It's supposed to be corned beef and cabbage. There'll be a lot of that served up today. Every bar will smell like boiled cabbage and green beer farts. Places to avoid. So, what's the worst meal you ever had served to you?
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My boyfriend and his son went camping and they wanted to share their dinner with me....so they boiled macaroni noodles and poured tomato soup over it....I ate it....because they were excited to share...but DAMN......
My Mom`s boiled dinner. OMG! She would boil everything together in the same pot. Cabbage, onions, carrots, potatoes, and corned beef. Everything tasted like cabbage.
So I changed it when I became an adult. Corned beef boiled alone. Potatoes boiled alone. Carrots boiled alone. Cabbage and Onion shredded and fried with salt and pepper. Yummy!
My ex boyfriend was from Albania. His parents came over for a few months and his mom would often make us dinner. One night they gave me a bowl of soup. To be polite I began eating it. It tasted terrible and I began to question what the "meat" in it was. I began looking closer at what I was finding on my spoon and by the looks of it I would seriously say it was bits of heart. I assume cow or sheep but ugghh..I don't know. I asked the ex what it was and he paused, thought a bit and said it was pork, as if he was trying to hide it's real identity. If it was pork then I must be the Queen of England.
My monster-in-law's "party chicken bake," a hideous mixture of cream of mushroom soup, chicken breast, and minute rice. I am sure there is a way to make this so it is edible, but the way she makes it, with the cheapest possible ingredients, it's slop. I gag just thinking about that slimy mess!
Liver, (trips off my gag reflex everytime) & something I had in Mexico. I was told it was Mayan, it looked like ground beef, didn't think that the Mayans had ground beef, but hey, when in Mexico, so long as there's a good sturdy shot of Tequila on standby, why not. It tasted like salt, that was the only taste, not meat flavour or anything. I am a saltaholic, but even that was too much, I didn't eat it all & it still felt like I probably had my sodium intake for the entire year.
Years (many) ago we were living in upstate NY, and I was preg. w/my middle child. Our neighbors invited ex and me for dinner. She was a gourmet cook. While I never really got 'morning sickness' per se, she made a greek dish, Moussaka, with lamb. My ex is over ther shoving it down, and I'm trying everything I can think of to keep from throwing up at the table. I couldn't get it down, I played it off as just feeling yucky from the pregnancy. But, it was really the smell of that lamb that had been cooking. Ugh, and I really do like lamb chops.
Burnt chili from a truck stop -worst thing I've ever been served. I actually walked out mid-meal and went through McD's drive-thru on the way home. A week later the truck stop "restaurant" went out of business (closed by health inspectors, maybe?) I should have known better when the "cook" came out to the dining room with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and asked me how I liked the chili! What???
Our friends invited us over for jambalaya. I was excited because we love Creole. What we got was NOT jambalaya. Oh yes, she was calling it that but that stuff was just plain ol' nasty in a bowl poured over rice. Blech! Her family was chomping it down like it was manna from heaven. We just kept looking at each other to see who was going to take a second bite first. We were daring each other through eye contact. We laugh about it now but ever since then, we always have other engagements when asked over for dinner.
Everytime I would eat over my former friends house for dinner (and I learned real quick not to be there at dinnertime)...Later on,it was a race to the house driving because of the urgent stomach cramps and spasms that were telling me that dinner needed to make a hasty exit and I aint talking throw up. LOL
After a hideous dinner at a friend's house, she managed to top herself by serving pumpkin pie without spices or sugar with whipped cream without sweetening or flavouring of any kind. I don't know if it was the actual squash mush in pastry that was bad or the expectation of dessert gone horribly wrong that scarred me for life.
I will never ever like glands or organ meats specifically kidneys. If you have to prepare something extensively to remove the urine even before you start to prepare it for consumption then maybe you shouldn't be eating it. Urine. Not for consumption unless under extreme circumstances.
Aside from that, I've tried many exotic things and have been pleasantly surprised. I can't get my mind around persimmons, however I will try them some day. I work with a lot of Filipino people and they threaten to bring me back Balut when they visit the Philippines . Fortunately for me it is not allowed in Canada or I'd be obligated to try it. *shudders*
I follow this blog called The Sneeze where one of the things he does is try weird food. Some of the things seem ordinary to me but if you go to this link http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ and scroll down 2/5 of the page you will find an entry for Cuitlacoche. Ew....just...ew.
Anyway...off topic a bit but did I miss something? I've noticed Enrique writes very much like Jarhead. Then DD quotes something Enrique says and calls him Jar... has anyone seen them in the same room together at the same time? Please clue me in if anyone feels inclined.
Frimmy, I think they are the same person. I think it might have been addressed on some post or another, but I don't remember where.
As for worst food, my mom and I were on vacation in Greece about 27 years ago. At the end of a meal, I decided to have some strawberry ice cream. It took the guy a long time, but it tasted good. I got to looking a little closer at the strawberry seeds sprinkled throughout, and suddenly realized it was small flies and some sort of larvae. The guy spoke very little English, but I think he got the idea how upset I was. To make it worse, on the way out, my mom told me she thought that it had taken him so long to serve it because he had been scraping the worst of the infestation off.
I had to work today, so I fixed corned beef and cabbage yesterday. When Andy was little, I decided that we would be Irish on every St. Patrick's Day, and so I've served the same menu ever since. Along with the corned beef and cabbage, we have red potatoes, and I make a soda bread, and green cupcakes with mini semi-sweet chocolate morsels with cream cheese frosting. The guys love it, and had leftovers for dinner today. Heidi, I think that what you are describing is similar to what my Fanny Farmer cookbook calls a New England boiled dinner. They fix it a little different, though. You cook the meat, then add the potatoes, and carrots to it, and cook beets separately. Then add turnips, and when they are all done, remove the meat and veggies, and cook the cabbage in the seasoned water for about 3 minutes. I think you aren't really supposed to cook everything in the cabbage water. You're right. Everything would taste like cabbage if you did it the other way.
Explanation. I never posted on any website other than this one before in my life.
My sister told me about DD's years ago when John Graziano was in the hospital and showed me the picture. It made me very sad and I impulsively wrote about how I felt about him and how proud I was to work/have worked with men and women like him.
I signed off as "jarhead"-a title given to Marines like "Devil dog", or "Leatherneck".
It made me feel better to unload a little, so I wrote here; and only here with exception to Crabbie's once in a while.
My name is Enrique, Jarhead is my nom de plume. Happy to be here.
Worst thing I ever ate were peas covered in whipped cream. I was about 5 years old and eating dinner at my best friend's house. They were members of the clean plate club. My parents, not so much. Of course they made almost the same thing all the time and wouldn't make anything they wouldn't eat anyway. So I am sitting there as the last person at the table and my friend's dad is staring me down. I have to finish my peas. Not just try them, finish them. I said my parents don't make me eat anything I don't want. He said well this is my house and my rules. Whatever. So we sat there and sat there. It was a test of wills. After some time he got really mad and told me one way or another I was eating those peas. I continued to stand my ground. Next thing I know, he gets a can of whipped cream from the fridge and covers the peas so you can't even tell there were peas on the plate. So I caved in and ate them. The most awful taste. To this day I will NOT eat peas and whipped cream makes me gag.
As an aside, not long after the "incident", my best friend's dad had a stroke in his sleep and died. Probably six months after that, her mother moved her and her brother 45 minutes away. I only saw her a few times after that and just recently reconnected with her on Facebook. And no, I haven't brought it up with her yet.
Frimmy this is Kiki :) from Toronto Canada I have to accept most of the confusion about Enrique /jarhead. Due to my curiosity in getting jarheads real name revealed to be Enrique and hence all the new name attached to his posts. Yes his writing style is still the same and Im to blame for continuing to address him by his lovely name of Spanish derivation on his moms side - Enrique :) it makes him more real and tangible on this plane we call cyberspace.-Kiki:)
Hello Enrique hope you don't mind me elaborating on said subject. I will speak to you soon. - Kiki :) Ps I'm back from Montreal now.
Bayou Jane did you get the new pix I sent you yesterday ? Hope you did & let me know if u need a good hush puppy recipe Justins is the best one I've tried. Damn those hush puppies are good !-Kiki :)
DD and everyone else here a belated HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY ! - Kiki :) Slainte Cheers & Salute to all my friends ! I hope you all had time to take in a wee bit of the spirit of your choice even if you don't drink alcohol please enjoy the spirit of a life! Kiki :)
Frimmy this is Kiki :) from Toronto Canada I have to accept most of the confusion about Enrique /jarhead. Due to my curiosity in getting jarheads real name revealed to be Enrique and hence all the new name attached to his posts. Yes his writing style is still the same and Im to blame for continuing to address him by his lovely name of Spanish derivation on his moms side - Enrique :) it makes him more real and tangible on this plane we call cyberspace.-Kiki:)
Hello Enrique hope you don't mind me elaborating on said subject. I will speak to you soon. - Kiki :) Ps I'm back from Montreal now.
Bayou Jane did you get the new pix I sent you yesterday ? Hope you did & let me know if u need a good hush puppy recipe Justins is the best one I've tried. Damn those hush puppies are good !-Kiki :)
DD and everyone else here a belated HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY ! - Kiki :) Slainte Cheers & Salute to all my friends ! I hope you all had time to take in a wee bit of the spirit of your choice even if you don't drink alcohol please enjoy the spirit of a life! Kiki :)
Well I did it again I got so caught up with st paddy that I forgot to answer the food ? Ok now I have eaten strange things on my travels tripe -yikky brain- " intestines-ditto snake soup - not too bad oddly enough if my memory serves me correctly and my tastbuds too that is. Funny Im not afraid of snakes but I don't particularly like them really but I have eaten snake. Wow what a post this is like a recall of a gastronomical delecacies. ( 20 years ago in the capital of china then known as Peking ,now it has taken on it's modern name of Bejing)
miss Tia go ahead and say it ---- ---- !
I can't stand brussel sprouts but love cabbage ?! I think sour cream is repulsive and love butter ! The most delicious cut of meat I have eaten and it is rather strange to reveal it so please don't be upset or flip out but horse meat is wondermous ! There is only one caution if u ever taste it be warned that it will never leave you. You will want to have it again and the taste is increadible ! I know it is a strange dish to have but all I can say is this & that is all&I cannot reveal where or how many times I've had it ( by that sentence alone it is more than once obviously and water is wet Kiki 8•)duhhh?! lol ) I'm sorry I just kracked myself up just now. Funny how the strangest things you eat may surprise you with the flavour and actually taste quite good. Wow what a great post topic DD :) thank you! -Kiki :)
I don't think I can handle Jar "more real and tangible". He's already too much awesomeness in his cyber incarnation.
Sully upon introducing himself to the Navi: "I was a marine. A warrior... of the uh... Jarhead Clan" - Avatar (that got one of the biggest laughs out of me)
K, so anyway thanks bringing me up to speed. I'm Frimmy, short for Frimminjim. A Wizard of Id reference. That's all. Can we have a thread about bad drivers?
Frimmy nice photo :) your very pretty . I prefer him this way & ita yes he is indeed awesome. I just read a book he suggested ( Born To Run ) wow what a journey all initiated by a sharp invisible ice pick stabbing pain in the authors foot. Btw Thank you Enrique. I enjoyed that read. Kiki :)
It's supposed to be corned beef and cabbage. There'll be a lot of that served up today. Every bar will smell like boiled cabbage and green beer farts. Places to avoid. So, what's the worst meal you ever had served to you?
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My boyfriend and his son went camping and they wanted to share their dinner with me....so they boiled macaroni noodles and poured tomato soup over it....I ate it....because they were excited to share...but DAMN......
Daphne
I do have corned beef and cabbage in the crock pot cooking! Woop-woop!! Dutch oven tonight!!
Balut (Filipino fermented duck egg).
That one brings up an unpleasant memory involving street corners, diseased dogs, warm beer, a massage and a few vaccines.
Enrique
Something snark's boyfriend, Dave, couldn't eat with his hands or with his rolled up paper plate?
tongue sandwich, blood sausage, haggis, lutefisk, duck, and snails.
Jar, "That one brings up an unpleasant memory involving street corners, diseased dogs, warm beer, a massage and a few vaccines."
You've had my mom's cooking then?
Daphne, LMAO. Ahhh, kid cooking.
My Mom`s boiled dinner. OMG! She would boil everything together in the same pot. Cabbage, onions, carrots, potatoes, and corned beef. Everything tasted like cabbage.
So I changed it when I became an adult. Corned beef boiled alone. Potatoes boiled alone. Carrots boiled alone.
Cabbage and Onion shredded and fried with salt and pepper. Yummy!
I am making it today.
Corned Beef Brisket and Colcannon! oh, and some good rye bread! yummy and cheap!
bima xxoo.
p.s. pat I love you!!
My ex boyfriend was from Albania. His parents came over for a few months and his mom would often make us dinner. One night they gave me a bowl of soup. To be polite I began eating it. It tasted terrible and I began to question what the "meat" in it was. I began looking closer at what I was finding on my spoon and by the looks of it I would seriously say it was bits of heart. I assume cow or sheep but ugghh..I don't know. I asked the ex what it was and he paused, thought a bit and said it was pork, as if he was trying to hide it's real identity. If it was pork then I must be the Queen of England.
I've never had corned beef and it looks yucky so I won't try it. I will drink green beer though. :)
My monster-in-law's "party chicken bake," a hideous mixture of cream of mushroom soup, chicken breast, and minute rice. I am sure there is a way to make this so it is edible, but the way she makes it, with the cheapest possible ingredients, it's slop.
I gag just thinking about that slimy mess!
Liver, (trips off my gag reflex everytime) & something I had in Mexico. I was told it was Mayan, it looked like ground beef, didn't think that the Mayans had ground beef, but hey, when in Mexico, so long as there's a good sturdy shot of Tequila on standby, why not. It tasted like salt, that was the only taste, not meat flavour or anything. I am a saltaholic, but even that was too much, I didn't eat it all & it still felt like I probably had my sodium intake for the entire year.
Years (many) ago we were living in upstate NY, and I was preg. w/my middle child. Our neighbors invited ex and me for dinner. She was a gourmet cook. While I never really got 'morning sickness' per se, she made a greek dish, Moussaka, with lamb. My ex is over ther shoving it down, and I'm trying everything I can think of to keep from throwing up at the table. I couldn't get it down, I played it off as just feeling yucky from the pregnancy. But, it was really the smell of that lamb that had been cooking. Ugh, and I really do like lamb chops.
Burnt chili from a truck stop -worst thing I've ever been served. I actually walked out mid-meal and went through McD's drive-thru on the way home. A week later the truck stop "restaurant" went out of business (closed by health inspectors, maybe?) I should have known better when the "cook" came out to the dining room with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth and asked me how I liked the chili!
What???
Our friends invited us over for jambalaya. I was excited because we love Creole. What we got was NOT jambalaya. Oh yes, she was calling it that but that stuff was just plain ol' nasty in a bowl poured over rice. Blech! Her family was chomping it down like it was manna from heaven. We just kept looking at each other to see who was going to take a second bite first. We were daring each other through eye contact. We laugh about it now but ever since then, we always have other engagements when asked over for dinner.
Everytime I would eat over my former friends house for dinner (and I learned real quick not to be there at dinnertime)...Later on,it was a race to the house driving because of the urgent stomach cramps and spasms that were telling me that dinner needed to make a hasty exit and I aint talking throw up. LOL
After a hideous dinner at a friend's house, she managed to top herself by serving pumpkin pie without spices or sugar with whipped cream without sweetening or flavouring of any kind. I don't know if it was the actual squash mush in pastry that was bad or the expectation of dessert gone horribly wrong that scarred me for life.
I will never ever like glands or organ meats specifically kidneys. If you have to prepare something extensively to remove the urine even before you start to prepare it for consumption then maybe you shouldn't be eating it. Urine. Not for consumption unless under extreme circumstances.
Aside from that, I've tried many exotic things and have been pleasantly surprised. I can't get my mind around persimmons, however I will try them some day. I work with a lot of Filipino people and they threaten to bring me back Balut when they visit the Philippines . Fortunately for me it is not allowed in Canada or I'd be obligated to try it. *shudders*
I follow this blog called The Sneeze where one of the things he does is try weird food. Some of the things seem ordinary to me but if you go to this link http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/ and scroll down 2/5 of the page you will find an entry for Cuitlacoche. Ew....just...ew.
Anyway...off topic a bit but did I miss something? I've noticed Enrique writes very much like Jarhead. Then DD quotes something Enrique says and calls him Jar... has anyone seen them in the same room together at the same time? Please clue me in if anyone feels inclined.
Frimmy, I think they are the same person. I think it might have been addressed on some post or another, but I don't remember where.
As for worst food, my mom and I were on vacation in Greece about 27 years ago. At the end of a meal, I decided to have some strawberry ice cream. It took the guy a long time, but it tasted good. I got to looking a little closer at the strawberry seeds sprinkled throughout, and suddenly realized it was small flies and some sort of larvae. The guy spoke very little English, but I think he got the idea how upset I was. To make it worse, on the way out, my mom told me she thought that it had taken him so long to serve it because he had been scraping the worst of the infestation off.
I had to work today, so I fixed corned beef and cabbage yesterday. When Andy was little, I decided that we would be Irish on every St. Patrick's Day, and so I've served the same menu ever since. Along with the corned beef and cabbage, we have red potatoes, and I make a soda bread, and green cupcakes with mini semi-sweet chocolate morsels with cream cheese frosting. The guys love it, and had leftovers for dinner today.
Heidi, I think that what you are describing is similar to what my Fanny Farmer cookbook calls a New England boiled dinner. They fix it a little different, though. You cook the meat, then add the potatoes, and carrots to it, and cook beets separately. Then add turnips, and when they are all done, remove the meat and veggies, and cook the cabbage in the seasoned water for about 3 minutes. I think you aren't really supposed to cook everything in the cabbage water. You're right. Everything would taste like cabbage if you did it the other way.
Hi Frimmy!
Explanation. I never posted on any website other than this one before in my life.
My sister told me about DD's years ago when John Graziano was in the hospital and showed me the picture. It made me very sad and I impulsively wrote about how I felt about him and how proud I was to work/have worked with men and women like him.
I signed off as "jarhead"-a title given to Marines like "Devil dog", or "Leatherneck".
It made me feel better to unload a little, so I wrote here; and only here with exception to Crabbie's once in a while.
My name is Enrique, Jarhead is my nom de plume. Happy to be here.
Worst thing I ever ate were peas covered in whipped cream. I was about 5 years old and eating dinner at my best friend's house. They were members of the clean plate club. My parents, not so much. Of course they made almost the same thing all the time and wouldn't make anything they wouldn't eat anyway. So I am sitting there as the last person at the table and my friend's dad is staring me down. I have to finish my peas. Not just try them, finish them. I said my parents don't make me eat anything I don't want. He said well this is my house and my rules. Whatever. So we sat there and sat there. It was a test of wills. After some time he got really mad and told me one way or another I was eating those peas. I continued to stand my ground. Next thing I know, he gets a can of whipped cream from the fridge and covers the peas so you can't even tell there were peas on the plate. So I caved in and ate them. The most awful taste. To this day I will NOT eat peas and whipped cream makes me gag.
As an aside, not long after the "incident", my best friend's dad had a stroke in his sleep and died. Probably six months after that, her mother moved her and her brother 45 minutes away. I only saw her a few times after that and just recently reconnected with her on Facebook. And no, I haven't brought it up with her yet.
Frimmy this is Kiki :) from Toronto Canada
I have to accept most of the confusion about
Enrique /jarhead. Due to my curiosity in getting
jarheads real name revealed to be Enrique and
hence all the new name attached to his posts.
Yes his writing style is still the same and Im to
blame for continuing to address him by his
lovely name of Spanish derivation on his moms
side - Enrique :) it makes him more real and
tangible on this plane we call cyberspace.-Kiki:)
Hello Enrique hope you don't mind me elaborating
on said subject. I will speak to you soon. - Kiki :)
Ps I'm back from Montreal now.
Bayou Jane did you get the new pix I sent you
yesterday ? Hope you did & let me know if u need
a good hush puppy recipe Justins is the best one
I've tried. Damn those hush puppies are good !-Kiki :)
DD and everyone else here a belated
HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY !
- Kiki :)
Slainte Cheers & Salute to all my friends !
I hope you all had time to take in a wee bit of
the spirit of your choice even if you don't drink
alcohol please enjoy the spirit of a life! Kiki :)
Frimmy this is Kiki :) from Toronto Canada
I have to accept most of the confusion about
Enrique /jarhead. Due to my curiosity in getting
jarheads real name revealed to be Enrique and
hence all the new name attached to his posts.
Yes his writing style is still the same and Im to
blame for continuing to address him by his
lovely name of Spanish derivation on his moms
side - Enrique :) it makes him more real and
tangible on this plane we call cyberspace.-Kiki:)
Hello Enrique hope you don't mind me elaborating
on said subject. I will speak to you soon. - Kiki :)
Ps I'm back from Montreal now.
Bayou Jane did you get the new pix I sent you
yesterday ? Hope you did & let me know if u need
a good hush puppy recipe Justins is the best one
I've tried. Damn those hush puppies are good !-Kiki :)
DD and everyone else here a belated
HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY !
- Kiki :)
Slainte Cheers & Salute to all my friends !
I hope you all had time to take in a wee bit of
the spirit of your choice even if you don't drink
alcohol please enjoy the spirit of a life! Kiki :)
Well I did it again I got so caught up with
st paddy that I forgot to answer the food ?
Ok now I have eaten strange things on my travels
tripe -yikky
brain- "
intestines-ditto
snake soup - not too bad oddly enough
if my memory serves me correctly and my
tastbuds too that is. Funny Im not afraid of snakes
but I don't particularly like them really but I
have eaten snake. Wow what a post this is
like a recall of a gastronomical delecacies.
( 20 years ago in the capital of china
then known as Peking ,now it has taken on
it's modern name of Bejing)
miss Tia go ahead and say it ---- ---- !
I can't stand brussel sprouts but love cabbage ?!
I think sour cream is repulsive and love butter !
The most delicious cut of meat I have eaten and
it is rather strange to reveal it so please don't
be upset or flip out but horse meat is wondermous !
There is only one caution if u ever taste it be warned
that it will never leave you. You will want to have
it again and the taste is increadible ! I know it
is a strange dish to have but all I can say is this &
that is all&I cannot reveal where or how many times
I've had it ( by that sentence alone it is more than
once obviously and water is wet Kiki 8•)duhhh?! lol )
I'm sorry I just kracked myself up just now. Funny
how the strangest things you eat may surprise you
with the flavour and actually taste quite good. Wow
what a great post topic DD :) thank you! -Kiki :)
I like Brussel sprouts, artichokes, radishes with butter, green beans/peas,spinach, cabbage, I eat all that stuff and like it.
Turkish figs and Dates are also always in my fridge.
Jarhead
I don't think I can handle Jar "more real and tangible". He's already too much awesomeness in his cyber incarnation.
Sully upon introducing himself to the Navi: "I was a marine. A warrior... of the uh... Jarhead Clan" - Avatar (that got one of the biggest laughs out of me)
K, so anyway thanks bringing me up to speed. I'm Frimmy, short for Frimminjim. A Wizard of Id reference. That's all. Can we have a thread about bad drivers?
MuserMommyinPA I'm shocked that anyone would subject someone else's kid to their weird family eating rules. It's all kinds of wrong.
Frimmy nice photo :) your very pretty .
I prefer him this way & ita yes he is
indeed awesome. I just read a book
he suggested ( Born To Run ) wow what
a journey all initiated by a sharp invisible ice
pick stabbing pain in the authors foot. Btw
Thank you Enrique. I enjoyed that read. Kiki :)
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