Rat problem

[Mel (& Paul)]

I LUUUUUUUUUUUURVE IT!! (not a good idea to eat it wearing a white top though........)

[Sheilaz]

Really enjoyed your story, Kooringa.

 

Food memories; Spam fritters, delicious, you don't see many of those around these days.

[Mel (& Paul)]

Thats a shame...........

[ali-s]

 

 

 

 

Is there anyone else with funny stories about things you or your grandparents or parents used to eat that might now be considered odd or yuk?

 

We used to have dripping sandwiches for tea on a Sunday this was the fat from the roast at lunch time. Hubby will not allow me to have it anymore , but I do when I go to visit my parents.

 

Also used to have tripe. Eaten raw not cooked with plenty of salt and vinegar. Lovely, yum, yum. I haven't seen tripe for sale for ages.

 

I love Beetroot too. Just as well as Hubby works for a Scottish company who produces masses of it. We get the reject jars. 12 jars for about 80p, bargin. Daughter was eating pickled Beetroot at 6 months old as a finger food. I got a nasty shock at the state of her nappy the first time she had it.

[Sheilaz]

:shock:Did you say raw tripe? Yuk.

Reminds me of a French meal; LSH & I are terrible at languages, very "pigeon French". I don't know what he thought he'd ordered but it was raw liver, not what he'd intended.

I couldn't bear to waste food so swapped, & I've never been so sick in my life.

[ali-s]

:shock:Did you say raw tripe? Yuk.

 

Yep.

 

Can't stand it cooked , it goes all slimey.

[Mel (& Paul)]

I have never had tripe - never had the guts to (ha ha sorry!)

I can imagine the beetroot nappy may have been a bit of a shock!

I got some lovely goose fat for roasties from our local butchers and he reccommended it spread on hot toast with salt and pepper. I can just hear my arteries hardening..

[Nicola H]

Kooringa what a good mum you were to your siblings .......I loved your story.

 

My grandma always used to have tripe on a Saturday as a special treat, she also used to cook ox tongue and slice it to put on sandwiches. I loved it until she showed me the tongue before it was cooked and told me which animal it belonged to I never ate it again after that...........She had a massive heart attack at the age of 64 no wonder after all that fatty food......Tripe was always followed by fresh cream cakes......She died happy and lived her life to the full...

[Guest]

That's the way to go Nicola - How nice.

 

Change of thought - did you know that you can get white beetroot I grew it last year, and it tastes wonderful - you don't get red marks on everything, it is wonderful boiled, roasted, pickled, grated raw, in curries, stews, and it stays white!

 

Guess who is going to buy 2 packets of seeds this year!

 

I used to eat tongue that my M I Law served up it was a nice - sliced thinly - but then I too saw the big grey furry tongue, it makes me cringe thinking of it.

 

 

It's great hearing all your foodie memories.

 

My M I Law (the one who showed me how to make bread pudding, declaring that it really cleaned out your nails and cleaned your hands) She used to drain the fat and juices from the roasts and poured them into a big glass bowl. This never used to get washed out, but added to and used as needed. It ended up in varying shades of brown and cream and yellow - like one of those souvenirs you get with all the different Isle of Wight coloured sands! She lived to a to a ripe old age. Even though the roast potatoes were under a couple of inches of this fat and dripping - all her life! And she never had an artery problem!

[The Dogmother]

Ugghhh, the talk of all this fat is making me queasy!

 

My Italian grandpa used to kill and eat songbirds, he also liked pigs trotters and all sorts of offal including 'lights' or lungs. How disgusting is that? am not the slightest bit squeamish, just don't like eating it. I stop at liver (beans and a nice bottle of chianti!)

 

Cooorrr, Anthony Hopkins