Weird foods your mom made

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.

Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, not all animal products.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think in the U.S. my mom's cabbage might seem unusual, but it was totally normal and still is normal in my country. Basically cabbage soup thing, which we still eat. Now that I think about it, when I moved here when I was 22, I used to make it all the time and bring it to work to eat. People looked at me really weird about it! Might explain how I did not gain the weight back then though!

This was me too (my dad); golabke and other cabbage dishes. But like a poster up thread my mom was aggressively 70s health food nut—wheat germ and brewers yeast on everything; homemade bread that could be used as a weapon; and something called tofu stroganoff that I still have nightmares about.

When my dad was cooking on my mom’s night shifts, it was kasha varnishkas and something he created called chicken surprise. Cream of mushroom soup based.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Before Vatican II, Catholics avoided meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. As this is a thread where people are reminiscing about their childhood, presumably pp is recalling that they didn’t eat meat on any Friday at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

+1. Not a thing in my very catholic family.

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Not food exactly, but menu planning and everything from a box/can. It was like how quickly can I get something on the table with minimal effort. It was very clear now cooking just didn’t interest her. Although, given all the pasta and ketchup threads, the one thing she did make from scratch was spaghetti sauce......and she was a 2nd gen Irish Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Isn't that tripe? I actually love tripe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

+1. Not a thing in my very catholic family.

Yep even though the rules are the same, the dishes different Catholics eat on Friday vary wildly. Are you from the upper Midwest? Then you probably never had egg sandwiches or bocadillos but you’ve been to a lot of fish fries.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Isn't that tripe? I actually love tripe.

I think tripe is intestines. My immigrant Italian grandparents cooked it for days to make it tender enough to eat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

Haha I'm the potato/egg poster. Chill. I didn't mean to offend. We never ate meat on Fridays, including Lent. Sort of like meatless Mondays, if you're familiar. She made crazy delicious pizza in a sheet pan, lentil soup etc. I was a picky eater and mom had to add protein that I would actually eat. I survived on tons of milk, eggs and pasta with egg, butter, fresh grated parm/reggiano (pastina for my Italian peeps). Still hate meat., barely eat it, unless I make it. People invite themselves for my Italian Sunday dinners at 3pm. You're all welcome when this thing is over 😉

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Before Vatican II, Catholics avoided meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. As this is a thread where people are reminiscing about their childhood, presumably pp is recalling that they didn’t eat meat on any Friday at all.

That's why my elementary school always had tuna casserole on Fridays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Isn't that tripe? I actually love tripe.

I think tripe is intestines. My immigrant Italian grandparents cooked it for days to make it tender enough to eat.

Tripe is the stomach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

At my grandma's house it was often fried egg sandwiches on homemade buns on summer nights when we visited. I still make myself a fried egg sandwich on bread at least once every couple of weeks.

I just remembered--for breakfast sometimes my mom would boil eggs and we'd eat them mashed up in a bowl with milk, salt, and pepper. Egg cereal I guess? Also milk toast. Other times just cereal (the choices were invariably cornflakes, rice krispies, cheerios, or puffed wheat. I hated puffed wheat then but loved it when I reached adulthood, but it's very hard to find. Everything now is all sugar or fancy organic cereals). The only time we had the sugary cereal was on car trips when my mom would buy those packs of assorted single serving cereal to eat in the car, we'd argue over who got the Sugar Pops)

[Anonymous]

My dad and uncle made spaghetti with sugar, just sugar on top. It is the grossest thing on the planet, ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Before Vatican II, Catholics avoided meat on all Fridays, not just during Lent. As this is a thread where people are reminiscing about their childhood, presumably pp is recalling that they didn’t eat meat on any Friday at all.

That's why my elementary school always had tuna casserole on Fridays.

We always had fish (on buns, like Filet O Fish) on fridays in the school cafeteria, too, no explanations needed. This was MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

At my grandma's house it was often fried egg sandwiches on homemade buns on summer nights when we visited. I still make myself a fried egg sandwich on bread at least once every couple of weeks.

I just remembered--for breakfast sometimes my mom would boil eggs and we'd eat them mashed up in a bowl with milk, salt, and pepper. Egg cereal I guess? Also milk toast. Other times just cereal (the choices were invariably cornflakes, rice krispies, cheerios, or puffed wheat. I hated puffed wheat then but loved it when I reached adulthood, but it's very hard to find. Everything now is all sugar or fancy organic cereals). The only time we had the sugary cereal was on car trips when my mom would buy those packs of assorted single serving cereal to eat in the car, we'd argue over who got the Sugar Pops)

You can buy bags of puffed wheat in regular stores like Giant and Safeway. They're in plastic bags, not boxes. Also health food stores. I love that too -- but not as much as "Super Sugar Smacks." Can't get away with a name like that now.