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In reply to the discussion: food we lived on in college [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)58. The trick is to butter tin foil and wrap the cheese sandwich in that
Before putting the iron on it. Make sure the seam is on the side, not across the middle of the sandwich.
I cooked a lot of food with the iron, an electric frying pan, a popcorn popper, and a toaster oven. That was before microwaves were affordable. One year when I had to work over Thanksgiving weekend, my holiday dinner was a Rock Cornish Game hen with a roll torn up and stuffed inside, a can of green beans and a can of mushroom soup split between the green beans and the little hen - all cooked with the appliances listed above.
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My generation was pretty big on cheeseburgers and fries. Pizza was a new thing for us.
trof
Jun 2012
#27
Ribeye steak with garlic mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus with garlic butter.
Cali_Democrat
Jun 2012
#42
Mac N Cheese with tuna, ramen noodles with frozen vegetables, frozen burritos, and Spagetti-O's
annonymous
Jun 2012
#54