We called those one-eyed-susies (though I never ate them, as I’ve always hated runny egg yolks, which was the whole point of them to begin with). But the more common name seems to be egg in the hole.
My mother used to make chicken soup with chicken feet! And there were these things we called “eggies” that looked exactly like a hard-boiled egg yolk, but had a completely different consistency (much more rubbery) that she put in the soup, too. Blech!
Hahahaha! That was sooo funny - Hal just looked at me funny cuz I bursted out laughing for no reason! Thanks Rufus, for giving me a great laugh!
Oh, you would love one of my favorite recipes then! You poach an egg and while doing that, you make toast. Lightly butter the toast, cut the crusts off, cut the toast into squares. Get out a tea or coffee mug. Put the toast squares, some more butter, salt, pepper, and the poached egg in the mug. Mix well with a fork or knife and voila! a great breakfast (although one is never enough, so start cooking another one while your eating the first!) 
And one more I thought of. It’s not something my parents ever made, it was something I decided to try one day.
When I was younger, probably about 12 or so, one of my friends was talking about their mom, who was pregnant. She told me that her mother would put a blob of peanut butter on a plate and then dip pickles in it. I decided I must try this. It is actually very, very good. I have been eating it ever since
Sounds normal to me. THat’s the way we’ve always eaten grilled cheese and I’ve introduced it to a lot of people. (Some still think it’s just plain weird though :rolleyes: ).
Anybody put potato chips on their sandwiches (in between the bread and meat)?
-Molasses bread- Bread, torn into pieces, with molasses poured over the top.
-Jello toast- Toast with butter and jello powder dusted on top
-Peanut butter and brown sugar sandwiches
I haven’t eaten any of these in probably 15 years, except for some jello toast when I was pregnant.
Not potato chips, but I put nacho cheese doritos in my sandwich. Yum.
I haven’t done it in years, but I used to when I was a teenager.
Bananas sliced tip-to-tip, the flat sides slathered with mayo and sprinkled with crushed Tom’s peanuts.
Hotdogs sliced tip-to-tip, stuffed with cheese and then wrapped in bacon. Broil.
Wow! This thread is bringing back old memories of dishes I used to eat growing up. Here’s a couple that I remember:
Pigs in a blanket-- First, you slit the hotdog in half lengthwise, being careful not to cut all the way through. Then you insert a slice of cheese, folded so that it’ll fit in the hotdog. Then you wrap the hotdog in a rectangle of dough made with Bisquick. Finally, you wrap a slice of bacon around the whole thing and secure with a toothpick. Make enough to loosely fill a large baking pan and bake in a 350° oven for about 30 minutes or until the dough is golden and puffy and the bacon is cooked through. Add a green salad and your meal is complete. Those pigs in a blanket were delicious, everyone begged for seconds until there weren’t any left.
Tuna casserole–mix a can of tuna fish with a can of mushroom soup and add a cup of milk instead of the water and add peas and cooked elbow macaroni. Heat on the range until piping hot. Place a piece of hot buttered toast in the bottom of a soup bowl and ladle in enough tuna casserole to cover the toast and enjoy. That was really good as well.
Boy, I’m gonna have to carefully consider making these favorites again.
Just about everything I have read here is relatively normal and sounds delicious. Apart from the pickles and mayo thing. I hate pickles.
Seeing as I am still in my childhood - I am allowed to eat the weirdest things and my family thinks I’m a loon. There’s a food chain here called Nando’s and its Puerto Rican chicken seasoned with Peri Peri Sauce. It comes in different stages, mild, hot and extra hot. I like hot.
They also sell it in bottle of traditional sauce and marinades. I take this sauce along with anything out of the fridge, cheese, whatever cold meat is in there, tomato relish, tabasco sauce and just about anything else edible, throw it between to pieces of bread and toast it in the sandwich toaster. That’s not that gross when you think about it but what really frightened people was the tandoori paste i used in cheese, ham/salami/turkey/chicken roll/devon and tzatziki sandwiches. And everyone used to think that devon and ketchup sandwiches were gross.
My mum used to make her own variant of tzatziki that we just ate as a dip - it had garlic, almonds and other random stuff and I’d just slick that on with curry paste (And I’m not talking about the curry powder you make curried eggs with - I mean the Patak’s spicy stuff. I love hot food.)
BTW, the paste is the thick rich stuff. Sometimes I’d use the vindaloo paste or Rogan Josh because it has almonds.
My dad is worse - horse radish and last nights roast lamb plus sliced chillis and salt and pepper and god knows what else. My mum and brother have lighter stomachs.
I still put potato chips (or corn chips) on my tuna sandwiches, or I eat them with chocolate. Oreos are the best. Take a bite of the cookie, chew and swallow, and before the aftertaste is gone, take a bite of the tuna sandwich.
Tuna sandwiches must be on white bread, and to qualify as comfort food (instead of just good food) it must be on soft white bread. The stuff I grew up with was heartier than Wonder Bread, but nowhere near as chewy or dense as a good French or Italian bread. The tuna is mixed with mayo only. I’ve been eating them like this since I dont’ know when, and I’m never going to grow us.
I eat Chef Boyardee spaghetti sauce (with meat)(yes, the bright orange kind) with chunks of hamburger and maybe an onion if I’m feeling energetic. Just the meat and sauce, no pasta. Big time comfort food for me.
My sister used to eat buttered toasted bread cubes (I did, too, but she was still doing this in her 30’s, for all I know, she may still do it). Mom would cut bread into cubes, and put them in the oven to toast. While they were toasting, Mom would melt some butter, and then pour it over the cubes when they were toasted enough. I know, just a very bizarre way to make toast, but mighty tasty.
Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup is perfectly normal. I dunno about the cheese-stuffed, bacon wrapped hot dogs, but we had them at my house. The thing that apparently was weird was what my mother called Shepard’s Pie-- ground beef, topped with sauerkraut, then mashed potato. I’ve since found out that Shepard’s Pie is ground beef in gravy (well, traditionally ground lamb, but a lot of recipes use beef), mixed with vegetables, then topped with mashed potato and baked. What my mother was giving us and where she got the recipe, I don’t know. I’d like to make it now, but my hasband can’t stand the idea of sauerkraut in the shepard’s pie. I also used to eat sliced hard-boiled eggs with mayonnaise, because I read it in some book.
In my family, we used to eat popcorn for breakfast. I’m talking leftover cold popcorn from the night before, in a bowl with milk and sugar. Does this count for weird?
Mayo and banana sandwiches on fresh white bread. YUM!
We did that too, but I always thought it was weird. Another weird thing was when we were out at my grandmother’s house in the country, we’d get snow and milk it with milk, sugar and vanilla. Also, my grandmother used to make doughnuts by cutting the centers out of those biscuits from the paper tube, and deep frying them. We would also fry the leftover holes.
parsnips
butter and sugar sandwiches
beans and ham hocks
fried green tomatoes
fried bread
soda crackers for cold cereal
pork and beans on buttered bread
mashed potato sandwiches
One of my favorite weekend meals when I was a kid was to pour myself a big bowl of raw rolled oats (old fashioned, not quick-cooking), with milk, sugar, and cinnamon on top.
I’ll have to try that again sometime soon. MMMM.
One of my comfort foods is chicken pieces stewed in canned tomatoes and tomato sauce, with cut-up zucchini. It must be cooked in a cast-iron dutch oven or large cast-iron skillet. I hardly ever eat chicken anymore, but every once in a while I get a hankering for this meal.
IN the spirit of the OP, some of the weird foods I like are:
Okay, just joshin with you. Let’s see: the weirdest food I eat on a semiregular basis is probably peanut butter, tofu, and kale all mixed into a spicy stew.
It’s harder to be a weird eater these days.
Daniel
Beanie-weenies! I didn’t like hot dogs as a child so I’ve never had it, but that was the first meal my Aunt cooked for my Uncle after they got married.
I used to eat Kix cereal with melted butter poured over it. Mmm. Then they started lightly coating the Kix with sugar and it was never the same.
My mom used to make a drink mix out of tang, lemonade mix, iced tea mix, cinnamon and nutmeg. It made a sweet spiced tangy drink that you could drink either hot or cold.