Things you cannot believe you ate as a child

[NovemberAutumn]

One of my mother's favourite sandwich fillings- deep fried crumbed lambs brains with iceberg lettuce and salad cream in white bread.

I did eat it a few times until I properly realised what it was- but- [shudder]. Just why?

DH used to love and adore his mother's pureed (pickled!) beetroot in white sauce. Just pureed pink slop surely (I made it for him once).

We had sugar sandwich and also lettuce and sugar and cucumber and sugar sandwiches 🤤

I went to a bone marrow restaurant last week for my birthday bloody gorgeous stuff.

Yorkshire pudding and treacle for pudding on Sunday and Yorkshire pudding and raspberry vingar as well. Condensed milk sandwiches.

Spam.
Rissoles.
School dinners generally.

I mean, I tried to eat them because we were made to but euwwww.

Wtf?! You win the thread!

Went to a festival admittedly quite some time ago and left one friend to deal with the communal kitty of food.

She basically bought a shit tonne of baps, Shippams Chicken Paste and cucumber and a load of Quavers and kitkats.

We were all horrified at the paste sandwiches but she tucked in with gusto and I decided to have one while struggling with an existential hangover.

Fuck, if it wasn't the best thing I'd ever tasted. I've moved countries now and it's not accessible but I'd give anything for a chicken paste and cucumber bap sometimes.

I was hoping I wasn’t alone but dm told me they were good for me (‘full of calcium’) and I really loved them ! I would not eat them now 🤢

Do you mean the soft bones in tinned fish? I don't usually have salmon, but that's why I always reject fillets in tins - taking the bones out removes one of the important health benefits.

(Cartilage on the end of chicken thighs are good, too, by the way)

The soft bones in tinned salmon is the vertebrae not its spinal cord. I leave the bones in when preparing tinned salmon for sandwiches but remove the bits of skin that’s often left on the fillets.
The bones are really soft and break up easily with a fork. Good source of calcium.
PS. I love jars of Shippams paste, Salmon,,Chicken, Beef, Beef and Tomato. Tuna Tuna and Mayo. My go to comfort food.
Mother used to make Brawn, not sure exactly what went in it but it was similar to a pate, not as dense as pate but really tasty.

It was just like a mini intact spine (with little bones coming off it at each side which were quite spiky !) but sometimes there was just this elastic soft stuff inside the spine that I loved 😂😂🤢

Spratts - small fish, ate all complete with crunchy bones

Loads of Kia-ora squash, cola & fizzy drinks generally, plus coffee and tea from a young age. I didn't drink water until I was in my late teens/20s.

Tons of convenience food, shop bought cake, tinned fruit, evaporated milk. If we had meat & veg it was cooked to death. Boiled potatoes - not mash or roast, just peeled, chopped and boiled. Quite a lot of chocolate, crisps and sweets.

If anything though it made me a foodie and want to learn to cook and bake, and have nicer fresh home cooked food that at least I knew was out there. Plus then going into the 1990s more ingredients and more interesting things became available in supermarkets.

Isn't brawn basically an animal's head? So mainly brains plus meat bits from outside?

It most probably was, you’ve reminded me of her boiling a sheep’s head. She also cooked a tongue, I think it was a cows tongue, it was massive, she rolled it up, tied it with string then boiled it with herbs and seasoning.

My grandmother used to cook brawn. Problem was that she lived in a very hot country and she did not believe in refrigeration so it would sit out next to the sink for days and she would just trim off the green bits before serving.

I had a Russian friend who made tongue. She served it cold and sliced with a marinated grape sauce and it was divine.

I'm finding the idea that we feed our kids better now odd. As if low fat oat milk is good! It's awful. Brains and fat and butter are all good proper food full of minerals. Oat milk is shit processed gloop. Oats alone are proper food.

November autumn i think the older generation didn't bother so much with hygiene. My great grandfather would only eat stilton cheese when the maggots came out 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

We still eat a lot of that now. I made corned beef hash last week. I love fish paste sandwiches. Home made oxtail soup is the food of the gods.

I tend to agree with this.

Pek, which I'm assuming was luncheon meat - what even is that?! Potted meat (grim). We ate a lot of rabbit stew and liver and onions which were enough to put me off for life. Steak Canadians which I cannot find anywhere, they were great in a pita bread for a snack. Biggest fear food now has to be cake mixture. My kids now love it but I just can't bring myself to "lick the bowl" knowing it's full of RAW eggs

The dog's bonios.

I didn't even like them that much and knew I would be in trouble for eating them so I used to have a bite or two and then chuck them behind the washing machine so I wouldn't be found out. I don't know why I never thought to just give them to the dog. When we moved a few years later and my dad pulled the washing machine out there were dozens of half eaten bonios behind it. I never owned up.

Whenever I had tonsillitis my dad would make me 'sugar noodles'
Which were knobs of butter coated in sugar. He would leave a plate by my bedside for if my throat was sore in the night.
Now I know why I have so many fillings.

Raw eggs are fine in this country, I'm pretty sure it's raw flour which is considered unsafe to eat.

Pek, which I'm assuming was luncheon meat - what even is that?!

Pek is chopped pork reformed into a cylindrical shape with water and preservatives. Luncheon meat is emulsified "meat" (30-35% pig products of some kind), fat (20-24%), water (30-35%) and additives (5-10% starch, soy protein and preservatives), squeezed through a tube and sliced. Pek does produce tinned luncheon meat, presumably for people who can't bear the vague resemblance of normal Pek to something related to meat.

Isn't brawn basically an animal's head? So mainly brains plus meat bits from outside?

I used to like brawn, but I haven't seen it since the supermarkets all closed their delicatessen counters. I can't even find haslet these days.