[Sca-cooks] Re: foods not eaten...or shouldn't be

[Mark Hendershott]

At 07:19 AM 9/10/2005, you wrote:
>On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:13 AM, Alexa wrote:
>
>>Born in Tx, mom from Missouri, dad from Wisconsin.
>>Since I was a small child I remember having this dish
>>on the table.  Not one to eat it myself, but now that
>>I have children of my own, my 16 yr old loves the
>>stuff.  My husband says it's ok, but her much prefers
>>the green bean casserole.
>
>My sister came home at one point from a university in Pennsylvania
>and told us of her adventures, having encountered while there,
>bizarre, alien, ethnic, daishiki-wearin', radical, cutting-edge and
>emotionally threatening Amurrican food.
>
>It seems you take blanched or frozen green beans (apparently you can
>even use canned ones, but we thought this was just too way out to
>even consider) and add things like canned cream of mushroom soup
>(gulp!), and top it with canned fried onion crispies (now we're in
>full xenophobe mode, with no turning back). And then you bake it
>("Oooooohhh," sez we, spellbound).

Yeah that's the good stuff.  Yes, you can use the canned green beans.  I 
remember the marshmallows on sweet potato stuff too.  (parents from small 
town Iowa, must be a Midwestern thing)
Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir

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