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This is a fun thread. My Mom was a great cook, she learned from my grandmother who grew up on a farm and really could cook. The only thing I just couldn't eat was liver and onions. (fried chicken livers in gravy are awesome though). Fortunately, my Mom was fair and I never had to do more than taste something. If they had liver, I got a hamburger patty. Also, I did not like meat when I was young, so the family doctor told my Mom to cook my meat RARE, because well done was probably too dry for me. Beef of course, not pork or chicken. Can you believe it? But it worked!. To this day, rare steak is my pick (rare ground sirloin too, only the good stuff). I can pretty much say I haven't met many foods I don't like.
I just remembered another one but from an aunt who was babysitting me one day. For lunch she made some kind of creamed vegetable I think broccoli and poured it over some toast slices. It was awful and I had to sit there and eat it. My uncle came home for lunch that day and he loved it . Yuck. I basically had no lunch that day as only ate two bites and sat there for an hour or so until she cleared my plate away. I asked her to make me something else a couple times even during the meal lol, and she said no. Which is as it should be. But that stuff was awful.
I just remembered another one but from an aunt who was babysitting me one day. For lunch she made some kind of creamed vegetable I think broccoli and poured it over some toast slices. It was awful and I had to sit there and eat it. My uncle came home for lunch that day and he loved it . Yuck. I basically had no lunch that day as only ate two bites and sat there for an hour or so until she cleared my plate away. I asked her to make me something else a couple times even during the meal lol, and she said no. Which is as it should be. But that stuff was awful.
sounds like what my parents did to me with vegetables....sit til you eat it...…. I haven't had most veggies in 35 yrs because of it..and I never "forced" my kid to eat anything (and incidently he's a pharmacist and health nut today )
sounds like what my parents did to me with vegetables....sit til you eat it...…. I haven't had most veggies in 35 yrs because of it..and I never "forced" my kid to eat anything (and incidently he's a pharmacist and health nut today )
My first job was in a grocery store's meat department, I was 15. A buddy that was in high school with me also worked there. Potatoes came in bulk and had to be bagged in 5 and 10 pound sizes. It was his job and after dealing with the rotten ones mixed in, he swore he would never eat a potato again.
My mother was a wonderful cook, so there were very few meals she made that I disliked. Even her liver and onions was delicious - until I found a white tube-like thing in the meat that turned me off from liver forever.
Her roast beef was always way too rare, and I would just pour her homemade beef gravy over a slice a bread and eat that instead. Her gravy was awesome, but blubbery bloody meat was not.
We ate pretty well, but there must have been some lean times since I remember meals of mayonnaise sandwiches on white bread, cereal for supper and something called "hunters stew" .... a can of vegetable soup mixed with ground hamburger.
Mother is a good cook and she went with the times. One Christmas dinner was a bust though The salmon mousse appetizer was called 'fishy pudding' by grandmother.
Lots and lots of vegetables, very little meat.
My Mom made Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs and Rice very nasty! I don't like sweet and sour anything together though!
Various Invention Casseroles, not a fan either!
My Mom is a fabulous cook and I learned well from her. Now she says I am the better cook than she is. Maybe.....
If I don't like the texture or taste I am not eating it. So no Lima Beans, Peas, Beets, Yams with marshmallows, Tuna, Macaroni and Cheese or canned Spinach. NASTY!
My parents both grew up poor during the 40's so they were War/Depression era babies. It influenced how they raised their kids to a point. I never had to eat peas after I became a teenager. WIN!
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Back in the 60's our family went on vacation. My mom made potato salad. Fresh, it was to die for. She froze it for the trip. OMG, it was horrible, tasted like sawdust. She only tried that once.
worst culinary tragedy was the Lutefisk Assault of 1965 which was immediately followed by the Great Hunger Strike of 1965.
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The salmon mousse appetizer was called 'fishy pudding' by grandmother.
