Food Rant...

[Realstudent368]

Rice pudding is awesome.
I love grits salty or sweet.
Don’t put sugar in spaghetti but many sauces will have a touch of sugar to counter tomatoe acidity.

This is all true..



Sugar in grits is a yankee thing..

Actually that may be cream of wheat...

 

[Kahrnut]

Cream of wheat: wheat; Grits: corn

 

[Gunanddoglover]

My ancestors are from Sicily. A heaping teaspoon of sugar goes in to the sauce to counter any acidity from the tomatoes. Never heard of it being used in grits or rice.

Blasphemy I say. My parents were from Sicily and never put sugar in spaghetti sauce. I know some people use sugar in spaghetti sauce my family didn't.

 

[Plinker66]

 

[MNRSports]

All I can think about is my budding putting mayo on black eye peas

Growing up lots of folks would put mayo on tomato's with peas and fried okra, basically getting it all kinda mixed together. Ate it by the bucket fulls.

 

[palmettomoon]

All I can think about is my budding putting mayo on black eye peas

Growing up lots of folks would put mayo on tomato's with peas and fried okra, basically getting it all kinda mixed together. Ate it by the bucket fulls.

 

[emptyMAGS]

Growing up lots of folks would put mayo on tomato's with peas and fried okra, basically getting it all kinda mixed together. Ate it by the bucket fulls.

 

[HERMET]

Rice pudding is awesome.
I love grits salty or sweet.
Don’t put sugar in spaghetti but many sauces will have a touch of sugar to counter tomatoe acidity.

I make and can salsa. You read the ingredients of most store bought sasla's you will find sugar as an additive. This is because in most salsa's they don't remove the seeds ( which is a pain) which is what causes the bitterness and requires the sugar to compensate for the acidity.
Sugar when used judiciously can be a great tool in the kitchen but there are some foods that really don't need to be sweetened.

 

[gh1950]

True story.

2nd grade,Winchester KY. We had lunch line, everyone got the same thing, and you had to take what they gave you.

It was a local thing, but they put sugar and milk on plain white rice.

Guess who wouldn't eat white rice with milk and sugar on it. So I got to take one of my frequent trips to the principal's office, call home, mother comes to school, which us not having two cars took some doing.

Principal tells whole story, ending with "and he refuses to eat his rice with sugar and milk on it". To which my mother said, "well, I don't blame him". After that out of some 200 students, one got to go thru the line and get his white rice with no sugar or milk. I'd eat it plain, but no sugar or milk.

 

[palmettomoon]

True story.

2nd grade,Winchester KY. We had lunch line, everyone got the same thing, and you had to take what they gave you.

It was a local thing, but they put sugar and milk on plain white rice.

Guess who wouldn't eat white rice with milk and sugar on it. So I got to take one of my frequent trips to the principal's office, call home, mother comes to school, which us not having two cars took some doing.

Principal tells whole story, ending with "and he refuses to eat his rice with sugar and milk on it". To which my mother said, "well, I don't blame him". After that out of some 200 students, one got to go thru the line and get his white rice with no sugar or milk. I'd eat it plain, but no sugar or milk.

You rebel you...LOL!