Fast Food

[J_J]

You guys just don't know what good food is, or maybe you do. I grew up in an orphanage, and we ate what we could get, but it was mostly , beans, taters, cornbread , and maters, and sometimes, some kind of meat. I did learn something there , and that we always ate every thing on out plates. If you ain't gonna eat it, don't get it. To this day, I frown on people that serve a full plate, eat half of it and throw the other half away, and kids that eat dessert before the regular meal.

 

[Bird]

J_J, I didn't grow up in an orphanage, but all 5 of us kids learned early in life to never say, "I don't like that" because then Dad would see to it that we ate some of it. Our choices at mealtime were "take it or leave it" but if you leave it, you'd better do it quietly and hope he didn't notice. And like you, he would have never allowed a kid to leave the table without eating everything on his/her plate.

 

[jinman]

You guys just don't know what good food is, or maybe you do. I grew up in an orphanage, and we ate what we could get, but it was mostly , beans, taters, cornbread , and maters, and sometimes, some kind of meat. I did learn something there , and that we always ate every thing on out plates. If you ain't gonna eat it, don't get it. To this day, I frown on people that serve a full plate, eat half of it and throw the other half away, and kids that eat dessert before the regular meal.

JJ, I thought orphans had to eat rice with a touch of sugar, a dollup of margarine, and a little milk. That's what we ate when we had nothing else to eat. I thought I was in heaven when we had cornbread and beans with potatoes and tomatoes.

I don't want to make light of your time in the orphanage because that must have been a very hard time to not have the love of your parents. As poor as we were, we always had parents. I'd say that made us rich by comparison. My mother used to laugh at me because I thought any meal without potatoes and bread was just a snack. I never got enough bread and tators. If I had gravy to put on the tators, I was in heaven.

 

[J_J]

You guys ever poke your finger in a biscuit and fill it with Karo syrup. That was the only meal at times before the orphanage. . Cornbread and buttermilk sometimes.

 

[Bird]

I've eaten lots of biscuits with Karo syrup, but usually buttered the hot biscuit, let the butter melt, then poured on the syrup, and it wasn't the whole meal unless I wanted it to be. And I never acquired a taste for buttermilk; still don't want any, except for cooking, but I do still love cornbread crumbled in a glass of sweet milk and when I was a kid, that was frequently the whole evening meal in hot weather (that was supper, dinner was around noon in those days). Since we had a milk cow, we had more milk than we could possibly use, so Mother would bake a big pan of cornbread and then we'd all sit out in the shade on the front porch to eat it with milk. No air-conditioning in those days. We also had one or more large mouth gallon jugs, so we'd sometimes put milk, ice cubes, sugar, and vanilla in one of those jugs, shake it up real good, and that made a fine milkshake.

 

[MossRoad]

I guess I will just have to ask.....What is Okra?

Don't let them fool you with all these "I like okra" replies. It is a conspiracy to get you to eat your vegetables.

 

[polo1665]

I guess I will just have to ask.....What is Okra?

Rich woman, lives in Chicago, got a pretty popular TV show from what I've heard.

 

[J35]

Anyone ever eat fried potatoes with karo syrup?

I worked on a ranch near Bend Oregon one summer they served fried potatoes with every meal and everyone poured Karo syrup on them, being from the SW it seemed strange to me.

Have fun

 

[jinman]

Anyone ever eat fried potatoes with karo syrup?

I worked on a ranch near Bend Oregon one summer they served fried potatoes with every meal and everyone poured Karo syrup on them, being from the SW it seemed strange to me.

Have fun

I remember the first time I saw my SIL put syrup on a sausage pattie. I could not believe it. Now, my wife does the same thing and I eat mine on a split biscuit with a dollup of mustard. I learned that one after I was grown and now have indoctrinated my grandkids, much to my daughter's chagrin.

 

[MossRoad]

I remember the first time I saw my SIL put syrup on a sausage pattie. I could not believe it. Now, my wife does the same thing and I eat mine on a split biscuit with a dollup of mustard. I learned that one after I was grown and now have indoctrinated my grandkids, much to my daughter's chagrin.

I have taught my kids to eat sausage with maple syrup. Mmmm....

But Karo syrup? EEEK! Sounds yukky. However, I base that on never tasting Karo syrup, only using it in baking and such. I think we have some in the cabinet. I will eat a teaspoon of it soon and report back (if I live).