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Erik Ks farmer

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The post about hominy got me to thinking about some of the things my grandpa used to eat. Some of them grew on me with age, like beets, turnips, spinach. But some of them were just too much for me, like the pickled pigs feet, and cold vienna sausages. Anything you remember dad or grandpa eating that you just can't stomach?
 
here's another, grandpa would put butter and jelly on his biscuits and then cover them with sausage gravy for breakfast.
 
Goosefat on bread, blood pudding and bermunch(I may have that spelled wrong)its milk,diced pieces of bread and blueberries, served cold.
 
Dill pickles, olives, beets, turnip, old cheese, dark or hoppy
beer, raw onions and fish without batter . They seem to appeal
more to seniors than teens.
 
When a hog was butchered, my Dad would eat scrambled eggs with pigs brains mixed in.
Guess that's where the saying came from. You eat everything on a pig but the squeal!
 
Dad used to eat them there dang little fish, sour-deans between two slices of bread cover with mustard, Dang heads out one end and tails out the other! Damm things bout made me puke to look at em.
 
91 year Dad STILL likes the turkey neck at Thanksgiving before carving!
He had (and liked) grits with us yesterday and still talks about head cheese.
Taught me about beef heart and tongue, chicken gizzards, herring done any way and "Mountain Oysters"!

Still dream about Mom's homemade potatoe pancakes.
 
When he butched a pig in the fall he would boil the lard off the skin and let the cracklings drain and he kept it most of the winter or until it was gone. He would warm up milk and mix the crackling in it for breakfast. He also ate liverwurst, pickled herring, and dutch rusk. I still like all of these yet today but cannot get crackling
 
Things my Daddy ate that turned my stomach:
chitterings fried (hog guts)
hog brains mixed with eggs
polk salad mixed with eggs
sardines
oyster soup
 
Our neighbor on the farm in C WI... In summer when it was hot, he would put a handful of oatmeal & a handful of salt in a 2 qt' mason jar, fill it about 3/4 with water. Let it sit in the sun for a couple hours. that's what he would drink while shocking oats all afternoon. I never tried it. I saw my G Pa crack & drink 2 fresh eggs that he found in the horses meanger. I did try that once, pretty hard to get down.
 


I remember my Grandpa on my Moms side going into the chicken coop, popping a hole in each end of an egg and sucking the egg out of the shell.
My Dad used to the about taking lard sandwiches to grade school.
Mom liked gizzards, hearts, liver and cow tongue.
Us kids had cold yellow eye bean sandwiches in grade school.
 
My Dad loved sardines the ketchup and mustard kind.
Grandad had rice three meals a day as long as I knew Him. I like rice but not that much.
Ron
 
Back in the day, po' folks ate lots of things. A good part of the meat on our table came out of the woods or ponds. Armadillo tastes like chicken..and pork...and beef. Once Momma cooked a chicken hawk in a pan of dressing. Never again. We ate robins, blackbirds, woodcocks. Squirrels, rabbits, quail and doves were staples, as were fish and bullfrogs. Strangely, we never ate a coon, and we damn sure never ate a possum.

No part of a chicken or a squirrel was wasted: ever have chicken foot stew, or squirrel brains?
Liver---beef, pork or chicken---was a delicacy. We liked pork cracklins, but I never cared for chitlins. As far as store-bought goodies, we had lots of vienna sausage, potted meat and baloney. We bought tins of sardines a couple dozen at a time. I still eat 'em occasionally. Had an uncle whose favorite meal was canned pork brains, eggs and biscuits.

My palate is a bit more refined these days, but I could go back to the 'good ole days' if I had to.
 
Mom's dad loved hog stomach stuffed with vegetables. Grandma would sew it shut and bake it. No thanks. Of course, he also loved brain and eggs. Again, no thanks.

Had pickled cow tongue once - it was very good. Roast beef texture.
 
I bought some liver sausage and head cheesse today. For JUST one meal I had rather have pork liver than a steak. Only want a couple meals with porl liver though. I do not want beef liver or chicken liver. Of course I am a Dutchman
 
Any czechs here, sausage made from the head meat of the hog, jaterice/jaternice, czech name was pronounced ithernitze(sp), I still eat some of it if I can find it, I'm 41 and my mom's mom asked me to bring her some since she like the meat market/butcher we had in our town, she lived 30 miles away. Most people I know won't get close to it, it does look like the stuff that comes out of the back end of the hog. chris
 
Yep, my mom and dad would eat cow tongue...eeeewwwwww! Might have tried it, if sliced thinly and put into a sandwich without my knowing. But I saw the entire thing before and after cooking - a sight never to be forgotten. YUCK!

And my grandpa on my mom's side of the family ate young chicken's feet after butchering. Had to be young chickens (pullets) - then grandma cooked the actual feet and I guess he ate them with gusto. Never observed it - he died before I was old enough to even have any memories of him... MAYBE from eating chicken feet. LOL
 
Jerry S,

LOL... just reading the rest of the posts after my reply. Look above - my grandpa like chicken feet.
 
My grandpa, a Danish immigrant, used to eat carp
caught out of the Missouri river under the Blair
bridge in the summertime. To fix them he'd get the
oil in the pan so hot it would just about catch
fire, then he'd throw in the carp. He said the oil
burned up the small bones. I can't tell you how it
tasted because I was never brave enough to eat it.
I never was much of a fish guy anyway. My other
grandpa said he had eaten muskrat and it wasn't
all that bad.

The fella I used to sell furs to would stand there
skinning furs and reach into the potato chip bag
with his bloody hand and grab a handful to eat. It
about made me lose my cookies.Jim
 
The skin around pork hocks, soaked in a bowl of warmed buttermilk.

The rest of us used to pull the skin off, eat the meat, and then cut the skin up and mix it in with the dogs food as a treat that they loved, just not in front of Gramps.

Mark
 
Oh, I like tongue just fine. Gosh, thanks for the reminder.

Here is something you might like. Couple of beef hearts diced, boiled until tender, pour off most of the boiled water, keeping the skim, toss in a few cans of mushroom soup and mix as a gravy with all of those chunks of heart, put over rice. That's some good stuff there, and inexpensive. That is mighty goooood stuff.

Mark
 
Grandpa loves fried onion on toast with horseradish. Grandma fixes it for him, but hates the aftermath! I guess being married for 73 years, she has to love him no matter what!
 
(quoted from post at 18:21:40 01/14/13) The post about hominy got me to thinking about some of the things my grandpa used to eat. Some of them grew on me with age, like beets, turnips, spinach. But some of them were just too much for me, like the pickled pigs feet, and cold vienna sausages. Anything you remember dad or grandpa eating that you just can't stomach?
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Most of these I like, some I don't....
oyster stew
cream on bread
scrambled pig brains and eggs
cold pork&beans mixed with hot scrambled eggs
fried piggy meat (head meat, oatmeal and spices)
pickled herring
cow tongue
tiger meat
 
pic 1 Kishka pic 2 lamb/vension sausage.

Matthies
We called it Jaternice growing up. There is a Czech store that bakes quite a bit and has limited meats 15 miles away. They havent had it when I looked. I eat it now and then if I can ever find it.

Beef tongue, delicious. ha ha. I have 3 sheep tongues in the freezer right now. Had Kishka on Friday, and blood sausage today. Amazing what you can make from what others throw away. All the weird things I eat, liver gets fed to the dogs.

My grandpa... liver/onions, burnt toast. Then a relaxing pipe with black cherry tobacco with a short glass of MD 20/20.

Rick
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pork brain(used to be sold in can)
poke salad and eggs
bacon or ham grease sopped with biscuit
He drank Luzianne coffee with chicory strong enough to walk off the table
 
On my Dad's side, Grandaddy would eat 'possum. Dad said he at it when he was young, but never fixed any. Dad fixed a turtle a few times. Dad loved to suck the meat off the neckbones of chickens. When we killed hogs, Mom and Dad would cook the heart, tongue, and a few other things together. We never ate chittlins' or "mountain oysters".
 
ooh man chicken feet are the best thing going cooked in cream! they are skinned you know. nothing dirty. long time since had them. i remember even the city slickers coming to our farm when mother had chicken boiling for supper. uncle would sneek the gizard and feet out of the pot and eat them, and thought that was a big joke on the rest of us.
 
After he finished a meal, my Dad would often take a spoon full of home ground pure horseradish and eat it like it was cake! I like just a little, but a spoonful would be way too much for me.
 
Grandpa talked about eating goose grease sandwiches when times were tough. Doesn't sound good to me but it probably provided alot of energy and beat starving!
 
Interesting comments.
I grew up eating and still like most of the things people have mentioned here.
Except squash.
You hear that Larry in the corner?
You can keep your darned squash :)
 
pig hocks, pickled pigs feet, limburger cheese and raw onion samwiches, raw eggs (poke a hole in each end and suck the egg out), fruitcake, fried brains and scrambled eggs, brewers yeast and water....jeezz...
 
Helped Dad and my Uncle make head cheese many times. Ate it on homemade bread with onions and a little vinegar. Not a big fan but we ate. Dad was German from a family of 14 so if it walked or swam in Minnesota it likely hit the table when Dad was growning up.

Rendered our own lard and made cracklins. Chicken feet never made the menu.

Dad would pick any kind of fruit from a tree and Mom would can it. Nothing was wasted and we stopped at many a farmhouse to ask if we could do some picking.

About anything can be stuffed into a natural casing and called sausage. And it will be good too.

Pickled herring. I've had it made with northern pike as well, tastes the same.

Endive salad with bacon/bacon fat to wilt it/boiled potatoes/boiled eggs. Still eat the crap out of that. Had it with young dandelion leaves a few times too.

Braunschweiger sandwiches - better with miracle whip.

Pickled beets and when the jar was empty a few boiled eggs went in. Us kids liked how they turned purple on the inside.

Dad likes mince meat pie. I think he's made kidney pie as well. Boiled tongue and heart is good, looks funky especially the tongue when you are pealing the taste buds off. I like it sliced thin and cold with salt and pepper. Fried liver and onions with mustard. Don't forget the bacon, everything is better with bacon!
 
Anybody that has ever eaten sausage, hot dogs, cheap
luncheon meat and the cheaper canned meats. They have
eaten every part of the animal and then some. Can"t say
Grandpa ever ate anything grosser than that.
 
Ate most of those things growing up except armadillo, opossum,and blackbirds. Funny about the squirrel brains I remember Dad cracking the head and sucking out the brains. Thanks alot for reviving that memory..LOL. Ate raccoon one time without knowing it before hand It was good. Love Chitlins and cracklins.
Ron
 
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