Weird foods your parents ate. (wine, homemade bread, sausages, tastes)
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Oh i can imagine...My grandmother was the worst cook EVER. Which is why I guess it never bothered my father that my mother couldn't cook, after all he didn't know any better! We HATED going to her house! She'd always insist on feeding us something...anything...whatever she could scrounge up. And I mean SCROUNGE! Cookies that had been in the jar so long you couldn't tell what they used to be...apples that had long turned to dried apple chips..
One time, she insisted we all stay for dinner. My parents were wise enough to spot the pressure cooker bubbling away on the stove, AND the box of "Shake 'n Bake" on the counter and got the heck out of there. Can you imagine??? Shake 'n Bake covered chicken in a PRESSURE COOKER!!??
My mother used to make steak with vinegar poured all over it. It was THE nastiest thing. But to this day she insists it's the best and ONLY way to eat steak.
Wow! How weird! Where the heck did she get THAT idea???? Was she raised in the jungle or something??? You mean just plain white vinegar like you clean a coffee pot with??? Who would ever eat THAT?
Wow! How weird! Where the heck did she get THAT idea???? Was she raised in the jungle or something??? You mean just plain white vinegar like you clean a coffee pot with??? Who would ever eat THAT?
Yup.
No idea where she got it from, but was beyond disgusting, almost inedible because it just tasted so bad.
Did she eat nothing BUT weird stuff? How about her family? Did they all eat this way? I've seen some weird stuff in this thread, and others, but your mother's certainly take the cake so to speak.
My grandfather liked torn up cornbread in buttermilk
I don't remember the corn bread and buttermilk, but I do remember toast and milk or soda crackers and milk. YUK!!! As for the bacon grease, we still sometimes save ours. I don't use it often, but on a few things. I think most of us,over 60 grew up on bacon fat;;fried eggs, veggies, gravy, everything.
Creamed Chipped Beef on toast, ($hit on a shingle, was what my dad called it -- he was a Marine)
New England Boiled dinners - cabbage potatoes and some meat - corned beef or something.
Liver and onions.
Toast and milk. In a cup mushed up together. Variations of this one come up a lot here - also Uneda biscuits mushed up with milk.
pickled herring in a jar, black German bread - really thin Pumpernickel bread that was very heavy (actually pretty good)
with a sliced red onion and butter, salt and pepper. Actually, that last one may sound weird but it's not bad.
I forgot about that bread and I rather like it.
sardine sandwiches ..with heads. Horseradish my Nana made it and gave it do us. Pickled mushrooms, cucumbers, peppers - pickled stuff.
Limberger cheese which stinks.
Norwegian pancakes. They are good.With sugar and berries.
Cottage cheese and ketchup.
My Grandmother made Depression Cake - a chocolate cake with no eggs made with vinegar. I still make that because it's vegan.
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