(11-16-2021, 05:23 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: So, while up here visiting the in-laws, they invited us to dinner at my father in-laws house. All of my wife's sisters and cousins were there as well for a big dinner. Lots of people came to see us and eat.. My wife's sister made 6 meatloafs, damn near 10 pounds a piece, with all the fixins.. We sat down to eat at this really long dining table, there must have been 20 of us at this table, all the kids were eating in the other dining room. My wife and her sisters were fixing everyone's plates as the rest of us were sitting at the table (just doing what I was told to do), and I got handed a plate with a big hunk of meatloaf and homemade scalaped potatoes.. Looked wonderful.. When the rest of them sat down and we began to eat, everyone was taking turns putting sweet pickle relish on their meatloaf!! I kinda looked around in disbelief. Then my wife looked at me and whispered for me to try it before scoffing.. Well, like everyone else, I reached for the relish, slathered it on my meatloaf and tried it.. I wanted to puke.. Was so gross.. I tried to scrape it off, didn't work too well. The juice permeated the loaf. I ate like half of it cause I didn't want to offend anyone and blamed an old ulcer on why I didn't finish..

Tonight is chili and mashed potatoes.. Sounded pretty good until my wife told me that her sister uses bottles of ketchup in her chili. Might hit the Burger King on the way back to the hotel tonight. Pray for me..

I'll stop at the same Burger King I stopped at last year when they made pig stomach for us..

Crazy..

lemme guess, tomato sauce on the meatloaves? I mean, if you're gonna be wrong, double down on the wrongness, right? (#TeamMushroomGravy)

I think I'm going to (involuntarily) fast today, don't think I'll be able to stomach food thinking about ketchup in chili.

Are you normally a pickle eater? I mean, I can eat them, and I like relish on a burger or dog, so I'd probably be able to handle it on a loaf. But if they put tamater gravy on it, I'm out.

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(11-16-2021, 05:28 PM)The Drifter Wrote:

(11-16-2021, 05:23 PM)WingerDinger Wrote: So, while up here visiting the in-laws, they invited us to dinner at my father in-laws house. All of my wife's sisters and cousins were there as well for a big dinner. Lots of people came to see us and eat.. My wife's sister made 6 meatloafs, damn near 10 pounds a piece, with all the fixins.. We sat down to eat at this really long dining table, there must have been 20 of us at this table, all the kids were eating in the other dining room. My wife and her sisters were fixing everyone's plates as the rest of us were sitting at the table (just doing what I was told to do), and I got handed a plate with a big hunk of meatloaf and homemade scalaped potatoes.. Looked wonderful.. When the rest of them sat down and we began to eat, everyone was taking turns putting sweet pickle relish on their meatloaf!! I kinda looked around in disbelief. Then my wife looked at me and whispered for me to try it before scoffing.. Well, like everyone else, I reached for the relish, slathered it on my meatloaf and tried it.. I wanted to puke.. Was so gross.. I tried to scrape it off, didn't work too well. The juice permeated the loaf. I ate like half of it cause I didn't want to offend anyone and blamed an old ulcer on why I didn't finish..

Tonight is chili and mashed potatoes.. Sounded pretty good until my wife told me that her sister uses bottles of ketchup in her chili. Might hit the Burger King on the way back to the hotel tonight. Pray for me..

I'll stop at the same Burger King I stopped at last year when they made pig stomach for us..

Crazy..

Yankee's, they never did learn how to cook properly.......

I mean, I could see this as a "we grew up in lean times and had to stretch our dollars" kind of recipe, but man, once the desperation is gone so would that recipe.

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