Those horrible dishes your Mom used to make.......

[Rebel SS]

Growing up in the 60's was crazy enough, as if putting up with those stupid shiny aluminum-with-the-color-wheel Christmas trees, we had to sit down to dishes like THESE at the holidays....remember?! What was the one you hated? I haveta go with #4 and #9...who the hey came up with cottage cheese and grated carrots in jello??! Timothy Leary???? "Turn on...tune in...drop out"...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/truly-upsetting-vintage-recipes?utm_term=.ho8GMAEKA#.pj41JbZAb

[dew2]

Da 60s I grew up in da 50s on a rez! An the recipe for glenns fav beans is commin to fruit right now!!
 The deer are commin out of nocturnal habit after the gun season!! They be under our cherry an apple trees at nights. We saw a few daylight the last few days.BUT anyway>>>Cowboy beans in smokie sweet tomato sauce time is here!! They are many under the trees!!!! Glenn loved em at a GTG at our place a few years back. Man their so tender smothered in that smokie tomato sauce warmed up just before they break down to the grasses eaten.
 I have the recipe if anyone wants it??

[glenn57]

Dang straight! Post er up!

[Dotch]

Good gawd Reb, where did you locate some of that stuff? Yikes! 😯 I thought the Brits knew how to wreck good food.

[Rebel SS]

I had a holiday flashback, Dotch.  Shoulda included that GB casserole dish, and the pink salmon with pea and noodles hot casserole I was forced to eat, or go hungry ...

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[Rebel SS]

*ack* Had a buddy that used to bring tongue sandwiches to work all the time. When he first said he had a "tongue sandwich", I perked right up, expecting to hear about two hot sisters....  

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[ThunderLund78]

I think that it's hilarious that they suggest you glaze the potato salad in mayo to keep it moist.

1. If the potato salad has sat out long enough to "look dry" I ain't touching it.

2. If you coat a mayo-based dish in mayo to keep it fresh it will go bad in an equal amount of time.

Laughed out loud at the Bold with Bananas one.

[Rebel SS]

I bring you MORE terrible crap from the 60's I grew up in. Number eleven has GOT to be the most disgusting, horrifying, projectile-vomiting concoction I have EVER seen in my life!!!! Green beans and mushrooms in Jello!!!   
No wonder we broke away from our generation and took psychedelic inducing things! Only way we could deal with the food!!!!!!!


https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/17-horrifyingly-disgusting-retro-gelatin-recipes?utm_term=.laoX3zEen#.psqeWXDgq

[Rebel SS]

AAAAHHH!!!        

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[Dotch]

No kidding on the mayo. If I wanted get sick that'd be the first thing I'd eat.

I must've led a pretty sheltered life because there isn't too much that Mom made that I didn't like for the holidays. Of course we always had fresh eggs, chickens, beef, pork and lamb plus we had a Jersey milk cow as well as all kinds of garden and orchard stuff to consume. We were spoiled. The one thing I used to hate at family gatherings was green Kool Aid. Would just about make me hurl. Tasted like the stomach flu medicine they used to prescribe. Dad made what he called tapioca "pudding" once using Grandma's recipe during the holidays. Grandma was the same one who used rancid bacon grease to make chocolate chip cookies so that put us on red alert right there. The tapioca had to be boiled and he added dates, raisins and prunes to it if memory serves correctly. It was disgusting grey glop and he thought it was great. Did keep you regular though. Only other thing was fried parsnips. Hated them no matter what the occasion was. A waste of good butter trying to make them palatable. Ick.

[Rebel SS]

Fried parsnips?? WTH would ya wanna fry a parsnip for?! Throw 'em at the neighbor dog! Bet thing they're good for!!!!! 

[Dotch]

Made the whole house smell kinda like somebody with BO too! 

[LPS]

Speaking of green kool-aid Dotch.  When I was probably 10 or 12 my Grandma got some of that Watkins kool aid stuff.  You just put a squirt or two in your glass and wala.  She had about 4 flavors.  We kids drank as much as we could possibly hold.  Well my Grandpa was going out to the other farm with  the M Farmall.  I loved that tractor so I got to ride on the hitch.  This was about a 5 mile drive.  He just takes off in high gear and I hang on.  Did it all of the time.  Well after bouncing a mile or two I started getting sick.  I didn't want to tell Grandpa so I just hung on and puked as we drove down the road.  I remember at times a bump would bounce me in the air and my feet weren't touching the drawbar.  lol  Had to land back on it with my little feet.  Now that's living.... 

[Rebel SS]

HAHAHA! Reminds me of getting off the whirly-go-round thing at the Fillmore county fair, and blowing my hot dogs and two grape pops in front of everyone......

[lovebigbluegills]

My mom used to make fried parsnips...the thought still sends a shiver down my spine

[Rebel SS]

Another great one....anyone haveta eat that spinach out of can...soggy, wet crap that looked like seaweed....then my Mom would pour vinegar on it!!! And expect a kid to eat it! If I didn't, then straight to my room! I always chose my room. Think she woulda just gave up after seeing how I hated it. No such luck. 

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[Gunner55]

Seen some of that as a kid

[delcecchi]

Speaking of disgusting....

I remember going to bible camp on Grindstone Lake, near Hinckley.   Back about 60 years ago.   It was very low cost, and we slept in bunkhouses that were bare studs on the inside, and there were outhouses for the necessities.  I liked it because the swimming was really good, two or three times a day. 

The water was pretty high in iron, and tasted bad.  They served a lot of kool aid because it was cheap.  But the root beer kool aid made with iron water was especially disgusting.   

[Rebel SS]

Sounds like Albert lea water!! I went to a church camp in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. We got the water out of  pipe coming off a cliff above Robinson Creek. Camp and bunkhouse were built in the 30-40's. Totally rustic. I coulda lstayed there forever.  Delicious water! I remember the big metal pitchers full of kool-aid for lunch and supper made with that water. Camp is still there...I really have to go back, it's on my bucket list.

And it's still the same.....

[LPS]

Hey I LOVE that spinach in the can...  I open the can and eat it up like a salad.  Then I drink the juice...   AND I don't like to share it, I want the whole can....   When I lived in Stillwater we had a houseboat on the river.  There was this place upriver where some people would fill their jugs with water for drinking.  Someone put a piece of pvc pipe into the little spring and piled up stones around it to keep it in place.  (I have been in Water Treatment in Public Works for years at this time)  Well there were tomatoes growing where the water was coming out.  The human body does not ruin tomato seeds as we digest them.  They are just as good coming out as they were going in.  I did a little research and above us on the cliffs there was a Cul-de-Sac with about 6 houses.  I am thinking their septic systems were draining through the rocks and hence the tomato seeds.....   Yuck and who knows maybe I was wrong..  But I didn't drink the water there anymore.  Tried to get the State to test that spring and they didn't want anything to do with it.  If it was contaminated they would be responsible to regulate it I guess.   

[Rebel SS]

EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! I dunno which is worse, drinking spinach water or sh....sh.....poopy water.     

[hawg]

I worked at Harry's Cafe in downtown Mpls in 1970. Cow tongue was the Saturday special and always sold out, my God it was awful looking stuff to even handle let alone eat. German potato salad would never pass my lips either, yuck!

[Coffee118]

Every year my mother would go to Phoenix to see her sister it would give my dad a week of eating the things he wasn't aloud to eat. On his way home from the airport he would call and say I'm getting my jar of pickled sheep tongue (or as he would call them a jar of ass lickers) do I need anything. No thanks

[Rebel SS]

I worked at Harry's Cafe in downtown Mpls in 1970. Cow tongue was the Saturday special and always sold out, my God it was awful looking stuff to even handle let alone eat. German potato salad would never pass my lips either, yuck!

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AHA!! someone agrees with me!! My cuz says I'm not a good german becaused I won't eat that ...that.....stuff.  *GAG*

He takes my bean 'n ham soup and pours vinegar in it, though, the nimrod!!! 

[LPS]

Ham and Bean soup.  Now that's a good idea.  Been trying to think of something good to make this weekend. Thanks Rebs.

[Rebel SS]

Try mine, LPS! It's goooood! 

        Reb's  Bean 'n ham soup
                                                                               
1 16 oz bag of Navy or Great Northern beans
2 smoked ham hocks plus one meaty ham bone with lots of trimmings/chunks, about 2 cups or so of meat, or as desired.
1 tsp salt
½ tsp Basil or 2 Basil leaves
¼ tsp Rosemary
6-8 peppercorns
2 Qts (8 cups) water
1 large onion, chopped coarse
2-3 ribs of celery, diced small about 3/4 cup
1-2 chopped carrots, (or baby carrots),  about 1 full cup
1/8 tsp of liquid smoke
Veggies should equal 2 full cups PLUS ½ onion.
Soak beans overnight in 2 qts. of water, then drain. Combine first 7 items, and bring to a boil.  Reduce heat, and simmer covered for 2 hrs, stirring occasionally. Take out hocks and Basil leaves; remove and return to soup any meat from bones. Stir in onions, celery, carrots, ham chunks/trimmings, liquid smoke, and continue simmering, covered, for 45 mns - 1 hr. or until beans and veggies are tender. Remove cover and let soup thicken as desired.

Eat like pig.

[LPS]

Looks like I have some cooking to do.  With no Vikes on Sunday I will make some pork with one of you guys sauce and maybe the ham and bean soup to eat during the week. 

[delcecchi]

Sorry, this one has ketchup but anyway...

 Chinese-Style BBQ Sauce
From Cook's Country | August/September 2008

   

To add authentic flavors to our no-cook Chinese-Style BBQ Sauce recipe, we added chili-garlic powder and hoisin sauce, which can be found in the international aisle of most supermarkets.
Makes about 1 1/4 cups

This great-tasting, no-cook barbecue sauce can be used to baste barbecued chicken, as a condiment for grilled hamburgers, or as a finishing sauce for our Smoked Pork Loin (see related recipe).
Ingredients

    1 cup ketchup
    3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
    1 tablespoon rice vinegar
    1 tablespoon chili-garlic sauce
    1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh cilantro leaves
    1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger

Instructions

    Whisk together all ingredients in a small bowl. The sauce can be refrigerated for up to 4 days.