The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

I will only eat the Lima beans! Hate boiled cabbage and liver and onionsMom would make us eat the liver every time even though I always got sick that night.

I, honestly, can’t remember NOT eatin’ anything my Mom ever put on the table….
Not a huge fan of beets or sweet potatoes, but, I’ll eat them from time to time. Can’t think of anything else I’m not really a fan of.
Funny thing is, I can eat the heck out of a jar of pickled beets, and I do kinda’ like my Moms sweet potato casserole.
She bakes it with big marshmallows, brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, etc.
My Pop loves sweet potatoes…he calls them “music roots”…!!!!!

 

[Figgy1]

I’m at a Honda dealership.

I always knew you were smart!

 

[SteveBrickNJ]

I do, but it is more of a special meal food. I'm a regular mashed potato person. I was introduced to sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving back when My dads late parents had Thanksgiving back when I was a kid. Sweet Potatoes is a food that I think my parents were brought up as a holiday or part of certain meals depending on the main course.

We have slow cooked sweet potato casserole as part of a turkey meal and always tasted great. The recipe includes marshmallows.

Dad found recipe online back in the early 2000s and is a tradition since.

You know @wdwfan4ver your first two sentences probably is the case for many people. I enjoy sweet potatoes at Outback Steakhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse or Texas Roadhouse. We don't eat it here at home.

 

[donaldtoo]

Chicken liver I can handle but calves liver is not my cup of tea.

I can do both.
There used to be a place here, up until the damndemic, called “Threadgill’s”. It was founded by a local country/folk musician. Janis Joplin did her first gig there, back when she was attending UT.
Anyhoo, they used to have this AWESOME chicken fried chicken liver platter, priced low with 2-dozen livers, that was sooooo good…!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

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I’ve always wondered how the heck that seems not to hurt their tails…!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

I love sweet potatoes. I eat probably 3 or 4 baked ones a week. I also love asparagus and Brussel sprouts.

Yep, love asparagus and Brussels sprouts here too…!!!!!

 

[wdwfan4ver]

You know @wdwfan4ver your first two sentences probably is the case for many people. I enjoy sweet potatoes at Outback Steakhouse, Longhorn Steakhouse or Texas Roadhouse. We don't eat it here at home.

That is true, but I also forgot about Sweet potato fries. It is the type of sweet potato I use the most out of the sweet potato products.

I don't eat them many days in a year. Sweet potato fries is connected to BBQ as a side dish and I rarely eat BBQ. I eat BBQ once a year at Door County. Door County is a 3 or 4 day vacation spot. Door county has a BBQ place called Casey's Smokehouse and BBQ. One of their appetizers is Sweet potato fries. I also get babyback pork ribs from a store when its on sale, but it is a food that I eat maybe 6 days a year with 4 of the days being left overs. I put marshmallow sauce on the sweet potato fries.

 

[donaldtoo]

I do, but it is more of a special meal food. I'm a regular mashed potato person. I was introduced to sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving back when My dads late parents had Thanksgiving back when I was a kid. Sweet Potatoes is a food that I think my parents were brought up as a holiday or part of certain meals depending on the main course.

We have slow cooked sweet potato casserole as part of a turkey meal and always tasted great. The recipe includes marshmallows.

Dad found recipe online back in the early 2000s and is a tradition since.

Sweet potato casserole has been in my family since I can remember. Both of my grandmothers made it, my Mom, all my aunts, etc.
The other thing similar is rice pudding. They all made/make it. Another of my Pops faves…he really loves the browned edges, as do I…!!!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

Sweet potato casserole has been in my family since I can remember. Both of my grandmothers made it, my Mom, all my aunts, etc.
The other thing similar is rice pudding. They all made/make it. Another of my Pops faves…he really loves the browned edges, as do I…!!!!!

Is the sweet potato sort of cultural in the USA?

They are hardly used over here and mostly in specified restaurants. Particularly the fancy burger joints that have been spawning lately in my town.

 

[donaldtoo]

Is the sweet potato sort of cultural in the USA?

They are hardly used over here and mostly in specified restaurants. Particularly the fancy burger joints that have been spawning lately in my town.

I don’t know about cultural, per se, but, I think they are easy to grow, down here anyway, and they provide a lot of fiber. Thus, the “music roots”…!!!!!
They’ve gained a lot more recent popularity in many different dishes with vegans, vegetarians, and others, because of their health benefits.

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

I'm sorry to hear that

 

[Tony the Tigger]

 

[John park hopper]

Having grown up in NY we ate a lot of potatoes and very little rice being in the south the last 50 yrs we eat more rice than potatoes and the daughter in law makes a killer sweet potato casserole with marshmallows. Gotta ask Ferret whats with mushy peas on your side oh the pond --I can remember giving my boys mushy peas when they were a baby we called it Gerber baby food Ha Ha

 

[Mr Ferret 75]

Having grown up in NY we ate a lot of potatoes and very little rice being in the south the last 50 yrs we eat more rice than potatoes and the daughter in law makes a killer sweet potato casserole with marshmallows. Gotta ask Ferret whats with mushy peas on your side oh the pond --I can remember giving my boys mushy peas when they were a baby we called it Gerber baby food

Don't blame me for that

 

[Tony the Tigger]

 

[Goofyernmost]

I’ve always wondered how the heck that seems not to hurt their tails…!!!!!

My daughter has an always happy to see anyone pit bull. Her tail can be classified as a weapon. She once dented a metal trash can. How it doesn't hurt her is probably just because it is numb by now.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I don’t know about cultural, per se, but, I think they are easy to grow, down here anyway, and they provide a lot of fiber. Thus, the “music roots”…!!!!!
They’ve gained a lot more recent popularity in many different dishes with vegans, vegetarians, and others, because of their health benefits.

I'd have to say they are regionally cultural. From what I have been able to notice, it is a southern staple at least in North Carolina. I saw a TV program once that was about how many tons of Sweet Potatoes that NC exports to Europe which leads me to believe that they are more popular there then here. Over there they might be called something else, don't really know.

 

[Figgy1]

 

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