Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up
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Chicken steppers - the actual feet with the toes and toe nails. Not bad tasting, but I wouldn't do it now.0
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Pickled pigs feet.....fried bologna sandwiches..........beef tongue out of the pressure cooker....
Totally nailed my childhood right there. Add in some head cheese sandwiches instead of bolonga (think whole head of some farm animal boiling on stove and gelatinizing in bread pans) and this is why I have been in therapy for years!!
And I wanted to add headcheese too. So many don't know what it is. What years were you in that food era?
70's and 80's.
By late 80's my mom switched us to really badly made tofu dishes and pounded to death venison fried in flour and butter. I cringe thinking about it. Or the 'rabbit' stew (i.e. crockpot rabbit smothered in cream of mushroom soup) that I used to be able to tolerate until I found out at one point it was actually squirrel depending on what my dad and brothers caught that day. I think that may be child abuse or animal abuse now, but who knows 0 -
Top Ramen, Hamburger Helper, banquet Hungry Man mexican dinners. Way too salty and soggy to handle now. Trix, fruit loops, cocoa puffs all too sweet.lots of things I used to like make me gag now1
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Tuna helper!! Blecchh!!!!1
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I can remember just crushing up the noodles in a packet of ramen and then using the soup base as a seasoning, and eating like chips. It was a food trend in my school. I want to die a little when I think of the sodium now.
At home we used canned "meat sauce" for spaghetti night - also crazy salty.
Kraft Dinner (Mac n cheese)
And pop/soda...so much pop.0 -
I can remember just crushing up the noodles in a packet of ramen and then using the soup base as a seasoning, and eating like chips. It was a food trend in my school. I want to die a little when I think of the sodium now.
We did this in one of the schools I went to as well. I thought it was pretty good until you got to the bottom of the bag and it was mostly seasoning and too salty to even eat.0 -
Ha, my mum was a TERRIBLE cook, and her ideas about school lunches, awful. I was about 7 years old, opened my lunch box to find: sandwiches with a filling of sheep brains and mashed pumpkin. This was truly formative...I'm vegan now
Okay, this is the first thing in this thread that really grossed me out. I thought I'd heard it all . . .0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Ha, my mum was a TERRIBLE cook, and her ideas about school lunches, awful. I was about 7 years old, opened my lunch box to find: sandwiches with a filling of sheep brains and mashed pumpkin. This was truly formative...I'm vegan now
Okay, this is the first thing in this thread that really grossed me out. I thought I'd heard it all . . .
Totally. I would have gone crying to the teachers/counselors. lol
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Pickled pigs feet.....fried bologna sandwiches..........beef tongue out of the pressure cooker....
Totally nailed my childhood right there. Add in some head cheese sandwiches instead of bolonga (think whole head of some farm animal boiling on stove and gelatinizing in bread pans) and this is why I have been in therapy for years!!
And I wanted to add headcheese too. So many don't know what it is. What years were you in that food era?
70's and 80's.
By late 80's my mom switched us to really badly made tofu dishes and pounded to death venison fried in flour and butter. I cringe thinking about it. Or the 'rabbit' stew (i.e. crockpot rabbit smothered in cream of mushroom soup) that I used to be able to tolerate until I found out at one point it was actually squirrel depending on what my dad and brothers caught that day. I think that may be child abuse or animal abuse now, but who knows
For me 60's to 70's. Sounds like you were or are southern folks. The only rabbit we had was from the store and I just couldn't put it in my mouth.
The only wild we were close to was wild collard
greens. Parents had to have stomachs pumped after they ate it...we kids did not touch that green stuff....good thing!0 -
Pickled pigs feet.....fried bologna sandwiches..........beef tongue out of the pressure cooker....
Totally nailed my childhood right there. Add in some head cheese sandwiches instead of bolonga (think whole head of some farm animal boiling on stove and gelatinizing in bread pans) and this is why I have been in therapy for years!!
And I wanted to add headcheese too. So many don't know what it is. What years were you in that food era?
70's and 80's.
By late 80's my mom switched us to really badly made tofu dishes and pounded to death venison fried in flour and butter. I cringe thinking about it. Or the 'rabbit' stew (i.e. crockpot rabbit smothered in cream of mushroom soup) that I used to be able to tolerate until I found out at one point it was actually squirrel depending on what my dad and brothers caught that day. I think that may be child abuse or animal abuse now, but who knows
For me 60's to 70's. Sounds like you were or are southern folks. The only rabbit we had was from the store and I just couldn't put it in my mouth.
The only wild we were close to was wild collard
greens. Parents had to have stomachs pumped after they ate it...we kids did not touch that green stuff....good thing!
Plenty of my relatives were eating game, including rabbits and squirrels, in rural Michigan in 1960s-70s and beyond. My dad was too soft-hearted to hunt if he didn't absolutely have to, but I occasionally ate rabbits/squirrels/deer others had shot, while growing up. I knew poor college students who ate those things in the 1970s, too. I suspect some of my rural cousins still eat small game. It was something hard-working poor and working class people did/do there.0 -
Chicken steppers - the actual feet with the toes and toe nails. Not bad tasting, but I wouldn't do it now.
Love Chinese chicken feet served for dim sum. Marinated and steamed w/salted black beans and some jalepenos. Yum but they do chop the toe nails off. LOL!
Also consider beef tongue and head cheese mentioned previously as delicacies.
Sometimes still make beef tongue but ehat use to be a very cheap throwaway piece of offal is not more expensive per # than a NY strip steak.
Don't see headcheese offered anywhere near where I live but use to eat it regularly as sandwich meat. When I see it in a deli now, it too is marked much higher than I think it's worth.
Was never a big fan of pigs feet (pickled or not) but one of the specialty winter dishes I cook is a pigs tail and black eyed pea soup, which is delish.
Nothing gross or unhealthy to me about any of these dishes but I'm sure there are those who can't fathom eating any such things.
We all have different eating preferences, based largely our upbringing and culinary experiences. So, there is no accounting for taste.
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When I was little my mom made me chocolate soup, which was just microwaved chocolate chips with cold chocolate chips added after, honestly I didn't even like it and I don't understand why my mom thought is was a good idea.1
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I don’t think anyone mentioned Sunny D yet! Omg - I can still remember the commercials!
Otherwise, gushers fruit snacks, fruit roll ups, hamburger helper, goober grape pb&j, Hershey’s syrup, and little Debbie or tastykake fruit pies... wouldn’t touch any of these again!
Thick slab of butter on plain white bread with spaghetti though... that’s legit!0 -
This souns gross but its not.
BLOODPUDDING!!
Its a Swedish thing. Soooo good.0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Ha, my mum was a TERRIBLE cook, and her ideas about school lunches, awful. I was about 7 years old, opened my lunch box to find: sandwiches with a filling of sheep brains and mashed pumpkin. This was truly formative...I'm vegan now
Okay, this is the first thing in this thread that really grossed me out. I thought I'd heard it all . . .
I saw my parents eat fish eyes, but I never had any myself.0 -
Mom made me:
• Chicken Dino’s
• Bologne-mayo-Chedder-cheese sandwich
• Kraft Mac N Cheese
• Spaghettios
• Fishsticks
But she would also make amazing dishes like her homemade chili, lasagne, cornbread, coffee cake, quesadillas...
And then I would make myself awful things like:
• Wheaties with spoonfuls of sugar
• Omelettes filled with cream cheese
• Cinnamon-sugar whitebread toast
• Nachos made with whatever I could find in the house
• Hot pockets
Guess none of my stuff is as bad as what I’m reading from other people, though!0 -
Otherwise, gushers fruit snacks, fruit roll ups, hamburger helper, goober grape pb&j, Hershey’s syrup, and little Debbie or tastykake fruit pies... wouldn’t touch any of these again!
Goober was delicious!
My younger sister loved Gushers, she was obsessed with them when she was a kid, so I had them a few times back then. I bought some about a year ago to see if they’re anything like I remember them, and they’re really, really gross.
One treat we had growing up was Jos Louis cakes. My grandfather used to buy them for us when they were expired and on clearance so they were extremely stale, making a horrible cake even more horrible.0 -
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We had something called Bakes - mainly a combo of flour, sugar, and water - fried in oil.0
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