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City of Mills Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:45 PM
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Weird food
My wife's dad brought her up eating french fry sandwiches...he would take two slices of white bread, add french fries, and douse liberally with vinegar.

Personally, I'm normal, and I was brought up eating normal food. Does anyone else have a "family" recipe they would like to share?
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:46 PM
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1. Peanut butter and onion
Specifically Walla Walla sweet onions.

My Dad used to eat those nasty sandwiches.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:50 PM
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7. No PB, but raw onion sandwich is OK.
Gotta be a Walla-Walla or Vidalia, though.
Brown bread or Rye, slather on the Mayo, slice onions, grind pepper over all.

Enjoy!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:47 PM
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2. Moxie and milk.
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achtung_circus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:47 PM
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3. Well, there's "red lead"
Edited on Tue Dec-21-04 02:49 PM by achtung_circus
Stewed tomatoes, bread cubes, onions and mozarella cheese.

Sprinkle with bread crumbs and bake. No one else has ever heard of it but it's is (almost) universally found to be a good thing.

edited to add onions.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:48 PM
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4. Peanut butter and Miracle Whip...
Don't make that face! TRY it!

better n' ferkin' banananananas...
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CatBoreal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:06 PM
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16. Add lettuce and it's even better!!!
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:48 PM
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5. Pigs' feet jelly
It's an old Estonian dish that looks as horrible as it sounds. People eat it with vinegar.

I refused to touch it and still have nightmares....
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yardwork Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:49 PM
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6. My son used to make spaghetti sandwiches when he was little
Take two pieces of white bread, fill them with white spaghetti, eat.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:52 PM
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8. Is there a low-carb version of that? n/t
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:12 PM
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28. I did this with spagghetti Os
They seemed to taste better as a sandwich.
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Jessica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:55 PM
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9. Peanut Butter & Pickle Sandwiches ...
Edited on Tue Dec-21-04 02:57 PM by Jessica
Yummmmm ... :9

On edit: I forgot Hotdog Pancakes! Just slice up a few hotdogs. Pour your pancake batter in the skillet & place a few hotdog pieces throughout. Cook & serve. Don't forget the syrup! I know it sounds gross, but trust me ... it's not!
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:55 PM
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10. That's a chip butty!
And I don't consider it wierd in the slightest.
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rsdsharp Donating Member (516 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:56 PM
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11. Peanut butter
and dill pickles. It's also good to add cheddar cheese to the mix.

I had a boss who ate liverwurst and cake donut sandwiches. That's too weird for me.
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City of Mills Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:59 PM
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12. The weirdest thing I like is dry ramen
And I can pretty much eat anything plain, like plain pasta, plain bread, plain pancakes, white meat turkey with no gravy, etc.
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Metatron Donating Member (877 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:39 PM
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24. I love dry ramen noodles!
Of course, I don't think it is weird at all. :9
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IHeart1993 Donating Member (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:59 PM
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13. I eat parmasean cheese right from the container.
It's good!
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:30 PM
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39. of course it is
Oh wait: you mean grated Parmesan and not Parmigiano Reggiano?
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 02:59 PM
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14. Lays potato chips, cream of mushroom soup, and canned chicken
all mixed up together and baked.

This is courtesy of my in-laws. I'd never heard of cooking with potato chips before...
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AwakeAtLast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:01 PM
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15. Dad loves to make fried bologna sandwiches
We also ate PB & Banana now and then. O. K., but not something I crave.
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:26 PM
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17. Rocky Mountain Oysters, Prairie Oysters, Montana Tendergroin
One of the technicians in a lab near the one where I work is also a farmer, and a couple of months ago he converted most of his young bullocks into steers. He brought a large cooler full of bull to work and fried them for lunch. Of course he had enough to share, so he traveled far & wide, offering this delicacy to everyone he encountered. I went back to his work area for something, running into him and a couple of his buddies. I was cornered, unable to turn down his generous offer without sacrificing my pride and machismo.

Rationalizing that it was just another part of an animal I had consumed on countless occasions, I took a slice, about 1/4" thick and big as a slice of eggplant. As I bit into it, I became aware of how they acquired their name; they had the same texture and faint flavor of oysters. That was hard enough to handle - and I shouldn't have looked at what I was eating, for it had a spongy, porous appearance. I imagined seeing liquid seeping from those pores. My stomach was beginning to churn in revolt, but I plowed ahead, stuffing the rest of the slice into my mouth, complimenting him on the spicy seasoning. I choked it down, mumbled something about having to run, and tactfully declined another piece.

For a couple of hours afterward, I felt nauseated every time I recalled the experience. Still, I felt some satisfaction in taking the offer - not expressing revulsion at the very thought - and actually eating it in front of them.

Is it any wonder that men have a shorter life expectancy than women? We'll do ANYthing on a dare, especially when our bravery is in question.
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kslib Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:41 PM
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25. Dude!
We used to have a "oyster" fry in town after the local farmers cut their bulls and boars. Yum! (You do, of course, DRAIN them before frying!) They ARE tasty!!!
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Sporadicus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 04:02 PM
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26. I'll Save My Portion for You!
I've always been a little squeamish about organ or glandular meat since I was about 11 years old. My father took me to my uncle's farm for a hog butchering. I'll spare the details of the butchery, which was bad enough, but what followed really put the kibosh on adventuresome eating on my part for years to come. After the hog carcasses were hauled away, one of the yahoos went to a pile of offal and rooted around until he found a kidney. He poked some holes in it with his pocket knife, literally squeezed the piss out of it, and poked a stick through it. He went over to a 55-gal drum that had a fire going in it and toasted the kidney like a marshmallow - for what seemed a period of time no longer than it takes to make a 'smore, then pulled the blackened mass out of the fire. He then munched on that kidney, even though I could see that it was still pink in the middle. The whole evening had been surreal - feral and brutish - and that impromptu nosh on a kidney made an association in my mind between organ meat and barbarism.

I considered my oyster-tasting a breakthrough of sorts, but they're still pretty far down on the list of animal parts I'll consume. In fact, I consider them on a par with brains, eyeballs & sphincters.
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:28 PM
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18. Tomato sandwiches.
A BIG thick slice of red, juicy tomato beween two slices of bread and smothered in mayo. Eat over the sink and let the juice run down your arms, for full enoyment.

:)
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:16 PM
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30. gotta toast the bread
but YUMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:31 PM
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19. My SO grew up with chip buttys too
My brother in law makes chocolate sprinkle sandwiches...white bread, butter and chocolate sprinkles. It's a Dutch thing.

I don't know if it's weird, but we used to have ham and (fresh from the garden) cucumber sandwiches, with a splash of mustard. Yummy.

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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:33 PM
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20. Grape jelly on bacon
A must have!

My husband thinks I'm weird though.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:33 PM
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21. Peanut butter on pancakes
My dad's idea. Without syrup it's not bad-just another kind of PB sandwich. With syrup it's a bit much...
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48pan Donating Member (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:37 PM
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22. Baked Bean Sandwiches with Mayo...
My father ate them. My grandfather ate bananas with mayo and would put sardines on his bran flakes in the morning.
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kslib Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 03:38 PM
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23. Bread and Butter and Sugar and Cream
Yep, just what it says, a piece of white bread slather with butter, loaded up with some sugar (the butter makes it stick) and then doused with a liberal helping of cream or half-and-half. Needless to say, it makes a little kid really hyper. My nanna used to give it to me once in a great while. It kind of makes me wanna barf now though!
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:19 PM
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32. We called that "poor man's cake" w/ cream...I love it!
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 04:41 PM
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27. Pickled herring in sour cream sauce
Except my moose dog wants to eat the whole jar and not share.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:13 PM
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29. Baked beans as chip dip
As my dad does, I usually eat baked beans at picnics this way.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:18 PM
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31. Well, crawfish is normal for me but "weird" for other folks.
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loudestchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:22 PM
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33. We make a jello salad w/ knox clear gelatain, grapefruit sections
and floating in this gelatinous mix? little clumps of cream cheese mixed w/ pecans. It looks bad, sounds worse, tastes terrific!
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IntravenousDemilo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:30 PM
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34. You know what's delicious?
French fries doused with soy sauce. No salt required, and it makes the chips taste kind of meaty. Eat with fingers.

Avocado mashed on whole wheat toast. A friend of mine who doesn't like the look of it, calls this a "snot sandwich".

Strawberries with fresh-cracked black pepper. Pepper makes strawberries taste even strawberrier.

President's Choice passion fruit jam and sliced kiwi fruit, again on whole wheat toast. The tart wetness of the kiwi makes the passion fruit flavour explode in the mouth.
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sbj405 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:37 PM
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35. Peanut Butter and Spinach Sandwiches
Natural PB on a nice whole wheat bread with baby spinach. yummmm.
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Magrittes Pipe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:39 PM
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36. No such thing as "weird food."
As long as it ain't poison, or anything. If it's edible, it's edible. You may not be used to it, of course -- for instance, I'm not partial to anything in which you eat the whole animal, like sardines or escargots. Still, it ain't weird. It's just food.
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cmkramer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:28 PM
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37. Cracker oats
My sister and I used to consider this quite a treat when we were kids. Basically, it's crackers cooked in milk, sweetener optional. Supposedly, it's from the Depression.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:29 PM
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38. Jam and cheese sandwiches.
NOT jelly - it must be jam. And good cheese.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:31 PM
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40. Haggis
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:33 PM
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41. there is no such thing
The special thing I do frequently is my "horrible mixture":

Onions with lots of salt, a little garlic, lemon juice until everything swims and black pepper. Takes out any beginning cold, is a real treat and in emergencies it is a quite acceptable salad dressing.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 07:53 PM
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42. Black Pepper on...
1. cantaloupe

2. Buttered crackers

Salt on...

1. Watermelon

Salt and Pepper on...

1. French Toast
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