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

[kenmbz]

Never had that dried beef, maybe I will try it someday, maybe....

How about vienna sausages, fully cooked ready to eat and amazingly flavourless.

 

[WVH1977]

Never had that dried beef, maybe I will try it someday, maybe....

How about vienna sausages, fully cooked ready to eat and amazingly flavourless.

You got to get the barbecue vienna sausages!!!

 

[Yander]

Turtle, for that matter not many folks ate it back then. But we set turtle lines every year and always harvested at least 3 or 4 turtles a year from the creek I grew up on. My dad would sometimes catch 5 or 6 and fry them up just for our family reunion. That would get wiped out very quickly.

If you took Turtle to a reunion now it would all be coming home with you lol.

 

[/pine]

Turtle, for that matter not many folks ate it back then. But we set turtle lines every year and always harvested at least 3 or 4 turtles a year from the creek I grew up on. My dad would sometimes catch 5 or 6 and fry them up just for our family reunion. That would get wiped out very quickly.

If you took Turtle to a reunion now it would all be coming home with you lol.

Except for the fact that killing a turtle is some of the worst Karma known...fried soft-shell turtle is some of the best meat I have ever eaten...

 

[JasperFrank]

Being from the South, I've never been able to convince people that slow cooked, buttered, and spiced cabbage with root bulbs is a thing to eat. Its an entirely not used, vegetable in the PNW. Which I find odd, as there is plenty of Cabbage , and plenty of Beets. But no one wants to eat Borsch, no matter how well prepared it is.

 

[WinterDeere]

There's a reason most of the foods listed in this thread are not still eaten today, and it's not scarcity.

I'll be in the corner with my corn beef special.

 

[IndyJay]

Turtle, for that matter not many folks ate it back then. But we set turtle lines every year and always harvested at least 3 or 4 turtles a year from the creek I grew up on. My dad would sometimes catch 5 or 6 and fry them up just for our family reunion. That would get wiped out very quickly.

If you took Turtle to a reunion now it would all be coming home with you lol.

Yep, big Ole snapper is quite tasty.

 

[/pine]

Yep, big Ole snapper is quite tasty.

Only ever ate soft-shelled...These days harvesting them is highly restricted...most legally (and not) caught gets exported...

 

[IndyJay]

Only ever ate soft-shelled...These days harvesting them is highly restricted...most legally (and not) caught gets exported...

Never had soft shell. I am inland, are these coastal?

 

[Yander]

Nah, soft shells are in creeks, we call them leatherbacks but they are technically called softshelled. They are a little more elusive than a snapper, much less aggressive too. But my dad always said they were better to eat than snapper. They were not as plentiful but when you caught them you were happy.