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Costacat

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 11:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, I've got a coupla recipes for tomato soup cake. Both are spice cakes. One is a recipe from scratch, the other is one using a boxed mix. I bet you could adapt 'em for chocolate tomato soup cake.

Costacat

Friday, June 20, 2003 - 11:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
P.S. I never really liked Spam, but I liked Underwood Deviled Ham. Won't eat it now, but...

Also, we used to eat spaghetti and catsup. Apparently, my sister and I hated tomatos then, but we'd eat catsup. So my mom would make spaghetti and top it with a bit of butter and catsup. And still, to this day, when I need comfort food... (And I don't admit that to just anyone! <grin>

Sanfranjoshfan

Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 06:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I just remembered a weird thing we used to do in Texas when I was a kid. Coca Cola came in those nice glass bottles....we'd open a bottle of coke and pour in a small package of roasted salted Planters Peanuts. Each swig from the bottle would fill your mouth with cola and peanuts! It was great! In fact, now I'm nostalgic for some!

Now this MUST be considered weird in other places, right? I have never met anyone in California that used to do this.

Tabbyking

Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 06:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i am a native (northern) californian, and we did it, too...once we figured out the aspirin in the coke wasn't nearly as tasty! and kept us up all night!

Jmm

Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 08:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfranjoshfan, It's not only a Texas thing, when I was a kid in Kentucky they used to do that too.

Weinermr

Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 09:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfran,

I've never done it, but I've seen people put peanuts in a bottle of Pepsi and drink it that way. (Southern CA)

Costacat

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 04:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfran, I'm a native southern Californian, and I never even heard of drinkin' yer peanuts with yer' Pepsi until you just wrote about it. I *do* remember those Coke bottles though, and I loved those old vending machines (where you opened the door and reached in and pulled out your own bottle).

Cathie

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 05:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
...and it only cost a dime, right? :)

Texasdeb

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 05:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Never put peanuts in the coke - lots of people did though. I always eat all of my fries 1st & then my burger follows - whether it's p/u or made @ home. Just can't stand to eat cold fries but cold burgers don't bother me. Anyone ever make tuna patties? I make them just like most folks make salmon patties except sub. canned tuna. Pretty good - I usually add more spices because tuna is a little blander than salmon.

Tabbyking

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 05:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ah, yes, tuna patties, mixed with egg, crackers, spices... i also like to take left over mashed potatoes and make fish/potato patties. i got pretty creative when i was broke, but one thing i won't ever do again is buy a beef tongue for a buck and one large potato! when i was about 20 years old and living in the bronx, i was almost totally broke. i had 3 days til payday...so i bought a beef tongue (hair and all) and one huge potato and i ate sliced sauteed tongue and a piece of baked potato for each of the 3 nights.
then i flossed my teeth with the hair.....okay, that last part's an exaggeration. i actually flossed to get the hair out of my teeth!

Tabbyking

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 05:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
costacat, i am going to google the tomato soup cake thing, and see if i can find any that make a chocolate cake. otherwise, i may try a spice one!

Texasdeb

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 06:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
UGH! - Beef tongue. Never been that broke - however, I can do many things w/tuna, boxed mac & ch, & weiners. Those are broke people food IMO.

Cathie

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 08:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The only time I made/had beef tongue was in home ec class--tongue with cherry sauce. Still have the recipe in my recipe box. ugh!!!!!

Sanfranjoshfan

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 09:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Beef tongue? Eeeew! I just don't like the idea of tasting any food that might be tasting me back! :)

Tabbyking

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 10:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
tongue with cherry sauce? eeeew, that is hysterical. i made a brown gravy--can't remember how (maybe out of saliva? lol) but cherry sauce would probably have put me over the top.....i shudder just thinking about it!

and san fran, 'i takes my licks where i can get 'em'........


isn't that a Popeye-type expression?!

Redstar

Monday, July 28, 2003 - 06:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Peanut butter on hotdogs rather than ketchup. Mmmmm...

My sister always put mayo on her candied yams. Now, THAT is weird!!!!

Secretsmile

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When we were young our mother,aunts and grandmother made homemade applesauce, it was the biggest treat of the fall to eat fresh warm applesauce with M&Ms on top. Yes, the candy coating melted all over and made the ugliest looking treat but all my siblings and cousins just loved it.

When I was a young mother I made it for my children and they refused to have anything to do with it! LOL! They will just never know what they missed.

Azriel

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 07:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby ewwwwww hairy tongue, ick ick ick.

When my kids were young we lived in East Texas on a country road way out in the boondocks. The closest store was 10 miles away and we didn't have a car.(we were really poor) My husband got paid every two weeks and he would borrow the company truck and we would go into town and buy groceries.

I was very careful to make lists and get everything I would need for meals for the two weeks. We ate a lot of beans and cornbread

Anyway, one time the day before payday I realized that I had really screwed up on my grocery shopping and I had nothing to fix for supper that night. I went through my cabinets and fridge and this is all I had -

Can of ranch style beans
Flour
Yeast
A one inch square of cheddar cheese.

When my husband and brother (who lived with us) came home from work and sat down at the dinner table they said almost in unison, 'What the HELL is that??'

Well it's a bean pizza, you sillies. Eat up!

It actually tasted very good. I'm tempted to make it again...

Admin

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 01:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The topic of this thread had me ready to fill a few pages, then I realized it meant FOOD.

You guys are all really gross! Ramen noodles raw? Peanuts in Coke?

How about cold baked beans out of the can? That's about all I have to offer. Except maybe the fact that I grew up with a pear tree in the back yard. We had pear everything! My mom made pear pies, pear jelly, canned pears, dried pears...you name it. Pear pie was the best!

Kady

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 01:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ewwwwww....peanut butter on hot dogs. Yuck and double yuck.

I put sugar on my cheese toast. Would that qualify as weird?

Aus10

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 06:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The strangest thing I eat (at least my hubby thinks so) when I make waffles I cut them in half and stuff American cheese in them before the butter and syrup. Don't knock em till you try em.

The strangest thing I've ever seen cooked. My grandmother used to cook Dandelion greens..fresh out of the front yard. YCK!

And just one question...has anyone ever looked at the ingredients for potted meat. Just exactly what is partially de-fatted pork fatty tissue? How do you de fat...fat?? :D

Azriel

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ICK! Yes, Kady that's weird! Admin, your cold beans out of a can qualify. ~gag~