Funny food

[kags]

When I was little, on hot days we would have boiled potatoes and salad for tea. The "salad" used to consist of a hard boiled egg and some lettuce cut up really small and sprinkled with sugar and vinegar. Did anyone else used to have this? What foods were you served as a child that you wouldn't dream of eating now (or feeding to your owbn kids!)

[dmsjps]

Oh God, yes, tongue: the most disgusting part of an animal you could legally eat - or so I thought until I met my husband whose mother will eat any part of an animal: sheep's brains, bull's balls (sweetbreads, to make them sound nice, eh?), anything's heart, just anything at all! It must have been hard to grow up in the war, but I'd rather be vege than eat that stuff!

[happy_face]

As a special treat we used to get sugar sanwiches but it was with Muscovado sugar. I still love it. we also used to get bread omelletes with bacon and then sprinkle sugar on instead of salt. It sounds bizarre but it actually taste really nice. Salt from the bacon and sweet from the sugar. I can't say that I've eaten it since but atleast I wasn't ever forced to eat anything I didn't want to

[Trillipse]

boiled pigs' trotters eaten out of the pan

[b13thy]

My dad used to make me and my mum dinner when we got home from school and one day he produced pancakes covered in Heinz tomato soup. He sat us down and made us eat the lot - have never been able to eat tomato soup since (can still eat pancakes though) Yum Yum

[simont]

My mum used to make upside down pudding and I was never, and am still not, a fan of hot puddings except for apple pie.  but trifle, o yes, yum yum and lemon meringue. She also went through a faze of putting sultanas in everything, especially curry: weird. 

We too had salad and new potatoes and luncheon meat in the summer, casseroles in the winter.  And banana, or apple, or sugar sandwiches. 

Funnily I asked her about all the sugar we used to eat recently and she said "sugar is not bad for your teeth, provided youo remember it's bad for your teeth and clean them properly".  I guess that's justification.

[Dark Angel]

As a kid though my regular meals were sensible I too have eaten sugar sandwiches as snacks. dmsjps mentioned bull balls, my husband's eaten them -sounds awful.  

[Otrere]

We used to get those salads as well - but with tomato and cucumber too. And with luncheon meat - and of course, SPAM!

I also used to eat tomato ketchup sandwiches.

On the whole my mum's cooking was good but I didn't like her shepherd's pie - as she didn't put any gravy or meat juices in it so the mince was always really dry and when she did make gravy it was just an Oxo cube and boiling water - nasty. Her Sunday dinners were the best though.

[ermintrude35]

..space age food in the 70s must be to blame for my strangness in later life, smash, vesta curry and angel delight,dream topping,  for sunday tea we used to have warmed tinned prunes or plums with custard, I think my mam had a huge tinned fruit fetish, something I have never purchaced. Things must have been pretty tight on us financialy sometimes, because looking back we seemed to live off nothing but potatoes for quite a while, cheese and potatoe pie, which was mash with grilled cheese and a sliced tomato on top would feed 4!..next night it would be jacket potatoes with butter. My dad would eat sugar sandwiches, I preferred treacle sandwiches my mam would dribble the treacle on and write my name on the bread with the sticky brown stuff..yuuuck gross. I also ate spring onion sandwiches and my mam was a huge fan of drinking hot oxo with  small chunks of bread floating in it...still makes me gag that one, ditto bread soaked in warm buttermilk ..yuck, and dont get me started on boiled onion or salt n pepper sandwiches...bahh humbug kids today dont know the half of it!...

[Suzannew]

Kags, one of the more memorable dishes was eating a casseroled "neck of lamb".  What was most off-putting was that day in biology we have been examing back bones and vertebrae - to then eat something where I could actually see where the spinal cord......say no more.  Boy did my stomach churn.

[Zen20]

I used to be a really fussy eater, I wouldn't eat anything that was brown on the outside like grilled sausages so my mum ended up boiling them for me and they were a grey colour.

Thankfully nowadays i'll eat most things, stuffed heart, snails(cooked of course) and black pudding to name a few but I still won't touch liver and tripe really does make me gag.

[estie]

My grandmother used to make calf's foot jelly. I think that's why I became a vegetarian.

Another thing that I remember hating as a child was scrambled eggs with salami. Ewwwww.

[Lolliemma]

I used to love going to my nans for dinner we would have the usual spam or tongue salad with new potatoes or roast with veg that if pressed on half a litre of water would drain out, then trifle made with sponge fingers ( if any left in pack was allowed to take them home) or fruit and custard rubarb being a favourite as nan grew it in the garden.

Mums cooking was more egg n chips kind of thing but I remember the day she sent us to school with banana and sugar sandwiches ( was a big gooey mess by the time it was lunchtime)  was a mistake that day but i still eat them now yum or apple ones yummy my husband thinks im mad lol

[Otrere]

Ooooo apple on sandwiches is nice especially if you grate it with cheese.

[Shire]

We sometimes used to have a couple of slices of bread broken up in milk with a sprinkle of sugar on for breakfast.  I didn't think of it at the time, but looking back now, it must have been when we were really poor.