OMG Mauv I almost gagged when I read that ... BUT on the other hand I used to eat raw hamburg ... I shudder at the thought!!

Erin, I grew up in Missouri and we did the peanuts in Coke thing too... very popular. Doesn't sound all that appealing now though.

Dance

Wot? Cheese & jam TOGETHER?! Peanut butter & cheese sandwiches?

Madness!

But cinnamon sugar buttered toast, hey, I eat that sometimes now and I'm 34! Besmirch not the CS toast!

Freaky kid food:

When my mom was away, my dad would make Kraft Dinner with the cut-up hot dogs! Rock on! And ketchup at the table we could add and mix in. We even got real black tea with milk and Sweet & Low, whoiieee, we were flying high on carbs and caffeine!

Another Dad creation: If not the mac-n-cheese goodness, it was a giant egg stir-fry that started out as an omelette, with red and green peppers mixed in, and tomatoes too I think. Looked like something the dog might have recycled but it was tasty!

Weird stuff I used to eat:

Coke mixed with milk. It curdles and looks so nasty, but it is very tasty. I tried to get my dad to drink this but he refused to try it... and this from a guy who as a young bachelor, lived on soup made from chicken necks, and drank Kool-Aid with dinner to save money

Pickled herring in cream sauce or vinegar - delicacy at my grandmother's house on holidays

Spam omelettes, once you make the Spam nice and seared, fold it in. Mmmm. Heart attack rise and shine!

I'm sure there is more but I think the cholesterol is blocking my neurons.

I use to love when I would have that cheap, pressed, packaged ham on white bread (plain, no crust) & cheese puffs in my bag lunch as a kid- I would take strips of the sandwich and wrap them around the cheese puff. I thought it was so good at the time, and now I can't even stand plain, mushy white bread & forget about that pressed ham...still like cheese puffs occasionally though

When I did my internship in Ireland, I got hooked on putting potato chips on sandwiches- onion & cheddar of course. I thought it was so strange when I first saw people doing it; but when I finally tried it, I had to admit it tasted pretty good- and in reality, I ate less potato chips then if I ate them on the side.

My mom had some pretty strange foods she ate as kid, including milk toast- which she still has any time she gets an upset stomach (UGHHH!). The other really strange one is they use to put vinegar & sugar in water to rehydrate when they worked in the fields. Mom is 79 & grew up on potato farms and back then I guess that was a precursor of Gatorade or something.

This thread is really fun to read! Boy, some of the different combos I never ever thought of eating... but which were family's normal habits. Pretty cool!

The anthropologist in me is very fascinated

The cheese puff/white bread/ham roll-up sounds pretty tasty to me hehehe! Like a grown-up rolled party appetizer almost!

Same with the onion, cheddar and chip sandwich! (I used to make grilled cheese sandwiches as a teen that were loaded with big disks of sliced onion! Bet my breath was awful but it sure was tasty!)

The vinegar/sugar in water as a restorative - hmm! Maybe the vinegar balanced pH and the sugar put back in the glycogen to muscles and liver? Mighta been onto something!

I personally CANNOT drink Gatorade after hearing my dad say it was just "bottled sweat" flavored up. Hurl!

Milk toast... reminds of what my mom made me when I was sick: buttered toast cut into small pieces, topped with soft boiled eggs, then baked for a short time in the oven. Just the warmth of the bread and the salt-sprinkled soft eggs... total comfort food!

Speaking of older relatives eating ways: my grandmother told me that a big treat for her and her brothers and sisters was eating rhubarb out of the garden, and sprinkling salt from a small shaker on it as they went! She said the salt made it much sweeter!

My gut reaction to this was.... UGH!!!

Lemon wedges with salt on them.


My favorite is something I'm sure all would like. It was YUMMY.

Can biscuits rolled flat, dipped in melted butter and then cinnamon/sugar mixture. Lay it on a cookie sheet, put mini marshmellows on it, fold it in half and pinch it shut. Bake it according to biscuit directions.

here is something, we were poor kids and we got government food,

processed cheese sanwich, we would cut huge chunks of it and smack it on sandwiches

mayo and sweet pickel sandwich

bologna boat, (bologna with cheese on top put in microwave, when microwaved, the edges curled up and made a boat for the melted cheese...

cheez its and ketchup, this i still love although i dont eat it....

lately i have been craving bologna so i bought oscar mayer fat free bologna and some low cal bread with some mustard...mmm

Hey Safiya, I can relate! When I was a kid we lived a few miles from an army base and they were having training and a "pretend war" called Goldfire out in the country where we lived. So there were camps of soldiers all over the place. As soon as word got out that a camp had evacuated it was a huge community race to get out there and dig up the K-rations that they would leave buried! They were not marked as to what they were so we would open up those old green cans and dig into whatever we found... like you, we were poor and hungry! But part of it was just the fun of the hunt LOL.

Two major problems with this... there was no way to tell before you dug which was the canned goods burial and which was the latrine... soo..... good luck!! Also sometimes they were not really gone and started coming back and people had to scat out of there when they were out there digging up the soldiers' food!!!

This is true... I swear it!

And hey looks like you have a great start on your weight loss! Good job... keep it up!!!!

Dance

My mom used to make us toast with cinnamon and sugar and also something called "Monkey bread" for breakfast often.
One of my favorite snacks was ritz crackers smeared with cream cheese. I also used to eat cheese right off the block. Not as weird as some but one of my fave's

We used to do that too... I don't like it anymore but I do love sweetened rhubarb like pie

I loved ketchup sandwiches, I ate brown sugar straight out of the box... and this is really weird (not the food itself, but the process): I would take a peanut butter sandwich for lunch in elementary school, and I would smoosh it all into the corner of the baggie it came in until it was a tight little ball. Then I'd eat the ball. I have no idea why I did this, but I did it every day!

I'd eat toast in ketchup.... Just plain toast dipped in ketchup.

The cinnamon sugar toast was another favorite.

We had a German aupair for a while and she'd make us white bread with margerine and then covered with these chocolate sprinkle things.

My dad would make us SOS (S**t on a shingle, for those of us less sensitive), where you'd throw a pound of Jimmy Dean sausage in a pan, crumble it up and cook it, then throw in a box of cream cheese, flour, and milk. Serve on toast and enjoy (I did then, but frankly it sounds gross now).

Wait, why do all of my childhood memories revolve around pieces of bread??

french fries dipped in a vanilla milk shake

I absolutely loved cottage cheese when i was a kid, it was made by our local dairy. It is still my favorite. I know that isnt weird but when you are 8, all of your friends want potato chips, and junk and i wanted cottage cheese, i was a little weird.

Mo - Maccy D's french fries dipped in their ice cream, which was like their milk shakes!

Also honey roast ham potato crisps dipped in strawberry fromage frais.