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Who Likes Grape Soda?
I don't drink sodas but definitely remember the wonderful taste of grape soda. I LOVED it as a child. And like @jinx35, I loved orange soda - jinx, try Stewart's Orange and Cream Soda in a bottle! Even now, I will drink a Stewart's Diet Orange and Cream Soda if I can find it. And root beer? @twoshoes, I agree. Still remember root beer floats in frosty mugs at A&W Root Beer Stands (whoops, showing my age!).
Roadtrip-DeathValley, Utah, GrandCanyon, Albuquerque, St.Louis
@soozm32 - If you want a Manny's Buckhorn burger, get there EARLY! They open at 11:00 am and there was already a line outside when we got there at 10:50 am. I've been enjoying their green chile cheeseburgers for years but since his throwdown win, lines are common. It's a great cheeseburger and worth the wait, but if you can avoid it, do!
Roadtrip-DeathValley, Utah, GrandCanyon, Albuquerque, St.Louis
@soozm32 is spot on about restaurants in Albuquerque. I HIGHLY recommend Sadie's Mexican Restaurant and El Pinto Restaurant if you want genuine, delicious New Mexican cooking. It can be a bit spicy so ask the waiter about the heat. If you want a delicious green chile cheeseburger (a New Mexico specialty), try the Owl Bar and Cafe in Albuquerque. If you come down I-25 for about 1 and 1/2 hours, you'd get the best green chile cheeseburger EVER. It's Manny's Buckhorn in San Antonio, NM and he beat Bobby Flay in a throwdown this spring.
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Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
OMG! That photo brought back horrible memories! Those TV dinners were absolutely disgusting. Gag! My folks also loved canned spinach - my mother ate it drizzled with vinegar and my father ate it with mayonnaise slopped on top. I cannot believe those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s ate such awful stuff. Spam...Ovaltine....Cream of Wheat...Velveeta...All gag-producing! And they're still around.....AUGH!
Who Likes Grape Soda?
I don't drink sodas but definitely remember the wonderful taste of grape soda. I LOVED it as a child. And like @jinx35, I loved orange soda - jinx, try Stewart's Orange and Cream Soda in a bottle! Even now, I will drink a Stewart's Diet Orange and Cream Soda if I can find it. And root beer? @twoshoes, I agree. Still remember root beer floats in frosty mugs at A&W Root Beer Stands (whoops, showing my age!).
Roadtrip-DeathValley, Utah, GrandCanyon, Albuquerque, St.Louis
@soozm32 - If you want a Manny's Buckhorn burger, get there EARLY! They open at 11:00 am and there was already a line outside when we got there at 10:50 am. I've been enjoying their green chile cheeseburgers for years but since his throwdown win, lines are common. It's a great cheeseburger and worth the wait, but if you can avoid it, do!
Roadtrip-DeathValley, Utah, GrandCanyon, Albuquerque, St.Louis
@soozm32 is spot on about restaurants in Albuquerque. I HIGHLY recommend Sadie's Mexican Restaurant and El Pinto Restaurant if you want genuine, delicious New Mexican cooking. It can be a bit spicy so ask the waiter about the heat. If you want a delicious green chile cheeseburger (a New Mexico specialty), try the Owl Bar and Cafe in Albuquerque. If you come down I-25 for about 1 and 1/2 hours, you'd get the best green chile cheeseburger EVER. It's Manny's Buckhorn in San Antonio, NM and he beat Bobby Flay in a throwdown this spring.
What are you? Recipe Follower or Recipe Deviant
Deviant, total deviant. Only follow recipes for baking and canning, like most of you. Guess that's one reason I don't much care for baking or canning. I also am incapable of following a recipe to the letter. It's like I have to put my own creative spin on it, just to make it mine.
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
@ashtonsh - Since I live 70 miles from the nearest Indian restaurant, I have had to learn to cook Indian food for myself. I started with Julie Sahni's wonderful cookbook, "Introduction to Indian Cooking." I highly recommend this book. It's a great book, and the recipes are easy to prepare. Once you've mastered the basics, Go for Madhur Jaffrey's "An Invitation to Indian Cooking" and "Indian Cooking" and Sahni's "Classic Indian Cooking."
Cook the Book: '660 Curries' by Raghavan Iyer
I was about 35 with a young daughter. Had just started a new job and made friends with a co-worker. She and her boyfriend loved India cuisine and she asked if I'd ever tried it. Nope, never. My daughter was the pickiest eater I'd ever known - she's a supertaster. I wasn't picky but not exactly adventurous. (I'm a lot more adventurous now.)
So, the friend and her boyfriend invited my daughter and me to come with them to an Indian restaurant. We ordered pakora, papad, naan, saag gosht, tandoori chicken, chicken biriyani, saffron basmati rice, and rice pudding for dessert. We shared the food with each other and I thought I'd died and gone straight up to heaven. I've been in love with Indian cooking ever since. Have bought Julie Sahni's cookbooks and Madhur Jaffrey's also and use them extensively.
What really blew me away is that my fussy, picky daughter fell in love with Indian cuisine, also!
In Great Ideas: Breakfast Polenta
Southerners have been eating corn for breakfast for years. It's called GRITS. Polenta = yellow corn, grits = white corn. Except we don't sweeten it. Butter, salt, pepper - that's the trick.
Dinner Tonight: Zucchini Galette
OMG! That is absolutely delicious!!! Wonderful recipe - next time, I will drain my zucchini better and bake another five minutes but I love the flavor. Winner!
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
I thought I had come up with the theory that there are cooks and bakers! I'm definitely a cook, not a baker. I've had so many disasters it's hard to think of the worst. My bread is so bad I've considered using it to build a shed. I did make a wonderful lemon-curd cheesecake one time, and
@corinne, I have a foolproof (has to be for me) chess pie recipe. Tastes great and comes out perfect every time!
What Weird Family Foods Did You Grow Up Thinking Were Normal?
Canned spinach - my mother topped it with vinegar and my father topped it with mayonnaise. UGH. I hated spinach until I was an adult and first had it wilted. Now I love it, but still can't eat that canned stuff.
Sandwich: Peanut Butter with banana, honey, ketchup, mayonnaise. One or all of them. I still eat PB sandwiches with ketchup.
Cook the Book: 'Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries & Shakes'
Best burger ever is the green chile cheeseburger at Manny's Buckhorn in San Antonio, New Mexico. Bar none. It's just south of me and I don't get down there enough....I could eat that burger every day.
Just so you know how good it is, Bobby Flay filmed a "Throw Down" there that will aired on July 22nd. Check it out!
Cook the Book: 'Seven Fires'
When my daughter was young, we had a young lady from Venezuela staying with us. She wanted to learn English and she took care of my daughter while I worked. Once in a while she'd have arepas waiting for us when I arrived home from work. So delicious. Just simple, topped with cheese and butter. I can still taste them....wish I could make them like she did.
Cook the Book: 'Bottega Favorita' by Frank Stitt
Angel-hair pasta in a lemon/butter/garlic sauce. Yum!
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
PBJ. It was my lunch for the entire first grade. I've never wanted to look at another PBJ since then.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Snotty eggs, Cheerios, Kraft American Cheese Slices.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
I love Cream of Wheat still, and the lumps are the best part! Definitely don't miss the TV dinners of any variety, or Cream of anything. Though my mom was an excellent cook, and rarely bought processed foods...and I consider myself lucky that we always HAD food.
Oh, and I used to love Spam, though I don't think I could stomach it now.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
@korovka: my mom used to give us sour cream and bananas sprinkled with sugar. i remember thinking that i really didn't like it but she loved it so much that my tastebuds must have been wrong.
i still can't eat sour cream at all.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Spam, Milo, cheese or fruit danishes, pop tarts, cereal
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
I cant think of anything discontiued but my list includes: Carrots, bananas, rice, cheese sandwiches, those crackers that come with the cheese and red stick oh and weird but chocolate I think i ate too much of it and anything candy especially gummy bears and sweet tarts , skittles that sort of stuff makes me nasceous
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Chun King chicken chow mein. For a while it came in a set of two cans, one containing crispy noodles (usually a bit stale) and the other with the chow mein. It was an ambitious packaging concept but the result was not good. To my parents' credit, they only tried it on us a couple of times before they realized we were not fond of it and the convenience wasn't worth it.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Swanson's Beannie weenies with molasses cake and spiced apples, My sister and I ate this a lot in the early 70's!! (no longer avail. thank god)
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
If these are the worst of the emotional scars, then we're very lucky. At least most of us had parents who put food on the table. There are some kids today whose only family meals take place at McDonald's.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
I revisited this thread after having been the first to reply and it has been very, very amusing. I am imagining a reunion of all of you and this is what you would discuss. A lot of emotional scars being hidden behind a lot of laughing out loud.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Chipped beef on toast (SOS)! Just the smell of it would send me into hiding.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Not that I ever ate this on a regular basis, but I still remember the geoduck that would be served for "special occasion" dinners at our favoured Chinese restaurant. Bad memories of being harassed by my family into eating it, because it was an expensive delicacy... you know, given enough time and careful thinking, I could make a killing off cooking tire rubber as a delicacy.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
underwood canned deviled ham. it was the 60s and early 70s and i have no idea how i ever ate the stuff. Gak. Just thinking about it makes me nauseated.
then again, the childhood kitchen results weren't always the best. I was 25 before I had ham that wasn't out of a can and almost 30 before I learned to like red meat rare or medium rare instead of BROWN.
Foods from you childhood you don't miss.
Luckily my mom didn't do the TV dinners, though there was an occasional pot pie. My least favorite food had to be tuna casserole, beef stroganoff and creamed corn. At least they were not on the same night.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
I stopped drinking soda about 20 years ago.
But I miss Fanta. Grape Fanta. Fanta Uva. Very cold, with two straws, straight from the glass bottle.
So I've had Boylan's once. It's nice, but too grown up. Not sweet enough.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
Love the grape Crush pop, but it's the only one I'll drink.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
Love, love, love fruit sodas. I've weaned myself off non-diet soda after 39 years, now I'm a Coke Zero drinker.
But when I want a treat? I reach for a Welch's.
And if they still made Strawberry soda, I'd reach for that too.
RIP Welch's Strawberry. You are much missed.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
I like all sorts of soda. I guess I rarely drink grape because typically I'm looking for "cold caffeine" and less sugar. But, if we are at a cookout or other event where tubs of sodas are iced down and I find a grape, I'll go for it.
Now, if you want to find most of the grape soda lovers in the world, head to South America, especially Brazil. Fanta orange and grape are big sellers there - if you need a break from the guarana ...
Who Likes Grape Soda?
Love love LOVE grape soda! Transports me instantly back to my grandparents house where it was always stocked in their fridge (still is). There's something about the artifical grape taste, the fizz, the pretty purple can that makes my mouth water. It's a, oh semi-annual treat for me but each time I have it, I fully appreciate all it has to offer. :-)
Who Likes Grape Soda?
The best part of grape soda is the strange blue foam it produces when you pour it over ice....
Who Likes Grape Soda?
There was a rock service station on the road from Wichita Falls to Greenville, Texas when we were kids. They had one of those big boxes full of almost frozen water in which were suspended glass bottles of Grape and Orange Nehi sodas and Coca Colas. These were the best things ever when you were driving the 1955 Chevy with no AC in the summer to see Grandmother. They also had a nifty cage with squirrels in it and of course.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
I wish I had more access to Fresca from Mexico. While it is also part of the Coca Cola family, the recipe is completely different as it is sooooooo not a diet drink. Mexican Fresca has an addictive, fresh grapefruit flavor that blows our homegrown version and Squirt right out of the water.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
AHH the essence of my childhood! Seeing that photo reminded me of drinking grape soda at sleep away camp in peconic dunes, while eating a grape ice pop during snack time--sandals in the dirty sand, sitting on a log, grit from the ground clinging to the condensation on the bottom of that cold purple can of Welches. You nailed it on the head...I am not a soda gal these days. When I get the urge I prefer a limonata or a trader joes grapefruit soda, but I still LOVE a grape soda now and then. Boylan's does a nice version of grape soda (even diet when your feeling sugared out) and if you live in the burbs, Fuddruckers has it on tap.
Who Likes Grape Soda?
The only thing that made my 3 hour wait at the US embassy in London bearable was the fact that they sold Welches Grape Soda at their refreshment counter. Yum!
Who Likes Grape Soda?
Grape soda reminds me of my "down on the farm" childhood. My grandpa would take me to town every Saturday night and buy me one. Hard to find now.
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OMG! That photo brought back horrible memories! Those TV dinners were absolutely disgusting. Gag! My folks also loved canned spinach - my mother ate it drizzled with vinegar and my father ate it with mayonnaise slopped on top. I cannot believe those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s ate such awful stuff. Spam...Ovaltine....Cream of Wheat...Velveeta...All gag-producing! And they're still around.....AUGH!