recently, on the blogs of Cindi and Danelle, the topic has been about weird food and comfort food from our youths. if you go back to my July 23rd post, you can read about some of the strange gastronomic experiences i've had, so i'm gonna talk about some of my comfort foods...
Cindi brought up canned meats such as Vienna Sausages, Meat Spread, SPAM, et al. we never ate many of those things in my household, but i still love Corned Beef Hash once in a while. maybe it's the saltiness...or the crust (if you cook it long enough)...or the flavor of the two basted egg yolks mixed in. nah. i can tell you it's the addictive flavor of all those grams of fat per serving. sorry i don't have a can to run the numbers off...
other guilty pleasures...all canned
Beef Stew...Castleberry's though, not Dinty Moore
Franco American Spaghetti...only the small cans though...the big cans somehow leech the flavor of the can into the pasta...ick
Swanson's Chicken a la King...ooh, that and a bit o' rice (maybe i shouldn't use the o'; it's not Irish rice ;)
Hormel's Tamales...paper wrapped tamales swimming in a pool of grease and broken pieces of masa. sure, i'm a purist now, but my mom got me hooked when i was little.
and some others...
mayo (or Miracle Whip) sandwiches...mmmm.
mac & cheese with a can of tuna...in oil, not water-packed...too fishy.
braunschweiger (liverwurst) sandwiches.
ham, egg, and cheese sandwiches...the Denny's by my house serves an awesome Moon Over My Hammy sammiches!
melons...crenshaw, casaba, canary, you name it...my Uncle Joe got me hooked on these melons when i was about 8...and we'd walk over to the family-run, Town and Country Market.
Peach Nehi...better than grape!
Vernor's soda! like ginger ale and cream soda put together...
Hires Root Beer...waaaay better than Dad's, Barq's, A&W...
Dolly Madison's cinnamon ice cream...or peppermint (w/ the red and green candies)
these are from growing up in my parents' Chinese restaurant...
roast pork sandwiches with melted cheese...my brother, Sandy, makes the best chinese bbq pork and ribs...whimper.
egg drop soup with rice or chow mein noodles.
sweet and sour chicken nuggets...at lunch, we stopped serving white meat chicken breast for the sweet & sour...too time consuming and a smaller profit margin... but this was still a good alternative.
my dad's chicken subgum chow mein...something about that mixture of celery, peas, carrots, water chestnuts, and chow mein noodles...crunchy ecstasy!
Danelle mentioned something about Mark having a sliced hot dog sandwich too. yeah, i remember my brother, Steve, would make triple decker hot dog sandwiches with four dogs and lotsa mustard. and am i weird, or did you people (who ate cotto salami sandwiches as a kid) pick out the peppercorns too?
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