Weird Shit your Grandparents and Parents used to (or still do) eat or drink
 

The Thread Title says it all, lets hear it.

My grandpa on my Dads side is the only one who ate weird shit.

Mustard and Butter sandwiches
Mayonnaise and Black Pepper sandwiches
He'd drink Buttermilk straight (sometimes with pepper)

my Grandma loved liver and onions, but that's not that weird.

Lutefisk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
:Lin:

Also my Grandpa said he ate monkey brains and turtle. I dont know if this was when he was in the war (Japan WWII) or when he was a kid (East St. Louis, Illinois), or if he was just bullshitting me, because I never saw him eat that.

Grandma FAX used to eat live chickens. It was always, "C'mon in the house now Grandma and stop eating those chickens."

FAX

I saw that on Man vs. Food the other day.

Tell me who in their right ****ing mind would say, let me soak this fish in Lye, and then soak it in Water and see if it tastes good?

My grandpa used to drink Falstaff beer, after he sprinkled salt in it.

He liked liver and onions, too. It may not be weird, but it is disgusting. I hate onions.

My grandma liked peanut butter and sweet onion sandwiches. It's weird but actually not too bad.

My grandma always used to make stewed tomatoes with pieces of white bread in it and lots of pepper on top. I've never seen that since.

my grandma who is from Austria would do all kinds of crazy shit. Bread rolled in sugar and dumped into milk. Soup with duck but for some reason there was blood in the soup. Duck blood soup

It wasn't my grandmother ... somebody else's. But her practice was to sip her coffee - not from the cup - but from the saucer. I always thought that was an odd, but somehow endearing, practice.

FAX

Sounds Klingon. :D

Grandpa used to drink some concoction of Vinegar and Apple juice. It was supposed to help with something or other. Quite a shocker when I went get a drink of what I thought was just Apple juice, and took a big swig of that.....

Breaded tomatoes, or whatever other folks call them, are wonderful.

I remember my grandma used epson salt as a laxative. A brutally effective one, too.

"This is an old Polish recipe that was used at Easter time. This recipe is traditionally served with home made noodles. If desired the fruit can be removed, leaving broth to serve with noodle. If you do not know where to purchase a duck, contact a local farmer or butcher. If you prepare your own poultry be sure to add 1/2 cup vinegar to duck blood to prevent coagulation

Head cheese....... beef tounge....... pickled pigs feet. Ugh! G'pa used to eat all of that. Not often, but once in a while.

Hogs head cheese....fuggin awful.

My grandma used to chew tobacco old school. She had a spittoon next to her rocking chair.

Great depression food? I think my girlfriends mom would put sugar in milk or water or something with bread. My girlfriend said it's good, but probably only b/c she grew up w/ it. Weird shit I tell ya.

My dads dad ate.
lutefisk
headcheese
pigbrains
hogjowls
ox tail
chicken feet
chicken necks
balls of any quadruped or fowl
pretty much anything hardcore nasty...i cant say shit cause i eat it...

well everything but beer kask cheese, that shit smells like diapers and tastes like what youd imagine diapers to taste like. ****in nasty.

Fried green tomatoes?

My grandpa loved straight horseradish. The hotter, the better. Used to to clear his sinus. He also put salt and tomato juice in his beer.

Nothing strange really. Peanut butter and white syrup sandwichs served with chili. It's great!


PhilFree:arrow:

That's what I was mentioning in my earlier post. WTF is that about? My guess is it was a depression era thing.

What the hell is beer kask cheese?

We mix Epsom Salt in our sow feed right before they have their piglets to loosen their stool and make the farrowing process easier.

And what did my grandpa used to eat that was weird?

My Grandma.

I loves me a tomato sammich.

Horehound candy.

Gaaaaghhh.

My Grandpa used to eat honey and peas together. He used to smother his knife in honey....because it helped pick up the peas.

mohllbilly already mentioned it, but in her later years my grandmother lamented the fact that the local store no longer carried chicken feet.

Watch the evening news...

We also had squirrel on occasion at my grandmother's house after my dad or uncles would go kill a few in the woods. It was a furry Christmas alternative to ham or turkey.

And that was my dad's side of the family. On my mom's side, Grandpa Dahmer used to ... well, it's a long story.

On a less weird basis, I'm curious about the evolution of candy. My generation tends to go for chocolate. Was chocolate widely consumed during the depression era? Was it hard to preserve without air conditioning? I don't know if my grandparents liked chocolate, but when we'd go over to their house they always had hard candies - ribbon candy, butterscotches, and a dozen other varieties I don't remember right now. And usually they were in a bowl all stuck together so you had to chisel off the piece you wanted. I wonder what the sales trends are for hard candies, because I can't imagine that they're as popular now as they were with the older generations.

(And I'll exempt Werther's from the above discussion, because Werther's candies rock.)

Grandpa ate (eats?) Cow brain sandwiches.

Pops loves some anchovy and green olive pizza.
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grandma eats balut which is fermented duck eggs. that stuff is nasty.
http://images.google.com/images?q=balut

You win.

lawlz Millers grill used to serve them in st joe!

I've done the salt in the beer thing and enjoy tomato juice in beer = red beer, both of which relatives did/do. One thing that hasn't been mentioned is raw ground beef. It's a german holiday thing that we usually have. Spread it on a cracker and eat away. Mad cow be damned!

I had a grandma who did that. I never understood it, but she sure seemed to enjoy it. She would put her cream and sugar in the cup and then over fill the coffee so it spilled over into the saucer, then sip from the saucer. I always figured it was a southern thing.

My grandpa liked buttermilk with crackers crumbled in the glass and pepper. He also liked crackers crumbled just in white milk. Apparently in the depression that was a dessert. Another thing he loved was rice pudding. I think that stuff was comfort food from childhood.

I love red beers.

My stepdad really enjoys a raw beef sandwich on rye bread with onion. Sometimes he adds limburger cheese. He also enjoys boiled tripe with lemon and olive oil. That's an Italian thing, apparently.

That's a damn fine pizza, right there.

One of my favorite combinations is pepperoni, onion and anchovy.

I assumed you were supposed to drink buttermilk straight. What else would you do with it? Or is it supposed to be just for cooking?

My grandpa drank buttermilk. I assumed it was no different than drinking milk.

One of my wife's grandpas eats nothing but sausage biscuits 90 percrnt of the time. Three times a day every day. Seriously.
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Yeah, these days I can only find the canned chicken feet. It's impossible to find them fresh. The canned just aren't the same.

Dude tripe is ****ing disgusting, I worked at a grocery store in high school and asian people bought it, it just looks ****ing gross.

I've known Mexicans, Asians and Italians to enjoy tripe. I guess it's well liked outside the continental US.

Whatever it is...it looks incredibly disgusting.

Isn't it like stomach lining?

My grandpa loves tripe, liver, kidneys, brains etc...

:Lin:

I believe that's exactly what it is. My stepdad boils it in water with some vinegar and a I think oregano. It doesn't smell any better than it looks. Then he seasons with lemon, oil and s&p.

Tripe is also the "meat" in menudo.

Hey man whatever you wanna do with menudo's meat is between you and Ricky Martin.

this

I've seen fresh chicken feet (plus plenty of other weird animal parts) in pretty much every Asian market I've been in.

Have you ever drank it? Its pretty gross. Then again, I think Egg Nog is gross.

But Buttermilk is used in a lot of different recipes.

Nah. I thought it looked weird and wouldn't drink it as a kid, and then have never bought it for anything as an adult. I probably should try it just to see what it is. Like you, I'm not an egg nog person, either, and really don't like milk that much, so I don't anticipate an epiphany. I pretty much only drink milk if it's chocolate.

The wife's grandfather ate plain oatmeal with apple juice poured over it, a slice of toast, and a piece of salt fish every day for breakfast.

Ya never tried "peas pudding" have ya ? :Lin:

http://newfoundland.ws/Newfoundland_...D=Peas_Pudding

My grandma, a few years back, ran over a squirrel. She stopped the car, went and got it, took it home, and had it for lunch.

Plain oatmeal, as in uncooked? Or plain as in boiled in water?

That's probably a pretty healthy, though unappetizing, breakfast.

we used to shoot em with pellet gun's and roast em while skipping school.
More meat on a squirrel than there is a sparrow jftr

Do you think hitting the squirrel was an accident?

Dump it from the bag in a bowl, let it soak in the apple juice for a while then eat it. Guess it was the fact he had no teeth had something to do with it

I know for a head shot it ain't easy if their moving, ya really gotta lead em.
i'll bet she sped up and swerved a bit too huhh?

I wonder if she ate all road kill.....possums here she comes.

Pickled Herring. I remember my Grandparents and Parents eating it when I was younger. I think I even had it a few times. I look at the stuff now and it just looks and smells wrong.

My Grandad used to cook "haggis tatties and nips", or neeps.
Best I could figure it was sheep innerds cooked in the sheeps stomach, mashed potatos and turnips.

Nasty tasting stuff, I think he brought it over from Scotland.
My opinion is that he should have left it there.

Back in the day, the bars in central Wisconsin served Wildcat. Basically raw steak that had been ground almost to a paste consistency with some spices. A big hunk would be placed on a plate, surrounded by chopped egg, onions, capers, etc. You took a dollop of Wildcat put it and any toppings on a cracker.

No mad cow or ecoli issues.

Grampa would eat scrambled eggs, English sausage, and mashed potatoes fro breakfast. It was his version of bangers and mash.

I have had BBQ'd dog and monkey on a stick; not bad really. "Course I really like Spam as well. Not cooked mind you. That stuff is nasty.

Another nasty thing I tried was scrapple. Unfortunately for me, that greasy spoon used liver.

[QUOTE=bobbymitch;6577390]Back in the day, the bars in central Wisconsin served Wildcat. Basically raw steak that had been ground almost to a paste consistency with some spices. A big hunk would be placed on a plate, surrounded by chopped egg, onions, capers, etc. You took a dollop of Wildcat put it and any toppings on a cracker.

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Sounds like pate. I'd probably like it.

Squirrel brains and eggs was a classic.

My mom still eats buttermilk with cornbread in it. Puts tons of black pepper in it and eats it like a shake or sundae.

The old women (and a lot of the kids back in the day) liked to smoke grape vine and crossvine as well as dip snuff.

I love Southern Arkansas.

This sounds absolutely delicious.

Man didn't anyone ever tell you guys you aren't suppose to eat raw meat?

NO WAY! Is this legit or just bs? :eek: I'd have to say this would win the thread for me. Eating crazy stuff is one thing. Eating crazy roadkill is a step further! Was grandma sitting on top of the truck in a rocking chair? kidding ;)

Filipino?

Whatever you do, don't order the soup.

http://www.break.com/index/chick-thr...over-soup.html

FAX

Kraft Mac & Cheese topped with a heaping load of ketchup.