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Food is truthful idiosyncratic and nostalgic, sometimes it's hard to judge the dishes we grew up eating are really a small unusual to others. I'll admit that arsenic a erstwhile picky eater, my go-to snack was food sandwiched betwixt 2 slices of banana (please don't justice me, it was really good). So erstwhile redditor u/kerker1717 asked the r/Cooking assemblage to stock the odd nutrient combinations they grew up with, I was excited to spot what my chap weird eaters had to say. Here are the foods radical didn't recognize were a small unusual until they got older.
1. "We were newcomers to Canada successful the '90s, and ketchup wasn’t truly a happening successful my location country. So we became obsessed with it erstwhile we got here. As a kid, I utilized to enactment ketchup connected everything, but my favourite was ketchup sandwiches (ketchup positive bread) and ketchup sandwiches with bologna oregon sliced ham."
2. "Whenever my ma utilized an ovum lavation and breadstuff crumbs, determination would beryllium leftovers from the breading station. So she utilized to premix them together, adhd a small h2o if determination was excessively small of the ovum left, and fto the breadstuff crumbs hydrate. Then the substance went into a skillet with heated olive lipid to beryllium fried similar a breadstuff crumb pancake. There was nary mode she was going to propulsion retired those breadstuff crumbs."
3. "Eggo waffles with melted crisp cheddar cheese. It was specified a regular meal successful my family, I virtually didn’t recognize it wasn’t a happening until I had my archetypal apartment. I told my roommate she was invited to the Eggos and cheese, and she was like, 'I’m sorry, what?'"
4. "Our Thanksgiving leftover repast was turkey with gravy implicit waffles. Delicious. But erstwhile I got to precocious schoolhouse and college, radical told maine it sounded gross and weird."
5. "I grew up poor, and my ma utilized to enactment cut-up blistery dogs successful everything. Cut-up blistery dogs successful scrambled eggs, successful boxed mac 'n' cheese, successful disturbance fries with vegetables to devour connected apical of rice, successful fried potatoes to marque immoderate benignant of blistery canine hash, etc."
6. "Shepherd's pie, but alternatively of mashed potatoes, mac 'n' food connected top!"
7. "My grandma ever enactment grape jelly connected her grilled cheese, truthful I besides similar to. Apparently, that is not thing radical usually do."
8. "Grew up ace poor. We ate flapjacks, which successful our location were conscionable flour, salt, and h2o pan-cooked into flabby, flavorless pancakes. Then my ma would effort to marque syrup by cooking down sweetener and water. Another regular was toast with ketchup, and yet different was spaghetti noodles with canned beans. I don’t cognize that I tin accidental I thought it was normal, but I bash cognize it was what determination was to eat."
9. "Strawberry jelly connected a sausage biscuit. Learned astir that moving accelerated nutrient astatine property 15."
10. "Unsweetened shredded wheat (it was large, not spoon-sized) toasted successful the oven with crisp food and fried bacon, and you'd service it with a spot of maple syrup connected the side. It was, I think, a look connected the cereal box, but earnestly good. I ne'er spot those large shredded wheat squares astir immoderate longer, truthful I can't marque this."
11. "My grandpa utilized to marque peanut food toast (crispy bread, similar astir burnt, and creaseless PB — and helium ever buttered the breadstuff earlier putting connected the PB) and blistery chocolate, and would dip the toast successful the blistery chocolate. Didn't recognize it was weird until I got to college, did it successful the eating hall, and got immoderate weird looks."
12. "When I was increasing up successful the Midwest, chili and cinnamon rolls was a communal combination. It wasn't until I was an big that I learned this was beauteous overmuch lone a Midwestern thing."
13. "Kraft mac 'n' food with sweetener implicit the apical of it. My dada and sister did this. YUCK!"
14. "My hubby taught maine to scramble leftover French toast batter erstwhile the breadstuff is gone. It’s eggs, milk, and vanilla and it’s delicious. Now I sometimes conscionable marque that. Best served with maple syrup."
15. "Sliced pickle and Kraft Singles sandwiches. Did not inquire for and did not privation these, but got them successful lunches regularly."
16. "My ma didn’t recognize that you were expected to make a broth with the ramen noodle spice packet. She would drain the noodles, past disturbance successful food and play it to sensation with the spirit packet (usually astir a 4th of the packet). It was delicious!"
17. "We were kinda poor, and my ma utilized to instrumentality a bundle of uncooked blistery dogs, grind them up, and premix them with saccharine relish and mayonnaise. That was our 'ham salad.' My friends each loved the stuff!"
18. "My small aged great-grandmother utilized to aftermath maine up astatine 3 each greeting and springiness maine an Eggo, cheese, and ham sandwich with a gigantic 40-ounce mug of blistery cocoa and archer maine that I hadn't eaten thing each time and I had amended eat."
19. "When it was dad's crook to cook, SOS: crushed beef browned with brackish and pepper, thickened, and creamed. Essentially conscionable hamburger gravy connected toast. Meh."
20. "When I was young and my dada was a azygous parent, he'd effort to person 'fancy' dinners for my sister and me. His go-to appetizer for america was a portion of bologna covered successful peanut butter, past rolled up into a log. He'd past chopped it into sections, and each would person a toothpick successful it. Voilà! Appetizers. Whenever I commencement missing my dad, who passed distant erstwhile I was 24, I marque those appetizers."
21. "Cubed-up baguette tossed successful Greek yogurt and chopped mint. Sometimes immoderate chromatic to marque it a saccharine treat. This was strictly an after-dinner snack, for immoderate reason."
22. "The weirdest happening I tin deliberation of is, my grandma taught maine to devour java and crackers. Basically, you instrumentality a sheet and enactment it with saltines, determination implicit java until they're softened, past dispersed immoderate sweetener to sensation and devour with deli ham. It's fundamentally a mediocre man's state ham biscuits and red-eye gravy. It's not the astir filling meal successful the world, but it hits the spot each erstwhile successful a bluish moon."
23. "Having beverage to portion with spaghetti — ace refreshing. It counters the acidity perfectly, but my Italian American friends deliberation it's bizarre."
24. "Grilled food with a broadside of cinnamon sweetener rice."
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