Broccoli caused it
- Thread starter WuzzFuzz
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ParadiseRoad
Member
...I hated most cooked vegetables when I was a kid...my wife got me to like broccoli and cauliflower raw in a tossed salad or just dipping them in the right dressing...
...my brother in law gave me a jar of pickled okra...loved it...but it didn't like me...
...learned to like brusell sprouts cooked properly in lots of butter...
...asparagus with lots of melted cheese is good...
...but please...
...no liver...
...my brother in law gave me a jar of pickled okra...loved it...but it didn't like me...
...learned to like brusell sprouts cooked properly in lots of butter...
...asparagus with lots of melted cheese is good...
...but please...
...no liver...
The proper way to eat boiled okra is: just hold the whole pod by the stem end, place the small end in your mouth and slurp.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
That little quip made me gag
Went to my mother's birthday party yesterday. She's 98 today.
Talked with my brothers about her sitting with me, ~60 years ago, at the dinner table after everyone else was gone. Til I ate my broccoli. Took about a half hour, as I recall.
In retrospect, it was surely more about Mom being in charge than about broccoli.
Talked with my brothers about her sitting with me, ~60 years ago, at the dinner table after everyone else was gone. Til I ate my broccoli. Took about a half hour, as I recall.
In retrospect, it was surely more about Mom being in charge than about broccoli.
The proper way to eat boiled okra is: just hold the whole pod by the stem end, place the small end in your mouth and slurp.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
Now I don't mind eating boiled peanuts there in Alabama, but Leon ,,,,if that's the proper way they do it there, I'm going to be hard pressed to eat at the Crocker Barrel restaurant at supper time.
WuzzFuzz
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It's time to move on to something better to bash here on the forum...Broccoli...that's what has caused all the commotion and troubles that is confronting the world.
Now when I was younger, there at the table, my mother put broccoli in front of me..."Eat it, it'll help you grow up and make you strong." It'll put color in your cheeks".
"But I don't want to grow up and go HO HO HO and look like the Jolly Green Giant"
"You'll sit there until you eat it".
If I had sat there until I ate it, then I would probably still be sitting there..Thank goodness I had to go to school the next day.
(I still don't like it)
Liver and Onions...Another of those foods I'd still be sitting there....Thank goodness for ketsup.....I think I used a whole bottle trying to drown out the taste of liver and onions.(Don't like liver either)
Now my one set of grandparents owned and operated a cafe...What ever they served, they always served a side of white bread and two pats of butter...I guess the bread was to sop up the plate with...I don't know...But this I do know, not too many places do that any more. Even serving a roll with the meal seems to be something to be remembered, instead of savored. Guess it's something the nicer people did away with, using a piece of bread to clean their plate with?????
My other set of grandparents, my grandmother also always served a slice of white bread and some butter to go with?????? Maybe the source of that was promoted by the dairy companies to sell more butter. I don't know.
See, it's because of broccoli and liver and onions that I got the attitude, I don't want to, and you can't make me...
I have overcome my adverseness to Brussel Sprouts though.
Maybe it is old age that turned me into a old curmudgeon instead of the broccoli..
WuzzFuzz
WOW! We had much in common as youngsters. The only veggies I'd even sit at the table with were 'taters (any ol' way you want to fix 'em) and black eye peas. Parents loved almost all the veggies but they never made much of an effort to make me eat anything I didn't want. Mom might suggest I try this or that but after a few minutes of me describing how hard and how much I'd vomit if I even saw or smelled it she just put up her hands in surrender.
Actually Miss Pam's mother taught me how to eat. She was a terrific cook as was my mom but I was full growed and haired over by the time I got to her table. I am pretty sure my mom would slap my face if she saw how I love squash, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus...just about everything but eggplant. Just never could do that
My comment about liver is that no body in my family or any family I've ever been a member of liked or served it. I've tried it a time or to and came to the conclusion that there just isn't enough ketchup to make it palatable.
I raised two kids. Boy and a girl and they were totally opposite of all things including enthusiasm for meals. We had to establish a "45min rule"
The girl never wanted to eat hardly anything. We tried to accommodate her taste but all she ever wanted was Brie cheese. Made it difficult. So she had 45 minutes to eat and then she was excused from the table. We quickly gave up the struggle to make her eat what she didn't want. It ruined the meal for everyone else.
The boy was quite a different story. He'd eat with much enthusiasm anything you put in front of him. So we had a 45 minute rule for him as well but it worked a little differently. He had 45 minutes to eat all he wanted and then he had to stop. He was eating the entire time with little or no talking. Just shoveling it in one forkful at a time. I considered getting an extra job just to make sure we could keep up the house payments.
I once threatened to nick name him Hoover but by then he was a lot bigger than me so when he suggested that I not do that I decided to play it safe. I asked him how he could eat so much and not be over weight. He told me not to worry about it, just keep it coming.
remshooter
Member
Broccoli caused ,my kidney stones ,after stop eating broccoli ,kidney stones go away
The proper way to eat boiled okra is: just hold the whole pod by the stem end, place the small end in your mouth and slurp.
Have a blessed day,
Leon
I'll remember that tip the next time I need to throw up...
TomkinsSP
Member
Next time you grill a steak, take FRESH asparagus coat it liberally in peach jam and grill. The jam seals in the moisture and becomes a candy glaze.
You guys are starting to make me Gag...............
I would have to try to force down a bite of "Broccodie"
before ever trying to wet my lips with that hairy, slimey , snoty
green Okra, again.
Smart young men, growing up, ate............
Spinach.
I would have to try to force down a bite of "Broccodie"
before ever trying to wet my lips with that hairy, slimey , snoty
green Okra, again.
Smart young men, growing up, ate............
Spinach.
joeintexas
US Veteran
Guess I'm just not a picky eater, I like darn near any and all veggies, including boiled okra. Like many here, growing up on a farm we ate what we grew and learned to like a lot of different foods. Liver and onions or chicken liver and cream gravy, yep, good stuff. I'm a southern boy so fried chicken, chicken fried steak and Bar B Q are on top of the list. Yes, I still eat all my veggies, mama would be proud.
kwselke
Member
I like broccoli. Okra too. To each his own. If others shun the foods I like there's more for me. 
susieqz
Absent Comrade
you know, if you grow it in your garden, it is super.
now, okra tastes disgusting, but i bet that's because i don't know how to cook the slimy stuff.
now, okra tastes disgusting, but i bet that's because i don't know how to cook the slimy stuff.
Slurping boiled Okra is enough to gag a maggot. The Okra itself is bad enough. Retch comes to mind.
But I like broccoli, especially with some French or blue cheese dressing on it and when it's sitting next to a nice T-bone or ribeye.
But I like broccoli, especially with some French or blue cheese dressing on it and when it's sitting next to a nice T-bone or ribeye.
MOONDAWG
US Veteran
You can keep gizzards and hearts, but I'll tale broccoli and liver & onions; especially if it's fried chicken livers!
Ogandydancer
Member
Same thing happened to me when I was forced to eat oysters. To this day I can not even stand to hear prople talk about them without getting queezy.
