Anyone else have strange foods that were normal in your household, or is that just me?

Mine were:
Canned asparagus, just straight out of the can, cold, as a snack
Saltine crackers with fake butter spread (and they wondered why I was a fat kid ...)
Apples with salt
Macaroni with plain tomato sauce (which I don't think is all that weird but others say it's odd)
and probably more that I still don't realize are weird

11/29/2008 8:58:07 PM

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"Apples with salt"

11/29/2008 8:58:41 PM

i wouldnt have guessed you were a fat kid

11/29/2008 8:59:36 PM

Scrapple.......but I fucking love it now.

11/29/2008 8:59:53 PM

boiled chicken feet
souse
pig feet
apples with salt (like above)
grits with sugar

thats all i can think of, but i loved em all

[Edited on November 29, 2008 at 9:01 PM. Reason : d]

11/29/2008 9:00:39 PM

liverwurst

i gobbled that shit like sean may

but I haven't touched it since I was 14 and never will again

11/29/2008 9:00:57 PM

i think most people in NC eat livermush

11/29/2008 9:01:18 PM

yucky

11/29/2008 9:01:38 PM

yeah but I grew up in Jersey

11/29/2008 9:01:59 PM

i was just about to ask where u was from lol

11/29/2008 9:02:18 PM

Watermelon was salted too, but I still think that's tasty

11/29/2008 9:02:30 PM

my mom salted watermelon and apples as well. are you from up north?

11/29/2008 9:03:06 PM

tuna casserole was probably the worst thing
and maybe cream of chicken

they just did not taste good

11/29/2008 9:03:20 PM

peaches with cottage cheese and a thing of cheese on top

used to eat it up but now im a little about it

the rest I ate then and still eat now

Love brussel sprouts, a lot of peeps seem to hate em

11/29/2008 9:03:47 PM

Nope, and nobody in my family was either. But my grandmother used salt on everything

11/29/2008 9:03:59 PM

she put that s*** on everything

11/29/2008 9:04:37 PM

My parents were total hippies so they would do things like:

Only 100% juice.
No fruit rollups, my mom made her own fruit leather
No cereal with chocolate or "too much" sugar

I'm sure there were more but those are the ones I remember the most. Then about the time I got to middle school my mom stopped caring about enforcing the rules and started buying shit like fruit rollups

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"tuna casserole was probably the worst thing"

TUNA CASSEROLE IS DELICIOUS I have had some nasty ass tuna casserole in the past though.

Oh yeah, and my parents would eat Ritz crackers with braunschweiger as a treat.

[Edited on November 29, 2008 at 9:12 PM. Reason : ;.]

11/29/2008 9:11:24 PM

^ ah, you had "those" types of parents. i bet your friends never came over to your house much.

11/29/2008 9:12:54 PM

Actually my mom worked as a chef for a catering company so my friends always wanted to eat dinner at our house lol.

11/29/2008 9:13:40 PM

I had a friend who's mom was a health freak. they never had any goodies in the house. every time he would ask us to sleep over we would be like "um, no thanks. maybe next weekend"

11/29/2008 9:14:50 PM

I remember those kids. Every time they were away from their parents they inhaled all the candy, soda, junk food and everything else their parents wouldn't let them have.

11/29/2008 9:14:52 PM

the only thing my mom ever made that I didn't like was these green beans she would always make for Thanksgiving and Christmas. She would put a TON of vinegar in it, and it just stank up the whole room. My sisters would always sit the bowl next to me at the table just to fuck with me.

11/29/2008 9:17:06 PM

My parents weren't that bad thank god. We still had plenty of shit around the house like Snickers bars, Captain Crunch, and ice cream. My parents would just buy things like Breyer's instead of Food Lion shit brand.

I did know some kids that had the super health freak sort of parents and I always felt bad for them while chowing down on a fudgsicle

11/29/2008 9:17:45 PM

My parents never actually cooked

Our meals were always a couple different canned veggies or Rice-A-Roni and other packaged crap.

But I guess that's why I started cooking as soon as I could reach the stove.

11/29/2008 9:18:24 PM

^ I always felt bad for my friends with parents like that. And never ate at their house if I could help it

11/29/2008 9:20:04 PM

my mom cooked almost every night. I made her make me copies of all of her recipes here recently. that was pretty tough because most of them she didn't even have recipes for, so she had to write it down. The duck I am making tomorrow is her recipe actually.

11/29/2008 9:20:43 PM

Yeah, it sucked. That's why I vowed I would never raise a family like that, and I started planning meals every week and doing the grocery shopping and making dinner every night for my family when I got my driver's license.

11/29/2008 9:22:23 PM

I should really get my mom to write down her recipes some time. I know she has a lot of them in a recipe box but they're covered in nastiness and you can't even read some of them anymore.

11/29/2008 9:22:41 PM

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"I remember those kids. Every time they were away from their parents they inhaled all the candy, soda, junk food and everything else their parents wouldn't let them have."

and then as soon as they grow up and leave the house they are going to eat so much of the stuff they couldn't have as a kid, and get fat.

I ate all that sugary stuff as a kid and now I'm sick of it. My mom fed us pretty much whatever we wanted (with the obvious limits) so I ate the sweet stuff. Can't think of anything weird, but she did like to cook Mexican food a lot. She made these tamales that were sweet with raisins, I guess that was weird.

11/29/2008 9:23:44 PM

My mom makes lasagna unlike anything I or any of my friends have ever had. It is just really labor intensive so I have never tried it. DAMN it is so good.

11/29/2008 9:24:57 PM

my grandma used to boil chicken in a pot and then add a bunch of saltine crackers at the end to make it filling.


i was po as shit growin up!

11/29/2008 9:26:44 PM

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"and then as soon as they grow up and leave the house they are going to eat so much of the stuff they couldn't have as a kid, and get fat."

That is a huge jump in logic. Sure, some people do that, but there's also plenty of people who are raised on cheese whiz and kool aid and continue eating that as an adult. It has more to do with the approach parents take to instilling good eating habits than anything.

11/29/2008 9:39:19 PM

graham crackers with cream cheese and chocolate chips. we would eat those and watch Inspector Gadget

^ I agree. my parents always made us eat healthy and I hated it at the time. But now I always tell my mom thanks for giving me healthy eating habits. I never went nuts and gorged on bacon when I left the house. The food my parents raised me on still tastes better than fast food or processed crap. Example - Lunchables. My parents never let me have them, and now I know why.

11/29/2008 9:41:31 PM

^^ good point.

11/29/2008 9:42:30 PM

wasn't there another thread very similar to this?

b/c I remember the topic of Peanut Butter on Pancakes coming up... which I do to this day and love

11/29/2008 9:45:58 PM

It's quite possible. I didn't search. I was just inspired by the can of asparagus in my pantry.

11/29/2008 9:46:42 PM

My momma was a dirtay hippie vegetarian.

We were fed bone meal and lots of soy based meat replacement products.

11/29/2008 10:21:08 PM

Gubment cheese food

11/29/2008 10:23:26 PM

Raw Potatoes

11/29/2008 10:25:02 PM

Beer

11/29/2008 10:25:58 PM

Bone meal?

11/29/2008 10:27:10 PM

Yes. Bone meal. Once upon a time, it was a calcium supplement. Now, I think that people use it on their plants.

11/29/2008 10:28:38 PM

I googled it and only saw "a common plant fertilizer" ... how is that vegetarian?

11/29/2008 10:29:19 PM

The heck if I know. I said my mom was a dirty hippie, not a rocket scientist.

11/29/2008 10:30:31 PM

Isn't Bone meal... finely ground bone?

11/29/2008 10:32:27 PM

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"Bone meal is a mixture of crushed and coarsely ground bones that is used as an organic fertilizer for plants and formerly in animal feed. As a slow-release fertilizer, bone meal is primarily used as a source of phosphorus. Bone meal once was often used as a human dietary calcium supplement. Research in the 1980s found that many bone meal preparations were contaminated with lead and other toxic metals, and it is no longer recommended as a calcium source."

11/29/2008 10:33:27 PM

yup.

i ate one tablet a day. it had a very distinct, milky taste to it.
i never made the connection.

11/29/2008 10:34:12 PM

bottombaby probably also ate egg shells and milk cartons to stay vegetarian.

11/29/2008 10:35:17 PM

man, i ate tofu and like soy protein crap way before it was cool.

11/29/2008 10:36:10 PM

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"My momma was a dirtay hippie vegetarian. We were fed bone meal and lots of soy based meat replacement products."

11/29/2008 10:37:08 PM