On 2012-08-28 13:38:38 +0000, jmcquown said:

> On 8/27/2012 1:16 PM, gtr wrote:
>> On 2012-08-27 02:08:26 +0000, jmcquown said:
>>
>>> I don't know about the OP but my mom admittedly hated to cook. She
>>> did it because she had to. She asked me once, "Where did you get your
>>> cooking gene?" Beats me. In the 1960's she became all about
>>> convenience foods. Boxed mashed potatoes. Banquet sliced turkey in
>>> gravy. And what do we have here? Fish sticks!
>>
>> My mom did the same. Before my teens my mom did all kinds of extravagant
>> cooking. But then when all the convenience foods popped up in the 60's
>> and her second husband was a meat-and-potatoes guy, she decided to
>> develop other skills.
>>
>> She never did fake potatoes, but she stopped doing escargot too.
>>
> Escargot is not something my mom ever cooked. She did introduce me to
> artichokes. Love 'em!
>
> I didn't like peas until I was in my 30's because the only kind she
> ever served was from a can. They were mushy, disgusting things. The
> first time I had fresh steamed peas it was a revelation! Wow! Peas
> are good!

Exactly the same here. The first peas I remember were when, in the
mid-60's my mom got addicted to Le Fleur canned peas: As you describe.
Any kind of straight-up frozen peas or even other brands of canned peas
cannot compare to thosfe worthless Le Fleur peas. I can not imagine
what she was thinking.