My mom cooked cabbage with milk. Also macaroni was also served with milk and butter, never had mac and cheese until I had a kid. Rice was served with butter and sugar and cinnamon (guess where I grew up!).

Homemade pizzas from a box (dough mix, a little can of tomato stuff, a packet of dried parmesan) were really good, she made them with either sliced hot dogs or browned hamburger. I didn't know about Italian sausage in spaghetti sauce until I was in college (which is where I learned most people don't put sugar and cinnamon on their rice).

Hm. . . she'd make this sandwich spread, usually when there was an event like a Moose Lodge supper. She used the old kind of grinder you clamp to a table edge. It know it had ham and I think also carrots and celery and mayo, it was pretty good. In my teen years she acquired a recipe for a salad that had macaroni, mayo, french dressing, cubed ham, onions, and frozen peas and carrots.

In one of Shirley Jackson's books (I'm addicted, this would be Life Among the Savages, about rearing kids with her theater critic husband in a house in Vermont) she describes a supper main dish involving tuna, whipped cream, and olives.

Anonymous wrote:Liverwurst sandwiches for lunch. Ugh. Hated those.

That’s not weird, that’s heavenly!

My mom is a hippie all natural organic everything vegetarian so nothing you wouldn't now find at whole foods but that was super weird to other kids. Think almond butter on whole wheat bread, seaweed salads, tofu hotdogs, kefir, etc. I would pick Wonder Bread at any friends house to get my fix.

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Anonymous wrote:Meatloaf sandwiches - leftover slice of meatloaf slathered with ketchup from the night before on white bread. The ketchup would soak into the bread. She packed it for my school lunch and it was always my favorite.

Meatloaf and ketchup on white bread is classic. Nothing weird about it.

I made a small meatload last weekend JUST to use for sandwiches (I cook for one), but I do mayo instead of ketchup.

Liverwurst sandwiches for lunch. Ugh. Hated those.

Her Eastern European version of Chili with no chili powder, tons of chopped celery and kidney beans, no tomato base, and with ground pork. So yucky. Dreaded it.

Anonymous wrote:Meatloaf sandwiches - leftover slice of meatloaf slathered with ketchup from the night before on white bread. The ketchup would soak into the bread. She packed it for my school lunch and it was always my favorite.

Meatloaf and ketchup on white bread is classic. Nothing weird about it.

Spaghetti with cream cheese. It melted a bit and I loved it.
Sautéed cabbage and onions mixed wit ph egg noodles. The onions were near burnt. It was Hungarian and delicious too.

Meatloaf sandwiches - leftover slice of meatloaf slathered with ketchup from the night before on white bread. The ketchup would soak into the bread. She packed it for my school lunch and it was always my favorite.

I don't see anything weird about any of the posts so far. They all sound like something that I'd like to eat. Except for the brains, which I posted....

Brains. But she thought it was too good for us and kept it -- "them"? -- all to herself.

Hot dogs with American cheese wrapped in a tortilla

Olive sandwiches—canned chopped olives on white bread with mayo

Breaded, pan fried Spam!! Not kidding.

Why, can't dads cook weird food?

I'll never forget spaghetti with sliced franks and beans topped with shredded cheddar and green olives and onions. It was actually oddly good, but also a very weird combination.