Garbo

My father is the greatest person I have ever met. But..... when I was a child he would eat some strange stuff.

My parents celebated their 50th anniversary this past weekend, and I ate a piece of Apple Pie with a melted slice of cheese on it. It is wonderful. My father taught me that and I won't eat apple pie any other way, honeybuns are just as good, heated in a microwave with a slice of cheese on top.

He also likes a cold glass of buttermilk with crumbled up cornbread in it. I still cannot do that. Not even the buttermilk alone. He loves it.

My mother loves Catalina dressing on pizza. She also likes syrup on fried fish.

What kind of strange things did your parents try to get you to eat? You know they did.

bluffman2

1 steamed squash (strange to me) cant get past the texture

2 at the time i thought it was strange .....sardines ...i use to say but it looks like our bait

3 im like your mom ....i love catalina on my pizza.......

FishnLane

:hungry I was raised with what I thought was ordinary meals....until I got in college and discovered that none of my roomates had EVER heard of these foods or they were repulsed with these foods. For the life of me, i couldn't understand why. Growing up, everyother Sat night, we dined on chittlin's (boiled and fried). On Sunday evenings, we had brains and eggs. We ate tripe with syrup along with (of course) cornbread and like the others above, ate the left over cornbread with buttermilk for the next snack. We got tongue for a quarter at the butcher shop and that was Sunday dinner--quite a spread with all the fixin's. Fishing trips were and STILL ARE packed with vienna sausages, potted meat slimjims and crackers.I still love livers and gizzards (thankGod Mitch does too).Eventho I don't get chitlin's and tongue as part of regular meals, i still miss them. Currently acceptinginvites if you are inviting!!!!!:hungry

ironman172

Wish your parents a happy anniversary for me Curtis!!!:bowdown.....Wow.. that is a long time....congrat's to them.....I can only wish.....21 more yearsfor me andmy bride...if I live that long...:banghead

as to your ? I think there called brussel spouts little round green balls of some sort....I couldn't stand them and had to sit there till I ate them....and our dog at that time didn't like them either!!!:banghead

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Garbo

Thank you Bill, and I will. The two of you will go way past 50, and I hope that we can catch Pomps and shoot something at least once a year even after that.

Your parents didn't try to make you eat something strange?

reelfinatical

Brains & Eggs - YUM! My mom made that almost every Sunday morning.

I've been called strange for puttingpeanuts in myPepsi, ketchup on myscrambled Eggs . . .

I can't think of anything else right off hand...

ironman172

as to your ? I think there called brussel spouts little round green balls of some sort....I couldn't stand them and had to sit there till I ate them....and our dog at that time didn't like them either!!!

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bluffman2

what kind of damn brains with eggs?????

i do like peanuts in my rootbeer

PensacolaEd

My Dad used to pick the round mushrooms in our yard in the Summer - he called them Puff-Balls. If you let them go they harden, and when you step on them they spew out a cloud of brown smoke. Anyway, he would pick them while they were white and soft, and boil them in a pot with a dime (to make sure they were "safe") - then slice them thin and fry them in butter. They were fantastic, but I never had the "huevos" to try it myself.

My Dad was a die-hard polack, he would also eat parts of the pig that are supposed to end up in HotDogs: lips, feet, snouts, foreskin,....whatever, he ate it, usually pickeled or fried.

Sure wish my Dad was still around, I'd love to share a plate of pig parts with him...

Triple C

For us, it would be pork brains and eggs. Another we had was poke and eggs. Poke weed boiled 2 or three times, drained well, then fried in lots of bacon grease with eggs scrambled in, Yum! We had cornbread and milk, both buttermilk and sweet. Squirrel dumplings were a nice treat too!. When I was a kid, I enjoyed peanut butter and bologna sandwiches, andmy wife still loves peanut butter and pimento cheese on toast.