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04-25-2023 09:17 PM - edited 04-25-2023 09:19 PM
I remember that when I was a little girl, in the fifties, it was common to have an appetizer, or beginning of a meal consisting of a small glass of tomato juice, or half a grapefruit (often with half a marashino cherry on top), maybe a small shrimp coctail. My mother never served these, but it was common in restaurants.
When it comes to cottage cheese and fruit, well this was a staple of mine through the sixties and early seventies, not as a meal starter, but as a "diet" lunch. I had more cottage cheese mixed with fruit, canned or fresh, and the thought of it now is not appealing to me at all. Not that I don't like cottage cheese, or fruit, but I had way, way too much of it, and it brings back unpleasant memories of my obsession with dieting and my weight.
04-25-2023 09:21 PM
My sweet mom served fruit on a lettuce leaf. I don't remember the year. We lived in a tiny house on Locust Street. (although it wasn't a tiny house to us because we were small). I remember pears, or peach, or pineapple with a dollup of mayonaise. We didn't understand it, and just thought Mom was being fancy.
04-25-2023 09:43 PM
We had this for Sunday dinner "dessert" after church. Mom put a lettuce leaf on a dessert plate, topped it with cottage cheese, and then a peach half was put on top. It was delicious--lettuce and all! Don't knock it until you've tried it! ☺️ This would have been in the 60's and 70's. My mom passed away in 2021. I wish I had thought of this to make for her one last time. She would have loved it.
04-25-2023 09:48 PM
Never. It just wasn't done at my house.
04-25-2023 09:53 PM
@ECBG Yes! My mom would make a side salad with a nice wedge of iceberg lettuce topped with a pear or peach and a dollop of the fruit juice mixed with a little mayo. It was refreshing and I still make it occasionally in the summer.
04-25-2023 09:58 PM - edited 04-25-2023 10:02 PM
I never had that combo....today, I would eat fruit with lettuce and enjoy it (without the cream cheese/cheese)
04-25-2023 10:13 PM
Never ever, I wonder if it was regional?
04-25-2023 10:22 PM
We has lot's of fruit but I could never get that cottage cheese down. Still can't
04-25-2023 10:28 PM
Never had it growing up and don't remember seeing this combo....ever.
04-25-2023 10:30 PM
My mother never had fruit on lettuce but we had canned pears for dessert a lot lol!
I never heard of it with mayonnaise.
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