Odd eating habits of your childhood

[Sparrowlegs248]

I was talking to a friend recently, about things we'd considered a treat as a child. Turns out some of mine aren't usually considered a treat! And also that sone of my other eating habits were considered rather odd by this friend.

I used to love being allowed to eat a "raw" cube of jelly. Or a spoonful of black treacle. Drink the juice out of tinned pineapple.

I would often take a swig out of a jar of pickled onions (just the vinegar), eat raw potato when my mum was making dinner, crunch on uncooked spaghetti.

Did anyone else have these habits? Is it really that odd?

I miss Cremola Foam so much. One spoon for the glass, one for my mouth, one for the glass, and so on.

I loved raw lentils.

I used to eat 2 doorstops of bread (one white, one brown) every evening after tea. I’d put honey on the brown and peanut butter on the white.

I was really skinny!

Does anyone remember a big jar of a toffee-like thing which was cod liver oil and malt? I could've eaten that all day.

Ewww, I can still remember the taste of it, my sisters used to practically beg for spoonfuls of it

I used to love sugar on buttered bread, HP sauce on bread, salad cream on bread...

Tomato soup with chips in. Cheese in milk melted in a frying pan and served with bacon.

Hallow, I used to have cod liver oil and malt, lived it!

I used to love that, @RonniePickering!

Oh and my siblings and I used to make cake mixture when our parents were at work and eat it raw

My Nan used to give me raw jelly cubes - as it was supposed to be good for your nails. So not a treat but a health supplement .

I LOVE pickled onion vinegar on chips. We always had that as kids. We always had cold meat and chips on a Monday night. With pickles and pickled onion vinegar all over the chips. And I used to pinch some raw potato when Mum was making the chips.

When we ill my Mum used to give us white bread, soaked in warm milk with sugar sprinkled over it. Was lovely.

Every Christmas Eve Mum would give my sister and me half a pomegranate and a pin each and sit us on the sofa. Kept us quiet while she was doing the Christmas prep .

You can still get it I think HollowTalk, FIL gave dd some when she was a toddler and she loved it!

Yes to raw jelly and vinegar from the jar. I still eat uncooked pasta every time I cook it (don't let my children have any though )
I used to love eating the leftover mint sauce with a spoon too.

I nearly started a 'random stuff you used to eat as kuds' thread yesterday! I used to make a sandwich with cheese, gravy granules and peanut butter. I would sprinkle gravy granules on everything - it was my go-to seasoning. I was obviously an early connoisseur of umami

I've always loved Oxo cubes, especially the beef ones - remember when they were dark and clumpy rather than the dry crumbly cubes you get now? Mind you I have been buying the kallo low salt chicken cubes and find they are pretty tasty just as they are - they taste just like chicken crisps. I often take a bite when using one in the dinner

I also used to sometimes eat saccharine tablets and see if I could get through it without spitting it out. I think I was just intrigued that something that was supposed to be sweet was so hideously awful when taken 'neat'.

Looking back I think of it as experimenting with tastes and flavours, and has obviously led to me being the stupendously good cook that I am today.

Nothing odd about roast chicken skin! I love the skin! And another vote for raw jelly cubes. Good for your nails I believe. I used to like eating cold baked beans ( DM would put them out with salady stuff, cold meat etc). Can’t think of many odd foods. Quite liked sugar sandwiches for a treat ( preferably with white tiger bread).

Uncooked supernoodles!! They were so good.

Rich tea biscuits topped with Ice Magic.

Crunchy nut cornflakes with vanilla ice cream at 10pm.

Eggy bread with sugar on. My mum used to make it for me and just serve it plain, which I was more than happy with. Then I went on Brownie pack holiday and discovered that you could put sugar on it! My mum was not impressed. 😂

I was never allowed to eat a jelly cube. My mum told me it was because it was a choking hazard. The first thing I did as an adult making jelly was eat a bit of a jelly cube!! Though looking back now I think she only told me that because she was worried about messing up the jelly:water ratio!

Another treat was when my dad made custard. He'd make it so thin that I could pour it into a cup and drink it. It was lovely.

Raw jelly cubes are basically haribos. So much nicer raw than made up.

I used to eat raw pastry...so would be given leftover pastry to mould/play with when baking was beong done, and it would gradually get smaller as I ate away at it.

Raw sausage meat! Loved it, you can imagine my delight when sausage rolls were on the menu, raw pastry and raw sausage meat in the same day!

Jelly cubes - food of the Gods.

Two oxo cubes in a cup of boiling water - still drink it now when I'm not feeling well, for a special treat, sprinkle dry jacobs cream crackers into it and scoop out with a spoon.

Processed cheese - straight from the cheese counter in Presto's to eat as I walked round the shop with my mam

Oh and as a special treat - Cabbage Water!

My nanna would basically boil a cabbage for five days (it seemed) for Sunday lunch and we would get mugs full of the water it was boiled in to drink (after 5 days I presume all the nutrients were in the water anyway)

Yes to the rice pudding skin and artificial sweeteners.
Cheese and jam sandwiches.
Weetabix with butter spread on them (eaten like a ryvita, not put in a bowl with milk!)

BawbagBiggins my Nan would give me cabbage water as a treat too . She said it was good for your skin. Same Nan who gave me raw jelly!

@BawbagBiggins I remember going to a new friend's house when I was 11 and her mum offered me some cabbage water. She and my friend were really shocked when I refused. They drank it like it was some exotic drink - I was shocked!

Cabbage water!! not envy.

Yes I had forgotten dry weetabix. We had buyer and marmalade on them. And about 4 pints of water to wash it down I think!

Salt. Just ordinary table salt. Used to pour a bit into my palm and dab it with a finger like sherbert

My Grandma used to tell me she had a friend who swore by a cube of raw jelly a day for your nails. Alas my Grandma could never try it as that sort of thing came under the heading of "extravagant".

Used to fight with my siblings over the custard skin and scooping the marrow out of a roast leg of lamb bone with the thin end of a tea spoon!

Another one for raw jelly and nibbling oxos just wondering for all of those that liked eating Oxo cubes do you also like Marmite ? if I couldn't get an Oxo cube I used to dip my fingers Marmite instead.
Spoonfuls of jam and marmalade straight out of the jar particularly Roses lime marmalade
Cold sweet corn straight out of the tin used to drive my DM mad she by two or three tins when shopping and they will be gone within a day or two.
I never drank the Vinegar out of the pickle jar but I used to steal the pickles and still do an awful lot
Lots of cheese grated into very hot Heinz tomato soup and then bread dunked in to get cheese and tomato at the same time.

I also used to mix blackcurrant and orange squash together and drink it neat

Deeply envious of those of you who ate the skin of custard - did it have flecks of nutmeg in it, btw? Anyway, my tale of a deprived childhood - I was never allowed the skin. My dad said that only grown ups, so basically him, then, were allowed to eat it, something about a child's digestion wasn't ready to digest it? The bastard! The utter bastard!

Jacobs cracker with the thickest layer of butter and loads of salt

The lady fingers from the bottom of the trifle as my Nan was making it and sqirty cream from the tin when she was doing the top

Wet finger dipped into gravy or hot chocolate granules

I’m still partial to a stuffing sandwich .

And I used to put weird things on sandwiches when I was drunk after a night out. Tomato ketchup and American mustard being a favourite