family food traditions that you love, but make outsiders cringe

Except for the ketchup, that’s a standard breakfast item, generally called “egg in the hole.” (It’s not something I’ve eaten, but I’ve got bread and eggs at home, so I might try it.)

We call it “Toad in the hole” and it’s wonderful, in the way that only truly buttery heart-attack-on-a-plate food can be.

The Wikipedia article gives that as one of many possible names for the dish.

‘Eggs in a Cage’ when I was growing up; no ketchup.

The mother of a girl I used to date loved mashed potato and mayo sandwiches.

Ohhh… coffee soup. Wow. Yeah. My dad ate that alone. He made his with unbuttered saltines, though. I’m not sure of the proportions. Wonder if he’d make me a bowl? (At the time, I hated even the smell of coffee. Now I’m an addict.)

It’s so good, but really–it’s also so very unhealthy.

In a perfect world, use Lays brand potato chips (the non-ruffled kind). If you can’t get those, get some other inexpensive brand of non-crinkle-cut. The crinkle-cut/ruffled ones burn and turn awful.

The cinnamon and sugar is different (although powdered sugar on scrambled eggs is a Moroccon thing) but I’ve had scrambled eggs and rice like you described (equal parts) at a Thai run diner in North Hollywood and I’ve seen it on the menu at other Thai and Fillipino(I think) places. At the diner they put a slice of cheese on it.

My family twist on turtle barf-Tuna, cram of mushroom soup+peas over white toast or egg noodles. Standard late winter Friday night dinner.

I use the 80/20 hamburger from Trader Joe’s, but back when Mom made it, they didn’t really label ground beef that way,and she always bought the cheapest stuff. There really isn’t alot of grease…and what there is gets absorbed by the bread and makes it yummy!

“Clouds in the window.” No ketchup. My kids love it.

That was…unfortunate. I’ve now been tasked with making the family another meat-loaf type thing as an apology. :stuck_out_tongue:

We salt our cantaloupe, never tried it on watermelon though. We eat hard-boiled eggs while still warm, split them in half and spread with butter. We used to have sugar sandwiches when I was a kid but we used white sugar. We put butter on crackers. As for the op, we used to eat white rice warm with milk, sugar and cinnamon for breakfast but we never added eggs to that.

This isn’t so much a family tradition as just something my sister started doing, which then in turn my brother and I started doing, but I still get funny looks from people when I tell them.

Pickles on pizza.

They have to be dill, and thinly sliced, like ones you’d find on a McD’s hamburger. There is really only one pizza place that does it well, and it’s the one in our hometown she started ordering it from. I like it paired with pepperoni, and I actually managed to get enough of my friends in high school to like it that pickles eventually made it onto the official list of toppings.

People cringe, but it’s so good! The pickles dry out a bit, and are like salty, sour islands of awesome in the sea of cheese.

Jolly Green Giant® corn niblets mixed into pancake batter. I was in my 20s before I realized that not everyone loves corn in their pancakes. Indeed, for a long time, I thought that’s how a proper pancake should be served. Had no idea it was just a family thing.

It’s on the menu at several pancake places. I usually get disappointed because I expect a corn meal pancake but it usually is exactly as you describe.. niblets in the batter and on top.

salute Have no fear, I’m not all that pro-potato chip but I am adamantly anti-Ruffles.

Ruffles have Ridges (for her pleasure) but since I’m not making sweet love to mah potato chips I’ll stick to Lays.

I’m gonna need a cite for that, please. :wink:

I’ll do that too, but usually if I’m just feeling lazy. On really hot summer days I’ll do that, but add pickled herring and grapes. (No, not all together.) It’s a tasty and expensive way to avoid turning on the stove.

Kringle. I’ve seen recipes for it on the Web, and I know you can buy it in some shops. But what we make is a very different recipe than other Swedes are probably used to. We’ve had our own family recipe for at least 5 generations, probably longer.

I refuse to wake up on Christmas morning if there’s no kringle.

Eggs with the hole in the middle, with ketchup. Yeah, my family isn’t the most logical.

Ghetto chip dip - 1/4 ketchup, 1/4 yellow mustard, 2/4 salad dressing (depending on the mood there may be more salad dressing added).

I wanna know if the following is weird to others: Eggos with peanut butter. No one other than my brother and I use peanut butter, but it doesn’t seem like that odd of a combo.