So I’m sitting here eating a delicious peanut butter and jelly sandwich (literally) and I start thinking about how much I like these sandwiches. They’re salty, sweet and utterly fantastic. But frequently, they are looked down on, mostly because of overexposure during childhood (my guess, anyway).
So on to the list - which foods frequently get picked on as “mundane” or “kiddie food” but don’t deserve it?
My nomination is obviously PBJ. But meatloaf could certainly be added to the list.
orange squash
spaghetti
corned beef
baked beans
ravioli
Beef cheeks
particularly in home-made ravioli
especially at Babbo, NYC.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
grilled cheese sandwiches
soft-boiled eggs with buttered toast
applesauce
Beef cheeks?
Habanero pepper jelly! I just had it on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch today, and it was magnificent!
Lunchables. Tasty, cheap, and a decent nutritionally to other cheap/quick foods.
I have only recently rediscovered them.
And Spaghetti-os. Got to love those little cans of pasta and tomato-paste stuff.
Yeah, beef cheeks!
I used to love halibut cheeks when I lived in Seattle.
Mmmmm…so tender, soooo yummm-eeeeee!
Cheeks are waaaay underrated.
Signed,
Cheeky Monkey
Oh, yeah…I’m talkin’ about the cheeks in the face.
:o
Beans on toast.
mac-n-cheese ~! mac-n-cheese!!
i lubs my mac-n-cheese, i do !
salami sandwich
Circus peanuts
egg salad
Fried bologna sandwitches. They are great.
Oh man yes…fried bologna. But with american cheese on toasty bread, slathered with mustard. With barbeque fritos shoved in the middle.
Mmmm mmmm good!
My other treat: Campbells cream of potato soup with bacon bits and cheddar chunks. And a handfull of oyster crackers.
fish or specifically salmon mmmmmmmmm…poached King salmon.
In my experience (in the lower 48) when I mention fish, some would say “fish??” or “eww fish!”(I think most people conjure images of a baked whole red fish on a plate with some sort of vegetable in its mouth)
but come to my kitchen during the winter king run and I’ll chef you up the best salmon you ever tasted…
NOTE: The following response has nothing whatever to do with my user-name which resulted from a long complicated situation which I am not prepared to go into at this time.
When I was growing up in south Mississippi my mother would prepare grits several times a week for breakfast. To this day just the sound of a pot glub-glubbing on the stove (there are those of you who know what sound I’m talking about) can sooth all but my most serious stresses.
Today the cure consists of a bowl of grits with cheddar cheese, butter, salt, pepper and two pieces of toast to the side.
I grew up eating fish and had a good cook for a mother, but I still never liked fish. Mollusks and crustaceans are tasty though 
I haven’t had it in a long time, and the mere thought of it kind of disgusts me, but I recall having cow’s tongue a few times and finding it very tasty.
Salt and pepper??? On your grits?? What happened to the sugar???
I still eat strawberry shortcake ice cream bars…
And I mix mayonnaise in with the peanut butter and jelly.