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Food
Jan 29, 2016 17:48:21 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 29, 2016 17:48:21 GMT -6
There have been a number of references to food on this forum in the last several days, and it has affected me. I get hungry, and I tend to think of different kinds of food. I am not talking about the usual discussions of local restaurants, I am talking about food in general. What kinds of foods do people on the forum like?
I grew up in Streator the son of North European parents who had both grown up on farms. My dad, my brothers and I, spent time working at the Drain Tile and ate the way people do who work hard. My mother prepared the kind of food that she and my dad had grown up with: large meals, meat and vegetables cooked well done. We never had any "hot" food or any ethnic foods. I never complained. There was plenty of food, and that was enough for me.
Over the years, I ended up eating a great variety of food; and food cooked very differently than what I had eaten at home. For example. the first meal I ate at my future inlaws, I remarked that the meat was very good. When I asked what I was eating, my future mother-in-law sweetly said: "Roast beef." Because we had roast beef every Sunday when I was a kid, I was surprised. I am sure that I made a great impression of my future inlaws.
In any event, I am curious as to what type of food people on the forum like and when they developed that liking.
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Jan 29, 2016 18:03:11 GMT -6
Post by dive61364 on Jan 29, 2016 18:03:11 GMT -6
since I was raised on a farm in Kentucky we ate a large breakfast of eggs, fried potatoes, biscuits, sausage gravy and milk about every morning. lunch if and when we had that was a cold sandwich and a piece of fruit. supper usually was a large meal with what ever we raised in the garden, slaughtered during the year or shot while hunting. when I got older my tastes change drastically. today I love steak, prime rib, lobster, crab and almost anything from the sea. the only thing I have eaten that I hate is liver and onions with a passion. being a hillbilly living in the country we ate whatever crawled, swam, flew or slithered on the ground.
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Post by roman on Jan 29, 2016 18:40:21 GMT -6
I only had liver once. Because my father hated it, we never had it at home. When I was in college, I bit into a piece of liver in a cafeteria thinking it was some kind of Salisbury steak. I nearly gagged, and I have never eaten any since that one bite.
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Post by helencrump on Jan 29, 2016 18:52:36 GMT -6
I grew up on the stick to your ribs, hearty meat and potatoes, and vegetables that you speak of. The food pyramid meals. With a big glass of milk at each meal.
I still love milk. To drink with chocolate cake, to dunk cookies in, etc.
I love filet mignon, cooked to perfection, rare, with a warm, red center, and cuts like butter.
I also love crab meat.
And sauces.
And cheese. I like trying new ones all the time. At Christmas, i splurged and did some great flavor blends.
As soon as i have time, my cousin and i are going to try the Pink Chihuahua. Im hoping to try the bone marrow.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 29, 2016 18:56:38 GMT -6
I only had liver once. Because my father hated it, we never had it at home. When I was in college, I bit into a piece of liver in a cafeteria thinking it was some kind of Salisbury steak. I nearly gagged, and I have never eaten any since that one bite. I knew there was some reason I liked you............ I'm pretty universal, growing up on the farm, Dad ruled the roost, meat and potatoes was it. Never bothered me, but it was pretty simple fare. After I moved away, I made it my goal to try just about any and everything. Other than the aforementioned Liver, I can't say there is really anything I truly dislike, other than white sauces and similar. When I was younger, the hotter the food the better I liked it, I had a special love for Thai.
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Post by roman on Jan 29, 2016 19:27:01 GMT -6
My wife is full-blooded Italian. Her mother's parents were from southern Italy and her father's parents were from the Naples area. As a result, I have eaten good Italian food since we were married. As soon as my wife and I got to a point where we had more than two dimes to rub together, we started eating at a variety of cheap eats in Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. Chicago had, in those days, an amazing ethnic diversity and we tried many of them. Despite having grown up in Streator, I had never eaten any Polish food. At one time, Chicago had more Poles than Warsaw. We hit a place on North Milwaukee in Chicago and simply told the waiter to bring us a variety of Polish food. Although it was very good, I have no idea what we ate. To this day, I have never eaten any Slovak food.
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Jan 29, 2016 21:58:16 GMT -6
Post by mommytoo4 on Jan 29, 2016 21:58:16 GMT -6
I grew up in Tampa, Florida, Cuban food was the thing there, I so miss a good Cuban sandwich and deviled crab, at home it was toast and cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and something cheap and filling for dinner (spagetti, casseroles, soups), whatever my mom could pull together on a policemen and waitress salary with 4 kids, now I love prime rib, and crab legs for a splurge, at home I am pretty frugal.
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Post by OutlawwithaSnipeSniper on Jan 30, 2016 0:27:43 GMT -6
To this day, I have never eaten any Slovak food. You have never had Haluski? Oh man, you gotta try it, Streator has some of the BEST Haluski!
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Jan 30, 2016 5:42:58 GMT -6
Post by helencrump on Jan 30, 2016 5:42:58 GMT -6
My wife is full-blooded Italian. Her mother's parents were from southern Italy and her father's parents were from the Naples area. As a result, I have eaten good Italian food since we were married. As soon as my wife and I got to a point where we had more than two dimes to rub together, we started eating at a variety of cheap eats in Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. Chicago had, in those days, an amazing ethnic diversity and we tried many of them. Despite having grown up in Streator, I had never eaten any Polish food. At one time, Chicago had more Poles than Warsaw. We hit a place on North Milwaukee in Chicago and simply told the waiter to bring us a variety of Polish food. Although it was very good, I have no idea what we ate. To this day, I have never eaten any Slovak food. Hard to believe that in all of your days growing up here, attending get togethers, being invited to a classmates house, picnics, potlucks, funerals, back in the day, that you never experienced a slovak spread of food. Maybe you can remedy that your next visit.
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Jan 30, 2016 6:19:40 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 6:19:40 GMT -6
My wife is full-blooded Italian. Her mother's parents were from southern Italy and her father's parents were from the Naples area. As a result, I have eaten good Italian food since we were married. As soon as my wife and I got to a point where we had more than two dimes to rub together, we started eating at a variety of cheap eats in Chicago's ethnic neighborhoods. Chicago had, in those days, an amazing ethnic diversity and we tried many of them. Despite having grown up in Streator, I had never eaten any Polish food. At one time, Chicago had more Poles than Warsaw. We hit a place on North Milwaukee in Chicago and simply told the waiter to bring us a variety of Polish food. Although it was very good, I have no idea what we ate. To this day, I have never eaten any Slovak food. Hard to believe that in all of your days growing up here, attending get togethers, being invited to a classmates house, picnics, potlucks, funerals, back in the day, that you never experienced a slovak spread of food. Maybe you can remedy that your next visit. I will have to fill in that gap in my eating history. I have eaten about everything else, sometimes unwisely. When we were in Tangier, we were seated at a table with a group of other Americans. Plates of food were placed on our table, but the only familiar dish was rice. I was the only person to try portions from all of the plates, and I was the only person who got sick afterward. The same thing happened in Greece when I ate food from a street vendor. Although we have been in Mexico many times, I have not been foolish enough to buy food from a street vendor. Before the Taste of Chicago, there was an Ethnic Food Fair at Navy Pier. Instead of restaurants, the food vendors were from a wide variety of church groups or ethnic organizations. While I tried everything in sight, we wife stayed with Italian beef sandwiches. One of my law partners and I would seek out obscure ethnic restaurants on the north side every once in a while. For years, our wives complained about the time we came home after eating Bibimbop at a Korean restaurant. The garlic smell lasted for days. I miss the variety of food in Chicago. Our office manager would declare Pizza Day a couple of times a year and order out twenty or thirty pizzas from a number of joints. Great pizza. Chicago also has a number of great steak houses. My favorite was always Gene and Georgettis'. Of the many Chinese restaurants, my favorites were always Hunan. I have always liked hot food, so it follows that I liked Thai food. I am getting hungry, so I had better stop.
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Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 6:55:43 GMT -6
To this day, I have never eaten any Slovak food. You have never had Haluski? Oh man, you gotta try it, Streator has some of the BEST Haluski! Last week, a couple who I have known since high school spent a couple of days with us on the way further south. We got talking about food, and I mentioned that I had never eaten Haluski. They are both Slovak, and couldn't believe that I had never eaten Haluski. I explained that the Methodist Church didn't have any food with funny names at its get togethers.
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Jan 30, 2016 7:23:24 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2016 7:23:24 GMT -6
Bagna Cauda is one that i like to eat and bbq Beaver. Growing up i ate alot of different foods mostly wild game and fish, Deer liver isn't too bad.
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Jan 30, 2016 7:35:54 GMT -6
Post by roman on Jan 30, 2016 7:35:54 GMT -6
Bagna Cauda is one that i like to eat and bbq Beaver. Growing up i ate alot of different foods mostly wild game and fish, Deer liver isn't too bad. Bagna Cauda, a northern Italian dish, is loaded with garlic.
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Jan 30, 2016 7:53:57 GMT -6
Post by capncrunch on Jan 30, 2016 7:53:57 GMT -6
One of my favorite is cabbage and noodles.
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Jan 30, 2016 12:11:42 GMT -6
Post by dumdave on Jan 30, 2016 12:11:42 GMT -6
I came from a meat & potatoes house. I didn't eat Chinese food until I was 30 years old. My new boss took me to a Chinese restaurant. I have enjoyed it ever since.
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