Food and Drink Weird Shit your Grandparents and Parents used to (or still do) eat or drink - Page 6

**Buck** · 03-04-2010, 04:23 PM

The Thread Title says it all, lets hear it.

Mecca · 03-04-2010, 09:10 PM

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

stlchiefs · 03-04-2010, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sully

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.

NO WAY! Is this legit or just bs?

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

NewChief · 03-04-2010, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by flipped cracker

grandma eats balut which is fermented duck eggs. that stuff is nasty.
http://images.google.com/images?q=balut

Filipino?

FAX · 03-05-2010, 07:54 AM

Whatever you do, don't order the soup.

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

FAX

DMAC · 03-05-2010, 07:56 AM

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

MOhillbilly · 03-05-2010, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

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.

red beers were a 10 am tradition down on the farm.

BigOlChiefsfan · 03-05-2010, 11:23 AM

Buttermilk is a 'byproduct' of making butter - basically everything that doesn't turn to butter in the churn. Before good roads/milk trucks, farmers who couldn't sell milk made butter and sold that. They were left with a LOT of buttermilk, it was the drink of choice for farm-folk. The traditional crackers or cornbread in buttermilk (sometimes called 'clabber') was an affordable snack, when I was a kid in the ozarks this was what the old country folks offered children like me. It's nothing to write home about, but for po' folks it beats the hell out of going hungry. For those who haven't had it, buttermilk is not unlike plain yoghurt or kefir. It's pretty good for you, so far as dairy goes, and is more digestible than 'sweet' milk (as opposed to buttermilk). I like it mixed 40-60 w/OJ, tastes kind of like an Orange Julius - YMMV, of course. On our farm, extra buttermilk was mixed w/ground corn and fed to pigs, who fattened up on it until autumn when they magically turned into hams, bacon and sausages. Carrying the 5 gallon buckets of 'hog slop' (grain + milk + vegetable scraps from the kitchen and anything else semi-edible') was pretty hard work...and for you weight lifters, this is the origin of 'the Farmer's walk' that you'll sometimes see strength athletes working on. Just pick up 50lbs - 100 lbs or so in each hand and walk as far as you can.

Fried brains were a staple in the corner bars of St. Louis when I was a kid - I always assumed this was a germanic slaughterhouse-town treat, as everyone we knew back then was a German hillbilly who'd escaped to the big city. Fried Brain sandwiches or fried brains w/scrambled eggs are no big deal - think 'unseasoned sausage' and you're pretty close in taste/texture.

Coffee in the saucer is old-skool. In the olden days, coffee was a boiled product, and often came to the table too hot to drink. You add cream/sweetening to your saucer and pour some coffee in/slop some over. The wider circum/shallow depth let the coffee cool quickly. You drank this while your cup cooled off. No need to do this w/coffee-maker java as it's never boiled, never really all that hot.

Pickled herring/roll mops were traditional 'free lunch' bar food, as were pickled pigs feet, deviled eggs/pickled eggs. A lot of fellows my grandpa's age had lived thru the pre-prohibition era when the free lunch or nickel lunch was a good reason for a guy to go to the bar, buy a beer and gossip. If you've never gotten a free lunch (TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch/Missouri's own Robert Heinlein) then you may never have tasted these freebies, but there was a time when we had skinny, hungry worker bees in this country instead of obese cubicle rats. Eh, it could happen again. My Grandpa ate 'roll mops' and sardines every chance he got. I keep up the sardines tradition, but never really liked the rollmops.

Head cheese...if you carry those heavy buckets of slop every day to feed them damn pigs (and dodge getting eaten by the pigs your own self) then when the time comes you eat every bit, including the tail. Everything but the squeal. Headcheese is not half bad if it's well made. Likewise, beef tongue makes a great roast beef sandwich. But I'll admit you had to grow up on most of this to really enjoy 'em. Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?" ~Lin Yutang

NewChief · 03-05-2010, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by BigOlChiefsfan

Head cheese...if you carry those heavy buckets of slop every day to feed them damn pigs (and dodge getting eaten by the pigs your own self) then when the time comes you eat every bit, including the tail. Everything but the squeal. Headcheese is not half bad if it's well made. Likewise, beef tongue makes a great roast beef sandwich. But I'll admit you had to grow up on most of this to really enjoy 'em. Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes...

"What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?" ~Lin Yutang

The cool thing is that this attitude is coming back pretty hard core in contemporary culinary culture. With the "snout to tail" or "nose to tail" movement. Butchering, sausage making, and eating organs is all coming back into vogue.

http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food...ig_these_days/

There's a cookbook out on it as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Beast-No.../dp/0060585366

This explains why nose-to-tail is "green."
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/foo...at-animal.html

Mr. Laz · 03-05-2010, 11:36 AM

ketchup on cottage cheese

CoMoChief · 03-05-2010, 11:39 AM

My grandparents make home made Pea soup and I ****ing hate it.

Red Beans · 03-05-2010, 11:42 AM

My Grandma said she loved squirrel brains. She'd fry them up like scrambled eggs. Sounds...well...it sounds nuts to me. My Grandpa used to love dipping cornbread in bacon grease. Had to stop that action once his health started to go. He always talked shit on my Grandma's cooking becasue she regulated what he ate later in life. Funny stuff. He was a quater Cherokee and talked about making some kind of bread/tortilla thing out of crushed acorns. They grew up in the depression so I'm sure that list of crazy shit is actually a mile long...

**ChiTown** · 03-05-2010, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by MOhillbilly

red beers were a 10 am tradition down on the farm.

They were a tradition at the Aggie Lounge aka "The Lou" in Manhattan, KS. Loved that place.........

**Rain Man** · 03-05-2010, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by NewPhin

Filipino?

I doubt it. Filipinos are mammals.

NewChief · 03-05-2010, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Rain Man

I doubt it. Filipinos are mammals.

Bravo.

MOhillbilly · 03-05-2010, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by BigOlChiefsfan

Fried brains were a staple in the corner bars of St. Louis when I was a kid - I always assumed this was a germanic slaughterhouse-town treat, as everyone we knew back then was a German hillbilly who'd escaped to the big city. Fried Brain sandwiches or fried brains w/scrambled eggs are no big deal - think 'unseasoned sausage' and you're pretty close in taste/texture.

i have picked more hog brains that anyone on this bb. Little kid hands make it an easy job.

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BigOlChiefsfan Certified Bourbon taster Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Shawnee KS Casino cash: $6380157	Buttermilk is a 'byproduct' of making butter - basically everything that doesn't turn to butter in the churn. Before good roads/milk trucks, farmers who couldn't sell milk made butter and sold that. They were left with a LOT of buttermilk, it was the drink of choice for farm-folk. The traditional crackers or cornbread in buttermilk (sometimes called 'clabber') was an affordable snack, when I was a kid in the ozarks this was what the old country folks offered children like me. It's nothing to write home about, but for po' folks it beats the hell out of going hungry. For those who haven't had it, buttermilk is not unlike plain yoghurt or kefir. It's pretty good for you, so far as dairy goes, and is more digestible than 'sweet' milk (as opposed to buttermilk). I like it mixed 40-60 w/OJ, tastes kind of like an Orange Julius - YMMV, of course. On our farm, extra buttermilk was mixed w/ground corn and fed to pigs, who fattened up on it until autumn when they magically turned into hams, bacon and sausages. Carrying the 5 gallon buckets of 'hog slop' (grain + milk + vegetable scraps from the kitchen and anything else semi-edible') was pretty hard work...and for you weight lifters, this is the origin of 'the Farmer's walk' that you'll sometimes see strength athletes working on. Just pick up 50lbs - 100 lbs or so in each hand and walk as far as you can. Fried brains were a staple in the corner bars of St. Louis when I was a kid - I always assumed this was a germanic slaughterhouse-town treat, as everyone we knew back then was a German hillbilly who'd escaped to the big city. Fried Brain sandwiches or fried brains w/scrambled eggs are no big deal - think 'unseasoned sausage' and you're pretty close in taste/texture. Coffee in the saucer is old-skool. In the olden days, coffee was a boiled product, and often came to the table too hot to drink. You add cream/sweetening to your saucer and pour some coffee in/slop some over. The wider circum/shallow depth let the coffee cool quickly. You drank this while your cup cooled off. No need to do this w/coffee-maker java as it's never boiled, never really all that hot. Pickled herring/roll mops were traditional 'free lunch' bar food, as were pickled pigs feet, deviled eggs/pickled eggs. A lot of fellows my grandpa's age had lived thru the pre-prohibition era when the free lunch or nickel lunch was a good reason for a guy to go to the bar, buy a beer and gossip. If you've never gotten a free lunch (TANSTAAFL = There ain't no such thing as a free lunch/Missouri's own Robert Heinlein) then you may never have tasted these freebies, but there was a time when we had skinny, hungry worker bees in this country instead of obese cubicle rats. Eh, it could happen again. My Grandpa ate 'roll mops' and sardines every chance he got. I keep up the sardines tradition, but never really liked the rollmops. Head cheese...if you carry those heavy buckets of slop every day to feed them damn pigs (and dodge getting eaten by the pigs your own self) then when the time comes you eat every bit, including the tail. Everything but the squeal. Headcheese is not half bad if it's well made. Likewise, beef tongue makes a great roast beef sandwich. But I'll admit you had to grow up on most of this to really enjoy 'em. Which reminds me of one of my favorite quotes... "What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?" ~Lin Yutang __________________ A man can never own too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition. -- R. Kipling
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