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

[/pine]

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

Don't really know what their range is...They are considered a delicacy wherever they're found...

Trionychidae - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MossRoad]

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

We had quite a few of them up here in South Bend when I was growing up in the 60s-70s. Don't seem to be as many anymore. However, we still see them on occasion in our local river. For that matter, about 10-15 years ago my wife and I were parked by the river eating lunch and watched a large soft shell dig a nest in the sand in the grass above the riverbank.

 

[MossRoad]

Range map in the US.

 

[MossRoad]

Nice video...

 

[Hay Dude]

Road-side berries.
We ate gallons of wild berries like raspberries growing along the roads for decades.
I still try to collect them when time allows

 

[jyoutz]

Road-side berries.
We ate gallons of wild berries like raspberries growing along the roads for decades.
I still try to collect them when time allows

I just grow them at home. Awful good.

 

[kenmbz]

I remember picking wild strawberries and my mom would make them into pies.
Good memories.

 

[Egon]

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.

Proper Borsch is one good soup.

 

[Oaktree]

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.

Proper Borsch is one good soup.

You're welcome to it. I'm mostly Russian heritage, and it was something my father really liked growing up. My mother occasionally made it for him, and my siblings and I would have to eat it too. If not the nastiest thing I've ever eaten, it's in the top 10.

Jasper, what do you mean when you say cabbage with root bulbs? What spices do you put in with the cabbage? I like it myself, but the only way my wife will eat it is in coleslaw.

 

[JasperFrank]

A slowly cooked cabbage, with onions, carrots, sweet beets, paprika, thyme and little salt and butter, can be a delicious side dish thats not entirely a soup like, borsch.