We didn’t eat anything weird per se. but we had lots of appetizers as meals. Also, regular fondue nights

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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.

Why is that weird? We used to eat that. Also fried grits. It's pretty amazing how poor food like grits has sort of come into fashion. Lots of fancy grits recipes out there these days.

A lot of these recipes sound like poor food/attempts at feeding your family on a tiny budget. BTDT, as an adult. And come up with some interesting combos, too. : )

We ate fried cream of wheat with syrup as well. It was a treat. Kind of a polenta cake riff. Italian.

Anonymous wrote:My mom added butter to PB&J sandwiches. She would butter the bread, then add a layer of peanut butter on top of the butter, then add the jelly. I never realized it was strange until I was in late elementary school and my friends started to comment on it - and they all loved my mom's PB&Js! It was actually quite tasty.

My mom did that for one of my siblings. It was a textural thing that they needed to like pbj. Mine was without butter (or tbh margarine....it was the 70s).

Anonymous wrote:Tuna glop: can of tuna with pasta and cream of mushroom soup and peas. It was awful.

My mom made this and I still love it

Cup noodle with corn.
Rice with canned tuna, onion slices and drizzle of soy sauce.
Spaghetti with cabbage and ketchup.

Peanut butter, Mayo and lettuce sandwiches.

But they are actually great! I still eat them...

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.

Is she German? My German mom makes this and it's a normal dessert in Germany called Griesschnitten. I love it. I should buy cream of wheat and introduce my kids to it.

Is it odd that I can barely recall eating any meals in my childhood home?

We ate a lot of fast food. McDonald’s had good happy meal toys in the 80s. Once we stayed in pajamas all day and had eggs for dinner (in retrospect, my parents were hungover). Other than that, meals must have been unremarkable.

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.

Why is that weird? We used to eat that. Also fried grits. It's pretty amazing how poor food like grits has sort of come into fashion. Lots of fancy grits recipes out there these days.

A lot of these recipes sound like poor food/attempts at feeding your family on a tiny budget. BTDT, as an adult. And come up with some interesting combos, too. : )

My gramma made these german potato dumplings. They are the size of softballs, and I remember them involving bread cubes. Everyone would get excited for them the next day, when they were fried. I hated them so much - which made me the family meal outcast

It was like these, but NEVER with onions, because onions had "too much flavor" https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/german-potato-dumplings/

My mom added butter to PB&J sandwiches. She would butter the bread, then add a layer of peanut butter on top of the butter, then add the jelly. I never realized it was strange until I was in late elementary school and my friends started to comment on it - and they all loved my mom's PB&Js! It was actually quite tasty.

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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.

Same. Mayo on cold meatloaf sandwiches!!

My mom used to feed us like we were down to our last $5. We often ate things like: franks and beans, fried bologna sandwiches and mayonnaise, buttered noodles with a hotdog, and only canned vegetables never fresh. Fruit cocktail from a can was a treat. I have no idea why she fed us such garbage all the time, money wasn't the issue, it's just weird why we ate crap food. I thought I hated vegetables until I tried fresh ones.

Anonymous wrote:Another Long Islander here who was served spaghetti with ketchup in the 70s/80s. We should start a support group.

Curious what your ethnicity/background is?

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Anonymous wrote:My mom would mix sour cream and sugar together and serve it as dessert. It was my favorite.

Mine would serve strawberries dipped in sour cream and rolled in brown sugar. They were awesome.

OK but this is actually good and I still do it, although I use plain Greek yogurt instead. Domino "brownulated" sugar (pourable brown sugar) works the best for this.

I can see this working because Jason’s deli fruit dip is just sour cream, sugar, and I believe orange cognac flavoring.

This was called Strawberries Romanoff in my house. My mom added Grand Marnier to the dip. Something like this:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/266832/strawberries-romanoff/

This is on the menu at Le Madeline--grand marnier and sour cream and sugar over berries.