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I never figured out the appeal of going to a restaurant and having to do your own cooking...
The Melting Pot - The Original Fondue Restaurant
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I never figured out the appeal of going to a restaurant and having to do your own cooking...
The Melting Pot - The Original Fondue Restaurant
dmccarty
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I can remember sitting in my grandmother's little kitchen while she made pies from scratch. They had this stool/step stool in the kitchen that I would sit on while she made the pies. They had that stool at two, made three, other houses but I don't know what ever happened to it...
The first house I can remember my grandparents having was small but my grandfather had added on to the house. I went by the house via Google Earth and it sure was a small house. :shocked: Anyway, I can remember sitting in the kitchen while my grandmother rolled out the pie dough and I would eat the dough scraps. She told me that if I kept eating the raw pie dough I would get worms. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing: I use that one on my kids when they eat raw dough but they just look at me like I am nuts.
Smart kids they are. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
We did have Fondue at restaurants, I think the Melting Pot, and in the house. It was one of those faddish things to do at house parties back in the 60's and early 70's. It is good though.
Later,
Dan
The first house I can remember my grandparents having was small but my grandfather had added on to the house. I went by the house via Google Earth and it sure was a small house. :shocked: Anyway, I can remember sitting in the kitchen while my grandmother rolled out the pie dough and I would eat the dough scraps. She told me that if I kept eating the raw pie dough I would get worms. :confused3::laughing::laughing::laughing: I use that one on my kids when they eat raw dough but they just look at me like I am nuts.
Smart kids they are. :laughing::laughing::laughing:We did have Fondue at restaurants, I think the Melting Pot, and in the house. It was one of those faddish things to do at house parties back in the 60's and early 70's. It is good though.
Later,
Dan
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And I never even heard of such until now. But like you, I don't reckon I'd be visiting such a place.
buckeyefarmer
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Yep, my grandmother fixed them. I liked the buds, that formed the yellow flowers. Haven't had them in many yrs.
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We went one time to a self-cook restaurant. I had the ham. When it was luke warm, I started eating it. It was a hot summer day and I was to tired to slave over a hot grill with a dozen other people trying to cook the perfect steak.
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I used to eat the left over pie dough too. Yes they told me I would get worms and my response was BAIT!
Mon used to tell me not to eat the watermelon seeds, that a watermelon would grow in my stomach.
Mon used to tell me not to eat the watermelon seeds, that a watermelon would grow in my stomach.
downsizingnow48
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Never heard of a self cook restaurant. My wife neither. We looked it up. Safe to say we will pass on that experience. Learn something everyday.
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The melting pot is advertised here. Never had a desire to go.
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My mother used to cook rabbit stew when my dad or uncles shot one. One day an uncle was watching her cut it up and said, you know rabbits and cats look the same when skinned. She never made it again.
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The closest we ever got to oven ready food was the introduction to our house of the TV Dinner. Not sure of the year but it was turkey and I'm pretty sure it was Swanson's. It wasn't like mom's but it got me by sometimes. The other
kids thought we were rich because we had TV Dinners.
kids thought we were rich because we had TV Dinners.
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My Aunt use to make goldenrod ice tea, picked goldenrod along the rual road side. Made great tea. My sister knows what it looks like but don't have a clue. Did make hot sassafrass tea as a kid digging the roots of young plants in the local woods.
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dmccarty
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At one point, I/we were eating quite a few Swanson's. They were not good food that is for sure but it was food. There was a certain novelty to the foil wrapped tray though and wondering what the food would look like when it was done. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
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Dan
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Some 55 years ago, I tried the TV dinners, and I think it was Swanson's even then. At any rate, I thought it wasn't bad. But then about 23 years ago, I left my wife and the kids with her parents for a visit for a week and I was home alone, so I bought a couple of TV dinners. I don't know whether they got worse, or whether my tastes changed, but I don't think I'll ever get hungry enough to buy another one.
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How 'bout pot-pies? Seems we had those growing up and once in a while I'll get a taste for 'em. Banquet brand seems the most authentic to the original (may have been the original?). To this day I don't know how you are supposed to pierce the top crust of a frozen pot-pie!
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Rob, my wife has been buying Marie Calendar pot pies at Sam's Club for herself. But a few months ago, I tried one; not bad, but not good enough to really want another one. Now when I was a kid, my mother would make them; no bottom crust, but top them with biscuits and bake them. I used to like that. And then a couple of times, she let me make blackbird pies. Everyone remember the old nursery rhyme; four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie? Well that's about how many it took. One or two shots with a 12 gauge into a close flock on the ground because I'd only strip the breasts out; 2 bites from each bird, and boil them, then bake them in a pot pie. I liked them back then; don't know what I'd think about them now.
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Our first TV dinner was in the late 50's. It was advertised on TV a lot. Mom bought some for Saturday's supper and she was all excited about how cheap and easy they were to buy, cook and clean up afterward. I don't remember if it was any good or not but I remember dad saying it wasn't enough for a working man during the workweek. So it became a once-in-a-while weekend thing.
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Charles Chips was another biggie in the 1950's early 1960's in the Midwest. They're still around but they seemed way better back then. Came in a metal can, and still do but smaller can and were as good as it gets for potato chips. We only got those on occasion or when we visited other homes for picnics or whatever. We thought very highly of those who would give kids anything so good.
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Instant mashed potatoes came in a box. Mom tried Dad and I on them.....We both turned our noses up at them....She even tried half and half real mashed and instant....I alerted Dad to what she did. (I saw the box) Huge thumbs down for them. That was around 1960?
dmccarty
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Funny you mentioned mashed potatoes....
Yesterday, one of the kids wanted mashed potatoes to go with the ribs I was going to smoke/BBQ. We did not have enough time to make the potatoes from scratch, so I asked the wifey to looked for frozen mashed potatoes. She found some and we had them with dinner and they were REALLY good! :thumbsup::licking: Don't know the name though.
:confused3: Took 3 minutes in the microwave with a bit of the lid off. Two minutes with the lid completely off and another few minutes to cool off a bit. There must have been some push to sell instant mashed potatoes back in the day because my mom tried to sneak them into our dinner but my dad and I did not like them.
Wifey mentioned using instant mashed potatoes yesterday and there was a resounding NO from the eaters to be. :laughing::laughing::laughing:Later,
Dan
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I'd find it hard to believe that anyone could tell the instant mashed potatoes (properly prepared) from the others. This reminds me of my maternal grandfather refusing to eat sweet potato pie, but he liked pumpkin pie. My grandmother fed him a lot of sweet potato pie, but called it pumpkin pie and he liked it just fine.
