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Original poster

sugar sandwiches are a fine after meal treat

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hejhej · 10/08/2015 08:35

A few times I've mentioned having sugar sandwiches after a (healthy) meal people look at me a bit strange. One even gasped.

I can't be the only one doing this right?

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maddy68 · 10/08/2015 08:46

Wouldn't do it myself but it's no worse than a bread and butter pudding etc

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 10/08/2015 08:46

Remember remember: You eat sugar straight off the spoon? Confused

OP: it's weird. HTH. Grin

MagpieCursedTea · 10/08/2015 08:47

My Mother made me a sugar sandwich for my packed lunch once in primary school. It was disgusting but the dinner ladies wouldn't let me leave the table until I'd finished my lunch. I spent the whole of dinner time trying to squash the sandwich into smaller pieces so I could choke it down. I still feel sad and queasy whenever someone mentions sugar sandwiches.

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hejhej · 10/08/2015 08:48

My mum is always horrified if she catches me having a sneaky teaspoonful of sugar when making a round of teas and coffees at their house - they have Demerara sugar and it is delicious! Yet no one bats an eyelid to my DF and DP who both have two sugars in their tea.

This totally! It seems strange that having sugar obviously us frowned upon but hidden sugar is fine

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BertrandRussell · 10/08/2015 08:48

Cinnamon toast, anybody?

wigglesrock · 10/08/2015 08:48

My husband used to have them as a child - I can't really get excited about them either way. I have HP sandwiches

OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 10/08/2015 08:49

I'm 25. I remember doing this as a kid!

We were desperately poor though, and often it was all we had left in the house - a few crusts of bread and a pot of sugar.

Wouldn't eat it now.

MummaV · 10/08/2015 08:49

My mum loved sugar sandwiches as a kid but would never make me one, so it was the first thing I did when I moved out! wasn't that great.

Her other weird and wonderful things are sugar free jelly with sugar sprinkled on it and vanilla ice cream with undiluted orange squash poured over it. Always found those two especially weird.
My dad loves clotted cream and honey sandwiches.

I have a strange family! Confused

Egosumquisum · 10/08/2015 08:49

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BsshBosh · 10/08/2015 08:50

YANBU. I have fond memories of eating sugar sandwiches (also, dripping on toast) as a child in the 70s. Absolutely delicious. Though haven't had either as an adult (note to self, must buy some white bread and try out a sugar sandwich again!).

Lozy79 · 10/08/2015 08:50

We did this in the 80's Grin

Notso · 10/08/2015 08:51

YANBU, I love sugar butties, a cream cracker with butter and sugar or cinnamon toast.

Salmotrutta everytime I read that oxo-orange story my mouth goes all funny. It sounds so wrong.

SandraMelandra · 10/08/2015 08:51

Nothing weird about this op.

I regularly had sugar sandwiches, sugar on toast, condensed milk on toast and from a spoon growing up.

I now keep a squeezy tube of condensed milk in the fridge for emergencies.

I've had to stop buying those gorgeous coffee sugar crystals though. Blush

Pagwatch · 10/08/2015 08:51

I could almost understand sugar sandwiches if it was a tea time thing.
After a meal it just seems a huge amount to eat.
But I rarely finish puddings and usually prefer something like sorbet.

I always love the 'well foreigners do it' as if not being English means perfect diet. I watched a bloke in Spain tip a bucket of salt on his salad yesterday. I'm not doing that either. Grin

CantWorkItOut22 · 10/08/2015 08:52

Probably better than a bread and butter pudding. Same carbs and sugar but less fat.
Probably better than a bag of haribo.

Egosumquisum · 10/08/2015 08:53

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HemanOrSheRa · 10/08/2015 08:54

Oooh toast and dripping, Bssh. Lovely! We used to fight over who had the jelly bit at the bottom of the pot.

WeAreEternal · 10/08/2015 08:54

It sounds revolting and is nothing like having a slice of cake.

Plateofcrumbs · 10/08/2015 08:54

Health wise absolutely no different to toast and jam/honey and no doubt better than lots of desserts.

Unusual/old fashioned, sure, but it's not particularly bad for you.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 10/08/2015 08:55

Memories of Brownie camp...sugar sarnies!

BertrandRussell · 10/08/2015 08:55

"I always love the 'well foreigners do it' as if not being English means perfect diet"

I wasn't suggesting it was a perfect diet. I was pointing out that it is not weird or a one off.

Salmotrutta · 10/08/2015 08:55

Has anyone here ever tried Cilla's Oxo-Orange... erm, treat?

Christinayanglah · 10/08/2015 08:56

Nope, don't fancy it, could murder a bit of shortbread mind you

Mabelface · 10/08/2015 08:56

Sugar butties were a staple in our house when I was a kid. We did the orange squash over ice cream too. 70s/80s kid.

Egosumquisum · 10/08/2015 08:57

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