What vile food did your parents or grandparents eat?

[Dookus]

My grandmother, bless her, lived with us. She LOVED her pickled pigs feet. Just adored 'em. She was also fond of chipped beef in a jar (which I didn't mind so much) and turkey necks.

Oh... and she HATED to wear her teeth. This woman could go piranha on a pig's foot using just her gums. She was fun.

[flamingyouth]

1. My Swedish grandfather loved his lutefisk

Grandma wouldn't allow it in the house, so he had to eat it in the garage, though. :D

[Dookus]

4. hehe

My grandmother AND my mother both loved "salmon soup", which from what I could tell, entailed dumping a can of canned salmon into a pot with milk and heating it up. When everybody including the dog started gagging from the smell, it was done.

[flamingyouth]

6. Eeeuuuwwww

I love salmon, and actually make a great salmon chowder, but that just sounds foul beyond belief!

[Fovea]

29. Sounds like someone I knew too. His name was Martin and he was a card.

I couldn't handle my 3rd gen dutch-american stepfather's raw hamburger sandwiches. Yech.

[kariatari]

35. Norwegian grandpa liked his too.

I guess it's alright if you enjoy eating glue.

[LiviaOlivia]

2. A friend of mine in the 7th grade

had her grandmother living with her family and that woman use to
spread bacon grease on pumpernickel. The memory still grosses me out.

[JVS]

5. Grampa always saved bacon grease for cooking

[XanaDUer]

33. My grandparents were obsessed with bacon grease

saving it, using it, ick.

[JVS]

3. My grandma would eat those orange circus peanut marshmallow things

[XanaDUer]

17. Hey!

Those are good!

[Nite Owl]

7. My mom ate

okra. Looked like slugs. Yuk.

[Dookus]

8. ooh

I like okra. When it's done right.

[tigereye]

10. grandmother liked

beef hearts... ugh... and pigs feet as well. And turnips. Yuk.

[Dookus]

12. mmmmmmmmmturnips

Haven't had 'em since I was a kid, but I loved 'em. I have to ask my Mom how she made 'em.

[Nite Owl]

21. Love turnips.

Mashed with butter some brown sugar, cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg. Thanksgiving side dish but only two of us eat them.

[XanaDUer]

23. Turnips are great...

also with bacon and lots of freshly ground black pepper...

[tigereye]

28. not the way these were cooked, sad to say

[SmileyBoy]

9. Moika (sp?). It's a Finnish stew.

My gramma fed it to me once, and I barfed.

[DemWitch]

11. Limburger cheese sandwiches

with a thick slice of onion on it.... bleeaach...

Liverwurst sandiwches with onion too.

And grossest of all, Headcheese...

[Dookus]

14. LOL

I grew up in NY and worked in a Deli as a teen. I LOVE liverwurst (haven't had it in years - hard to find in California) but I sliced a lot of headcheese, but never had the courage to taste it. It just LOOKED so vile.

[loftycity]

13. Headcheese--never could work up the nerve..nt

[Dookus]

18. C'mon ... try it. Whatsamatta, you chicken?

[DemWitch]

26. nasty, nasty, nasty...

that shit is just nasty... it's so nasty, it's just nasty, nasty, nasty...

[loftycity]

44. That is the reason I never had the nerve to try it. Look at it ! Yikes

[XanaDUer]

15. was your grandmother Irish?

My grandfather loved pickled pigs' feet. Urgh.

Also: eel, tongue (a delicacy, I heard), and headcheese.

:puke:

[Dookus]

19. Indeed she was

a race not known for its culinary traditions.

[XanaDUer]

20. Yup. Boil it, boil it some more...

add some potatoes, then slop it on the plate.

My grandmother used to make "Italian spaghetti sauce" by chopping up onions in Campbells Tomato Soup.

Yup.

[sundog]

16. Braunsweiger

:puke:

[kariatari]

36. that stuff's good on rye w/ red onions n mayo!

[Dookus]

37. Mayo!??!

Blasphemer!!!

Mustard is the only answer!

[sundog]

43. Blllech!

nasty nasty nasty

Even the word sounds nasty

[MrSandman]

22. Liver and onions...

And drink straight buttermilk.

[Maat]

24. Sauerkraut and Brautwurst

Not sure I spelled those right. Used to tell me that if I didn't eat it New Year's Eve, my luck would suffer. I always told her that I would take my chances.

[MrSandman]

25. Brats rule...

Boil them in beer with onions and then grill them. Serve like a hot dog with mustard and the cooked onions.

Kraut is OK.

[Dookus]

34. we always had

pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day.

[ze_dscherman]

42. Very funny spelling

Brautwurst actually translates as "Bride Sausage" ... :) - I think you mean Bratwurst (Fried Sausage). My kid loves it, but I'm vegetarian. Sauerkraut, however, is very nice, if processed correctly. You should try my vegetarian Sauerkraut Pizza with cheese and pineapple ...

[arwalden]

27. Scrapple

[doc03]

30. My Dad liked squirrel brains and pickled pigs feet.

[Shananigans]

31. Lutefisk...

my dad also has a fondness for anything pickled...beets, fish, anything... I don't mind that stuff, though...

[Wapsie B]

32. Rinderwurst.

It's a type of meat not stuffed into a casing (suprise suprise for a German dish). It's made from roast beef, oatmeal, allspice and other ingredients.

However when I was young we could still get cow heads from the local meat lockers which ended up on our kitchen table from time to time. The cheek meat was sliced off in preparation for the Rinderwurst.

[Richard D]

38. I might have you all beat

Embryonic chicken eggs. Still grosses me out.

[Dookus]

39. heheh

Vietnamese?

I know a lot of vietnamese who eat soft-boiled embryonic duck eggs.

[allalone]

40. salmon patties

yuck

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Polish sausage, kielbasa

My grandmother cooked with this, used it in soups, especially, and was an excellent cook. Everything that she made was from scratch, never consulting a recipe, and it was just wonderful. I grew up on her cooking. My mother continues to cook kielbasa, but just buys the stuff, already made, in the grocery store. She just boils it, and, sorry, it just looks like poop to me. I would never eat it. I think that my mother is ashamed of her heritage, for many reasons, and she never learned to cook the wonderful dishes that my Babci did. My mother does make those terrible meat and rice filled cabbage rolls, which I can say, but not spell, but they are terrible, too. I did eat my grandmother's, though they weren't my favorite. I just wish so much that I had learned to cook from my Babci. I especially loved pirogies, but my mother can't make them. I love to cook, but missed my chance. I am proud of my heritage, but my Babci died when I was 20, and I was not interested in cooking yet, stupid me.:-(

[Cuban_Liberal]

45. Menudo!

My grandmother and grandfather LOVE the stuff!

:puke:

[theboss]

46. Tripe

Not only that, but they bought it from their neighbor.