A lot of kids brought a lunchbox and thermos to school. Packed carefully by mom with your favorite sandwich, chips, and cookies.
Then when you got home from school, it was time for another snack sandwich.
They were a big part of our childhoods.
Once in awhile, I get a craving for one of my favorites from childhood. I’ll indulge about five or six times a year. Who cares if it’s healthy!
For me it’s a peanut butter and banana sandwich. They have to be made with smooth peanut butter and a over ripe banana mashed together with a fork. Smeared on toasted white Wonder bread.
So, whats your favorite and how do you want it made?
If there’s enough interest, then I’ll put together a poll from the responses.
The first thing I ever learned to “cook” for myself. Tuna salad sandwiches. Just Tuna, Mayo, and pickle relish. I am always disappointed when people feel the need to fancy it up with capers or grapes or raisins or artichoke hearts or Balsamic vinegar or whatever.
Just give me the 6 year old version.
Oh the classic PB&J for me. If we want to extend it to other foods, I had a run a few years ago when I relished Spaghetti-O’s with meatballs. I brought a can of 'em to work about once a week.
The funny thing was, I was always ready to say, “it was the only thing in the house!” if anyone hooted at me. Silly. Probably everyone was saying, “gee I wish I had the balls to bring Spaghetti-O’s to work and eat them in front of God and everybody.”
Peanut butter and mayo, with some crisp lettuce optional. I was first taught how to make them in 5th grade, and I’ll still occasionally bust one out if I’m low on supplies and PB and mayo are all I have.
I’m too acutely aware of the nutritional content of such a sandwich these days, though, so I try not to have them too often. Be less fatty to have a burger and fries.
For me, it would have to be fried baloney (not bologna) sandwiches on Wonder bread with mayo.
For my brother, it would probably be sandwiches with gubmint peanut butter and yellow cheese.
My dad used to like Vienna sausages on saltines and we’d ask for a sample occasionally. I tried this a few years ago and found the “sausages” to be incredibly vile. Probably should have used some balsamic vinegar or something on 'em.
Pretty much what I was going to say. Two slices of Oscar Mayer beef balogna, Wonder Bread (or Sara Lee, up here), mayonnaise (Miracle Whip to be true to my childhood, but I prefer mayo), a little French’s yellow mustard, and Ruffles potato chips on top of the balogna.
Peanut butter, apple butter and cheddar cheese sandwiches for me. I very rarely got a packed lunch, usually only when it was necessary for field trips, because I went to private school and we had an excellent hot lunch offered at a good price. But when I got one, that’s what it was. (It was my dad’s favorite too, and he made lunch for me then.) If I had some apple butter in the house, I’d make one right now. I think I may need to go to the grocery store.
And butter on both pieces of bread to make it toast nicely, not olive oil spray or something. Add a bowl of from-a-can tomato soup and that’s one of my favorite comfort food combos.
Also seconding the PB&Banana combos, though I don’t mash the banana.
Who cares if it’s healthy!