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[lkabug]

We had tube steak as a kid. AKA bologna. Mom would get a 10 lbs tube. She would add it to just about anything. Fried baloney, aka bubble steak, was a often served delicacy. And if she said it was a delicacy, by geroge, it was a delicacy.
And pinto beans, who still will cook-up a big pot of pinto beans with a small slab of fat back and cornbread?

 

[45Smashemflat]

Only had liver when force-fed it in the military. Perhaps I've never had it prepared correctly, but I'm nearing 60, so I'm calling it good.

Red eye gravy, along with every other kind, was a staple at Granny's. As a child in school, we had to tell what we had for breakfast at times. (Some kind of survey, I'm sure illegal now.). The teacher questioned how we could have biscuits and gravy, without having any meat. Hmm, I guess I get it now, but back then biscuits and white flour/bacon grease gravy was a common meal.

I have certainly had my share of Spam and pot pies, still love'em both.

 

[Greyman50]

The now closed flea market in Roanoke, Va had the absolute BEST fried bologna biscuits. Home made " cat head" biscuits and 1/4" thick fried bologna with very good coffee. This was back in late 80s-90s.

 

[DWalt]

I've had the tongue and brains. I've never had eyes. How are they?

I don't know, never ate any myself. Don't plan to start. I have eaten lenguas. Much like any other meat. In Laredo, tacos are more like large enchiladas and are called mariachis, made with soft corn or flour tortillas. There was one large place in Laredo which sold manly mariachis, and they offered at least twenty different types including goat, chicken, beef, fish,and some meats you never heard of. All the women who worked for me loved eating their mariachis, and I think the lightest one was maybe 200 pounds.

 

[jimmyj]

I do not eat:
1. liver
2. mac & cheeze
3.veal
4. bussel sprouts
5. spinach
6. beets
7. chickets
8. mutton (sheep)

I do eat grits. when I was growing up anyone who did not eat grits was considered a yankee spy and hung.

 

[coltle6920]

Mom used to eat liver to supplement an iron deficiency. She would offer me a small piece covered in ketchup and onions.

You know how you hide your dogs medicine inside something they like but the pill always gets spit out? That was me with even the smallest piece of liver.

 

[MTC(SS)Ret]

My Grandma made absolutely fabulous "made from scratch" coffee cakes of all kinds. She would make a big batch of dough, put it in a big pan and set it on the heat register in the kitchen floor to rise. Divide the dough into about a dozen 9 inch cake bans and bake to a golden brown. My favorite was slathered with her secret recipe vanilla icing. OMG I could eat the whole thing!

 

[SMSgt]

Not that great dry.

Now you've made my ribs hurt.

 

[SMSgt]

My dad was WWII Seabee. He would not eat Spam, saying he'd had enough of it. He also said the Seabees in the Pacific were very excited to hear they would be receiving fresh meat to eat. Turns out the "meat" was mutton. He would not eat lamb to save his life.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Miracle Whip - when they replaced the sugar with high fructose corn syrup the taste and texture changed so much that they should have changed the name. I'd rather pay more for the same product than have it changed into something else to save a few cents on the selling price.

Fritos ain't the same either...

DUKE'S.........Better any day.

 

[zeke]

Ate a lot of liver back when. it was cheap and available. For it to taste good, had to be fresh calf liver. The frozen thin sliced beef liver is disgusting. Imo what ever frying technique used, liver is best when still slightly pink inside. Liked my onions fried with a little Worcestershire sauce, then spread on top. The only place have seen fresh liver lately is at Walmart on occasion.

 

[Golddollar]

All this talk about liver brought back a memory from many years ago. I was 14 years old and I had just bagged my first deer. Pop and I were staying with my aunt and uncle who recently passed on. We brought my deer back to their house and my aunt fried the liver for me. From what I remember it tasted pretty good. Certainly couldn't have got liver any fresher than that.

 

[Kinman]

I get a hankering for liver and onions from time to time. It stinks up the entire house and nobody else will eat it. Calves liver is best, deer and elk liver never make it home. There was one place in town that did it right, nice young calves liver, thinly sliced and cooked medium well, six or seven good slices of bacon and at least one whole onion...brown gravy made from the drippings. UMMM...UMMM...We ate a lot of heart too, at least once every two weeks or so, mom stuffed it like a turkey, big ole beef heart. Nothing better than cold heart samiches with horseradish on rye.

 

[DWalt]

We had tube steak as a kid. AKA bologna. Mom would get a 10 lbs tube.

My mother always made ham salad using bologna instead of ham. It was pretty good. Those ham salad sandwiches were the mainstays of my school lunchbox. No school cafeterias back then. Also ate lots of fried bologna sandwiches. The guy at the neighborhood mom and pop grocery store would slice it to whatever thickness you wanted. No packaged pre-sliced bologna existed back then either.

 

[ZGrand]

I remember the Astronaut foods. Only one left is Tang. I haven't drank any of that in 50 years! Ivan

I still drink Tang -- I even have a vintage Tang pitcher.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Butterscotch. There used to be butterscotch shakes, ice cream, cake, cookies, soft drinks, etc. Now about the only thing left is Dairy Queen Dilly Bars and Nestle's Baking Chips.

 

[dave1918a2]

The only liver I enjoyed was from a fresh killed Elk. Onions and fried potatoes and gravy from a package. Wonderful in Elk camp. My Mom was a big liver and tongue fan. Dad and I abstained. I really do like Rocky Mtn. Oysters tho.

 

[DukeSoprano]

Canned beef, my grandmother canned roast beef in mason jars and whenever I would show up to spend a weekend she would pour it into a pan, add flour? to make gravy.
She served it with homemade bread and I would make hot roast beef sandwich covered in gravy. Best thing I have ever ate in my life.
It made it hard to save room for the home made apple pie, made with the apples she picked fresh off the tree in the back yard.

 

[soFlaNative]

Safe to say we all like Tang.

 

[K-22]

Eyes

I've had the tongue and brains. I've never had eyes. How are they?

That would depend on what you are looking for.