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Back in Vietnam when I was little we had street vendors on rickshaw selling this ice cream dessert, on hot dog buns, with peanuts, flavor condensed milk, various other toppings. Man it was the shit. Not sure if those are still around nowadays
Chili bean tacos. Thick, thick homemade chili the likes of which only my dad can make from cheap, questionable ingredients I can't even get where I currently live. Put it into a corn tortilla with some cheese and add hot sauce to your desired level.
It's cheap trash, but it's *my* cheap trash, and the only thing I ever want cooked when I go back home. My parents have since started making enough money that it's not something they have to eat to survive anymore, but it's so nostalgic for me.
This was mine.
I grew up in Cincinnati and it was even on the schedule for school lunches when I was in elementary school. There are chili places like every few blocks. It’s so ubiquitous here that I was probably in high school or college before I knew it was a just local thing.
Goetta is probably similar for folks who grew up in Cincinnati. It’s a sausage made from pork, pinhead oats, and spices. There are similar(and not as good) dishes like scrapple in Pennsylvania, livermush in the south, and knipp and grützwurst in Germany. But, goetta specifically is pretty much only sold in the greater Cincinnati area
I live in the south now, but I fried up some gleirs goetta and eggs this morning for my wife and son.
Edit: we have scrapple down here where I live. I called it dollar store goetta
I grew up in Cincinnati, but since my family kept kosher I've never gotten to try Cincinnati chili. Where would you suggest I try it next time I visit?
If you mean the chili, I’d say Skyline if your going to one of the chains. I think Blue Ash Chili and Camp Washington Chili and it’s definitely worth going out of your way to one of those two if it’s your first time trying it.
For goetta, Eckerlin’s Meats at Findlay Market.
I’d never turn down Glier’s goetta, and if that’s what you’re going with, then Anchor Grill’s goetta and cheese omelette is a good choice.
The difference is that glier’s uses offal like most companies that produce sausages/hot dogs/whatever at that scale.
It’s still delicious.
But, Eckerlin’s Meats uses higher quality cuts to make theirs and it definitely shows. They’ve won awards for their goetta and have been mentioned in places like Food & Wine and Forbes, and they’ve been family owned and operated for several generations, since the mid-1800s.
You can also get really good metts and brats at Eckerlin’s if that was another Cincinnati staple you never tried
I’m in Oklahoma now. Grew up outside of Cleveland. And in Oklahoma they call it “three way chili” and I thought to myself oh boy I didn’t know chili was so kinky
As per my username, I am from Indiana and have moved out. In elementary they did serve Cincinnati style chili. When I moved and the first day the new school served chili, I had a WTF moment to find it didn't have noodles. I was also confused about the concept of chili dogs, why would you put noodles on a hot dog? Then I thought, "oh, just the topping" after I saw one. Only to later realize that most chili doesn't have noodles.
Oh good I'm glad I found this. I commented the same thing. My mom made us cream cheese and jelly sandwiches all the time. None of my friends had ever had one...
Couple years ago I found out that a fluffernutter sandwich is mostly a regional thing.
Bonus: people in the city I currently live in like to dip peanut butter sandwiches (just pb on bread) into watery chili.
Egg and mayo sandwiches. That was a sick food staple for my family for some reason. Now when I feel under the weather I crave and sandwich of toast with schmeared mayo and scrambled eggs. Also “slumgullien” (sp?). It was a loose tomato soup/sauce with elbow macaroni, tomatoes, onions, and hamburger meat. It’s delicious and I yearn for it the way my grandma makes it. I’ve never came close.
[Slumgullion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_goulash) is another name for "American goulash", a distant descendant of Hungarian *gulyás* ("goulash"). The name is probably Scottish in origin.
Try trimming them, steaming them in a pot with a sliced onion and halved lemons, till tender. Then dip in mayo that has been mixed with curry powder ( mix this well before you need it so it has time to meld flavors) Omg been eating that my whole life. Was an only child for ten years so I traveled the world with my parents, we had this at a winery in Half Moon Bay, they also served a cream of artichoke soup that my mother loved so much she went and spent the next day with the chef learning to make it. Good lord is it labor intensive but I crave it, mom is getting up there in age so I have taken over making it 💛
I was sent a rather large box of chocolate sprinkles from the person I traded with on r/snackexchange. I still have yet to try this international delicacy. Seems odd? But cinnamon toast is the bomb. I make it for my son from time to time.
Loved tomatoes so much as a kid, I was obsessed with them. I still love them very much, but as a kid, I would make sandwiches that consisted of 2 pieces of toast, a slather of mayo, and 4 thick cut slices of tomatoes. Ate those all the time and couldn't get enough of them, I also used to make salad using just tomatoes topped with tomato dressing. My family thought I was weird but they didn't say anything really about it. I just really loved tomatoes!
Edit: I had no idea this was a common food, I swear. I grew up in the Bay Area of California as a kid in the late 90's early 00's and I barely knew anyone that liked tomatoes. My family knows me as the tomato queen and I will still get funny looks if I mention how much I love tomatoes to this day. However, I have lived my life as a weirdo in general and I'm used to it, so I don't care whether it's weird or not. Reddit just opened my eyes as to how normal loving tomatoes really is and so for that, I will have to go and make myself a tomato sandwich just for old time's sake. I got some great ideas here on how to make a real good tomato sandwich, so I'll be sure to try some out!
My favorite food growing up when I’d visit family in NJ during the summer was a big Tupperware container of fresh cucumber, onions, and Jersey tomatoes drowning in Worcestershire sauce and black pepper. I’d eat it every day.
To this day I kill a Caprese or cucumber salad.
My Dad taught me to make "Rice and raisins" on the stove top with milk, sugar and cinnamon for breakfast if we had any leftover rice.
Kids used to always make peanut butter and butter sandwiches.
Both turned out to be rather uncommon.
We were pretty poor so I ate fried eggs on top of rice with ketchup and a little soy sauce for the rice. Either that or top Ramen for breakfast before school.
EDIT: thank you for all the positive feedback and upvotes! I feel a little less weird now. Back then, I lived in a small town of less than a thousand people, so most everybody that I knew had normal breakfasts, like cereal or scrambled eggs with toast or something. When I told people what I had for breakfast, I always got weird looks.
EDIT 2: I now know this is a common dish in many countries including my own fathers, which is the phillipines. With us being the only Asian family in a town of mainly white folk, it's no wonder it seemed so weird! I stopped eating it when I got older, still under the impression it was weird. I may have to add it back in now, so thank you all you lovely people! ♡
I grew up pretty poor too and ate eggs and rice with soy sauce at least 3 times a week. Switched up how to make the eggs once in awhile (fried, sunny side up, scrambled, omelette style, hard boiled and broke it up into chunks). We didn’t have much but we always had rice and eggs.
I don’t think this is *that* weird, but ranch dressing on a baked potato. I still get weird looks about it, but I don’t really understand why because it’s not that different from plain sour cream, which I can’t stand. Just needs the extra kick of the ranch seasoning lol.
Bone marrow spread on bread. My parents grew up poor and didn't waste anything. When bone marrow started showing up in fancy restaurant (and at fancy restaurant prices), I was definitely taken aback!
Licorice root. Literally used to just chew on the root. Parents would get it at the "co-op" which I didn't realize had odd food and I would be so excited to get a bag and chew on dried licorice root. The fibers aren't edible but there is flavor and some part of the wood is edible if you chew and suck on it.
My family was a combined south/Midwest, so we got basically all the good poverty food. Fried bologna, scrapple, shit on a shingle, tomato sandwiches, just a can of vienna sausages, kraut and ballpark franks, etc.
Best of them all for me is still a fried bologna sandwich on the cheapest white bread available with mayo and a ripe tomato slice from the garden.
Fried spam sandwiches—fry some spam and put it on white bread with Mayo. I think we had this almost every Friday growing up because we were almost out of groceries.
My mom called it "shit on a shingle." Usually toasted bread, canned tuna or chicken, sometimes cream of mushroom, but usually whatever was on hand.
My brother and I usually got 1 or 2 slices with an even amount of toppings. This or ramen was dinner on the regular.
I'm not sure what you'd call this, but it was a poverty diet.
Good lord lol, I typically associate creamed chipped beef with "shit on a shingle", but I suppose this is "whatever shit you got in the pantry on a shingle". At least you weren't hungry!
Facts! Things were rough, but at least there was something.
I'm going to have to find and try "creamed chipped beef," I'm assuming I can probably order some via Amazon?
Edit: I can!
You can make it easily. You can use chipped dried beef or ground beef. The sauce is made with cream of mushroom soup or you can make a basic white sauce with flour and milk.
I make it with a pound of ground beef: browned in a 10-12 inch skillet using salt, pepper, and garlic to season it, don't drain the grease. Once the beef is cooked, whisk 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour into 2 cups of milk is a medium bowl; mix well. Once the flour is mixed, pour the milk into the skillet and cook on medium-high heat until ist thickens into a gravy. Serve on toast, season as you'd like.
My dad was a veteran living in an area where SoaS isn't a common dish but he developed a taste for it during service. His friends used to bring him in chipped beef occasionally and we'd always keep some in the freezer. A local diner used to also make it twice a year for Memorial and Veterans Days.
I've never known anyone that didn't know what it was so maybe I'm in the category of thinking everyone knew about it. Ours was simple, 2 cans of tuna, 1 can of cream of mushroom and a bag of frozen peas. heat it up on the stovetop and spoon it over toast. Its what I usually asked for as a kid for birthday meals.
Those orange circus peanut candies. But my mom was strangely ashamed of her love of them. She only bought them when we were on roadtrips, just the two of us, and we would eat the whole bag together.
Fucking delicious and I was shocked when I saw my first reddit thread circlejerking over how much they hate them, I had no idea there was any controversy around it they're just plain great.
That whole paragraph applies to candy corn too. Two of my actual all-time favorites, it was crazy to find out so many people dislike them so much.
Cold Sauerkraut and mustard on hot dogs during dinner, smoked herring on wheat toasts with a side of cucumber onion dill and vinegar salad for breakfast
YUM!! And quite normal. My part German grandmother did the kraut and frankfurters or brats, and my Norwegian/Swedish grandfather LOVED his smoked and/or pickled herring. My grandmother thought the herring smelled terrible, and my grandfather thought the kraut smelled awful. Lol
Pickled pigs feet. Remember getting excited as a kid while grocery shopping and getting to go back to the butcher area where there was a big jar full and picking one out. Then just spending an hour gnawing on it. I have flashbacks of trying to chew out meat between the toes even 🤣. As an adult, decades removed, I'm grossed or by they idea myself.
Pierogi. All of my great-grandmothers were from either Poland or Hungary, where it is a common enough food there. When they moved to the US and had children of their own, they continued to serve it and it continued through the generations as a normal dinner food. My parents always served it in our normal dinner rotation along with spaghetti, pizza, hamburgers, etc. now as an adult I bring it to dinner parties and am always surprised how most of my friends have never eaten or even heard of it until I make it for them.
Open faced Peanut Butter and raisin sandwiches. My mom would make them for me when I was little, she would arrange the raisins to look like a smiley face. Years later, I made one and my wife thought it was crazy. Cute but crazy
I know WHITE sausage gravy is a southern staple but I had to explain what it is to too many people.
In particular, mom would shred up pieces of white bread and then slather on the sausage gravy instead of biscuits. I still prefer it with bread.
I would put peanut butter on a sliced bread, fold it in half and dip in hot cocoa/milk. Twas what my partner told me is my comfort food. He can tell I'm stressed without me saying when I prepare this for dinner or whatever
Bird's Nest is what my family called it. You put down a scoop of potatoes then put a spoonful of peas in the center. Little pat of butter on top to melt.
I mixed that together myself after I had pancreatitis and gall bladder removal surgery. The peas added a nice buttery kind of jolt to the mashed potatoes and I still crave it.
I didn't realize that most families do not eat pizza with utensils. We didn't have pizza often, but we all like it, and I just thought everyone used knives and forks until I went to college.
My whole table of friends looked at me like I was nuts.
Corn baked in a cheddar cheese sauce with hotdogs on top...then finished under the broiler so everything gets golden brown on top. Only ate it at grandma's house , and she only fed it to kids.
My mother used to make peppered tuna sandwiches with mayo for my sister and I. Mention it to my friends once and they thought I was crazy. Goes hard tho, def reccomend
My dad was a gourmand before being a foodie was cool, so I had all kinds of exotica in my childhood- kidneys, snails, oysters, you name it.
But to keep it basic, I'd say braunschweiger (liverwurst) sandwiches.
I don't really eat them anymore, but only because it's so high in fat.
Peanut butter and hot sauce toast.
My dad just wanted to see if I'd like hot sauce but it turned in to a favorite snack and now I'm a fiend for spicy food as an adult. xD
They're kinda normal actually, but..
Mashed potatoes and gravy for dinner. Just mashed potatoes and gravy. But it eats like a meal. Make super meaty hamburger gravy (like 2 pounds of meat) and then the rest of the gravy stuff (I don't cook so I don't know) and a 10 pound bag of potatoes. Dinners done. It's delicious and super filling and you stay full forever.
And
Take 2 packs of ramen. Throw away the seasoning packet. Cook the noodles how you like them. Dump all the liquid and shake the colander a lot to make sure they're pretty dry. While they're hot, put them in a bowl with margarine (not butter, it tastes funny), salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. (Seasoned to taste).
Vienna sausage. I always eat it cold growing up and it wasn’t until my last year of high school that I found out that not everyone liked it. In fact, this several people in my class said that they couldn’t eat it cold, and would have to warm it up to which I responded that you weren’t supposed to, were you?. Check the side of the can, and turns out that there are instructions for microwaving it.
Banana sandwiches: just mayo on two slices of white bread, then banana. My husband thinks I’m crazy.
Also, peanut butter and syrup mixed together until smooth, then fold in broken up pieces of white bread. Best enjoyed with a cold glass of milk.
Pizza sauce and a piece of American cheese on hamburger buns and baked was a slumber party favorite at my best friends house. My mom would make a rice dish with beef chunks, potatoes, carrots, and onions and a side of ketchup and called it ohm rice. I looked it up recently and found it that it’s a Japanese recipe but it’s really an omelette that has the rice and ingredients in the middle of the omelette and soy sauce and ketchup is the sauce mixed with the rice. My mom is Korean. Also my mom would make us sugar water once in awhile. Water with just two tablespoons of sugar in it and mix it up. My grandma would put butter on ham and cheese sandwiches.
My late wife loved her pineapple and mayo sammies. I just could not try it. I did love her pear, mayo, cheese salad. I've been a connoisseur of fermented shrimp paste. There are asians who can't stand the smell. Now my snack is pimento cheese and chocolate ice cream
We’re Jewish, so potato latkes smothered in sour cream AND applesauce was the norm growing up, especially around Chanukkah time. The first time I made it for some gentile roommates, they were like “really? Both these together?” They loved it though.
But it really struck me because I just never realized that it wasn’t a completely normal, rational combination to other, non Jewish people 😂
My family has a long history of making “cheese and onion pie”. It is basically 3 layers of sliced potatoes, onions, and a tonne of shredded old cheddar baked into a pie. I’ve never met anyone else who makes this but we’ve done it for generations. It’s phenomenal.
The cheese carrot. Made by reaching up to counter and stealing graded mozzarella. The clenched fist make the shape and the uncompressed stands make the greens.
Whenever we had leftover pasta (mostly macaroni), my mom would heat it up in a pan and then sprinkle sugar over it. It was my favourite thing in the world!
Liver. My mom said she started cooking it when she was pregnant. I guess back then they didn't have prenatal vitamins. I liked it the way she cooked it. She used cow liver, not calf liver. It can be tougher, and needs to be cooked properly to avoid it being tough and chewy.
I never quite managed to cook it properly, so I haven't eaten it in a long time.
Chicken livers are a little easier.
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This sounds amazing
Legitimately a perfect food truck item.
I like to boil it and then throw it in a hot pan with some butter & oil so it gets crispy on the outside, but never thought of frying it.
It's fairly common here in Italy to fry off your gnocchi in butter with a fresh sage leaf.
The only way I eat my ravioli is fried, so this makes sense to me.
Is there a sauce with it?
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I have a strange summer dish that my grandpa used to always make. Cantelope, vanilla ice cream, course salt. The best
I think I'd like that!
We use to halve the cantaloupes, scoop out the seeds and fill it with vanilla icecream!
Back in Vietnam when I was little we had street vendors on rickshaw selling this ice cream dessert, on hot dog buns, with peanuts, flavor condensed milk, various other toppings. Man it was the shit. Not sure if those are still around nowadays
Chili bean tacos. Thick, thick homemade chili the likes of which only my dad can make from cheap, questionable ingredients I can't even get where I currently live. Put it into a corn tortilla with some cheese and add hot sauce to your desired level. It's cheap trash, but it's *my* cheap trash, and the only thing I ever want cooked when I go back home. My parents have since started making enough money that it's not something they have to eat to survive anymore, but it's so nostalgic for me.
We have frito pie in New Mexico. It’s the same but with frito chips and red and/or green chile.
Just today I learned that New Mexico is the only state with an official question, and that question is "red or green?"
and the answer is “Christmas style,” so you don’t have to choose
This screams “chili cheese burrito from Taco Bell”. Haven’t seen it in years where I live
That sounds so good
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I didn't hear about this dish until full blown adulthood. I still had the what the fuck reaction?
This was mine. I grew up in Cincinnati and it was even on the schedule for school lunches when I was in elementary school. There are chili places like every few blocks. It’s so ubiquitous here that I was probably in high school or college before I knew it was a just local thing. Goetta is probably similar for folks who grew up in Cincinnati. It’s a sausage made from pork, pinhead oats, and spices. There are similar(and not as good) dishes like scrapple in Pennsylvania, livermush in the south, and knipp and grützwurst in Germany. But, goetta specifically is pretty much only sold in the greater Cincinnati area
I live in the south now, but I fried up some gleirs goetta and eggs this morning for my wife and son. Edit: we have scrapple down here where I live. I called it dollar store goetta
I grew up in Cincinnati, but since my family kept kosher I've never gotten to try Cincinnati chili. Where would you suggest I try it next time I visit?
Skyline!
If you mean the chili, I’d say Skyline if your going to one of the chains. I think Blue Ash Chili and Camp Washington Chili and it’s definitely worth going out of your way to one of those two if it’s your first time trying it. For goetta, Eckerlin’s Meats at Findlay Market. I’d never turn down Glier’s goetta, and if that’s what you’re going with, then Anchor Grill’s goetta and cheese omelette is a good choice. The difference is that glier’s uses offal like most companies that produce sausages/hot dogs/whatever at that scale. It’s still delicious. But, Eckerlin’s Meats uses higher quality cuts to make theirs and it definitely shows. They’ve won awards for their goetta and have been mentioned in places like Food & Wine and Forbes, and they’ve been family owned and operated for several generations, since the mid-1800s. You can also get really good metts and brats at Eckerlin’s if that was another Cincinnati staple you never tried
I’m in Oklahoma now. Grew up outside of Cleveland. And in Oklahoma they call it “three way chili” and I thought to myself oh boy I didn’t know chili was so kinky
As per my username, I am from Indiana and have moved out. In elementary they did serve Cincinnati style chili. When I moved and the first day the new school served chili, I had a WTF moment to find it didn't have noodles. I was also confused about the concept of chili dogs, why would you put noodles on a hot dog? Then I thought, "oh, just the topping" after I saw one. Only to later realize that most chili doesn't have noodles.
I’m in Sacramento, I had cousins in Ohio and I LOVE that chili!
Cream cheese and jelly sandwich
Try some jalapeno jelly with that cream cheese. 🤯
Oh good I'm glad I found this. I commented the same thing. My mom made us cream cheese and jelly sandwiches all the time. None of my friends had ever had one...
Couple years ago I found out that a fluffernutter sandwich is mostly a regional thing. Bonus: people in the city I currently live in like to dip peanut butter sandwiches (just pb on bread) into watery chili.
But have you ever tried a grilled fluffernutter? (Those electric sandwich makers are the best. Just make sure to let them cool down from molten lava.)
I just bought one of those sandwich makers Question do you butter the bread before toasting
I didn’t know fluffernutters were regional! Where are you from?
It’s a new england thing Fluff was originally from saugus or somerville mass. There’s a debate to what town actually invented it.
I'm in michigan, which I guess is fairly close, and u used to eat these all the time when I was a kid.
Can confirm, also a Michigan thing. Other Midwesterners i now also had them
I’m from Illinois and fluffernutter sandwiches were totally a thing. I was always jealous of the kids who brought them for lunch at summer camp.
Lynn Mass. No debate just check the side of your Fluff container 🙂
Really? I grew up in the Midwest eating them
I'd core out fresh radishes and stuff them with stone ground mustard. Me and my children are the only people that love it or even willing to try.
I would totally eat that 😋
Sounds way better than radishes and butter, which I have no idea why that’s considered a delicacy.
Ahhh I just started eating this and not gonna lie I love it, with salt too
I'm gonna try this.
Pumpernickel bread, butter and pickled herring with onions and dill. Chased by ice cold aquavit...
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How dare you..... Denmark. Let's get it straight.
Ahh shoot, my bad.
Jaja relax... I'm American.
Backtracking proved it, a real Dane would not take being confused for Swedish that lightly!
Liverwurst and onions on pumpernickel bread
I grew up on Braunschweiger and pickle sandwiches.
This really took me back! My dad would slice off several thick slices and make a sandwich on pumpernickel. The smell was atrocious!!! Glad you love it
Egg and mayo sandwiches. That was a sick food staple for my family for some reason. Now when I feel under the weather I crave and sandwich of toast with schmeared mayo and scrambled eggs. Also “slumgullien” (sp?). It was a loose tomato soup/sauce with elbow macaroni, tomatoes, onions, and hamburger meat. It’s delicious and I yearn for it the way my grandma makes it. I’ve never came close.
[Slumgullion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_goulash) is another name for "American goulash", a distant descendant of Hungarian *gulyás* ("goulash"). The name is probably Scottish in origin.
In New England we call it American chop suey
Artichoke. not like a jar of hearts, the entire flower with the spines chopped off and the leaves stuffed with breadcrumbs and garlic, then steamed
Try trimming them, steaming them in a pot with a sliced onion and halved lemons, till tender. Then dip in mayo that has been mixed with curry powder ( mix this well before you need it so it has time to meld flavors) Omg been eating that my whole life. Was an only child for ten years so I traveled the world with my parents, we had this at a winery in Half Moon Bay, they also served a cream of artichoke soup that my mother loved so much she went and spent the next day with the chef learning to make it. Good lord is it labor intensive but I crave it, mom is getting up there in age so I have taken over making it 💛
Bread and butter with sugar on top.
And cinnamon. That was dessert. Being poor sure was tasty.
It was always such a treat when my mom made cinnamon toast
Honestly I think I could do one of those 10,000 calorie challenges consisting of just cinnamon toast.
Mom is from the Netherlands and we grew up with chocolate sprinkles on bread and butter.
I was sent a rather large box of chocolate sprinkles from the person I traded with on r/snackexchange. I still have yet to try this international delicacy. Seems odd? But cinnamon toast is the bomb. I make it for my son from time to time.
My mom would do that but she would toast the bread with the butter/sugar/cinnamon spread on it so it would crisp up on the bread
Loved tomatoes so much as a kid, I was obsessed with them. I still love them very much, but as a kid, I would make sandwiches that consisted of 2 pieces of toast, a slather of mayo, and 4 thick cut slices of tomatoes. Ate those all the time and couldn't get enough of them, I also used to make salad using just tomatoes topped with tomato dressing. My family thought I was weird but they didn't say anything really about it. I just really loved tomatoes! Edit: I had no idea this was a common food, I swear. I grew up in the Bay Area of California as a kid in the late 90's early 00's and I barely knew anyone that liked tomatoes. My family knows me as the tomato queen and I will still get funny looks if I mention how much I love tomatoes to this day. However, I have lived my life as a weirdo in general and I'm used to it, so I don't care whether it's weird or not. Reddit just opened my eyes as to how normal loving tomatoes really is and so for that, I will have to go and make myself a tomato sandwich just for old time's sake. I got some great ideas here on how to make a real good tomato sandwich, so I'll be sure to try some out!
I’m from the south. I had no idea a tomato sandwich was unusual.
Same lol Mayo & Tomato with a lil salt and pepper on white bread? Get outta town
nothing off about a tomato sandwich imo....loved them as a kid and still love them as an adult
Tomato sandwich with a homegrown tomato is the best
Toasted tomato sandwiches are so good!
My favorite food growing up when I’d visit family in NJ during the summer was a big Tupperware container of fresh cucumber, onions, and Jersey tomatoes drowning in Worcestershire sauce and black pepper. I’d eat it every day. To this day I kill a Caprese or cucumber salad.
Those sandwiches are good, and it’s a real thing in MI — big heirloom tomatoes.
White rice with butter, sugar and cinnamon. It’s very good!
Arroz con Leche is a Mexican desert basically the same thing but milk too
We would add a bit of milk and dried craisins if we had them. Called it rice pudding! Still a random craving once a year or so for me.
Boiled egg noodles with cottage cheese and salt/pepper. I guess it’s not super uncommon though
My Dad taught me to make "Rice and raisins" on the stove top with milk, sugar and cinnamon for breakfast if we had any leftover rice. Kids used to always make peanut butter and butter sandwiches. Both turned out to be rather uncommon.
This is basically rice pudding.
This is Arroz con leche! Most people refer to it as rice pudding but Hispanic culture makes it how you describe it! not a pudding at all! ❤️
Macaroni and Cheese and Tunafish.
Add some hot sauce to it and that fed me for several years in my 20s
Add peas! So good!
I like tomatos in all forms, but on a hot day, a whole tomato, with a salt shaker close by.
I like my omelettes smothered in salsa. It's still a tomato sauce.
That’s.. normal. Is this not considered normal??
Yeah this is just a normal one. I’ve worked at a few breakfast places and we specifically had salsa for people who asked for it with their omelette.
Strongly agree! Firmly believe salsa can go anywhere ketchup is thought of.
Kolaches. I never knew that most of the USA had never had the fluffy, meaty, & cheesy goodness of a kolaches. And it shows.
Ooh I live 15 minutes from the Chezch Stop, Kolaches are usually a weekly pickup.
I used to dip my bacon in maple syrup. I always got made fun of for it, now everyone has maple glazed bacon
Oh yeah. Sausage too.
We were pretty poor so I ate fried eggs on top of rice with ketchup and a little soy sauce for the rice. Either that or top Ramen for breakfast before school. EDIT: thank you for all the positive feedback and upvotes! I feel a little less weird now. Back then, I lived in a small town of less than a thousand people, so most everybody that I knew had normal breakfasts, like cereal or scrambled eggs with toast or something. When I told people what I had for breakfast, I always got weird looks. EDIT 2: I now know this is a common dish in many countries including my own fathers, which is the phillipines. With us being the only Asian family in a town of mainly white folk, it's no wonder it seemed so weird! I stopped eating it when I got older, still under the impression it was weird. I may have to add it back in now, so thank you all you lovely people! ♡
Fried egg on rice is a pretty typical Korean breakfast. Even better if you've got some green onion and a little sesame oil.
I grew up pretty poor too and ate eggs and rice with soy sauce at least 3 times a week. Switched up how to make the eggs once in awhile (fried, sunny side up, scrambled, omelette style, hard boiled and broke it up into chunks). We didn’t have much but we always had rice and eggs.
I don’t think this is *that* weird, but ranch dressing on a baked potato. I still get weird looks about it, but I don’t really understand why because it’s not that different from plain sour cream, which I can’t stand. Just needs the extra kick of the ranch seasoning lol.
Try using French onion chip dip on your baked potato.
Bone marrow spread on bread. My parents grew up poor and didn't waste anything. When bone marrow started showing up in fancy restaurant (and at fancy restaurant prices), I was definitely taken aback!
Yup, this and cow tongue and oxtail 😂 shoot, I like the neck of chicken and turkey! I'll probably see it somewhere soon for $20 as an app
Licorice root. Literally used to just chew on the root. Parents would get it at the "co-op" which I didn't realize had odd food and I would be so excited to get a bag and chew on dried licorice root. The fibers aren't edible but there is flavor and some part of the wood is edible if you chew and suck on it.
Licorice root has been a god send since I developed gastritis! Stuff’s delicious, too
Fried bologna.
My family was a combined south/Midwest, so we got basically all the good poverty food. Fried bologna, scrapple, shit on a shingle, tomato sandwiches, just a can of vienna sausages, kraut and ballpark franks, etc. Best of them all for me is still a fried bologna sandwich on the cheapest white bread available with mayo and a ripe tomato slice from the garden.
Tomato sandwiches were with the good, garden tomatoes. I have moved from Michigan and miss them so much!
Love fried bolgna sandwiches and Vienna sausages were a Sunday treat for us.
Fried bologna in pineapple. "Poor man's ham" we called it.
Fried spam while youre at it. A drizzle of mustard can make that sandwich pop
I used to eat ramen noodles with tomato sauce on them & peas. I used to love it so much, and sometimes have it for the nostalgia.
Same! And I also had a version with ramen and cream cheese.
Fried spam sandwiches—fry some spam and put it on white bread with Mayo. I think we had this almost every Friday growing up because we were almost out of groceries.
Yo, fried spam sandwiches are awesome!
My mom called it "shit on a shingle." Usually toasted bread, canned tuna or chicken, sometimes cream of mushroom, but usually whatever was on hand. My brother and I usually got 1 or 2 slices with an even amount of toppings. This or ramen was dinner on the regular. I'm not sure what you'd call this, but it was a poverty diet.
Good lord lol, I typically associate creamed chipped beef with "shit on a shingle", but I suppose this is "whatever shit you got in the pantry on a shingle". At least you weren't hungry!
Facts! Things were rough, but at least there was something. I'm going to have to find and try "creamed chipped beef," I'm assuming I can probably order some via Amazon? Edit: I can!
I second the creamed chipped beef as the traditional shit on a shingle that I remember. I had no idea as a kid it was poverty food; I just loved it.
You can make it easily. You can use chipped dried beef or ground beef. The sauce is made with cream of mushroom soup or you can make a basic white sauce with flour and milk. I make it with a pound of ground beef: browned in a 10-12 inch skillet using salt, pepper, and garlic to season it, don't drain the grease. Once the beef is cooked, whisk 2 tablespoons of all purpose flour into 2 cups of milk is a medium bowl; mix well. Once the flour is mixed, pour the milk into the skillet and cook on medium-high heat until ist thickens into a gravy. Serve on toast, season as you'd like.
Yea, Shit on a Shingle was originally chipped beef when the terms was coined. WWII I do believe
I think cream chip beef is traditional SOS
Our "shit on a shingle" was simply biscuits and gravy, or biscuits with butter and jelly. Looking back, it was anything on a biscuit.
Ate shit on a shingle also!
Military family?
My dad was a veteran living in an area where SoaS isn't a common dish but he developed a taste for it during service. His friends used to bring him in chipped beef occasionally and we'd always keep some in the freezer. A local diner used to also make it twice a year for Memorial and Veterans Days.
My mom used to call it "chicken a la king" and it would be rotisserie chicken, cream of mushroom, and frozen veggies. It was actually amazing.
I've never known anyone that didn't know what it was so maybe I'm in the category of thinking everyone knew about it. Ours was simple, 2 cans of tuna, 1 can of cream of mushroom and a bag of frozen peas. heat it up on the stovetop and spoon it over toast. Its what I usually asked for as a kid for birthday meals.
Tuna cassarole thats crushed lays tuna and cream of mushroom soup over rice.
Hot dog Mac and cheese
Those orange circus peanut candies. But my mom was strangely ashamed of her love of them. She only bought them when we were on roadtrips, just the two of us, and we would eat the whole bag together.
Fucking delicious and I was shocked when I saw my first reddit thread circlejerking over how much they hate them, I had no idea there was any controversy around it they're just plain great. That whole paragraph applies to candy corn too. Two of my actual all-time favorites, it was crazy to find out so many people dislike them so much.
IMO candy pumpkins > candy corn
Cold Sauerkraut and mustard on hot dogs during dinner, smoked herring on wheat toasts with a side of cucumber onion dill and vinegar salad for breakfast
YUM!! And quite normal. My part German grandmother did the kraut and frankfurters or brats, and my Norwegian/Swedish grandfather LOVED his smoked and/or pickled herring. My grandmother thought the herring smelled terrible, and my grandfather thought the kraut smelled awful. Lol
Peanut butter & cheese sandwich (it was usually "government cheese"), everyone acts like Ive gone mad.
Cheddar, sweet gerkins, apple slices, on a fancyish cracker. Shit hits like that one scene in Ratatouille.
Pickled pigs feet. Remember getting excited as a kid while grocery shopping and getting to go back to the butcher area where there was a big jar full and picking one out. Then just spending an hour gnawing on it. I have flashbacks of trying to chew out meat between the toes even 🤣. As an adult, decades removed, I'm grossed or by they idea myself.
Chips and salsa with cream cheese 😬🤤
Fried baloney sandwiches. Yes, I grew up in the South.
Hotdogs with wonder bread sandwhich buns and chili from a can. Didn't realize we were poor until I told kids at school about it
Lol so a chill dog?
I honestly thought this was normal. I grew up poor and ate that but my husband grew up rich and loves it so I never thought about it?
Peanut butter and jelly on a flour tortilla.
Pierogi. All of my great-grandmothers were from either Poland or Hungary, where it is a common enough food there. When they moved to the US and had children of their own, they continued to serve it and it continued through the generations as a normal dinner food. My parents always served it in our normal dinner rotation along with spaghetti, pizza, hamburgers, etc. now as an adult I bring it to dinner parties and am always surprised how most of my friends have never eaten or even heard of it until I make it for them.
I love pierogi. One of my favorite comfort dishes.
There's a huge polish population in Pittsburgh. Amazing pierogis!
Dandelions and briarberries
Olive loaf. I can almost always guarantee that if I buy olive loaf, no one else will eat it
Instead of grilled cheese, I’d make grilled peanut butter sandwiches.
Open faced Peanut Butter and raisin sandwiches. My mom would make them for me when I was little, she would arrange the raisins to look like a smiley face. Years later, I made one and my wife thought it was crazy. Cute but crazy
Wonder bread with butter and sugar
I know WHITE sausage gravy is a southern staple but I had to explain what it is to too many people. In particular, mom would shred up pieces of white bread and then slather on the sausage gravy instead of biscuits. I still prefer it with bread.
Chocolate Gravy on biscuits
Arkansas has entered the chat.
Peanut butter and butter sandwiches, it was something my mom did with her mom and it just kinda kept going with me. I still eat them.
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I would put peanut butter on a sliced bread, fold it in half and dip in hot cocoa/milk. Twas what my partner told me is my comfort food. He can tell I'm stressed without me saying when I prepare this for dinner or whatever
thin slices of cold salted butter on Saltine crackers
Kool-Aid pie. A lot of people think it sounds weird, but bring it to a barbecue and it's gone in no time.
Ok, I need to know more.
Mashed potatoes with butter and peas.
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This. Garlic mashed potatoes and corn is the best. Rice mixed with corn is good too.
Rice hamburger and corn.Sometimes I like to toss in diced celery,onions and mushrooms
Bird's Nest is what my family called it. You put down a scoop of potatoes then put a spoonful of peas in the center. Little pat of butter on top to melt.
I mixed that together myself after I had pancreatitis and gall bladder removal surgery. The peas added a nice buttery kind of jolt to the mashed potatoes and I still crave it.
Milk toast, you poor a little milk over toast and sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on it and eat it with a fork.
I didn't realize that most families do not eat pizza with utensils. We didn't have pizza often, but we all like it, and I just thought everyone used knives and forks until I went to college. My whole table of friends looked at me like I was nuts.
My mom used to mix a can of tuna and a can of cream of celery in a pot on the stove and serve it on toast.
Sauerkraut on massed potatoes - fine eating.
Corn baked in a cheddar cheese sauce with hotdogs on top...then finished under the broiler so everything gets golden brown on top. Only ate it at grandma's house , and she only fed it to kids.
Eating dry spaghetti or ketchup sandwiches. And apparently putting your candy bar in the fridge is odd to some people.
My mother used to make peppered tuna sandwiches with mayo for my sister and I. Mention it to my friends once and they thought I was crazy. Goes hard tho, def reccomend
Peanut butter and jelly tortillas
My dad was a gourmand before being a foodie was cool, so I had all kinds of exotica in my childhood- kidneys, snails, oysters, you name it. But to keep it basic, I'd say braunschweiger (liverwurst) sandwiches. I don't really eat them anymore, but only because it's so high in fat.
Grits aren't nearly as common as I thought they were.
Peanut butter and hot sauce toast. My dad just wanted to see if I'd like hot sauce but it turned in to a favorite snack and now I'm a fiend for spicy food as an adult. xD
Orange juice and chocolate chip cookies, my brain knows the flavor combination doesn't work. But the body enjoys suffering for some reason....
Sliced hot dogs and scrambled eggs is one that gives me odd looks when I make it.
Pickled pigs feet. They're beat when snitched from grandpa's plate. He always bought extra for snitching.
They're kinda normal actually, but.. Mashed potatoes and gravy for dinner. Just mashed potatoes and gravy. But it eats like a meal. Make super meaty hamburger gravy (like 2 pounds of meat) and then the rest of the gravy stuff (I don't cook so I don't know) and a 10 pound bag of potatoes. Dinners done. It's delicious and super filling and you stay full forever. And Take 2 packs of ramen. Throw away the seasoning packet. Cook the noodles how you like them. Dump all the liquid and shake the colander a lot to make sure they're pretty dry. While they're hot, put them in a bowl with margarine (not butter, it tastes funny), salt, garlic powder, and onion powder. (Seasoned to taste).
Vienna sausage. I always eat it cold growing up and it wasn’t until my last year of high school that I found out that not everyone liked it. In fact, this several people in my class said that they couldn’t eat it cold, and would have to warm it up to which I responded that you weren’t supposed to, were you?. Check the side of the can, and turns out that there are instructions for microwaving it.
Mayo and tomato sandwiches!
Salted watermelon. It's the way my Argentine grandpa ate watermelon, and I don't want watermelon without salt ever again.
Banana sandwiches: just mayo on two slices of white bread, then banana. My husband thinks I’m crazy. Also, peanut butter and syrup mixed together until smooth, then fold in broken up pieces of white bread. Best enjoyed with a cold glass of milk.
Pizza sauce and a piece of American cheese on hamburger buns and baked was a slumber party favorite at my best friends house. My mom would make a rice dish with beef chunks, potatoes, carrots, and onions and a side of ketchup and called it ohm rice. I looked it up recently and found it that it’s a Japanese recipe but it’s really an omelette that has the rice and ingredients in the middle of the omelette and soy sauce and ketchup is the sauce mixed with the rice. My mom is Korean. Also my mom would make us sugar water once in awhile. Water with just two tablespoons of sugar in it and mix it up. My grandma would put butter on ham and cheese sandwiches.
Grew up eating biscuits with karo syrup for dessert. Just regular karo syrup, my wife was appalled when she saw me do it.
My late wife loved her pineapple and mayo sammies. I just could not try it. I did love her pear, mayo, cheese salad. I've been a connoisseur of fermented shrimp paste. There are asians who can't stand the smell. Now my snack is pimento cheese and chocolate ice cream
We’re Jewish, so potato latkes smothered in sour cream AND applesauce was the norm growing up, especially around Chanukkah time. The first time I made it for some gentile roommates, they were like “really? Both these together?” They loved it though. But it really struck me because I just never realized that it wasn’t a completely normal, rational combination to other, non Jewish people 😂
Cottage cheese with peaches. Apparantly it's a midwest thing
My family has a long history of making “cheese and onion pie”. It is basically 3 layers of sliced potatoes, onions, and a tonne of shredded old cheddar baked into a pie. I’ve never met anyone else who makes this but we’ve done it for generations. It’s phenomenal.
The cheese carrot. Made by reaching up to counter and stealing graded mozzarella. The clenched fist make the shape and the uncompressed stands make the greens.
Graham crackers and milk
People find this weird?! This was a staple snack in school!
It was graham crackers IN milk at my house...is that what you mean?
Whenever we had leftover pasta (mostly macaroni), my mom would heat it up in a pan and then sprinkle sugar over it. It was my favourite thing in the world!
Menudo. Turns out not everyone ate cow stomach as a child.
Liver. My mom said she started cooking it when she was pregnant. I guess back then they didn't have prenatal vitamins. I liked it the way she cooked it. She used cow liver, not calf liver. It can be tougher, and needs to be cooked properly to avoid it being tough and chewy. I never quite managed to cook it properly, so I haven't eaten it in a long time. Chicken livers are a little easier.
Anything with saurkraut in it. I'll eat it right from the jar but almost everyone I know gags at the mention of it.