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
Nope--it's intentional. I can forgive shaved carrots--baby carrots can be pretty sweet, as far as veggies go. But cabbage...it's cruel.
I can't really remember anything that really grossed me out, but I feel the need to defend fried bologna. Honest. It was one of my late dad's favorites. He would fry the bologna (jumbo, as they say in the Burgh) and in another skillet make scrambled eggs. As the jumbo cooks, it kinda forms into a cup and dad would put the scramble eggs in the middle. Topped with a big blast of Heinz ketchup. It was really good!
it has the WORST recipes on the planet (with pictures even).
Dave, Dave, Dave... Are meaning Primanti's fries and cole slaw on a sandwich...or the EatNPark steak salad (fries included). Either one is kind of traditional Burghese cuisine :)
My mom made us eat cow brains one night. The most disgusting gray mass of mush I've ever seen. I took one bite and had to dash for the bathroom. I've never forgiven her for that one!
Oh, and canned asparagus is about as disgusting as canned peas. It's just wrong!!!
Website is a crack up!!! Great find!
Y'all,
it's a tradional Jello Recipe you can find anywhere---
Here's one online version-
(not my comments below :) )
Gelatin Salad (but I know it as "Jello Salad"!)
This gelatin concoction has always been a mainstay of summertime lunch and dinners at our house! If you've never had anything like it, you're bound to love it!
You will need:
Lime gelatin, regular or sugar free (I prefer Jello™ brand gelatin)
Cabbage
Carrots
Celery
Apple (preferably with a red skin, for color)
8oz can crushed pineapple
Walnuts (optional)
Directions:
Grate and set aside:
1 cup cabbage
1 cup carrots
Mince and set aside:
1/2 cup celery
1/2 cup unpeeled red apple
Chop and set aside 1/2 cup walnuts (optional).
Open and drain crushed pineapple. Reserve pineapple juice. You will add the juice to the cold water used to make the gelatin.
Make gelatin according to directions on the gelatin package. Using two packages of gelatin will make a thick salad. Be sure to use two cups of boiling water and two cups of cold water *for two packages of gelatin. If you prefer more gelatin (less "salad"), then use three packages of gelatin, using three cups of boiling water and three cups of cold water*.
*When adding cold water, pour pineapple juice into measuring cup first. Add enough cold water to measure a total of two cups of cold water for two packages of gelatin or a total of three cups of cold water for three packages of gelatin.
Once gelatin is made, immediately add ALL other ingredients. Stir well and refrigerate.
Chill until gelatin is firm. You will need to stir the gelatin salad occasionally to keep ingredients mixed evenly (that is, to prevent everything from settling to the bottom). You may want to set a timer for 15 or 20 minutes, stir when the timer buzzes, and then reset the timer. Continue until gelatin is completely firm (set).
The gelatin salad is very colorful! If you like even more color, add 1/4 cup halved maraschino cherries.
When the gelatin salad is made in a loaf pan, you can cut the salad into squares and serve on a bed of lettuce with a dollop of sour cream or yogurt with a Maraschino cherry on top.
My mom's gelatin salad makes a nice addition to a summer brunch or luncheon. It is also just sweet enough to be something cool to eat in the evening as a bedtime snack.
For those who are counting calories, use sugar-free gelatin and pineapple in light syrup.
Oh my gosh that sounds disgusting! The packaged tripe in the grocery store makes me want to vomit too, can't even look at it.
Yeah...sure...
NOT!
It is also just sweet enough to be something cool to eat in the evening as a bedtime snack.
However, it *will* cause horrifying nightmares. Likely ones where one is being chased by a giant Blob-creature with carrots and corn floating in its translucent flesh.
The fries-on-salad kind of had a symmetery to the "Jello salad."
I think plenty of people have heard about the Primanti sandwich. But I doubt they realize ordering a "chicken salad" or "steak salad" here will get you something with french fries on it.
SD
I'm going through it now, one recipe at a time.
Makes everything I eat now look divine!
Why dirty up two pans? I sometimes make sandwiches with fried eggs and jumbo and cheese on a bagel.
SD
Stuffed squid. I don't know which was worse, the disgusting little buddies filled with some mixture possibly of egg and bread, or the little tentacles, complete with suction cups, hanging off the side of the platter.
Then check out the bad recipe site...
Even worse...
MUCH worse.
Tuna Noodle Casserole - Good Grief! Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with tunafish??? What sort of sadistic mind could think that up???
Lima Beans - It was mentioned in the second post to this thread. Enough said.
And finally, the one that caused me to dry heave at the table, Dad to yell and Mom to make me sit there "until that plate is clean". I present to you...
Mom's Disgusting Meatloaf - This one is personal and no offense intended to anyone who makes their meatloaf this way. Large onion chunks and oversized bread pieces mixed in with the hamburger. Raw bacon and ketchup placed atop the raw loaf before it is placed in the oven, resulting in lumpy, greasy, bacon fat flavored hamburger with congealed ketchup scabs on top. {{{shudder}}}
Heh...I've seen it before, but I'm going back through. I'd forgotten just how mind-bogglingly bad some of the recipes were.
I posted a link earlier to James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Foods, which is more of the same sort of thing. Painfully funny!
Mmmm, I love all of those, of any kind. Yum. For me? I don't care for smoked/processed meats. Or most freshwater fish (not ocean fish or shellfish, loooove those). Can't eat raw onions. And one has not 'lived' until one is urged to 'just try a bite' of liver dumplings. Gag.
Meatloaf.
My parents would make me sit at the dinner table till 8 or 9 pm alone until I ate the dam Meatloaf. I never did eat the stuff so they would then send me to bed. I still to this day ask my mom about this LOL, why force me to eat!
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