What are some of the gross, weird things you ate as a child, either by choice or by force (as in your parents made you)? Do/would you still eat those things now, or would you steer way clear of them?
When I was about 8 years old, my parents started taking me to a nutritionist because they thought it would help my asthma improve (yeah, right). One of the things this woman suggested that my parents give me was onion slices in honey, because it would loosen congestion. Ugh…needless to say, it did nothing for me except strengthen my gag reflex. The only time I would eat that crap again now would be if I was getting paid good money to do it.
Another food I’ll probably never touch again is liver, for obvious reasons. Just not a big fan of animal organs.
When we were little, my brother, sister and I had a contest to see who could chew up an adult One-A-Day vitamin without spitting it out. Anyone who has tried this can attest to the awfulness of the taste. By the way, I won.
I used to eat Spagettios(sp?) every day. I know that’s not particularly weird, but I couldn’t imagine eating those dayglo orange things at all anymore. By the way the Liver is not really an organ but a gland, isn’t it?
Well, I once put a snail in my mouth, does that count? Freaked my mom right the hell out.
The really disgusting thing my brother and I used to do was to take a piece of uncooked spaghetti, run it along the top of the butter stick, and then dip it in the sugar bowl. It’s an Atkins nightmare.
When I was little one of my favorite sandwiches was brussel sproutes and mayonnaise. It’s been years since I’ve had one of those, and it doesn’t sound appetizing, or all that filling either.
Me too and worse. I grew up on a farm and evidently had quite a fancy for dry sheep droppings when I was little. I also swallowed hooks, chewed up and swallowed glass and drank kerosene.
Grilled snake is probably the weirdest thing I ate, yummy.
The food which I was forced to eat and detested was tinned peas (when fresh were out of season). I can still see myself gagging trying to swallow those damn peas. As soon as I left for school I never touched them again, just seeing them on the supermarket shelf makes me shudder.
butter and sugar
raw potatoes
syrup sandwiches (syrup and bread, that’s it)
lettuce sandwiches (lettuce, bread, salt and pepper)
quik powder (I’d mix it with a little water and make a paste or I’d get a glass of milk and a spoon, put quik on the spoon and dunk it in the milk so it was covered and pull it out then eat it… without dropping it into the milk to make chocolate milk)
Yes, this was all willingly. Why are you looking at me odd?
PB and brown sugar sandwiches. I used to love these. Haven’t had one in maybe 10 years though. I wonder if I’d still like them? Perhaps that will be my lunch today… Whenever I tell people about these they usually seem to think it sounds really gross - I don’t think it sounds that bad.
