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Posted: 10/3/2018 6:02:53 PM EST

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Mom's homemade BLT sandwiches. Now I am hungry.

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I forgot about those.

Posted: 10/3/2018 6:06:53 PM EST

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white trash "mac and cheese"

Ingredients:

1 lb spaghetti
1 sleeve generic saltine type crackers
1 lb package of generic american cheese slices
1 cup of 2% milk

boil spaghetti 9 minutes and drain
layer spaghetti into a baking dish alternating layers with cheese slices until spaghetti is used. top layer should be cheese slices.
crush up the crackers with a rolling pin
cover cheese slices with cracker dust
pour milk over the top to moisten the crushed up crackers
bake at 350 until the top is brown and crispy

serve slices

Posted: 10/3/2018 6:08:22 PM EST

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Ketchup steak. Cheap beef slow simmered in a ketchup based sauce with onions. Served over mashed potatoes. I made some a few years ago using cube steak and it was still good.

Posted: 10/3/2018 6:12:54 PM EST

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Taco Bell Enchirito circa 1984.

Good Beef
Good Beans
Good Red Sauce
Finely shredded good cheese
3 Black Olives on top

Posted: 10/3/2018 6:17:11 PM EST

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Beef back bone. Poor people food.

Could get it for 30¢ a pound. My mom would boil it and cook potatoes. You'd work your ass off getting the meat out between the bones so you could eat it.

I loved it. Haven't had it in 30+ years.

Posted: 10/3/2018 6:23:35 PM EST

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When I was in 6th, 7th, & 8th grades (early 60's), we had a neighborhood lunch counter made in a mobile home. I can't remember the name of it, but I remember the old jewish guy who ran it. Abe Schatz was the old boy's name. German accent.

Ol' Abe came up with the 'Beatle Burger'. It was a hot dog with many slices into the side of it so it could be formed into a ring. He'd grill them on the flat grill, toast a bun, and assemble it with cream coleslaw on top of the hotdog ring. I guess the coleslaw was supposed to resemble long hair.

It sounds corny as hell, but in 1963 everything was 'Beatles'. He had 2-3 hundred school kids in there for lunch every freakin' day. Actually Beatle Burgers were really tasty and ol' Abe made a fuckin' fortune.

I've been a fan of capitalism ever since.

Posted: 10/3/2018 8:30:14 PM EST

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Raw ground round? Is that good?

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was excellent

but has to be fresh, from a reputable butcher

Posted: 10/3/2018 8:38:17 PM EST

[#8]

Bean soup, fry bread, and wojapi.

Posted: 10/3/2018 8:50:18 PM EST

[#9]

Fried bologna sandwich

Posted: 10/3/2018 9:07:28 PM EST

[#10]

Good stuff !!!!

Posted: 10/3/2018 9:25:35 PM EST

[#11]

Barbeque chips and grape jelly.

Posted: 10/3/2018 9:39:22 PM EST

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City chicken

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Posted: 10/3/2018 9:42:17 PM EST

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Chipped beef the way my wife’s family loved it.

Posted: 10/4/2018 10:49:43 AM EST

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When I was a kid we didn't get much meat to eat. Especially lunch meat or anything pre-fab/pre-cut.

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Sounds like my childhood, cheap hotdogs were probably the best meat we had. We got to drink powdered milk all the time too. Desert was usually a frozen banana.

Now my child is spoiled rotten(mothers choice, not mine at all) and it really irks me when she doesn't eat all of her food.

Posted: 10/4/2018 10:56:46 AM EST

[#15]

King Ranch Chicken...

Posted: 10/4/2018 10:57:12 AM EST

[#16]

My grandmothers chili, and her Calamari.

Fluffernutter

Vienna susages

Posted: 10/4/2018 11:02:45 AM EST

[#17]

Sardines and ketchup. Don’t know when I stopped eating that. Five or six I suppose. Won’t touch a sardine now.

My mom and a friend’s mom made a dish called ‘shipwreck’. If memory serves, it was egg noodles, cheese, peas and ground beef. Man I loved that stuff.

Posted: 10/4/2018 11:05:44 AM EST

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Bread cereal. Soft white bread torn into pieces, liberally sprinkled with sugar, and covered in milk.

Many decades later I was told this was poor man's cereal!

And Hamburger Helper Potatoes Are Rotten or Beef Strokin' Off.

Posted: 10/4/2018 11:28:17 AM EST

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Space Food Sticks.

BBQ Beef boil in a bag, only the big tub of BBQ Beef was better.

The tamales you could buy out of the steamer at 7/11

Posted: 10/4/2018 11:52:31 AM EST

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My grandmother used to make homemade tomato soup. She'd make a bunch and then preserve it in jars. It was a little bit spicy I'm guessing because she added jalapenos.

When she died the recipe was lost. Nobody thought to ask her for that recipe because none of her children liked it. They grew up depression level poor and she made it from their garden vegetables. They ate it twice a week because it was essentially a free meal and she could make enough to preserve. To this day my mom won't eat tomato soup.

Me and grandpa thought it was fantastic.

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:06:51 PM EST

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Thought about this 10 minutes ago. They dont have any more of make anymore
Mr. P’s Pepperoni Pizzas
Bunker Hill Beef Tips and Gravy
Chi Chis Mexican Lasagna
Ramen flavored Ramen

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:12:22 PM EST

[#22]

Fried apple and peach pies

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:21:21 PM EST

[#23]

You guys remember the chow mein from the 70s? Came in two cans... the top can was taped to the lower can. So american it's not even funny. But looking back, it was palatable....almost looked forward to it.

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:27:45 PM EST

[#24]

Salisbury Steak
Green Peas
Mashed potatoes

You have to mix the peas and potatoes though and cover with steak gravy.

And chipped beef on toast.

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:40:11 PM EST

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Liver and Onions

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Amen

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:41:32 PM EST

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You guys remember the chow mein from the 70s? Came in two cans... the top can was taped to the lower can. So american it's not even funny. But looking back, it was palatable....almost looked forward to it.

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its still in the grocery store

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:43:42 PM EST

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Chicken fried steak or pork chop. I think it's been over 20 years since I've had some.
Down home southern cooking doesn't exist up here.

I

Posted: 10/4/2018 12:58:03 PM EST

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You guys remember the chow mein from the 70s? Came in two cans... the top can was taped to the lower can. So american it's not even funny. But looking back, it was palatable....almost looked forward to it.

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LAchoy, you can still buy it.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:09:05 PM EST

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I think the boneless country style spare ribs, which is sliced pork butt, used to be cheap so mom would put them in a crock pot, cover them with bbq sauce, and cook all day.

Hot dog casserole, mac and cheese with hotdog franks sliced up in it.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:18:46 PM EST

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Freakin northerners

fried squash/okra

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Freakin southerners.

-Chopped hot dogs and beans in the oven
-Hickory Farms beef stick and Wheat Thins
-Orange Julius drink

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:33:56 PM EST

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One of my favorite meals as kid back in the 1950s and 1960s was the traditional beans and weenies. We would have it every couple of weeks or so and that to me that was always a treat. Campbell's pork and beans with sliced Oscar Mayer hot dogs. A little onion, catsup and mustard mixed in as it simmered in a casserole dish in the oven.

I got married in 1971 and my wife had not grown up eating it so it wasn't on her dinner rotation. I haven't eaten it in decades.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:40:07 PM EST

[#32]

My mom used to make elbow macaroni and tomato paste.

And I'll also never forget her spaghetti.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:50:09 PM EST

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None. My mom was the worst cook in the world. So bad that most days we would keep a baggie in our pockets to secretly put our dinner in to take out to the dog. Especially any kind of meat. So bad that her cooking almost killed my dog because he nearly choked to death on a piece of meat she had cooked, I had to stick my fingers in his throat to pull it out. Her favorite meat dish was a round steak boiled in Campbell's tomato soup in an electric skillet for 4 hours, shoe sole leather was considerably more tender. So bad that I once ate dry Gravy Train instead of what she cooked for dinner, it doesn't taste nearly as good as they make it look in the commercial. The only exception was for things like mac&che, hamburger helper, hot dogs etc. She burnt and triple overcooked everything, "I've got to kill the germs!" was her standard response. Never knew what fast-food or carryout was, never went to a restaurant until I was in my teens. About the only thing I can remember liking from my childhood was banana flavored Koogle and instant eggnog mix. Neither of which they make anymore. Thanks OP for dredging up my repressed memories.

My hippo-krampus was doing just fine until now.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:55:06 PM EST

[#34]

Roller Coasters.

Posted: 10/4/2018 1:58:34 PM EST

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My mom made S.O.S. With a cheese sauce I really enjoyed. Sadly she doesn’t remember how she made it.

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:43:40 PM EST

[#36]

Fried rabbit (tame or wild) Homemade Biscuits,gravey and fried taters with a little onion

The other was fried fresh pork tenderloin and biscuits while we continued processing the hog that we just slaughtered on Thanksgiving Day.

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:49:46 PM EST

[#37]

scrambled eggs and pepperoni.

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:52:10 PM EST

[#38]

Scrapple and grape jelly. Hard to find any decent scrapple in the FL Panhandle

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:52:47 PM EST

[#39]

Fuckin' biscuits and gravy...

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:53:56 PM EST

[#40]

Hamburger patties and mashed potatoes.

Posted: 10/4/2018 3:57:23 PM EST

[#41]

Fried Chicken and French Fries.

Posted: 10/4/2018 4:31:02 PM EST

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My mother made the best cornbread stuffing ever. There. It's taken me ten years, but I finally came up with something good to say about the bitch.

Posted: 10/4/2018 4:32:28 PM EST

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My mother made the best cornbread stuffing ever. There. It's taken me ten years, but I finally came up with something good to say about the bitch.

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Posted: 10/4/2018 4:58:21 PM EST

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Sancho's

Posted: 10/4/2018 5:08:37 PM EST

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You guys remember the chow mein from the 70s? Came in two cans... the top can was taped to the lower can. So american it's not even funny. But looking back, it was palatable....almost looked forward to it.

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That was a treat way back when.

Still a treat now, in a different way.

Posted: 10/4/2018 6:08:54 PM EST

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You guys remember the chow mein from the 70s? Came in two cans... the top can was taped to the lower can. So american it's not even funny. But looking back, it was palatable....almost looked forward to it.

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Chun King Chow Mein, "invented" by the famous Chinese chef, Jeno Palucci, the same guy responsible for Pizza Rolls. Now owned by Lachoy.

Posted: 10/4/2018 6:13:21 PM EST

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Mom would make omelets with grape jelly inside. Turns my stomach thinking about it now

Posted: 10/4/2018 6:14:47 PM EST

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We had Sloppy Joes last night , for the first time in decades.

Nothing from a can , all home made.

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Ugh, How could you choke that down without that sheetmetal aftertaste?

Posted: 10/4/2018 6:34:38 PM EST

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When I was a kid we didn't get much meat to eat. Especially lunch meat or anything pre-fab/pre-cut.

I thought Bologna was what rich kids ate and I thought the lower middle class kids were rich because I hung out with them and when I went to their house sometimes I would be fed lunch. I usually only got lunch at school for free (pink ticket).

The lunch at my friends would sometimes consist of bologna sandwiches and sometimes even Doritos or potato chips (Which I also rarely ever saw which made them un-fucking believable tasting!).

One of my happiest memories was sitting out on my buddy Mike's porch on a summer day and chowing down on a bologna sandwich that his mom made me on white bread.

At the time it was the best thing I ever tasted. So salty with mayo and yellow mustard oozing out of it. doritos in a plastic sandwich bag that had no ziplock. The bread was as soft as a marshmallow. I could barely contain myself.

It is burned into my memory. I couldn't believe they would throw the sandwich bags away because they were still good to put things in!

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