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
> 1. Chipped Beef on toast - Gross, gross, gross!
We loved it as kids, I think because my Dad said in the Army they called it "S#!^ on the Shingle." I think the name captured the imagination of my young impressionable self and siblings, and so we always ate it with a smile, laughing through the meal. Strategery!
> Of course, the worst food in the world is liver. Just the smell of it made me gag.
I feel the same way about liver. It tastes like rusty nails to me... On the other hand, one of my favorite sandwiches is the liverwurst sandwich. Go figger'.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned vienna sausages. Ahhhh! I think my sister used to eat them sliced on white bread with mayo.
My in-laws lived across the country from us and we would visit once a year. One year, when our 3 children were quite small, we got to their home around suppertime after spending several hours on the road. We were all starving. My Mother-in-Law was so excited b/c she had made us MUTTON STEW. What in God's green Earth was she thinking?
I thought I was the only person who didn't like Whoppers. My 4 sisters loved them, but I couldn't stand them.
They're horrible
The only way I could stomach rutabaga was the way my grandmother used to make them.
She'd dice them into cubes about 1 inch square and then sautee them in bacon grease left over from breakfast. When they were golden brown she would pour off the excess grease into another pan and add some vinegar and sugar and then bring it to a quick boil and then simmer it until it reduced and thickened a bit.
Just before serving she'd place the vile turnips into a bowl and then pour the bacon/vinegar/sugar glaze over them.
They still tasted bad to me but at least they were palatable.
By the way, this type of glaze is also dynamite as a salad dressing or over dandelion greens.
I bet that's it, but I suspect my mother's didn't have anything like nutmeg or parsley flakes. If there is a recipe out there to make this using Bisquik or Potato Buds or canned soup, I'd say that is probably the one! I do recall my brothers always mentioning it in the plural, so maybe it was some kind of mini loaf version or something.
There's a meatball version of it....I think that's it. :(
Returning from our week-long honeymoon, I had another week off from work. I had just moved out of my parents' home where Mother was the cook. I decided to make pudding but it never occurred to me that I could buy it in a box. So I made it from scratch, ala cookbook. It was AWFUL!
Some years back we took a trip to Disneyworld with our youngest daughter, young teenager. We stopped in Ft. Lauderdale to visit the third wife of my husband's grandfather. He had passed away. Husband called to say we could visit her after we had gone to a restaurant for dinner.
She insisted we come there to eat and my husband caved in.
Well. This dear elderly lady served us some chicken wings. I don't recall what else, but the meal was not substantial for people who needed a decent dinner, especially after a long trip.
Quiz: a) be appreciative and grateful
b) learn that it's OK to say "no, thank you"
In this case, we would have stopped in after we have dinner.
Though I don't think I've had carp, my grandfather caught blowfish at the New Jersey shore. Good eating!
Those of us old enough to remember at the time recall what we were doing when the news reported that John F. Kennedy, president of the U.S., had been shot. While my two children, 17 mos and 2 mos old napped, I was watching TV while ironing in my living room. My husband had just been told that the big company layoff included him. At the age of 25, my world rocked badly.
My mother in law is a dear lady. We DID appreciate that she had cooked for us. I guess I should have left the story out and just posted "mutton stew".
No problem with the mutton stew story. While I was polite and ate what little meat chicken wings offer, I didn't feel obliged to rave about them. Both cooks meant well; we survived.
My late uncle once said to me, "NO is a perfectly good word." I agree. Of course, good manners matter.
"Ain't" it hard to be perfect!!!
First, the answer to the quiz is Be grateful and say thank you.
It is so interesting how we remember the first food people feed us. I actually think of this frequently because I have noted this all my life. Therefore I think out what I will eat with people for the first time. When I look back to friends and relatives I always remember, for good or bad, the first food we had together. Plus my best friend died Nov. 13, 2001, and I cannot bring myself to eat his favorite foods even though many were also my favorites. It's like if he can't enjoy them then I can't either. I know I'm nuts.
You are so right. :>)
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