Question of the Day: What weird things did you like as a child?
I, for one, ate Tang straight out of the jar until my tongue hurt.
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This might not be all that weird, just different. As a child I refused to eat cereal and milk together. I might drink milk in a glass while eating a dry bowl of cereal, but they had to be separate. If someone poured milk over my cereal I would just sit there and go hungry. It had to do with texture; I love crunchy foods and to this day if I have to pick between a crunchy or soft snack, I always choose the former.
stareater at 12:59PM on 07/10/07
I fried bologna and topped it with grape jelly for a very tasty sandwich. I gag at the thought now.
Kiana at 1:06PM on 07/10/07
Those processed bologna squares with the little flecks of yellow cheese . *shudder*
ienefra at 1:10PM on 07/10/07
Wow, same here with the separate cereal and milk. I also loved fried bologna, but no jelly. I ate sugar by the teaspoonful. My favorite thing to do, when no one else was around (i.e. rarely) was to tip back a can of Reddi-Wip and squirt a huge amount into my mouth. Mmmm.
Library Lady at 1:14PM on 07/10/07
Peanut butter & lettuce sandwiches. Butter & sugar on bread -- no cinnamon, just sugar. (But my neice does this, so maybe it's not so weird...). Spoonfuls of peanut butter & butter mixed. I would also suck on mustard packets, or just tip back the French's...
sheldel at 1:27PM on 07/10/07
Cold Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Sure they're precooked, so eating them straight out of the fridge was safe, but .... gargh. Oh, and butter straight from the butter dish.
Adam Kuban at 1:29PM on 07/10/07
I really liked marshmallows. I nuked them with rice crispies for a snack. . . and lots of other marshmallow creations. I still like s'mores though.
lisbear18 at 1:31PM on 07/10/07
I had two odd ones. I would melt a slice of cheddar cheese and a matchmellow on a ritz cracker in the microwave, or I would add those "lick em aid's" or any powdered drink mix to yogurt.
Lilartist at 1:51PM on 07/10/07
this isn't odd food but odd for a little 3rd grader. in the cafeteria at lunch i made a deviled egg everyday and that would be my lunch - did that for about 4 months straight. I'd get a hardboiled egg from the salad bar, a squeeze of mayo from a mayo packet and then a dab of pickle relish from the salad bar - mix it all up - and viola!
ceforrester at 1:55PM on 07/10/07
I didn't do it, but my niece used to (SHUDDER) grab a full stick of butter and just chomp down on it like she was eating a carrot! I've since learned that lots of kids do this...thankfully, I wasn't one of them. :-)
The only thing I remember doing (likely around age 5-6) was eating the egg and sugar mixture my mom had just made in the mixer for the base for some cookies. Needless to say, she yelled at me.
Curlz at 1:56PM on 07/10/07
My brother used to dip a stick of butter in sugar and eat the whole stick like a banana! He also favored peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.
Then as now, I had a pretty wide palate. I had the same milk/cereal problem--didn't like mooshy food. I used to eat plain parsley by the cupful. I used to sneak raw bacon--and in those days there *was* trichinosis around. Liked raw ground beef, too! To this day I adore steak tartare. My father was a total cheese head. I think we were the first people in Toledo, Ohio, to have a wheel of brie in the house--my father had it shipped to us from somewhere.
Tom Steele at 2:10PM on 07/10/07
American Cheese and peanut butter on whatever bread is around...and i still eat it occasionally
steak at 2:13PM on 07/10/07
Peanut butter and mustard on pumpernickel bread. I notice that this peanut butter + atypical condiment thing is a common theme.
Glendon at 2:26PM on 07/10/07
Buttered toast dipped in oranje juice
susanl at 3:25PM on 07/10/07
Another vote for dry cereal with a glass of milk on the side. Also, margarine and sugar, because I came from where butter was considered far too expensive and hard to spread.
Peasantwench at 3:32PM on 07/10/07
We grew parsley in the yard. I just ate bits of it, plain.
lisbear18 at 3:43PM on 07/10/07
Used to lick a finger and dip it into a box of dry jello, then lick the crystals off my finger. Everyone on swim team used to have bright red, orange or green index fingers depending on their preference. When I was very young, so I've been told, I had a penchant for black crayons as well.
hereandthe at 3:46PM on 07/10/07
Toasted white bread spread generously with Miracle Whip.
grampart at 4:00PM on 07/10/07
i would break chicken bones with my teeth and suck the bone marrow out.
Dreamzoxo at 4:46PM on 07/10/07
warm italian bread and chilled milk poured inside
Dreamzoxo at 4:47PM on 07/10/07
hamburgers with spaghetti marinara on top
chameleonz at 5:55PM on 07/10/07
French fries with soft serve ice cream. It had to be soft serve.
choc_puddin at 5:55PM on 07/10/07
Evaporated milk straight out of the can
JEP at 7:03PM on 07/10/07
I too was known to eat white wonder bread slathered in Miracle Whip. My other nasty concoctions included microwaving spoonfuls of peanut butter and Nestle Quick and then eating the mess with a spoon. Also making a glass of chocolate milk and then filling it with cheerios.
The "best" though was the "Macaroni and Cheese Loaf" from the deli case. I would just eat that plain. Straight from the fridge.
Erin at 7:48PM on 07/10/07
My mom told me I used to love tiny little hot dogs that came in a jar. I have no memory of this whatsoever! But perhaps it explains my love of cold Tofu Pups right out of the package!
K at 7:57PM on 07/10/07
Grape jam and American cheese on squishy white bread . . . Pickles and iced tea (I would take a bite of pickle and wash it down with iced tea made from powdered mix) . . .
trabo at 9:13PM on 07/10/07
I liked mayo (not Miracle Whip) and iceburg lettuce sandwiches on white bread. Also butter on saltine crackers.
catew at 9:38PM on 07/10/07
Cold spaghetti sandwiches. I haven't done it for awhile, but I think it still sounds good. Perhaps between two pieces of garlic bread? Mmm. I also ate wheat germ as a kid, on my cheerios. Not by choice, I grew up in California. No matter how healthy, I'll never eat it as an adult.
LizNYC at 9:39PM on 07/10/07
Used to dip banana into a can of Hersey's syrup now and then...
Also broke apart Hershey's chocolate bars and dipped them into peanut butter. I'm sensing a trend here...
As the saying goes, anything dipped in chocolate....
letthemeatcake at 10:20PM on 07/10/07
Butter. Like Curlz and Tom Steele referenced, I was crazy for butter as a kid. It's not like like my late mother-in-law, who was a kid in England when it was rationed. We always had a jar of it in the kitchen. And THAT was where I'd strike, even if I had to spend precious minutes dragging a chair or stool to the counter. It was salty and semi-soft and yellow, and felt great in my hand as I grabbed as much as I could to stuff in my mouth before my mom caught me.
I still love butter, and don't care about diet or anything else like silly warnings about fat. I want the best butter to cook with that I can find. I just don't eat it by the half-kilo anymore.
TikiPundit at 10:28PM on 07/10/07
Hard uncooked spaghetti right from the package.
Saltine crackers with marshmallow fluff on top.
Eagle brand straight from the can.
Beanie Weenies- cold, straight out of the can.
Erinay77 at 10:38PM on 07/10/07
I'm with grampart - I used to have my mom make me mayo sandwiches on white bread (crusts removed, of course). I can't even imaging eating mayo alone nowadays.
Apparently I also loved pig ear as a toddler (so chewy!).
abstract_duck at 11:39PM on 07/10/07
Some things I ate as a kid are now cool foodie things today.. Horseradish spread on a sandwich with zuchinni slices and sharp cheese and roasted peppers, toasted under a plate with a 2 lb can on top. Pannini right? We used to call it Cast Iron grilled sandwich.
Grilled cheese with combination cheeses and various breads.
Peanut butter and choc melted in the microwave on ice cream.
Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce sandwiches, they have this everyplace now.
Rice krispy squares, pretzels, ritz crackers and practically everything dipped in chocolate. I spent hours dipping things in chocolate, which is now just passe.
Underwood deviled ham on rye with swiss cheese. I loved it.
Tahitian Treat soda? Oh like you didn't like it?
Jello with fruit cocktail mixed in. I could eat this for days.
PB&J on matzo.
JerzeeTomato at 3:56AM on 07/11/07
when i lived in the states as a kid: bologna and american cheese slices with miracle whip (i know this doesnt sound too bad now, but Miracle Whip makes me wanna throw up). and cold hot dogs. when i lived in france: peanut butter. doesnt sound abnormal to us, but most French at that time thought that peanut butter was foul.
french tart at 6:59AM on 07/11/07
To this day, I still slather my mom's Velveeta-based mac-n-cheese with a ton of Heinz ketchup.
LunaPierCook at 8:33AM on 07/11/07
Frozen waffles - still frozen.
Plain flour
Dry oatmeal
Wheat thins with cream cheese
Ice cream with honey and peanut butter
I too, liked plain margarine - why do kids like doing that? So gross!
Chau at 9:30AM on 07/11/07
I loved frozen peas still frozen. I'd probably still like them now, actually.
I also could be compelled to eat peanut butter and jelly, which I know isn't weird to Americans, but to me now it seems beyond bizarre - quite cloying and too rich without being complex or interesting.
I had more of a sweet tooth then, and I liked things like maple syrup, which I now hate. I would also eat nutella from the jar with a spoon, something I wouldn't dream of now.
Otherwise, I don't think anything I ate was especially weird, only that my taste was obviously different than it is now.
caley at 9:59AM on 07/11/07
uncooked ramen. fruit with sour cream & sugar. those oscar mayer hot dogs injected with cheese....
wickedlady at 10:44AM on 07/11/07
ketchup sandwiches. Wonderbread spread with ketchup. The thought makes me gag now :(
IronPlatypus at 11:23AM on 07/11/07
I would crush potato chips on a plate, squirt on a ton of ketchup, mix it up, and eat it with a fork...though I had to sneak around to do this, as my parents thought it was not only unhealthy but disgusting. They were right!
producestories at 11:26AM on 07/11/07
I drank those little cups of half and half (that they serve with coffee) like it was my job.
American cheese and mayo sandwiches with salt and pepper.
Vienna sausages. And Spam. Lots of canned meat.
Scrambled eggs with grape jelly and ketchup.
raspberryberet at 11:34AM on 07/11/07
I ate ketchup sandwiches, too. Glad to know that I wasn't the only one...
sawyerriley at 12:20PM on 07/11/07
One of my favorites was white rice with sprinklings of soy sauce or Maggi. (I actually still eat this to this day!)
My husband prefers condensed milk on his white rice.
vickie at 12:21PM on 07/11/07
I used to take 4 large marshmallows, put them in a salad bowl, microwave them for about 25 seconds (it was fun watching them get real big) then, when they were just about to burst, I would take them out of the microwave and add a spoonful of peanut butter and stir it all around. it was amazing, and I think I might make a batch today.
while I am at it, chalk another one up for dry cereal. I called it "cereal in a cup"
steept at 12:21PM on 07/11/07
French fries dipped in chocolate milkshake. This was ideally done at Wendy's. Crushed potato chips in PB&J.
Most of what I did as a kid I still do, like mixing ketchup and tartar sauce for my fish and chips, or smashing ketchup and cream cheese into my scrambled eggs.
I was a pretty picky eater as a kid, so my current diet would thoroughly disgust the child me.
Stufsocker at 1:03PM on 07/11/07
Raw hamburger
Hot jello (drinking it before it set)
dry dog food (I don't remember this, but I've been told)
I liked to take a lollipop into the bath and run it under the hot water between licks
Lilla at 1:12PM on 07/11/07
When I was very young my grandfather used to make me soft boiled eggs and put them in a glass with cut up pieces of toast and crumpled bacon. He would then mix it up with salt and pepper and he called it egg in a glass.
Colorado Jim at 1:42PM on 07/11/07
Liver and spinach.....love 'em both to this day!
1stmakearoux at 1:58PM on 07/11/07
Mashed potatoes with a whole in the center overfilled with italian dressing... with baked beans on the side.
pbisNOTmyname at 2:19PM on 07/11/07
pbisNOTmyname: creamy, or vinaigrette style?
I always ate peanut butter on the butterfly shaped Pepperidge Farm crackers as a kid. I still love peanut butter but I'd rather have it on something with lots of grains.
wellred at 2:34PM on 07/11/07
I used to love tongue. I didn't know it was an actual tongue, I just thought the name was a coincidence.
I used to eat cans of black olives.
And I liked my cereal soggy. Still do.
blush at 4:02PM on 07/11/07
I'm with Erinay77 on the raw spaghetti (though I also ate raw rigatoni and partially defrosted cavatelli also - Whatever shape my grandmother was making that week)
I never liked milk in my cereal, except for rice krispies, but then I had to eat them really fast before they got soggy.
My weirdest thing was cinnamon sticks - by which I mean the curled up bark-like spice. Zabars in NYC was my favorite place to get them because the sticks there were like a foot or more in length.
garet at 5:16PM on 07/11/07
Wellred: vinaigrette because I am allergic to the creamy (mayo)
pbisNOTmyname at 6:44PM on 07/11/07
If I woke up before anyone else did on a Saturday morning, my breakfast of choice in front of the cartoons was pickles and milk.
DaveFaris at 6:51PM on 07/11/07
I used to suck on lemons all the time, usually while waiting for someone to cook a meal. As a kid I also loved butter and sugar whipped together in the mixer when someone was baking (rarely). Whenever I ate Kraft macaroni and cheese (the super-orange kind) I ALWAYS mixed tuna fish from the can into it.
lashes457 at 10:04PM on 07/11/07
My brother used to take a single slice of white bread with a slice of kraft processed gross cheese and a dill pickle with a slather of miracle whip and roll it up like a cigar. I used to take a crusty stale french loaf and dip it in sweetened condensed milk right out of the can.... I still see the small can's of the stuff in asian markets with the Confucius looking old man on the can
kitchenlove at 11:23PM on 07/11/07
I don't know how weird, but I would eat raw bacon. I also liked to drink tomato sauce from the can.
GorillaBob at 4:24AM on 07/12/07
I hated milk. The only way I would eat cereal was with chunky peanut butter, and chunks of cheddar.
mdv at 7:56AM on 07/12/07
always have loved soggy cereal
carrots dipped in sour cream
stumbler02 at 1:31PM on 07/12/07
cream cheese and potato chip sandwiches, oreos and popcorn. Chex dipped in chocolate and peanut butter sauce. All eaten on the sly becuase my mo disaproved.
I recently babysat for a kid who'd drink lemon juice (from the lemon shapped container) straight. It was weird but hey we're all a bit weird.
missjess at 8:16PM on 07/12/07
I'm with lunapiercook on my mother's velveeta-based mac-n-cheese slathered with ketchup.
White bread, miracle whip and tomatoes with salt & pepper. Sometimes I left off the tomatoes.
White bread & ketchup.
Spoon fulls of Cool Whip right out of the tub.
Cheez Whiz on ritz crackers,
kendraburt at 10:02PM on 07/18/07
Cheese, alfalfa and peanut butter (crunchy) sandwich, had to be on multigrain bread.
curiousgeorge at 10:16AM on 07/20/07