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Related: About this forumFire-roasted potatoes, Brooklyn style
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Fire-roasted potatoes, Brooklyn style (Original Post)
elleng
Jun 2015
OP
With six kids, this is how my parents filled us up at our cook outs after the hot dogs ....
marble falls
Jun 2015
#8
DinahMoeHum
(21,843 posts)1. Mickies! My mother and her brothers knew all about those. . .
. . .from their childhoods in Brooklyn.
elleng
(131,457 posts)2. Sounds familiar!
I grew up in Brooklyn in apartment/development, didn't burn ANYTHING there, but folks grew up in Harlem and Bronx, and you rang a bell!
DinahMoeHum
(21,843 posts)3. What neighborhood? My mother's side was from. . .
Greenwood Heights, 5th Avenue and the 30's streets, across from Greenwood Cemetery and a stone's throw from Battle Hill and the statue of Minerva.
elleng
(131,457 posts)4. Clinton Hill for me,
Clinton near Myrtle Ave.
Sanity Claws
(21,866 posts)5. I went to high school in that area.
elleng
(131,457 posts)7. We moved just before my 5th grade, remember walking to P.S. 21,
have no idea where my high school would have been!
Skittles
(153,321 posts)6. I don't think I have ever seen potatoes look less appealing
hope they taste better than they look
marble falls
(57,647 posts)9. You gotta try one.
marble falls
(57,647 posts)8. With six kids, this is how my parents filled us up at our cook outs after the hot dogs ....
were all gobbled down. I still remember the smell of potatoes roasting on charcoal. One of my favorite memories!