"15 Disgusting Foods Your Grandparents Probably Loved"
On 8/26/2015 3:25 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-08-25 1:13 PM, Kalmia wrote:
>> My grands were all born in the 1800s, so you can well imagine that
>> they knew how to cook and ate real food. Fortunately, the knowledge
>> was passed onto my mother who was an excellent cook.
>
> As were mine. My maternal grandmother was the youngest of them, born in
> 1900. They ate real food, but they had a much more limited diet than we
> enjoy these days. My mother's father was a much better cook than her
> mother. He was the one who prepared the holiday meals and he was the
> one who did all the cooking. My other grandmother was a passable cook
> but had an extremely limited repertoire. She had a weekly menu, by which
> I mean that she cooked 7 different dinners. There was the Monday night
> menu, the Tuesday night menu, the Wednesday night menu..... It was the
> same thing every week.
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