Wow. You guys are reminding me of more of my gross food habits. I had forgotten about those glue sandwiches in kindergarten (two bits of paper with glue in the middle). Why don’t teachers do anything to stop this behavior? Then I lost the glue habit, and just kept the paper eating habit. I seem to recall people daring me to eat a piece of paper or a brown paper lunch bag, and since I didn’t mind the stuff, I gladly accepted the dare.
Those Space food sticks reminded me of the space ‘ice cream’ which I used to like as well. Do kids still eat this stuff today?
AAAh, that stuff is crap! And four dollars a package to boot! I guess it’s worth trying for the experience, but that is like cardboard-textured crap flavor with sugar. Bleaugh!
I would take two pieces of Wonder bread, cut them into four squares, and make four mini sandwiches. One ketchup, one mustard, one mayo, and one relish.
Miracle Whip on white bread.
Miracle Whip with fresh 'maters on white bread.
Grape jelly on scrambled eggs—green eggs and ham!
My favorite snack of all time was sliced dill pickles and Kraft American slices skewered onto toothpicks. Pickle and cheese shish kebabs. Mmmm.
I accidently ate Ken-L-Ration canned dog food once. Ick.
My mom would try to give us milk toast when we were sick at our stomach. Toast with sugar and warm milk on it - gross!!!
This used to gross my older brothers out, but made sense to me. A slice of American cheese spread with peanut butter. Yum. Tasted just like those peanut butter-cheesy crackers.
This one isn’t me, but my dad used to eat the weirdest things. He loved onions and could peel and salt a white onion and eat it like an apple. He also had a favorite sandwich he called his POT sand. Peanut butter, onion and tomato on white bread. Ick.
My mother felt that ALL sandwiches required butter on both slices of bread. To this day I can’t eat a sandwich with butter. I remember happily opening a PB&J sandwich and seeing butter oozing out from under both the PB and the J. Double ick.
I also ate sugar sandwiches; white bread, margarine and granulated sugar. Loved 'em, it makes my teeth hurt to even think of that now.
We also ate rice with margarine, milk and sugar for breakfast. I’m not sure if this was my mother’s version or cereal or a way to use up the previous night’s leftover rice. But it was good, although I don’t think I’d try it now.
I also remember Space Food sticks, and I used to put dry Quik powder on ice cream, which isn’t too weird, especially once it started mixing in a bit.
I also loved to drink olive juice and pickle juice from the jar.
I’m curious if the sugar sandwiches or rice “cereal” might be a regional thing. I grew up in Ohio, how about you guys?
I was wondering when/if someone would post that. I’ve eaten a few Milk Bones as well, but NEVER the liver-flavored ones! Hey, at least I had some standards as a kid.
Another grilled cheese & catsup person here. Dipping it into tomato soup just isn’t the same.
Creamed corn with crushed saltines was a favorite of my moms. The smell now makes me gag.
PB&J’s are a comfort food to me, as is cinammon toast. I could eat them all day.
Butter. Straight butter.
Squirt frosting.
Cold Spagetti-O’s (we don’ need no stinkin’ stove!). To this day I shudder at the thought of ANY kind of Chef Boyardee type foods. The first “meal” I ever made was the Chef Boyardee Spaghetti In A Box Meal. blech.
Bananas dipped in chocolate syrup, sprinkled with coconut. Still a favorite, but now I buy Magic Shell.
Chicken Fried Steak was another biggie when I was growing up. blech.
Another one signing up to the dried milk powder club. Over here in Brit-land the first and best-known brand of just-add-water milk powder was called ‘Marvel’. I could eat spoon after spoon of the stuff quite happily.
Also… raw jelly cubes. (Linguistic note for 'merkins: what you call jelly is what we Brits call jam or marmalade. What we call jelly is, well, I don’t know what you call it except possible the brand name Jello, but anyway it’s just a cube of flavoured gelatin, melt it in warm water, make up the volume with cold water, leave to set in the fridge. That seemed like too much hassle for me as a kid, so I just ate the jelly cubes straight out the packet.)
This is good stuff. I was only introduced to this wonderfulness a few months ago, though. As a call after a game of ultimate frisbee (after a game, both teams play some sort of fun game together…kinda) the other team had a food call. We had a team relay jelly cube eating race. Each person had to eat a whole block of this. That was some tasty stuff…and gave me a nice sugar high that lasted for quite some time. Good times…
I keep forgetting to buy the stuff when I go shopping though (about twice/semester).
Couldn’t agree more with this. This concoction most definately does not belong in the “**Gross foods ** you ate as a child” thread. This should be in the tasty stuff everyone should try thread…
This reminds me of my best friend in 2nd grade. She used to eat raw potatoes like apples! Without salt, even. While not gross, exactly, it’s not something I’d do voluntarily - cold flavorless starch cubes - ick.
I also used to take two pieces of cheese, put it on white bread, add ketchup and mustard and microwave it until the cheese melted.
Oh, and speaking of which… plain cheese microwaved until crispy.
Of all the things I had to give up when diabetic, the one I miss most is Spaghettios. My favorite was taking the kind with the meatballs and cutting my own hot dogs up in it. Salivating right now…
