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Default Tonight's dinner

On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker wrote:
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> : > wrote in message
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> :> On 17/03/2011 10:58 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> :>> 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.


Something else never seen here (at least I never have) a bit like canned
chicken and canned pumpkin also never seen and hard to imagine. What
other novel things do you lot put in a can :-) I *have* seen fried
grasshoppers, not a big seller though.


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RodS T2
Australia

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