My brother used to put BBQ sauce on fried rice, and baked beans IIRC.
Yes, it is…in fact it’s the exact same clipping that my Mom has glued to an index card…and that’s my comment at the end of the comments! We don’t do the MSG or the green peppers. I googled it a few weeks back and was surprised to come across that blog post. It’s the first time I’ve ever seen another reference to that particular recipe. After showing the blog to my boss, she wanted to try the recipe but was disappointed. She brought leftovers to me at work, and then confessed that the loaf of French bread she had used was already stale and crusty when she started…thing was hard as a rock! Plus she added cheese, which was not a good addition. It is a bit hard to cut even when made right, because the bread does get crusty and the top tends to slip around a bit. But we’ve always used an electric knife on it (probably the only thing we use the electric knife on!) so it’s not a problem. I made this two weeks ago for my brother as a thank you for helping when my basement flooded. Now I’m craving it again!
We ate brown sugar sandwiches on a regular basis.
Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t all Amish folk, btw.
I like fairly dry turkey drowned in gravy, just like Mom used to make. Everywhere else I’ve had turkey, it seems too moist and slimy to me.
I don’t know if this qualifies as a tradition yet because we’ve only been doing it for a few months but we like back bacon and guacamole on a focaccia bun. Most people we’ve told about it look at us like we’re weird but it’s really tasty!
I’m imagining something like white bread with a skim of butter and a thin layer of brown sugar. Is that right? That sounds right up my alley. But if I’m wrong, I’d like to know more.
As for Pennsylvania Dutch not necessarily being Amish, are you saying that some were just German settlers without the religious affiliation? I hear “Amish” and “Pennsylvania Dutch” used interchangeably, but I’m not shocked that it’s incorrect or inaccurate.
Hard boiled eggs and boiled potatoes covered in mustard sauce. Mustard sauce, btw, is made from a butter/flour roux with water added and then yellow mustard added to taste. So yummy, but definitely weird here in the US. Apparently, it is more common in Germany.
Pretty close,we used a good dose of both butter and brown sugar tho.
We also used to eat onion sandwiches as kids,nice fat slices of onion with mustard and ketchup.
Wiki has a decent article on Pennsylvania Dutch.
When we were little and went outside to play in the snow, my mom made hot chocolate for us when we came back in, and had graham crackers. Not weird at all. Except that there was a heavy layer of butter on the crackers.
It seems to freak people out, but I have it about once a year even as an adult. Takes me right back. 
Sounds like if you chopped up the potatoes and eggs, you’d have a very simple potato salad. Not so weird.
That’s wierd? That’s the only way we ate them as kids.
Central and Eastern Pennsylvania had a large number of German settlers, not all of whom were Amish. There were a fair number of Lutherans, Mennonites, and Brethren in Christ, as well. There are enough cultural similarities that you can use the umbrella term Pennsylvania Dutch, even though they’re of different denominations. In fact, there is a Wikipedia in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.
Not so weird, except this was a hot dish. I liked it, too.
I make a dish my family calls cabbage balls, that consists of large meatballs, boiled cabbage, onion soup mix and potatoes. It’s not a particularly attractive dish, and my (now grown) children insist you have to put it on your plate and chop and mix it up further, with the juices. Now it looks even less attractive, but everyone dives right in and loves it. My kids now make this for their families.
My mother used to make those for me when I was a child. Haven’t had one in years (haven’t even thought of them in years), but they were good!
I always mixed the ranch dressing into the mashed potatoes on my plate. 
Any creamy salad dressing will do really, it’s a good flavourful sub if you don’t have any sour cream or gravy to go on the potatoes! I dislike eating potatoes by themselves, must at least have some butter.
Matzo balls are supposed to be light and fluffy. My step-mom’s are hard as a rock and chewy. Most people would probably think that they’re the worst matzo balls in the world but I absolutely love them. I look forward to them every Passover.
I loved brown sugar sandwiches as a child. Thanks for bringing back that memory.
My German step-grandpa taught us to make sour cream and sugar sandwiches. Take a slice of white bread, spread a thin layer of butter on it. Then a thin layer of sour cream, then sprinkle with sugar. It’s delicious. But once you reache the age of worrying about cholesterol, it becomes a thing of the past.
Boiled cow tongue with ketchup.
Ok, I’m intrigued. Details on dandelion choice and treatment, and dressing, please.
Cheers.
It might be the cinnamon and sugar that make people cringe. The rice & eggs combination, as someone already pointed out, is already found in fried rice, and isn’t that different in concept from a potato omelet (chunks of cooked potato mixed in an omelet, usually with cheese as well), or the starving-student dish Egg Foo Yuk (leftover Chinese food stirred into scrambled eggs). But sweets + eggs seems to be an unusual taste.
At least, that’s been my experience. If I want an omelet filled with jelly, like the ones my dad made when I was a kid, I have to make it myself. That’s one omelet filling I’ve never seen on a menu.