Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up

Zodikosis wrote: »

For some reason, when I was a really little kid, I just loved butter. I loved it so much I would frequently just take a bite out of the stick when no one was looking. I still like butter, but not that much.

On one occasion when I was very young, my aunt let me eat cold homemade butter with a spoon. My parents later told me I kept eating until I nearly shuddered at each bite. I couldn't eat butter after that for many years, except invisibly melted into baked goods as an ingredient, and couldn't stand it cold for even more years after that.

As a child, I liked to eat those frozen breaded fish sticks. . . still frozen.

This next was not a good thing in any way, but my school lunch program (1960s) served gravy as an entrée multiple times a week. I swear!

You'd get one of those 3-section plates. In the big section would be a big heap of instant mashed potatoes with gravy that had some meat shreds/crumbles in it (beef, pork, chicken, turkey or hamburger). In one small section would be something like 2 tablespoons of reheated canned green beans. In the other small section would be something like "salad": 2-3 tablespoons of shredded iceberg lettuce, vinegar/oil dressing, and half a dozen pastel colored mini marshmallows.

We'd also often get an amazingly delicious soft dinner roll that was a little sweet, a little chewy, and pure wonderfulness, like a seriously upgraded oversized King's Hawaiian made in the ovens of heaven. Go figure

I just had a recall of eating lots of those canned Vienna sausages when I was little!

Twinkles, snowballs, etc. Little Debbie and Hostess, all the way!

robingmurphy wrote: »

When I was a kid, I hated anything green, so when we'd go to Ponderosa for the salad bar after church on Sundays, I'd always get a pile of shredded cheese, ham cubes, and croutons topped with ranch dressing.

Lol. This sounds just like my sister, except she used French dressing. She did put a few pieces of lettuce, but just for show

We too had butter on untoasted white bread with spaghetti. I still enjoy a good spaghetti sandwich to this day to be honest, but I'll normally only do it with leftovers: One slice of untoasted, buttered white bread with spaghetti and marinara sauce on top heated in the microwave for 45 seconds, then top with Parmesan cheese and oregano - it still is pretty satisfying occasionally.

We also used to sugar our strawberries (we made "strawberry soup" with some water mixed in) and our cereal, as if it wasn't sugary enough already! We also had a lot of sugary snack foods. I grew up one of 5 kids, so it was all about the convenience factor.

The sauerkraut sandwich reminded me of something I'd totally forgotten. We'd sometimes have sauerkraut sandwiches on rye with mustard. I recall liking it at the time.

My childhood foods were predominantly fine nutrition-wise, and I don't think those that didn't have the best nutrition are gross (I would still eat all of them), but I'm also in the "butter and sugar" or "butter and salt" sandwiches camp. I also loved sprinkling sugar on bread then pouring milk over it, or putting biscotti in a bowl and pouring sweet tea over them.

My mum was a good cook, I don't remember a lot of rubbish food being served, but somebody mentioned butter on meat sandwiches and it made me laugh out loud, a very British thing I think.

Bread and milk for breakfast if we were out of everything wouldn't be uncommon - bowl of hot milk with torn up bread in and sugar on top.

Spoonfuls of Skippy peanut butter dipped in sugar!!

MistressSara wrote: »

2aycocks wrote: »

We used to make sandwiches out of anything, miracle whip, ketchup and mustard. Mother also made butter and onion sandwiches. She cooked all the time so we ate well. I loved when Daddy made SOS: left over roast and gravy on toast like he had in the Air Force. And Nestle's Quik powdered chocolate in milk. Yum!

Laughing because I know what SOS stands for. Good stuff.

My mom used to make SOS for me sometimes with ground beef in gravy on toast (rather than roast beef) and I loved it. It was one of the foods she remembered from her childhood in the 50s/60s...another thing she and her 9 siblings loved back then was mixing maple syrup & peanut butter and dipping bread in it. I wasn't as impressed with that one.