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From: Marlene Creech <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] "Scotch Irish" Thanksgiving Stories
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
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Thank God she didn't force me to eat. That is why as a child I was as
skinny
as could be. I have learned to eat other foods that increased my size.
Marlene
On Oct 20, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Virginia wrote:

> As my mother used to tell me, when a pig was butchered they had a use
> for
> everything but the squeal!
>
> As a child, I was just as turned off by fresh pork as you were, but
> could
> manage crisp bacon or an occasional slice of lean ham. My dad firmly
> believed that if children were forced to eat foods they disliked they
> would
> hate those foods forever and become picky eaters. He would always tell
> me
> "Just try a little bite. If you don't like it now, you can try it
> again as
> your taste matures." which, of course, made me want to be grown-up
> enough
> to like it. It sure worked for me (and my kids and my grandkids, all
> of whom
> were reared with that same philosophy and have very few food
> hang-ups). I
> remember watching as my brother-in-law made my eight-year-old niece
> sit at a
> table for over an hour to make her to eat a serving of fried potatoes
> and
> onions. She finally forced down a couple of bites through her tears,
> then
> promptly threw up. I won't claim that the eating and weight problems
> she has
> had all her life were the result, but I'm pretty sure it contributed.
> Virginia
>
>
>> Where my mother was raised, they raised hogs for food. So she had no
>> idea of beef until she married and moved up north. But I can imagine
>> the same thing was done with a hog.
>> Personally, I could not eat much pork. I would eat lean bacon, cooked
>> crisp. I might eat a piece of ham steak, and God help me, I used to
>> eat cracklins' once in a while until I realized what it could do to
>> you. Mom just couldn't interest me in a pork roast, or pork chops, or
>> any other part of the hog. She would eat the fat of a pork chop or
>> ham,
>>> and I would have to leave or turn my head. It nearly gagged me.
>
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