I'd have eaten more vegetables as a child like my mother wanted if the vegetables had just...

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Smelled and tasted like bacon!

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1. Funny, but in a strange way...

Mom couldn't serve veggies without some kind of vinegar-based dressing.

Always thought I hated veggies.

Turns out I hated vinegar.

Veggies are great without it. Who knew.

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7. I thought I hated hot sauce, but my mom used Tabasco & it has vinegar in it.

A friend uses El Tapitio, w/o vinegar, & turns out I like hot sauce just fine!! In fact I go through a bottle every couple of months. 🌶️

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8. That's the only way I'd eat asparagus or spinach

I liked them but was glad to discover *fresh* asparagus.

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2. I ate a lot of frozen beans, peas, corn and broccoli (New Tech!) growing up.

But refused to eat Asparagus.

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6. LOL, growing up we had a stream that ran thru the back of our pasture...

My horse would race to the asparagus growing along the banks and eat it like candy.

One day I saw the asparagus before he did, tied him to a stump and tried raw wild asparagus for the first time in my life. It is delicious, I think much better than cooked.

My horse was much smarter than I was then.

Still miss that horse.

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3. I used to hide the carrot sticks in my pants cuffs..

Mom thought I ate them, but then discovered what I was doing. We had many good laughs about it in her later years.

I still hate raw carrots.

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4. Two days ago I fried some onions in bacon grease. They were OMG good.

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5. They keep ya regular, they're real good for ya...

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9. Mom used bacon drippings for frying cabbage, brussels sprouts, onions, taters, and wilting mustard greens. She put it

in pots of collards and turnip greens and corn. Bacon cooked in pots of pinto beans, navy beans, green beans and butterbeans. Baby limas were cooked with bacon drippings, garlic, salt and pepper. (now I use NoSalt.) Crumbled bacon adorned many dishes.
I cook veggies the way Mom did. Might make dieticians faint and fall in it, but it sure is larrupin!