"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:03:58 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:57 -0400, DownTime
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RPSIII wrote:
When I was a kid we used to eat liver at least once a month. Beef
liver
sucked, but chicken liver was tasty.

To this day, just the smell of liver brings back a bad childhood memory
and the ole gag reflex kicks in.

I. HATE. LIVER.


My mother, sticking to the conventional wisdom of the time that liver was
good for you, made bold attempts every once in a while to serve liver.
She'd disguise it as steak or something but nothing fooled me. I hated
it.

But, to my surprise, I now enjoy it, if prepared well. Usually like it
with
the conventional onions.

My mother, God Bless her, was a brilliant woman, but couldn't cook
worth a fig - only person I know who thought boiling hamburger was a
good thing. Consider that I went into the service at 6'3", 142 pounds
- I never ate anything she made - couldn't. I was the only recruit
who actually gained weight during Boot instead of losing weight.

Absoutely true by the way.

Anyway, she would have liver every Thursday - shoe leather and no
amount of carmalized onions could save it.

Another gagger of youth that I grew to really like is yogurt.

My Uncle Dave the dairy farmer made his own yogurt and I loved it from
the get go. In particualr with real strawberries, blueberries or,
oddly, cranberries.

Reminds me of liver or the occasional steak at our home. We lived in a 2nd
story flat downtown in a house that was later declared historic.
The oil burning kitchen stove was relied upon for heating water and the
living space besides meals.
You can imagine how tough the meal was if we didn't arrive home shortly
after dad came. (stove running full blast all day in the winter)
I did get to like liver with onions and some bacon, complete with mashed
potatoes and peas.
haven't had that meal in years.