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?

Also cucumber and salad cream sandwiches on white bread which was considered a crime in my df's eyes. Granary bread for us which was nice toasted but too much like hard work as a child to eat for a sandwich, so Kingsmill was wonderful to me.

I've remembered another, I used to chew the paper cases after my Nan had made fairy cakes.

I'm a good few years older than my sibling, so used to sometimes scrounge rusks, and/or 'bicciepegs', which were some sort of very hard biscuit to assist with teething.

I had forgotten frozen chips! And frozen peas.

Rob jelly? That's all sounds gross. Raw, sorry visually impaired and using dictation. Anyway, I remember as a child I loved sugar sandwiches. And since I was very picky and there wasn't much I would eat, I was allowed to have them. I also used to love what I called him alone That very thin ham just on its own. It was like a meal for me.

Rice pudding or custard skin 🤮. The very thought makes shudder. My brother didn't like crusts on bread. So for supper he'd have toast and I'd have the crusts soaked in a saucer of milk. We were about 3 and 5 at the time.

Raw sausages. What WAS I thinking? 🤮

Remembering some of these! Raw jelly cubes served at a party; skin of custard and rice pudding.

Butter rolled into a ball and coated with sugar; raw rhubarb dipped in sugar; slices of Mars bar on a digestive biscuit and melted under the grill; hot plum tomatoes in a morning roll with butter.

Am slightly jealous of those of you who drank the juice from the tinned fruit. In our house it was decanted into a glass and put aside for my dad as it was too much of a treat for the rest of us.

I still eat raw jelly whenever I make it. Those sugar free sachets don't darken my cupboards.

I used to take an ice cube from the freezer then dip it into the Tupperware tub that contained sugar. The sugar stuck to the ice cube like sherbet to a lolly. I had to be careful not to get caught; my mum insisted raw sugar gave you worms

My nana used to take a bright orange spreadable cheese from a jar (Kraft?) Put it on a slice of bread, fold it over and fry it. Now that was a treat.

I used to eat the Ruskoline fish dressing with a spoon straight from the box. It was as dry as a bone but lush.

Fish fingers straight from the freezer, food of the gods.
All veg raw, much tastier than when cooked.
Kippers with pickled red cabbage.
Uncooked pastry (DM said it would give me boils)
Sugar butties.
Even now when putting salt on things I put a little pile on my plate to dip a finger in (coarse grain sea salt preferably)

My Mum used to give me a sort of vitamin tonic thing called Minadex - I loved it, I also enjoyed gripe water, and junior disprin (possibly all things forbidden to children now - But I am a child of the 60's )

Yes to raw jelly also raw cake mixture, Farley's rusks (even when I was about 10 !) Peas and broad beans raw from the pod, raw gooseberries.

My BIL's parents owned a pet shop - he grew up eating a lot of cat and dog treats.

Oh just remembered my Mum used to make a milk pudding - like rice pudding, but with macaroni - I loved it - does anyone ever make that any more ? (might only have been my Mum even then!)

• Raw jelly cubes
• Slices of cooking apple dipped.in sugar when mum was making a pie
• Weetabix with butter on
• Banana sandwich
• Bread and butter fingers dipped in strawberry yoghurt
• Mum would cruch up.ready salted crisps and sprinkle on top of the mash layer of a shepherds pie, then sliced tomatoes and grated cheese
• beef paste sarnies
• Juice from a tin of fruit is soooooo much better than bottled juice for.some reason

Yes to raw jelly cubes and raw pasta!

Anyone remember microchips? The chips that tasted like cardboard that you heat in the microwave?! Big treat in my house 🙈

My dd loves actual frozen peas from the freezer , I don't know weather to stop her or encourage as part of 5 a day

Just reading through and yes to:

• Tin if plum tomatoes with bread and butter
• Raw spaghetti
• Peeled rubhar b dunked in sugar
• Raw cake mix
• Frozen peas
• Rusks (had 3 younger brothers so lots.of opportunity to.nick them)

Oh yes - tinned plum tomatoes on toast for breakfast. We had tinned (whole not chopped) tomatoes as a side vegetable quite often.

I used to eat instant noodles out of the packet. No sachet, just dry. Bit weird

I don't actually like jelly once it's been made. I much prefer the raw cubes.

I used to use a rolling pin to flatten a slice of bread, tip a load of sprinkle some sugar on top and then roll it up before eating it.

I used to feel posh when I made a Pot Noodle and put it on a plate - my friend and I would do this when we were playing "posh restaurants".

The rhubarb thing: the bloke who lived behind us used to grow his own rhubarb and would give some to my mam for us. We'd eat it dipped in sugar too. I'd forgotten all about this until recently when we found rhubarb in our garden. I cut it and dipped it in sugar, expecting the deliciousness that's remember from my childhood. OMG it was horrible - really tart and impossible to eat! Nice with some apples in a crumble though.

YY to raw pastry and cake batter (I still eat the latter), and tinned tomatoes on toast.
Trifle made with sponge fingers, tinned fruit salad, angel delight and squirts cream.
I also remember sipping port and lemonade (very heavy on the lemonade) at Christmas as a treat.

Yes to the raw jelly, onion vinegar and raw spaghetti!

I hate to confess this, but loved marmite and marmalade... mixed together!

But I had a friend who would eat strawberry jam and lettuce sandwiches.. not that is odd

loved gripe water when it still had alcohol in it, and junior disprin.

bread and dripping with salt.

A few PP have mentioned rusks as a childhood treat . I buy a box about every two weeks , sometimes add hot milk as a very quick breakfast, sometimes with jam on , sometimes dry. I love them but they are messy

Butterballs which were blobs of margarine rolled in sugar.