest mistake from a Ted Geizel junkie :)


180 posted on 09/20/2005 2:43:03 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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