# Weird foods you grew up with...

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**Created:** [June 17, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-foods-you-grew-up-with/250920 "2004-06-17T21:35:29Z")\
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Maybe I’m cheating by having a Filipina mother, but here are just a few of the foods I grew up eating regularly:

- squids cooked in squid ink (it was a really pretty purple color)

- oxtail soup

- fish for breakfast, lunch and dinner - not filets either, but fried whole, heads and all. Lola (grandmother) loved eating the heads.

- Suman[sp?]: very sticky rice treated with lye and wrapped in banana leaves, heated up, unwrapped, and dipped in sugar or coconut sauce

- beef tongue

- kare-kare: meat, usually chicken in my family, cooked with vegetables and peanut butter  
I don’t eat any meat except fish now, so the ox tail, beef tongue and kare-kare are now things of the past. But I still love fish for breakfast, squid, and suman, and lots of other Filipino cuisine.  
Also, non-Flip things that I eat now:

- cucumber, lite mayo and mustard sammiches

- best sandwich ever: Veggie bacon, peanut butter, and bbq sauce on toast

- sliced cucumbers sprinkled in rice vinegar, salt, garlic powder, and a bit of sugar, dipped in spicy korean garlic sauce

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