Weird foods your mom made

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Graham crackers crumbled into milk

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Anonymous wrote:My mom took day-old cream of wheat that had solidified, fried it in a pan, and then served it with maple syrup. It was good, but only now I realize how weird that is.

I do the same thing with oatmeal. I will make extra oatmeal on Monday and then save the rest to fry up a slice each day for breakfast.

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Anonymous wrote:My mom took day-old cream of wheat that had solidified, fried it in a pan, and then served it with maple syrup. It was good, but only now I realize how weird that is.

I do the same thing with oatmeal. I will make extra oatmeal on Monday and then save the rest to fry up a slice each day for breakfast.

This sounds great! We ate the day-of cream of wheat with honey, but when it was cold and gelatinous, with sprinkled sugar on top.

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Open faced pb and sugar

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Anonymous wrote:Graham crackers crumbled into milk

I used to eat this in college sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:I will never stop shaking my head at my mother's idea of spanish rice.

Make white minute rice.
Pour jarred spaghetti sauce in.
Mix.

haha. it least it wasn't ketchup. My grandmother (who was otherwise a good cook) for many years used ketchup as a tomato sauce for pasta. I think this was a thing in the 50's but I'm not sure. This was in long island, NY so there were italians and italian food around. I'm not sure if it was a money saving thing or something else. I recall she had canned tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes around so I really don't think it was about money.

That's how I had spaghetti back in the 70s! Ketchup as the sauce . It was how the bronx irish imitated Italian food back then. I think jarred sauce was just starting to become a thing around then.

I thought ketchup in pasta was an immigrant thing. I knew many Indian American immigrant parents who did it.

May be it’s an Indian thing? I remember an Indian corridor mate in student housing asked for ketchup for spaghetti. I didn’t have ketchup and offered him a few tomatoes I had. He refused and said tomatoes wouldn’t work, he needed ketchup. I thought he was just being considerate since tomatoes would be more pricy than ketchup but now I wonder if he really preferred to make the sauce with ketchup.

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Growing up I ate a lot of foods that many would consider weird here: blood sausages, dad used to prepare beef brains on regular basis, fried lamb testicles at grandmother’s house - on major occasions, just to name a few that stand out in my memory now.

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Anonymous wrote:I will never stop shaking my head at my mother's idea of spanish rice.

Make white minute rice.
Pour jarred spaghetti sauce in.
Mix.

haha. it least it wasn't ketchup. My grandmother (who was otherwise a good cook) for many years used ketchup as a tomato sauce for pasta. I think this was a thing in the 50's but I'm not sure. This was in long island, NY so there were italians and italian food around. I'm not sure if it was a money saving thing or something else. I recall she had canned tomato sauce or crushed tomatoes around so I really don't think it was about money.

That's how I had spaghetti back in the 70s! Ketchup as the sauce . It was how the bronx irish imitated Italian food back then. I think jarred sauce was just starting to become a thing around then.

I thought ketchup in pasta was an immigrant thing. I knew many Indian American immigrant parents who did it.

May be it’s an Indian thing? I remember an Indian corridor mate in student housing asked for ketchup for spaghetti. I didn’t have ketchup and offered him a few tomatoes I had. He refused and said tomatoes wouldn’t work, he needed ketchup. I thought he was just being considerate since tomatoes would be more pricy than ketchup but now I wonder if he really preferred to make the sauce with ketchup.

There’s also Filipino spaghetti which is very sweet.

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Anonymous wrote:Chow main noodles with tuna fish and peas. Maybe not weird but gross. At least once a week. 5 minute dinner!

We used to eat Chow Mein noodles that came in two separate cans, wrapped together. I'm not sure what was in each can but it was really good!

We had that too. They were connected and you basically separated them. Opened each and I think you mixed them.

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Anonymous wrote:Not super weird, but my mom loved to eat ice cream with waffles, so we never had waffles without ice cream. I thought it was just as normal of a topping as maple syrup. I was well into adulthood before I realized that it was not shocking for a restaurant to serve waffles and not have ice cream.

My mom also used to make a lasagna-like casserole that used spaghetti noodles instead. We called it spaghetti pie. It was insanely popular with my sister's and my sports teams...but in retrospect it's kind of odd.

I make the spaghetti pie - kids/teens love it

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Anonymous wrote:Graham crackers crumbled into milk

OMG I thought I was the only one. I sometimes still eat this, yum.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

This is so confusing to me. You are not supposed to eat animal products during Lent! That is like the only rule the Orthodox church has for Lent. Except for some fish. SOme strict observer will eat fish on certain days during Lent, some will eat is all the time during Lent. Now, you tell me that Catholics are allowed eggs and cheese during Lent? So, in Orthodox church, you can be "vegan" with fish for Lent, but in Catholic, you can eat dairy and eggs, but can you eat fish during Lent? It seems to me like we just invent whatever we want and call it Lent.

Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Fridays during Lent, not all animal products.

+1. Not that hard. Abstain from meat on Friday’s during lent. Boom. Eat a filet o fish. It’s why they were invented. There’s no vegan Catholicism catechism

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

Are you always this annoying? The everyone mentioned above clearly meant those that celebrate lent.

And yes egg sandwiches with potatoes in them are standard fair for me year round anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Potatoes, eggs, cheese omelet on Italian sub rolls. No meat on Friday nights. Catholic thing.

Not a universally Catholic “thing” for this particular meal, but, yes, *six* Fridays a year and Ash Wednesday we Catholics are asked to “sacrifice” a rich or expensive meal containing ingredients such as meat. Different cultures around the world (because “catholic “ means “universal”) have different customs so this is just one example.

Abstaining from meat is universally catholic bc it is canon.

Reread the first post. Catholic thing was referring to no meat on Friday nights. No need mansplain Catholicism. Also everyone eats egg sandwiches during Lent. This just sounds like a tortilla bocadillo

And now I want a tortilla bocadilo

Who is this “everyone”? I’ve never had an egg sandwich in my life, let alone any specific menu during Lent since I don’t celebrate Lent. Are you even aware of other religions/ cultures?

Are you always this annoying? The everyone mentioned above clearly meant those that celebrate lent.

And yes egg sandwiches with potatoes in them are standard fair for me year round anyway.

Right. Pp’s point was that there are many of that celebrate Lent who do not eat egg sandwiches. Including myself. They must be a regional/cultural thing that some of are not familiar with.

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My mom would mix peanut butter and log cabin or other fake syrup together and eat it with white bread. It was desert for us!

We also would eat chayote squash with parmesan cheese