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

[5030]

Pickled Pigs Feet and Jiffy Time Popcorn in the foil pan that was guaranteed to burn every time....lol

 

[Oaktree]

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

Obesity wasn't a problem in those days...

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I can still go to town and get those items.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Obesity wasn't a problem in those days...

Those things are still for sale in town.

 

[5030]

I can still go to town and get those items.

I can too but now the pickled pigs feet look vulgar...

 

[Oaktree]

Those things are still for sale in town.

Maybe your town but not mine.
Anyway, my point was that with food as unappetizing as that, you didn't need to worry about over-eating.

 

[Jstpssng]

Liver and Lima beans!!!!

I like liver occasionally. What I get from 1 pig is enough for the year. I don't think that my pigs would even eat lima beans.

When I was in my 20s, I spent one Christmas with my then GF's family. She told me ahead of time that a family tradition was to eat something they called oyster stew Christmas eve. Not a big seafood lover, and it didn't sound very appetizing but went along. It was beyond nasty, big oyster chunks floating in some sort of milk broth, no other ingredients that I could see. I gagged down a few spoonfuls but that was all I could manage. Turns out that was Christmas eve supper, nothing else.
Not much of a future with that one...

My family had it's own gross soup too...cold beet soup...beets simmered in skim milk and served cold. A favorite dish of my father's when he was growing up, my mother would make it occasionally. She did make us kids try some once, and once was more than enough. My siblings agreed.

We used to eat oyster stew growing up, at the time it was a bit of a treat. I've tried making it a couple of times but it isn't the same.

 

[/pine]

...We used to eat oyster stew growing up, at the time it was a bit of a treat. I've tried making it a couple of times but it isn't the same...

To do it right you need to use two pans...one for the oysters and the "liquor"...and one for the stew (butter, pepper, milk, cream, half&half etc.etc...)...cook the oysters until the edges are well wrinkled ...it is paramount to make sure both the stew and the oysters are the same temperature before combining them...it is best to add the oyster to the milk rather than the opposite...

 

[IndyJay]

To do it right you need to use two pans...one for the oysters and the "liquor"...and one for the stew (butter, pepper, milk, cream, half&half etc.etc...)...cook the oysters until the edges are well wrinkled ...it is paramount to make sure both the stew and the oysters are the same temperature before combining them...it is best to add the oyster to the milk rather than the opposite...

And don't forget the oyster crackers.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

I can too but now the pickled pigs feet look vulgar...

My mother loves them. Head cheese and souse meat too