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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.

Um, yum! Sounds delicious!

Anonymous wrote: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.

lol this was so my family. I thought we were “poor” because we had sprouted wheat bread and the natural food store’s fresh crushed peanut butter instead of name brand wonder bread and jiffy or are Kashi breakfast cereal (back when they only made one thing) instead of fruit loops. I seriously just thought my parents couldn’t afford the “normal” stuff my friends ate. It was definitely not cool to eat like my family did when I was a kid so I was always mortified at the school lunch table... no one wanted to trade with this kid lol.

What's with all the mayo blobbed onto fruit with cheddar cheese on top?

Ham hocks boiled till they fell apart. My mom would smear the fat on a slice of Italian bread. We ate that as a ‘treat’. Blood sausage was a regular Sunday meal. Porkolt all the time and I still don’t like it.

I am confident I will win the prize for this one! My mother served us 2 pineapple rings (from the can), put a "dollop" of mayo on top and then sprinkled cheddar cheese on top of the mayo! I still say wtf was that about? Yes, we hated it.

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Anonymous wrote:“Corned Beef Hash Soup,” which was basically a way to feed the family for 2-3 nights on $2-3.

Boiled potatoes, cabbage, and onions, in a big pot of salty water. At the last few minutes, add a can of corned beef—the kind with the key. I always ate the corned beef & my sister always ate the potatoes, then we’d switch bowls.

Also, deviled ham & yellow mustard on saltines.

Damn, that soup sounds good

It was actually pretty good! I’ve *nevertheless made it myself, but still crave it sometimes.

*never

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Anonymous wrote:“Corned Beef Hash Soup,” which was basically a way to feed the family for 2-3 nights on $2-3.

Boiled potatoes, cabbage, and onions, in a big pot of salty water. At the last few minutes, add a can of corned beef—the kind with the key. I always ate the corned beef & my sister always ate the potatoes, then we’d switch bowls.

Also, deviled ham & yellow mustard on saltines.

Damn, that soup sounds good

It was actually pretty good! I’ve nevertheless made it myself, but still crave it sometimes.

Anonymous wrote:“Corned Beef Hash Soup,” which was basically a way to feed the family for 2-3 nights on $2-3.

Boiled potatoes, cabbage, and onions, in a big pot of salty water. At the last few minutes, add a can of corned beef—the kind with the key. I always ate the corned beef & my sister always ate the potatoes, then we’d switch bowls.

Also, deviled ham & yellow mustard on saltines.

Damn, that soup sounds good

My parents liked to replicate a Nantucket dish involving spaghetti with tomato sauce and strawberries. I know some like it but it made me hurl.

My mother’s go-to when she had just had enough was Graham crackers and milk.

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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.

My super-WASPy in-laws ate spaghetti with ketchup instead of some sort of tomato-based pasta sauce. I assumed it was because their taste-buds had malfunctioned after all that inbreeding. (My MIL was a terrible book generally, except for soup, for some reason)

Midwestern "goulash."

Anonymous wrote: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

I do that now at a certain time of the month. Pb, syrup or honey, salt; on toast, apples, or seed crackers - or by the spoonful. If I could eat wonder bread, would totally go there.

We were a chayote family too!

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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.

I know someone whose family did Milano cookies crushed in milk as a special dessert.

“Corned Beef Hash Soup,” which was basically a way to feed the family for 2-3 nights on $2-3.

Boiled potatoes, cabbage, and onions, in a big pot of salty water. At the last few minutes, add a can of corned beef—the kind with the key. I always ate the corned beef & my sister always ate the potatoes, then we’d switch bowls.

Also, deviled ham & yellow mustard on saltines.