Nasty dishes you remember
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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mac10: 30002992738203/comments/30002995965467
brussell sprouts not enough cheese on the planet to make taste good
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.
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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
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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.
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It's a good thing that I hate liver(always have....always WILL)........as organ foods have insanely high cholesterol.
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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!
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ltcdoty: 30002992738203/comments/30002995399963
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.
That sounds like a Shepard's Pie.
pulsarnc: 30002992738203/comments/30002995855899
Chitlins are cleaned ,boiled or stewed hog intestines. interestingly enough, sausage is encased in them
Never had it but I always wanted to try but I imagine it gotta be like chewing on rubbers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Okra (unless fried) and Green Been Casserole and Creamed tuna on toast (it's disgusting).
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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.
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Another polar opposite for me. Tapioca and rice puddings were the bomb.
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NeoBlackdog: 30002992738203/comments/30003024280475
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.
That is pretty gross.
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montanajoe: 30002992738203/comments/30003007607707
I like/ would eat everything mentioned so far except the monkey brains. But I like a fried beef brain sandwich.
Mad Cow .....
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An American couple are visiting Europe. Sitting down at a nice restaurant, the Husband orders. "I'll have a nice big, thick, Porterhouse Steak medium rare, with all the fixin's. The Waiter leans in, "What about the Mad Cow, Sir?"
Husband, "She can order for herself." 🤔😉😂🤣😆
(One of my favorite all time Joke's.) 👍😁
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Rocky Raab: 30002992738203/comments/30002997210907
Another polar opposite for me. Tapioca and rice puddings were the bomb.
Oh yeah!!
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@...: 30002992738203/comments/30003040863899
An American couple are visiting Europe. Sitting down at a nice restaurant, the Husband orders. "I'll have a nice big, thick, Porterhouse Steak medium rare, with all the fixin's. The Waiter leans in, "What about the Mad Cow, Sir?"
Husband, "She can order for herself." 🤔😉😂🤣😆
(One of my favorite all time Joke's.) 👍😁
Afterwards he was on an all liquid diet
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True story.
One of my employees dad had a visiting preacher for a nights stay. Common practice years ago. His mother fixed beef tongue for breakfast. Preacher said "I don't eat anything that comes out of an animals mouth". Dad says "honey, "fix the preacher a couple fried eggs".
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I'm not a picky eater but I remember one evening in Madison, WI visiting my uncle, aunt, and 5 cousins we had cow brain. When uncle Bill said to try something, everybody tried it. I remember mom fixing fresh peas and also green beans. I still don't eat fresh peas but love split pea and ham soup. My problem with green beans is that I never could chew them up to swallow. I ended up with this mass in my mouth but was allowed to spit them out into a napkin. 20 years later I found that back in the '40's there were strings in fresh beans. That was followed by stringless beans. Now I love them. Ah, the memories.
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Nuoc mam, the smell was enough to upchuck!
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A good friend that I was stationed with was married to a gal from Thailand. We did a lot of fishing together and on this particular day, took our catch to his house on the base. He gave all of our fish to his wife and invited me in for a game of pool in his rec room. After a couple of hours and several beers later, I was given a chair at the dining room table and served the best fried mix of catfish and crappie I'd had in a very long time!
After the meal, my buddy told me that his wife not only was a great cook but also that she never let ANY part of a fish go to waste. He got up and picked up a mason jar sitting on a nearby fireplace mantle. Opened up the lid and put the jar under my nose. 🤢 Thai Fish Sause.....a fermented mix of fish guts, bones, skin, and scales just about ready to pour over rice!
One dish that would take a loaded gun to my head to try!
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elubsme: 30002992738203/comments/30003002618267
Nuoc mam, the smell was enough to upchuck!
Use that and you'll be wearing that like aftershave. Side note straight from the bottle the smell is strong but when cooked not so bad.
Brookwood - The making of "fish sauce" like garum one needs a strong stomach. Now them Thais makes some sauce out of crazy stuff.
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Oh, but the flavor is wonderful. If it had a lower salt content, I'd use fish sauce on a lot more things than I already do. It's the "Asian ketchup" because they use it on and in everything. If you've ever heard the term "umami" it's the undefinable savory flavor in Asian foods - and it comes from fish sauce.
Garum was the Roman version of fish sauce; it's not only an Asian thing. Nor a new one.
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Will be avoiding umami and think I have done well so far
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Anything my mom cooks. She cannot cook, period. Now , about Liver. It is my favorite meal. Donna makes me Liver, bacon , onion and mushrooms, every year for my birthday. My dad used to make it for us when we were kids. It is not good for you, so I only get it once a year.
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Me too, Oakie. A yearly dearly to savor the flavor. Wife will NOT make it and it's darn hard to find a restaurant that offers it, but when I find one, and it's been a while...that's my order.
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Rocky Raab: 30002992738203/comments/30003018708251
Me too, Oakie. A yearly dearly to savor the flavor. Wife will NOT make it and it's darn hard to find a restaurant that offers it, but when I find one, and it's been a while...that's my order.
Actually Rocky, liver is very easy to fix and it doesn't take too much time to cook it.
I only eat calves liver or venison now days. Have done pork and some poultry but they are a bit stronger than my pallet likes lately.
I bread calves liver in flour with some added salt & pepper. Use a large 12" cast iron frying pan on top of the stove with about a half stick of butter that I let melt on low while I slim slice up a large sweet onion. Turn up the heat to medium and drop the onions in first and let them cook until soft. Push them to one side of the large pan and add another half stick of butter. When it melts and heats up just a bit, I put in the dusted liver on the bare part of the hot pans surface. Turn up the heat to high. In about 3 minutes I flip the liver and scoop the onions out of the pans corner and put it on top of browned liver. Put a lid on the pan and within another 3 minutes.........DONE!!!
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There’s only one thing I won’t eat. That is those little stinky fish they put on pizza. Anchovies,🤮. There is a restaurant where I used to live in Oregon that served Rocky Mountain oysters. I could make a meal out of them.
I made it a point to stop there whenever I could. We used to take friends and relatives there for dinner, and most of them would not even try them.
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I know that liver is simple to cook. It's just that my wife won't allow it to be done in this house.
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My Aunt made a Oyster baked side dish, it was nasty (used caned oysters). Think only Nita and my Uncle Jim ate any of it at Thanksgiving.
We we talking about that on Thursday and everyone still agreed about it after 30 some years. Nita and Jim have been gone for some time, Even their Son did not like it.
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