[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by missypie

... my mom put every leftover in a pot and that was another dinner.

My father used to put everything in a casserole and bake it. He called it "clean out the icebox night."

[rivaridger1]

Someone will have to explain what is wrong with:
1. A raw onion sandwich on rye with mayo.
2. Canned Vienna Sausage.
3. Ring Bologna pickled in a jar.
4. Chipped steak with creamed corn.
5. Boiled macaroni mixed with canned tomatoes and fried hamburger.
6. Croquets made from pre-cooked beef or chicken, and salmon out of a can.
7. Canned sardines used for about any purpose you can imagine.
8. Smelts fried.
9. Shad and Roe fried.
10. Liver, kidneys an onions fried.
11. Snapping turtle soup.
12. And finally Spam, or even better " Treat ".
To take issue with the 1950(s).

[HimandMe]

Every Sunday we had our Big meal, a chicken or roast, potatoes, eggies and dessert...usually rice pudding. Through the week, it was left overs or homemade Macaroni and cheese, stew canned or leftover, beans and franks, spaghetti etc. Mom grew up on a farm so we always had potatoes, carrots and many shelves of home canned fruit and vegetables. Ice cream or cantaloupe was a treat. At Christmas, a regular turkey and trimmings, blood pudding, home made pudding with sweet brown sauce. We wore paper hats, had
Christmas crackers to pull and the house was full of streamers hung with scotch tape.

[Ecuadog]

Originally Posted by rivaridger1

Someone will have to explain what is wrong with:
1. A raw onion sandwich on rye with mayo.
...

... with butter and mustard.

No explanation needed. It's just common sense.

[graciegirl]

[QUOTE=rivaridger1;1457321]Someone will have to explain what is wrong with:
1. A raw onion sandwich on rye with mayo.

YUM. Love Florida sweet onions (Vidalia) for that.

[dewilson58]

We ate the whole pig............everything. Nothing goes to waste.

Can't "dew" the internal stuff any more.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by Francie

Love this! Not to mention, never heard of.....tacos, sushi, falafel. The only asian dish we ever had came out of a can......LaChoy Chicken Chow Mein! Once in a blue moon we had 1 family steak to feed 8 of us. If you were still hungry, you stacked up white bread and poured gravy over it. Never was the milk carton allowed on the dinner table. If we misbehaved at the dinner table you had to take your plate and eat by yourself on the cellar stairs. Downright child abuse by today's standards!!! LOL

LaChoy Chicken Chow Mein...that brings back memories. Haven't thought about that for years. My mom would serve it with those crunchy noodles that I think came from a can.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by Fredman

Chef boyarde spaghetti

I remember that. You couldn't pay me to eat that now.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by cfrance

i hated my mother's vegetable soup. Hated it. She wouldn't cut the vegetables up. You needed a knife and fork and spoon to eat it. And you had darn well better eat it. And there was nothing else to go with it. That was it for dinner--a big bowl of vegetables in a bland broth. Now i think it was probably an end-of-the-month-no-money-left dinner. I actually liked her liver. And probably would have preferred her spam to her vegetable soup.

You couldn't leave the table till you ate all your peas/beets/lima beans. the beagle joe at my feet loved peas and lima beans, but he hacked up the beet i tried him on. Busted. I didn't blame him.

lol!

[doran]

anything Gerber for me

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by doran

anything Gerber for me

You wouldn't be bragging about being younger, would you?

FRESHMEN!

[aninjamom]

Fish "sticks" on Fridays - we were Catholic. My parents were trying to farm so they got chickens and had a garden; we ate chickens, eggs, and canned peaches. Spaghetti and Ragu jar sauce, my mom tried to feed us cow tongue once and it didn't work. Rice with maple syrup and chicken liver wrapped in bacon, with six kids, my mom was inventive. Never saw a French fry until I was in high school.

[Bay Kid]

Never needed a freezer except for ice. Never went out to eat, unless it was to both grandma's house. Sunday leftovers from grandma's was dinner thru Wednesday. NEVER better food!

[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

We ate the whole pig............everything. Nothing goes to waste.

Can't "dew" the internal stuff any more.

1st frost for hog slaughter. All the neighbor farmers would go from house to house everyday until all were done. I still have two 3 legged black kettles for the boil. The BEST sausage ever!

[asianthree]

I was still eating homemade baby food.