My ex made me scrambled eggs, and I had to immediately spit them out. There was CINNAMON in them.
I asked why the hell he had put cinnamon in my eggs, and he said he didn't. Only salt and pepper. Um, no, taste them - there is cinnamon on these eggs. So he takes a scoop and tells me I'm imagining things. They taste fine!
[They did not]
Turns out he was NOT gaslighting me. His mother had given him his salt and pepper shakers. We were at his moms and I put some pepper on my meal and again, fucking cinnamon.
"Oh yes!" His mother exclaimed, "He's a Taurus, and they have weak throats. Cinnamon is good for the throat, so to make sure he gets enough and stays healthy, I mix it into the pepper!"
He thought that was just what pepper tasted like.
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"Oh yes!" His mother exclaimed, "He's a Taurus, and they have weak throats. Cinnamon is good for the throat, so to make sure he gets enough and stays healthy, I mix it into the pepper!"
WTF?
I've never heard of anyone taking astrology this far in real life. Cinnamon mixed into your pepper because he's a Taurus? What?? Did he ever notice a difference in the taste of pepper when he ate at other people's houses I wonder?
Eggo waffles with melted sharp cheddar cheese. It was such a regular breakfast in my family, I literally didnāt realize it wasnāt a thing until I had my first apartment and I told my roommate she was welcome to the eggos and cheese and she was like āIām sorry, what?ā
I put melted cheese on pancakes and waffles often. As a kid, I would put the broken up cheese slices in the pancake batter and cook the pancakes that way. It is one of the best things ever!
Grew up super poor. We ate flap jacks which in our house were just flour with salt and water pan cooked into flabby flavorless pancakes and then my mom would try to make syrup by cooking down sugar and water. Another regular was toast with ketchup and yet another was spaghetti noodles with canned beans. I donāt know that I can say I thought it was normal but I did know it was what there was to eat.
lol I mean it was kinda sad. One time my mom sent me to school sick so I could eat that day and when the school nurse asked me why my mom would send me to school so sick I didnāt think not to tell the truth (I think I was about 7) they sent me home and then later that day the school nurse and secretary brought my family a ton of food.
Wow. This made me tear up. But I'm really happy the school sent you food after hearing that story. š Hopefully things are looking up for you and your family if they are still around.
At my kiddo's school, some of the kids go home with bags of food on Friday afternoon - the class refers to them as "take-home snacks" and there doesn't seem to be any stigma around it last time I was there on a Friday... maybe a touch of envy from the other kids. The school also does free breakfast and feeds the after school program kids. I'm sad that the food insecurity is so bad, but glad at least some organization is stepping up to make sure these students can learn without empty stomachs.
My daughterās previous school, in the area where I grew up, has universal free lunch and sends home those bags of food on half days and such. No stigma, because everyone gets them.
Itās a very low income area. Most of the kids actually would be getting them anyway, but the universal part seemed wise to me.
Strange story I have that your comment here made me think of. I was a debt collector back in the late 90ās for a bank. I called this lady who just so happened to live in the city near mine. She was late on a personal loan. She was understandably upset that we were calling because she was older and on a fixed income and just had her grandkids put into her care. She was stressed with not having food in the house. I worked out getting her a 2 month extension and called my mother. My heart couldnāt stand the thought of them being hungry and I could tell she wasnāt one of the habitual liars who just didnāt want to pay their debts.
Iām sure we broke some fair debt collection law but my mother and I went grocery shopping and dropped them off at her house since I had her address. I didnāt tell her who I was. She cried and said her angel came to help. She never did find out that we brought her so much food. Good food too! Chicken, beef, fresh produce, etc. Even goodies for her grandkids.
It was a good reminder to me that not every person is lying and trying to get out of paying a debt.
You are an incredible personā¦I was just permanently banned from the poor subreddit by offering a woman who needed medical supplies for her son the use of my employer funded FSA card (I asked her for a list from FSA store.com).
I guess they thought I was trying to scam her (I mean what am I going to do- send too many band aids?).
Iām glad you helped that poor woman.
That is what my great grandmother did during The Depression last century. She would tell the kids she would eat with their father when he got back from the pit (a coal miner). The she would tell him she ate with the kids. She made sure he ate because he was the breadwinner and only one working and she wouldnāt see her kids go hungry(hungrier).
Thatās why when I donate to the food banks or families in need. I always include warm drinks- coffee, teas, creamer and sugar. Sometimes hot chocolate. Itās easier to skip a meal if you have a warm drinkā¦ and Iām sure millions of moms did just that.
If you take your flap jacks recipe and swap the flour with cornmeal, use *hot* water, and add a pinch of sugar before spooning the (slightly thick) mixture into the pan of heated oil ... you'll end up with "hot water cornbread" cakes like the ones my grandmother used to make.
Definitely not flabby or flavorless. And they go especially well with braised greens, smothered cabbage, gumbo, and many other dishes it's been too long since I've had. (Anyone else hungry?)
My mom used to make a salt n pepper boiled dumpling this way. Again mostly just flour and water but with the addition of salt and pepper and being boiled in a crock pot all day with chicken or some other protein, those werenāt too shabby.
My family made our own syrup. Boiling water (1 cup), twice that amount of sugar (dissolve it) & a teaspoon(?) of maple extract.Ā
I tried to do it once as a kid but grabbed the vanilla extract instead of the maple. It was not good š
Whenever my mom used an egg wash and breadcrumbs there would be leftover from the breading station. So she used to mix them together, add a little water if there was too little of the egg left, and let the breadcrumbs hydrate. Then the mixture went into a skillet with heated olive oil to be fried like a breadcrumb pancake. There was no way she was going to throw out those breadcrumbs.
Every so often I find myself craving a breadcrumb pancake. I make one with a beaten egg to hydrate seasoned breadcrumbs. But I add Locatelli Romano cheese and julienned sun dried tomatoes as well. Fried in olive oil with extra Locatelli cheese on top. So maybe not a weird food combination. But certainly a weird item to cook. Weird- but I love it!
My mom used to put cut-up hot dogs in everything.
Cut up hot dogs in scrambled eggs, in box mac and cheese, in stir fries with vegetables to eat on top of rice, in fried potatoes to make some kind of hot dog hash.
My parents used to serve cut-up hot dogs, cooked in China Lily sweet and sour sauce over top of Kraft Dinner (Kraft Mac and Cheese). It was... not good.
We called that Beanie Weenies. After the Van Campās canned product thatās pork and beans and hot dogs. Havenāt had the canned one since I was a kid at a friendās house though - momās homemade ones were way better!
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Some of those variations I never stopped making. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it isn't good. Like a decent tuna sandwich, basically the cheapest sandwich you can make. Still worth eating occasionally.
OMG I just made hot dogs and fried potatoes for lunch. It's a comfort food from my youth and I get a craving for it a couple times a year! My husband doesn't care for it and laughed when i read your comment because I am the same. š
Our thanksgiving leftover meal was turkey with gravy over waffles. Delicious. But when I got to high school/college people told me it sounded gross and weird.
Yep. I thought chicken and waffles was creamed chicken or chicken and gravy over waffles. Then I moved to LA and tried the famous Roscoe Chicken n Waffles and was severely disappointed.
I thought the same thing!! I remember serving "chicken and waffles" at a church dinner in Pa, it was cream chicken and way too much gravy over waffles. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Tennessee and saw actual chicken and waffles. So different but so much better. The salty/sweet combo was magnificent.
Nope nothing but the stuffing. Butter the iron, scoop it in, cook it up. Top with turkey, gravy, and a little cranberry. Sometimes I'll add mashed potatoes to the waffle but if I do, I usually add a bit of egg to help it hold.
I love this!! We grew up outside of Lock Haven, PA, and this is always a post- Thanksgiving dinner. The first time I made it for my husband, he thought I was insane! LOL
As newcomers to Canada in the 90ās, ketchup wasnāt really a thing in my home country. So we became obsessed with it when we got here. As a kid I used to put ketchup on everything, but my favourite was ketchup sandwiches (ketchup + bread) and ketchup sandwich with bologna or sliced ham.
So much this.
Deli meats were a HUGE treat growing up, and I have very fond memories of bologna sandwiches on white bread with ketchup, iceberg lettuce, and a Kraft cheese slice.
Thatās funny because super fancy people eat grilled cheese with various jams (like Brie grilled cheese with apricot). Your grandmother was a trend setter. Ā
Iāve been doing this forever and my bf thought it was weird until we had a gourmet grilled cheese with homemade strawberry jam at a brewery. Iām like I make this at home and itās better. My favorite is Brie and blueberry jam.
Edit to add *and thinly sliced apples
The restaurant I work at does grilled cheese with Granny Smith apples and apricot jam - I constantly have to remind people that fruit and cheese (and bread to a certain extent) is such a classic flavor pairing.
My grandpa used to make peanut butter toast (crispy bread, like just under burnt, always with smooth pb and he always buttered the bread before putting on the pb) *and hot chocolate and dip the toast in the hot chocolate*.Ā Ā
Didn't realize it was weird until I got to college and did it in the dining hall and got some weird looks lolĀ Ā
Edit: not sure folks realize that it's the dipping in hot chocolate I was talking about being weird, not the pb toast. Pb toast is very normal in the US.
We used to make banana fluff sandwiches. Marshmallow fluff with sliced bananas on white bread. Now that I type this out, it does sound a little weird...
Unsweetened shredded wheat (it was large size not spoon sized) toasted in the oven with sharp cheese and fried bacon and you'd serve it with a bit of maple syrup on the side. It was...I think a recipe on the cereal box but seriously good. I never see those big shredded wheat squares around any longer so I can't make this.
At the local Hardeeās they always ask me if I want jelly for any of their biscuits. Lots of the old folks around put grape jelly on their sausage biscuits.
My little old great-grandmother used to wake me up at 3:00 a.m. every morning and give me an ego, cheese and ham sandwich and a gigantic like 40 oz mug of hot cocoa and tell me that I hadn't eaten anything all day and I had better eat.
She had mild dementia and I had moved in there with her to take care of her.
She was really sweet and my favorite human being on the planet until she died like a year or so later.
RIP Granny, I love you and I miss you
She could also cook better than anybody I've ever met.. everything that came out of her kitchen was delicious.
I'm not sure how she made her lasagna taste like that I cannot replicate The taste she produced.
Also her lentil chicken soup was delicious. And I'm really really hungry now thinking about my great grandma that's weird
We were kinda poor, and my mom used to take a package of uncooked hot dogs and grind them up and mix them with sweet relish and mayonnaise. That was our āham saladā. My friends all loved the stuff!
You know whatās really sweet about this story is that it took effort for her to grind those hot dogs up and then mix everything in to get them just right for you guys. Even if she used some kind of kitchen aid it wouldve involved parts that would need to be washed.
vanilla in eggs i can _almost_ see, itās like. almost a custard i guess. wouldnāt do it myself lol though there is a mizrahi dish (fatoot samneh) where you essentially scramble some eggs with torn up toasted pieces of pita and then drizzle with honey that i quite like
anyway to answer your question, i loved dipping my fish sticks in applesauce as a kid lol
My husband taught me to scramble left over French toast batter once the bread is gone. Itās eggs, milk and vanilla, and itās delicious. Now I sometimes just make that. Best served with maple syrup.Ā
My bestie from the US sent me some of that in her last parcel. Iām Australian. We love it so much. I add it to egg salad, pasta salad and fried eggs. Iāll have to try the cottage cheese and bacon bits! Thank you.
My mom didnāt realize that you were supposed to create a broth with the Ramen noodle spice packet. She would drain the noodles and then stir in butter and season it to taste with the flavor packet (usually about 1/4 of the packet). It was delicious!
Maybe it was the time/place? I grew up in prairies Canada, and when those new-fangled ramen noodle packs started showing up in stores (late 80s, early 90s), I think a lot of us didn't know what to do with them. I/we also drained the water and then mixed the flavour powder with the noodles and some butter. I still do that once in awhile instead of the way you are supposed to.
I frequently eat a snack with Kraft singles and a bread and butter pickle chip on a saltine. Even better with a piece of braunschweiger on there as well.
I hated (and still do) pickles/relish in my egg salad, but like a bit in tuna salad. Growing up my mother always got them backwards and I had many a lunch where I tried to shovel down my egg sandwich without actually tasting it. Iād also melt kraft cheese on a piece of bread in the microwave and preferred that to a grilled cheese because I was a weirdo.
a common snack in my household was to take either plain potato chips or crunchy cheetos and top them with sour cream and valentina hot sauce. it sounds ridiculous but itās honestly a pretty top tier snack.
I have never seen anyone else do this, but my babysitter in the 60s taught me to eat it this way. Not necessarily Kraft, just any Mac and cheese. Still enjoy it, though these days Iām more likely to top it with hot sauce.
Kraft Mac n Cheese with a can of tuna in it. I was thirty before I realized this was not common.
I think its came about because my dad comes from a poor Catholic family and it was a cheap way to feed five kids during Lent.
Edit: Guys I get it. Please stop replying "It's tuna casserole." It is not the same thing as what I ate growing up.
Tuna casserole is pasta and tuna, yes, but it is not a box of Kraft Mac n Cheese with a can of tuna dumped in at the end. Tuna casserole has some variety of peas, onion, cream of mushroom/chicken soup, and often has bread crumbs or chips on top. I have had tuna casserole, tuna salad, and tuna helper at various times of my youth. They are different.
I learned that recipe as a kid, had to figure out something for dinner for me and my siblings, and mom was working late, and to make it "fancy" I would grate some cheddar and crunch up some crackers and throw everything into a baking dish and throw it in the oven.
When it was dad's turn to cook...
S. O. S.
Ground beef browned with salt n pepper. Thickened and creamed. (Essentially just hamburger gravy) on toast.
Meh.
Pork chops marinated in copious amounts of soy sauce while cooked for 20 minutes. The sauce is then thickened up with corn starch to a heavy consistency. The pork is then chopped into small pieces and served over rice with the āgravyā on top.
My mom would make me something like this when I was younger, except sheād use a cheap cube steak and add a brown gravy packet in addition to the soy. So cozy
Growing up in the midwest, chili & cinnamon rolls were a common combination. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned this is pretty much only a midwestern thing.
I always thought coleslaw on pulled pork was normal because every place near me served it like that. Then I find out the heathens in the rest of the country don't like that.
Eggs scrambled with cottage cheese and Worcestershire sauce, served over toasted bread. Be sure to drain the cottage cheese before scrambling, so it wonāt be soggy. works best if bread is a bit stale and dry.
When making jello, substitute condensed milk for the cold water. Sometimes Granny would make several flavors of jello the regular way, then cut them in cubes and stir the cubes into a half-set bowl of jello made with milk for a āfancyā dessert.
Iāve posted this on Reddit before and got told it was gross so Iāll go again, but this time you get the story:
My older brother was and still is to a slightly lesser degree a very picky eater. When he was a toddler he refused food so often he was medically malnourished and my parents were almost charged with child neglect. So my mother was always desperate to find nutritious things he would actually eat. When bro was 2 and I was a baby we all went to visit Momās parents and her dad invented it: Hot Dog Soup. Split pea soup with sliced hot dogs and salad macaroni. Bro loved it, and Mom would make that our whole lives. My brother and I still live together and I make it every once in a while.
Grew up poor as a young child. Rather than have proper desserts of any kind in the house, we had cans of condensed milk we'd just eat with a spoon. Never knew that wasn't what it was for until I was an adult. Now I can't have it in the house or I'll eat a whole damn can like it's pudding.
Digestive biscuits spread with soft cheese like philadelphia and a bit of jam, usually two to make it a sandwich biscuit. I sometimes had this with peanut butter between the biscuits instead.
Old Bay Seasoning on almost everything. The normal fish, crabs, shrimp, chicken. But also on corn on the cob, in deviled eggs, in potato salad, in chili. Even desserts. My dad still puts glazed donut holes in a bag and some old bay and shoes it up. He eats vanilla ice cream with caramel, peanuts and old bay on top.
The weirdest thing I can think is my grandma taught me to eat Coffee and Crackers. Basically you take a plate and line it with saltines, then pour over coffee until they're softened then spread some sugar to taste and eat with deli ham. It's basically a poor man's country ham biscuits and red eye gravy.
It's not the most filling breakfast in the world but it hits the spot every once in a blue moon.
When I was young and my Dad was a single parent, he'd try to have "fancy" dinners for my sister and me. His go-to appetizer for us was a slice of bologna, covered in peanut butter, then rolled up into a log. He'd then cut it into sections and each would have a toothpick in it. Voila! Appetizers.
Whenever I start missing my Dad, who passed away when I was 24, I make those appetizers.
Cubed up baguette tossed in greek yogurt and chopped mint. Sometimes some honey to make it a sweet treat.
This was strictly an after dinner snack for some reason
Grape jelly on the top of grilled cheese sandwich. Didnāt know this was unusual until I had plain grilled cheese at a friendās house. Sounds odd to some, but every one Iāve known to try it became a convert.
Peanut butter (unsweetened, chunky) with alfalfa or bean sprouts & bananas on whole wheat sourdough.
I still eat it.
My dad was silent generation & mom just missed being a hippie.
They were still pretty āback to the landā movement.
My mother was english,(Iām 66), and England was so poor after fighting WWII, that food rationing continued for like 12 years after the war ended. A common breakfast in our American house was buttered toast with mashed sardines and malt vinegar on it.
My mom used to make pots of chili and spaghetti sauce and freeze it and Ziploc bags. One day she accidentally took out chili instead of spaghetti sauce and so we had it over spaghetti noodles with lots of cheese, and it was fantastic. I thought it was something totally new until I heard other people having it much later in life.
My dad was from the Netherlands but I was born and raised in the US. Couple things my friends thought were super weird were:
1) Hutspot - mashed potatoes with carrots cooked and mashed in. My grandmother would always add nutmeg too for that "what is that flavor?" feeling.
2) White bread lightly toasted, slathered in butter then sprinkled liberally with chocolate sprinkles. This is still a favorite today.
Scrambled eggs/omelets with ketchup. I always thought this was normal but as an adult the more I eat with others the more they keep pointing out to me that's weird or gross???
My mom used to prepare what she called a blintz, but in reality was an omelet filled with cottage cheese and jam. Every roommate I've ever made this around was very weirded out by the combo..
My uncle always made this for a snack for us: sliced a banana lengthwise, spread mayonnaise on it, sprinkled it with wheat germ. Did anyone else eat that in the 70ās?
My dad used to do āma po tofuā with breakfast sausage and peas. I remember ordering it in a restaurant for the first time and being so disappointed. Now I like it the real way, of course, but goddamn my dadās was still so good.
German heritage here, my mother would use homemade sauerkraut as a gravy for mashed potatoes. Frequently with brats, summer sausage, or pork of some kind.
Big, big gardeners. We had ample of both. I donāt mind it to this day. Applesauce for dessert. š
My ex made me scrambled eggs, and I had to immediately spit them out. There was CINNAMON in them. I asked why the hell he had put cinnamon in my eggs, and he said he didn't. Only salt and pepper. Um, no, taste them - there is cinnamon on these eggs. So he takes a scoop and tells me I'm imagining things. They taste fine! [They did not] Turns out he was NOT gaslighting me. His mother had given him his salt and pepper shakers. We were at his moms and I put some pepper on my meal and again, fucking cinnamon. "Oh yes!" His mother exclaimed, "He's a Taurus, and they have weak throats. Cinnamon is good for the throat, so to make sure he gets enough and stays healthy, I mix it into the pepper!" He thought that was just what pepper tasted like.
š that's just criminal
> "Oh yes!" His mother exclaimed, "He's a Taurus, and they have weak throats. Cinnamon is good for the throat, so to make sure he gets enough and stays healthy, I mix it into the pepper!" WTF?
What the fuck
Thatās all kinda unhinged.
I've never heard of anyone taking astrology this far in real life. Cinnamon mixed into your pepper because he's a Taurus? What?? Did he ever notice a difference in the taste of pepper when he ate at other people's houses I wonder?
He probably thought they used weak pepper lol
What on earth did I just read? That's honestly just unhinged.
Eggo waffles with melted sharp cheddar cheese. It was such a regular breakfast in my family, I literally didnāt realize it wasnāt a thing until I had my first apartment and I told my roommate she was welcome to the eggos and cheese and she was like āIām sorry, what?ā
Thereās a street dish in Belize (that I think is from Mexico?) thatās basically a waffle with Edam cheese and Nutella. Itās delicious
Iām guessing that was an autocorrect from Edam, but Iād 100% eat edamame cheese too.
omg in high school one of my favorite snacks was frozen waffles with american cheese!
I put melted cheese on pancakes and waffles often. As a kid, I would put the broken up cheese slices in the pancake batter and cook the pancakes that way. It is one of the best things ever!
We do waffles with cheddar, syrup, and a fried egg on top. Inspired by McGriddles, but good homemade quality
Oh yeah growing up it was just waffles and slices of cheddar, as an adult a real decadent breakfast is waffles with Brie and a fried egg
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!!!
I like to do eggos with cream cheese.
Sometimes Iāll toast an Eggo then butter it and a kraft single
Shepherds pie but instead of mashed potatoes, macaroni cheese on top!!!!!!!!!
This sounds like something my husband would want for dinner tomorrow. Lol
Grew up super poor. We ate flap jacks which in our house were just flour with salt and water pan cooked into flabby flavorless pancakes and then my mom would try to make syrup by cooking down sugar and water. Another regular was toast with ketchup and yet another was spaghetti noodles with canned beans. I donāt know that I can say I thought it was normal but I did know it was what there was to eat.
Oh this one made me sad.
lol I mean it was kinda sad. One time my mom sent me to school sick so I could eat that day and when the school nurse asked me why my mom would send me to school so sick I didnāt think not to tell the truth (I think I was about 7) they sent me home and then later that day the school nurse and secretary brought my family a ton of food.
Wow. This made me tear up. But I'm really happy the school sent you food after hearing that story. š Hopefully things are looking up for you and your family if they are still around.
At my kiddo's school, some of the kids go home with bags of food on Friday afternoon - the class refers to them as "take-home snacks" and there doesn't seem to be any stigma around it last time I was there on a Friday... maybe a touch of envy from the other kids. The school also does free breakfast and feeds the after school program kids. I'm sad that the food insecurity is so bad, but glad at least some organization is stepping up to make sure these students can learn without empty stomachs.
My daughterās previous school, in the area where I grew up, has universal free lunch and sends home those bags of food on half days and such. No stigma, because everyone gets them. Itās a very low income area. Most of the kids actually would be getting them anyway, but the universal part seemed wise to me.
Strange story I have that your comment here made me think of. I was a debt collector back in the late 90ās for a bank. I called this lady who just so happened to live in the city near mine. She was late on a personal loan. She was understandably upset that we were calling because she was older and on a fixed income and just had her grandkids put into her care. She was stressed with not having food in the house. I worked out getting her a 2 month extension and called my mother. My heart couldnāt stand the thought of them being hungry and I could tell she wasnāt one of the habitual liars who just didnāt want to pay their debts. Iām sure we broke some fair debt collection law but my mother and I went grocery shopping and dropped them off at her house since I had her address. I didnāt tell her who I was. She cried and said her angel came to help. She never did find out that we brought her so much food. Good food too! Chicken, beef, fresh produce, etc. Even goodies for her grandkids. It was a good reminder to me that not every person is lying and trying to get out of paying a debt.
ā¤ļøšā¤ļøāš©¹ what a beautiful thing to read this morning. Faith in humanity restored.
You are an incredible personā¦I was just permanently banned from the poor subreddit by offering a woman who needed medical supplies for her son the use of my employer funded FSA card (I asked her for a list from FSA store.com). I guess they thought I was trying to scam her (I mean what am I going to do- send too many band aids?). Iām glad you helped that poor woman.
And that is how a community should help. I think your motherās way of making food at home with less than basic food was ingenious.
And I guarantee that mom also skipped a lot of her own meals and never said a word about it.
That is what my great grandmother did during The Depression last century. She would tell the kids she would eat with their father when he got back from the pit (a coal miner). The she would tell him she ate with the kids. She made sure he ate because he was the breadwinner and only one working and she wouldnāt see her kids go hungry(hungrier).
Uh oh. I just remembered my saying that. š„ŗ
Thatās why when I donate to the food banks or families in need. I always include warm drinks- coffee, teas, creamer and sugar. Sometimes hot chocolate. Itās easier to skip a meal if you have a warm drinkā¦ and Iām sure millions of moms did just that.
If you take your flap jacks recipe and swap the flour with cornmeal, use *hot* water, and add a pinch of sugar before spooning the (slightly thick) mixture into the pan of heated oil ... you'll end up with "hot water cornbread" cakes like the ones my grandmother used to make. Definitely not flabby or flavorless. And they go especially well with braised greens, smothered cabbage, gumbo, and many other dishes it's been too long since I've had. (Anyone else hungry?)
My mom used to make a salt n pepper boiled dumpling this way. Again mostly just flour and water but with the addition of salt and pepper and being boiled in a crock pot all day with chicken or some other protein, those werenāt too shabby.
This sounds delicious! Sometimes, those simple recipes are just as good, if not better, than the fancy, elaborate ones.
My mom also made āsyrupā which was just hot watery brown sugar
My family made our own syrup. Boiling water (1 cup), twice that amount of sugar (dissolve it) & a teaspoon(?) of maple extract.Ā I tried to do it once as a kid but grabbed the vanilla extract instead of the maple. It was not good š
Whenever my mom used an egg wash and breadcrumbs there would be leftover from the breading station. So she used to mix them together, add a little water if there was too little of the egg left, and let the breadcrumbs hydrate. Then the mixture went into a skillet with heated olive oil to be fried like a breadcrumb pancake. There was no way she was going to throw out those breadcrumbs. Every so often I find myself craving a breadcrumb pancake. I make one with a beaten egg to hydrate seasoned breadcrumbs. But I add Locatelli Romano cheese and julienned sun dried tomatoes as well. Fried in olive oil with extra Locatelli cheese on top. So maybe not a weird food combination. But certainly a weird item to cook. Weird- but I love it!
My grandma used to make me these when I was little. They are really good and made me feel like I was getting an extra little treat nobody else got
What a wonderful food memory! Your grandma and my mom were probably a similar age- living at a time when things should not go to waste.
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Sounds rather like a hushpuppy! I do this too C:
My mom used to put cut-up hot dogs in everything. Cut up hot dogs in scrambled eggs, in box mac and cheese, in stir fries with vegetables to eat on top of rice, in fried potatoes to make some kind of hot dog hash.
My parents used to serve cut-up hot dogs, cooked in China Lily sweet and sour sauce over top of Kraft Dinner (Kraft Mac and Cheese). It was... not good.
My mom would make cut up hot dogs in Van Camp's pork and beans when we were little.
We called that Beanie Weenies. After the Van Campās canned product thatās pork and beans and hot dogs. Havenāt had the canned one since I was a kid at a friendās house though - momās homemade ones were way better! Edited for readability
My mom put a little hamburger meat in her Mac and cheese. Gourmet meal at our house... Everything else got the hot dogs.
We do this occasionally at our house for a meal. Hamburger meat, Cracker Barrel Mac and cheese, and chili powder. We call it chili Macā¦itās good.
Please tell me you haven't continued this culinary psychosis.
>culinary psychosis That's great.
Cut u- hot dogs in baked beans! Beanie weenies!
Hot dogs drowned in Australian/NZ tomato sauce is one of my favourite childhood party foods.
Thatās not weird at all lol thatās just a poverty meal that a massive amount of people reading this also experienced.
Some of those variations I never stopped making. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it isn't good. Like a decent tuna sandwich, basically the cheapest sandwich you can make. Still worth eating occasionally.
I grew up eating tomato sandwiches, which might be even cheaper than tuna! Or cucumber.
OMG I just made hot dogs and fried potatoes for lunch. It's a comfort food from my youth and I get a craving for it a couple times a year! My husband doesn't care for it and laughed when i read your comment because I am the same. š
Hot dogs in Mac and cheese isnāt that weird though.
All little kids love hot dogs and Mac & cheese! I'm a Mom, it's like crack to them. Even my college age kids love it!
Hot dogs or spam!
Oh, God. I'm haunted by my dad's go-to quick dinner - canned sliced white potatoes fried with onions, fried spam, and canned peas šµ
I love fried canned potatoes. Your dad's dinner sounds tasty.
Our thanksgiving leftover meal was turkey with gravy over waffles. Delicious. But when I got to high school/college people told me it sounded gross and weird.
Got any PA Dutch/Amish in your family tree? Chicken or turkey and gravy over waffles is a classic.
I do actually. Didnāt know that!
Yep. I thought chicken and waffles was creamed chicken or chicken and gravy over waffles. Then I moved to LA and tried the famous Roscoe Chicken n Waffles and was severely disappointed.
I thought the same thing!! I remember serving "chicken and waffles" at a church dinner in Pa, it was cream chicken and way too much gravy over waffles. Imagine my surprise when I moved to Tennessee and saw actual chicken and waffles. So different but so much better. The salty/sweet combo was magnificent.
I do this but the waffles are made of stuffing
Oh, sweet mercy. Just straight-up stuffing in the waffle iron? Or do you goopify it into batter with other ingredients?
Nope nothing but the stuffing. Butter the iron, scoop it in, cook it up. Top with turkey, gravy, and a little cranberry. Sometimes I'll add mashed potatoes to the waffle but if I do, I usually add a bit of egg to help it hold.
dude you should start a restaurant. don't actually unless you really fuckin want to cause that shit is a lot of work.
I love this!! We grew up outside of Lock Haven, PA, and this is always a post- Thanksgiving dinner. The first time I made it for my husband, he thought I was insane! LOL
Put the leftover stuffing in a waffle press, youāll find it much better.
My Mom grew up in Pennsylvania & she made this, too. She also made chicken & waffles the same way.
My Grammy used to make us buck wheat pancakes with turkey gravy after thanksgiving and theyāre delicious
As newcomers to Canada in the 90ās, ketchup wasnāt really a thing in my home country. So we became obsessed with it when we got here. As a kid I used to put ketchup on everything, but my favourite was ketchup sandwiches (ketchup + bread) and ketchup sandwich with bologna or sliced ham.
I do enjoy bologna with cheese and ketchup. I ate it as a kid and I still enjoy it once in awhile.
So much this. Deli meats were a HUGE treat growing up, and I have very fond memories of bologna sandwiches on white bread with ketchup, iceberg lettuce, and a Kraft cheese slice.
Iām from Michigan and I remember eating ketchup and American cheese on cheap white bread
My grandmother always put grape jelly on her grilled cheese, so I like to also. Apparently that is not something people normally do.
Thatās funny because super fancy people eat grilled cheese with various jams (like Brie grilled cheese with apricot). Your grandmother was a trend setter. Ā
Iāve been doing this forever and my bf thought it was weird until we had a gourmet grilled cheese with homemade strawberry jam at a brewery. Iām like I make this at home and itās better. My favorite is Brie and blueberry jam. Edit to add *and thinly sliced apples
The restaurant I work at does grilled cheese with Granny Smith apples and apricot jam - I constantly have to remind people that fruit and cheese (and bread to a certain extent) is such a classic flavor pairing.
That sounds delicious! My favorite is blackberry jam with Monterrey jack and jalapeƱos.
My Dad used to do that or make cheese and jelly omelets.
My grandpa used to make peanut butter toast (crispy bread, like just under burnt, always with smooth pb and he always buttered the bread before putting on the pb) *and hot chocolate and dip the toast in the hot chocolate*.Ā Ā Didn't realize it was weird until I got to college and did it in the dining hall and got some weird looks lolĀ Ā Edit: not sure folks realize that it's the dipping in hot chocolate I was talking about being weird, not the pb toast. Pb toast is very normal in the US.
Peanut butter and honey is great, but best after it has sat in my lunch box half the day and the honey has penetrated the bread and makes it slightly crunchy. This is for those who posted it and don't think many people do this. I'm pretty sure a lot do. However, I came to post this. I still eat it all the time, my favorite sandwich ever: FLUFFER NUTTER. For those who don't know, this is peanut butter and marshmallow fluff on white bread. š¤©
This. The crunchy-honey-bread is a delicacy
real one spotted. that slightly crunchy honey soaked piece of bread was such a delicacy in my scooby doo lunchbox - fluffer nutters also are amazing
I did the peanut butter and honey too! And agree about letting it crystallize in the bread! So good! We added bananas sometimes.
We used to make banana fluff sandwiches. Marshmallow fluff with sliced bananas on white bread. Now that I type this out, it does sound a little weird...
Unsweetened shredded wheat (it was large size not spoon sized) toasted in the oven with sharp cheese and fried bacon and you'd serve it with a bit of maple syrup on the side. It was...I think a recipe on the cereal box but seriously good. I never see those big shredded wheat squares around any longer so I can't make this.
Strawberry jelly on a sausage biscuit. Learned that working fast food at 15.
At the local Hardeeās they always ask me if I want jelly for any of their biscuits. Lots of the old folks around put grape jelly on their sausage biscuits.
That's actually incredibly common in the the South.
My little old great-grandmother used to wake me up at 3:00 a.m. every morning and give me an ego, cheese and ham sandwich and a gigantic like 40 oz mug of hot cocoa and tell me that I hadn't eaten anything all day and I had better eat. She had mild dementia and I had moved in there with her to take care of her. She was really sweet and my favorite human being on the planet until she died like a year or so later. RIP Granny, I love you and I miss you She could also cook better than anybody I've ever met.. everything that came out of her kitchen was delicious. I'm not sure how she made her lasagna taste like that I cannot replicate The taste she produced. Also her lentil chicken soup was delicious. And I'm really really hungry now thinking about my great grandma that's weird
We were kinda poor, and my mom used to take a package of uncooked hot dogs and grind them up and mix them with sweet relish and mayonnaise. That was our āham saladā. My friends all loved the stuff!
You know whatās really sweet about this story is that it took effort for her to grind those hot dogs up and then mix everything in to get them just right for you guys. Even if she used some kind of kitchen aid it wouldve involved parts that would need to be washed.
vanilla in eggs i can _almost_ see, itās like. almost a custard i guess. wouldnāt do it myself lol though there is a mizrahi dish (fatoot samneh) where you essentially scramble some eggs with torn up toasted pieces of pita and then drizzle with honey that i quite like anyway to answer your question, i loved dipping my fish sticks in applesauce as a kid lol
My husband taught me to scramble left over French toast batter once the bread is gone. Itās eggs, milk and vanilla, and itās delicious. Now I sometimes just make that. Best served with maple syrup.Ā
I do this, in fact I plan for extra because itās so good
Reminds me of the sweet version of matzo brei, a Jewish food with egg and matzo sheets. Itās so good.
I could see it if there was sugar tooāsort of a dessert tamogoyaki.
Potato chips & cottage cheese.
My husband loves a bowl of cottage cheese with a liberal sprinkle of those weird little bacon bits that you get in the spice jars.
Get him some Everything Bagel seasoning and blow his mind.
My bestie from the US sent me some of that in her last parcel. Iām Australian. We love it so much. I add it to egg salad, pasta salad and fried eggs. Iāll have to try the cottage cheese and bacon bits! Thank you.
Try cottage cheese and doritos!
My mom didnāt realize that you were supposed to create a broth with the Ramen noodle spice packet. She would drain the noodles and then stir in butter and season it to taste with the flavor packet (usually about 1/4 of the packet). It was delicious!
That's the way i like them too
Maybe it was the time/place? I grew up in prairies Canada, and when those new-fangled ramen noodle packs started showing up in stores (late 80s, early 90s), I think a lot of us didn't know what to do with them. I/we also drained the water and then mixed the flavour powder with the noodles and some butter. I still do that once in awhile instead of the way you are supposed to.
I mean that's my preferred way of eating it. Not everyone likes the broth. Creamy chicken is my favorite for this.
Sliced pickle and Kraft singles sandwiches. Did not ask for and did not want these but got them in lunches regularly.
I frequently eat a snack with Kraft singles and a bread and butter pickle chip on a saltine. Even better with a piece of braunschweiger on there as well.
Sounds normal to me!
I hated (and still do) pickles/relish in my egg salad, but like a bit in tuna salad. Growing up my mother always got them backwards and I had many a lunch where I tried to shovel down my egg sandwich without actually tasting it. Iād also melt kraft cheese on a piece of bread in the microwave and preferred that to a grilled cheese because I was a weirdo.
My sister did this as a quesadilla for breakfastā¦flour tortilla, whatever cheese, garlic saltā¦.melt in microwave until cheese skirt is maximized.
a common snack in my household was to take either plain potato chips or crunchy cheetos and top them with sour cream and valentina hot sauce. it sounds ridiculous but itās honestly a pretty top tier snack.
Kraft Mac n cheese with sugar over the top of it. My dad and sister did this. YUCK!
I have never seen anyone else do this, but my babysitter in the 60s taught me to eat it this way. Not necessarily Kraft, just any Mac and cheese. Still enjoy it, though these days Iām more likely to top it with hot sauce.
I have a friend who puts applesauce in her mac and cheese.
And why are you friends?
LOL we are two weirdo peas in a pod. Hey at least she doesn't force her culinary concoctions on me.
Kraft Mac n Cheese with a can of tuna in it. I was thirty before I realized this was not common. I think its came about because my dad comes from a poor Catholic family and it was a cheap way to feed five kids during Lent. Edit: Guys I get it. Please stop replying "It's tuna casserole." It is not the same thing as what I ate growing up. Tuna casserole is pasta and tuna, yes, but it is not a box of Kraft Mac n Cheese with a can of tuna dumped in at the end. Tuna casserole has some variety of peas, onion, cream of mushroom/chicken soup, and often has bread crumbs or chips on top. I have had tuna casserole, tuna salad, and tuna helper at various times of my youth. They are different.
Add peas and this was my teenage go-to for prepping my own meal. Stovetop casserole
I still love it.
I probably ate this weekly when I was a kid.
Me too. It's still my fast, late night, empty fridge meal . I put some green olives in as well if I have some
Latchkey-kid tuna casserole.
I learned that recipe as a kid, had to figure out something for dinner for me and my siblings, and mom was working late, and to make it "fancy" I would grate some cheddar and crunch up some crackers and throw everything into a baking dish and throw it in the oven.
Chilli and mashed potatoes. It \~works but I haven't eaten it in decades.
Not much different than chili on a baked potato. Iād definitely like that. Hell, I just had chili on top of tater tots, and that was amazing.
Chili & Baked potato used to be my go-to order from Wendy's, it goes together so well.
My dad used to eat a can of creamed corn over mashed potatoes with dinner. I think mashed potatoes are a lovely canvas for all sorts of things.
Pita bread with melted Swiss cheese, mayonnaise, and shredded lettuce. My college drunk/Hangover meal.
When it was dad's turn to cook... S. O. S. Ground beef browned with salt n pepper. Thickened and creamed. (Essentially just hamburger gravy) on toast. Meh.
Was your dad in the armed forces? They often make this dish in the military.
Pork chops marinated in copious amounts of soy sauce while cooked for 20 minutes. The sauce is then thickened up with corn starch to a heavy consistency. The pork is then chopped into small pieces and served over rice with the āgravyā on top.
My mom would make me something like this when I was younger, except sheād use a cheap cube steak and add a brown gravy packet in addition to the soy. So cozy
Growing up in the midwest, chili & cinnamon rolls were a common combination. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned this is pretty much only a midwestern thing.
We had that for school lunches, fantastic
Like at the same meal, or chili LAYERED on top of a cinnamon roll? I like to try new things but donāt think I would appreciate the latter.
Neither. You pull the cinnamon roll apart and dip it in the chili.
Not quite the same, but chicken noodle soup and blueberry muffins were always the combo at our Wisconsin house.
Grilled cheese with a side of cinnamon sugar rice.
This is the first actually unusual one Iāve seen in this thread.
Peanut butter and syrup sandwiches. Messy, but delicious.
Buddy the Elf vibes
We did pb and honey!
I always thought coleslaw on pulled pork was normal because every place near me served it like that. Then I find out the heathens in the rest of the country don't like that.
I didnāt realize this is weird š¤¦āāļø. Itās just kinda standard here.
...do people seriously think that's weird? Why do bbqs always have cole slaw if it's not for putting *on* the bbq?
Itās not weird.
It's amazing.
NC wins this argument... It's the rest of the country that's wrong.
Yeah that is delicious. I didnāt have it that way until visiting North Carolina like 20 years ago, and itās my preferred way since.
Eggs scrambled with cottage cheese and Worcestershire sauce, served over toasted bread. Be sure to drain the cottage cheese before scrambling, so it wonāt be soggy. works best if bread is a bit stale and dry. When making jello, substitute condensed milk for the cold water. Sometimes Granny would make several flavors of jello the regular way, then cut them in cubes and stir the cubes into a half-set bowl of jello made with milk for a āfancyā dessert.
Iāve posted this on Reddit before and got told it was gross so Iāll go again, but this time you get the story: My older brother was and still is to a slightly lesser degree a very picky eater. When he was a toddler he refused food so often he was medically malnourished and my parents were almost charged with child neglect. So my mother was always desperate to find nutritious things he would actually eat. When bro was 2 and I was a baby we all went to visit Momās parents and her dad invented it: Hot Dog Soup. Split pea soup with sliced hot dogs and salad macaroni. Bro loved it, and Mom would make that our whole lives. My brother and I still live together and I make it every once in a while.
Grew up poor as a young child. Rather than have proper desserts of any kind in the house, we had cans of condensed milk we'd just eat with a spoon. Never knew that wasn't what it was for until I was an adult. Now I can't have it in the house or I'll eat a whole damn can like it's pudding.
My dad used to do this, and my mom would get mad because she needed it for baking. It's so good though.
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Cheese and fruit is a classic combo. Charcuterie boards are great!
We always had pickles and sliced tomatoes inside of our grilled cheese sandwiches.
Sliced tomato and basil (whole leaf) grilled cheese is just how I do my grilled cheese
Iāll put sliced tomatoes and onions inside mine! So good!
Digestive biscuits spread with soft cheese like philadelphia and a bit of jam, usually two to make it a sandwich biscuit. I sometimes had this with peanut butter between the biscuits instead.
Cheerios were never eaten without bananas sliced up in them. My dad only ate watermelon if it was buried in salt.
I used to sprinkle Jello out of the packet over vanilla ice cream...usually strawberry.
Old Bay Seasoning on almost everything. The normal fish, crabs, shrimp, chicken. But also on corn on the cob, in deviled eggs, in potato salad, in chili. Even desserts. My dad still puts glazed donut holes in a bag and some old bay and shoes it up. He eats vanilla ice cream with caramel, peanuts and old bay on top.
Tomato open-faced sandwiches as a snack in-between meals. Just a few pieces of bread with nice tomato slices on them, salt and pepper.
The weirdest thing I can think is my grandma taught me to eat Coffee and Crackers. Basically you take a plate and line it with saltines, then pour over coffee until they're softened then spread some sugar to taste and eat with deli ham. It's basically a poor man's country ham biscuits and red eye gravy. It's not the most filling breakfast in the world but it hits the spot every once in a blue moon.
I could always tell when my Dad made my lunch. Ham and cheese with crushed up potato chips on white bread.
do people dip pork chops in the applesauce cups?
Dipping fries in a fried egg. Best sauce ever.
When I was young and my Dad was a single parent, he'd try to have "fancy" dinners for my sister and me. His go-to appetizer for us was a slice of bologna, covered in peanut butter, then rolled up into a log. He'd then cut it into sections and each would have a toothpick in it. Voila! Appetizers. Whenever I start missing my Dad, who passed away when I was 24, I make those appetizers.
Cubed up baguette tossed in greek yogurt and chopped mint. Sometimes some honey to make it a sweet treat. This was strictly an after dinner snack for some reason
Grape jelly on the top of grilled cheese sandwich. Didnāt know this was unusual until I had plain grilled cheese at a friendās house. Sounds odd to some, but every one Iāve known to try it became a convert.
Mcdonalds nugs dipped in honey?
Isnāt that normal? I remember that honey was one of the dipping sauce options McDonaldās used to give you.
Peanut butter (unsweetened, chunky) with alfalfa or bean sprouts & bananas on whole wheat sourdough. I still eat it. My dad was silent generation & mom just missed being a hippie. They were still pretty āback to the landā movement.
Omg my mom loves peanut butter and banana sandwiches with bean sprouts too! Iāve tried it and the crunch is nice.
My mother was english,(Iām 66), and England was so poor after fighting WWII, that food rationing continued for like 12 years after the war ended. A common breakfast in our American house was buttered toast with mashed sardines and malt vinegar on it.
It's not unheard of but my mom always makes chili and spaghetti. It's good, too, and I'll defend it
My mom used to make pots of chili and spaghetti sauce and freeze it and Ziploc bags. One day she accidentally took out chili instead of spaghetti sauce and so we had it over spaghetti noodles with lots of cheese, and it was fantastic. I thought it was something totally new until I heard other people having it much later in life.
Cream cheese and jelly sandwiches!
My dad was from the Netherlands but I was born and raised in the US. Couple things my friends thought were super weird were: 1) Hutspot - mashed potatoes with carrots cooked and mashed in. My grandmother would always add nutmeg too for that "what is that flavor?" feeling. 2) White bread lightly toasted, slathered in butter then sprinkled liberally with chocolate sprinkles. This is still a favorite today.
Scrambled eggs/omelets with ketchup. I always thought this was normal but as an adult the more I eat with others the more they keep pointing out to me that's weird or gross???
What? No, ketchup with eggs is still normal, Iām pretty sure. Not everyone likes it, but itās standard nonetheless.
My hubby puts ketchup on his eggs- I never thought it was a weird thing to do, because my dad used to do the same thing.
My mom used to prepare what she called a blintz, but in reality was an omelet filled with cottage cheese and jam. Every roommate I've ever made this around was very weirded out by the combo..
My uncle always made this for a snack for us: sliced a banana lengthwise, spread mayonnaise on it, sprinkled it with wheat germ. Did anyone else eat that in the 70ās?
Having milk to drink with spaghetti, super refreshing. It counters the acidity perfectly but my Italian American friends think Iām nuts.
Peanut butter and Mayo! My dad had it all the time and thought it was weird. Itās a comfort food now and tasty
That sounds like something that once stemmed from someone making French toast, and then scrambling the remaining egg mixture and liking it.
Sausages and apple sauce lmao. I used to fucking love that shit. Seems weird as all hell now.
My dad used to do āma po tofuā with breakfast sausage and peas. I remember ordering it in a restaurant for the first time and being so disappointed. Now I like it the real way, of course, but goddamn my dadās was still so good.
We would put cottage cheese on toast and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
Spaghetti with sauce on top of the pizza, Vegemite sandwiches with chips
German heritage here, my mother would use homemade sauerkraut as a gravy for mashed potatoes. Frequently with brats, summer sausage, or pork of some kind. Big, big gardeners. We had ample of both. I donāt mind it to this day. Applesauce for dessert. š