We eat good here in the Anderson house. The kids, not so much, but the wife and I eat really healthy, great food, usually always fresh vegetables, fresh fish with maybe some brown or jasmine rice. My favorite dinner and I’ve said it before, I could have this every night for the rest of my life, is grilled salmon and Caesar salad. That being said, this weekend I half jokingly suggested fish sticks and macaroni and cheese for dinner. “That wouldn’t be so bad” I thought, thinking back on being a kid and loving the two. Grace was not opposed but we couldn’t make ourselves do it and she made an awesome Thai coconut soup. Well last night I got the bright idea again and actually bought the shit to make it. After getting the go ahead I prepared everything just like the boxes said and even added a little extra REAL cheese at the end. This was gonna be great, reliving the past through food. I was gonna take one bite and be back on Westchester road again and getting ready to do homework.
The moment of truth came and I put fork to mouth. Where was it? Taste, I mean, there was nothing but texture…and grease (on the stix). GOD! THIS SUCKS! How did we ever eat this shit? And I wasted valuable time making it and calories eating it! Either they’re making it worse these days or it was never as good as I remember it. Mr. Gorton, you’re in the wrong business! Ya need to start making dog food! OMG! It was awful! And I’ll tell ya something else, it didn’t get a damn bit better with the SECOND plateful I ate! When and if you ever this notion! DON’T DO IT!
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But you grew up very well eating it, huh?
Maybe you'd missed your mother's secret to cook it right.
I still eat some of my childhood's favourite dishes, but I've learned how to make it nearly my Mama's style. Yes I'm eating now more of these so called healthy stuff but can anything beat a homemade poor man's meal?
All the best from Mallorca
(if you'd ever come to my house, be shure to get your Salmon & Caesars!)
Been there done that. Yep, fish sticks suck way more than they did 40 years ago. But I remember even back then drowning them in ketchup.
But seriously T, how was the Mac and cheese? That's a soul food classic baby..... We still love it. Hell, in Los Angeles at "Aunt Kizzie's back porch" you can pay 10 bucks for a side dish.
to paraphrase an old joke:
the food at the anderson house is lousy. and the portions are so small!
Have you tried Paul Prudhomme's Salmon Magic Seasoning? Best flavoring for salmon I've ever tried.
Don't know if you're doing farm raised or wild but I'd encourage wild for a number of ecological and human health reasons and for the TASTE.
Hey man, how does Paul Prudhomme's Salmon Magic Seasoning taste on fish sticks?
At New Years Eve I tried reliving the past by drinking 15 beers and half a bottle of champagne. Tasted good but not so good for my aching body the next day...
Gerben
Dude,
fish sticks are only good when the kids are eatin' 'em and the parents are out at some crazy martini party!
To be followed by jumping on the beds and listening to 45's!
I still love fish sticks an french fries!! If I don't have to eat them every day.
Fish sticks always tasted that way. Your palate has matured and once you eat Grace's good cookin' you can never go back. Ya wanna relive your childhood and put on short pants too? Either way you're better off right where you are.
As MIchael Pollan says, "If it's got more than five ingredients on the box, DON'T EAT IT!"
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