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    The first time I tried a fruit dip that my sister makes, I was suprised
    to find out what it was made up of.
    But it's very easy and VERY good!
    
    All you need is cream cheese and marshmellow fluff.  The proportions
    are up to you, depending on if you want it cheesier or sweeter.
    
    I usually use a medium package of cream cheese, and likewise, a
    medium jar of fluff.  Mix together well.  Then I cut a pinapple
    in half, hollow out half to put the dip in and cut up the rest to
    dip.  Then arrange on platter, along with some fresh strawberries,
    and leave it on a table somewhere where people can find it easily.
    
    And believe me, they find it alright!  
    Try it, it'll surprise you on it's ease and taste!
    
    Kathleen
    
    

    How about a peanutbutter, mayonaise and sliced onion sandwich.
    
    My Father and Grandfather got me hooked on this. Great with a cold
    glass of beer or cold glass of milk.

        One of my very favorite sandwiches to take fishing is peanut
        butter, champagne mustard, and well-done crumbled bacon.
        
        Or, peanut butter, French's mustard, and O & C French Fried Onion
        Ring sandwich.
        
        My mouth is watering.
        
        Art

  In case someone thinks you're kidding (about pickles), let's not
  forget the peanut butter & pickle sandwich! I used to love them as a
  kid. A nice change from PB&J.

  But the PB recipes reminded me that in college, when supplies were low
  and hungers high (usually in the wee hours), we'd try just about
  anything. One of the more popular snacks was the mustard and
  mayonnaise sandwich. It wasn't popular because it tasted good, but
  because the ingredients were always around. Some people also added
  ketchup for a little color. We used to call it "tangy treat". This was
  an all-male dorm, in case anyone was wondering. A guy would say to a
  woman he was trying to impress "Why don't you spend the night? We can
  watch the late movie and snack on some tangy treats." And we call this
  "civilization"?

  - Mike

    Ahem.  Take one can of tuna, add lemon juice and mayonnaise, and mix.
    
    Prepare one box of Noodles Romanoff according to the package
    directions. 
    
    Place together in bowl (or the pot the noodles were prepared in).
    Stir.  Serve.
    
    (If there will be left-overs, keep the tuna and noodles separate, so
    the tuna can be kept cold and the noodles can be reheated.) 
    
    
    				-- edp

    Yeuk, I am sure they all taste delicious but they sure all send
    quite disgusting...
    
    When I was a kid, I used to like coming home from school to a plate
    of strawberry jam and cheese sandwiches.  Ymm.
    
    

    
    	When we were kids we used to love Cheese Ketchup and Bologna
    sandwiches.  NOt too wierd except for the ketchup.
    
    	My mother once served us chicken which she coated with 
    peanut butter and baked - we wouldn't eat it and we've never
    let her forget it.
    
    	And then there was the time she made pea soup with the
    yellow peas.  She knew we wouldn't eat it so she added green
    food coloring.
    
    	And finally, another college favorite : Snotties!!!  These
    are french fries covered with melted cheese whiz or velveta.
    My mom told me that when she was a kid french fries used to
    be served with VINEGAR!!!
    

    Fries with vinegar is common across the pond and, if you'll look
    at the ingredient list on your favorite brand of catsup, you'll
    find vinegar right up there.
    
    My childhood favorite wierd taste was to put potato chips in
    the roll when they gave us tuna salad subs for lunch at school
    And I remember a few batches of peanut-butter milkshakes a good
    friend and I made.  We outgrew that phase pretty quickly.
    
    --Louise

    fries and vinegar are pretty common here too I believe. Just walk
    up to one of the frie vendors at any of the numerous fairs taking
    place here in New England and there with the salt and ketchup will
    be a bottle of vinegar. I love em' going to get my fill this weekend.
    
    Anybody else ever have bread + butter + sugar sandwiches as a kid
    ???
    
    john
    

    re:  .11
    
    YES!!! I've had bread, butter and BROWN sugar sandwiches.....
    mmmmm, mmmmm good! Now how 'bout molasses sandwiches?

re .10 

>    My childhood favorite wierd taste was to put potato chips in
>    the roll when they gave us tuna salad subs for lunch at school

	Yes....that was a favorite of mine too. Potato chips in Tuna/
	Egg/Chicken/Turkey salad, mixed right in there or placed right
	in the roll. 

	Also, another favorite of mine was dipping McDonald's french
	fries in their shakes....chocolate was my favorite, but vanilla
	and strawberry-coated fries were also pretty good (and still are,
	only I won't "dip" in public anymore  8-)   ).

	Marc

    My mother used to make a dish made of:
    
    	- a small onion sliced & browned in cooking oil in frying pan
    	- add a one lb. pkg of hot dogs, sliced vertically
    	- after the hot dogs are also brown, dump in a small can
    	  of tomato sauce with enough water to thin to a sauce
    
    Let all of this simmer for just a few minutes, and then serve over
    steamed rice!  Yum Yum!
    
    I had not tasted this in years, and actually made it for my family
    a few weeks ago.  They loved it.
    
    	- Kathy
    

           I like my fries with mustard.  Yum!  
    
           -mrs o 
    

   re:	< Note 1351.16 by STAR::OBERLIN >


>              I like my fries with mustard.  Yum!  

   Yeah, I use mustard on 'em, sometimes, too.  But only the brown kind.
   Yellow doesn't quite make it for me.  I also used to put tartar sauce
   on fried and pretend I had fried clams.  Outgrew that one.
   
   I got a taste for vinegar on fries (chips) and fried fish on a visit
   to the UK ten years back.  Took me a while of experimenting to relize
   that you should use malt vinegar.  Normal cider vinegar is much too
   sour and overpowering.
   
   D=

    re:17
    I still like tartar sauce on my fries.  

    Couldn't resist entering this one here, though I'll keyword it
    properly.
    
    Miracle Ham
    
    1/2 lb ham, cubed or julienned	2-3 Tbsp Miracle Whip
    Assorted veggies, diced or		1   Tbsp spicy brown mustard
       julienned to match ham		salt pepper and garlic to taste
       (I used onions, sweet		1 tsp cornstarch 
       peppers, and a 1/2 ripe		ALL ABOVE blended with 1 cup
       garden surplus tomato,			water
       and some green onions and chives.)
    Cooked noodles - twists are good.
    
    Put a tsp or two oil in a skillet.  Cook onion until soft.  Add
    tomato and ham, then pepper.  Pour sauce over and cook until thick.
    Add green onions and chives and toss.  Put in a casserole.  Stir
    in your noodles.  Voila!  
    
    This dish, believe it or not, disappeared so quickly there was none
    left for today's lunch.  The taste was not wierd, as you might
    expect, but more like one of the more time-consuming mustard sauced
    dishes, and it took only 10 minutes to put together.
    
    --Louise

    I heard the ultimate Yuck this morning - Peanut butter and catsup
    dip!  
    
    Sarah
    

    	Re: Hotdogs over rice!!
    
    	My mother has a similar recipe that she calls "Spanish
        Rice Pronto".  Its quite good and I still make it.
    	She also has a recipe called "Frankfurts and Noodles"
    	which I make on occasion.  The recipes follow...
    
    	Karen
    
    
    
	Spanish Rice Pronto

5 frankforts, sliced 
2 medium onions, sliced 
1 Green pepper, chopped (optional) 
2 C Minute Rice 
2 C hot water 
3-8 oz cans tomato sauce
1-1/2 tsp salt
dash pepper
3/4 tsp mustard

Start browning onion and pepper in 1/4 C bacon drippings or in oil. Add
frankforts and then rice. Cook and stir over high heat until lightly browned.
add remaining ingredients. Mix well. Bring quickly to boil, reduce heat, and
simmer uncovered for 5 minutes. 

	Frankfurts and Noodles

4 C egg noodles
2 C sliced onions 
2 small peppers chopped
1 C chopped celery
2-3 franks per person
1 large can tomatoes
2-8 oz cans tomato sauce

Cook noodles. Meanwhile brown onions, peppers, celery and frankfurts. Add to
cooked noodles along with tomatoes and tomato sauce. Season with celery salt,
seasoned salt, pepper to taste. 

    

I learned this from a southerner - a REALLY southern southerner - so I'm
willing to believe this is regional....Mashed Potato Salad

Mix mashed potatos (plain smashed, cooked, cooled potatos) with mayonaise
to taste.  Add diced sweet pickle, diced hard boiled egg, diced onion,
and diced celery to taste.  Season with salt, pepper, and paprika.

It's really quite good, but a little surprising.

    re .23  Mashed Potato Salad
    
    I grew up in Charleston, S.C. and this was the only way my mom served
    potato salad.  Only difference was we used diced dill pickle instead
    of sweet pickle.
    

    
    RE: .24 Diced dill pickles in potato salad!!
    
    	Yum!!  This is the way my mom does it.  The potato salad is
    	close to mashed too.  She peels and cooks the potatoes, then	
    	cuts into large chunks, then mixes in chopped green pepper,
    	diced onion, diced dill pickles, seasonings, and mayonaise.
    	In the process of mixing, it gets kinda mashed.
    
    	Delicious!  I think I'm going to have to make some soon.
    
    	Karen
    

    A friend of mine eats Peanut Butter and Tarter Sauce sandwiches.
    Suppose thats rates up there with pb and mayo.  
    
    Gag.  I don't even put mayo in tuna.  Just the thought.  G-A-G!

    
      I have a friend who has a friend that has a friend whose weakness
    is Oreo cookies seperated and spead with "Gorton" then reassemled.
    
                                YECHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
                                                         RONM
    

    My preferred low-cholesterol, diet meal is Schmaltz on Bread.
    
    Schmaltz is lard cooked with apple chunks and sauteed onion bits
    and then cooled.
    
    The meal consists of <your favorite> bread with Schmaltz spread on it
    <to your favorite thickness> with salt sprinkled <your favorite way> on
    it during <your favorite season>. 
    
    My favorites are "rye," "not too much," "liberally" and "winter."
    
    The low-cholesterol diet part of the meal is before you start.
    
    Frank_who_is_known_for_his_Mar|Vegemite_on_Bread_too_and_has_such_
          low_blood_pressure_that_he's_not_worried...yet.

  > Schmaltz is lard [...]

  I thought lard was usually pork fat, which wouldn't be too kosher, and
  I thought schmaltz was typically found in Jewish cooking. In any case,
  in our family, schmaltz is made from rendered chicken fat seasoned
  with onions. No apples. Incidentally, I noticed rendered chicken fat
  in near the bacon at the Triple-A market in Acton. It wasn't called
  schmaltz, and I didn't notice if it had been flavored.

Gorton in this case (I think) refers to a Canadian French meat thingy. I
just sat here trying to come up with a better word than meat thingy and
couldn't.

Anyway, gorton (pronounced GORR-TAWN') is made from ground pork which is
cooked in a large pot.  You boil it with grated onions, salt, pepper, and
ground cloves. While it's still hot you pour it into a loaf pan and
refrigerate it. The next day you either remove the loaf from the pan or
slice it right in there.  It's a sandwich meat; you slice it 1/4" to 3/8"
think, or you just pile rough chunks of it on the bread. It has the
constistency and look, I guess, of broken-up meatloaf. In any case,
catsup OR mustard compliment it very nicely.

It's not for someone on a low fat diet, as it's the solidified fat which
keeps it together. But it's delicious. My grandmother made it, taught it
to my mother, who taught it to my wife.  It's a basic staple in my house,
from Fall on. (In the old days they only killed pigs after the first hard
frost, I think.)

Art 

    In any good kosher deli, you'll find schmaltz -- it's rendered
    chicken fat.  It sure in hell isn't a pork product!  
    
    I mean, really! 
    
    					andrew

    I grew up on Gorton, we called it pork scrap. My mother would put
    it in a bowl (after cooking) and refigerate. When she served it she 
    would invert the bowl onto a platter. One of my brother's girlfriends 
    that never had it before thought it looked like jellied birdseed.
    My mother still liked her!
    
    Linda
    

  BTW, this discussion reminds me of a deadly snack my father used to
  eat until he got a look at his cholesterol count. His family is
  Hunagarian and this is apparently popular there and in other parts of
  eastern Europe. It's called "speck" (sp? - pronounced "shpeck") and is
  cubes of pure white beef fat rolled in paprika. It's very tasty, and
  is one food where the quality of the paprika really makes a
  difference. My father would accept only imported Hungarian sweet
  paprika, which could be bought at "Paprika Weiss" in NY. As much as I
  claim to ignore the bad effects of a high-cholesterol diet, I don't
  have the nerve to eat this too often.

You want cholesterol?  My grandfather (the german one) used to make
a sandwich by frying approx. 6 to 8 slices bacon nice and crisp -
then he would fry onion slices in the bacon fat until nice and tender,
stir in some flour, and then some beef broth (just a little) to make
a thick gravy.  The sandwich was open-faced toast, well mayonaised, with 
the bacon strips on top, covered with the onion/gravy mixture.  I know, this
doesn't sound good, but it really is nice with some nice german beer on a cold
night.

    
    REF 31
    
    	Hi, what you described sounds to me like creton, roll the crrreton.
    It is really good used like butter on toast in the AM.
     
    Most grocery stores have it in the meat department next to the pork.
    Homemade is much better though.
     
    	have a hoppy day
    		froggy
    

    re: -1
    
    	I agree with you that it sounds like "creton".  It is very popular
    in Quebec.
    
    Can you tell me which grocery stores you are referring to? (which
    area?)  I live in  Mass. and have never seen it around here.
    
    Lorraine
    

    OK, I read through all 39 replies before mentioning....
    
    Peanut butter and Cheez Whiz sandwiches (lunch box standard), or
    peanut butter and drained crushed pineapple.
    
    Boy, our moms knew how to stretch peanut butter, didn't they!
    
    Re: "Speek" - I used to have a boyfriend, who, when we went camping
    would get a couple pounds of sliced  beef marrow bones from the butcher
    and a loaf of fresh bread from the bakery.  Then he'd put the bone
    on a stick and roast over the fire then let it drip onto the bread
    and eat the bread.  He called this "speek" but I didn't hang around
    long enough to find out for sure!
    
    Another friend of mine makes a "salad" by tearing up Romaine lettuce,
    sprinking on a little bit of sugar and serving with a lemon wedge.
    At first he apologized for ad-libbing with this when he was out
   of the normal salad greens, but now that he's getting raves, it has
    turned into "Steve's Nouvelle Salade"!
    
    Another comfort food - SOS!  My mom's version is basically fried
    hamburger and onions in white sauce served over boiled potatoes,
    but there are some wintery days when that's *all* I want.  Luckily
    it usually coincides with the days my husband works late!
    
    Terry

    Nouvelle salad, eh? Mom was giving us lettuce with sugar on it thirty
    years ago...
    
    I was also fond of taking half a cucumber, hollowing it out, filling
    the hollow with French dressing, and eating it like an ice cream cone.
    
    Nowadays, of course, I eat a balanced diet (of Buffalo wings and
    bleu cheese dip and beer), but it's enjoyable to think back on the
    quaint family dishes of olden days!
    
    -b 

    I ALSO HAD A MOM THAT SERVED THIS LETTUCE AND SUGAR SALAD BUT
    OURS INCLUDED VINEGAR POURED OVER THE TOP!!!  
    
    I JUST INTRODUCED THIS CONCOCTION TO MY 8 YEAR OLD AND SHE LOVED
    IT - OF COURSE IT WAS EVEN BETTER WHEN SHE FOUND OUT IT WAS
    GRAMMA'S RECIPE.
    

    When I was a little kid and I came home from school, my favorite
    snack wasn't chocolate chip cookies and milk, but chocolate chip
    cookies and orange juice!
    
    I used to love to dip the cookies in the juice and eat them.  It
    would make the cookies very tangy.

    I'm not sure if it was my mid-west upbringing or the fact that my
    parents grew up during the depression but a lot of these combos
    sound familiar.  A few of my favorites:  grilled peanut butter and
    jelly, peanut butter and maple syrup sandwich, a salad made of diced
    bananas topped with a dressing made with mayo and milk, sprinkled
    with chopped peanuts - yum, think I'll give mom a call tonite!

>>    peanut butter and maple syrup sandwich
    
    There is nothing that tastes better except maybe leaving out the
    peanut butter for a simple maple syrup on home-made whole wheat.
    From my Dad I learned to enjoy a small cup of syrup, sipped as if
    it were a cordial.
    
    I was a little kid on a northern Vermont farm during the depression,
    and then during the war we used maple syrup and soft sugar in cereal,
    coffee, etc.  So my perversions are, I hope, understandable. 

    My mother use to give use cream cheese and jelly sandwich for lunch.
    
    Another favorate was lettce sandwich with mayo.
    
    
    Sandy d.
    

    Pork sausage with maple syrup its just not the same without it.
    
    -j
    

    
    .11 - I love Bread Butter & Sugar!  Try it sometime with cinamon &
          sugar!
          
    .10 - When I was younger, dunking McDonalds french fries in your
          shake was the ONLY way to eat them.
    
    	  Now a days, I just put them on my hamburger!
    
    .47 - I forgot to mention it in my last reply, but Bacon isn't the
          same without maple syrup either
          
    
    Now for some new wacky treats....
    
    	My all time favorite to this day is Chips & Ketchup!  Whenever
        I make a sandwich, I pour some ketchup on the side of my plate 
        for chip dunking.  I LOVE it - my family thinks im nuts.
            
    	Another favorite in my family is Chip Sandwiches.  Just pile
    	a bunch of chips (preferably "Ripples") between 2 pieces of
    	white bread and eat!
    
    	Anyone ever try ketchup on spaghetti when you were out of sauce?
    
    	
    	Now this one is kinda crazy - "JEMICH" (pronounced Jem-ich)
                                                
    	This dish was invented about 9 years ago by my sister's friend
       JE-nnifer and my sister MICH-elle. (get it!) 
    
    	Here are the directions:
    
    
    	Ingredients
    	-----------
    	Ham
    	Balone
    	Hotdogs
    	Hamburg
    	Cheese
    	(any other sandwich meat you can find)
    
    	Butter
    	Tomato Sauce
    	Salt & Pepper
    
    	Directions:
    
    	Take meat and chop up into small chuncks or slices.  Saute'
    	in a frying pan with butter until brown.  Add Tomato Sauce,
    	and seasonings to taist.  Cook for 5 min. on medium heat.
    	Lay slices of cheese over mixture put a lid on the pan and
    	remove from heat.
    
    	TA DA!  Your done.  Now pour into a bowl and eat with a spoon!
    				(Yuuuuuccccckkkkkkk)
    
    	I know I've got more, but this is enough for now.
    
    Happy eating
    
    Sheila
    
    

    
    The only way to eat tuna fish is this:
    
    Get squishy white bread...like wonder bread
    make a batch of tuna fish with LOTS of mayonaise
    Put down a layer of mayo, a layer of sweet (bread and butter) pickles
    plenty of tuna fish and top it with lots of potato chips (Ruffles
    sour cream and onion work great!) and then another piece of bread
    with mayo.  
    
    Talk about comfort food!  My sisters and I still call each other on the
    phone and eat tuna fish sandwiches together!
                                                     

    Someone previously mentioned peanut butter and maple syrup sandwiches.
    A variation of this one that I grew up with is peanut butter on
    pancakes topped with maple syrup.  Yummy!  That was the only way
    my mom would eat pancakes, French toast, or waffles.  I even found
    them this way in a restaurant here in Colorado.
    
    Addie

    When I was in college, at breakfast the cafeteria would put your
    scarmbled eggs and your french toast on the same plate.  The maple
    syrup would inevitably get all over your eggs, to the point where
    for me and many of my friends, we would put maple syrup on our eggs
    regardless of whether we were also having french toast.
    
    The looks that I would get from my parents during mid-semester breaks.

    I agree with a few of you...the only way to eat tuna is with chips
    right in the sandwich.
    
    I used to love Vanilla Icecream with Pretzels...its the only way
    that I would eat Vanilla Icecream.
    
    And for something incredibly sweet my mom and I used to combine
    Hersheys Syrup, butter and sugar in a bowl and just cream together
    until smooth..yum.
    
    Linda

    
    
    Boy, there sure are some different/strange things in here.. However,
    I'm sure we all have had our share of "experimenting" with various
    combinations.. Here are a few of mine, which came from the influence
    of my father, who I swear has't the weiredest taste buds on this
    side of the mississippi; (Also, might I say I do recall trying all
    of these with him, and of course continuing to eat them now as an
    adult. I also, cannot help to recall the moment when we would put
    together these things, each related to a activity we would do together.
    
    1) Sardines on Saltine cracker sandwiches.. (This was kite flying
       snacks).
    2) Pickled pig feets with saltines (This was a fishing off a bank
       snack.)
    3) P. Butter sandwiches, with as much peanut butter was we wanted
       and as many slices of bread as we wanted and then flaten them
       down as much as we could. (This one always required a quart of
       milk on hand.) This was a "Watching TV" snack.
    4) A package of saltines crushed while still in the package and
       dumped in (usually) a mixing bowl, and cover it all with milk.
        (We would eat this while we play cribbage together)
        
    My mother would sit and watch us and not try a thing and just make
    faces at us.. Oh, well her loss, I still like all of the above.
    
    

The ice cream and pretzels reminded me of an old favorite I haven't had in 
years.  Kathy John's, an ice cream parlor near UConn, used to sell a cone of 
icecream rolled in lightly salted cashews.  My flavor was blueberry 
cheesecake ice cream.

						     
							- JP

    Just thought of entering this one, since I ordered it
    at a sub shop Friday nite:
    
    Tuna sub with *the works* PLUS grilled onions and lots of
    hot peppers!   
    
    You haven't lived till you've had one!
    

Fry bacon slices real crisp and drain well.  Toast your favorite kind of
bread.  Make a tuna salad with lots of diced cucumber (no seeds) and
diced spanish onion.  Spread mayo on the toast, heap on the tuna salad,
and top with bacon slices.  Eat.

the above may be made with cheese as well - but that is not considered
quite "right" and is assumed to be a "city-slicker" option.

    When I was growing up, Mom would always make chicken pot pies
    (the frozen kind)(heated) and serve them with cold cottage cheese.
    
    Another favorite was black-eyed peas w/ cottage cheese
    
    Also Spaghetti, Fried Chicken, Applesauce, German Potato Salad,
    Italian Bread & Onion Rings.  You have to eat this all together.
    It's a family tradition.

    Cottage cheese, green chile, purple onion chopped fine..
    
                   -positively yum!-

    One of my favorites was a tall glass of cold tomato juice with
    pretzels.  It is best to throw a handfull of miniature pretzels
    or pretzel pieces in and eat them with a spoon (like cereal).  
    It's best to throw only a few pretzels at a time so they don't
    get a chance to get soggy...........mmmmmmm.....a "watch t.v."
    snack.
    
    Lynn
    
    

    The best tasting Bloody Mary combination I've had is not with
    celery, ....  it's with a stick of pepperoni!!!! 
    
    	Talk about DELICIOUS!!!!!   Oh, and don't forget lots of
    horseradish!
    
    Kath

    re:63
    Use V8 instead of tomato juice for Bloody Mary.
    

    re: 49
    
    I can't eat hamburgers without my french fries on top!!
    
    re: .55
    
    Sardines on Saltines are great -- try adding onions with that also
    I also have pigs feet on Saltines too!  It makes my roommate sick.
    
    Now for my own --- An onion sandwich
    
    Just Slice an yellow onion and add some italian salad dressing put
    it all on bread.  Yummm.
    
    Christina
    

    Try a combination of apple and celery juice. Yummy.
    
    Judy

    A friend of mine in college was famous for doing weird things with
    her food.  She would put a piece of cake in a bowl and pour milk
    over it, saying "Well, I like cake and milk!  What's the difference
    how you eat it??"  The grossest thing she ever did was right after
    an Organic Chemistry exam:  a peanut butter, ketchup, and potato
    chip sandwich!!  Even she felt sick afterwards!!

    Another college buddy ate spaghetti and ketchup!  She says it's
    great and swears she'll never make "real" spaghetti sauce.
        
    Oh well, I've been known to dip tangerine slices in Grey Poupon
    mustard........
    
    Cara
    

    I don't know if this one has come up since I didn't read all replies
    but a delicious combination and a very popular one in Chicago is
    a bag of 1/2 cheese popcorn and 1/2 caramel popcorn. Truly divine.
    The popcorn shops off state street sell it this way as so many people
    ask for it.
    
    re: -<combination of .21 and .49>- I also had roomates (two of them)
    who did the spagetti and catsup think. Yucko!

    
    we have a local restaurant who serves oysters with a raspberry sauce.
    
    another surprising combination was strawberries with pink peppercorns
    the strawberries were flambed in a sweet liquor type of mixture
    and the peppercorns were added and gave the whole mixture a nice
    piquancy (I may have invented a word here - it doesn't mater though
    as i have invented syntax for compilers in the past and survived
    by correcting it).
    
    
    pete
    

    Well, my grandmother grew up in East Texas (near Arkansas) and Sunday
    morning breakfast at her house was never complete without the chocolate
    gravy for the biscuits.  It's a little sweeter and a little thinner
    than chocolate pudding - Sausage and biscuits aren't the same without
    it.  
    
    My mother makes wonderful salmon patties and she liked them with
    white Karo syrup on top - sounds awful, but I can't eat salmon
    patties without it.
    

  Hmm, that reminded me instantly of the Mexican mole sauce - a spicy
  chocolate sauce not at all considered sweet. Mole certainly fits the
  description (for most Northeasterners, at least) of an unusual flavor
  combination. Mmmm, good.

Whoa....I can handle the mole', but I'm not up for karo on salmon patties...
This one gets the "wierdest" prize for this year..8^}

But then, my peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches are seldom appreciated
by other gourmets...

    
    
    
         I haven't heard of anyone eating mayonnaise & pickle sandwiches
    yet..... I think I'll have one when I get home.... Or cucumber &
    mayo on pumpernickel bread, toasted.... And there's only one way
    to eat french fries, with ketchup & mayo mixed together... Yummy
    ferrrrr surrrrrre...... Oh & tartar sauce with fried onion rings
    has got to be the only way to enjoy onions..... Wow I'm getting
    hungry just thinking of all this good food..
      I always put potato chips & pickles on my tuna fish sandwiches..
    No white bread will do when the sandwich is that good....
    
     
       
                      ***** DEADHEAD LEFTY *****
    
    
    
    
    
    

    
    ah yes pickles...
    
    but do you mean pickled onions (which is the default in Britain),
    or pickled Gherkins, or...?
    
    only joking, but this is very much a matter of the culture of the
    writer, and pickles with tuna fish is a personal favorite, but then
    of course I mean pickles, not cucumber in vinegar :-) and I actually
    prefer pickled herring to the tuna but thats another story.
    
    /. Ian .\
    
    

    
    Incidentally in parts of Yorkshire (northern england) strawberry
    jam is frequently spread on fried fish...
    
    /. Ian .\

    Re: .77
    
    Not entirely true about "only in England".  I had some fish with
    Strawberry jam on it at the Greenhouse in Harvard square once. 
    The fish was sauteed rather than fried but the flavor was pretty
    interesting (and good).  It would have been better had I not been
    paged 6 times during the meal but that's a price one pays for being
    dedicated (what a crock, huh?).
    
    Denise
    

    Boy, did this note bring back a lot of memories!  Bread, butter, and
    sugar sandwiches; bologna, cheese, and catsup sandwiches; tuna fish and
    potato chip sandwiches; saltines and milk; wow!
    
    There are a few that weren't mentioned, though.  Like graham crackers
    and milk for breakfast (crushed in a bowl); leftover rice and butter
    with warm milk and sugar for breakfast; creamed tuna fish with mashed
    potatoes and peas.  This last one must be made with a medium white
    sauce (using 2% milk), with the tuna warmed in the sauce.  Then make a
    "well" in the mashed potatoes, put your peas in the well, and pour the
    creamed tuna over the top (like a volcano!).  For me, *that's* comfort
    food!
    
    Oh, yes, I mustn't forget hot fudge sundaes with mint chocolate chip
    ice cream, served with salty french fries  and catsup.  Not only
    comfort food, but PMS food as well!
    
    My roommate still loves this one her father used to prepare (it makes
    me gag to think about it!).  Take a *tall* glass, rip up a piece of
    white bread into the glass, add two soft boiled eggs, butter and salt. 
    Eat with an iced tea spoon.  She still eats them, but only if her
    father makes them for her.  These, by the way, are called "Googies."
    
    With regard to the mashed potato salad:  Do you eat that cold?  YUK!! 
    But then, I don't like regular potato salad, either (one of the few
    foods I can't eat cold).
    
    Well, my stomach's growling.  I think I'll go home and make some
    creamed tuna!!!
    
    Susan

    Re. .80
    
    I have found memories of eating a piece of soft bread, torn up and
    mixed with a poached egg, except in our house it's not called Googie,
    its called Gigi.  I assume this is derived from a child's pronunciation
    of the word "eggy".  Anyways, it goes back to at least my grandmother,
    and my 14 month old son loves it, too!  To each his own (personnally,
    ice cream & french fries makes me gag!).
    
    Oh, yeah, I like mayo on corned beef hash (this one makes my husband
    gag!).
    
    	Deb
    

    I used to eat Peppermint Stick ice cream with Black pepper on it.
    (What the heck, it's the same name, must be tasty!)
    
    In my family, we were practically weaned on Peanut butter. Growing
    up we all (except Dad, who thought we were gross) ate peanut butter 
    on our cereal. (Just wipe a glob on the side of the bowl and scoop 
    some while your scooping cereal!) My big brother used to put sugar 
    on top of the glob of pb. Mom eats peanut butter on Ice Cream 
    (preferably Maple Walnut). The same brother still makes pb-cookie
    sandwiches. You get two choc. chip cookies (which must NOT be browned,
    they have to be bendable) and put pb inbetween them to make a sandwich.
    My sister-in-law (same brother) - she definately married into the
    right family - actually likes pickles and peanut butter......
    
    beth

    
    
    How about a peanut butter and bannana sandwich?  Open faced, under
    the broiler for a minute.  MMMMMmmmmmm.
    
    
    dmh

    I've tried peanut butter, banana and bacon.  Next time I'll try it open
    face and grilled.
    
    Sounds good to me.
    

    My 5-year old had me peel a banana 3-quarters of the way down and
    then put the pb on it.  Do you know how had it is to put pb on a
    banana.  I thought it looked pretty disgusting, she said it was
    delicious and ate it all.
    

    Take the whole banana out of the peel, slice it lengthwise, spread
    peanut bu one half, sprinkle with raisins, sunflower seeds, mini-
    chocolate chips, coconut, nuts, or anything else, drizzle with honey,
    maple syrup, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate sauce/syrup etc.
    put the other half of the banana on top, wrap in saran wrap and
    put in the refridgerator to firm up, and serve.
    
    dm

    I get a lot of funny looks when I make/eat these but they're really
    good. 
    
    Wheat toast with peanut butter and bacon. 
    Or another one, celery with peanut butter. 

    Celery with peanut butter and soft-boiled eggs on toast were part
    of my childhood, too!  
    
    My college cafeteria used to serve a peanut butter and banana salad
    for lunch, and it was great.  Slice the bananas and mix with peanut butter.
    Add chopped walnuts and mix.  Great stuff, and an amazingly good
    source of protein and energy when you have fifteen minutes between
    classes for lunch.
    
    My father and brother were probably the kings of the gross food
    combinations.  My dad likes eating leftover baked beans with potato
    chips (Boston nachos??).  My brother liked peanut butter and sardine
    sandwiches when he was little, but now he's a culinary school graduate.
    (There's some irony there...)
    
    --Karen

    As a kid I use to beg for Peanut Butter, Mayonaise and Pickle Relish
    sandwiches.  As an adult I just tell my kids about this mess to gross
    them out.  
    
    I fix my kids the egg in bread thing and call them Birds nest's.
    
    I learned both of the above from my Mom. 
    
    --Teri

    Boy this got me thinking what strange combinations I eat and I thought
    of a few that haven't been mentioned:
    
    bread, butter and radish sandwich (best when radishes are homegrown)
    peanutbutter mixed with light Karo syrup
    potatoe chips with cottage cheese as the dip
    peanutbutter, banana and honey (must use chunky peanutbutter)
    cucumbers with salt and vinegar
    cottage cheese and tomatoes
    
    My mom always put ketchup in her chicken noodle soup which grossed
    out the rest of us.  I also remember when I was sick as a child,
    when you started feeling better you got either toast with sugar
    and cinnamon (which I still use now) or graveyard stew - which is
    toast with butter and scalded milk poured over it.  I know it sounds
    awful but it tastes great when you haven't been able to keep down
    food, plus my mother always said that the scalded milk helps to
    coat the stomach and heal it.  I don't usually eat this but I do
    occasionally crave the scalded milk after I've been sick.
    
    I have just one more combination to add that my cousins used to
    eat that looked awful in my eyes: peanutbutter, mayo and bologne.
    Yuck! 

    A friend used to (I think she finally gave them up) eat peanut butter 
    and onion sandwiches.  My son and his friends like peanut butter and
    pepperoni sandwiches.
    
    Chris

    My daughter (5 years old) dips dill pickle chunks in applesauce!
    I wouldn't try it, she said it tasted great.  Gross
    

Whilst not on the same plate: my Mother-in-law's restaurant sells a combination 
of Som Dum (Chilli, Papaya and shrimps mixed - a sort of fiery salad), and 
Thai ice cream. 

As far as I can tell this is the local (to North East Thailand that is) 
equivalent of the British tea and scones "cream tea".

Served with plenty of hot or iced Thai coffee...

It isn't as outrageous as it sounds

/. Ian .\ 

    My brother-in-law swears by Peanut Butter and Bacon sandwiches.  He
    learned about them in a truck stop he used to work in.  They must be
    good, since my sister now likes them.  I haven't tried them myself yet!
    
    Renee

    re.71 chocolate gravy w/ biscuits
    
    I have'nt had that since I was a small boy living in Kentucky.
    My gandmother and my aunts all used to make it and I loved it!
    
    We also used to have pig brain and scrmbled eggs. Sounds gross
    but it tasted like spam.
                                   Walt

    My boyfriend wanted me to add onto the list with his new skiing
    sandwich delight. Wheat bread spread with peanut butter, raspberry
    preserves (Smuckers of course) and cheddar cheese Goldfish.
    
    Hey I just made it, I didn't eat it.
    
    
    						Sandi

    My favourite "sick" food is wholewheat toast with butter & Marmite
    (*good stuff*) which you cut into strips and dip into a soft boiled
    egg.  Yummy
    
    My husband thinks its gross, but I do up a mixture of PB, butter,
    brown sugar. choc chips, sesame seeds, wheat bran, and whatever
    else I feel like at the time and freeze it.  Then I cut it into
    little squares.  Lovely!
    
    Another one - a marmite, cheese & alfalfa sprout toasted sandwich.
    
    My father grossed us all out when we were kids by cooking scrambled
    eggs with ketchup - he called them bloody scrambled eggs!  He was
    the only one who would eat it though.
    
    My husband is a syrup-on-eggs person, and we are constantly arguing
    over which is grosser, his perversion or my PB on celery and (gasp)
    Marmite addiction.  Its a draw so far.
    

  Marmite's close cousin, Vegemite, is discussed in note 2158, and I
  think there was a gigantic debate in another conference, maybe
  ASKENET.

  First of all, like live grubs, it's an acquired taste, to be sure.
  It's a thick, brown spread made from yeast, which has a very strong
  flavor and is supposedly very healthy (high in protein, B-vitamins,
  etc). People who've grown up in countries where it's popular (UK, Oz,
  Canada, Kiwis) love it, and other people either hate it or learn to
  love it, though if you hate it, I don't know what would make you want
  to learn to love it (though I managed to somehow :-).

  So given that there are actually people who love Marmite, what's so
  strange about whole wheat toast with butter and Marmite, dipped in
  soft-boiled egg? Sounds pretty normal to me :-).

    ...not EVERYONE who grew up in the UK developed a love of Marmite...

re .98

I also love eggs with ketchup...but not scrambled (which is quite common...
ask any trucker).  I love a good ketchup on sunnyside eggs.  I mix it with the
yolk.  I'd have to say I've even managed to gross out a few diner waitresses.

    I should have added this on to the bottom - but i forgot.
    
    Has anyone tried any of the following (these are some of my faves)
    
    1 mashed banana with Heinz salad cream 
    
    2 a cheese and apricot jam sandwich
    
    3 weetabix spread with butter and sprinkled with sugar (yum)
    
    
    
    Tracy

    
    Yummmmmmy!  Marmite and boiled eggs is hot stuff.  Have you tried
    a marmite, cheese and sliced tomato toasted sarnie?  Now that is
    really good.
    
    My sister was once into cheese and jam sandwiches at one point in
    her life, but I think she's grown out of it.  That's nearly as
    disgusting a thougt as peanut butter and jam isn't it?
    
    Heather.

    Weetabix spread with butter and marmalade was a favourite when I was at
school (rather a long time ago).

    How about peanut butter and marmite on toast (drool!)

	or

    chedder cheese and raspberry jam sandwiches...

I recall that fishcakes with butter and marmalade were very popular (not one of
my favourites) with friends!

 Happy munching,

   Judith.

    My husband likes toast and condensed milk. (yeukk.)
    
    My dad likes a sandwich with cold mince or (has anybody tried a
    Scotch Pie) a roll with a pie in it and my sister when we were young
    used to spread a slice of bread with tomato sauce.
    
     
    Howz about a beefburger spread with peanut butter in bun (mmmmmmmmm)
    
    
    The list is endless.
    
    Tracy
    

    I was brought up to love these combinations:  

       	Oreos and buttermilk....can't have one without t'other!!
    
    	Fried calves liver with grape jelly (ala turkey and cranberry
   	 sauce) ......excellent....I loved it as a 10 year old!!!!
    
    	Salmon croquettes with grape jelly...ditto....
    
    		(Mom had to disguise a lot of foods, I guess)
    
    also, some not so strange, but different:
    
    	Chicken pot pie with strawberry preserves slathered on.
    	Chicken wings fried in maple syrup	
        Egg (salad) and olive sandwiches
    	
    =-=-=-=-=-=-=gary=-=-=-=-=-=-=
    

    One that everyone in my family thinks is "gross" is;
    
    	Cream cheese and green olive sandwiches..
    
    This is excellent..!!!
    
    Bob G.
    

or peanut butter stuffed celery sticks(everyone BUT me it seems),
   mayonaise, garlic salt, onion slice sandwiches (if you REALLY want to be
							alone - my grandpop),
   cottage cheese sprinkled with sugar (my father),
   tomato slices sprinkled with sugar  (again, Dad),
   cold baked beans, mayonaise, mustard sandwich on dark rye (me, and it's
							yummy),
   tomato and dill pickle, mayo, mustard on white toast sandwich (me)

    Chocolate Chip cookies "dunked" in spaghetti sauce.  (my wife cringes
    every time I do this.)
    
    
    Serv

    Re:  1351.109
    
    Yeah for cream cheese and olive sandwiches......
    
    Especially on DATE NUT bread.   Yuuuummmmmmm

    .109  If you like that you'll love this, bar of cream cheese, 2
          hard boiled eggs, half chopped onion, and green olives with
          pimento chopped, Dash salt.  Smush all together --- yummy!
    
          Use this to make sandwiches, stuff celery, dip raw veggies,
          spread on crackers, the large dip Fritos 

    What about "BALOOT", a delicacy from the Philippines which is a boiled
    duck egg, the catch being the egg is fertilized. It took me ages to
    muster the courage to try one but once I did I was hooked. Yummy!!!
    
    								Phil.

    	Okay, here's something that no-one has mentioned yet, and (as
    the ole saying goes) don't knock it until you've tried it.  How
    about a tuna fish and yogurt sandwich?  I mean take a can of tuna
    fish (preferably in water), drain the water, rinse off the tuna
    fish with water, place the tuna in a bowl, add about 1-2 tablespoons
    of PLAIN yogurt, mix, then place on 2 slices of your favorite bread.
    I think that it takes a heck of a lot better than tuna fish with
    mayo, AND it has a lot less fat and cholestrol.  This is making
    my mouth water as I type, jeeze and I don't have any plain yogurt
    at home.  I guess that I'll have to stop at the local grocery store.
    Oh yeah, any brand of tuna works, but I think that the best tasting
    tuna fish is the "Three Diamonds" brand - the one in the black can.
    
    	Like I said, don't knock it until you've tried it.  I thought
    that it sounded gross, but I at least tried it and I like it.

    This is basically along the same line... I take the HiddenValley Ranch
    "Take Heart" dressing (little or no fat) and just mix that with tuna,
    or spread on bread any time you would use mayo. I also use it to make
    pasta salad, too.
    
    Lynn
    

    I love my tuna (made the usual way with mayo) with french dressing.
    Pour it over the tuna under the bread!