Foods you ate growing up that most folks don't eat today

[lman]

Grandma used to can her chickens. She also made a pressed chicken loaf. I remember her getting a can of chicken to make chicken and noodles. No thawing required.

 

[JasperFrank]

My brother, that still lived in the Bay Area of Maryland, would send me out "Care Packgages" when I moved to the PNW. He sent out an entire cooler of dry ice packed, softshell, blue channel crabs at great expense.
Just so happened that we were entertaining guests one weekend. So..... I though i would lightly beer batter these up, a quick deep fry, with Old Bay seasoning and serve them as a special treat that was not common to the PNW.
The culture shock was too far for any of our guests. They tried, but not one, took more than one bite.

 

[/pine]

Sometimes by brother and I would go grocery shopping with our mom...if we went to A&P (one of the original grocery store chains) they had cups of different flavored (herbs etc.etc..) cream cheese...it was always a treat with Ritz crackers...have tried similar flavored cream cheeses but they just aren't the same...

 

[Oaktree]

My brother, that still lived in the Bay Area of Maryland, would send me out "Care Packgages" when I moved to the PNW. He sent out an entire cooler of dry ice packed, softshell, blue channel crabs at great expense.
Just so happened that we were entertaining guests one weekend. So..... I though i would lightly beer batter these up, a quick deep fry, with Old Bay seasoning and serve them as a special treat that was not common to the PNW.
The culture shock was too far for any of our guests. They tried, but not one, took more than one bite.

Was it the crabs themselves they didn't like or the way you prepared them?

Liver and Lima beans!!!!

I like lima beans, liver not so much.

 

[WVH1977]

Dad used to make chili with coleslaw. We put the cold coleslaw on the hot chili. My wife thought that was the craziest thing, but it is good.

 

[TractorTYMe]

Rhubarb porridge, blood sausage (never liked it), halibut cheeks....we had soo much food that would be "weird" to Americans........I grew up on coastal Norway

 

[JasperFrank]

"Was it the crabs themselves they didn't like or the way you prepared them?"

My take, was that folks in the PNW are not use to eating crabs whole. The Eastern Blue is a different crab than the Dungeness, and apparently the Dungeness doesn't taste good when it is in soft shell state.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Pork brains and milk gravy. With a side of boiled chicken feet.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I had an uncle (by marriage) who liked chicken feet. One thing about it, nobody ever tried to eat his favorite piece of chicken. My grandmother's favorite piece was the back, in fact that was the only piece she would eat...according to my Mother. She apparently never had to fight anyone for her favorite piece either.

I personally like the gizzard.

 

[IndyJay]

I had an uncle (by marriage) who liked chicken feet. One thing about it, nobody ever tried to eat his favorite piece of chicken. My grandmother's favorite piece was the back, in fact that was the only piece she would eat...according to my Mother. She apparently never had to fight anyone for her favorite piece either.

I personally like the gizzard.

My Dad also preferred the back. He grew up during depression and the back was likely more affordable for large families that were struggling.