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J. Clarke[_2_]

In article >,
says...
>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> m...
> > On 17/10/2010 5:21 PM, Serene Vannoy wrote:
> >
> >> Wow. When I was a kid, I once combined my two favorite Campbell's soups
> >> -- cream of mushroom and minestrone. That was the foulest concoction
> >> imaginable, and I ended up throwing it out. Barf.
> >
> >
> > My mother used to feed us Campbells cream of mushroom once in a while. It
> > was far from my favourite. Then someone fed me some freshly made cream of
> > mushroom and I realized how good it can be.
> >
> > My mother also tried to feed us a green bean and mushroom soup casserole.
> > I had recently been to my great uncle's farm and helped him slop the pigs.
> > The casserole looked just like the pig slop. Years later I discovered
> > that this stuff, topped with canned fried onions, is an American classic
> > for Thanksgiving <?> and my mother had me throw it together for us on our
> > last Christmas dinner together. I was surprised at how good it was.
>
> My mom put the cream of mushroom soup in tuna casserole. I don't recall
> having the green bean casserole until I was an adult. I liked it. My mom
> then said I had it as a kid but hated it. I made it again for Christmas
> dinner one year but used cream of celery soup because my brother won't touch
> anything with mushrooms in it.
>
> Daughter found the fried onions the other day and begged for a can. There
> was a recipe for making chicken breasts with them. I refused to get them
> for her. The recipe calls for an egg and I'm allergic. I'm sure I could
> have found a way to work around that if I really wanted to, but I didn't. I
> just figured she wouldn't like them. She doesn't really like onions.

FWIW, there was a time in my life that I didn't like onions. I can't
for the life of me figure out why. Perhaps she has reached the point in
_her_ life where she no longer dislikes onions.