"Stan Horwitz" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Kswck" > wrote:
>
>> Parent, other family member, friend? Or did you have to learn on your
>> own?
>>
>> Mom boiled every veggie to death. Figure ALL pork must be cooked in a fry
>> pan covered with mustard and sauerkraut, till it's dead, beef so rare it
>> would moo and chicken ONLY in a pressure cooker, or Shake-N-Bake.
>> (Don't get me started on her soups-she believed food was to keep you
>> alive...taste? 'You want that too? Why?').
>>
>> Learned on my own.
>
> Your mom sounds a lot like my mom. My mom used to cook vegetables either
> barely cooked or burnt and everything was either canned or frozen;
> rarely fresh. Main courses ranged from overdone baked chicken to boiled
> steak. My mom never liked to cook, and the results showed it. When my
> dad wasn't home for dinner, my mom always ordered pizza for delivery or
> she took me and my sister out to eat.
>

We used to have a stupidmarket called ShopRite (it's still around, but not
in my area). Mom believed that when they had their 'Can-Can' sale, you
should buy every can of sauce, veggies, etc you could get your hands on-even
if you didn't need it.
I remember Mom going to visit a friend for a month or so. Dad and I refused
to acutally buy anything other than milk (for his coffee-I never drank it)
for the entire time she was gone. We were to use ONLY all those cans she
bought and whatever was in the cabinets.
After a month or so, dinner was nothing more than canned tomaotes and pasta.

AND she was ****ed that all her cans were gone when she came home-and the
process started all over again after a new 'Can-Can' sale.