ok, I'm American
and ignorant, apparently. What the hell are these things? Half of them I've never heard of. Fresh salad--is there stale salad? Donner, goblin meat pudding and canned pasta? You can't can pasta, it gets all mushy. Speaking of mushy, what are mushy peas? Is jellied eel really long squiggly fish in jelly? Who would eat that?

What flavour is black pudding? And Please don't tell me marrow is bone marrow. That's worse than liver and kidney. English baked beans must be different from ours--baked beans are tasty and savoury! And I've always wanted to know what salad cream is. Is it mayo?

Ok, on to nasty food. My dad's idea of spaghetti: A pound of overboiled pasta, dump in a can of stewed pulped tomatoes, a bottle of ketchup and a pound of cooked loose hamburger. I sat for hours one time with him determined to make me finish my platefull.

My mother's signature dish: hamburg and beans. Browned loose hamburger, can of kidney beans and another full bottle of ketchup. Served over mashed potatoes. My gorge is rising. (Ketchup is very important to American cooking.)

Cottage cheese. I like cheese, but this is just too close to spoiled milk.

Sandwich spread. Apparently it's ground up boloney with pickles and mayo and dogshit.

Margarine.

Cooked raisins. Like sweet snot.

I'm making myself sick so I'll quit now.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Mon 12 Jul 2004, 20:39, Reply)