Heck yeah- not even secretly
Yes, it's my dirty little secret
No, I avoid it like the plague
What's White Trash cuisine?
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How many of you secretly (or openly) eat White Trash cuisine? Fess up, and then let us all know your shameful delight.
For me, my only white trash vice (and it's not even that bad) is homemade icing on toast when I'm having a bad day and need trashy comfort food. But my father fries up bologna all the time and then slathers it with Miracle Whip and eats that with microwaved coffee (re-heated from earlier that morning). Too gross.
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....beef jerkey!
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I've been meaning to get this for years:
White trash cooking:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
Check out the index, which you can review.
Not sure what 'white trash' cooking is, unless it's scrambled eggs mixed in with grits and butter and eaten bite for bite with bacon...
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Uhhhh.....yup!
Chipped Beef on Toast (aka Sh!& on a Shingle)
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Julia and Ben's mommy
What a timely subject. I have been trying to figure out exactly what White Trash cuisine is for the past week. My supper club is having "White Trash" night next month, I am in charge of side dishes. I have NO IDEA what to bring that would be at all edible! I can think of a lot of things that are "white trash," but nothing that I would eat!
Most of my edible ideas have a southern, down-home, church-pot-luck kind of theme. Stuff I grew up with. Maybe I am white trash and didn't even know it!
We figured there was too much happiness here for just the two of us, so we figured the next logical step was to have us a critter.
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Just for curiosity sake I went online and looked up the definition of 'white trash' to see if it matched the understanding that I grew up with:
Main Entry: white trash
Function: noun singular but plural in construction
Date: 1831
usually disparaging : POOR WHITE
Main Entry: poor white
Function: noun
Date: 1819
often offensive : a member of an inferior or underprivileged white social group
I wonder how long that term will continue to be used in public conversation, in the interest of political correctness, diversity and inclusion.
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I HAVE this book! It is a hoot!Originally posted by beejayw1
I've been meaning to get this for years:
White trash cooking:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books
Check out the index, which you can review.
I think of white trash cooking as good southern home food mixed with instant modern convenience food. Think Spam, think cheeze wiz, white bread, lots of jello.
Rebecca-if you want any recipe suggestions for your supper club I'd be glad to post some stuff for you. I used to have white trash dinners with my friends every few weeks. It soon became a contest of grossness involving store bought jello molds and other weirdnesses. Some was eaten, some not. One of the recipes I remember from the White Trash Cookbook is for "Butterflyed Spam". In between the Spam layers is peanut butter. There are also tons of sandwiches and appetizer type foods. Put aside any considerations of health and have fun!
Laura
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Cead Mile Failte
YUCK!
No thanks!
Well...
I used love fried chicken livers, but won't fix them for myself. I've never fried chicken and don't really mind. It was really fun to take them to school for lunch and gross out all my friends!
I do eat gibblet gravy and will make Jello for DH and the kids, but that's about it.
Leigh
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Diana,
The book sounds like a riot!
We use to eat fried bologna sandwiches when we were kids. No mayo just mustard! Now I don't even buy bologna! Also love liverwurst on white bread slathered with mustard!
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Thanks Laura! I just might take you up on that!Originally posted by LauraBL
Rebecca-if you want any recipe suggestions for your supper club I'd be glad to post some stuff for you.
Laura
Jello, good, that helps... I have a family reunion recipe that involves strawberry jello, crushed pretzles, and Cool Whip... might be just the thing... and I love it!
We figured there was too much happiness here for just the two of us, so we figured the next logical step was to have us a critter.
- H.I. McDunnough, "Raising Arizona"
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As a kid I used to love liverwurst on white bread. What the heck is it, anyway? I'd never touch it now!
Lori
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Rebecca- No offense to your family, but that is PERFECT! Jell-O, Cool Whip. I think you have hit on two parts of the white trash trinity of cooking.Originally posted by RebeccaT
Thanks Laura! I just might take you up on that!
Jello, good, that helps... I have a family reunion recipe that involves strawberry jello, crushed pretzles, and Cool Whip... might be just the thing... and I love it!
I like to make fun because I figure my ancestors were good peasant stock like the majority of people in this country. I'm thinking if our forefathers had elegant food they probably didn't need to come to America for cheap land and opportunity!!!!
BACON - A Los Angeles librarian reports she finally found it necessary to revoke a gentleman's library card. Because her repeated letters to him, telephone calls, and face-to-face pleas still failed to break him of the peculiar habit of using strips of raw bacon as bookmarks.
-Boyd's Book of Odd Facts
Julia and Ben's mommy
LOL!! "The white trash trinity..." that almost made me snarf my Sprite!Originally posted by LauraBL
Rebecca- No offense to your family, but that is PERFECT! Jell-O, Cool Whip. I think you have hit on two parts of the white trash trinity of cooking.
And no offense taken. This is the Mississippi side, whom I love dearly but they are far from refined! And that's just how I like 'em!
We figured there was too much happiness here for just the two of us, so we figured the next logical step was to have us a critter.
- H.I. McDunnough, "Raising Arizona"
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Sure, why not!? I'm a major Cool Whip junkie! Yep, I'll eat it anytime, anywhere and in/on any dessert. I even have a whole cookbook dedicated to Cool Whip recipes.
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I have a copy of a 1970's era Jell-O cookbook, too! The Joys of Jello, copyright 1972. There's a recipe for chicken mousse which they fill with potato salad "makes a meal." It's hysterical. But I love the strawberry jello-pretzel combination! You guys are pulling up too many memories! Liverwurst and bologna are two of my guilty pleasures. And Fleischkaese (literally translated "meat cheese") when I was in Germany. Don't even ask what it is - it's too gross for words! My rule of thumb is... if I have to ask what's in it, I probably don't want to know.
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Oh my gosh, me too!Originally posted by Loremma
As a kid I used to love liverwurst on white bread. What the heck is it, anyway? I'd never touch it now!
And yet, today....I am a vegetarian!
Liverwurst is liver sausage. I think I liked it because it was salty or something like that. Mom was happy because I was getting iron and protein, so she'd let me have it as much as I wanted!
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Not only do I have that, but I also have the New Joys of Jello. Mom got it for me. The kids like to look at the pretty pictures in it.Originally posted by badunnin
I have a copy of a 1970's era Jell-O cookbook, too! The Joys of Jello, copyright 1972.
Leigh
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Leigh I'm jealous!!! I just found the recipe for BBQ jello cubes. Yikes. The pictures are ... colourful, though!
"Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But, we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh, yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick. Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question."
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OMG, I love liverwurst and mayo sandwiches. I haven't had one in years, but ate them a lot when I was a kid.
Here are a couple of my "dirty little secrets":
Fried spam sandwiches - hey here in the tropics its a staple in the kitchen. Most of the time served with rice and a little seaweed.
SOS - I'm married to a military man, what more can I say.
I LOVE cool whip. Its a dieter's dream. Get the fat free stuff, put a blob in between two low fat cinnamon graham crackers and freeze it - yummy low cal treat.
I consider these to be my comfort foods.
On the other hand, I love lobster, sushi and a variety of other "high brow foods".
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I asked my grandmother to make this for me for her Christmas day brunch.Originally posted by LauraBL
Rebecca- No offense to your family, but that is PERFECT! Jell-O, Cool Whip. I think you have hit on two parts of the white trash trinity of cooking.I guess I qualify, huh?
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I love this!!!!Originally posted by beejayw1
...Not sure what 'white trash' cooking is, unless it's scrambled eggs mixed in with grits and butter and eaten bite for bite with bacon...
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Ditto. On Ritz Crackers.Originally posted by lisas3575
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It's 5:00 somewhere...
I voted with the majority: "what is white trash cuisine". The only thing I could think of that might fit that description was the "Millionaire Salad" that got such impassioned debate a year or so ago. Yuck!
Now I'll read the thread to see what white trash cuisine really is and if I like it.
Proud Mama
Full-fat hot dogs in plain white buns. By the way, remember the hot dogs that came with cheese in them? I used to love them. I think I'd throw up if I ate one now.
TeriK
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If Jello-O and cool whip are part 1 and 2, is pork rinds (or is it rhines?) 3? Maybe you could substitue those for the pretzels!Originally posted by LauraBL
Rebecca- No offense to your family, but that is PERFECT! Jell-O, Cool Whip. I think you have hit on two parts of the white trash trinity of cooking.
Peggy
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MIRACLE WHIP!!!!!!!!
...a sandwich just isn't a sandwich!
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Peggy-Originally posted by Peggy C.
If Jello-O and cool whip are part 1 and 2, is pork rinds (or is it rhines?) 3? Maybe you could substitue those for the pretzels!
I think you might have found the 3rd part of the trinity, although E-Z Cheez or Velveeta might be in the running.
Laura
BACON - A Los Angeles librarian reports she finally found it necessary to revoke a gentleman's library card. Because her repeated letters to him, telephone calls, and face-to-face pleas still failed to break him of the peculiar habit of using strips of raw bacon as bookmarks.
-Boyd's Book of Odd Facts
...always on the run
My first thought was "What's White Trash cuisine?"
But after reading - I openly admit my LOVE of Cool Whip. I could eat a whole tub in one sitting if I felt like it (and with Cool Whip Free, it would only be 375 calories - I've considered the possible damage
Kristin
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