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?

YY to raw jelly cubes. And yes, I loved Minadex too! Anyone remember Delrosa rose hip syrup? Very thick and tasty (and sweet).

Yes I used to love rosehip syrup! That and gripe water. Yum.

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My Dad used to cook a fried breakfast at the weekend. My brother and I were given the "dip" (the remains of the oil from the frying pan) to mop up with bread.
Raw jelly
Dates from a block used for cooking.

I used to eat bowls of just iceberg lettuce or peas with salt. Mum found it odd but couldn't really object to vegetables as a treat (she watched how much salt though )

I was given Minadex often because I hardly ate anything when I was a kid - supposed to stimulate your appetite but tasted lovely! I always fancied raw sausages but if my mother saw me sniffing them I was told off! Loved jelly cubes but was told they would bung me up! The only different thing I had was cocoa and sugar - just cocoa powder mixed with caster sugar in an egg cup - very dry but tasted fab!

Raw pastry too and cake mix- mmmm.

April2020mom I bought a bag of aniseed balls this very morning

Spoonfuls of Horlicks powder straight from the jar and condensed milk, I could eat that all day,

And eating the skin off proper rice pudding straight from the oven !

OMG

The raw sausage reminds me of the person on here one who ate raw mince?! Then others came along to say they did too 

I remember eating raw potato while my mum cut the chips, butter and sugar mixed together, sugar in toast, sugar sandwiches. 

Frozen Birds Eye Supermousse ( too impatient to wait for them to defrost!)

Angelica from the baking cupboard

Yes! Supermousse!

My grandma used to give us oxo cubes on cocktail sticks, like weird savoury lollipops 😳

My mum used to give yes a corner of the oxo cubes when we were young and I remember when my brother and sister were toddlers on holiday in the caravan. They'd got up at some ungodly hour and eaten all the oxo cubes and then made themselves sick!

marmit and squirty cream on buttered toast or buttered scone!
yes to raw pasta.
salad cream into a tin of beans.
just make the base of a cheesecake into cereal sized bowls and sticking in the fridge to have as it is!digestives and melted butter nom nom
a whole cucumber chopped with side of salad cream
a whole plate of peas and carrots for tea,and I mean a plate full
plain pasta and salad cream
Horlicks straight from the jar
nesquik straight from the tub

Raw pastry
Raw cake mix
Crumble topping before being cooked
The skin off Semolina, Rice Pudding and custard
Mcvities digestives with blue band margarine and dairylea on a Saturday morning watching kids tele...bliss!!
When pregnant I made up whole packets of raspberry/strawberry angel delight, not that weird, but just remember how much I loved it.

How can anyone eat just one jelly cube?

I still buy a jelly occasionally (blackcurrant flavour) and scoff the lot, though I might just give a cube to dh if I'm feeling generous.

Yes to 'licking out' the cake mix bowl. My mother made a lot of cakes! I rarely make one, but dh still enjoys the scrapings.

Brown sauce sandwiches, sugar sandwiches, banana sandwiches, piccalilli sandwiches, fried chip sandwiches, condensed milk on cornflakes, worcester sauce poured into bags of crisps and goodness know what else, can't remember at the moment. I was a strange child!

I used to eat a Peperami then put the plastic condom-like cover fully in my mouth and suck it till all the flavour was gone.

I used to get a crisp (especially a Square Crisp), lick the flavour off, then put the soggy crisp on top of my hot anglepoise lamp to “toast” it before eating it.

I had a special way of eating every single chocolate bar or chocolate biscuit (Mars, Twix, Club etc.) by nibbling all round the outside first then eating each remaining element in a particular order.

I was a strange child.

@hollowtalk it was Virol. Amazing stuff.

Egg sandwiches with crushed up crisps in them
Huge pots of ski blackcurrant yogurt
Toasted jam sandwiches

All still delicious

the vinegar from the jar.

Oh YES!!!!

Pickle vinegar!

I still bloody love it! (Also the raw jelly, plus marrow out of the bones of a lamb/pork/beef joint)

I still eat banana sandwiches, crisp sandwiches, cheese & pineapple, pickled onions

Used to have "cheese on a plate" - sliced cheese (and onion if you were feeling fancy), salt & pepper & some milk. Stick it under the grill & eat with bread. Can feel my arteries furring up just thinking about it (but would secretly love to have it again!)

Cold rice pudding straight from the tin.

Spaghetti hoops on toast; nowadays what is essentially pasta on toast seems bizarre.

Yes to the raw jelly cubes.

sugar and butter mixed together, when we baked this was the part I loved to steal!

I am quite stunned that the things I thought were really weird are actually common to at least one other MNer. Looking back, I'm quite stunned at the amount of time, my mum just left my "playing" in the kitchen, turning a blind eye to the fact I was mixing, spooning and gorging on the contents of the pantry.

YY to:
melting minstrels (and smarties) within their hard shell. Like the PP, I would use the fireplace but if others were around and I needed my fix, I would squeeze them in my hand for ages.
raw jelly - also encouraged for nail growth in our house. I don't think I was supposed to eat as many as I did though.
raw pasta. I used to squeeze primula cheese from the metal tube through the centre of raw penne or macaroni
syrup sandwiches
two digestive biscuits both buttered and then sandwiched together with golden syrup
"hot oxo" - daily after school treat.
butter and sugar creamed together as if for the base of a cake - but just eaten by the spoonful (without mum's knowledge)
raw chicken stock cubes - stolen from the cupboard.
running a wet finger around a powdered soup or sauce mix packet (were we all salt deprived or just addicted?)
sucking and chewing the pepperami plastic. This ended (at least in public) when I did it at school and became known as "condom sucker"
crisp sandwiches but only salt and vinegar and only with vitalite.
plain crisps dipped into the pickle juice/vinegar
tinned ravioli, served with buttered toast. The ravioli squares would be mashed onto the toast and then I'd get plain white bread to mop up the tomato sauce.

Cake mixes - often made up and eaten raw without mum's knowledge, then we'd swear blind that she must have been mistaken about buying them.

Mum would often make millionaire shortbread. She would make extra caramel and use this to fill fairy cake cases so I had little caramel cups to eat. I could never wait for them to cool though so always ended up burning my mouth on molten caramel.

The idea of raw potatoes and chips makes me heave though - but I can see the attraction of bacon rinds although never tried it.

I'm pretty sure though, that the utterly weird and disgusting way I used to eat mini cheddars will not be shared with other MNers. I would chew up a cheddar into a crunchy paste and then use this the sandwich together another two cheddars. The whole pack would be eaten this way.

I also remember, a friend's mum had a really tasty, sweetened powder kept in a jar among her baking supplies. We would sneak into the pantry and eat it with a spoon. Could it have been powdered molasses? is that a thing?