Uugghhh!
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
I've gotta think any recipe with "Surprise" in the title is risky. I was flipping through a Hungarian cookbook and came across a recipe for liver dumplings. I don't think I'll try making those any time soon....
You had GARLIC salt,,wow
My mom just used salt and pepper.
But she was clever, when ever the family was short on cash she made pancakes for supper and told us it was because we had been good!
My dad was a cop and only got paid once a month. So everything during the 4th week was anything my mom could find to throw together and serve it in a cleverly disguised casserole or quiche.
Liver and onions.
Canned Spinach nuff said.
I loved chipped beef on toast yummy. just ad a few dashes of Tabasco and its breakfast heaven.
Except for the aforementioned ham and maybe a few other things, I like almost everything -- even liver. My mother always bought this calves' liver (no beef liver -- too tough) and she would make it with mushrooms, peppers and onions. She and I were the only ones who would eat it. My father and brother couldn't get near it. But this liver was actually fairly tender. Now, I've tried eating liver in restaurants and elsewhere -- not good. They must use some cow that died of old age or something. Usually tough hard and stringy. Never as good as the way Mom made it.
I used to have to go to family gatherings at Thanksgiving that featured "stuffing balls." Rather than make normal stuffing, it was wadded up into these balls the size of softballs. They had nuts in them, and I swear I truly think they were baked in a kiln. If you put gravy on them, the gravy got sucked in and disappeared without any change to the stuffing ball... The same family gatherings would have more Jello salads than any human being should have to see collected in one place.
Actually, I think she named anything that she thought we wouldn't like "Hungarian Surprise". My memory is foggy but I think it changed randomly.
Fried bologna sandwiches
You had PEPPER!!!
You guys are living on the edge.
I thought food came in a box until I was 14. Hamburger Helper, Tyson's frozen chicken, pot pies, we really ate well!
;-X
ROTFL!
Stuff I remember disliking from when I was a kid: canned peas (one of very few things that literally made me gag), and oatmeal as my Mom made it. She usually made it thin, with a texture rather akin to snot. Dad's oatmeal was good, though.
Oh, and why is it that potluck suppers usually include every kind of vegetation known to man encased in fruit gelatin? Whose idea was that? I don't really like Jello anyway, but raspberry jello with carrots??? Or corn embedded in orange jello??! Does anyone really eat stuff like that, or do people just bring it because someone started a tradition at some point? WHY?
Oh, and just because...James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Foods
MmmMmmm....still love a good fried spam sammich! :o) But it needs to be on toasted wheat bread, with a good piece of 'Merican cheese in the middle. No mayo.
Uugghhh!
One year, my mother declared that she didn't like stuffing that had been in the bird (unsanitary or something -- I don't know). Anyway, she made stuffing balls. Hers didn't have nuts in them....just breadcrumbs, celery, chicken broth and the usual stuffing "stuff." She put the balls in a greased pan and baked them in the oven. The bread crumbs in the stuffing balls would toast, so that the balls were crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. They were actually good. Since then...and until Mom passed, we always had stuffing balls.
MmmMmmm....still love a good fried spam sammich! :o) But it needs to be on toasted wheat bread, with a good piece of 'Merican cheese in the middle. No mayo.
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I use good hard crusty Italian bread -- have an Italian bakery up the street that makes it the best.
"I thought food came in a box until I was 14."
I shocked one of my friends by making frosting. She had no idea you could make it; she thought it only came in a can!
That's funny. Ham is the only meat I'll eat left over. Of course, I'll only eat it left over in eggs or fried. But left over beef is god-awful. There's nothing you can do to that.
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What I particularly like left over is turkey. I can eat that anytime of the day or night and any time of the year (not just Thanksgiving). Used to try to get my folks to have turkey instead of ham for holidays -- was always voted down. Oh well.
mmmm.... fried bologna is the food of the gods.
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