Love beets,,,,sweet as sugar,,,,grown here locally, plus we grow them,,,,
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Common stuff(food or products) you never ate growing up.
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Love Red hots,,,,
Someone mentioned sweet tea in the other thread, but for me it fits here the best. We rarely got sweet tea or any tea or sodas as a kid. Mostly milk or Kool-Aid sometimes for lunch. Even after we got teen-agers, my Mom rarely made real sweet tea, unless you count instant tea with saccharine tablets. Yuck, I hated that, but I guess she thought it was cheaper and "healthier" that way at the time.
So once I got out on my own, I started making up for that by guzzling it ever chance I got. Even lost 10-15 lbs later in life, just by cutting way down on sugar tea and soda's.
So once I got out on my own, I started making up for that by guzzling it ever chance I got. Even lost 10-15 lbs later in life, just by cutting way down on sugar tea and soda's.
blood on the ground
Cross threading is better than two lock washers.
My wife did not start eating vegetables (except French fries) until we met in 2007.
sinclair1
Senior Member
Right there with you @jiminbogart . My mom was a Polish/German with a name ending in Ski and grew up slap in the middle of the Holocaust that never happened over in the PF. I never had a burrito until I could drive to La Fiesta. Never had a pizza until Dominoes started delivering and I bought it with lawn mowing money. A pizza was $20 delivered back when they didn’t have competition. After I could drive I spent all my money on food.
To make Matters worse my dad was a farm boy growing up, so I did eat chitterlings, pigs feet, pigs brains, pig ears, Vienna sausage, Spam, Souse, potted meat and all that garbage. Except Vienna Sausage, I liked those and potted meat.
Ironically I married a scratch cook. I sometimes crave junk like potted meat and buy it for a nostalgic sandwich.
To make Matters worse my dad was a farm boy growing up, so I did eat chitterlings, pigs feet, pigs brains, pig ears, Vienna sausage, Spam, Souse, potted meat and all that garbage. Except Vienna Sausage, I liked those and potted meat.
Ironically I married a scratch cook. I sometimes crave junk like potted meat and buy it for a nostalgic sandwich.
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I guess I'm the odd man out here,,,,my Dad was an Airline pilot while I was growing up,,,,I ate pretty darn good,,,,for a Yank,,,,my mom could make some serious fried chicken,,,,triple egg wash,,,,375, cast iron skillet,,,,crispy as all get out,,,,my Dad would go to the meat market and get nothing but prime steaks,,,,but with all this I still got out to work at 12 with a paper route,,,,my Dad always said, you want something, earn it,,,,if your gonna do it, do it right the first time,,,,
I kept Estes,Revell,heathkit and Schwinn in business,,,,? ? ? ?
I kept Estes,Revell,heathkit and Schwinn in business,,,,? ? ? ?
crackerdave
The Cracker
Only beets I ever ate tasted like dirt.
aabradley82
Senior Member
Rutabagas. Nasty. I guess I’d eat one if the other choice was Brussel sprouts
waderjon
Senior Member
My mom used to cook rutabagas and when she did I would leave the house.
Made the house smell like someone was having digestive issues
pop pop jones
Senior Member
Me too
mrs. hornet22
Beach Dreamer
I must like dirt because I love a beet anyway you fix em.
I do recall making a bunch of mud pies when I was a youngun. I even made them pretty with the wild onion growing in the yard.
pop pop jones
Senior Member
Mine didn't have any wild onions on it, maybe that's why I only got the taste of dirt.I must like dirt because I love a beet anyway you fix em.
I do recall making a bunch of mud pies when I was a youngun. I even made them pretty with the wild onion growing in the yard.
jiminbogart
TCU Go Frawgs !
I never had pork rinds until someone gave me some with a beer at the hunt camp. Them thangs is good eatin'.
I've still haven't had fresh ones. Just bagged store bought.
I've still haven't had fresh ones. Just bagged store bought.
jiminbogart
TCU Go Frawgs !
Never had boiled peanuts until I was an adult.
savannahkelly
Senior Member
Growing up in Northern Kansas on a farm was alot like alot of you here in GA. Farm raised beef, chickens, ducks, geese and pigs. Full garden which mom would can up for year round use. Lots of Czech baked breads and sweets. Loved mountain oysters but cant stand chicken liver. My mom would make chicken dumpling soup and the dumpling was mashed up chicken livers made into dumplings. Didnt eat out alot unless we were traveling until i reached high school. Cream of wheet for hot breakfast. Didnt know what grits were till i moved to the south. Same for boiled peanuts! Love them now when watching a Gator football game in the fall!!!
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Jim Thompson
Live From The Tree
We've got a BBQ place that has some GREAT fresh pig skins. Plus all summer a danged good patio for a place in the middle of corn and beans and we can drive the mule to it.
No pics of said pig skins, but cold beer and a patio with good music and not a bunch of idiots is about as good as a cool late summer\early fall evening gets
Shadow11
Senior Member
Recently I've tried sushi, no thanks. I also tried goat recently and it was ok, but I'll stick to beef. I dated a catholic chick in my college years, and we had lamb at her parents during thanksgiving or Christmas, I don't remember, but it was pretty good. I've never had it since, bit I'm pretty sure I liked it. There was alcohol involved. Not sure.
One odd thing that my mother did when I was a kid, which was out of the ordinary, was that she would cook up some canned biscuits real quick, and we would crush butter and karo syrup together. We would dip the biscuits in that eat it for dessert sometimes.
One odd thing that my mother did when I was a kid, which was out of the ordinary, was that she would cook up some canned biscuits real quick, and we would crush butter and karo syrup together. We would dip the biscuits in that eat it for dessert sometimes.
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