While working today, head of broccoli in my hand, I mused that I actually really liked broccoli as a child. (Mom often dressed it in bernaise sauce which helped. C'mon...it was the 1970's...the lowfat craze hadn't started yet!!) Then I tried to remember the foodstuffs I loved and hated as a child. It was an entertaining mental journey, thinking about how I was the one kid on the block who couldn't get enough creamed spinach.
Here's what I loved:
-Goose Liver ("foie gras" to all you gourmets out there) in my lunchbox until all the other PB&J toting kids at school made fun of me. I have some friends whose Oma (grandmother) packed their lunch and know exactly what I'm talking about!
-Beef of all kinds: steak, brisket, and beef bourguignon.
-Vegetables cooked until soft: Creamed spinach, dilled zucchini, and glazed carrots were favorites.
Here's what I hated:
-Bread and buns: Starchy and flavorless, I thought
-Raw vegetables: While I could eat about 6 cups of cooked spinach, I would not touch a spinach salad with a 10 foot pole
-Toad-in-the-Hole: English sausages in a baked pudding. Oof. It still doesn't sound very appetizing to me.
-Milk: I was the only kid in town who hated milk. Never touched the stuff. But I ate cheese so my growth wasn't stunted.
I look at that list and think I quite literally could have been a poster child for the Atkins Diet, with my love of red meat, vegetables, and the occassional piece of fruit. I disliked most starches. I vividly remember pulling hamburgers off of the bun and leaving that doughy breadstuff for the rubbish bin.
What about you? What did you like and hate? I'd love to hear about it, especially if it deviates from the realm of chicken fingers and pizza pockets.
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i loved raw veggies. we had a large garden so snacking on them was routine. we also had berry bushes all over a lot of them wild so to this day all/any kind of berry is my favorite food.
ReplyDeletemy mom made my bologna sandwich with lettuce and tomato and i loved fritos on the side.
the only thing i hated was Lima beans and peanut butter. oh i hated creamed spinach and egg salad. we were never forced to eat anything we didn't want. i eat peanut butter now. my favorite is Krema nut Co's hot and spicy peanut butter. they are a Columbus company.
oh the big treat was we would get buckets of perch from the L&K Restaurant on Fridays.
we also have a family smoked sausage recipe but that is for another day.
I second the lima bean hate, and will add chipped beef on toast to the list.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I couldn't get enough peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with fritos IN them, pasta of any kind and chicken chow mein. Just don't try to make me eat cream of wheat. That, and rice pudding would make me throw up faster than you could say haggis.
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