Gross foods you ate as a child

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.

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).

Grass.
Sand.
Dog food.
My sister fed them to me.

Space food sticks.

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.

I’ll tell you what, I didn’t exactly hate Milk Bones.

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

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.

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.

Me, too.

Now, you’d have to put a rocket launcher to my head to get me to eat mayo.

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.

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. :slight_smile:

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.

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…

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!

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Did your mom give you that instead of a pacifier?

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?

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.

I had spagettio’s just today :smiley: Was more like tomato soup with o’s to me :wink:
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.

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.

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.