# Weird foods you grew up with... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920 "2004-06-17T21:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/21 "2004-06-17T23:29:14Z")
I’m still a big fan of dipping cucmber sticks in natural yoghurt, with a bit of chili in it. Not that wierd really, compared to some of the stuff my dad grew up with. Curried sheep brains comes to mind. Eeew. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/22 "2004-06-17T23:55:31Z")
Ooo! Ants on a log! Someone else heard of this! But not being a huge peanut butter fan, I preferred ants on a snowdrift – same thing, but with cream cheese instead of peanut butter. I guess the only thing odd about my childhood cuisine is that we almost never ate prepackaged meals. Mom and Dad didn’t necessarily make everything from scratch, but most meals were home-cooked. They made their own spaghetti sauce, Mexican food, and, for a while, yogurt and ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/23 "2004-06-18T00:13:28Z")
> [@interface2x](#): > > My roommate looks at me like I’m an alien when I make Peanut Butter and sugar sandwiches. Screw you, it’s good. And hot toast with peanut-butter and sugar is even better. Ooh, one more thing to make for the last time before I can’t eat sugar ever again! And while we’re on the topic of sugar, we used to eat tomatoes dipped in sugar. Works best with fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes. Just dip one staight in a bowl of sugar (it helps the first bite if you lick the tomato so the sugar sticks) and then take a bite. Repeat until tomato is gone. Even thought this was a treat my mother shared with us, now she discourages the practice. One of my family’s favorite dishes is Burger Loafer (an actual recipe printed in an actual newspaper) which is meatloaf (seasoned with nutmeg and oregano) baked inside a loaf of French bread. It must be cut with an electric knife (for some reason!) and it’s wonderful. My brother’s wife refuses to eat it or make it or allow my brother to make it, so whenever I make it I invite him over for a few slices…I’m a good sister! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/24 "2004-06-18T00:23:36Z")
Grilled cheese with tomato soup? That’s not weird, it’s a staple. My dad didn’t like rice, so my mother cooked it with sugar and cinnamon. Really bad for you, but pretty darn tasty. The really weird meal though was bean soup with cornbread. Sounds normal until you know that we ate the cornbread with syrup. The cake type, mind you, not fried cornbread. Everyone I’ve ever mentioned this to thinks it’s pretty odd. I’m looking forward to my first tomatoes from my garden so I can have a tomato sandwich. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/25 "2004-06-18T00:29:34Z")
1 through 4 look normal to me, so do ice in milk, antsonnastick, and peanut butter on toast. I would consider all of the above to be comfort food. I suppose the strangest thing I do, is I prefer to dip my breakfast burrito in strawberry preserves when as far as I know the rest of the civilized world dips it in picante sauce or salsa. A comfort food that seems to get a lot of double takes with a “whaa huh”? when I mention it is chocolate popcorn. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/26 "2004-06-18T00:29:48Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Here’s one my mom taught me: > > Cut two or three thick slices of Hormel liverwurst, place in a bowl and slcie into cubes. > Pour in a little juice from the jar of dill pickle chips. > Add some salt and use a fork to mash and mix it into a spread. > Eat on crackers with pickle chips. Marry me? 😃 I always have to have pickles with my liverwurst, but I must admit the pickle juice mixed in is a nice touch. One dish my mom used to make a lot when I was young called _süsskraut_, i.e. “sweet cabbage” (as opposed to sauerkraut). It basically consisted of Savoy cabbage shredded, steamed and mixed in with mashed potatoes, and it made a good side dish to pot roast or pork chops. ---
**Author:** ![Tamarin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tamarin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamarin)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/27 "2004-06-18T00:30:08Z")
Peanut butter and bacon on toast. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/28 "2004-06-18T00:31:30Z")
Canned corned beef with stewed tomatoes and rice all mixed together. Wedge of boiled cabbage with vinegar on it as a side dish to whatever. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/29 "2004-06-18T00:50:08Z")
I didn’t think it was weird, but as I cut up an orange into my garden salad just as my mother always did, one of my friends completely freaked out. ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/30 "2004-06-18T00:58:22Z")
I put salt on my Mac&Cheese, canolope, and rice. I also had the Ants on a Log snack when I was younger. Oh oh, back when I was little, I had cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. When I mention it now, people give me odd looks. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/31 "2004-06-18T00:58:31Z")
> [@emekthian](#): > > When I was in Kindergarten, I regularly had Peanut Butter and Cheese sandwiches for lunch. Kindergarten! hell, that’s what I had when I came home from work today. When I was in kindergarten, I also had bologna and mustard with my pb & cheese sammiches. Mmmmm mmmmmmmm good. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/32 "2004-06-18T01:00:34Z")
Grilled cheese goes good with any soup, and ants on a log are a kindergarten staple! Though I suppose not anymore, what with peanut allergies and all. My Mom eats tomato sandwiches all the time and if I have no soy sauce I put ketchup on my rice. I got that from my aunt. My odd things: [ul][li]Biscuits with molasses[/li][li]Syrup or molasses sandwiches[/li][li]salmon rolls (look like cinnamon buns but with biscuit dough and salmon) and mushroom soup poured on top[/li][li]road kill (deer, moose or elk… not like cats and coyotes, but it _was_ road kill.)[/li][li]grilled cheese and whatever sandwiches (the whatever being anything like salmon, tuna, chicken, ham… whatever!)[/li]lettuce sandwiches (lettuce between two slabs of bread and seasoned with salt and papper)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/33 "2004-06-18T01:04:22Z")
Most of these sound normal to me. Kittenlm, The only eating thing not normal in your house is that Hal won’t eat mustard. I always enjoyed peanut butter on a toasted onion roll, which I could never get anyone else to eat… One of my favorite foods when I was a kid was what my dad called a ‘gentleman’s egg’, which is a piece of bread with a circle cut out of the middle and an egg in the whole, fried in a pan. You also fried the center piece that you cut out of the bread. The best part was wiping up the leftover yolk with the center piece and eating it up at the end, like dessert. Most people I talk to have never heard of this. Also when I was a kid, my grandmother ate cold sliced beef tongue, pickled herring, and limburger cheese as snacks, all of which made me gag…now that’s some weird food. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/34 "2004-06-18T01:28:00Z")
Is putting salt on oranges slices weird? Because people look at me strangely when I do that. My dad loved celery sandwiches. Just bread, mayo and celery. I prefer tuna fish sammiches made with sliced water chestnuts and bamboo shoots along with the usual pickle relish and celery. Practically a salad on bread, but good. Spaghetti-o’s mixed with milk or cottage cheese, we did that too. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/35 "2004-06-18T01:38:22Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > ‘gentleman’s egg’ Rufus, I haven’t had it myself but I’ve heard it called egg in a hole, egg in a basket or toad in a hole. That seems to be the most common names up here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/36 "2004-06-18T01:44:44Z")
I’ve always liked pickle spears wrapped in processed cheese food. I’ve always put spaghetti sauce on my grilled cheese sammiches. I’ve always dipped my doritos in plain sour cream. I’ve never had any reactions… ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/37 "2004-06-18T01:45:40Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Is putting salt on oranges slices weird? Because people look at me strangely when I do that. Not weird, I do that too. I’m more normal than I thought. But I also like to eat the white part of the peel too. Oh well, so much for normalcy. ---
**Author:** ![sunfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sunfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunfish)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/38 "2004-06-18T01:49:36Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Oh oh, back when I was little, I had cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. When I mention it now, people give me odd looks. I had a LOT of those back in high school. They had the virtue of not stinking up my locker, unlike the ham baloney and cheese sandwiches my mom liked to foist on me. Speaking of cold cuts, we used to have a lot of different varieties around the house. I enjoyed grossing out my friends at lunch by hauling out a [zungenwurst](http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?DEF_ID=4572) on rye or [head cheese](http://eat.epicurious.com/dictionary/food/index.ssf?TERM=head+cheese&submit.x=23&submit.y=8) and swiss on rye sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/39 "2004-06-18T01:53:09Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > My dad loved celery sandwiches. Just bread, mayo and celery. I do the same thing with cucumber. I also used to eat cream cheese sandwiches as a kid. Cream cheese between two slices of bread. My mom has a rhubarb plant, so in the summer as kids my friends and I would cut the stalks, dip them in sugar and eat them raw. You dip after each bite. It provides the prefect amount of sugar for the rhubarb. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920/40 "2004-06-18T01:56:12Z")
Staples at my house growing up: Creamed peas on toast. Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Sour cream on French toast, with syrup. Biscuits with homemade applesauce and butter (which I’ve never heard of anyone else making) for breakfast. All damn good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920.md?page=3)