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'm so surprised to see other people ate raw sausages too!

Used to steal raw jelly cubes from the fridge and also used to steal medicine. It was a white children's medicine and tasted so good. I don't think you can get it anymore.

Yes I ate jelly cubes too! And I used to love a crumpet with jam on and a slice of cheese. Also I hated cooked veg for some reason, I would only eat it raw so would have a Sunday roast with raw carrots and pod peas, no idea why!

KurriKurri - yes the macoroni milk pudding! My mum still makes it for me as a treat, love it 🙂

When my mum and dad bought a chest freezer, you know one of those early huuuuge ones, usually kept in the garage? they started to buy meat in bulk, think half a pig neatly parcelled up into family sized portions, and my mum used to batch cook pies and pastries to freeze "for christmas".

Thus started my totally illicit love of sneaked frozen mince pies
It's a habit I still have - not the illicit bit, obv., but I bought a pack of Morrisons mince pies last thursday and I'm still nibbling my way through them, frozen rock solid as they are. Bloody gorgeous

Yes to raw pasta, slices of cooking apple dipped in sugar and cake batter. I loved frozen crab sticks too. I do miss cheese and pineapple on sticks too.

But you can keep the milk skin - just the thought makes me feel queasy!

• sara lee double chocolate cake from the freezer, then blitzed in the microwave for 20 seconds. Still cold in the middle but runny warm icing/sauce ummmmmmmm.

Did anyone else have those family buffets most saturdays, where random family dropped in for the day and at some point as if by magic a table full of food would appear. French stick chopped on a fancy angle and buttered, coleslaw, potato salad, cottage cheese, cold cuts, a plate of cut in half mini pork pies and scotch eggs, pickled onions placed artfully in a cereal bowl, a trifle and a chocolate cake (hopefully defrosted but not guaranteed)

Oooh, at last on MN - my people! Raw bacon rinds, raw potatoes (I still eat these). Custard powder mixed with just a tiny bit of milk before you pour the hot milk in. Cake mixture. Syrup of figs.

Raw jelly - yes
Rola Cola in a tall glass with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the top.
Sniffing the washing powder and licking it sometimes
Sponge - not the cake kind but the bath kind.

Deffo used to beat uncooked pasta and spaghetti. The crunch it made. My mum would always have a go at for it though. Often on Sundays when my mum was making a roast me and my bro would moan we was hungry way before everything was ready so she would give us the lamb/beef/pork bone to gnaw on!!
Also enjoyed a cup of oxo like a drink, bizarely though when I was pregnant I craved gravy so I would drink a mug of gravy every few days to satisfy myself!
I can remember eating cake mix (everyone has done that)
And eating spoonfuls of mint sauce. Not sute what the hell that was bout though?!

Aniseed balls. Why is it so hard to find old fashioned sweets?

Eating a raw cube of jelly and drinking the juice out of tinned pineapple or fruit salad, yes!

And raw potato – although I used to get told off because 'it'll give you tummy ache' (it never did) and uncooked spaghetti.

Slices of cooking apple dipped in sugar too. I used to really need the sugar –I found them so sour – but I eat them without blinking now. I must have had extremely sugar-conditioned tastebuds!

I seem to remember a fad at my secondary school for eating rusks brought in from home. I didn't take part though. Thought it was weird even then. Although at primary school we did used to have these hardish biscuit things for pudding sometimes that I think were a bit like rusks, served with pink custard. Anyone else remember that?

eat roses lime marmalade from the jar
weetabix with butter and jam on
crisp sandwiches
baked beans with cheese in
golden syrup sandwiches

We used to eat frozen peas instead of ice cream on a hot day. Loved them.

This thread is so funny
Gripe water, cooking apple slices dipped in sugar, also raw chips dipped in sugar (boak), cocoa powder mixed with sugar etc. Yes to all of those.

I used to always put Minstrels on top of the fire (I mean one of those fake coal fires) and leave them until the inside of the Minstrels were totally warm and melty but the shell was still intact - so good. You had to be patient though because it took a few minutes to get to peak meltiness without the whole thing cracking. I might try it again one of these days.

Aviator my DH also loves frozen mince pies. He doesn't like cooked ones though

Cherries toddler DS loves frozen peas - was a great snack to give him during the heat wave this year.

Yes to the macaroni pudding, we had that!

Did anyone else like eating spoonfuls of coffee mate/milk powder (so sweet!) or hot chocolate powder?

I also used to steal Scotbloc (I think that's what it was called - disgusting cooking chocolate) from my Gran's baking cupboard

@BawbagBiggins I have never met another raw sausage eater in all my 41 years!!! I'm excited because everyone just "ewwwww"s at me when I tell them!

I used to squeeze the meat out of its casing straight into my mouth. Heaven!

Raw jelly cubes
Yorkshire puddings with golden syrup (for desert)
Cup of bovril in the winter (still do this now)
Golden syrup straight out the tin
Sugar sandwiches
Condensed milk straight out the tin
When mum was out we'd make butter icing and eat it all

Raw pasta in icing sugar. We didn’t really have treats in the house, so it was hard to find snacks for midnight feasts Spoonful of golden syrup also sufficed.

reads whole thread to find DSiS

I used to eat raw sausages and bacon rind

Aha reading through the thread. DP eats dry weetabix for breakfast with jam and fresh fruit on. He doesn’t like milk! I just keep quiet as when we met he wouldn’t have breakfast at all, and does a manual job. Baby steps

I once made the mistake of gorging on the senna granules my mum kept for constipation!!! They tasted a bit chocolatey and i stood on a chair to get them from a high cupboard. Let's just say I didn't ever do it again.....

I am amazed to find others who ate raw (i.e. hard) spaghetti dipped into marmite

But I'm not sure about the thread title being "of your childhood". I still eat leftover raw pastry, raw cake mix, weetabix-with-butter, and drink vinegar from the bottle (I prefer malt to pickled-onion) even now, in my late 40s

Remember 5 pints powdered milk? I hated milk as a child but Mum would make me a pint of that and sweeten it with sugar as she was so paranoid that I wouldn't grow through lack of calcium!

I loved making jelly as a child. Breaking up the cubes and pouting over the boiling water. Please don't tell my DM but when I was stirring the cubes I sometimes scooped one out, sucked it a bit to get the melty jelly loveliness then put it back into the jug! Mmmmmm.