# Gross foods you ate as a child **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2004, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286 "2004-04-05T02:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/41 "2004-04-05T16:53:23Z")
A sweet pickle wrapped in baloney. Not weird but time consuming for a snack, Nilla Wafers toasted in the oven with a dab of butter. Then spread with peanutbutter. ---
**Author:** ![Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/41988e/32.png) [@Dazzling\_White\_Diamonds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dazzling_White_Diamonds)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/42 "2004-04-05T17:33:03Z")
Lessee… I used to eat Miracle Whip sandwiches… mmmm yummy. I also used to dump a load of catsup into my navy bean soup… used to piss Mom off to no end. Ham and Cheese and Potato Chip sandwiches. Hamburger Dill Pickle slices - by the **bowl** full. Cooked white rice with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and milk. Oh, and I still eat peanut butter and butter sandwiches… also eat sweet pickles wrapped in cream cheese and balogna (or honey ham). ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/43 "2004-04-05T18:38:38Z")
Grass. Sand. Dog food. My sister fed them to me. ---
**Author:** ![doomraisin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d78d45/32.png) [@doomraisin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doomraisin)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/44 "2004-04-05T18:58:54Z")
[Space food sticks.](http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/spacefood/history.html) ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/45 "2004-04-05T19:02:30Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > If you like that you might like cottage cheese mixed with bite-sized hunks of fresh summer tomatoes. That’s my favorite pig-out food during tomato season. Try adding some diced cucumbers and fresh dill. Ahhhhh- that’s why God made summer. I’ve been known to eat a few peanut butter & dill pickle on toast sandwiches, even to this day. Hey! It’s good, dammit! There’s an old greasy spoon burger joint in Sedalia, Missouri called The Wagon Wheel Inn. Their claim to fame??? Why, they’re the home of the Goober Burger-- A hamburger with all the fixins plus a generous smear of peanut butter… I prefer my PB without the burger. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/46 "2004-04-05T19:15:55Z")
I’ll tell you what, I didn’t exactly hate Milk Bones. ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/47 "2004-04-05T19:19:45Z")
My mom made my brother and I eat: Peanut butter and butter sandwiches Velveeta and sugar sandwiches Velveeta and peanut butter sandwiches All these were served on Wonder Bread, of course, because we all know how healthy that is for growing kids ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/48 "2004-04-05T22:38:08Z")
Quik powder, dry: check Porcupine meatballs: check (although ours weren’t dry, maybe your mom had the recipe wrong) Brown sugar, straight: check Frosting, straight: check Miracle Whip sandwiches: check Also, my grandmother would make peanut butter and sugar sandwiches. I mixed ketchup with my scrambled eggs. I have mixed ketchup with mashed potatoes, but that was nasty. I still mix ketchup with mac&cheese. And I still mix peas with mashed potatoes too, but that’s not really gross. Don’t forget straight Hershey’s syrup. I used to call that a cocktail for kids. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/49 "2004-04-05T22:54:27Z")
> [@mike1dog](#): > > 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. About once a year, I’ll crack open a can. The taste hasn’t changed in over 30 years. I don’t know if that’s good or bad. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/50 "2004-04-05T22:56:02Z")
> [@RindaRinda](#): > > Hellmann’s mayonnaise slathered on white bread. Just the mayo. Me, too. Now, you’d have to put a rocket launcher to my head to get me to eat mayo. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/51 "2004-04-05T22:56:39Z")
> [@RindaRinda](#): > > You guys are weird. > > OTOH, my habit of scraping off and eating the brown stuff on the bottom of the pan after frying meat is completely normal. That just means you have excellent taste. The brown stuff is called fond. Turn up the heat, slosh in some stock and/or wine, scrape the brown bits up while it’s deglazing, reduce it a bit, take it off the heat and finish it with a chunk of butter, little salt/pepper and the result is a tasty pan sauce. > [@Dazzling White Diamonds](#): > > …Cooked white rice with brown sugar, butter, cinnamon and milk… According to my Mother, when she was a kid this was the way rice was always served. It was viewed like a breakfast cereal-type food. I can’t think of anything gross I ate as a child. I waited until I grew up for that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RindaRinda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dfb087/32.png) [@RindaRinda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RindaRinda)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/52 "2004-04-05T23:46:40Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > That just means you have excellent taste. > The brown stuff is called fond. Turn up the heat, slosh in some stock and/or wine, scrape the brown bits up while it’s deglazing, reduce it a bit, take it off the heat and finish it with a chunk of butter, little salt/pepper and the result is a tasty pan sauce. I do love reduction sauces, but before I can start on the sauce, I end up eating too much of the brown stuff in a piggish glee. I didn’t know it was called fond, though. ---
**Author:** ![tesseract](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@tesseract](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tesseract)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/53 "2004-04-05T23:53:38Z")
Did anyone else have Sugar Titties??? As I ponder over the root canals I have had, I remember that my mom used to give us a washcloth dampened and wrapped around --yes – pure white refined sugar. I think she may have tied a rubberband around it to keep the sugar in. Then we sucked on it, hence the name, Sugar Titty! Amazing… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/54 "2004-04-06T02:20:21Z")
> [@doomraisin](#): > > [Space food sticks.](http://www.spacefoodsticks.com/spacefood/history.html) Mmmmm… all the flavor of Play-Doh, in convenient pocket-sized sticks!! I remember those - they were beyond vile. The texture of modelling clay, the color of modelling clay. The flavor of modelling clay. No, not really. They were somewhat sweetened. Modelling clay is more salty. What??? I don’t think we ate too much vile stuff when I was growing up. My father had limited tastes and wouldn’t let Mom get too adventurous. She did try to feed us liver. Once. Never tried that again. Sometimes we had her version of SOS (cream of mushroom soup mixed with dried beef, served over toast) but honestly, that wasn’t too bad despite the fungal infestation. And Fridays during Lent we had a can of tuna, mixed with tomato soup, over Minute Rice. Then there were the sandwiches she made for me every single day of grade school. A 2-for-1 ratio of mayo to american cheese food, on white bread. I used to have to clean the bread off before I could eat the sandwich. I still cannot stomach mayo. Of course, now that I’m a parent who must pack school lunches every day, I’m more appreciative of the need to do something fast and easy. But she coulda saved the money she spent on the white goo! ---
**Author:** ![purplycow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@purplycow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplycow)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/55 "2004-04-06T02:30:32Z")
> [@tesseract](#): > > Did anyone else have Sugar Titties??? As I ponder over the root canals I have had, I remember that my mom used to give us a washcloth dampened and wrapped around --yes – pure white refined sugar. I think she may have tied a rubberband around it to keep the sugar in. Then we sucked on it, hence the name, Sugar Titty! Amazing… 😮 😮 😮 😮 😮 Did your mom give you that instead of a pacifier? ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/56 "2004-04-06T02:52:14Z")
EW EW EW! _sticks tounge out_ How can you guys eat that stuff! Anyway, this isn’t normaly disgusting, but I HATE it, and I always have. Peanut-butter and jelly sandwhiches. I HATED IT! At my babysitters house, almost everyday she would make us eat it. My brother didn’t mind it, but I couldn’t stand it! Bleck. Only reason I did was because I was really shy and I didn’t want to say I hated her PB&J sandwhiches. Her salad made up for it though…yum…she had this super good spice and dressing, I still rememeber it…yum… anyway, I don’t know if this is gross, but grilled cheese with ketchup. Oh and chedder cheese melted in a totilla, and gravy on it. I will still have it sometimes. I normaly eat it in private though, not many are fond of it :rolleyes: BTW, how can you eat sheep droppings and grilled snake, and yet not canned peas? ---
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/57 "2004-04-06T04:17:46Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > BTW, how can you eat sheep droppings and grilled snake, and yet not canned peas? I was a toddler when I ate the sheep droppings, snails etc. so have no recollection of those. Grilled snake takes similar to fish so it’s really not that gross just difficult to eat because of all the bones, much better than mushy tinned peas. ---
**Author:** ![trudi\_fermelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@trudi\_fermelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trudi_fermelli)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/58 "2004-04-06T08:17:04Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > About once a year, I’ll crack open a can. The taste hasn’t changed in over 30 years. > > I don’t know if that’s good or bad. I had spagettio’s just today 😃 Was more like tomato soup with o’s to me 😉 But then I have some sort of bug in my system and it was the only thing that sounded good to me. Hmmmm maybe there is a connection. ---
**Author:** ![trudi\_fermelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@trudi\_fermelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trudi_fermelli)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/59 "2004-04-06T08:20:14Z")
Almost totally forgot this one. Easting paste in first grade. I remember they came out with mint flavored paste, so I think they had a clue what was going on. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2004, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286/60 "2004-04-06T10:13:22Z")
Ooooh, another paste eater! Was anyone else a stamp-licker, too? You had to get them just wet enough to get the taste, but leave enough glue for the stamp to still stick to the envelope. Hey, when you’re four, this stuff tastes good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gross-foods-you-ate-as-a-child/238286.md?page=4)