"W. Baker" > wrote in message
...
> Ozgirl > wrote:
>
>
> : "RodS" > wrote in message
> : ...
> : > On 17/03/2011 10:58 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
> : >> My mom always made the canned ones, mashed with marshmallows on
> the
> : >> top. I
> : >> always thought I hated them because of the marshmallows.
> : >
> : > Never seen canned sweet potato, never put marshmallow on a
> vegetable
> : > either, WHY would anyone put marshmallow on vegetables ? I must
> have
> : > led a sheltered life :-) Baked with butter and pinch of cinnamon
> : > sugar, nothing nicer.
>
> : Bought KFC for the kids tonight and they now have sweet potato
> fries.
> : Everyone but me was buying them.
> : Might be tempted to try them one day.. I can't imagine canned sweet
> : potato. As to the marshmallows, I'll have to keep imagining it
> Did
> : someone one day just say, oh what the heck, I am putting
> marshmallows on
> : my sweet potato?
>
> The marshmallow dish is a cassaarole of mashed sweet potatoes, often
> sweetened with brown sugar and/or pineapple juice, which is topped
> with
> teh marshmallows adn baked. This is often a holiday dish, like for
> thansgiving. Very sweet, as you can see. Not oneof y favorites even
> in
> pre-diabetes days, but very popular as the holidays dish, like pumpkin
> pie. My moher used to not use the marshmallows, but put slices of
> pineapple on top.
>
> Another holiday dish popular in the USA is that string bean cassarole
> made
> with cream of mushroom soup and ccanned french fried onions. As our
> thanksgiving meal alwasy had meat(turkey) we never even tried this
> dish,
> but it never filled me with confidence as a gourmet treat:-) I think
> it
> is thought of as a fancy vegetable tht is not difficult to make,
> paratiularly if you use frozen string beans, which is the only kind
> many
> peole know, evcept for those soggy canned ones. I know Julie was
> raised
> on them, but I never could stand them.
> to each hir own.
>
> Wendy

Canned onions? Wow, is there nothing you can't buy in a can there? As
a child the only veggie other than potato that I would eat was canned
peas I would eat them from the can lol. Although I do recall I ate
some raw peas sometimes as I was helping my mother shell them. I spread
my wings a bit when I started eating tomato sandwiches in my younger
teens, but they had to be very ripe, with lots of salt and on the bread
at least a couple of hours. It wasn't until I started WW in my early
20's (after putting on weight after marrying at 17 and having two kids)
that I started to eat lots of veggies. It was that or starve. Now, I
can't imagine not having veggies, I even prefer them over anything else.