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    Food growing up

    I was raised on a farm by my grandparents.
    One thing was for sure money could be in low supply but food was not.
    We had cattle pigs chickens rabbits ducks .
    We didnt eat a lot of beef as it was the farms money maker . but chicken pork and rabbit were in good supply for our dinner table. Lots of veggies in the summer and canned goods in the winter we made ourselfs. We made our own buttet maple suryp and vinegar and oil with greens were common table fare.
    Red eye gravy vegtable with a tomato base and a bit of hamburger.lots of cornbread biscuits.ocasi9nally some bologna or Goose liver for sandwichs from the store. We made our own icecream our own wine and moonshine apple butter .
    We kept our surplus eggs in 5 gallon bucks with water and hydrated lime in the root celler where they would stay fresh for a year so we had eggs during the winter.
    We cured and smoked our own hams and sides of bacon for year round use.
    Even as a little kid I had to jelp feed critters make butter work in the garden carry in wood and coal for the cook stove and coal heating stove .
    When I say kid im talking from about the age of 5.

    Kids today really have no clue what life was like and are often spoiled not knowing discipline or work .

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    I loved growing up on a small farm. Yes a lot of work and yes we always had food. Foods I still hate to this day: Apple pie, turnip greens, collard greens, potato salad, fresh water fish, fruitcake, and dads pickles, they tasted like kerosene. If I am somewhere and a person makes this, I will eat it but can't stand them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by roadmaster View Post
    I loved growing up on a small farm. Yes a lot of work and yes we always had food. Foods I still hate to this day: Apple pie, turnip greens, collard greens, potato salad, fresh water fish, fruitcake, and dads pickles, they tasted like kerosene. If I am somewhere and a person makes this, I will eat it but can't stand them.
    I get a kick out of the term soul food , its thought by many to be a black thing and black people did contribute to it, but its actually poor people food .
    growing up we ate a lot of pork the beef was mainly raised for a cash crop.
    we used the entire pig . one of my favorite things was when we rendered the fat down to make lard was the cracklings , most people today have no clue how good that was . my grandfather use the used about ever chunk of the pig.
    greens were a common table fare as you mentioned . and we caned a root cellar full of vegetables kept hams and sides of bacon in it that we cured and smoked canned meats we kept a bunch of potatoes and squash in there .
    I loved butter nut squash baked with some homemade maple syrup on it.
    we sold a lot of syrup also

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    Well it's just not farm work. We grew up on herbs. My favorite is pineapple sage tea. But we know how to go into the woods instead of grocery stores and find things.

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    I grew up as a city kid in Houston.

    Crappy store bought bread that would start to get crusty only after five minutes.
    Put crappy bologna on it with crappy mayo and you have my daily lunch. Only the sweet relish on it made it edible.
    We would compare our metal lunch boxes and once I was the coolest kid because i had a RAT PATROL lunch box and no one else did.

    26 cents would get me a plate lunch of hot food but only one tiny carton of milk.
    Even so I loved the meatloaf they had and the chocolate cake was always yummy.
    They didn't use any tomato sauce on the meatloaf and that was fine with me.

    Get home and it was always margarine with butter only at Thanksgiving.
    More cheap crappy bread to put some cheap crappy lunch meat on.
    Canned vegetables were just plopped in a pot and heated. No attempt to spice them up was ever done.
    Few things are nastier than canned spinach with no "doctoring up".

    "Remember, David, kids your age are starving in Europe, so eat up and clean your plate" !!!
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    I grew up in the swamps of Louisiana very close to the salt water marshes. We fished most of the year so we ate fish 3-4 days a week. Mostly salt water fish- speckled trout, red fish, flounder. But sometimes fresh water- catfish and bass.
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    I ate food from a grocery store. My mother cooked it. Meat, vegetables and fruit. Mostly for dessert we would have ice cream with crushed nuts and cottees chocolate syrup. You know what I used to like is that Ice Magic syrup that goes hard on the ice cream after you put it on. I liked the choc mint Ice Magic.

    One time when my mother was in hospital after giving birth to one of my sisters my dad kept cooking fish fingers/fish sticks and I hate them but apparently I didnt want to hurt his feelings or something so since I was eating my dinner in the loungeroom while watching tv I hid the fish fingers under the lounge. When my parents found my hidden fish fingers my dad thought it was hilarious. He said to me - dont you like fish fingers? And I said no.

    I never really had any chores when I was a kid. But sometimes I would help my dad do stuff. Like he used to cut firewood for our fireplace on weekends in the winter sometimes and I would help him do that. Well we would take my dirtbike out to where ever he was going to cut the wood and I would ride it around while he cut up a fallen tree with a chainsaw and then when he was finished I would help him load it onto the trailer. I would do stuff like that for him. But I never had any regular chores. Oh yeah I would carry firewood to house and stack it. And I used to like to split firewood too.

    edit - My mother used to make a face on my plate from the food when I was little.
    Last edited by TheOneOnly2; 10-15-2020 at 07:41 AM.

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    Like retiredsmilin I was a city raised.
    Spaghetti, boiled hot dogs, occasional TV dinner, bologna sandwiches, pizza. As a kid, I think we rejected anything green that came with the school lunch. School was where we experimented. I still have no idea what those crunchy black things in our Salisbury Steaks were, but they could chip a tooth.

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    The food back then tasted so much better and much healthier then today's food. Younger generations raised on crappy food never knew what food was like before they were born.

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    I had a British council house upbringing, my mother was very Victorian in her ways. We didn’t eat “foreign muck” as she used to call it in our house, that meant rice, spaghetti or any pasta, wasn’t served. Only proper English food was served up, as a child for breakfast on a Monday morning (school day) I had beef dripping on hot toast, a swig of milk from the pantry as we didn’t have a fridge.
    on an evening it was chips, mash, or bubble and squeak, sausages, eggs, baked beans, my diet didn’t change much until I moved out at 19.

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