sugar sandwiches are a fine after meal treat

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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?

I know Ego - it wouldn't have been expensive back in the 60s/70s when mum was making us take it but now the benefits have been clearly proved they can justify the price hike!

Salmo one of my favourite things is a liver sandwich with brown sauce . I'll cook extra just so I can have this the next day.Yum!

MIL & SILs have them sometimes.

Sounds horrible to me, but then I don't like mixing sweet & savoury anyway. Don't like even jam or Nutella on bread & hate honey in any form! Nothing sweeter than a tomato in a sandwich for me thank you!

Great title for one of those misery-lit books: 'Sugar Sandwiches for Tea: The true story of a pre-war East End childhood/growing up in the North.'

FarFrom - if I close my eyes I can still remember the smell and taste
At least they do it in capsule form now!!

Or it could be the title of a cook book that bombed: 'Sugar Sandwiches and other vintage, ration-book treats.'

Never had a sugar sandwich, but as a child we used to have sugar sprinkled on hot buttered toasted scottish plain bread, usually when we had run out of jam. Was amazing.

I suppose it's just like a Doughnut really.

I know my mum ate these when she was young.
I never did, that I remember, but I used to love gingerbread with butter and sugar on top.

Yes Salmo what IS that taste? It's like a ghastly mix of Grandfather's Shed/Mouldy Sawdust/Sweaty Sock and Great Aunt Minnie's underwear drawer.
There's nothing good about it at all!

Why should food never be a treat overmydeadbody?

Have you never had an ice cream at the seaside of been out for a meal to celebrate something? When I was little my Granny used to take me for scampi at her local fish and chip shop on the first day of the school holiday. It still makes me smile to think about that.

Food can be a lovely treat.

Oh hhhhh plain bread, toasted and with lots of lurpark

Vulcan, it's nothing like a doughnut - a doughnut has been deep-fat fried as well.

I was well impressed by my first trip to Amsterdam, where breakfast seemed to be toast + Nutella + sugar formed into little lumps (called 'mice' for some reason) sprinkled on top. I have a real fondness for sweet things and even I found that a bit much.

But I think you'd be a bit of a twat to feed it to your children, to be honest. And I think the OP knows that, and is being a weeny bit provocative. It really is shit getting them to sit still during their second filling. Once you've had to do thst ... Well, you do tend to be quite careful about toothbrushing and so on.

Yes, had sugar on bread and butter as a child, and at birthday parties, it wasn't unusual to have hundred and thousands sprinkled on bread and butter. Looked lovely and they were crunchy. Not that we went to any birthday parties then

Well we fit the lower income bracket at least for the amount children we have and I have to say soup and cinnamon toast is a favourite cheap tea here.

Or jam tarts, or cinnamon pastry or my kids big favourite hollygog pudding with soup.

I only make pudding if we are having soup.

We always have carrot and honey cookies, rock buns or Anzac biscuits too. One of these in the biscuit tin is nice for elevenses with milk and a piece of fruit. I'm 32 but sometimes the old recipes are very good.

Hundreds and thousands on bread and butter is fairy bread!

I presume all the horrified people are equally horrified by bread and honey too?

I love cinnamon toast, when we were at university it would be a cheap post pub snack. We would all sit in the kitchen, open a bottle of spirits and make rounds of cinnamon toast.

japancat, sugar sandwich: marg/butter, sugar, bread. Doughnut: oil/fat, sugar, dough, same difference.

Recommended level of sugar for kids is about half an ounce of extrinsic sugar. So as long your cautious about what your kids are eating and it really is a little bit now and then it's really not too bad.

My lovely FIL tells me he used to love a sugar sandwich as a boyhood treat! His mum was an old fashioned/ old school primary school kitchen 'cook/dinner lady' who would make 'proper' stick-to-your-ribs type food

My mum (late 70's) talks about having sugar sandwiches, but I've never seen her eat one. She did keep the dripping from a roast beef and eat that spread on bread. I expect that's a dying culinary experience too.

Absolutely disgusting thing to do & to feed that to your kids, well it's no wonder the government are trying to educate parents! I honestly thought people knew this was a stupid thing to do... Obvs not!

I remember my cousin & her sister doing this from a young age. Even then I knew it was disgusting. after years of eating sugar sandwiches (part of their overall unhealthy lifestyle) both of them have had to have all their own teeth out & lovely false ones put in their only 30ish Yuck)!

Plus multiple other diet related illnesses, acne & ever expanding waistlines.

Do your kids a favour & try a bit harder.

Never had it myself though but wouldn't be averse to trying it!