On 3/17/2011 4:04 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> On 18/03/2011 12:05 AM, W. Baker 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.
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> Why is canned chicken hard to imagine? It was a common thing to make during
> the depression.
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lol

canned chicken *(gack)* is a staple 'easy meal' that we have, oh, 6
times a year

get some curry butter sauce and add the canned chicken, it's almost
tolerable that way

ok, it's good, but not my first choice............. i do RINSE the
canned foods many times to reduce the sodium content

kate