I'm not saying my childhood was deprived.
But the first time I had asparagus was three and a half years ago. My brother's then-boyfriend -- the crazy one, with manic depression and a preacher for a father and all kinds of psychotic habits -- he cooked it when we three made dinner at my brother's house.
The first time I had an avacado, a whole avacado I cut up, was a year ago.
Other fruits and vegetables NOT from my childhood:
mangoes
kiwi (I first had this in Venice! Four years ago.)
kale
fennel
escarole
garlic, the kind not already powdered
baby spinach
raddichio
black beans
posted by Evie P. @ 8:14:00 AM
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(My childhood was deprived of some of those foods, but mostly because I wouldn't have eaten them because I wouldn't eat anything that "looked funny." I've still never eaten fennel, mind you, and we never had mangoes at home, or, strangely enough, black beans.)
I'll go ahead and say it.
You had a deprived childhood.
(Then again, it wasn't until after we got married that Mr. B. learned--from me, natch--that the way to cook asparagus is not "boil for thirty minutes." What can I say, his mom's German.)
Dude. So funny. MY mom's German. This means she sometimes made these potato noodle things, but she didn't BOIL stuff. This is because we had a microwave. Which my mom won in a raffle.
No wonder people think they hate vegetables, with all the boiling that goes on, vegetable-wise, in this country!
We had vegetables every meal, but they were always iceberg lettuce, carrots, broccoli, or cauliflower. Sometimes frozen lima beans! The way these were most often prepared was covered in store-brand shredded cheese and poked into the microwave.
Outside the attention lavished on pork chops, bacon, and hamburgers in my house, finesse was never a huge part of cooking that I recall.
On the upside, of all the veggies I named and a ton of others, I can remember THE VERY FIRST TIME I tasted them... which is kinda cool.
And NK? Fennel: sauteed with raddichio and eaten with pasta topped with toasted walnuts. Yum!
this is tony, just lazy tony who doesn't want to log in first. i just thought you should know that you are a liar. you've had kiwi, we used to eat them with Ben and Christy Canida, they always had them. we also went tubing with them. all four of us were strange people, but in our own ways. you and i were a bit cooler, if i must say so myself.
No, I never went tubing with our resident dentist and his genius kids. I went WATER SKIING. And I never had kiwi. I had POMEGRANATE. At SWIM MEETS. But I didn't put Pomegranate on the list, and it's for precisely that reason...
Thank you for clarifying that one- water skiing is far classier.
I'll point out that I at least ate tons of kiwi, so Tony is probably right on that count. Also, my mom liked to hide asparagus cut into little pieces in her quiches, so you may well have had them without noticing. We called them sparrow guts and kept a sharp eye out for them. Of course now I think they're wonderful.
I also think Tony should refrain from using full names, but perhaps I'm just jealous that I don't have an alter-ego.
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