After reading your comments about leftovers I now believe it really is an age thing as well as savings thing. When we grew up we all had leftovers. But apparently, some younger folks won't.
When I was growing up my mother used to have my dad smell the lunch meat. I HATED that.
After mom put it under Dad's nose he would say, "fry it."
So if it is not good enough for us to eat, frying it helps? I would ask in disgust. Now that wouldn't bother me today, but at ages 10 - 13 it sure did.
How many fried bologna or salami sandwiches did you eat growing up?
I had more than I care to share.
Most times it was just fried bologna with eggs for breakfast. Dad would make an x in the bologna so it laid flat. Ah, the memories.
My mom would make a roast on Sundays.
Leftover roast made hot roast beef sandwiches with gravy later.
Hell, I preferred that over the roast anyway.
My dad and mom would also remind us how hard dad worked to put food on the table so nothing went to waste.We had leftovers on a regular basis.
When Rick and I had just moved in together I had made a pot of spaghetti.
We had so much left over. He asked if I ever had fried spaghetti?
No, never. He told me when he was growing up if they had it left over his dad would put some butter in a cast iron pan and then put the spaghetti in the pan. He would put it all together in a circle, not spread out.
Let it crisp on one side before you flip it. It stays all together and it makes a crispy spaghetti pattie. I laughed when he told me this but then he made it. Oh my goodness was it good, we put some more sauce over it and had some garlic bread. I had to laugh because that is not something I would have thought would be good or even thought of. Good meal to us. I know others would laugh at that.
My mom used to take the ends of parmesan cheese / the rinds and put it in the freezer and then put them in soups and stews for flavor. Now I see Rachel Ray do it and I laugh. Everyone thinks this is so new and original. My mom used things over and over again my entire life of 13 years that I had my mom.
My parents wasted nothing!
We had hand me down clothes and leftovers. I wasn't a fan of hand me downs. Now you would think that being the oldest I didn't get them. Wrong. I had a coat once from a cousin. Yea, I still got hand me downs.
What is better than a meatloaf sandwich a few days after meatloaf night?
I am not a big lasagna fan but my hubby says it is better a day later than the original day. I imagine that is true because all the flavors get to meld together right? I know it's true on Stuffed Shells or Pigs in the Blanket. (or stuffed cabbage as some call them)
We made a pork butt in the slow cooker. We had the pork with roasted veggies and potatoes one night. Pulled pork BBQ sandwiches another night. Then we made these tacos we copied from our favorite Mexican restaurant. Then Rick finished it off another night as just leftover pork with a salad. I mean to tell you if anyone ate those pulled pork BBQ sandwiches or the tacos they would never know it would be considered leftovers.
So to that young couple who threw away the meatballs and the sausage with the spaghetti to make my husbands head explode. I think they are missing out on some really good meals.
Oh, in other news that I meant to share - that 24-year-old turning 25 in a few months that we hired? We let him go. That was fast right?
He worked 2 days, then was tired and had the balls to call in tired on the 3rd day. He said, "I've been working my ass off and I am so sore I just can't come in. I can't move." I was gobsmacked. I just said okay. I let Rick deal with this one.
OH.MY.GOD. He worked a total of 4 hrs on day 1.
Not counting driving time. He slept while Rick drove to the job site.
Then the 2nd day he worked 5 hours. He slept all the way back to the office Rick said to me on the day 2.
So he worked only for a total of 10 hours.
He was 24. Rick is 62, he isn't that tired! Talk about lazy millennials.
Gary would work far, far longer and he was 41. Come on.
He said in his interview he was such a hard worker. Liar, liar pants on fire! He told us great stories of fiction we found. When I called his former employers you know they can't tell you that stuff. Only when he worked. I asked if they would hire him again and they both said yes. But that must have been a sit on your ass kind of job. No more millennials is our new motto.
So if keeping track. No more wife beaters, no more people who steal or have fraud, embezzled or bad checks (that was the wife beater) and no millennials. I am sure the list will grow. Long list for 2 people isn't it?
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It seems like everyone ate fried bologna except me. It was never a thing at our house. Bologna sandwiches sure. Bologna with lettuce and mayo... and tomatoes if we had any.
Mike, that's because your mother didn't like you. :-)
We always ground our bologna up with dill pickles for sandwiches, never had it fried but it was a staple as well as the Sunday beef roast. Wasted food really bothers the heck out of me. People who don't take home their left overs from restaurants are what I see most. I take an ice pack and small cooler with me when I go out---leave it in the car---so I'm prepared for left overs. That's how dedicated I am to not wasting food. Even if all I have left are a few treats for the dog, it goes home.
Back twenty years ago my husband had a hard time hiring guys who'd work plowing snow in the winters and cleaning parking lots the rest of the year. He got so frustrated with guys not being dependable, he started hiring middle aged women and had much lower turn over and they knew how to work hard.
Jean, hmm...wonder if we could find a woman? Now I am trying to see where. Interesting. you got me thinking woman!
That young and that tired? There has to be something else going on.
I remember fried bologna. We had leftovers from Sunday dinners, but most other meals got gobbled up and there weren't than many leftovers. Or maybe that just wasn't a concept since food was food and it was not to be wasted. It would not have been acceptable for any of us kids to whine about having had something the day before.
You should also try risotto fried in the pan like spaghetti, crisp on both sides, so good! And it's true, some things are better the day after.
Olga, we never had the leftovers the next day it was always a couple days later.
Alessandra that sounds so good. I have never made risotto. It intimidates me. I really should try though, especially for what you just wrote.
WE ate sooooo many fried bologna sandwiches growing up. We all loved them. We are left overs and loved them too. When our family would go on trips, Dad would buy a couple loaves of Wonderbread, bologna and potato chips. As we traveled we'd make BPC sandwiches. They were the best!
We still make fried baloney sandwiches but it has to be right after we've had our cholesterol tests, not just before! The Guy and I will sometimes make those potato chip and baloney sandwiches just for fun.
My grandson is 26, a Millenial and he is the hardest working person I know, not counting The Guy and my dad! He shows up to work at the very least a half hour before start. He helps our the other employees while off-the-clock. He needs to be reminded that he take a break and can't understand why 'its the law'!
There are some good ones out there!
Toni, I wish we had been a wonderbread family. We were too ethnic. I never had a PBJ sandwich until my mom died in '69. I longed for bologna and peanut butter and waspy things. Blonde hair and a family of no accents. :-) Bologna is the most American thing I ever ate and that made me very proud. So silly now isn't it? But we all want to be like the others and not stand out when you're a kid.
Hey Toni, send those good ones our way. We have yet to find one!!
Yes, yes, and more yes! My parents fixed bologna sandwiches and we had it for breakfast. My husband doesn't eat pork, so then I had to pay a dang arm and a leg to find the beef versions. I'm trying to be a little sodium conscious, so I stay away from it pretty much now these days. I agree, very few young people work hard the way we did as kids. In fact, we don't see them outside much unless it's for shopping. What I DO see are young people on computers and their phones pretty consistently looking up how to do things, instead of just doing it. Something is very wrong with that picture. Hugs...RO
Ro - this is why so many don't have social skills. If you saw some of the people we interview. Oh my. AND they bring their phone to the interview and hold them. They ring, they look down. That is a No for me right then and there. I get you wish to have it. But you are in a meeting and trying to make a good impression. PUT DOWN THE PHONE. Rant over. :-)
Margaret, It isn't silly at all to crave a PG&J sandwich. Our youngest granddaughter has a severe allergy to peanuts, so our house has been a peanut free zone for years. When The Guy and I went to Kauai, where everyone raves about the delicious sea food, we ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every day! We took them to the beach with us, on drives around the island, all the touristy spots! We were in 7th heaven!
I usually take leftovers to work for lunch. BUT I have a 6' tall just turned 15 year old so I hardly ever have any leftovers unless it didn't turn out well lol.
Julie, I have a friend who calls her son the human garbage can.😁
I'm so glad I've never had to hire someone and go through all that. On the other hand, I've gotten quite worn out interviewing potential Employers. They are not all they say either.
Barbara, agreed. I hate both sides. This is why I should just be filthy rich.
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