Comments on: 52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History: Least Favorite Foods

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:23:23 +0000

I’m not sure why my grandma ate it – she didn’t have any immigrant parents or grandparents to blame it on. I’m pretty sure that there were hooves involved in her version. Blech.

By: Shaz

Shaz — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 01:10:15 +0000

In my family while it was called pickled pigs
feet, it was really pieces of pork in the
gelatin and called sulz. No hooves to speak
of. I thought it was my
Polish heritage, but maybe, German??

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:04:02 +0000

I love peas!! Fresh or frozen though, not canned.
I admit that I can eat calamari on occasion if prepared correctly. Clams and oysters are definitely out though!! I tried to choke one down a couple of times and it just wouldn’t go!!
I don’t know how on earth my grandma would eat those pickled pigs feet.

By: Shaz

Shaz — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:11:32 +0000

I haven’t thought about pickled pigs feet or
sulz in years! I never tasted it as it looked
so disgusting. Gray jello with ‘stuff’ in it!

I’m with you on clams and oysters, I like to
chew my food. Love lobster, and crab, but
don’t like fighting with my food to get at it.
Squid, if prepared correctly, is great -
especially hot and spicy from my favorite
Chinese restaurant.

My hated childhood food – peas – and I was
forced to eat them. I won’t touch them to
this day – decades later – and I never introduced
them to my kids as baby food. Somehow they
learned to eat them, but not in my house.
Occasionally my husband will buy a small can
for himself.