My grandma and her strange eating habbits...read on XD?!
Answers: yeah so..i'm told that when I was little, my grandma [nana] used to make a bag of popcorn..put it in a big bowl..and poured milk over it. she then ate it like it was cerial!!! Now she simply takes the popcorn, puts it in her mouth...and takes a sip of milk out of a cup. um do you think this is strange? have u ever done it? will you try it? are u confused? lol.
Prior to our society's obsession with healthy eating as of late, most breakfast cereals were made of puffed corn. I really do not find that bizarre at all.
Now if she soaked it in dish soap and lapped it off the floor, I'd be a little worried for your nana.
Esta una Abuelita, no preguntas para las Abuelas!!!!
Your grandma's habits aren't the least bit strange. You do eat cereals don't you? Don't you see the similarity? I wonder what grandma thinks of some of the foods that you are eating. All these fast food outlets.
That was not strange in a time of limiting improvishment. My mom did the same thing too. They had to do "strange" things with the little food and variety they had, and they had to make do. What do you think puffed rice and wheat is? Puffed corn cereal of any kind originates with popcorn.
I don't think it strange to put milk, sugar and butter all over a bowl of rice...But I don't like it...my husband and his family, my family and for that matter people all over the south LOVE to eat rice this way...But I prefer it to be smothered in gravy...oh well.
puffed corn is a fine breakfast cerial its just that you are a modern person who has never lived through two wars, a depression etc. My grandfather use to tell his stories of being sent off to the markets to find for free spotted fruit which was thrown in a heap, his mother would make this fruit into desserts. Bones were given away for free so that made a soup on a fire with dried beans, water and any wilting vegies - this was called pottage. THen there was the after school snack of putting meat broth in a cup or bowel with salt and pepper and getting a thick slice of bread buttered with lard and cut into little pieces and put in the broth this was eaten by hungry children. School children took to school bread and lard sandwiches, they put on bread and dripping ( the fat of the roast was cooked in on bread, or had stale bread and plum jam. THere are a lot of habbits you would find strange because you live in a time of excess and you are driven by TV, computers, ipods, foxtel etc.
two wars and depression ago people learnt good and bad habbits from their parents and other people. information was limited unless you read it, there were no tvs, computers, mobile phones, ipods or even regular news papers.
wow what ever floats her boat.