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Tonight's dinner
"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> RodS > wrote:
> : On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker wrote:
> : > > wrote:
> : >
> : >
> : > : > 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.
>
> : 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.
>
>
> : (- -)
> : =m=(_)=m=
> : RodS T2
> : Australia
>
> Remember that in the US, pupkin refers only to the one kind of winter
> hard
> shelled squash that is used eithe rfor Jack-O'Lanterns or Pumpkin pie.
> this is the kind that is found in cans so aas to make making the pie
> easier.
>
> Canned chicken strikes me as the pits too, but in books on home
> canning
> there are recipes for canning all kinds of meat. I assume these come
> from
> teh days when there was no refrigeration and was one way to preserve
> meat
> after slaughter .
>
> The french fried onions are almost a snack kind of food, greasy and
> crisp
> with a batter to us either alone or as a crunchy topping for something
> like that string bean casserole. Not really considered a real food.
>
> They you guys do have Vegemite. One can never acount for national
> preferecnes:-)
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