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ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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wdwfan4ver said:
I like blizzards, but the closest Diary Queen is over 8 miles away. There used to be one closer, but it closed down years ago. I'm guess it was due
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The closest Dairy Queen is about 15-20 minute drive away for us. Until I moved to my current house I was always about 1 mile away from one, walking distance! If I walked to the DQ I could justify the treat, not walking to one now! :D My husband stopped the DQ on his way home last week to bring home a blizzard treat for us, this was on a Tuesday at about 3pm and it was closed. Apparently they are closed on Tuesdays, so strange, especially in the summer when people want ice cream more. Oh well, he didn't come home empty handed though, he stopped at Culver's and brough home Concrete mixers. Mine had pecans, cookie dough, and fudge!
 
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wdwfan4ver

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ajrwdwgirl said:
My mom usually packed our lunches. I didn't like school lunch at all, I tried a few things but blurg.....
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I was the same way with School lunches, but I did not even buy milk from the school. The problem was I bought expired milked from grade school once without knowing it, and my parents were not pleased about the school having bad milk.

The last time I had a hot meal the public schools had was a special event/ breakfast meal for the honor roll high school students at the school I went to. I recalled the students got chocolate milk, but it was not in a carton at all. The Chocolate milk was in a plastic bag of a shape that rather not say:jawdrop:.
 
KBLovedDisney

KBLovedDisney

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wdwfan4ver said:
I was the same way with School lunches, but I did not even buy milk from the school. The problem was I bought expired milked from grade school once without knowing it, and my parents were not pleased about the school having bad milk.

The last time I had a hot meal the public schools had was a special event/ breakfast meal for the honor roll high school students at the school I went to. I recalled the students got chocolate milk, but it was not in a carton at all. The Chocolate milk was in a plastic bag of a shape that rather not say:jawdrop:.
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I sometimes wonder how I survived through those years of school lunches. My mom packed my lunch once when I was in elementary and then decided that was too much work :rolleyes: Our school lunches consisted of either pizza, burgers, hoagies, and everything came with fries. Sometimes fries were just the meal with sauce...

I started making my own lunch in late middle school years. Sandwiches from then on out at that age.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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MinnieM123 said:
What's a McFlurry? I'm beginning to think that we have nothing around here?! :p
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I don't know what Mclfurry is since I stopped to doing to mcdonald's years ago, but I do know you are missing out Culver's in your area. Culver's is in 25 states including Florida. Wisconsin has 138 Culver's. Culver's got their start in Wisconsin and I first tried them out in the 1990s in the Wisconsin Dells area.

Culver's is a growing chain, but the closest one to you is located in Ohio. Culver's exists in the Midwest, and South Eastern part of our country. Closest Atlantic Coast state with a Culver's to you is North Carolina. Culver's don't exist on the Pacific coast either with the closest Culver's being in Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.
 
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wdwfan4ver

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ajrwdwgirl said:
So all this talk about how we learned to cook got me thinking....most of us learned from our mother or some sort of mother figure in our lives. Here's the question(s): What dish growing up that your mother (or whoever cooked for you) was the worst in your opinion? And what was the best?

Worst: My mom made scalloped potatoes which were normally excellent but when she was trying to include a cheap protein when money was tight she made scalloped potatoes with canned tuna and cheese. Ugh! All of those were fine on their own but not together.

Best: Homemade spaghetti sauce which was actually my great-grandmothers recipe (she had been a private chef for a rich family in Chicago). And if my mom used fresh from the garden tomatoes....even better!!!

Side note: A few years before my mom passed I told her how much I had detested the tuna scalloped potatoes and she was shocked, she thought they weren't bad. But she apologized for sending bacon bit (the cheap artificial ones) sandwiches sometimes to school for my lunch, she thought that was the worst thing she ever made for me. I then gave her a shock by telling her how much I had loved those bacon bit sandwiches and I thought they were a special treat and that I looked forward to them. She had always felt bad for sending them when she didn't have any money left in the budget for lunch meat and then turns out I loved them.
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For my mom, the closest to worst dish really is a cooking ingredient.

My mom had problems with sauce once in a while as a cooking ingredient with it being caused the brand making changes to how they make it. My mom does not make her own sauce and does buy sauces. When the brand is good, the foods with sauces taste great.

Best dish for my mom is a very hard one because she does not have one. My mom was taught by her mom. Her mom's friends growing up made the comment that her house always had a great food smells.

My mom was even recognized by my dad's side of the family for her cooking and baking abilities, but her late mother-in-law was jealous of those abilities.

Her mom taught her extremely well. When it comes for dinner, she makes great spaghetti, meatloaf, fried mushrooms, stuffed peppers, campfire stew, lasagna, chicken pot pie, chili, multiple casseroles, beef stroganoff, hash, grilled cheese, chop chuey, pork chops, scalloped potatoes, mac and cheese, and soups. I did not list all the great dinner foods she makes due to amount of space.

She does not have a bad baking dish it. She's great at cookies, tortes, cupcakes, muffins, birthday cakes, pies (includes brown bag apple).
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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wdwfan4ver said:
I was the same way with School lunches, but I did not even buy milk from the school. The problem was I bought expired milked from grade school once without knowing it, and my parents were not pleased about the school having bad milk.

The last time I had a hot meal the public schools had was a special event/ breakfast meal for the honor roll high school students at the school I went to. I recalled the students got chocolate milk, but it was not in a carton at all. The Chocolate milk was in a plastic bag of a shape that rather not say:jawdrop:.
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I would get milk at school. Even though I loved (and still love chocolate) I can't stand chocolate milk and I was the only kid in our elementary class that ever got white milk. I was the odd ball! :)
 

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