Childhood into Adulthood

[Rachel Perlow]

All this talk about childhood food memories brought something else to my mind. What did you eat as a child that you still like to eat now? Not as a rare novelty, but something you eat that other adults wouldn't think of eating.

Mine is actually a technique rather than a food. When we have chinese food, I usually take my egg roll, cut it in half and remove the filling. I mix a little duck sauce and mustard, mix some into the filling. First I eat the cabbage filling, then the fried shell (dipping it in the sweet & spicy sauce). Everytime I do this, Jason asks me why I'm doing it? Mostly it's because that is the way my mom showed me how to eat egg rolls as a kid. I just prefer them that way.

He thinks it's weird, but you'd think after more than 8 years together he'd stop asking my why I do this. The answer hasn't changed.

My mom can't believe I still do this.

[Varmint]

Rachel, that story kind of reminds me of how everyone in my extended family eats mashed potatoes the same way (and probably many others). If we have gravy, of course we form the well in the center, which acts as the holding reservoir for the gravy. We eat from the outside of the pile, dipping forkfuls of potato into the gravy. The objective is to avoid breaking the dam.

If we don't have gravy and just have butter, we create the same well, but then we cover it the well. Yes, we entomb our butter. We then slowly try to eat from one side until we hit the gusher of now molten butter.

I know this isn't unique or even unusual, but it's tradition!

[Double 0]

Scrambled eggs with kosher salami and Heinz ketchup

[Sandra Levine]

Scrambled eggs with kosher salami and Heinz ketchup

Yummy. I'd like to follow that with a dessert of Oreo cookies, twisted apart so I can scrape the filling off with my teeth.

[Double 0]

Scrambled eggs with kosher salami and Heinz ketchup

Yummy. I'd like to follow that with a desert of Orea cookies, twisted apart so I can scrape the filling off with my teeth.

exactly

[Jason Perlow]

its like a scene from the X files.

Mulder: Oh my god Scully, look! Its Egg Roll evisceration! The truth is out there!

Scully: Shut up and let me eat my lunch, Mulder.

[nightscotsman]

Well, of course I have to mention grilled cheese sandwiches with strawberry jam, if even just horrify Jinmyo again.

[Jinmyo]

Well, of course I have to mention grilled cheese sandwiches with strawberry jam, if even just horrify Jinmyo again. 

[Marlene]

I always did and still put salt on my cantaloupe. My husband thinks this is very weird, but that's how I was taught to eat it.

The mashed potato volcano too!!!!!

[awbrig]

salt on cantaloupe, cmon?!?

[Marlene]

salt on cantaloupe, cmon?!?

Uh huh!

[awbrig]

Marlene,

I totally give you the mashed potato volcano, I caused a great deal of butter lava erupting potato monstrosities myself...but salt on fruit I cant do, sugar, but not salt...

[Marlene]

Marlene,

I totally give you the mashed potato volcano, I caused a great deal of butter lava erupting potato monstrosities myself...but salt on fruit I cant do, sugar, but not salt...

Well, it's only cantaloupe that I put salt on, not any other kind of fruit. And with mashed potatoes, first I entomb the butter, and THEN I make a slight well and pour the gravy in!

Also, pancakes are a must with butter, sugar and syrup. My husband says this is overkill. Probably. I don't eat a lot of sweet stuff so this is where I get my sugar fix!

[southern girl]

Grits with crispy bacon crumbled in them.

[jaybee]

Umm, I remember being breast fed. Still like it.

[awbrig]

My Mother wouldnt breast feed me. She said she just wanted to be friends.

[ngatti]

Grits with crispy bacon crumbled in them.

Childhood or adulthood, that sounds good.

Nick

[Jason Perlow]

My Mother wouldnt breast feed me.  She said she just wanted to be friends.

This explains a great many things, awbrig.

[Varmint]

Grits with crispy bacon crumbled in them.

A little cheese is good, too. As is a soft-cooked egg. And scallions. And country ham. And mushrooms.

MY GOD, grits are the ultimate food!!!!

[elfin]

At the risk of losing any credibility as a kid I loved Franco American canned chicken gravy over white toast. When I was pregnant, I craved the stuff but after one bite the vile combo did not invoke the same pleasurable taste as it did in my youth. My favorite lunch as a kid was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with iceberg lettuce (the whiter leaves closer to the core the better) with Campbells' chicken noodle soup.

[torakris]

Occasionally for Saturday lunches (the only day of the week all 10 of us ate lunch together) my mother would make sloppy joes. They were always served with a bowl of potato chips and pepsi. I used to put the potato chips in the sandwich because I liked the crunch.

I rarely eat sloppy joes now, but when I do I can't leave the potato chips out.

[maggiethecat]

Well, of course I have to mention grilled cheese sandwiches with strawberry jam, 

Nightscotsman: You mean, this ISN'T the correct way to eat grilled cheese? My mother always put out jam (never marmelade) with grilled cheese sandwiches and I always thought that this was the knowledgable, classy, haute way to eat them!

[Lady T]

Salt on cantaloupe is something I still do sometimes -- but I have a friend who salts her grapefruit halves in the morning, and THAT is something I have trouble processing!

[nightscotsman]

Well, of course I have to mention grilled cheese sandwiches with strawberry jam,  

Nightscotsman: You mean, this ISN'T the correct way to eat grilled cheese? My mother always put out jam (never marmelade) with grilled cheese sandwiches and I always thought that this was the knowledgable, classy, haute way to eat them!

You mean my Mom's family weren't the only ones to do this? Where did the practice originate, do you think? I can't eat "toasted cheese" (that's what we called it) without jam to this day. It's just missing something.

[hollywood]

My Mother wouldnt breast feed me.  She said she just wanted to be friends.

You haven't been the same since prison.