Comments on: Little White Lab Rat

By: Jami

Jami — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:58:49 +0000

Cream of crud is basically a condensed salty white sauce with some crud or another in it. When we make stuff with it, we actually call the result Cream of Crud Casserole. The mushroom or chicken varieties taste better than the celery version.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:40:23 +0000

Since someone revived this, I must comment on kevinf’s bowdlerizing of the simile about some substance or other passing quickly through a goose. Anybody who’s ever walked across a field or a lawn or a beach or a golf course after a flock of geese have been there knows all too well that it’s not bacon!

By: Noray

Noray — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:15:38 +0000

My husband loooves tuna casserole. Maybe I will try they souffle on him!

By: Dixie Facer

Dixie Facer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:27:52 +0000

The tuna fish of the 50′s and 60′s was much better tasting that what is on the shelves today. Personally, I think they ruined canned tuna when they began packing it in water. I will not buy it–can’t stand to eat it. Solid packed tuna, packed in olive oil (such as is sold in Europe) is a different commodity. I recently spent two years in Romania and since I have been back in U.S. I was thrilled to find some rare cans of tuna packed in oil –even some in olive oil. Now I can have a decent tuna sandwich and on occasion prepare tuna-on-toast for my grandchildren.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:48:13 +0000

Chicken Jello went through our ward on the Wasatch front when we lived there about 28 years ago like bacon through a goose. All the women loved it, and none of the men would touch it.

However, my mother used to make a green jello with cool whip, cottage cheese, and grated carrots that actually was pretty good. I miss it.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:33:11 +0000

bbell

Since I’m the one who started this nonsense about the jello, peas, pretzels, etc., I certainly didn’t intend to gainsay your (or your wife’s) experience. But I do congratulate you on your good taste–surely you have learned to love the good and refuse the awful!

I do wonder about your wife and her relatives!

By: bbell

bbell — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:28:00 +0000

Mark B.

I just checked with my wife. She claims that she has seen jello with pretzels and peas like crazy on the wasatch front. She even makes a dish about once a year (yuck) with red jello, smashed pretzels on the bottom and whipped cream on top. Her wasatch relatives love it. I hate it and if she makes she has to eat it alone. She also claims to have seen and eaten similar dished to what Ardis describes from her really old aunts in the 1980′s in SLC.

Bruce C, Green jello with hot dogs. Again yuck!!!

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:15:26 +0000

bbell, I grew up in the shadow of the Wasatch and never, ever, swear on a stack of Bibles, saw jello over pretzels or jello with hotdogs.

Now, Top Ramen with cheese. Can you say “projectile vomiting”?

By: BruceC

BruceC — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:06:38 +0000

bbell – yes, but what flavor color jello had the hot dogs in it?

There is a family the brings Top Ramen noodles to our church dinners. After cooking the ramen and draining the water from the noodles, slices of american cheese are unwrapped and placed on the top. The residual heat melts the cheese which is then stirred so the cheese covers all the ramen noodles evenly.

By: bbell

bbell — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:09:41 +0000

Mark B.

Come on now. You have never in your LDS life seen pretzels in a Jello dish? That is a LDS standard on the Wasatch front!!!

I have even seen pieces of hot dog in a Jello dish before at a ward function.

At a funeral in rural Idaho once I saw I am not making this up. 30 huge casserole dishes of funeral potatoes.