Census Fruit Cocktail

Whitey, Strilo, and vin.

 

I selected "cherries" but the last choice also applies.

 

We always fought for the cherries, but they were tasteless.

 

That explains a lot.

 

Sweet syrup and vodkas

 

Peaches. Definitely peaches.

When I was a kid, it was always served with evaporated milk, making the juices a nasty, congealed mess of a substance.



Never really understood the appeal of evaporated milk, especially when the other tinned milk product - condensed milk - is so sweet, unctuous and awesome.

 

It was always the peaches and syrup for me. Pears came in second.

 

i got real fruit

 

Peaches. Anyone who says otherwise needs to their head a wobble.

 

**** a grape!

 

It was a long time before I knew fruit cocktail came out of a can. I never saw it until it was already suspended in a matrix of "red" flavored Jell-O. My favorite part of that was the Cool-whip on top.



Thanks grandma. No one ever made desserts by combining other packaged desserts into finely balanced meta-desserts better than you.

 

The grapes consistency was always a wild card. It's funny because I'd eat them first as they were my least favorite.

 

Peaches. We had a peach tree and we'd have homemade peaches in syrup all the time.

 

GTFO Of my thread Morella and go sit on a peach tree!

 

I have to second the love for condensed milk. In our household it goes by the name honey milk.

 

Is there really any milk in that. I thought it was a mixture of sugar and Elmer's glue.

 

As long as we're bringing up Elmer's glue, wasn't one of the small joys of childhood to peel that stuff off your fingers after shop class? It really is the little things...

 

Peaches FTW!

As an aside, at Thanksgiving and Xmas we would add whipped cream and marshmallows to this stuff to make what we call down here "heavenly hash", though I understand that northerners call the same stuff "ambrosia salad." The more you know!

 

My grandmother used to can her own spiced peaches in really big mason jars. Everything about canned spiced peaches is wrong.