One thing you were made to eat as a child you won't look at now

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OutinChgoburbs said:
If my dad made it- and he did some of the cooking when my mother worked nights for 2 1/2 years- then I would agree with you. It was made with the salty old Amour dried beef in a jar and “soppy” cream gravy recipe from Southern Illinois, served on dried, dark toast. It dried in the skillet and looked icky. It never seemed to make it to the toast before it curdled.
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I don’t know where my mom got the beef, but the texture was dry and it tasted quite sour. Her gravy was lumpy, too. My mom was a good woman, but a terrible cook (God rest her sweet soul).
But if my mother made chipped beef on toast- the dried beef was either soaked to remove the salt, or it was hamburger or Budding Beef. She made a roux that included cheese if it was around the house. She added enough milk to the roux, and did not watch TV while she made it (TV was in the next room). She served it on toast, but the toast was not charcoal, and it was buttered in every nook and cranny.
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Now hamburger might just make it tolerable, but otherwise, it’s definitely: no, uh-uh, no way, never-ever, won’t have it ever again for chipped beef on toast. :dts:
 
Linda_Marie said:
My parents also had another meal they really liked that neither my brother or myself could stand. Fried Italian sausage and green peppers on a baguette. We couldn’t even stand to be in the house when it was being cooked.
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I love this!🙂
but with green & red peppers plus onion
and the sausage has to be split
 
puzzleannie said:
If I did that, I would be taking them out of the package and throwing the whole thing in the trash, so you better tell me how you clean them. This food is so gross I had blocked it from my memory. Have tried them, roast, fried with bacon, steamed, drowning in garlic butter, every which way but loose and the answer is still NO.
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:rotfl: Yeah, something tells me that roasted brussels sprouts are not for you. Best leave that one to those who have admitted to liking the sprouts. 😃
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
If my dad made it- and he did some of the cooking when my mother worked nights for 2 1/2 years- then I would agree with you. It was made with the salty old Amour dried beef in a jar and **“soppy” cream gravy recipe from Southern Illinois, **served on dried, dark toast. It dried in the skillet and looked icky. It never seemed to make it to the toast before it curdled.

But if my mother made chipped beef on toast- the dried beef was either soaked to remove the salt, or it was hamburger or Budding Beef. She made a roux that included cheese if it was around the house. She added enough milk to the roux, and did not watch TV while she made it (TV was in the next room). She served it on toast, but the toast was not charcoal, and it was buttered in every nook and cranny.
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HEY!!!:mad: We like our gravy down here! You darn Yankee! 😃

PS - Send us back some of our tax dollars! 😃
 
SeekerJen said:
:rotfl: Yeah, something tells me that roasted brussels sprouts are not for you. Best leave that one to those who have admitted to liking the sprouts. 😃
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man oh man - roasted brussels are delightful - I love them just for a snake with cracked pepper on them and sea salt ohhhhhhhhh. But my family forbids me to make them because the smell is enough to push them over the edge.
 
pot roast and a few other things. My mom never used seasonings so things wear bland or just boring.
 
I won’t go near canned spinach, asparigus, peas or any other vegetable that’s boiled to mush.

Dad was being treated for ulcers the old way, with a bland diet that included all 8 of us.

We had the seasonings & I always waited for him to reach the conclusion that it was my night to cook.
 
In no particular order:

Canned veggies of any sort (though I love frozen, taste better)
Split pea soup
Mashed potatoes
Bananas
Eggs (in any way, shape or form)
Beets
Instant iced tea
Milk (lactose intolerant so this isn’t such a big deal now but was horrible when I was younger because there were several occasions where I was forced to drink it)
Yoghurt
Burgers (loved them as a kid but as I grew older and realized I can’t stomach red meat all plus being a vegetarian for many years turned me off though I still love the idea in some form I just can’t tolerate)
Spaghetti (loathe this food) (was forced to eat it on average once a week since it was the one food my mother didn’t burn)
Pasta (I can tolerate some pasta now but for years after leaving my parents house I gagged at the stuff)
English Muffins (I gag on them now. They taste absolutely horrible)
Pork chops
Fish sticks (whatever they use to make the batter I always get sick off of)
French fries
Boiled potatoes
Well, pretty much anything my mother cooked because the woman was not gifted with the skill of cooking.
 
whatevergirl said:
Oh my gosh…I hate lentils! I forgot about those.

I also don’t miss corn beef hash. :nope: I don’t like anything that has the word ‘hash’ in it. :knight2:
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:eek: Surely you like hash browns 😛 :



The ONLY thing that we were made to eat that i didn’t like was couscous!. I just can’t stand the stuff:

http://spicetrail.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/pict0010.JPG

That picture on its own makes me heave a little :o

All it is is little watery soggy wet balls. I can’t understand why anyone would prefer it to rice 😉
 
redtech said:
HEY!!!:mad: We like our gravy down here! You darn Yankee! 😃 I loved it when my father’s mother made it. He claimed he made it just like she did. Trust me- Hers did not sit in the skillet in a giant, curdled lump. And she was not the greatest cook.

PS - Send us back some of our tax dollars! :DWhat makes you think I get any benefit and am not paying the same taxes? I’m still blown away by having to feed an IPASS every couple of weeks, $40 a pop, just to drive from one place to another.😉 Don’t blame me for Blogo and his taxing minions.
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Shiann said:
fried bologna

:: blergh ::
:eek:
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Oh a properly fried bologna sandwich with a squirt or dollop of mustard is just the thing on a cold morning. Make sure to slash the bologna so it lies flat in the skillet.
 
oh my father cooked both ways slash and sans slash (then you get the fun dome 🙂

fried bologna was the meat staple at my house for a lot of years… with eggs (like bacon or sausage lol) on sandwiches as you described (cept with mayo), and with a veggie.

now I can hardly imagine frying the modern plasticized bologna :eek:
 
OutinChgoburbs said:
Oh a properly fried bologna sandwich with a squirt or dollop of mustard is just the thing on a cold morning. Make sure to slash the bologna so it lies flat in the skillet.
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Hey fried bologna with ketchup is great. Love it. Never would put mustard on it though…that would be bad. :rolleyes:
 
Shiann said:
oh my father cooked both ways slash and sans slash (then you get the fun dome 🙂

fried bologna was the meat staple at my house for a lot of years… with eggs (like bacon or sausage lol) on sandwiches as you described (cept with mayo), and with a veggie.

now I can hardly imagine frying the modern plasticized bologna :eek:
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We would cut up bologna and cook it with eggs. Not the healthiest thing but it tasted fine to me. No I don’t eat that stuff because of the high fat content but I don’t mind the taste.
 
Navy bean soup. My mother was fond of making it when I was kid. My dad loved it. She’d soak the beans for 3 days before cooking them for another day or sometimes two. What a horrid stench. As I got older and since there as plenty of lead time I would always manage to get invited over to Mike’s or Dave’s for dinner on bean soup night.

Just the thought of that smell makes me queasy even now 😦
 
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