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Mac & cheese with a can of tuna... which I still love to this day.

Isn't Bob Tuschman the one who killed BRAVO?

We also had the bologna/pickle/mayo sandwich filling growing up in Kansas. Though it was usually saved for traval occasions - we'd pack a cooler with the hash and a loaf of bread and stop at picnic tables to eat. I also loved the potato chip/mayo sandwiches.

Seeing all the references to bologna reminds me that when I was very small we had a maid and she would give me whatever I wanted to eat. It always really annoyed my mom when she found out that I had bologna with ketchup on it for lunch. Not a sandwich, just the bologna.

My sister taught me to eat hot dogs right out of the freezer and to put salt on sliced pickles.

My family still likes something we call "weenie stew" which is basically a red gravy with hot dogs cooked in it. You eat it on spaghetti. But that's the only thing in this post that I still eat, though it's been years since I've had weenie stew. I wonder if I have any red gravy in the freezer.......

My sister and I would put Kraft singles on a small plate and microwave it. She liked hers still gooey so she could scoop it up with a shrimp fork, while I liked mine cooked right before burning, so I could peel it off and eat it like a chip.

Also, asparagus and shrimp dipped in mayo, eggs cooked in the microwave mixed with either ketchup or soy sauce, broken up uncooked Taiwanese ramen noodles, toast dipped in hot chocolate, no salt & pepper on the table...only soy sauce.

My favorite sandwich as a kid was an omelet with jam in a pita. The other kids thought it was strange, my sister's fav was yogurt and olive paste. But our food didnt get really weird til we went to high school, it was a boarding school, where everyone have yogurt sandwiches in like a hot dog bun with potato chips and sugar. I still find myself buying hot dog buns every so often.

Here - here! It's all about gaining more and more audience and it's junk when it comes to culinary arts. Except for a couple of shows I've quit watching! Dave Johnson

Pei dan. I remember watching a fear factor and watching people withdraw in terror from something I'd been eating for as long as I could remember. Pansies.

Wow, lets see here...
- potato chips in sandwiches, and french fries in sandwiches too (before I discovered Primanti's)
- french fries dipped in applesauce
- chicken nuggets slathered with mashed potatoes
- ketchup sandwiches
- broken up graham crackers in a bowl of milk until they get absolutely mushy
- my sister and I would eat curls of margarine when we were little
- condensed soup with so many saltines crushed up into it that there was no broth left (a trick I learned from both of my grandfathers)
- buttered toast dipped into morning tea (the whole English side of my family does it)

What?? Nobody ate fried baloney and cheddar sammies on white bread? The THRILL of watching that slice fry and suddenly puff in the middle.. how awesome it was to POKE and watch it deflate. Why? I have no idea.

My dad and sis loved peanut butter, mayo, and pickle sam's *shiver*

I still like peanut butter and bacon as well as a schmear of liverwurst with sharp cheddar, pickle and spicy mustard on toast. MMMM! Odd to be a kid and like the liverwurst.. but it was gooood.

my dad's "creation" - elbow macaroni, fried hot dogs, and scrambled eggs mixed together and topped with ketchup. I still love it once in a very long while. my kids might eat it but my husband (who is a missionary kid and will eat anything) flatly refuses to try it.
The only soda in our house was Tab, so I was the only 8 year old at camp drinking diet soda for that refreshing artificial sweetener!
And tacos were always corn tortilla shells, manwich sauced-hamburger, mozzarella cheese, chopped dill pickles, and diced tomatoes. Still a yummy, if not authentic, combo!

this wasn't necessarily a family food, but when I was young, like 5 or 6, I actually indulged in butter, straight up. Oh to be young again.