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Patrice Johnson's avatar

Your dad was right about tomatoes! Summer afternoons I'd come home from spending hours at the pool, famished. My mom would send me out to the front stoop with my special pink metal bowl filled with whatever was coming out of the garden that day. When the tomatoes were ripe she'd pour sugar in the bottom of the bowl and I'd dip my tomato in the sugar before each bite. Heaven.

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

I am so excited to hear that there is another wonderful person out there who eats tomatoes with sugar!

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Karla Starr's avatar

I love your input about wild rice. A must to enjoy, I would order the soup off any menu when visiting MN and it became a tradition to pick up a bag at the airport on my way home! Which "up north" lake would your family visit when you were young?

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

I love wild rice soup so much! Mmmm! Delicious!

We used to go to one of the Crow Wing lakes in the Park Rapids area when Mark and I were kids. And then for several years when our kids were younger we went to Lake Brophy outside of Alexandria, and for a couple of years we went to Brainerd. How about you and your family?

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ronetc's avatar

Something like the misrepresented state favorite warm grape salad, I once saw on a Pizza Hut menu in Hong Kong, "America's Favorite Pizza" . . . featuring whole kernel corn and tuna. And the old Country Kitchen chain had an "Everybody's Favorite" item on the menu . . . but if it was indeed "Everybody's Favorite," why have any other item on the menu?

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

That pizza sounds horrifying. 😂

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Lily's avatar

The funny thing is, that actually is an English favorite. But English as in England.

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

Oh dear. I didn’t mean to yuck your yum!

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Lily's avatar

It’s okay, I’m not English! But my parents got quite a surprise when they visited family friends in north England and thought they could get a familiar food in a pizza restaurant, and discovered tuna and corn was the local favorite.

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ronetc's avatar

Wise parents: your dad is correct about microwave corn on the cob being superior and easier than boiling; your mom is right that Better than Bullion is better than anything sold in a box.

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Mari, the Happy Wanderer's avatar

Totally agree!

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