Things you cannot believe you ate as a child

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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).

*crunchy nut cornflakes

Anything like liver, kidneys, tongue 🤢

we used to have oxtail quite often as a cheap option. The meat bit was fine, but having to spend half the meal time getting it off the bone and getting rid of any fat/grizzle before you could eat it turned me right off it.

Pigs trotters - yuk, all sticky.
Sugar sandwiches and pure sugar beet to chew on - no wonder I had so many fillings as a kid.

Just remembered being given a stick of rhubarb and a bowl of sugar

Lemons with sugar! When there wasn’t any other fruit

Pig hearts. Absolutely adored them.

sugar on toast
dripping sandwiches
raw potatoes
liver
pigs trotters
deep fried pies/frozen sausages in oil that had been standing three years
mouldy stuff

Stuffed lamb's hearts.

They tried to get me to eat tripe once. No chance.

Tapioca (looked like frogspawn) and sago puddings, they had no flavour, but both had a slimy, slippery texture.

On the other hand, I loved offal dishes and still do.

After he told us what it was made of we almost puked but as kids you want to try anything.

We ate a lot of offal. I used to really enjoy stuffed heart and liver and bacon but probably wouldn't eat it now. Drew the line at brawn (brain) and tongue.
Tinned potato salad isn't nice though. Happy never to eat that again.
Grandparents also very keen on frozen individual mousse puddings - supermousse I think they were called. Ate a lot of those.
Dripping on toast with extra salt is delicious but I wouldn't eat it now.
My Mum often made this horrible pudding with a pre-made sponge case, filled with tinned mandarins and topped with gelatine. Not even nice back then..

Oh yes rhubarb and sugar! Lovely.
If I wasn't vegetarian I'd still be eating a lot of the meat mentioned here, I enjoyed it when I was younger.

Buttons, not the chocolate variety. I used to steal them out of the button box in my mums sewing kit. I cannot think why I did this now.

Oh thanks, mmmmm… 😄

Ah thanks 😄 I enjoyed it at the time, especially Tripe and onions with mash. At least mum cooked ours, Dad used to have his raw, with a little salt, pepper and vinegar 🤢

Indeed. I had one at the football yesterday.

Surprised to see this on this thread.

So many foods on this thread still eaten in our house.

Raw jelly.

Boiled gammon and carrots with white sauce. Utterly disgusting (and to be fair made me gag then let alone now.)

Toblerones (until one day I was sick on them).

oily, greasy spam fritters gah! - school dinners!

I agree! I actually liked liver and kidneys and oxtail soup is delicious. People turn their noses up at that - delicious and healthy in my book - but will eat chocolate coco pops or a box of Pringles!

My mum used to poach smoked haddock in milk 🤢🤢🤢 still can't stand smoked fish. Also ate quite a few sugar sandwiches..... yummy!!! ❤️ Her best dish was stovie tatties

I still eat a lot of foods mentioned on this thread too. I gave liver a swerve for years, but later realised that was because my parents overcooked it, I love it now!

We used to have Fray bentos pies sometimes, just the one between five of us (two adults and three children), no wonder we were all so skinny!

Birds apeel. It was some kind of instant orange juice. i don't remember it properly. i remember a standard school pack up being paste sandwich on white bread, crisps, penguin bar and ribena " ready to drink" carton. No one was horrified by this.

That doesn't sound as though the Oxtail had been cooked for long enough, as if you leave it until it's properly done (slowcooker - or pressure cook), the meat completely separates from the bones.

Just bought a large multicooker (to replace the SC that cracked) and Oxtail with beans, Scotch Bonnet, Thyme and Spring Onion - is top of the list of things to make.