On 3/27/2021 6:27 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 13:46:17 -0600, US Janet >
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 14:57:27 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 2021-03-27 12:50 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>> On 3/27/2021 11:56 AM, Michael Trew wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>> I probably won't like canned again after I make it home made; never
>>>>> had it before.
>>>>
>>>> I grew up in a household where store-bought canned vegetables were the
>>>> norm.Â* I never actually tasted many fresh vegetables until I was an
>>>> adult, doing my own shopping.Â* (Mom did not like to cook.)Â* My memory of
>>>> canned "creamed" vegetables is not at all good.
>>>>
>>>
>>> When I was a kid in the 50s canned fruit and vegetables were the norm.
>>> There was only seasonal fresh produce and the only freezers had were
>>> those dinky things at the top of the fridge that would hole an ice tray
>>> and a few cans of orange juice concentrate.
>>
>> yep. I remember the Thanksgiving my mother wowed everyone with the
>> new frozen peas.
>> Janet US
>
> I never had fresh strawberries until I was a teenager...I had only
> seen those little sugary blocks in the freezer container that needed a
> church key to pry off the cover.
>
> I did like those frozen strawberries, though.
>
When I was a teenager my mother planted a small strawberry patch. It
was very pretty and the berries were nice. One day we started smelling
the stench of something not pleasant. Turned out a bird had died and
was rotting under the leaves. That sort of ruined the strawberry patch
for us.

Jill