I remember opening my grandma's refrigerator and this stuff in a jar was absolutely gross looking! Pickeled Pigs Feet!! To this day, I won't even TRY it, and I am in my 40's.! LOL
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Mine was a similar meal served once a week; liver and onion served with a side of Lima beans and topped off with German head cheese. Liver and onion is gaggable enough by itself. Combined with that ugly lima bean texture and the absolutely gross head cheese (does anyone even know what head cheese is any more? lol)
Gagged me every time! On top of that my parents were of that generation that made you eat your whole dinner because there were "starving children in India."
You also had to sit at the table until you literally fell asleep because you couldn't leave until you'd eaten it all. The last time I was served that meal I think I was about 11 years old and I told my Mom "fine, if there are starving children in India who want this meal I'll pay all my saved allowance to put it in a cooler and send it to them!". I got backhanded immediately but the dreaded meal never showed up again!Wow, I had not thought of that in a very very long time.
Brussel sprouts hands down. The rule in our house was if you said eww or gross or anything bad about what you were served, you got twice as much. And we weren't allowed to leave the table until it was all gone. Many is at there a loooong time.
I really hate to say this but just a few days ago my sweet 86 year old mother made "John Marzetti".Naked cooked macaroni floating in a half inch of water with gray clumps of ground beef and a few chopped stewed tomtoes.We smiled and .....ate it.
a sandwich of mayo (which i hate) and a pineapple slice.....who came up with that??? the worst! thanks for the contest
Another one was Rutabaga.
Every Thansgiving my mother would make it a tradition to have smashed Rutabaga!
We all had to eat at least a spoonful.
The grossest thing that I have every had to force down, Yuk!!
Every Thansgiving my mother would make it a tradition to have smashed Rutabaga!
We all had to eat at least a spoonful.
The grossest thing that I have every had to force down, Yuk!!
Chicken livers fried in butter on fresh white bread.........
i wonder how many chickens it took to make those sandwiches.... I don't think I've even seen these on a menu anywhere in my life
RIP Mom, may you always have lots of love, sunshine & roses ~ I miss you
i wonder how many chickens it took to make those sandwiches.... I don't think I've even seen these on a menu anywhere in my life
RIP Mom, may you always have lots of love, sunshine & roses ~ I miss you
"My" Father was a Butcher and for awhile as a child/teenager I would help him . . . Liver vs Tongue . . . 2 very different pieces of muscle and while "Liver" is smooth to the touch - "Tongue" feels like sandpaper - IMO . . . Just Sayin' . . .
AND - If You ever want to become a vegetarian for LIFE - forget what you ever heard about how hot dogs/frankfurters are made - Just ask "Me" what use to happen in the slaughter house and what some butcher's use to do . . . NOT NICE
This isn't my mother story as much as wifes' but we went to the mother-in-laws house for dinner, she is asian and when we arrived and i went to the fridge to grab some brews, father-in-law is retired military always stocked, and as i looked in there, there was fish staring back at me like 10 of them. As i kinda chuckled i sat and told my wife what i was laughing about, she looked at me and said thats our dinner plus when i was a kid the freezer was stock piled full of fish parts and heads looking back at you. She then went on to say that thats how she cooks all the time weather you like it or not, needless to say i didn't eat that much that night. Just not that big of a fan on the raw seasoned fish. Wife said "see why i don't eat fish that much."
Squirrel . My dad had been hunting one time and mom had cooked his hunting 'bounty'. It was just the shape of those little squirrel bodies that got to me. Ewwwwwwwwww :{{ That was the last time mom ever cooked squirrel! I think that incident is why to this day I can't eat any meat that resembles the animal it came off of. I can barely do meat of any kind.
When I was little, my mom used to fix what some people tell me is "Shepard's Pie". I really don't know what the name was, but it's the only thing that ever made me gag (TMI?)
It was a mix of mashed potatoes, peas, and hamburger. Even the liver she put barbecue sauce on tasted better. YUCK!
Thanks for the contest AND the memories!
It was a mix of mashed potatoes, peas, and hamburger. Even the liver she put barbecue sauce on tasted better. YUCK!
Thanks for the contest AND the memories!
Mine was Cottage cheese. I still cant stand the looks of it. It was served frequently on slices of tomato on lettuce. Yuck
I got in trouble for sneaking food and was made to eat a giant bowl of Wheaties and milk. I had to sit there for hours. I think Mom was having a really bad day. I will always hate Wheaties.
My mom was always trying new things and I have to admit that now, as an adult, I can look back and appreciate that I was exposed to many different types of food. But I had to draw the line at....tripe. It's awful; I don't care how you cook it.
She made some sort of stew, with broth and veggies and the tripe. While it smelled...um..ok...I just couldn't get past the look of it. And the thought of it being a cow's stomach (my mind just freezes at that): no....just no.
~Buff~
She made some sort of stew, with broth and veggies and the tripe. While it smelled...um..ok...I just couldn't get past the look of it. And the thought of it being a cow's stomach (my mind just freezes at that): no....just no.
~Buff~
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