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It's not easy being green...especially when you are meatloaf

3/17/2015

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PictureUgh...post traumatic stress.
When my sibs and I were young, my mom would get it in her head every few years to celebrate one of the lesser holidays like Valentine's Day, or in this case, St. Patrick's. And when I say celebrate, I mean use a terrifying amount of food dye to paint our supper the shade of the Emerald Isle.

That night she prepared meatloaf, boiled potatoes, peas, and 'gravy' made from that great Lutheran binder, condensed cream of mushroom soup. A fully delicious meal, and one which anybody who grew up in a large/religious family is likely familiar. Now view that starchy economical feast through a shamrock green lens.

The peas were fine, being untampered with. The potatoes? Well, the dye wasn't distributed uniformly so our spuds appeared to be afflicted with blight of some kind. The meatloaf was the worst, appearing for all the world to be the ground remains of Oscar the Grouch. It tasted good but looked like hell. Of course any kid knows what to do in this situation. Smother the offending food item in gravy, right? Wrong. Green mushroom soup...yeah.

If memory serves, we had a splendid time, laughing over our verdant meal, making faces and gagging noises, some theatrical, some not. I think Dad ate a second helping to be supportive, and Mom was a good sport, admitting that it was all sort of nauseating.

I'm tempted to inflict this same experience on my own larvae...


Happy St. Patrick's Day!


S.

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Shay
3/22/2015 01:42:07 am

This is pure awesomeness! Gonna do this next year to my kids!

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