I need me some bacon!
My ten year old daughter stood gazing into the fridge and proclaimed "Mom, I need me some bacon!" What the - ? Where did that come from? She just really really wanted bacon. After the bacon was prepared, she plated a good portion and opened up the bag of Kim (keem) - Korean dried and salted seaweed laver. That was what she had for dinner. Any of your kids have strange cravings?
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18 Comments:
That's too funny. "I need me some bacon".. The only strange combination that comes to mind for my daughter is rice (oodles of butter, salt & pepper) and sliced cucumbers together. That lasted for a good eight to ten months. My sister did get on a radish kick for about two months though. We are talking like fifty to sixty of the small bags, yes bags, in one week. There at the end of the addiction, that was literally all she was eating. She had to give it up because obviously she was getting no nutrition and it made her very sick. Plus, she coated the damn things in salt until they looked like little icebergs! And they call me weird.
floridagirl at 12:16AM on 12/23/08
I used to crave liverwurst, onion and mustard when I was a child.
I ate armenian string cheese like it was going out of style overnight.
JerzeeTomato at 1:19AM on 12/23/08
Well, I don't have kids, so I can only answer based on what happened when I was a kid.
For lunch in the summer or weekends when I wasn't in school, I had my choice of whatever was in the fridge that I could deal with on my own. So that was pretty much lunchmeat and condiments for use on a sandwich. The exception would be if I was sick, and then I'd probably get soup. As far as craving things, I know I probably got a little carried away with the pickles now and then. But as far as the actual meal, whatever lunchmeat there was, that's what it was. I might have a couple of options, but it was pretty limited.
For dinner, whatever was cooked for dinner was what I ate. I had the option of not eating any particular item I didn't like, but there were no options for alternates.
Frankly, I don't get this new trend where parents are short order cooks for whatever the kids want to eat. I know a lot of people do it, but I just don't get it. If I had kids, I'd probably do what my parents did. Whatever I cook is what we're eating, and if you don't like it, there's another meal coming tomorrow. i might make exceptions for the nights habanero peppers are involved, but that would be along the lines of offering sauce on the side, but not making a whole different meal.
dbcurrie at 1:42AM on 12/23/08
I was brought up ina family of 8 on a low budget. If you didn't like what was on your plate, you went hungry. No alternatives.
On the other hand, having two kids 10 years apart in age..totally opposites in taste..one loved meat, stew, soups, veg and the other one didn't...sadly, if it is a sad thing, I did find my self becoming the short-order cook to accomodate the big picture to include my DH who eats anything. Happily, my daughter moved out 6 years ago and my 15 yr old son loves every veg, meat, food I throw at him!!!
lamora at 2:24AM on 12/23/08
@dbcurrie; Oh man, I had countless gallons of dill pickles in high school. I think at one point I was going through a gallon a week.
My parents were of the same vein: you ate what you were served, and you dealt with it. I do remember going through food kicks while in high school that I would do for late night snacks. One big one was toast with butter and cinnamon sugar, the other big one was a microwave baked potato with American cheese and soy sauce mashed into it.
nightowl at 3:02AM on 12/23/08
I still love pickles. Dill, sweet, sour, whatever.
Maybe I was a deprived kid, but I don't ever remember my mother cooking anything for lunch, not even grilled cheese. It was cold sandwiches. Deli meat, liver sausage, that sort of thing. Mayo or mustard. Pickles. Tomatoes in the summer. No chips, either. Just a sandwich and a glass of milk. And mom didn't make the sandwiches, once I got old enough to slap lunchmeat on bread. I was on my own. Not that she was far away (it was a small apartment. You couldn't get far away) but she didn't make lunches. I don't recall lettuce being an option, either. Meat, optional cheese, condiment, bread. That was it. Only exception to the rule was when she made a meatloaf the night before, and then meatloaf sandwiches were okay for lunch.
She always cooked dinner. Might have been leftovers, but there was always a hot dinner.
Breakfast? Feh. Mom didn't get up that early, and I didn't like cold cereals, so I went without.
dbcurrie at 3:22AM on 12/23/08
I don't have any kids but when I wasa kid I used to crave dipping barbaqued (only that flavor nothing else would do) into apple sauce, actually I still like to do that.
pjracz10 at 3:58AM on 12/23/08
oh sure, there was the Yam diet my x ate, I could smell them driving up the road, and the popcorn diet. But the Yams lasted the longest, I think it was almost a year. He did not turn orange, but should have.
Shelleyanne at 5:39AM on 12/23/08
Oh, we were discussing kids, still spot on.
Shelleyanne at 6:00AM on 12/23/08
My son is very wary of new foods, so it was a big deal to get him to try bacon. Of course, he loved it.
A few days after he first tried it, he asked for a snack. I offered the usual - fruit, crackers, goldfish ... his reply: Can I have bacon?
I don't cook bacon for snacks, but I have learned to cook the whole package whenever I open it and keep any leftovers handy.
SSMom at 6:38AM on 12/23/08
14 year old son--Frank's Red Hot sauce--he even has it in his grilled cheese sandwiches. A year and a half ago he didn't like spicy food, but for the past 10 months he's always reaching for that bottle.
10 year old son--raw onions and chives. He gets whiny about eggs or potatoes without chives. Loves to steal onions when I'm cooking. I fully expect to see him eat a whole onion like an apple one of these days.
dhorst at 9:19AM on 12/23/08
my mom used to cut up raw onions for my brother and i to eat as snacks.... with lemon and salt. still love the combo... i tell people and they think we're a bunch of kooo kooo's..... well, i guess it was better than potato chips ))) i love potato chips((( .....
pooch at 9:41AM on 12/23/08
i need me some bacon! asap!
coolname at 10:26AM on 12/23/08
If we had a Serious Eats T-shirt for end of season like Top Chef, with THE slogan of the year, I'd vote for "I need me some bacon!".
PerkyMac at 10:55AM on 12/23/08
@dhorst: Hot sauce on grilled cheese sounds pretty good. My son, when he was about five, used to love Taco Bell taco sauce - or just about any hot sauce - on popcorn.
When I was a kid, I was addicted to ketchup sandwiches - just ketchup on good white bread, nothing else. Suddenly turned against ketchup when I was in my early teens, never willingly ate it again. Instead I turned to mushroom sandwiches - slice 'em, fry 'em in butter, and pile 'em on good sturdy bread. Even canned mushrooms would do in a pinch.
My mother, as a child, relished sliced onion sandwiches after school - but they had to be red onions sliced paper-thin and soaked in vinegar.
My husband loves to experiment with weird food combinations - he was eating barbecue sauce on vanilla ice cream for a while. His experiments frequently work better than they have any right to.
My daughter has a few food aversions - buttermilk and yoghurt - but she'll eat almost anything else when she remembers to eat at all.
gentlyferal at 12:42PM on 12/23/08
I'm told that when I was a youngster of 5 or so, I proposed a combination of my two favorite foods as a breakfast option, asking my mother for a bacon and spaghetti sandwich. I can't imagine why this request was not fulfilled!
mwheeler at 4:44PM on 12/23/08
oopps I forgot what S@#t I dipped into the apple sauce, barbque flavored potatoto chips.
pjracz10 at 5:45PM on 12/23/08
Thanks for the, er, tasty comments. Ha ha. For the record, I am not one of those who cook several dinners to appease all. Generally, its the everyone at the table and eat or go hungry rule. I have proclaimed two nights a week as "fend for yourselves" nights where they can make their own dinners, have leftovers, or eat soup. I had made my daughter bacon that night because I decided to use the rest of the bacon the following day for spinach salad. My own strange food combo is mushrooms dipped in Miracle Whip. I don't even remember how that one came about, but I'm sure it involved a dare.
yankeesgal at 8:41PM on 12/23/08