I'm just wondering what you all had to eat growing up. I would have to say that as a kid, "Tuna & Noodle's" was something that I ate at lease 3-4 times a week...
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As a kid I ate a lot of Bologna and cheese sandwiches for lunch.
For dinner my mom made a great mac and cheese baked with velveta cheese on top.
Also a great meatloaf and hamloaf.
My grandmother made a great tomato rice soup.Posted 1 year ago # -
Meatloaf! Mom was / is a great cook so even though she taught every day we had good meals!
If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.Posted 1 year ago # -
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My dad always made "Corn Meal Mush"... Looked like a block of Velveta Cheese... he'd slice it thin 1/4-3/8" slices, fry it up in butter and put syrup on it... Something I just couldn't do and still can't.
If it wasn't Tuna & Noodles's it was SOS, I still like that...
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I love both fried mush and fried oatmeal with maple syrup! SOS rocks too along with sausage gravy .
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"American Chop Suey" It's still one of my fav's. It's ground beef browned in a pan then mixed w/ elbow macaroni and tomato sauce. MMM-MMM GOOD
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Brazz, that was another one, only we called it "Beef Goulash"...
They say that the things that haunt you the most are stored in the back of the brain until something triggers them, thanks Brazz... Just joking...
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Phil how about scalloped potatos, I hated them, not as much now.
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With ham type substance? That was one too...
I guess I know how my parents felt raising three kids... I have my own and they eat me out of HOUSE & HOME! I think that's why some of the stuff wasn't so good... or it was made so often...
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My dad used to barbecue round steak on the grill. Me and my brothers and sisters thought it was wonderful. We didn't know about rib-eyes or porterhouse or filet mignons. We were in heaven.
NASCAR...Everything else is just a game.Posted 1 year ago # -
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We only got real meat on Sundays... Roast...
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Phil, Beef or pork? We had pork roast every Sunday like clockwork.
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Beef, my mom got it from her brothers who raised cattle...
Cream of Mushroom soup was always my noon meal before I went to school...
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Lots of tomato soup and grilled cheese as a kid. Still love that.
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A Pollock from Chicago, I grew up on Polish sausage -- both fresh and smoked. But nothing beat meaty pork neck bones boiled with sour kraut, boiled potatoes, and a hearty rye bread. Fresh ham hocks made an excellent substitute when the neck bones weren't meaty, or even available. Loved oxtail stew too.
I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- ThoreauPosted 1 year ago # -
When I was a kid and living in San Diego, my Dad used to take me to the "Tamale Factory" in Old Towne San Diego. We would pick up a large stack of fresh tortilla's.
When we would get them home, Dad and I would have a pepper eating contest to see who would get the first tacos or tostadas off the stove.
I guess that is where I get my taste for "melt your teeth" spicy foods.
To this day my favorite food is Chilis Toriados. That's a roasted fresh jallapenos (seeds in) with some lime juice and a touch of salt. You'll break a sweat with the first bite.... its really just fun food, but definitely worth trying. If your local Mexican restaurant can't/won't make it, or doesn't know what it is, it ain't a real Mexican restaurant.
(I am of English-Irish & Norwegian extraction.)Posted 1 year ago # -
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Lawrence, you should be eating some of this "stuff"; Bacon and cabbage, Barmbrack, Boxty, Carrageen moss, Champ, Coddle, Colcannon, Crubeens, Dulse, Drisheen, Goody, Irish breakfast, Irish stew, Skirts and kidneys, Soda bread & Ulster fry...
Along with; Guinness, Irish breakfast tea, Irish coffee, Irish cream, Irish mist, Whiskey (particularly pure pot still whiskey)& Bulmers (known as Magner's in the United States)
Now for the English side, tea & crumpets and fish & chips...
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Phil,
I'm a "see food" fiend.
About the only food I cannot eat is Jello.
After I found out how gelatin is manufactured I can't eat it.But, as for those stick to your rib dishes you mentioned above, I have no problem.
My Dad calls me "The Coyote" referencing the "Roadrunner" cartoons. I'm not the "Tidbidicus Supersonicus" but the "Eatamusamostanythingus".Posted 1 year ago # -
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I remember when was in the military and being out in the field we might get hot chow once a day, the paper plates that they served it on sucked so you usually ended up with half of it on the ground... It didn't matter, we were so hungry we ate bugs and all...
Now as a kid, cat food and Elmer's school glue, the paste didn't have the right flavor!
Lawrence, you should try it sometime... Right after I try the Peanut Butter and Onion, right?
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As a kid every Saturday night we had fried fish and oysters either at home or we would go out for it. It was my dads favorite meal. In the winter he would fix oyster stew to go with the meal also. We also ate alot of bbq'd chicken.
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In our house the meals I remember most had either a Southern or Mexican flair. Southern is because my Mom was from Texas and her mother my Grandma was from Oklahoma. The Mexican food comes from living in Arizona.
One staple was beans and ham-hocks, which my Grandma made often along with cornbread. I can still remember her soaking the bean before cooking them, and sometimes the beans were white and other times they were one of the red variety.
Fried chicken with biscuits & gravy with black-eyed peas was one of my favorite Sunday meals.
Fried catfish, with cornbread and fried okra… that okra rolled in cornmeal and fried until it was crunchy on the outside… I love fried okra!
For Mexican food it was tacos & tostados… but my favorite Mexican meal was green chili burritos made by shredding leftover pot roast (another Sunday staple). Mom would dice up the left over potatoes and cooked carrots, which was added to the meat and then to a gravy that included a can or two of diced green chili. All of this simmered in a pan making our house smell great until she was ready to roll it up with a little cheddar cheese in large flour tortillas and serve it up.
By the way all of the above was served with large glasses of sweet tea, will at least until I was old enough to enjoy a beer.
If those two ladies still cooked for me I would have died long ago… fat and very happy.
"United States"
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.Posted 1 year ago # -
Everything !!
If light travels faster than sound is this why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.Posted 1 year ago # -
We were pretty poor growing up, so we had a lot of repeats and cheap eats. Fried spam, hot dogs, etc. When my dad could afford steaks, he'd BBQ the hell out of it on the grill. Most times, chicken, pork chops, burgers and any other meat on the grill got BBQ.
As of today, I refuse to eat corn flakes, pork chops, and instant mashed potatoes.
We ALWAYS ate very well when we went to my grandparents' house. All kinds of seafood, Salmon patties, fresh garden veggies, homemade roast beef and noodles, and several other real home cooked meals.
I'm learning several of my grandmother's recipes and making them my own.
Southerners don't talk slow because they're dumb, we do it because there's really no rush.
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Toas-Tites! A grilled cheese sandwich "pocket".
I've still got the one from our house back in the 1950's.
Spread oleo on both sides of a couple of slices of bread, put a slice of Velveta in the middle clamp the Toast-Tite maker shut trim the bread and lay the whole thing on one of the burners on the stove.
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For lunch everyday at school: a red-plaid metal lunchbox with two peanut butter and grape-jelly sandwich's wrapped in wax-paper that were smashed flat by that big honkin' apple...and Sunmaid raisins, the box of which turned into a cool little cardboard musical instrument at recess.
The peanut butter would be dry. The bread, soaking up all that warm grape jelly all morning would have turned into purple mush, and as usual; the glass liner in my thermos of milk would probably be broken again from playing at the bus-stop.
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Tommy, thanks for the pic. What a cool kitchen device. I've never seen one before.
As a kid I was spoiled. (My wife says I still am.)
We always ate well, or at least that's how I remember it.
Bacon and eggs every morning (except for Fridays when it was pancakes or french toast because we were Catholic.)
Hey, I grew up in central Illinois. That's pig country. Eating pork at least once a day was mandatory.
My favorite meal was fried pork chops, fried potatoes (I learned later some people called them "home fries") with lots of pork gravy on them and corn (what else? cream corn in the the winter and on-the-cob in the summer)-- and homemade apple pie for dessert.
Seems like we always had homemade pie for dessert, except in July or August when we would have watermelon.
I just ate an hour ago, and now after posting this, I'm hungry. I need a pork fix, but pie will do.Posted 1 year ago # -
When I was younger, my parents didn't have much money - one meal I remember is noodles and ketchup instead of marinara. It was pretty tasty and provided me the nutrients I needed as a kid.
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I remember my father would -only- feed me chicken and spaghetti the year I lived with him. . .my mum it was just a lot of hamburger helpers, ramen, sometimes spaghetti or chicken there as well.
My parents can't freaking cook.
Now-a-days I cook a LOT of Italian food, burger sandwidges or breadsticks when I need a 'boost'.
Sincerely,
YoruPosted 1 year ago # -
Velveeta cheese on bread toasted in the oven open faced. Then lettuce and hot-sauce on top of the melted cheese. Yeah, times were tight growing up...good times though.
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I was in the same boat as Onizuka. As my dad was in the U.S. Navy and almost always out to sea, my mom had three boys to feed and clothe. Hamburger & beans and Mac&cheese with spam were pretty usual dinners for us.
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Steamed duck eggs, fried bred and bacon. We were a bit backwoods.
Michael
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.-- Chesterton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/obelus1/sets/72157625700632656/Posted 1 year ago # -
Sounds good to me Obelus.
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Homemade korean egg rolls. Won't anyones but my mother's or my sister's. Spring rolls need not apply. They take a day to make a batch but fried or the steam versions can't be beat.
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Man I guess I had it good growing up in Germany, we used to have Schnitzel, Potato salad, sauerkraut or rotkraut, then on Sundays go to Oma's (grandma) house for a three course meal of noodle soup, roast, potato's, and salad....Breakfast was always great German bread and sausage meats. AWW Man now I am hungry again......
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Raised in the South my family were pretty much Farmers... we ate "country".
breakfast every day with cat head biscuits and white gravy, ham or sausage and always eggs... Dinner was always a meat and vegetables.... We also ate a lot of game..deer,duck,quail...and am happy to say my family still enjoys wild game on a regualar basis.Posted 1 year ago #
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