A strange thing has happened.....

[DD]

OMG!! Did you grow up in my neighborhood? I sooooo remember all this!!!!

DD!!!! U must have grown up on a DAIRY FARM in KANSAS (or mebbe a W.Texas ranch?? )... MILES from your nearest neighbor??? I grew up SOOOO country...when we got out of school in the spring...we didn't see any other kids besides "our own selves" until school "re-commenced (a Grandpa term) after silo-fillin' .!!! Silo-fillin' time AKA 'round 'bout "Labor Day" give-er-take-a rain-er-2!!
But I just gotta know....did your parents also consider Oyster Soup (disgusting: hot milk w/ grody canned oysters & a pat of butter:sick: ) every Saturday night a Livin' Large after the depression TREAT??? BLICKK!!!

West Texas when I was real little. Not a ranch, in town, but so much of what you said brought back a lot of memories!! Never had the Oyster Soup, but I did have to eat liver every week FOR SUPPER and every week I threw up afterward. My grandmother finally let me stop eating it when I was about 12.

 

[DuneAHH]

Mango which Indian restaurant in NY is your fav? I lived in NYC for 8yrs (on W.85th b/tween Columbus & CPW) and used to go to a fabulous place for northern Indian / Tandoori; that has since closed. The name escapes me...it started w/ a B. (too many years ago!) Then I started going to Dawat...but never thought it was quite as good as the other one.

Taj was a pretty good Indian restaurant in Lynn Haven...but it's closed now. A girlfriend tells me there is a good new Indian place somewhere around DT Panama City. But DON"T go to the one in Destin next to the Pier 1....yucky.

 

[DuneAHH]

West Texas when I was real little. Not a ranch, in town, but so much of what you said brought back a lot of memories!! Never had the Oyster Soup, but I did have to eat liver every week FOR SUPPER and every week I threw up afterward. My grandmother finally let me stop eating it when I was about 12.

My parents used to make us eat organ meats too (brain, tongue, heart...but LIVER is the WORST). Me & the Sibs used to have to sit at the table for HOURS passing around the ketchup bottle. We had one of those formica top tables w/ the tubular aluminum legs...my sister would shove little pieces of liver down those table legs! When Mom put a stop to stuffed table legs & finally forced Sis to eat the liver ... she promptly puked everywhere & we never had to eat it again. We were like "Dang Sis...couldn't you have blown your cookies like ... 5 YEARS AGO??"

 

[Miss Kitty]

:funn: ...Dune-Ahh, that was too funny!!!

 

[DuneAHH]

Don't know winter/summer, but north of DeFuniak the supper/dinner aspect of meal timing often comes into play. In ShallowsFuzz's grandparents' home, dinner was the big meal of the day, and it was served at noon. High noon. Always at noon. Even on Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Yep! Dinner was the big meal at NOON! Supper was always simple & light...soup in the winter & veggies in the summer. Depending on what was ripening on any given week in summer... we might ONLY have mounds & mounds of corn on the cob for supper...or JUST tomatoes & bread.

When I started eating Dinner at night I got fat!!!

 

[DD]

My parents used to make us eat organ meats too (brain, tongue, heart...but LIVER is the WORST). Me & the Sibs used to have to sit at the table for HOURS passing around the ketchup bottle. We had one of those formica top tables w/ the tubular aluminum legs...my sister would shove little pieces of liver down those table legs! When Mom put a stop to stuffed table legs & finally forced Sis to eat the liver ... she promptly puked everywhere & we never had to eat it again. We were like "Dang Sis...couldn't you have blown your cookies like ... 5 YEARS AGO??"

Table legs!!! Too funny!!!

Yep! Dinner was the big meal at NOON! Supper was always simple & light...soup in the winter & veggies in the summer. Depending on what was ripening on any given week in summer... we might ONLY have mounds & mounds of corn on the cob for supper...or JUST tomatoes & bread.

When I started eating Dinner at night I got fat!!!

Yeah, no kiddin!!! We had tons of veggies from the garden. Loved fresh tomatoes and cucumbers. I used to be a vegetarian when I was a kid...pretty much. Used to order a hamburger (on the rare occasion I got to order one) without the meat. I was skinny as a rail When I started eatin' meat, I got fat. Well, havin' kids had a little to do with it--that and then menopause and alcohol!

 

[Sheila]

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

 

[DuneAHH]

Yeah my sister's a GAS! Every time we see one of those old style tables we wet our pants 'cuz we're convinced the legs are chocked full of fossilized liver tidbits!

 

[DD]

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

Awwwww....love this story!!!

 

[DuneAHH]

Same here DD. I adored veggies of all varieties. My Nanny lived with us and would make the most wonderful vegetable soup and her potato soup was to die for. When I was pregnant with Fu-Bar I woke up craving her veggie soup. I tried to forget about it. No way! I had to have some. I hopped.....waddled to the car drove 2 hours to get to my folks house. No one home and me without a key to get in!!!!!! I would not be denied! I popped off a screen, climbed on a lawn chair, popped a window open and somehow managed to get in without killing myself and Fu-Bar in the process.

When they came home I was fast asleep at the kitchen table with a spoon in my hand, a smile on my face and a huge empty bowl in front of me.

As a side note.......Fu-bar hated veggies and thinks mac and cheese qualifies as a substitute. :roll: Go figure.

OMG!! TOO funny! This would make a great Food Channel TV show..."CRAVINGS!! HOW FAR WILL YOU GO??"