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).

 

[chrisdvorak]

My lunch the last three days in a row has been green beans right out of the garden.

yup thats what i do too

 

[J_J]

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).

David, or anyone else that don't know.

I don't think you have any idea what it is to be hungry. See if you can go a couple of days without food.

 

[MossRoad]

David, or anyone else that don't know.

I don't think you have any idea what it is to be hungry. See if you can go a couple of days without food.

J_J, life's experiences are different for everyone. I know I have no idea what it is to go hungry. I do, however, know what it is like to get the #$$% beat out of you every few days for 4-5 years. How's that?

 

[MossRoad]

Speaking of hunger...
I remember when I was a little kid I was staying with my grandparents at their fishing shack of a cottage up in Michigan. My grandpa and I were not very close and this was the first time I had stayed with them. We were in the cottage and my stomach made some horrible grumbling sound that he heard. He asked if that was my stomach? I replied yes. He looked at me with a look in his eye that said he'd been there and experienced that as he said "No one should ever be that hungry." He opened a cabinet and got me some Pecan Sandies cookies and a glass of milk. Then we went fishing. I still like Pecan Sandies to this day.

 

[Egon]

Another version of "Fast Food"

 

[Bird]

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).

I like Karo syrup, especially the dark Karo, on pancakes or waffles and if some gets on my sausage and eggs at the same time, that's fine.

 

[jayste]

I like Karo syrup, especially the dark Karo, on pancakes or waffles and if some gets on my sausage and eggs at the same time, that's fine.

I'm with you guys on the sausage/syrup combination. We would usually use karo on pancakes if we were out of maple. As a kid I'd eat it but preferred maple syrup.

Grandma Stewart always made these big "cathead" biscuits. Man, a dalop of butter or peanut butter on those or some flour gravy....I'd take some right now! My Grandad would mix some bacon grease and coffee together sometimes and poor that on his biscuit. Called it streaky gravy. I never ate it but little brother would.

Okra, I love it. Fried mainly but I did try it pickled for the first time this year. Not bad. We've got some making in the garden right now.

Polo 1655, good comment! I guess you mean Okra Winfrey. Never tried it, doubt it that I'd like it!!

BTW, How did we go from fresh vegetables to Karo syrup and streaky gravy??

Jay

 

[jayste]

Here's a version of not-so-fast food. She didn't outrun the 30-06! Cow Elk taken last year in the Wichita Mtns of Oklahoma. Man! That's some good eatin'!

 

[J_J]

J_J, life's experiences are different for everyone. I know I have no idea what it is to go hungry. I do, however, know what it is like to get the #$$% beat out of you every few days for 4-5 years. How's that?

Yep, I know all about that too. I guess the church my grandma went to took us away from that mess, and I guess the orphanage was a little better.

How did we get away from fast food? Sometimes there is no fast food, just nothing, and now, I eat just to darn much.

I tried some gardening once, and I never had any idea how many tomatoes would grow on 40 vines, we ate a bunch and gave the others away.

I do admire you farmers for the knowledge that some of you have, and the ability to make it happen, plus the headache and the heartache when things don't go right.

 

[MossRoad]

O.K. I tried a spoonful of light Karo syrup. It had no flavor, just a little sweetness. I would eat it in a pinch but would rather see it made into pecan pie.