So many things to do
Even have gone through my bucket list
Numerous times
Not sure that a bucket list can be revised
However it would seem that given enough thinking time
Any concept can be reconfigured
Actually if there is more than one stirring the pot
Even a mutual list will have adjusted priorities
Learning French was one we inherited, on a back burner
Can’t say there was any real drive to learn French
Other than stories from previous generations
Yeah riding on the Rhine stopping to see Paris
Was definitively romantic
Projected plans formulated more than once
Surgeries and whatever delayed the dates
Now it seems as if planning is all we might do
Maybe if we rented a gondola for the Ohio
Oh yeah, wrong country
Reminiscing took us all the way back
To old family meal traditions
Each family to a degree seems like its own history book
My memories were a culinary lust menu
7 children, parents, grandparents
Certainly not going to be enough food to go around the table
It’s where I learned the real meaning of a ‘dinner bell’
Be sitting or be crying
Even today I can see the family menu day by day
Of course Friday was tuna fish casserole
Sunday very possibly could be a pork chop
The rest of the week included in no particular order
Hot dog, sauerkraut and baked potato
Chop suey out of a can with mounds of rice
Liver steak, with lots of gravy and onions
Chicken noodle soup with box of crackers
But really I’m ruining the speciality items
Sunday night without fail was the best
Everyone got a ‘Black cow’, coke poured over vanilla ice cream
So many behaviors would be corrected with a ‘Black cow’
Almost every meal had fruit out of a can, you know the list
Fruit cocktail, peaches, apple sauce,
Very frequently salads, though simple
A few leaves of lettuce, two or three slices of tomatoes
A spoonful of cottage cheese
Deserts were interchangeable
Orange jello, raspberry jello, lime jello
Vanilla pudding, chocolate pudding, butterscotch pudding
Didn’t really matter if there was a preference
There was only one entree per night
But lest I forget, the dinner piece de resistance
‘Corn beef hash’,
Actually I guess I could go on with this culinary history
But what I have documented is that there were scheduled meals
With designated items much anticipated
Might not be French cuisine
But then we didn’t have to leave the house either
FXC 04/07/2020 Copyright frankxcameron.com
