Weird Foods Your Mom Made You As A Kid That You Liked?

[matcom]

my vienna sausage thread got me thinking...

when i was a kid, Mom used to make SPAM and Cream Cheese sammiches. used to LOVE them.

recently smelled SPAM for the first time in about 15 years and almost HURLED (considered calling her on her "child abuse" :D )

anyhoo, anyone else used to eat strange shit they can't stand now?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Fried bologna!

Yup; mom would take the bologna slice, toss it in the frying pan until it curled up slightly and got "browned". Tasty then, but I haven't tried it in years. I suspect I'd hate it because I don't even like cold bologna now.

[VelmaD]

5. Fried bologna isn't weird...

at least not in Texas. ;-)

[underpants]

9. You would think it was if you knew what was in it

I've eaten bologna once since 1991, I got sick then I made it through this time.

[VelmaD]

10. I now what's in it...

which is why I don't eat it. Blech.

Actually I didn't eat bologna as a kid either. I was kinda picky when I was little.

[corarose]

43. Fried & served on white bread with mustard or miracle whip

:kick:

[bamademo]

2. Porridge

She called it "Baby Bear Porridge" :puke:

[trotsky]

3. She didn't make me eat 'em, but...

the smell of those squishy orange "circus peanuts" will churn my stomach these days. When I was a kid I could eat a bag at a time. I must have overdosed!

[matcom]

6. oooooooooooo good one

:wtf: were they THINKING when they made those?

[terrya]

4. cake icing on saltine crackers.

Weird as all get out, but they were good at the time. :-)

[trotsky]

13. Butter on saltines... yumm

Mom made 'em, and I still love 'em. Just in moderation. ;-)

[MercutioATC]

41. Agreed. I still have them from time to time.

Talk about a heart attack waiting to happen...mmmmmmmm fat AND sodium....

[Loonman]

7. Liverwurst and cream cheese sandwich

Still eat those.

[politicat]

24. You, me, a desert island and liverwurst and cream cheese.....

*drool* have to avoid it now because of the fat, but .... oh.....

Did you do tomatoes and mustard, too?

Politicat

[Loonman]

30. No, just plain

I'm a purist when it comes to liverwurst sandwiches.

[soleft]

Raw egg, milk and Alba 77

Used to mix it up in blender and called it egg nog. Didn't know about the Salmanilla risk back then. Actually, it wasn't bad. Probably good for me except for the threat of dying.

[matcom]

12. used to mix milk and orange juice

called it a 'shake'

:puke: :puke:

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. Ham and lime Jello n/t

.

[rucky]

11. Weenie Goulasch

okay, so it's really hotdog stew, but my half-hungarian mom tries to pass it off as a traditional dish.

It's not bad, really...

[LuLu550]

14. brussels sprouts

I love them now

[trotsky]

17. Same here!

Except my mom never made them when I was a kid. Not sure if she didn't like them herself, or she just knew none of her kids would eat them.

But now as an adult they're my favorite vegetable - steamed and with some butter. Yumm.

[_NorCal_D_]

15. Hmmm

Zucchini pancakes.

Chili, green beans, and macaroni n' cheese mixed together. :9 :bounce:

[Catfish]

16. Tunafish casserole

My grandmother made it and I loved it: layers of tuna, crushed potato chips and cream of mushroom soup heated. It does not appeal to me in any way now.

[Scurrilous]

18. Shredded Wheat biscuits...

...with coffee, milk, and sugar poured on top for breakfast. I think giving kids coffee in the morning wasn't one of Mom's best ideas.

[tekriter]

19. Slightly off-topic, but still....VICKS VAPO-RUB. Not by choice.

I kid you not. My mom used to make us swallow a spoonfull of Vapo-Rub whenever we had a cold. Of course, on the jar it said "EXTERNAL USE ONLY" or something like that.

Funny thing is, it kinda worked.



:puke:

[VelmaD]

23. My grandparents...

fed Vapo-Rub to my parents when they were kids. Eew. My mom swore she'd never do that to us. :-)

[Dirty Hippie]

20. Corn Flakes with a blob of

peanut butter. To this day I must have peanut butter for my cereal.

[tridim]

21. Braunschwieger and mustard on Hi-Ho's

I had no idea at the time that it was liver sausage. Ewwww..

My dad used to try to tempt me into eating Scrapple. I never did.

[eyesroll]

26. I thought for a second you ate that on Ho-Hos.

That would be far worse.

Hm. My parents made "boiled beef." They only told me later it was cow tongue. (I'm not a fan, but not disgusted by, tongue now.)

[forgethell]

22. Mayonaisse & mustard

sanwiches

[cally]

25. That fake beef lunch meat

in a cream sauce over bread. She called it chipped beef. I liked it then, I wouldn't eat it now.

My friend gave me the idea for butter sandwiches. Put butter and sugar on bread. I didn't understand why my mom wouldn't allow those.

[Melsky]

27. Apples and peanut butter

Apples, quarted and cored, with peanut butter on top. These are really good and I occasionally eat these now.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

28. Slice a bagel, pass margarine, put a slice of ham inside... (read on)

...dip it all in MILK, and FRY the whole thing. Is it weird or what? Greasy as hell. Years and years later I finally connect the dots and remember Dad had to anticipate his retirement and we were living on (reduced because of the anticipation) benefits. As a child, I didn't even notice anything was wrong, we would have weird lunch and the toys started getting scarce, but the official line was that everything was normal. They held on nicely, my folks. Couldn't have asked for better parents.

[supernova]

29. Sardines and ketchup on saltines

I kid you not! And I still think it's good, though I don't eat it very often.

My sister got this from the carpenter who built our house. Turns out he was Italian. She was 4 years old or so when the house was being built. The carpenter would share his lunch of sardines and saltines with her. :D

[populistmom]

31. Tuna sandwiches with pineapple slices.

Strange, but surpriselingly yummy. :P

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

34. Tuna? Ick. Now, HAM & pineapple sandwich...

...mmmmmmmmm!!! Best place to eat sandwiches in Rio is called Cervantes, and they serve just such a thing. Also another part of the pig I can't remember the English name... the thigh, how is it called? We call it "pernil".

Babelfish can't translate sh*t.

[kmla]

32. My mom used to make a tomato gravy.... Yummmmm.

It involved stewed tomatoes, cornstarch, and sugar, in a ratio that I never bothered to learn. Spread it on bread, and eat away....

My mouth waters just thinking about it. Next time I go up to see M & D, I think I'll suggest that for dinner.

[ACK]

33. Tomato sandwich

No not a BLT.

Fresh summer tomato with a bit of fresh mayo and lettuce on white bread.

Dress it up with a mayo/remoulade sauce and a baguette and its incredible.

[supernova]

36. Garden-fresh tomato sandwiches

are da bomb! :D Ditto fried green tomatoes.

[ACK]

39. Fried Green tomatoes!! Love em

Put a little feta cheese and a nice creamy sauce on top... yum!!

That is to dress them up.

I actually had a fried green tomato sandwich done up like a Po' Boy that rocked socks!!

[elcondor]

35. Graham crackers with ketchup

Doesn't sound too appealing to me now--but they were delicious when I was five! :-)

[Lars39]

37. Frozen milk.

Add sugar and a little vanilla to a bowl of milk and freeze.
We couldn't afford ice cream. :shrug:

tang, cream of wheat, *moon rocks*(drop biscuits) were also among the favorites.

[SiobhanClancy]

38. "Catholic Pizzas"

which were english muffins with a slice of tomato and a slice of cheese,put under the broiler.

[flamingyouth]

47. I used to eat those!

My mom just called them "mini pizzas." She made them in our old toaster oven. Ah, memories!

[prole_for_peace]

40. ketchup sandwiches

or ketchup on saltines. Love it then, don't think I would now.

[corarose]

42. Bozo Circus Hot Dogs

She would wrap a hot dog in a slice of American Cheese and put it on a bun and then she would pour ketchup on it and wrap it in foil and bake it in the oven until the hot dog was hot and the cheese was melted.
Everyone that I use to know as a kid always comments on my Mom's Bozo Circuses Hot Dogs.

[slackmaster]

44. She had an eggplant dish and a Spam dish that I liked

And still like.

[bloom]

45. creamed chip beef on toast n/t

[myrna minx]

49. Me too. Good 'ol Carl Budding. n/t

[corarose]

51. My Mom made the same thing "Shit on a Shingle"

There must have been a recipe for it on a jar or something.

[ploppy]

46. Fried Cheerios

Yum!

[geniph]

48. She called it goulash

but its resemblance to actual Hungarian goulash was nonexistent. Elbow macaroni, cheese, and a tomato sauce with hamburger. Basically what they call cheeseburger macaroni now. She used to put corn in it, too.

I liked it. I don't eat hamburger anymore, but it's still a form of comfort food to me, with ground chicken or turkey instead of hamburger.

One of my favorite desserts was the way she made cinnamon toast - not weird, but I don't see many other people make it this way. Lightly toast the bread, butter it (real butter works better), mix copious amounts of cinnamon with a little brown sugar, spread thickly on buttered toast, put under broiler until the sugar bubbles and melts. YUMMY. Serve with hot cocoa!

[Bertha Venation]

56. my mom's "goulash"

Same name -- "goulash" -- but nowhere near the real thing. She browned hamburger, then dumped in rice, tomatoes & corn. Tasty. Haven't had it since before she died and I'll never make it myself, but it was tasty.

[underpants]

50. Paint chips

We didn't have a lot of money so we couldn't afford the store bought kind. They WERE crunchy.

[matcom]

52. do those go well with

French Fires? :bounce:

[underpants]

54. yEs

:silly:

[corarose]

55. With or Without Lead?

:kick:

[Love Bug]

53. Banana sandwiches!

Butter two slices of squishy white bread (preferably Wonder Bread). Arrange ripe banana slices on one of the bread slices. Sprinkle with sugar. Cover with the other piece of bread and eat. Yum!