What's So Weird About That?
When I was younger, I hated peanut butter (still do) so my mom would make me cream cheese and jelly sandwiches instead of PB&J. Only upon entering high school did I realize that no one else ate this and considered it very odd. I also loved broccoli, spinach, and my favorite meal was corned beef and cabbage, which had for St. Pat's day and my birthday. Apparently all of these things I was not supposed to like.
So, what are some things you remember eating that no one else did? Or something you heard of that you thought was very strange?
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148 Comments:
spinach, i was obsessed with it as a kid and i didn't realize that, that green stuff i loved was actually a vegetable i hated.
sustarz at 8:48PM on 02/17/09
When I was a kid, there was pretty much nothing I didn't like. I loved brussels sprouts, cabbage, dill pickles, broccoli, liver and onions, oxtails, and all kinds of seafood and any kind of cheese. Loved pickled herrings, and particularly the onions that went with them. Loved raw onions. Cream cheese and raw onion sandwiches were tasty. Loved sauerkraut. Loved raw hamburger and rare steaks. Loved cooked spinach drenched in lemon. Loved lemons...
Wasn't fond of peas, because we only had the canned stuff, but I'd eat them anyway. I loved fresh snow peas from the garden. When mom discovered frozen veggies, it was a wonderful thing to have green peas that weren't sad and mushy.
Oddly, I wasn't so fond of peanut butter and jelly, but I liked them separately. I also didn't like breakfast cereals when the got soggy. But since I was a painfully slow eater, most breakfast cereals were soggy by the time I got to the bottom of the bowl.
Didn't like strawberries until my dad explained that you didn't have to crunch down on the seeds. And then I loved 'em. Didn't like the skin on peaches, I preferred nectarines. Or peeled peaches. Loved cherries.
Didn't like shredded coconut or licorice candy (still don't) and developed an aversion to raisins. I'm still skeptical of raisins, but I could probably force one down if I had to. Not fond of jello, except that I liked to make it, and I would have drunk it warm, if that was allowed. Oddly, there was a short time in high school where I'd eat jello for lunch from the cafeteria, but I think that was more about how dismal the other choices were.
We usually had a big salad at dinner and large amounts of veggies. Went to a friend's house for dinner and her mom opened one of those half-size cans of green beans, and I was astounded. That was for both parents, my girlfriend and me (growing teens) and her little brother. I looked at that little can and thought my mom never bought anything that small, and she was just feeding my dad and me (she didn't eat dinner). I could have eaten that whole can myself, and would have been looking for more. When that tiny bowl of green beans got passed around the table, I was very careful to take just a little bit.
dbcurrie at 9:01PM on 02/17/09
were were raised on very healthy food, before it was out of style and then back in style.... there was never soda or cookies in the house, no chips.... but we ate tons of fruit and raw vegetables. way before the granola era.
sardines, snails, chicken feet, pigs feet, tongue, fish of all kinds - standard fare. hated hamburgers, meatloaf and chili. ate every and all vegetables and salad all of the time.
lucky to have never tasted a fast food hamburger, i guess. but i'm
sure that's debatable, here on SE....
pooch at 9:36PM on 02/17/09
My very favorite snack when I was a kid was kidney beans. Yes, kidney beans. I'd drain a can, pour hot water on them and let 'em sit for a couple of minutes, drain, and pop in mouth. Delish. And honestly? I still love it.
Back home, one of the most delicious things in the world was very lightly steamed broc that you dipped into a sauce of mayo mixed with shoyu. I'm still addicted, but people are always like, huh? And it's not something that people tend to love unless they've grown up with it. But if they have? Sheer heaven.
chisai at 9:37PM on 02/17/09
When I was in high school, I used to grab whatever leftovers I could find out of the fridge for breakfast. One time there was leftover gnocchi, but no sauce. I figured ketchup was close enough...tomatoes and salt anyway...so I dumped a bunch of ketchup on the gnocchi. The thought of it makes me cringe now, but I remember that at the time I thought it was good and ate it like that on purpose a few times after that.
cycorider at 10:08PM on 02/17/09
barbeque chips with ketchup, awesome. canned corn. french fries dipped in mayo, not so odd in europe however. the list goes on and on...
lkong at 10:20PM on 02/17/09
My kanimiso (crab guts) debut was age 5. My mom thought it was rather an acquired taste, but I loved it.
@chisai, I grew up eating steamed or boiled tender-crunchy green vegetables (broccoli, green beans, okra, etc..) with soy sauce-mayo, too! mmm.
hmw0029 at 10:37PM on 02/17/09
White rice, the only way I would eat it is with pork and beans on top. I still don't like plain white rice, but will make and eat mexican or chinese fried rice, or rice pudding.
When in college I would eat onion, ketchup and mayo sandwiches.
Currently, I'm a salt, vinegar, pickle freak. My co-workers can't believe it when they see me eating pickled or cocktail onions, mini dills, pretzels dipped in celtic grey salt...and potted meat on crusty bread with butter. Also, currently I have a craving for oranges. I have an orange tree and have never eaten one from it before...now, my office is redolent with the inticing orange aroma as I have been eating at least 3 a day. Can't figure why!
lamora at 1:15AM on 02/18/09
Canned asparagus. Go figure. I love fresh asparagus, eat it raw, but the squishy, almost-liquid Green Giant canned asparagus just does it for me.
Snow's Clam Chowder - in the can, room temperature, with a spoon.
Almost everything raw. When I was a kid, hungry, and my Mom was fixing supper, I got chunks of raw vegetables to munch on while she cooked, and now there's nothing finer than a thick slice of raw potato or raw sweet potato.
My Italian grandmother used to make us green onion sandwiches. We'd pull the onions out of the ground, brush them off, kiss them up to God, and then she'd slather bright yellow mustard on thick slices of freshly-baked bread, and we'd chow down. No one would talk to us for the rest of the day, but we were happy.
Womandingo at 1:51AM on 02/18/09
I was that kid who ate carrots and celery--not in stocks, just the whole carrot or celery stalk. I also ate the sour clover/grass stuff that grows in the spring. My mom kept saying that the clover was going to make me sick, but it never did.
@lamora--I bought my current house because it had mature orange trees in the back yard, and the outher house I was considering didn't.
beth1 at 2:00AM on 02/18/09
Growing up, we didn't have junk food in the house. Yes, there were some sweets and occasional homemade biscuits, but they were not easily accessible, more of a special treat (I'd have a biscuit or two with my glass of milk before bed or a piece of chocolate after dinner).
My regular snacks were fresh shelled peas, raw carrots and cabbage (I loved raw cabbage when I was little), blanched asparagus and broccoli dipped in sea salt, and all kinds of fresh fruit and berries. I thought it was normal. When I was in my early teens, I used to eat lemons the same way people eat oranges, although I can't do it any more. But I couldn't eat unpeeled peaches or even nectarines (still can't).
brooke29 at 2:01AM on 02/18/09
Oh, and by "biscuits" I mean "cookies".
brooke29 at 2:02AM on 02/18/09
my 3 1/2 year old daughter loves smoked salmon and prunes.
When I was a little kid I would try to eat meatloaf and brussles sprouts for breakfast, lunch and dinner
doctorcop at 2:44AM on 02/18/09
For lunch in high school, I often ate cold chickpeas doused in balsamic vinegar. I also ate so many carrots that my hands and feet turned orange.
Hmm, what else...oh, I also loved tuna noodle casserole! Actually, I still do. Yum.
ChristineB at 4:15AM on 02/18/09
One of my favorite meals--made in a college dorm with no kitchen--is canned kidney beans drained, heated for a few seconds in the microwave, and then covered with olive oil.
Brocolli has always been my favorite veggie, just plain, steamed. And I love potato skin, it's my favorite part of the potato!
ilovepancakes at 6:29AM on 02/18/09
Gefilte fish with horseradish on saltines! I was about 6/7 the first time I can remember eating it. Loved cream cheese and jelly and still enjoy it. Marinated veggies, raw kohlrabi dipped in vinegar and salt, cheddar cheese and canned beet sandwiches and canned sardines where all in my repertoire before the age of 10.
finsbigfan at 7:54AM on 02/18/09
Cream Cheese and Green Olive Sandwiches...Love them still!
sammie at 8:29AM on 02/18/09
I ate my spaghetti with ketchup instead of tomato sauce.
annabanannas at 9:00AM on 02/18/09
Spaghetti, butter & ketchup. I still love it and I just noticed that annabannanas loves it, too.
bessfour at 9:32AM on 02/18/09
I loved these things as a kid and was surprised to find out kids my age thought they were gross:
brussel sprouts
onion sandwiches on a bialy with cream cheese
chopped liver
olives
laurelie at 9:37AM on 02/18/09
My favorite meal as a wee little one, when I got to choose, was steamed clams, corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes warm from the garden and Mom's homemade bread. Their chickens cooked on the spit, basted with butter, were to die for. When asparagus came up in the spring, I could eat it for breakfast. lunch and dinner. We rarely had a supper without a salad, my job. Mom must have shopped every day because our freezer held 2 ice cube trays and a half-gallon of ice cream, and the fridge was small. Friends and relatives were always amazed at our dinner table, and I was shocked when invited for dinner elsewhere (except my grandmother's). I didn't like brussels sprouts, until I had them fresh. Now, I wonder why we didn't grow them, too. Mom loved to cook and bake, so we almost always had cookies, pie, cake or her quick desserts - cobbler or crisp. Never anything processed. I don't know if they even existed back then. The only canned products I remember were baby Le Seur peas, kidney beans and Dad's famous cream of (Campbell's) tomato soup. Mom always baked for school/church functions and you'd hear lots of groans if we came home from school to the smell of something delicious baking and it wasn't for us. We eventually knew to ask if it was for us or the PTA. We still asked her that when we had families of our own. Brings back smiles.
PerkyMac at 9:41AM on 02/18/09
Blutwurst-
Head cheese
Mac and Cheese w/ketchup on it.
Barbaqued potatoe chips that I would dip into apple sauce.
Red cabbage.
Pickled herring.
Brussel sprouts.
Meat sandwiches that had a hard boiled egg in it.
I still make all the stuff above, and love them.
pjracz10 at 10:07AM on 02/18/09
Cream cheese and jelly sandwiches were popular in our family, too.
Kerosena at 10:38AM on 02/18/09
Okay, here's a weird one from when I was a kid.
Nuteena (a peanut-based meat-substitute thing that comes in a can), sliced into half-rounds and laid in a baking dish so they overlap slightly.
Sauteed onion slices on top.
Canned, undiluted campbell's tomato soup over all.
Bake in the oven until hot & bubbly.
Yum!!
I loved it as a kid and would still love it now, if the Nuteena stuff was still available. Sadly, it is not. :(
buffy at 10:45AM on 02/18/09
I loved pickled everything as a kid. My Nana canned, and she would make small canning jars of everything and put it on the bottom shelf of the canning closet so I could reach it. Beets were my favorite, but I also loved dilly beans, bread-and-butters and tiny dills. Mom didn't can as much, so there were always jars of olives in the fridge door for me.
I still love them!
FoodieSearching at 10:56AM on 02/18/09
I don't know if anyone else does this, but I dip my fries in a mayo/ketchup mixture .... ½ mayo - ½ ketchup.
caramel at 11:08AM on 02/18/09
When I was little, I hated pickles, but loved pickle juice. I never knew this was weird until I went to a friend's house and asked for pickle juice as my beverage.
My other weird childhood food thing was dog chow. One time my parents told me I could either eat my spinach (was it spinach? I don't remember--funny now to think of a time when I would have not liked a vegetable) or eat dog chow. They figured there was no way I'd ever choose the dog chow, but ha, they vastly underestimated my stubbornness. I seemed to be liking it, so not long after that we started making homemade dog biscuits that the whole family enjoyed!
annatr at 11:25AM on 02/18/09
wierd to one person may not be wierd to someone else, of course. right now on Serious Eats photograzing there's a shot of a 'pickle and ice cream cupcake'. That's a bit wierd, no?
gutreactions at 11:26AM on 02/18/09
I LOVED broccoli as a kid . . . and even though I liked PB, my mom still made me cream cheese and jelly sandwiches. Weird? Whatever - they're freaking delicious.
Cebca at 11:33AM on 02/18/09
Peanut butter and shredded carrot sandwiches. As an adult I've modified them by using toasted ww bread and mixing the peanut butter with a little cinnamon and honey. Also good with dried cranberries mixed into the carrots.
Barbieri13 at 11:33AM on 02/18/09
Plain white basmati rice. I love it. I think it is yummy. No salt, no butter, no curries or toppings.
inothernews at 11:34AM on 02/18/09
My weirdest childhood snack was handfuls of fennel leaves grabbed from the plants that grew wild out of the sidewalk. I loved that intense anise taste. For all I know, a dog could have peed on those plants. My mom was horrified. Also honeysuckle blossoms off of the trees and wild lemongrass and mint. I loved to eat the garden, what can I say.
blackliquorice at 11:36AM on 02/18/09
everyone i know from college at cream cheese and jelly sandwiches as a kid and continued to eat them as comfort food in college, they are so delicious! i also eat cheddar or pretty much any other kind of cheese with jam whenever i get the chance. yum.
allot at 11:37AM on 02/18/09
Mom wouldn't buy cream cheese, but I had cream cheese and jelly bagels at a friend's house and loved them. We used to have peanut butter and celery sandwiches packed in our lunch boxes. Celery was diced. Might have to make one now!
PerkyMac at 11:56AM on 02/18/09
I may be a bit older, but I don't get what is so wierd about a cream cheese and jelly sandwich...
gutreactions at 12:00PM on 02/18/09
Ricotta and Jelly (Dad worked for Polly-O for 38 years)
Cottage Cheese and Jelly (Mom was perpetually on a diet and we actually liked cottage cheese)
And honestly, Cream Cheese and Jelly is not such a stretch :D
Mackerel & Onions with Vinegar (got a lot of WTF looks for that one)
Canned Salmon Salad (think tunafish) Sandwiches
Broccoli Stems (Bro and I favored the stems v. the florets and mom used to say she felt like Morticia Adams who'd buy roses for the thorns.)
Romaine lettuce in salads - before it was chic. The rest of my friends' moms were serving iceberg.
In the "it doesn't sound nasty now but did as a kid" department, bro and I looooved mom's Liver & Onions. She was the only one in the neighborhood who would cook the onions to within an inch of their lives but only briefly saute the liver. It was delicious and to this day, I love it that way.
chiff0nade at 12:05PM on 02/18/09
@pjracz10 - A gal I worked with used to dip her potato chips in applesauce and we thought it was hysterical! Never tried it though...
When I was growing up we always had a huge garden with EVERYTHING.
We would get the fresh crusty Vienna bread from the Hungarian bakery and on thick slices, put lots of butter and either green bell pepper or sliced radishes, (particularly the long icicle white ones) and salt. Can't eat raw green bell peppers anymore, but the memory of them fresh from the garden is just mouth watering.
We were also big on the slice of bologna rolled around a dill pickle snack. The after school snack was a slice of white sandwich bread, toasted- then place a slice of processed American cheese on it and grill it in the toaster oven until the top formed a blackened skin on top. Yum... One day I forgot about it in the toaster oven and we couldn't get the smell of burned toast/cheese out of the house for a week! :-)
frederika at 12:31PM on 02/18/09
We used to eat braunschweiger and green onion sandwiches. So many people didn't (and still don't) know what braunschweiger is. I haven't had it in years though.
Also as a kid I sipped vinegar and pickle juice and sucked on bouillon cubes.
joeqboo at 1:30PM on 02/18/09
During junior high school, I subsided on a lunch of Fun-yuns (or however you spell those horrible things!!) dipped into my chocolate soft serve. Blech.
Add me to the group who doesn't find the cream cheese-jam/jelly combo strange. I eat that nearly every morning schmeared on an English muffin!
mollykate678 at 1:45PM on 02/18/09
@ all who like cream cheese & jelly - are you from the East Coast? my mom grew up in Burlington MA, just outside of Boston and she said everyone ate it.... but here in Ohio it seems like i am the only one who eats it. my entire dorm floor was kind of grossed out by it, but once they tried it, they loved it!
listener at 2:24PM on 02/18/09
Used to eat peanut butter and Miracle whip sandwiches as a child. Have not had one in many years. Later in my childhood I was introduced to peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches, which I still eat presently.
whatseatingme at 2:30PM on 02/18/09
headcheese and mustard sandwiches...
salad sandwiches
broccoli sandwiches
snails--my grandfather & I eating snails cooked in a tomato based sauce with a toothpick--aah, good memories
tripe--
and every now and again--my grandpa would give me ("sneak" actually) a cherry soaked in brandy!! I loved those!
Italiancupcake at 2:36PM on 02/18/09
Fritos dipped in soft vanilla ice cream. Me and my brothers ate this at our grandparents farm every chance we got.
smokey07 at 3:10PM on 02/18/09
@smokey07 - We're variations on the same theme, there! Not sure I'd return to my former ritual, but I might give yours a shot sometime!! ;)
mollykate678 at 4:01PM on 02/18/09
I was born and raised in an Acadian area of Nova Scotia where the specialty is rappie pie (or as we call it, rapure) It is basically potato pulp reconstituted with broth, with onions, butter, salt, pepper, and chunks of cooked chicken added in, and baked. It can also be made with beef, pork, clams, rabbit, or other wild meats.
We grew up eating that and so when I moved to the cowboy country of Alberta, it didn't really dawn on me that others might not like my gelatinous potato and meat pie.
Everytime I get back to NS, I buy the potato mixes and bring them back with me so I can enjoy a little piece of home whenever I like.
My grandma once told me that when she was little, she would take lobster sandwiches to school. At the time, she was quite embarrassed as only the less fortunate had lobster sandwiches. The children from well off families had bologna sandwiches. How times have changed!
mandylynn902 at 4:34PM on 02/18/09
When I was little I was a horribly picky eater, but loved the following:
*Peanut butter on hotdogs. WTF? My mom still likes this, but I don't eat hotdogs anymore.
*White rice with margarine and brown sugar. I once sneezed with this concoction in my mouth. The aftermath was not pretty.
And I ate so much peanut butter and jelly I'm surprised I didn't turn into one.
PestoGal at 4:37PM on 02/18/09
One of my favorite things in the world, since I was a kid, is smoked oysters in a can. My dad always ate them, and once we got over how "icky" they looked, my brother and I joined in the love. My mom still can't stand 'em. Most people I know think that they're vile. But they are still a treat to me to this day - and a treat filled with protein and iron, as well!
lo82070 at 5:10PM on 02/18/09
@gutreactions I'm truly shocked that people are grossed out by cream cheese and jelly! I thought that was a classic combination!
HeartofGlass at 5:16PM on 02/18/09
Oh and @caramel: Add a little hot sauce to your ketchup / mayo mixture, and you have what we in the West call "Fry Sauce". I haven't had it in years (mainly because I don't eat a whole lot of fast food burgers), but it is yummy. They also sell it at grocery stores here, but I don't buy at, as that would just encourage me to eat more French fries lol.
lo82070 at 5:22PM on 02/18/09
Pasta with ketchup is also a favorite at home when we ran out of tomato sauce, especially cheese ravioli with ketchup... yum!
I also mix mayo and ketchup and dip french fries, or put it over grilled chicken, or meat. It makes everything taste better. In Argentina we call it Salsa Golf.
MicaBArg at 5:23PM on 02/18/09
@listener -- you might be on to something. My mom is from a town outside Boston and I remember growing up (in California) she would often put cream cheese & jelly on sandwiches, or on Ritz crackers as a snack. It never seemed strange to us.
However, my favorite was grilled cream cheese & green olive sandwiches.
sfgoo at 5:23PM on 02/18/09
I used to count down the days until Thanksgiving so I could eat the turkey neck. My grandfather used to love it, and I idolized him, so while everyone else was chowing down on slices of honeydew melon for their appetizer, we sat and picked the neck meat out from in between the vertebrae. Mmmm....deliciously disgusting.
I also loved lima beans, brussells sprouts, cream cheese and salami sandwiches, and cottage cheese on toasted English muffins. I HATED anything that was food you couldn't chew, i.e. pudding, yogurt, jello, etc.
nosillak at 5:43PM on 02/18/09
When I was a kid I hated EVERYTHING except ketchup. I would go into the frige when no one was looking and basically drink the stuff. Luckily I grew out of that phase. I actually don't really like ketchup any more. Probably had too much of it as a kid.
Martini Me at 5:50PM on 02/18/09
As a child, I could not abide cream cheese and jelly or pbj - any of those alone were fine but combining them was just wrong. I love pbj's today, but only with raspberry or strawberry jam.
Cream cheese and black olive sandwiches - now those made me swoon. And I was and still am a big spinach eater.
mother91 at 5:51PM on 02/18/09
I thought everyone ate cream cheese and jelly...I still do with good cream cheese (not the gluey rectangular loaf) and Tiptree raspberry jam! YUM!!!
Deb07 at 6:18PM on 02/18/09
In elementary school my mom would pack me a lunch of one hard boiled egg, one large pickle, and liverwurst on whole wheat bread. I thought it was awesome, the other kids thought I was a giant weirdo. I now fondly refer to it as my old man lunch.
francie at 6:19PM on 02/18/09
English muffins spread with cream cheese and jam were definitely a favorite snack of mine (I'm from New England) and cottage cheese with a dollop of strawberry jam is still a fav (tastes like cheesecake).
I remember being horribly embarrassed when my mom sent me to school with egg salad sandwiches (which I secretly adored and still do), and I got teased mercilessly for the smell and gross out factor. Also, my mom never got normal white bread - we always had our sandwiches on "weird" misshapen bread like ciabatta or portugese rolls or some other 'not normal' bread. Good stuff, but kids freaked out over it.
laurelie at 6:37PM on 02/18/09
@sfgoo--Ritz crackers and cream cheese and jelly--now that's weird! Everyone knows that Ritz only go with peanut butter, plain butter, and cubed cheese. Maybe honey, if I'm being liberal ;)
HeartofGlass at 6:51PM on 02/18/09
Nothing weird about cream cheese and jelly to me either! (I grew up in NJ) This was one of the only things my brother would eat. He also ate cream cheese on celery, which has more of a chance of being weird.
jennyb10 at 7:43PM on 02/18/09
Okay, the cream cheese and jelly got elevated in my home as my dad started the "sandwich" with butter.Sorry, delicious.
@Joeqboo--braunschweiger was and still is a favorite of mine. Pile it high wth onions and mustard on rye, oooooo!
@dbcurrie--we were seperated at birth, there is nothing on your list
I've not grown up on and do not stil eat till this day.
@MicaBArg--when we were under the weather my mom's go to was not chicken soup, but buttered noodles with parsley and ketchup. Gotta tell ya,
one or
twice a year I find myself craving this.
donnie at 8:01PM on 02/18/09
@jennyb10--I still eat cream cheese on celery, althtough, I've upped the annie by adding hot sauce to it. Quite good!
donnie at 8:07PM on 02/18/09
I made tuna sandwiches with solid white albacore, green onions, S & P, two hard boiled eggs and plenty of mayo (Hellman's), all mashed up together on whole wheat - everyone wanted to trade with me but it wasn't worth it!
bareneed at 8:17PM on 02/18/09
@beth1, I loved the sour (lemony) clover too!
My mother served celery sticks with ketchup for dipping sauce, or graham crackers with a thin spread of peanut butter (creamy). I grossed out classmates with peanut butter & honey sandwiches because the honey was always crystallized or soaked into the bread by lunchtime.
eleeb at 8:49PM on 02/18/09
My dad made us fried baloney and hot dog relish sandwiches. Occasionally fried Spam and egg sandwiches, too. Always on Wonder Bread smeared with butter. He also believed in making gravy out of any and all "meat leavings". Hamburger gravy had to be the worst. Liberal sprinklings of Lawrey's Seasoned Salt on baked chicken or pork chops. Those little cans of deviled ham with Velveeta on rye rounds. And yet, our cholesterol levels are below average. Go figure...
mrsegg at 9:20PM on 02/18/09
For a couple of years, I went to a small private school where the students bought their lunches from nearby restaurants. I'd show up at the end of lunch hour with an ice cream cone and everyone would demand a bite. (It was a very small school.) I complained to my mother, and she said, "Next time, snack on something that no one likes but you."
So the next day I went back to school munching a raw bell pepper.
Everyone ... well, more than one person ... demanded a bite. It was Berkeley; it was the sixties; I should have known, I guess.
gentlyferal at 9:32PM on 02/18/09
As a treat when we were kids, our grandmother used to put peanut butter on white bread and cover it with maple syrup. I would never dream of eating it now, but as kids, we couldn't eat enough of it. It probably had something to do with the fact that Grandma was making it.
reger60 at 10:20PM on 02/18/09
Cream cheese and jelly sandwich? Not too different than one of my favorite combo since I was a kid (and I'm still making it now, a few years shy of 40): strawberry jam and a slice of cheese, usually American processed (be quiet, food snob) between two slices of white bread smeared with a bit of butter. Sweet and salty!
cucumberpandan at 10:54PM on 02/18/09
I had cream cheese and jelly sandwiches ALL the time! I still eat it!
killatofu at 11:13PM on 02/18/09
I used to dip cold hot dogs in mayo.
kalajo at 11:28PM on 02/18/09
Salted orange slices. I still like them salted. When I was a kid I loved sour cream and garlic salt in a rolled up flour tortilla. The shock of the fake tasting garlic salt did it for me. Another thing I ate as a kid was slices of American cheese, cut up and smooshed between vanilla wafers.
Marls Barkley at 11:54PM on 02/18/09
Like many, I grew up with health obsessed parents. I still love most veggies and fruit above other foods. When I was a kid I loved frozen peas with applesauce- together. I know gross but something about the combo was really appealing, as was ketchup (homemade) on corn. And steamed artichokes- the ultimate birthday meal!
oregonpinot at 1:01AM on 02/19/09
I used to (and uh, basically still do) POUR hot sauce over my food...and sop up the remainder with a good piece of crusty bread.
I once had my friends over for a snack after school...I chopped the top off a clove of garlic and roasted it in the oven. I then spread the buttery smooth garlic over bread slices. They looked at me like I had six heads. I eat so much garlic...if my BF wasn't a fellow garlic hound, I might have major issues. I probably stink to everyone around me.
Provolone cheese around a pickle spear, YUM.
Cinnamon bread with mozzarella as a grilled cheese. It is amazing.
I also used to pour olive oil and vinegar over croutons and eat it.
sweethunibabi at 1:09AM on 02/19/09
Cinnamon raisin bagel with sundried tomato cream cheese...still eat it.
Bosmer at 8:23AM on 02/19/09
I love Cream Cheese & Jelly. Still eat it today. If it is weird, so be it.
FoodBoy at 8:58AM on 02/19/09
cream cheese and jam is delicious!
cybercita at 9:05AM on 02/19/09
@lo82070 - I will definitely try that! Sounds yummy!
caramel at 9:27AM on 02/19/09
I had never heard of cream cheese and jelly sandwiches until I read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I wanted to try it but never got around to it. I don't think it was very common in the south in the late 80's early 90's.
When I was little I would eat salted carrots when I watched tv. I also loved maple syrup. We even have pictures of me sitting on a little stool with the syrup bottle turned up.
DCraver at 12:24PM on 02/19/09
Speaking of imbibing condiments...
In elementary school I remember always drinking the pickle juice from an empty pickle jar (sometimes I'd get impatient waiting for the pickles to be eaten and I'd just plop a straw in...if only I understood food safety), taking a swig of any balsamic or Italian dressing in the fridge, and eating ketchup straight up out of the bottle. I'm sure any household epidemics could have been traced back to me.
codeblue at 12:58PM on 02/19/09
Tuna sandwiches (no mayo, just straight out of the can) w/pickled banana peppers on cinnamon raisin bread
Cold Creamed corn out of the can sprinkled with sugar
stonechiper at 1:31PM on 02/19/09
Not me, but my 8 year old refuses to eat peas unless they are frozen. She's also been obsessed with corned beef since she was 3...but she hates spices and seasonings--makes no sense!
jcrisco at 1:38PM on 02/19/09
When I was little (and even still) I loved prunes for a snack. I swear I had the cleanest colon around.
My mom would pack pepperoncini peppers in my lunch, when my fellow classmates' moms would pack them carrots and celery.
I would routinely put wheat germ on my plain yogurt flavored with nothing but honey and fresh berries, again, while my contemporaries were eating Dannon fruit on the bottom. I also loved all the stinky cheeses, while kids on my block were eating Land-o-lakes American.
juliebugsmama at 1:40PM on 02/19/09
my dad would cook canned corned beef with onions, tomatoes, and potatoes, then serve over rice. it's still one of my favorites.
HappyJack at 2:30PM on 02/19/09
cold canned green beans. I love them! Cottage cheese and jelly, cream cheese and jelly on english muffins. When I was a kid we ate tuna fish sandwhiches with crunchy cheetos mixed in. I won't touch tuna fish now, but mom says we loved them! I also like diet coke with a splash of half and half (its a rare treat!). My mom loves kosher dills with pb! I don't really like pickels, but I love pickled carrots, pickled garlic, pickled okra! I can only eat french toast if it has pb on it....
mhurst826 at 2:45PM on 02/19/09
As a kid I would not eat: bell peppers, onions, avocado, salsa or lima beans. I still won't eat avocados. Yet I would eat: squid, snails, frog legs (mom was an adventurous cook), pickled pigs feet, almost any green veggie (especially spinach and asparagus). My favorite thing (still) to put on pancakes and waffles: a mixture of equal parts maple syrup and crunchy peanut butter.
peachfish at 4:29PM on 02/19/09
@ caramel (again): You could try ordering this.
lo82070 at 4:36PM on 02/19/09
As a kid I loved Oreos, but I only liked the white filling. I'd eat the filling then toss out the cookies.
gammypie at 4:41PM on 02/19/09
@mhurst826-I love cold canned green beans as is or with a splash of fresh lemon. There's something about it
@HappyJack-I just bought a can or corned beef to try. My co-workers love it and make it the same way your dad made it.- You just gave me a "light bulb" idea! Thank You!
Cream cheese and jelly was always a lunch staple! Also a treat from my childhood and another lunch staple of my school mates was the Fluffernutter sandwich!! (pb & marshmallow fluff) I still love it, although now it's a guilty indulgence...
Italiancupcake at 6:35PM on 02/19/09
Now that I'm older, I don't find a lot of the foods posted weird or anything. In fact, I've gotta try some of these combos!
LOVED canned fish, especially sardines in tomato sauce or Chinese dace with the black beans (fermented soybeans?). I used to eat all the beans out of the can - I thought I was sneaky and swiped a few beans...until they were all gone.
I grew up eating liver, pork blood, offal, duck feet, chicken feet, fish cheeks, etc - and I loved it all. I still love perfectly prepared tripe and offal. I pretty much tried everything a few times.
My grandma would make soup and give me to carcass to snack on. Boiled chicken or other poultry dipped in soy sauce. Grandma would also give me a boiled potato and I'd dip slices of that into salt. When I cooked ramen and hot dogs, I'd pierce my hot dogs with shards of ramen so the noodles would be floppy after cooking. Also loved ketchup sandwiches.
Classmates always thought I had weird food. Processed ham and cheese sandwiches still makes me sick to this day.
manda at 6:38PM on 02/19/09
A college friend used to sprinkle canned parmesan cheese liberally onto white rice in the dining hall. The mere smell made me gag.
Then there was the girl who would make the tallest, freshest, most amazing-looking salads at the salad bar and then nuke them on high for a minute and a half until the height of the pile was reduced by 2/3rds. She's end up shoveling *that* steaming mess into her mouth. Ew.
shoneyjoe at 6:59PM on 02/19/09
As a kid, I would only eat the broccoli stems not the trees. Oh, and boiled carrots and potatoes.
Pickle and mustard sandwiches. Preferably on rye.
Canned hominy. And the best junk food? Colby cheese and crunchy Chee-tos, a bit of both in each bite.
Overallview at 12:08AM on 02/20/09
Liverwurst on soft white bread with lots of mayo and plain potato chips crushed into it.
Potato chips with a ketchup-mayo dip.
Canned potted meat or ham spread but only on buttered crusty sourdough or other artisan bread, with pickle sliced on top.
Mashed potatoes with ketchup.
Late night snacks: bologna slices and cocktail and/or pickled onions. Pickle juice...sipped, not slurped. Cold pork and beans eaten with potato chips or cold canned sweet peas eaten out of the can with a spoon.
Creamed tuna and peas with a dollop of butter. Matter of fact all tuna salad, egg salad is eaten on buttered bread. Butter...how I love thee!!!
As a kid, fried bologna and egg sandwiches. Can't stand fried bologna today but love fried and frizzled spam.
Believe it or not, my cholesterol is 147.
lamora at 1:15AM on 02/20/09
My mom tells me I adored sardines as a toddler. I much preferred raw ground beef to cooked, so while everyoen else had hamburgers, I had raw meat shaped into patty form. My pediatrician said it was okay.
PDXbiker at 2:02AM on 02/20/09
My mom had trouble getting vietnamese food supplies, so every now and then, one of her friends would come over and they would barter.
In the trade, we sometimes got dried fish, which my mom would toast in the toaster. It's seriously one of the more delicious afterschool snacks I ever had.
Also I loved canned mussels with lemon and devoured all camembert.
prunesaregood at 11:34AM on 02/20/09
@chisai and hmw0029-thank you so much for validating my mayo and soy sauce combination. I loved to spread it on toast for after school snacks. Never tried it on veggies though...
Rottenmom at 12:38PM on 02/20/09
I used to love the ham sandwiches my mom would make me -- up until the day a kid said it looked like whale meat. Then I imagined it was whale meat, at which point I wouldn't eat ham for the next few years. Come to think of it, though it has been over 20 years, I should find that kid and do something to him as payback...
mangiatoilgatto at 2:04PM on 02/20/09
Whenever we had hotdogs as a kid we usually had a salad. I used to scoop up my baked beans with my cucumbers. I still do it to this day!
ciaobella6 at 2:28PM on 02/20/09
Turkey and pickles. Like sweet midget pickles rolled in slices of deli turkey.
When I started eating that again, after coming to terms with the fact it is weird, my boyfriend thought I was pregnant.
TurkeyandPickles at 2:42PM on 02/20/09
When I was a kid and my mom was making any kind of cabbage dish, I would beg for the core. She'd give me pieces of it, but I'd keep asking...I loved eating it raw, and still do.
If I'm cooking cauliflower and not cooking it whole, I save the core and eat that raw, but the cabbage one is better. Unless of course the cabbage is really old and the core has gotten fibrous, then you need to peel off the outer layer and just eat the core of the core.
Mmmmm....I'm weird.
dbcurrie at 5:54PM on 02/20/09
I've thought of more! When I was a kid, I used to love peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. Nothing like a good dose of saturated fat to get you moving! I also loved cottage cheese with cheddar goldfish crackers as a snack.
nosillak at 6:04PM on 02/20/09
Mint chocolate chip ice cream with pineapple topping! Don't know why it works . . . but something about the combo makes a whole new and unexpected flavor.
cornellfoodie at 6:40PM on 02/20/09
My brother and I, when we were kids, used to toast saltine crackers over the flame of a candle. It gave them a completely different flavor.
dmcavanagh at 7:39PM on 02/20/09
Cream cheese and orange marmalade, on a toasted bagel. Thats still a favorite. Banana, peanut butter and potato chip sandwichs made on squishy wonder white bread. My parents always gave us slices of whatever was left of last nights loaf of italian bread, slathered with butter and dunked in a cup of coffee used for just this purpose. Really never thought it was weird until I stayed over a friends house and their parents wouldn't give me coffee to dunk my toast. Funniest thing is, I never drink coffee, I just use it as a condiment.
spaghilli at 9:28PM on 02/20/09
I use to always eat the heart of the cabbage too.
Braunschweiger with Miracle Whip & onions on toast
Syrup on cottage cheese & also white rice
Drank pickle & olive juice
potato chips dipped in a yummy dip of cottage cheese, onion & blue cheese
French toast with sugar, cinnamon & syrup ~ now that was some sweet stuff
I've never thought of it as weird but others have, drinking milk with popcorn
windjunkie at 10:45PM on 02/20/09
I thought cream cheese and jam was normal? I can't have a bagel with cream cheese WITHOUT jam. My healthier version is whole wheat toast with jam and cottage cheese on top for breakfast a few days a week. I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life. Am I alone here?
bianca34dw at 12:32AM on 02/21/09
Peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches--still love them to this day-good to see whatseatingme eats them too.
We also ate, as a treat in the evening, soda crackers with hot tea poured over them and sugar on top.
Oh, and bianca34dw--I think cream cheese and jam IS normal. (and I live in Washington State.
pielady at 1:45AM on 02/21/09
@dbcurrie: The core is the best! It's kind of sweet wouldn't you say? I always wondered why people cut off the broccoli stem too, and just eat the "trees". They are totally missing out!
oregonpinot at 2:15AM on 02/21/09
cream cheese and apricot jam on an onion bagel... mmmmm.
cybercita at 10:41AM on 02/21/09
Mustard of all varieties especially the 365 organic stone ground yellow from whole foods, super acidic and tangy. Yummy. I just got my Mom into dipping her chips into grey poupon, sooo much better than ketchup!
dmartinxoxo at 12:19PM on 02/21/09
i grew up not eating a lot of raw stuff, like raw oysters straight from the shell, sashimi etc, and lots more "exotic" and "fancy" food along those lines. i convinced myself (and told everyone else) that it was because i didn't like it, but since i've grown up, i've found it's really only because my mom hated the stuff and so even when i tasted any of it i was psyching myself up not to like it. so no, not a lot of weird food i'd eat that anyone else thought was odd.
except maybe this one dessert i'd whip up for myself any time of the day (or night) - i'd take about a 1 inch slice of frozen chocolate sara lee pound cake, douse it in half a cup of fridge-cold milk, and mash the hell out of it until it was like this blackish sludgy-soup. i LOVED it. and everyone i forced into trying it hated it to hell and back and told me i was insane.
i still eat it now (when i can sneak a sara lee pound cake into my groceries without anyone noticing), but i've long grown out of trying to convince anyone else to try it. :\
w at 1:26PM on 02/21/09
As a kid my father often brought home quarts of soup, onion rolls, blintzes and pierogen from Ratner's. I loved the food and so looked forward to those meals but there was always a slightly embarrassing aspect if friends were around. I felt like the kid who's parents had the "weird" food. I never knew how to explain it.
I would kill for a Ratner's meal today!
CornflakeGirl at 4:29PM on 02/21/09
Dry cereal. Everyone thinks it's weird.
StarryRose at 4:52PM on 02/21/09
Lets see... strange things I used to eat:
White rice, butter, sugar, and milk... to form a type of soup/porridge I guess. I used to absolutely love it as a kid, but either I can't find the right ratio now or I have just learned it's horrible :D
I also used to really like fried eggs with sugar... not all the time of course, but once every few months. I have my aunt to blame for it... she made me eggs like that once, and only later did I learn she thought it was salt.
I like dipping my french fries into honey. I blame being a kid and not liking ketchup for that- also fast food places offering honey alongside ranch dressing and barbecue sauce..
One of my current guilty pleasures (mostly because I don't eat much sweets nowadays) is a honey bun with a layer of peanut butter shoved into the freezer for a bit- just enough for it to have a chewier texture. I've tried it with a bunch of different kinds of honey buns, and most honey buns really really suck- I seem to be stuck using one particular brand I always get at SAM's Club... and yet I can't remember the brand name. I'm screwed if they stop carrying it! Haha!
comicsan at 10:18PM on 02/21/09
Even my Aussie friends think this is weird but here goes:
Hot pasta mixed with Vegemite, parmesan cheese and one or two raw egg yolks. Truly one of the most delicious meals I have ever eaten.
The trick with Vegemite is to use it sparingly (like a politician's wit).
KoalaisnotaBear at 8:46AM on 02/22/09
Cottage cheese and applesauce, mixed together, was a childhood staple and something I still adore, although I now throw in some walnuts for crunch.
K9Lover72 at 10:28AM on 02/22/09
Fried Bologna sandwiches with sauerkraut and mustard were a pleasure my father made us. I still love this today.
Undercooked, mushy french fries with ketchup.
My gourmet friends gross out when I eat Big Macs.
shaogo at 3:03PM on 02/22/09
I remember that I used to like to eat raw oatmeal and raw dried spaghetti. I don't know how I got started on it, but I remember putting it in some of my play dishes and having it as a snack.
thekellbell at 5:09PM on 02/22/09
But cream cheese and jelly is so good together. People put it on bagels...why not sandwich bread?
Why do people artificially limit themselves like this sometimes? Like that Last Supper Top Chef...some people thought it was weird that Wylie Dufresne would have a breakfast dish for "supper". Really?...why the heck not?
wunami at 5:41PM on 02/22/09
When I was barely 2 I had my first taste of homemade Italian salami. I became obsessed!!! I remember sneaking down the stairs of my Nona's house to her pantry hoping that the adults all in the kitchen wouldn't catch me trying get more salami, or sammy as I called it. They caught me and I was mortified! Fortunately they eventually understood what Sammy meant and I got me some more salami!! oh I also obsessed over anchovies and pickled herring. mmmmmm
ALSO when I was 6 I was obsessed with pomegranates and took one to school (cut in half of course)with me as often as possible. One day my mom forgot to cut it and I was horrified. I cried and cried... When I tell this story to a friend they usually can't believe I actually took pomegranates to school regularly.....
Pointy at 7:50PM on 02/22/09
I used to get a lot of liverwurst sandwiches in my lunch. Just liverwurst and bread. Lots of salami or headcheese and American cheese sandwiches with Miracle-Whip as well. Never thought that was odd. (Note: we're not even German!)
I still like cheddar cheese with garlic dill pickles and mayonnaise on white toast.
My 'go-to' snack in school was two slices of toast with three slices of American cheese, wrapped in paper towel and microwaved, then dipped in mayo. The lazy man's grilled cheese.
Oooh, and fries dipped in Tartar sauce. And I have always loved cottage cheese, but only the full fat kind, with lots of salt.
NotAmerican at 4:43AM on 02/23/09
olives - basic black and green and other varieties - as an adult i've met many people who tell me they don't like or didn't like olives till recently - this is hard to imagine for me - black and green were always part of the spread at my Italian grandmother's house on Sunday's and all the kids basically "inhaled" them.
artichokes - my mom's stuffed artichokes - there is nothing in the world like them except maybe the Little Italy recipe she originally recreated them from - i think she may have improved it!
broccoli rabe - olive oil, fresh garlic, red pepper flakes - enough said - I still can't get my hubby to eat this though.
baccala - stewed in tomato sauce, with whole green olives - nothing like it
Gizmosma at 9:28AM on 02/23/09
forgot to mention - my childhood friends grandmother always made us cream cheese and grape jelly sandwiches. And my mom made us bagels w/ cream cheese and grape jelly - i think the sandwiches were a little unusual to us from mom's food but we did love them!
Gizmosma at 9:43AM on 02/23/09
i loved jelly and cream cheese sandwiches! i also loved peanut butter...with honey or fluff - but these were only special treats i got to have at friend's houses because my mom didn't buy those ingredients.
she did buy those pre-made scallion pancakes at the asian market and for extra "protein" would melt a slice of cheddar cheese on top! another favorite treat was melted cheddar cheese in a bowl (yup, that's it), dried apricots and prunes, and the occasional bowl of lucky charms.
Meewlee at 9:48AM on 02/23/09
I loved (and still do) peanut butter on my BLT's. I used to put mayonaise (or miracle whip) on one side and peanut butter on the other, but now it's just the PB. Also, my Dad got me hooked on jam (usually strawberry) on grilled cheese. Grill the sandwich like normal and then when you're plating it, put a bit of jam on the top. It's so good I want one now! I can completely imagine how good a jelly & cream cheese sandwich could be.
spartygirl at 10:02AM on 02/23/09
We had cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, too! I thought it was a normal combination, but have since found no one (till this) who ever even thought of it. School lunch (packed in paper bags, or in Roy Rogers/Dale Evans lunch boxes) were the same 5 sandwiches every week: tuna salad,egg salad, bologna, cheese, and the cream cheese/or peanutbutter and jelly. And a banana or apple, and a little box of raisins. Milk in the thermos (if it didn't break). I never missed one day of school from 1st grade (we didn't have Kindergarten then) through college for being sick.
As far as strange foods, my siblings and I always laugh about one thing my non-cook mother served us: canned tomatoes over a slice of white bread, as a side dish at dinner. I started cooking for the family by the time I was 12, just because I knew food could be better than what Mom made!
BJBrown at 10:15AM on 02/23/09
I was brought up in a "you must at least try it, if you don't like it you don't have to eat it, but you do have to try it" household, so there are very few foods I don't care for...tongue being one of them.
One of my favorite comfort foods is an onion sandwich, or as my husband calls them the "I'm not getting any tonight" sandwich...fresh baked french bread, a layer of cottage cheese, thinly sliced white onion and salt. Yum!
My kids, who are now 18 and 19 have very developed palates...thank goodness!
katwmn1 at 10:41AM on 02/23/09
Kids sure eat some wacky pairings, and sometimes tap into something that later becomes a food fashion. At about age 8-10, pure heaven was having my own jar (DelMonte, maybe?) of Queen Anne Cherries. I could eat the entire jar as my afternoon snack. Not sure if they are still available in a jar, but they appear in the produce section of Whole Foods at a whopping $9 per pound on occasion. Other fav was a can of Dromedary Date Nut Bread, spreading the slices with cream cheese or butter. I always thought my food cravings as a kid were pretty weird, but after reading these postings -- well, other kids' favs were just as out there.
meyerlemonhead at 10:56AM on 02/23/09
I love cow's tongue, growing up and to this day. Fried with an egg or in a chile type sauce... YUM!
ddvierra68 at 12:49PM on 02/23/09
I've eaten braunschweiger on a cinnamon raisin bagel. This came about when, as a child, I was starving on the way home from the grocery store and this was the only thing I could eat readily in the car. I won't eat braunschweiger anymore, mostly because I now know what's in it :(
cinnarose at 1:29PM on 02/23/09
Definitely cream cheese and jelly, but only strawberry or orange marmalade. As a kid I loved whole button mushrooms from the little glass jar, canned beets, and sauteed chicken gizzards with onions. My dad told me they were chicken belly buttons, which made sense because at the kosher deli we would go to to eat them they were called pupiks which is naval in Yiddish. Also, sardine salad sandwiches on fresh rye bread (think tuna).
pinchesm at 1:47PM on 02/23/09
Koegel Red Hots (spicey pickled bologna), just grab one out of the jar and bite into it, perfect with a couple saltine crackers... I still get lemon faces all around when I eat them, I find them fantastic!!!
jjoneseats at 2:51PM on 02/23/09
My friends all thought it was disgusting when I slurped down raw clams and oysters. Silly children...
reader110 at 3:13PM on 02/23/09
low calorie/diet jell-o
pickles... and pickle vinegar. I love drinking it, and recently discovered my mom does too... Its just something NO ONE EVER sees.
mustard. Yeah... just mustard.
mayo... on pizza, and potato chips, and lots of other things.
There are more, just can't remember them now.
sweetieBird at 3:18PM on 02/23/09
oh... and chicken hearts and giblets. :D
sweetieBird at 3:18PM on 02/23/09
@blackliquorice I used to eat the garden as well... loved clover and bitter plants, and light colored roses. Yum... I guess the strangest were ants though... I used to head to the front of the house with tweezers and a magnifying glass - then proceed to pick out the biggest ones and scorch them before eating. Crunchy!
sweetieBird at 4:19PM on 02/23/09
Loved: liverwurst, hard salami with Tabasco sauce, Totino party pizzas, asparagus, peppercinis (sp?).
Hated: Green beans (still do!) and corned beef.
Oh, and once my brother and I made Port Wine cheese omelets... and we've never touched the stuff since! Port Wine is now dead to us.
TheCheapChick at 5:23PM on 02/23/09
when i was a kid i loved, loved, loved chicken gizzards and livers.
cybercita at 10:03PM on 02/23/09
The only vegetable I never liked is lima beans. My aunts always asked my mom, "how do you get your kids to eat their veggies?" Easy, we like them.
Saltine sandwich (saltines & margarine on bread)
Spaghetti sandwich/Mac & Cheese sandwich
Mom's bean salad
Plain potato chips dipped in vinegar
Pickle juice
After Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, after dessert, my sister & I would always have a plain dinner roll
Sugar at 11:17PM on 02/23/09
PS Cream cheese & jam is not weird. I used to pick up lunch for the guys I worked with at a cycle shop & they always got cream cheese & jam on a toasted bagel
Sugar at 11:19PM on 02/23/09
@myerlemonhead--I adore nut bread and cream cheese, and far from weird, I thought it was one of the specials at Schraft's, a NYC 'ladies that lunch locale'--my parents were older when they had me, and though my mom was anxious about sweets, date nut bread and cream cheese was a big elegant 'dessert for lunch' favorite for me.
I have to confess, I adored reading all of these, but I'm so egotistical, nothing I ate as a kid seemed weird to me, I was more the kind of person to think that other people's lunches were weird. Even what you consider normal here.
Weird was:
-eating hot dogs plain or with ketchup
-eating sweet and sour sauce with chicken mcnuggets or honey
-selecting fruit-flavored syrup or ice cream rather than vanilla or chocolate with ice cream sundaes
-not liking pizza (there was a girl who only ate saltines and peanut butter, and used to bring it to EVERY party, including pizza parties, which I found weird)
-those multicolored dots of sugar on wax paper girls liked better than chocolate
-mayo or anything but ketchup and mustard on burgers--Big Macs were weird as a kid
You see, I am always the normal one...
HeartofGlass at 5:52AM on 02/24/09
My mom and dad are both into very healthy eating. My mom was raised a vegetarian, so growing up, we didn't eat as much meat as the average American family probably does. My brothers and I used to be so embarrased by some of the types of sandwiches we'd get in our lunch. We used to try to hide them to avoid being made fun of by other kids.
Most notable in my mind is a linkett, cheese and pickle sandwich.
For those of you who don't know, a linkett is this type of canned fake hot dog like think made by Loma Linda Foods.
Linkett picture
There's a picture if anyone's that interested. Anyway, the sandwich filling involved grating up the linketts and the cheese, cutting up little pieces of pickle and mixing it up with mayo so it was like a spread. I used to be so mortified whenever I'd get this in my lunch, even though I actually loved it.
I haven't had that in years...Now that I'm thinking about it, I want to make some!
-Sara
NaturallyRecommended at 11:22AM on 02/24/09
At some point, I created a sandwich of things i liked. It was made with white bread, Laura Scudder's Natural PB (with the oil slick on top), Farmer John's Liverwurst with Bacon, and Mrs. Fanning's B&B Pickles. I used to eat it every weekend, sometimes more often. I also drank the leftover oil and vinegar dressing from the bottom of the salad bowl. Is something wrong with that?
hjpieman at 2:09PM on 02/24/09
There's nothing weird about cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, especially when they're on dark rich pumpernickel. Yum.
doublel at 2:31PM on 02/24/09
@eleeb - I was introduced to PB & honey by a college roomie. Why didn't I eat this earlier? The crystallized honey is the best part! PB/honey/banana came soon after. THEN, I had a Specialty's PB/jelly/apple/banana...genius!
@Sugar - I made spaghetti sandwiches too. What's wrong with carbs wrapped in carbs? I never found those gross and was delighted to find spaghetti stuffed buns in a Japanese bakery in San Jose. Most people find that gross on my Flickr.
manda at 3:20AM on 02/25/09
Nothing extreme here. Just odd.... french fries dipped in apple sauce. Chicken nuggets dipped in mashed potatoes..... like it was a condiment. And ketchup buns... learned that one from Mummy.
PS: LOVED dots, and hated pizza as a kid.
Tootsie at 3:39AM on 02/25/09
My sister used to make this disgusting concoction when she was a teenager--minute rice, mixed with canned tuna and then topped with american cheese and nuked until the cheese was gooey. Sometimes I think she made it just for the hurl factor that it evoked in me.
Grilled cheese sandwich with dill pickle slices in between the cheese slices were a weird thing for my husband to wrap his head around, until he tried a bite of mine. Now he's hooked.
dhorst at 8:25AM on 02/25/09
I still love cream cheese and jelly sandwiches, especially on a nice fresh kaiser roll. Also, cream cheese and chopped green olives. MMMMMMMMM!!!
muzzlet at 2:40PM on 02/25/09
@hjpieman - I LOVE to drink the leftover oil and vinegar from my salad bowl (only when I'm alone, though, so as not to be boorish), especially if there were tomatoes in the salad...the tomato juice and the dressing taste so delicious together!
Junie at 2:53PM on 02/25/09
Every day for lunch during my junior & senior year of high school I brought 2 4 ounce ostrich burgers & a sliced bell pepper to school! Everyone was always so curious and asking for bites! I am not really a SHARING type person so NOPE, I ate it all myself! lol
Giasbash6260 at 11:50PM on 03/17/09