posted on November 1, 2000 07:06:33 PM new
Oh, my! After reading your posts, I am feeling kinda squeamish...but here goes:
My grandmother used to make a stew called lobscouse (I believe it was norwegian in origin) which consisted of three different minced meats--chicken, beef and veal--boiled in milk (!) and it is to this day remembered as being reminiscent of warm, er...*regurgitation*...
Pork sausage...arrrrgh. The smell is a definite appetite suppressent for me.
Ditto Maui on undercooked eggs...and what an apt description!
posted on November 1, 2000 07:10:43 PM newYellowstone: That sounds like a cultural dish. I'm not sure about the "clops" part, but "konigsburg" is "king/queen's town"
posted on November 1, 2000 07:18:55 PM newShadowcat, what language is that, i'm sure about the name of the dish and I prolly did get the spelling wrong, perhaps clops should be spelled differently as well, maybe clopse or closp. As a kid all I heard from grammy was koonigsburg clops, she didn't spell it, but thanks for the partial translation.
posted on November 1, 2000 07:53:36 PM newYellowstone: I'd say Dutch, but it's just a guess. And "clops" might be "klomp", which means "lump"(which would make sense). There's also a "klops" but that means "beating/throbbing" so that wouldn't be likely.
posted on November 1, 2000 08:09:17 PM newShadowcat, so that would mean that they were king/queen's town lumps. Ok, sounds like a good translation name to me. Thanks again, i'm gonna tell my brothers and sisters that I found a translation for Grammy's Koonigsburg Clops.
Maybe it could have been klops because we'd surely get a beating if we didn't eat all that were put on our plates.
posted on November 1, 2000 08:17:46 PM newRegarding the Nasty Lima Bean!
Strangely enough, although I absolutely abhor the lima bean in it's natural state, I *do* love a Japanese dessert called "monju"!! Monju has an outer soft dough covering & a filling made out of...lima beans. The grind the bean up into a paste & sweeten it (might add other stuff to the paste but I'm not sure). There are two kinds of monju: one filled with white finely ground paste (LOVE IT!) and one filled with coarsely ground red paste (Don't like that one). Monju should only be eaten freshly made--you can buy it at some Asian markets prepackaged but the dough covering tends to be too chewy then. I buy it fresh in Little Tokyo in L.A. Scrumtious.
posted on November 1, 2000 09:42:13 PM new
My grandmother was a great cook, although she would get confused about what foods we liked and she would make some gruesome stuff that she had somehow decided we loved.
The worst is the one traditional old family recipe that we have~it is an old traditional Belgium-French meat dressing made of mild pork sausage, carrots, celery, and God knows what else pureed through a big huge meat grinder that was clamped onto the edge of the counter. The look, consistancy, smell and taste could only be described as "vomit"
She carefully copied out that recipe for all of us so that we could make it at Thanksgiving for all eternity. We will be having cornbread stuffing for all of eternity~Sorry, Grandma.
posted on November 1, 2000 11:26:10 PM new
Not until I left home did I discover vegetables have to be neither canned,nor cooked until they are mush. Won't eat canned green peas, tapioca, or runny eggs. It was a true revelation that asparagas doesn't have to be cooked until it resembles and tasts like pond slime. Ugh. Always present on my grandmother's holiday meal table.
posted on November 1, 2000 11:58:54 PM new
My grandmother somehow decided that one of our favorite holiday foods is macaroni and cheese ... with jalopenos in it! Blech!!! But nobody has the heart to tell her any different, so every Thanksgiving and Christmas we get jalopeno'ed macaroni.
And my mom always used to fix what we'd call "Little Bit" meals. (I kinda think she was just being ... um ... frugal!) She'd get a slice of cheese and a couple of pieces of thin-sliced ham. Then she'd break the cheese into small 1" squares, and roll up the ham slices. Then she'd arrange them on the plate with a lot of space in between so it would look "bigger" than it really was! We still kid her about her "Little Bit" meals. (not that we ever went hungry, of course! )
My most-hated food has got to be lettuce. Just the smell of it gags me ... literally. Lettuce is the only food that has this effect. Weird, huh? There's plenty of foods I don't care for that are much stronger than lettuce (onions, for example), but only lettuce makes me nauseous.
posted on November 2, 2000 12:38:45 AM new
Oh gosh! You just reminded me of a "traumatic experience" I had with beets when I was a kid! LOL!
I was over at a relative's house (can't even remember who) for Thanksgiving dinner, and there on the table was a big dish of cranberry sauce, all nicely sliced up and ready to serve. Cranberry sauce being a favorite of mine, I heaped a couple of slices of onto my plate, not paying much attention to what I was doing. I cut off a wedge, popped the bite into my mouth ....
posted on November 2, 2000 07:48:45 AM new
Thought of another one.
Leg of lamb.....family friend used to fix when our family was invited over to dinner, my folks loved it. My stomach would turn as she opened her door to greet us and the smell reached my nose. Never could put it in my mouth. YUK!!!
posted on November 2, 2000 02:24:17 PM new
Thanks for the congrats, LindaK.. also have a 14 year old who just started HIGH SCHOOL. What's wrong with me??!!
Anyhoo, thought of another one too. Cottage cheese. DISGUSTING!
posted on November 2, 2000 03:28:15 PM new
Another disgusting one...
As a kid, at Passover, I had to drink the most disgusting concoction-Manischeiwitz Concord Grape Wine. GAG!
Years later, at a pricey Seder, what do they serve? Yes, the dreaded Manischeiwitz!
posted on November 2, 2000 05:15:42 PM new
The only thing that still gives me the willies is the one time my dad decided to experiment with fried chicken. It was over 30 years ago. He decided to dip it in pancake syrup before he cooked. Man it was the worse tasting stuff on the face of this earth. Needless to say, my mom never let him cook fried chicken again.
posted on November 2, 2000 09:26:33 PM new
I have run across a lot of things that I used to hate, but can now tolerate...
As a Chef, I have to sample stuff all day..melons(not a favorite) Strawberries(not a favorite) Spinach (not a favorite), etc....
The ONLY thing I have not been able to get used to is Beef Liver...I have tried itr in numerous ways, with numerous coniments, but no matter what , it is OOKY (a technical term that not ALL can understand!)
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
posted on November 3, 2000 12:27:23 PM new
Snowyegret - The Manischevitz...gross. That stuff makes me gag. It's like someone took fermented grape juice and added a bag of sugar to it. Yuck Yuck YUCK. My family still loves the stuff though. Every year I go to the liquor store on my way to the seder and buy a nice, respectable, kosher-for-passover Merlot and I'm the only one who drinks it.
posted on November 7, 2000 12:42:35 AM new
Chorizo. I can remember the smell as if it were yesterday. Ewww. My mom always made chorizo and egg tacos for breakfast on Sunday mornings and everyone liked them but me. Yuck!!
Other than that my mom was a pretty good cook (although typically southern, in that everything was fried or had cream gravy, so I grew up addicted to fried/gravied crap and have spent the past 11 years weaning myself off of it)... there are still some things that I remember her making and I try to replicate them but can never get it quite right.
The other big "yuck" for me is MD 20/20 (aka "Mad Dog" cheap grape wine. I had a heavy drinking boyfriend in high school who drank this all the time and the smell makes me nauseous to this day.
posted on November 7, 2000 11:33:22 AM new
Had to reply........
My mom used to make these tuna fish egg things.....tuna scrambled into eggs with chunks of potatoes in it and fried until soaked in oil - then served with mustard on top!!! She said it was an old portuguese recipe, but I think it was just a cruel joke she played on us kids!!
.........or this stuff called hamburg over mash........hamburger and ketchup and various other ingredients that I'm afraid to ask about out served over mashed potatoes!! ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
posted on November 7, 2000 01:55:54 PM new
Killin' time between jobs, and had to respond to this one!
Lots of my YUK foods already covered here - the chipped beef on toast (ACK ACK!), Liver in any form, Tripe is nasty. But when I was a kid...my mom and my grandma loved Fried Green Tomatoes. NASTY. I know, some people love em, but not this people. They took them off the vine green, sliced them about a 1/2 thick, dipped them in a flour/salt/pepper concoction, and fried them in oil in the big iron skillet. I can still smell it to this day.
posted on November 8, 2000 08:17:49 AM new
wow...I was a child when frozen prepared foods were getting hot...and canned foods were at a high...
my parents did this horrible thing...they'd heat up a can of vegetables and for one can they would put a WHOLE STICK of margarine in it!!!(we never eat canned veggies in our house because of this...only fresh or frozen). My mom still does it, and everything, absolutely everything is fried in at least one inch of fat...ugh. My mom's oven has never been turned on in her apartment, where she's lived for over 15 years now...just the top is used, you can never really get the stove top clean using that much lard repeatedly...
and the side dishes for almost every fried and breaded meat was potatoes, corn and noodles...
my siblings are all quite large in size, as is my mother...I'm so greatful I decided to learn a whole new way to cook
posted on November 8, 2000 06:58:44 PM new
1)Brussel Sprouts
2)Anything liver or kidney or whatever. I have never ever tasted them but the thought, eewww.
3)Anything on your plate that still has eyes. We went to eat at a restaurant that had a seafood buffet and my mother-n-law got crawfish and I couldnt eat my meal just looking over and seeing that nasty thing!
To the person who said "peeps", I hope you didnt watch the Sunday night "Malcolm in the Middle". The older brother had a bet he could eat 100 of them. Was NOT a pretty sight!
posted on November 8, 2000 07:15:02 PM new
Saw the Malcolm in the Middle episode!
Fried Green Tomatoseewwwww!!
I'd blocked them from my mind! Yuk!
Here's a yuk: Molded Salad. My mom makes it every holiday, it's an orange Jell-0 mold with cole slaw cabbage inside. We call it Moldy Salad, and every year she wants to know why nobody is eating it. There's just something wrong about cole slaw inside of Jell-O.
posted on November 8, 2000 07:25:30 PM new
I'm pretty daring. Although I haven't done the escargot thing, I'll eat just about anything. But as much as I've learned to like fennel and anise, I despise licorice candy. Icky! Icky! Icky!
posted on November 8, 2000 07:37:13 PM new
I must be weird---so many of the foods that had me running for cover when I was a kid I love now...mushrooms, brussel sprouts, cabbage rolls, stew, parsnips, squash, etc
The one thing I can think of that I hated then that I still hate now is chocolate with Turkish Delight in it--yuck. I could never figure out how that kid in "The Lion ,the Witch and the Wardrobe" got sucked in by the Snow Queen with Turkish Delight.
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