Reply #33: Sausage gravy (also hamburger gravy), pancakes, domino's pizza and

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pretty much anything with cheap hamburger in. But for the most part, those are emotional, in that they were associated with unpleasant situations. My father was a gambling addict, and so money was often very tight; he was also emotionally and physically abusive and more than willing to be an absolute verbal shit. Domino's is what he would order after he and my mother would have a fight and he was trying to make it up to her by not forcing her to cook....

Still, the sausage gravy still makes me uncomfortable - that gluey whiteness. Eek. And any time I see something with hamburger grease floating in it, I get the willies. (Because if you cook hamburger dishes in a crock pot, it's hard to drain off the grease.)