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Nasty dishes you remember
Tflogger
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Every Thanksgiving when I was a child someone would make shrimp and pea salad with canned shrimp and peas. I was grossed out then and just thinking about it makes me queasy.
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Are there any you don't remember? Don
Agree with liver or any organi meat .
But as its Ground into hot dogs I am sure have ate a lot of it
It was never served at our house when I a kid my parents hated it
Wife said her mom would make it but only her dad and mom would eat it none of the kids
So needless to say no liver or heart tongue, brains tripe , and a list of other such parts at our house even the smell of liver cooking is too much
All Just fish bait all I ever used it for
Chicken or turkey gizzards is about as far as I venture into eating organs. As for eating vegetables, I’ve never been able to enjoy Okra, I think it’s more the texture of it rather than the taste that gets to me.
I do enjoy eating calves liver a couple times a year. Buy it in one pound frozen plastic packages. A year or two back, I had the package all thawed out and was opening it to drain over the kitchen sink. Lots of blood comes out but this time the liver slipped through my cut opening and it slimed its way down the drain!!! No liver was left for me to cook!
I had a very hard time learning to like green beans growing up. When that Thanksgiving casserole came to be, I suddenly developed a taste for them!
To this day, I will not eat a lima bean! yuk!!
Peanut butter sandwich with Karo corn syrup. My WV cousins ate those things. I see Karo syrup at the grocery store and I feel a little sick.
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I will assuredly never again have the "opportunity" to eat living monkey brains, and that's a very good thing.
I very much enjoy liver, brains, kidneys, and especially tongue. The only things I don't eat are cilantro, asparagus, and avocado. The first two because of the adverse effects and the last because of the heavy potassium load.
I'm pretty easy to cook for.
I got nothing.
I ordered Curried Brain in Pakistan. I'm not a fussy eater but I could not eat that meal.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
My dad would eat that mess mixed up on a plate . Never seen anyone else eat it
I never ask but guess it was a treat when he was younger and had nothing and just grew to like it
Yeah, I don't get that one, either. PB and honey is quite popular, and if you don't have honey, why not sub some Karo?
A friend eats peanut butter and onion sandwiches.
I like/ would eat everything mentioned so far except the monkey brains. But I like a fried beef brain sandwich.
My father, raised during the depression, with too many mouths at home to feed staked out a restaurant in his small town and ate the food out of the garbage cans, not eaten by the patrons. I don’t know of anything he wouldn’t eat.
Jack Q. a WWII fighter pilot lost an engine and crashed in the ocean. He survived 11 days on an island trying to avoid the Japanese while getting back to American lines.
He said, “you’d be surprised what you’d eat after about three days.”
Worst thing I ever had to eat was kraut dumplins. Visited relatives in the great state of pensiltucky. Had to eat the mess or offend the cook. Never again.
Some people just never were that hungry I guess... I'll eat what I like now, but at times in my youth we ate what we had and were happy to have something in our bellies. Some of the worst things people talk about now a days bring back memories of heck no! and others are fond memories of wish I could get that again.... I have tried to recreate some and it just isn't the same as I remember...
Chitlins and collard greens , just the smell is enough to gag a maggot !
My maternal grandmother always made stewed tomatoes... She was one of the best cooks ever, but that dish was horrible! It makes me queasy thinking about it...
My old man loved what I assume was Depression fare. Ground beef rendered to the consistency of cat litter mixed with sautéed canned corn, onions and carrots . All over boiled or mashed potatoes.
The folks (dad) got me runnin and puking on elbow pasta and peas. I only eat peas in a pot pie but love pea soup. Avoid everything mentioned but like collard greens, not sure what chitlins are but never had em
That's the stuff you make homemade braunschweiger out of. Hate all of them separately. But together, heavenly!
Put up close to 130 quarts of stewed maters this year. Love them. It'll last us two years, and I'll do it again.
Put that * in everything! As they say ...
I like tomatoes in every possible dish. For whatever reason, stewed tomatoes make me wretch.... One of the few things I will not eat.
Oh, it's good. We all have our own needs and likes.
My parents forced me to eat... Whatever, mostly liver or veggies...
Still can't.
Chitlins are cleaned ,boiled or stewed hog intestines. interestingly enough, sausage is encased in them
brussell sprouts not enough cheese on the planet to make taste good
I have never been overly picky... Of course I'm not eating tongue tacos or tripe.
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Brussell sprouts are my kryptonite. The only good thing I've ever seen them used for was grapeshot in a spud gun. Other than that, zero redeeming qualities.
Pickled pigs feet
Way back when I a young fellow my mom loved pickled pigs feet
I think hormel was the brand maybe armor they came in glass jars
Maybe they still sell them I have never looked
All us kids picked on her over eating pigs feet so much I think she just gave them up over us kids teasing her
I never tried them just the sight was more than enought
Growing up, if we caught it, we ate it. I was probably about 12 when I realized there was more to a chicken than necks and backs at the farmers market. That was when Pop got a good job with Halls Motors. He retired with 28 years in 1976.
It's a good thing that I hate liver(always have....always WILL)........as organ foods have insanely high cholesterol.
Talking about depression food, my mom used to make what she called "Poor Man's Gravy". It was basically gravy made out of hamburger grease.
Sounds pretty gross thinking about it today, but over a pile of hot mashed potato's, it was very tasty!
I'm sure that there are a lot of food dishes that are good as long as they are HOT. When they get cold and set up like a lake at 20 below zero, not so much! That reminds me of the last KFC I had some 20 + years ago!
That sounds like a Shepard's Pie.
Never had it but I always wanted to try but I imagine it gotta be like chewing on rubbers.
Some of the stuff you folks retch at were what I thought of as the good stuff back when. Pickled pigs feet, head cheese, liver, brains and scrambled eggs, kidney pie, chicken gizzards and hearts...all that. But especially tongue. Tongue just might be the best meat on an animal: fine-grained, lean, mild, and flavorful. Get a couple lengua street tacos some time and see.
And vegetables. My goodness, who doesn't like vegetables? When Dad couldn't or didn't get meat scraps from the packing plant, we ate mostly vegetables. Many a summer meal was tomatoes and corn, with watermelon after. Winter meant all kinds of beans and root veggies. And squash. Brussels sprouts were an exotic treat; little tiny cabbages in butter? Mmmm Mmmmm. Soups and stews stretched things out. Ham hocks and limas were a favorite. Still are.
Rocky Raab - Reading your bit of eating corn reminded me the scene from "Second Hand Lion". Obviously your folks didn't get took like the boys with the vegetable garden full of corn.
Brussel's Sprouts get a bad rap, due to improper time of harvest. Those who know the secret grow sweet and delicious sprouts! Those that do not, end up with very BITTER sprouts!
You have to let them FREEZE hard before you harvest them. That is all.
Okra (unless fried) and Green Been Casserole and Creamed tuna on toast (it's disgusting).
Tapioca pudding. When I was a little kid my grandma forced me to eat it even though I was gagging. She thought I was fakin' right up until I ralphed up Christmas dinner right there on the table. I still get the urpies just thinkin' about it.
Another polar opposite for me. Tapioca and rice puddings were the bomb.
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