Weird foods you grew up with...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Yes, PB with pickles (I like dills, some like sweet) is good, and with bacon is great too, or I sometimes have it with brown sugar and cinnamon. Or just the brown sugar and cinnamon on well-buttered toast. PB-and-banana sandwiches were a staple when I was growing up; now I make them better by putting in some marmalade as well. (Of course that’s PB on one side, marmalade on the other, and sliced banana in between. :cool: )

I used to make sandwiches with mayo, a sliced hard-boiled egg, and a bunch of carefully split olives, the green ones stuffed with pimiento. Now I generally use Sicilian, chopped a little and mixed into the egg.

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Peanut butter and jam/marmalade and cheese and lettuce and mayonnaise sandwiches.

Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches (also good as toast)

Peanut butter and molasses sandwiches (also “lassey bread”)

Peanut butter and mandarin orange sandwiches

Peanut butter and cheese on hamburgers (can anyone spot a trend here?)

The above were things that only I would eat. My sisters thought they were gross. My dad sometimes has peanut butter and onions on his burgers, though.

Beans and cut-up hotdogs (as a kid I didn’t know that you could eat beans any other way)

Ants on a log (also with Cheez Whiz, never tried cream cheese but it sounds good)

Cream of chicken soup on toast (heated up undiluted and spooned over the toast, sort of home-made SOS)

Chef Boy-ar-dee pizza - canned dough spread with canned sauce and sprinkled with packaged cheese, to which Mum would add ground beef (no pizza places in town in the '50s)

Dulse - can’t stand it now, but Dad still brings a pack or two back when he’s been down Home visiting

“Arabian fried rice” - beef/pork/chicken/turkey as available fried with rice, coconut, and dates, and seasoned with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ground cloves. My mother would frequently make chinese style fried rice, with green peppers and mushrooms included, which I hated (still do), so after she was done cooking for the rest of the family, I’d make this for myself. (Mum’s attitude was that she would cook one meal for the family - anyone who didn’t like what was being served was free to cook their own when she was finished. By the time I moved out into my carefree bachelor pad I had a good grounding in cooking.)

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Barbecue potato chips on ham sandwiches and sour cream & onion chips on tuna. I don’t like mushy sandwiches, there’s got to be some texture.

Three of my favorite snacks as a kid, a sweet pickle wrapped in baloney, Peanutbutter & Sugar sandwiches, and 'Nilla wafers w/ butter tosted in the oven.

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Ah, memories of ants-on-a-log. Used to have those in packed school lunches. And fried mush, though I never cared for it much.
Several no one’s mentioned yet:

rice and milk: during the particularly impoversished time of my youth. Just leftover white rice, heated up with milk. Blech.

city chickens: small chunks of pork and veal, speared on a little stick, then rolled in beaten egg and saltine crumbs, then fried. Actually they were very tasty. They were sold in packages, complete with the little wooden sticks.

weenie glop: my Ex loved this…and it’s the one thing I made him cook for himself. YUCK. A can of Chef Boyardee spaghetti, sliced weenies, onion flakes and a glug of bbq sauce. (It might explain why he turned out the way he did. He curdled from the stomach out over time.)

scrapple: corn meal cooked with leftover bits and pieces (don’t ask what) of pig, then formed into a square; sliced, fried and topped with sorghum molasses. It sure wasn’t my favorite either.

Veb

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That was the first thought in my mind when I saw the thread title!

Dad would always fix his up at breakfast & for years my brother & I would go “Ewwww!” Then we tried it! Yummy!

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Two other things I remembered-

Hot dogs with potato stick inserted (my own childhood invention)

S**t on a shingle G (another bit of Dad cuisine)

MinniePurl- SNOW ICE CREAM! I loved that!

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  1. Salmon Wiggle

  2. Chinese Party

  3. Toast with jelly and a piece of bologna on it.

  1. Salmon Wiggle (and Shrimp Wiggle) are just names of a creamy dish with peas, served on rice (or mashed potatoes). Not actually weird to eat.

  2. Chinese Party isn’t weird, just a weird name. It was what my mother called Shepherd’s Pie. I have never heard it outside my household.

  3. Toast with jelly and a piece of bologna was something my dad ate from time to time. I still eat it occasionally. It’s actually a nice contrast of sweet/salty and crispy/soft.

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Paté chinois is French for Shepherd’s Pie, so maybe this is where the name used by your mother came from?

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oh, I’ve got a few:

fried baloney and peanut butter sandwiches on white bread

Baked beans and hot dogs spooned inside a hollowed out loaf of italian bread, topped with cheese and baked

grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches

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I’ll slice cheese into finger sized hunks and dip them into peanut butter. I’m Midwestern so lots of my food ideas revolve around cheese.

When I was a kid the weird stuff was raw unground frozen coffee beans, just pop 'em in your mouth and go, and peanut butter on a spoon, like a big tablespoon, to be consumed like a giant metal peanut butter sucker. My mother abhorred this practice.

I also go for potato chips on the PB&J’s, and those neon orange “cheez and peanut butter” snack crackers soaked in chocolate milk…(Homer drooling noise…)

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Ya know…after reading some of the responses here, I am feeling pretty normal :smiley:

Some of you are strange:

Cluricaun - cheez and peanut butter crackers in chocolate milk - ewww.
krisolov - fried bologna and peanut butter??
bookeeper - peanut butter on hamburgers :confused:
amie - mayo and banana sandwiches - ick!
angelicate - jello sandwiches? while your pregnant, I understand, but otherwise?
imthjckaz - bologna and mustard with peanut butter? you’re worse than krisolov!

These are just a select few that caught me off guard. Yep, I am definitely normal :stuck_out_tongue:

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No one’s mentioned salami and jam sandwiches. My husband though “weird” then tried them. Then served them at a party.

I did peanut butter and mayo as a kid, but I suspect just because it grossed people out.

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I notice that peanut better has turned up with an almost alarming frequency in this thread. So here’s mine…I used to love peanut butter and butter sandwiches.

I also enjoyed baloney and ketchup sandwiches, which I never thought was strange until recently, when people kept telling me so.

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Habitually.

My odd list

  • Shrimp Flavoured Chips
  • Soy Bean Pop
  • Tangwiches (yes, I actually ate these growing up)

My brother has an odd food combo that he’s been eating since we were kids. White bread dunked in Coke.

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How could anyone not do that? It’s God’s Will. White bread (untoasted), two slices of ham, slice of Velveeta, barbecue chips. The culmination of millenia of human civilization.

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And don’t forget to smush them down!

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Oh yeah, that’s good stuff. Eventually I couldn’t take the mayo & banana anymore, so switched to peanut butter and banana. I want one RIGHT NOW in fact.

My favorite sandwiches growing up were just white bread, miracle whip, and braunschweiger sausage. Damn, those are good.

But then, I was a pretty fat little kid. A short while ago I was feeling nostalgic and looked for braunschweiger in the grocery store to have a little taste of my childhood again. One look at the “Nutrition Facts” label had me dropping the thing like a white hot iron rod and fleeing the meat isle. I think maybe things were better when we were just blissfully ignorant how bad stuff is for you.

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We called this “Chick in the Hole.” Sometimes my mom would make hashbrowns and we would place the “Chick in the Hole” on top of the hashbrowns and then cover the whole mess with sausage gravy. Mmm-mmmm!

I always put salt on my grapefruit, never sugar. Sugar is for tomatoes as far as I’m concerned. I believe someone else also posted about dipping their tomatoes in sugar.

When I was a child, I refused to eat green beans unless they were smothered with mustard.

My sister used to make this concoction of peaunut butter and whipped cream which she would then place on top of a scoop of chocolate ice cream. It actually isn’t too bad - just really, really sweet.

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If it makes you all feel better, I think almost everything mentioned in this thread sounds horribly disgusting.

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My grandfather used to have peanut butter and bacon on toast nearly every day. Now that he’s not allowed to eat bacon as much, he sprinkles his peanut butter toast with those imitation bacon bits. I tried it, and it’s okay, but just not the same.