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I was wondering, staring into that pantry where magic sometimes springs, do you eat as an adult what you ate as a kid? There can be many reasons for differences, availability, exposure, personal preference.
As I looked into the pantry I realized, my mother would not recognize many of the foods there. She probably would have appreciated them and wanted to try them, but things didn't work out that way. Things that I detested as a kid and still detest and so you won't find them in my pantry or freezer...hot dogs. the worst was hot dogs dipped in pancake batter and fried. That was before corndogs were a thing and yes cornmeal does improve the flavor, just not enough for me to want to eat a hot dog.
Pinto beans...can't stand them. They are not food. They are not what food eats. They are an imagined hallucination of what food should be, flavorless, textureless. Somehow entirely unsatisfying. Now I have managed to make them into a passable dish as baked beans, or to rehydrate them, puree them and use them as a replacement for wheat in making bread, cakes and scones, but it's a lot of ground work.
Ham...As a kid we always had the cheapest ham. That meant the lowest quality ham. Apparently I don't like bad ham. I make my own ham and it's better than the prosciutto that I've tried and definitely worth the time and energy.
Pig knuckles. It's just skin and tendons. I could boil them down into a decent stock, but they are not a thing on their own.
Ox tails.. Skin fat and bone. Again, should go into stock, not as an entree on my plate.
Things that I loved as a kid, even if most of my family hated it:
Liver
Brussel Sprouts
Kale Greens
Things in my pantry that weren't in my pantry as a kid
Garbanzos
Lentils
Split Peas (my mom rarely made pea soup. It was made with frozen peas and cheap ham) She did what she could do with the resources at her disposal. I got the impression that she didn't like it but it was food and we had to eat it because that's what we had.) Split peas are dried. They store well. They are cheap. They are nutritious. They are good for the digestive system. Why weren't they around half a century ago?
I do a lot of stuff with these being gluten free, sometimes rehydrate, sometimes not, sometimes the applications of powertools (high speed blender) and variations on hummus
It's just that the average person eats as an adult what they ate as a kid. I'm definitely not in that mold. Do you eat now, what you ate as a kid? Will your kids have the option of trying different foods?
As I looked into the pantry I realized, my mother would not recognize many of the foods there. She probably would have appreciated them and wanted to try them, but things didn't work out that way. Things that I detested as a kid and still detest and so you won't find them in my pantry or freezer...hot dogs. the worst was hot dogs dipped in pancake batter and fried. That was before corndogs were a thing and yes cornmeal does improve the flavor, just not enough for me to want to eat a hot dog.
Pinto beans...can't stand them. They are not food. They are not what food eats. They are an imagined hallucination of what food should be, flavorless, textureless. Somehow entirely unsatisfying. Now I have managed to make them into a passable dish as baked beans, or to rehydrate them, puree them and use them as a replacement for wheat in making bread, cakes and scones, but it's a lot of ground work.
Ham...As a kid we always had the cheapest ham. That meant the lowest quality ham. Apparently I don't like bad ham. I make my own ham and it's better than the prosciutto that I've tried and definitely worth the time and energy.
Pig knuckles. It's just skin and tendons. I could boil them down into a decent stock, but they are not a thing on their own.
Ox tails.. Skin fat and bone. Again, should go into stock, not as an entree on my plate.
Things that I loved as a kid, even if most of my family hated it:
Liver
Brussel Sprouts
Kale Greens
Things in my pantry that weren't in my pantry as a kid
Garbanzos
Lentils
Split Peas (my mom rarely made pea soup. It was made with frozen peas and cheap ham) She did what she could do with the resources at her disposal. I got the impression that she didn't like it but it was food and we had to eat it because that's what we had.) Split peas are dried. They store well. They are cheap. They are nutritious. They are good for the digestive system. Why weren't they around half a century ago?
I do a lot of stuff with these being gluten free, sometimes rehydrate, sometimes not, sometimes the applications of powertools (high speed blender) and variations on hummus
It's just that the average person eats as an adult what they ate as a kid. I'm definitely not in that mold. Do you eat now, what you ate as a kid? Will your kids have the option of trying different foods?