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Odd eating habits of your childhood

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Sparrowlegs248 · 13/10/2018 22:31

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?

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HebeMumsnet · 17/10/2018 12:53

We also had banana sandwiches 'for a treat'. Sometimes with honey on. Halcyon days. But there is no sandwich to beat plastic white bread with tinned sweetcorn and salad cream in it.

I do remember a girl at school who brought raw jelly cubes in for her breaktime snack every day. I was incredibly jealous with my measly digestive biscuits, and thought her parents must be total hedonists. My kids would now think a digestive biscuit at school some kind of Bacchanalian feast, being as even 'too much' fruit is discouraged in favour of raw vegetable sticks in their breaktime snack pots. We didn't know we were born!

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HebeMumsnet · 17/10/2018 14:40

Waterlego you've just awoken a childhood memory. I also had Weetabix with butter... AND VEGEMITE on. What was that about? The damn thing crumbled to a million pieces at the first bite. It was ridiculous. I might need to have words with my parents about all this.

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