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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "RodS" > wrote in message
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>> On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker wrote:
>>> > wrote:
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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.

>
> Why is canned chicken hard to imagine? It was a common thing to make
> during the depression.



Heh, not here When I was very young I was rooting through a kitchen
drawer and found some ration stamps one was for sugar, I think the
other tea. I wish I had them now for memorabilia. My family (parents,
grandparents etc) lived mostly on bread and dripping and the few items
they could buy with stamps. Canned chicken would have been the biggest
treat on earth for Australians during the depression.