catdance
05-07-2005, 08:56 AM
Someone on last night's dinner thread, wrote it was a "YOYO" refering to "you are on your own" for dinner, some people used other names, for cleaning out the fridge..
At my Mama's house since I was a kid, she called it, "catch as catch can", so that meant she WAS NOT cooking and the leftovers had accumlated, so this was the NIGHT it was to disappear...so as I got older and figured THAT out, I started getting my "lot" of food gathered, covered it on a plate with my name and ate that later, because NO ONE was really running to that fridge, which meant it was leftover's and as spoiled as we were when this first started was quite a concept..so I used to be last..so the "catch" was no "homer"..6 people eating what was left..I got smart after a few times..we had good stuff, and really in the 70's we had this HUGE microwave, so we could heat it up..but when it down to 2 old chicken wings, and one tiny scoop of "whatever was suppose to have been in that bowl"...I figured it out..
So the term, is "catch as catch can"...and I got a few good dinners out of that..
I also cheated and threw stuff out and whined and did fare a few times better, but Mama did "catch on".. LOL!
Next?
At my Mama's house since I was a kid, she called it, "catch as catch can", so that meant she WAS NOT cooking and the leftovers had accumlated, so this was the NIGHT it was to disappear...so as I got older and figured THAT out, I started getting my "lot" of food gathered, covered it on a plate with my name and ate that later, because NO ONE was really running to that fridge, which meant it was leftover's and as spoiled as we were when this first started was quite a concept..so I used to be last..so the "catch" was no "homer"..6 people eating what was left..I got smart after a few times..we had good stuff, and really in the 70's we had this HUGE microwave, so we could heat it up..but when it down to 2 old chicken wings, and one tiny scoop of "whatever was suppose to have been in that bowl"...I figured it out..
So the term, is "catch as catch can"...and I got a few good dinners out of that..
I also cheated and threw stuff out and whined and did fare a few times better, but Mama did "catch on".. LOL!
Next?