On Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:36:38p, Kswck told us...

>
> "Stan Horwitz" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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.
>
>
>

UGH!

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