BS: GROSS comfort food

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,Goodnight Grace
Date: 15 Dec 10 - 11:54 AM

Gross holiday food: sour cream and dried french onion soup mix dip and potato chips. Gross breakfast: Fried egg over easy with ketchup on top -- dip toast in egg yoke and ketchup mess. Even grosser sauce for fried eggs: Campbells tomato soup (no water added), A-1 sauce, dried onions mixed up.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 01:29 AM

When I'm performing at the Shannon Pub in Buffalo, NY, I simply have to have the following for dinner at least one of the nights:

an order of Buffalo wings correctly prepared i.e. deep-fried until crisp, and then smothered in Durkee's "Frank's Louisiana Hot Sauce" with celery sticks and blue cheese sauce for dipping, accompanied by a pint of Guinness and followed by a hot fudge sundae. Exquisite.

And the Shannon makes the best Buffalo wings outside of the Anchor Bar.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: mousethief
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 02:16 AM

Fried potato sandwich (thick sliced potatoes fried in bacon drippings and sandwiched between soft white bread, salt and pepper to taste.

I haven't had that in ages! That was comfort food when I was a kid -- and navy bean sandwiches with fresh chopped onions.

Other comfort foods in my family growing up were pancakes 'n' gravy, and torn bread ends 'n' gravy. Also turn bread ends and dark Karo syrup.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: EBarnacle
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 02:33 AM

Don't forget fried bread!

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 03:54 AM

When I'm home in Belfast, I have the traditional Ulster fry:

Fried bacon, fried beef sausages, fried pork sausages, fried eggs, fried tomatoes, fried black pudding, fried white pudding, fried potato farls, fried soda bread, fried wheaten bread, fried sliced plain or pan loaf, salt, pepper and HP sauce. And a mug of tea. BTW, everything is fried in lard, or at least the bacon and sausage fat.

Some people add baked beans, but I find that truly disgusting.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,BobL
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 05:44 AM

You're not supposed to fry baked beans!

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 06:36 AM

What about 'refried beans'? :-P

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: eddie1
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 07:16 AM

As a kid, a couple of rare treats only to be sampled when parents weren't around were sandwiches made with white bread, butter and sugar or with HP sauce, brown or red!

Eddie

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 09:37 AM

No mention of that great British dish, baked beans on toast! With a fried egg on top!

Lay two slices of toast side by side on a plate, ladle the beans over both, and gently place an egg fried sunnyside-up on top of each.

Works best with home-made beans, and a dollop of HP Sauce on each egg.

Devour with tea ...

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,999
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 12:34 PM

I guess my favourite would have to be bread--whole wheat of course--fried in bacon fat. I have about two slices per six month period. I know bacon`s not good for a guy.

Forgot to mention I lightly salt it.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 03:12 PM

For some people it is the bread that is not good for a guy, not the bacon. mg

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Genie
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 03:20 PM

Back in the disco days, I used to burn off a thousand calories or so on the dance floor at a local restaurant called O'Callahans -- and then put back probably twice that many by ordering their "Garbage Grinder" burger.

IIRC, it had 1/4 lb. (at least) hamburger, cheese, bun, a fried egg, 2 strips of bacon, mayonnaise (I might have had them hold that), ketchup (which I definitely did have them hold), mustard, pickles, onions, tomato, lettuce. It might even have had guacamole too.

But that was real "comfort food!"

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Joe_F
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 05:23 PM

gnu: Actually, I was a pretty good one in my day. %^)

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 05:23 PM

The best 'fry bread' is found on the Navajo homeland (I wouldn't refuse it from any other tribe who makes it).

1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon powdered milk
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup water

Mix dry ingredients in a bowl, then pour water over it and stir with a fork until it clumps. Using floured hands, mix the dough, form a ball but do not knead. The inside if the ball should be sticky and the outside well-floured.
Cut the dough into 4 pieces; shape, stretch and pat into a rough round about 5-7 inches in diameter.

Heat vegetable oil to 350 F, about 1 inch, in a large, cast iron skillet. Check with a small piece to see if it bubbles and begins to fry.
Gently place the formed dough in the oil. Press down on the dough as it frys, to submerse the top. Fry to brown and flip. Each side takes 3-4 minutes.
Some use the entire recipe in one round, pizza-sized; a little more difficult.
Take out and keep warm (but serve within an hour).
Cover with your choice of syrup or molasses, or roll lile a tortilla and use your choice of filling.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: gnu
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 07:07 PM

999... "Forgot to mention I lightly salt it."

Jaysus man!!! Joe F ain't got nUthin on you. Salt the bacon fat fried bread? That's not gross... that's fookin sick. My cheeks, what are left of them after the slice&dices are sucked in at the very thought.

You win, hands down... I hope. Oh my, oh my.

Bread fried in bacon fat... and then add salt? I shall have a hard time getting that off my cheeks. That oughtta be a blues song about hard times er arteries er both.

But, I asked, eh? Didn't think I'd hear that one, tho. Again... oh my!

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 16 Dec 10 - 08:38 PM

Lots of memories in the contributions above. Kids will eat almost anything, or they did when I was one.

Beans on toast is universal, not just British. We had it with a sausage on the side.
And I remember the spam with potatoes, sweet or otherwise.

Two from university.
A Salisbury steak (giant burger without bun), with a large scoop of baked beans and lots of Ketchup, toasted bun on the side. (Nighthawk in Austin).
Steak tartare, with mugs of dark beer (German place by the Gesangverein, Austin).
Loco moko- Two burger patties, two scoop rice, two scoop gravy, bun on the side. (Several places in Hawai'i).

One we do about once a month-
Two slices of supermarket 'dutch crunch' bread, containing fried thick-cut bacon, old Canadian cheddar, sliced tomato, a layer of each. The sandwich toasted in butter.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Charmion
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 09:25 AM

Q, your toasted bacon-and-cheese sandwich has a noble relation in French cuisine, the famous "croque Monsieur," which is basically a grilled cheese sandwich with a slice of Westphalian ham in it. Without ham, you get "croque Madame."

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:03 PM

Charmion, why stop at that? I fondly remember the Montecristo sandwiches at a favorite restaurant. Heaven!

Three slices bread, buttered one side
Butter one side of first slice
Cover first slice with a slice of ham and a slice of chicken.
Butter second slice both sides and top with good cheddar cheese
Butter third slice and place on top
Trim crusts
Cut in half (diagonally if desired) and secure with toothpicks.

Mix eggs and milk (as for French toast), and dip sandwiches in the mixture, until well-coated.

Fry in butter in hot skillet, adding more butter as needed.

The second bread slice may be mushy for your taste- Pre-fry in the skillet before assembly. All slices of meat and cheese should be warm.
Remove toothpicks and serve on a warm plate.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:09 PM

I have eaten at least twenty kinds of bannock made by the Cree, Slavee, Dodrib, Gwitchen and my sister (miss you, Nancy) who I think learned how to from either the Ojibwa or Mohawk. Hers was the best. She said the `secret` was to use the cheapest lard ya could find. Dang, she made whitefish one evening--it`s a great fish to eat--and I pigged out big time on the bannock. I think of it as one of the three or four best meals I ever ate.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:14 PM

The Montecristo is a good days-after-turkey meal. Slices of turkey are a good filling. There are many variations, the name is dependent only on dipping the entire sandwich in the egg-milk mixture and frying in butter.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 02:25 PM

`'dutch crunch' bread`

Man, that`s like ya died and went to heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Joe_F
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:28 PM

A couple of days ago I made Christmas cookies, and there was some dough left over after I had filled up the cookie sheets. So I save it in the fridge, and today I sauteed it in butter for use as a dessert.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: EBarnacle
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:39 PM

Don't forget the classic catsup sandwich, made with white bread.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: mousethief
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 06:51 PM

Don't forget the classic catsup sandwich, made with white bread.

That's two different food groups if you're Ronald Reagan!

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:03 PM

OK, I admit it. I like this one. Its from my youth:

Take a slice of bread, thick, home made is best.

Pour some gravy over it....don't be bashful, now.

Put some Molasses all over the top of it.

Eat and enjoy.


It may sound gross....but, it tastes just fine.
Once you have it, I'd wager you would have it again.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Dec 10 - 07:17 PM

I haven't had these two since I was a kid.

Start with freshly made (and crusty) home made bread.

#1

Take fresh heated bacon fat.

Put molasses in it.

Dip fresh bread into the mixture.

#2



Put brown sugar into a dish.
Add fresh (or as fresh as you can get) cream.
Dont mix it.

Dip your bread deep into it, capturing the mix.


My recollection is that they were good, but obviously not healthy.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 05:07 AM

Maybe not comfort, but perhaps GROSS ...

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:11 AM

I was probably in junior high when I first saw some newspaper mention
of someone marketing chocolate covered ants. For years I kept thinking I would get some, and pass some to my older sister without any hint of what they were. The odds were vary good that, if she ate them and then found out what they were, she would have "recycled" them immediately.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 01:29 PM

There are only 2 things I put ketchup on - mac 'n cheese and scrambled eggs.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:09 PM

BECCA! Eeeewwwwww.

Foolestroupe... my bro, when a teenager, ate a bowl full of chocolate covered grasshoppers in Spain. When he asked the waiter at the restaurant what this appetizer was and was told... he recycled immediately.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Becca72
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:18 PM

Well, it IS the 'gross' comfort food thread, Gnu! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: EBarnacle
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:51 PM

I am told that there is a restaurant in Montreal that specializes in various insects.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: gnu
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 04:54 PM

What's the Charest Special? Must be some kinda blood sucking leech.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 07:44 PM

Anyone here who doesn't know Utah's bowl-of-oatmeal story by now?

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: EBarnacle
Date: 20 Dec 10 - 11:02 PM

Welsh rarebit

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,seth in Olympia
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 02:42 AM

I got a 1944 copy of life Magazine from the library here and some of the stuff mentioned above was featured in "War-time Meal Planning" I always wondered where my mom and grandmother came up with such gross food, so this was informative to me-my mom said Spam was one of the few meat products you could get without using your "meat"coupons, so she and her friends used it a lot. My memory of Ohio cuisine from the forties and fifties had a lot of Spam, bologna, Velveeta and Mrs. Paul's fish-sticks in it, along with Chef Boy-ar-dee, and spinach that came in cans. Lettuce was iceberg-left Ohio as soon as I could, never moved back

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Dec 10 - 09:00 PM

Just got a present from my older son- A nice chunk of Spanish Serrano ham.

In Toledo (Spain) an appetizer consisted of thin slices of Serrano ham and wedges of sweet cantaloupe. So good I had to repeat order.

He also sent Spanish chorizo. It is made with some of the less useful parts of the pig, but lovely taste.
What parts? Don't ask, don't tell!

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 03:01 AM

Chips or fries served with gravy. It doesn't sound like it would go together but a nice rare indulgence.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 04:22 AM

"Chips or fries served with gravy. It doesn't sound like it would go together but a nice rare indulgence. "

Very popular in Australia - almost a 'standard' hotbox line, and I suspect English too.

The gravy is usually fairly salty, so it adds salt, as well as a little 'sauce' style lubrication.

A while ago here in Brisbane, a food chain started with 'New York Style' Hot Chips. Sadly, they did not last long, as the 'product', while probably very good for a snowy area, was laden with fat of various descriptions, and the extra energy was hardly needed in a sub tropical climate ... :-)

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Dec 10 - 06:14 PM

Fries covered in gravy- add cheese and you have poutin, the national dish of Quebec.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: frogprince
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 05:01 PM

We've just been staying with my wife's 92 year old father, who had a little hospital stay. He loves to make up a batch of instant mashed potatoes, and then pour on store-bottled gravy, cold from the refrigerator.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Dec 10 - 09:13 PM

A "Donair" is an ultimate comfort foods, especially with students,at the end of a night of drinking at local pubs.

A donair is an eastern Canadian variation on the döner kebab (also, some say it is a variation of a Greek Gyro) introduced in the early 1970s. The meat is shaved from a loaf (cooked on a rotating electric spit) made from a combination of (finely ground) ground beef, flour or bread crumbs, and various spices. The thickened sauce is made from evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar, and most often garlic. The meat and sauce are served rolled in (moist and briefly heated) pita bread with condiments such as diced tomato and raw diced onion.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: frogprince
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 04:10 PM

One more re the father-in-law. We also learned that if he doesn't consider the fare delived by "meals on wheels" on a given day to be tasty enough, he will probably pour bleu cheese salad dressing on it, whatever it may be, and chow down.

No, he isn't at all senile. He's just someone who has always been very much his own individual, and certainly isn't any less so at 92 years of age.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: gnu
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 04:49 PM

Good on him froggy!

I shall be at Nanna`s bakery mid afternoon tomorrow to collect fresh coconut cream and lemon meringue pies for Mum. I shall actually sample a taste of each as I had set a piece of CCP as my goal when I reached 200 pounds but did not partake. I just hope I don`t get the fever. Of course, such fare is not gross as intended in this thread. Simply gross from a scale POV.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 05:17 PM

Anyone have any good Eel recipies?

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Maryrrf
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 05:41 PM

Fried Conger Eel is a delicacy in Chile - my mouth is watering now thinking about it. It has the texture of a firm fleshed, white fish, and it's delicious. I think you simply bread it and fry it, and they also make a conger eel chowder that is wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 06:22 PM

Sounds tasty.
Do you have an eel spear I could borrow, gnu?

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: bobad
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:09 PM

Smoked eel is very nice, we would have it at home on special occasions.

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Ed T
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:15 PM

Do you catch, skin and smoke 'em yourself Bobad?

Subject: RE: BS: GROSS comfort food
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jan 11 - 07:30 PM

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