Comments on: What You Eat At Granny’s

By: Lenore

Lenore — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:04:50 +0000

My grandmother FORCED my husband to eat a yogurt which was 2 months past its consume by date, insisting the whole time that IT WAS STILL GOOD! Then she drove us around the city recklessly, but that is another story.

By: bybee

bybee — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:22:41 +0000

Worst food/biggest shock:

I was doing a short term class here in Korea at an elementary school on Saturday mornings. Already grumpy about having every other Saturday taken away, I was nonetheless looking forward to the usual cup of coffee the principal usually offered me. Ten minutes passed, and no offer of coffee as usual. Finally, the secretary brings me half of a Dixie cup of what looks like apple juice. I took a drink…it was vinegar! I completely forgot to be culturally sensitive. Glowering, I said, “What’s that?” My student worker explained that it was apple vinegar “for your health”. I was so thirsty and disappointed I couldn’t rearrange my expression. For the rest of the classes, I got coffee upon arrival!

By: Becky

Becky — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:24:07 +0000

I just threw up in my mouth.

And I can’t think of anything super weird, but I’m incredibly picky, so most things gross me out.

By: Care

Care — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:58:26 +0000

This sort-of reminds me of something fun I heard the other day… A friend’s great aunt was celebrating her 100 birthday and when asked the secret to her longevity, she answered, ‘Martinis and cabbage.”

gotta love it!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:48:47 +0000

An elderly woman at our church used to offer us food all the time, but she’d leave things like sour cream and cottage cheese on the table all day, so I was always scared to eat it. She also like to freeze Twizzler and use them as straws!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:30:23 +0000

Butterscotch pudding… for breakfast. Bleck.

By: Ti

Ti — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:15:24 +0000

It’s possible that she did not know about the bread, right? Did you toss the bread after you saw it? Or did she make some comment about it being perfectly good?

At granny’s house, there were two items that were questionable:

1) the year old jar of bacon grease that she continued to add to. This is what she made her biscuits out of.

2) the stick of butter that was always in the cabinet…not the fridge! She never stored butter in the fridge. EVER! I am a butter girl when I have bread but I never got sick from it. Go figure.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:53:55 +0000

Isn’t that dangerous!?
I mean, she must be immune to it or something because I always though mold was… bad for you lol
I wonder if she KNOWS there’s mold, did you ask her?

My mom always tells me it’s okay to eat expired yogurt. I disagree. She insists that if it doesn’t smell funky it’s fine to eat. There’s definitely a lot of WAY expired foodstuffs in our household. I’d really really like to chuck it all, but I’m not in for a discovery of nastyness right at this moment.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:17:56 +0000

Years ago I was cleaning out the fridge, and my live-in boyfriend came in as I was emptying half a jar of moldy marinara sauce down the sink. He said, “What are you doing??” I told him. An argument ensued in which he told me to tell him next time before I “wasted perfectly good food,” because he thought it was still perfectly good and he would have eaten it. He definitely didn’t live through the Depression, as he was born in 1973.

By: Ladytink_534 (Jen)

Ladytink_534 (Jen) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:33:32 +0000

Ew! And I thought my Meme with her soda crackers in her coffee was bad! I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that could even compare…