It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

Floss

RobM99 said:

I know 2 30-something men who still call cauliflower & brocoli clouds & trees - when small they wouldn't eat it when given the proper names!

Well, in Rob Towers with Chinese food I have mice or poodles!

We always had lice as kids 😁

GillyLucy

My Mum put the Brussel sprouts in the pressure cooker on Christmas eve to make sure they were cooked for Christmas dinner 

Pollycat

Elisheba said:

Toonie said:

When I was young I hated vegetables, would only eat carrots, cucumber and tomatoes. Nothing else. But there was a reason. My Mum used to boil the life out of things! Tinned peas and carrots would be cooked for over half an hour on a rolling boil. One Christmas, my Mum put the swede on to cook at the same time as the turkey "to make sure it would be done". 

I'm laughing my head off at this!  

I think this was an old fashioned thing, over cooking vegetables.  Mrs Beeton's original book has you cooking tomatoes for an hour or two iirc!  My Gran also would overcook veggies.  I think there may have been a myth about them being difficult to digest otherwise, although a lot of the wartime cookery books I have copies of do say not to overcook them, so I don't know for sure.

I agree.
My Mum would overcook cauliflower to the point it went 'splat' on the plate.
Ditto sprouts & carrots.
Also overcooked meat.

My tastes now are rare meat and crunchy vegetables.

Bluegreen143

I think there is a certain school of old fashioned cooking where everything is over cooked, not just veg. 

My first boyfriend’s mum did this, bless her. Pasta was boiled for far long than necessary, veg was mushy and steak served well done and grey and chewy. My own parents are total foodies and excellent cooks so it was a bit torturous to endure when I liked al dente pasta and rare steak. She was a lovely woman though even if she couldn’t cook 😂

My MIL can’t cook either tbh, everything is burnt or from a jar, but now I just invite her over and cook! My DS says “Grandma burns the pizza when I go and stay!” 😂

RobM99

At a tangent - well, food related. You know the giant pickled onions in a jar you see in chip shops? My ex-wife ate two in one go.


Not two giant pickled onions, two jars of giant pickled onions!  Then moaned because she didn't feel well. Odd, that 

Wednesday2000

I don't know why people overcook vegetables when they taste so delicious. It takes all the flavour out. I don't like a few vegetables, fennel for example. That is gross, haha. I don't want a veggie to taste of liquorice!

My husband is very picky with food. His (evil) stepmother made him eat foods as a kid that he will not touch now.

EssexHebridean

See, I LOVE fennel - we're meant to be getting some in our veg box this coming week, I was delighted when I spotted it on the list! 

MovingForwards

I call cauli and broccoli trees.

As a kid I'd only eat one type of cabbage as that was pretty much the only leafy green veg around in winter, only had marrow fat peas in summer and it was always red potatoes.

It was quite good going round to mates houses and being asked to stay for tea or being offered fruit as I'd get to try different things.

Each Christmas I'll buy something new to try, have an open mind and I've eaten every scrap of it. Turns out I'm actually a lot more adventurous with food than my OH is.

Whitefiver

GillyLucy said:

My Mum put the Brussel sprouts in the pressure cooker on Christmas eve to make sure they were cooked for Christmas dinner 

What was she thinking - should have been put on at Haloween....... <grin>

YoungBlueEyes

Bleurgh I don’t like fennel either, liquoricey veg is just wrong.