Men unable to eat their crusts, or unworthy of it?

Knight said:
Stated young as an apprentice butcher with calf brains in an omelette. Sea turtle steak,octopus salad, dog meat heavily seasoned with garlic & other foods to numerous to mention.
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I had fried sea turtle once at a seafood buffet down in the Florida Keys.

It was delicious. The way they prepared it, it had a kind of "peppery" flavor.
 
Aunt Marg said:
I don't put up with nonsense when it comes to food safety and handling. I would have given the woman a proper earful had it been me.
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I had a boss in a restaurant who couldn't cook as good as he thought and he soaked chicken in brine for 3 hrs at room temp. Offered me some later and I declined.

Made me leave thawed prime rib on the work table overnight so it would be 70F when he went to cook it. Again...offered me some and I declined. I was not raised nor trained to leave food exposed for such long periods of time like these that are particularly dangerous if not handled properly.
 
In The Sticks said:
How long ago was that? I gotta believe that's on someone's "Too cute to eat" list.
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Late 70's. The restaurant was in Islamorada, but I can't remember the name. Had an upstairs buffet and a downstairs buffet. Upstairs was more expensive, but it had stuff like lobster, crab and other pricier items. We ate at the less expensive downstairs buffet where they had regular varieties of fish etc, along with the aforementioned fried turtle which I ate copious amounts of.
 
StarSong said:
I've done that. Sort of. Rolled out scraps of crust, then sprinkled them with cinnamon sugar and bake until slightly crispy. YUMMMM!!!!
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My mom used to do that when we were little, using leftover pie crust. She'd also put a bit of butter and cinnamon sugar on them. We'd hang around the kitchen when she was making pie, just waiting for those pieces of crust.
 
In The Sticks said:
I started a thread asking folks if there were any food dislikes they have shed in their lives, and any that they have picked up.

I thought about it because I do a number of pot luck meals out here in the sticks, and have been shocked at how picky some of the country folk are. I would have thought just the opposite. I made Chicken Divan for a church Christmas Dinner serving 50 people. Complaints rolled in because I put broccoli in it!!! I couldn't believe it. When I was a kid no one got a special meal..."eat or go hungry" was pretty much the choice. And country folk I would have thought hardly have the luxury of more choices.

But no matter how I tried to phrase that thread, the unintended judgemental implication of "outgrown" was always there. I could find no way around inferring it. So I deleted my thread to let someone else step in it...and here I am ;)
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I grew up in a family with that attitude, too. And my mother always admonished us to "remember the starving children in Japan" (this was right after WWII) as a reason we should be grateful to eat the food put before us. After much pondering, I couldn't figure out how my failure to eat my Malt-o-Meal (BLUUURG!!) hurt those children in Japan. So I asked my mother that very question. It didn't go well . . . .
 
Butterfly said:
I grew up in a family with that attitude, too. And my mother always admonished us to "remember the starving children in Japan" (this was right after WWII) as a reason we should be grateful to eat the food put before us. After much pondering, I couldn't figure out how my failure to eat my Malt-o-Meal (BLUUURG!!) hurt those children in Japan. So I asked my mother that very question. It didn't go well . . . .
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You've mentioned Malt-O-Meal before. I just looked it up. Looks like what we used to have under the brand of Maypo...sort of a flavored Cream of Wheat.

Was it that bad? At some point you stop buying what your kids won't eat (although with 5 siblings, I usually wolfed my food down before anyone else got their mitts on it, so I don't really recall flavors too much.)
 
Butterfly said:
That's goofy. The crusts would have the same nutritional value as the rest of the bread -- they are just the outsides of the bread where it has browned.
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That's true of course, but when talking about white bread, particularly the grocery store bought kind in the plastic bag, there's pretty much no nutritional value in either part of it anyway.
 
Jim W. said:
That's true of course, but when talking about white bread, particularly the grocery store bought kind in the plastic bag, there's pretty much no nutritional value in either part of it anyway.
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Yes but it is essential for the favorite sandwich in the south - thick garden fresh tomato slice, Dukes mayo, salt and fluffy white bread.
 
gennie said:
Yes but it is essential for the favorite sandwich in the south - thick garden fresh tomato slice, Dukes mayo, salt and fluffy white bread.
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When I was a kid, I would make a fried egg sandwich as a late night snack.

This involved frying bacon, cracking a couple of eggs into the pool of undrained grease, breaking the yolks with a fork, and then splashing the hot grease over the top to cook it rather that flipping the egg. I can still see it!

Then I would fish the eggs out, lay them on a slice of that cheap white bread, put another slice on top, press them together real hard so the grease got absorbed by them and you could see the eggs right through the sopping bread, as though it were an article of come-get-me Coronary® brand negligee.

You can't do that with whole wheat.
 
In The Sticks said:
When I was a kid, I would make a fried egg sandwich as a late night snack.

This involved frying bacon, cracking a couple of eggs into the pool of undrained grease, breaking the yolks with a fork, and then splashing the hot grease over the top to cook it rather that flipping the egg. I can still see it!

Then I would fish the eggs out, lay them on a slice of that cheap white bread, put another slice on top, press them together real hard so the grease got absorbed by them and you could see the eggs right through the sopping bread, as though it were an article of come-get-me Coronary® brand negligee.

You can't do that with whole wheat.
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Oh no,no,no- a fried egg on white bread sandwich requires mayonnaise, not bacon grease! :eek:
 
JaniceM said:
Butter?! on a fried egg sandwich?! not meaning any offense, but you & your family aren't originally from the South, are you?
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No, my mother was British and my father was from Pennsylvania (his parents were German.)

I was not much of a butter person, but my mother would eat it like peanut butter. Always gave me the shivers to watch. I think it was from being in WW2 and suffering though the shortages. I'll use it, but just a thin sheen.

So where did you pick up the mayo-on-egg-sandwich habit? Living in Northern Virginia forever and getting the occasional egg sandwich at the local cafes, I never encountered that option.
 
In The Sticks said:
No, my mother was British and my father was from Pennsylvania (his parents were German.)

I was not much of a butter person, but my mother would eat it like peanut butter. Always gave me the shivers to watch. I think it was from being in WW2 and suffering though the shortages. I'll use it, but just a thin sheen.

So where did you pick up the mayo-on-egg-sandwich habit? Living in Northern Virginia forever and getting the occasional egg sandwich at the local cafes, I never encountered that option.
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My father was from Oklahoma. He could turn nearly anything into a sandwich. Always with mayo. :)
 

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