What did you grow up doing that you thought everybody did?

[SunshineOR]

For some crazy reason, my mom gave us hot Jello to drink when we were sick--thought it was a standard, but everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I say it.

Our vegetable for dinner every night was frozen peas or corn, heated in the microwave. On special occasions or in a casserole we would eat other vegetables. When I married my dh and his family eats fresh, seasonal vegetables all the time, it had never occurred to me! That and the fact that they heat them on the stove.

 

[chell]

french dressing on pizza

YUM!!!

4GBLC mine has to be the orange French dressing too.

So I thought people all over put salt on watermelon.

There are lots of things I've read here that I do.

Guess the one I haven't seen is eating slaw, livermush, onions and fried taters with pintos. You couldn't have pintos without all the other stuff. It just didn't work.

What about cornbread and milk? That was the only way to get me to eat it.

UrsulasMyHero I LOVE tarter sauce on fries. YUM!

Cheddar cheese with spaghetti is yum too!

Why am I getting hungry all of a sudden?

Butter & sugar on white rice is awesome! Now I want to go cook some rice so I can have that for breakfast tomorrow morning. Have you ever tried that with jasmine rice? OMG! AMAZING!

About the raw hotdogs - are they really raw? I used to eat them like that all the time when I was little.

Ketchup and mustard on hotdogs. But if the hotdog is cut up into rounds and fried it has to be ketchup only.

What about banana and mayo sandwiches?

Fried bologna sandwiches were another thing I loved when I was little. It had to have mustard and cheese on it though. Man I would love one now if it wouldn't mess up my stomach.

Now I'm hungry and it is bed time. UGH!

 

[MinnieM21]

I thought all kids could go to sleep whenever they wanted. Then one time I spent the night at my friend's house and she had a bedtime. I was so confused. Bedtime? What's that?

When I was 6, I could do multiplication, division and read chapter books. I thought all 6 year olds could do this.
Now I'm awful at math.


Santa doesn't wrap presents! When my friends told me that they unwrapped their presents from Santa, I just couldn't understand.

I thought everyone ate:
ketchup on rice
ketchup on potato chips
cheddar cheese on spaghetti
dipped pizza in ranch dressing
ate raw hot dogs
drank vinegar
grilled cheese sandwiches with mustard
dipped grapes in sugar

 

[zippeedee]

Hot dogs are cooked when they make them, "raw" is just cold

My Mom still leaves leftovers out on the counter. I used to drive my roommate crazy by leaving pizza out.

Ketchup on scrambled eggs, mustard on grilled cheese, tuna in spagetti sauce (for Lent) and cottage cheese on Jello. I think my Mom figured it was white, healthier, cheaper and easier than Dream Whip (I loved that stuff).

My dad was a fisherman so he didn't work Dec-March. We'd do a two week road trip to Florida every February. I thought all kids got pulled out of school for an extra week! We never had summer vacations because Dad worked 7 days a week in the summer.

 

[rhanditresmom]

Well, I am glad to hear I was not the only one with parents who left the pizza out. I didn't learn this wasn't normal until I was 22! A friend of mine freaked out when she saw me just put it in the oven after dinner!

 

[JVL1018]

For some crazy reason, my mom gave us hot Jello to drink when we were sick--thought it was a standard, but everyone looks at me like I'm crazy when I say it.

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So did mine!! When I had a sore throat she would give me a little glass of hot Jello before it set. It was soothing! I give it to my kids too.

I had no idea there even were instant mashed potatoes until I was an adult.

We went on vacation every year and I was shocked that other kids didn't. Sometimes it was just camping, but we went somewhere every year, without fail..I keep that tradition up.

The only way to make macaroni salad is with tuna..or so I thought..but it's still the only way I like it!

Did anyone else put powdered sugar on French Toast? That's the way my Mom always made it for us.

Ketchup, peanut butter, mustard and jelly were always kept in the cabinet, not the fridge. Butter on the counter, not the fridge.
Probably while I hate cold condiments to this day.
I do keep the jelly. mustard and butter in the fridge now because we don't use it as fast as my family did and I think it would spoil. But I will never put ketchup or PB in the fridge!

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

I remembered one more thing. My dad used to make us icing sandwiches... Basically 2 graham crackers with canned icing between them. YUMMY

and I LOVE lovelovelove "raw" hotdogs. They're not really raw though, they're pre-cooked.

 

[figment52]

I didn't do this but we have customers in from Germany this week and we were out to dinner and they mix beer and coke. I was grossed out at the thought but I tried it and it is not bad.

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

Even though we had little money when I was growing up, were able to travel as a family. We went camping everywhere. We went to Florida(WDW) numerous times. Also, Virginia, Arizona, California and North Carolina. We even went to the World's Fair in Knoxville, TN. My dad had one of those old army tents. Canvas with about a thousand poles, that smelled awful when it rained. I think the first time I stayed in a hotel was when my uncle died when I was a senior in high school. I was very lucky as a kid.

My family also did a lot of traveling together, and we, too, did the World's Fair in Knoxville! We borrowed our friend's pop up tent camper for the trip and drove down from Minnesota to camp in the Smokey Mountains and go to the World's Fair. Unfortunately, that trip wasn't so good - everyone except for me got sick with some gastro-intestinal bug, mom ended up in the emergency room she was so ill, and I was miserable because everyone else was sick and didn't want to do anything. We all have a good sense of humor about it, though. The family quote is "At least it was memorable!"

We did all kinds of camping road trips, and we also had a huge canvas tent with a thousand poles that smelled horrid when it rained that we used for years until we got a used canvas pop up tent camper that smelled horrid when it rained. We camped every possible weekend in the summers, and did at least one "big" family road trip each year. Mom and Dad had no qualms about pulling us out of school for an extra week because all our family vacations involved learning - museums, historical sites (aka "hysterical sites" in my family), nature centers, etc. were what our trips centered around. We loved it!

 

[binny]

I remembered one more thing. My dad used to make us icing sandwiches... Basically 2 graham crackers with canned icing between them. YUMMY

and I LOVE lovelovelove "raw" hotdogs. They're not really raw though, they're pre-cooked.

graham crackers with frosting is COMFORT FOOD!!! I still eat that

 

[DizznyChick]

noodles and ketchup-yummmm

 

[Ladyhawke10]

Eating sliced cheddar cheese with spaghetti.

I grew up with my family recipe of spaghetti baked with heaps of cheddar cheese melted on top--I thought that was the normal way to eat spaghetti! It was more like a spaghetti casserole

 

[ImarriedGrumpy]

I remembered one more thing. My dad used to make us icing sandwiches... Basically 2 graham crackers with canned icing between them. YUMMY

This reminded me that one of our favorite after school snacks was graham crackers with cream cheese and jelly on them. Did anyone else do this? I don't think I've had this since I was a kid, and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone else doing this either.

 

[Soccermom-Cheri]

I'm with Binny! those were "cookies" in our house! left over frosting (from homemade cakes) in between two graham crackers.

 

[VSL]

This is OT but what does half-adopted mean? I have never heard that phrase before.

KimR and Blondy876 got it right

My mum is my biological mother and my dad is my adoptive father (adopted me around the time they got married - I was about 5yrs old).

 

[MarkeyMouse]

This reminded me that one of our favorite after school snacks was graham crackers with cream cheese and jelly on them. Did anyone else do this? I don't think I've had this since I was a kid, and I don't think I've ever heard of anyone else doing this either.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I enjoy cream cheese, strawberry jam, & graham crackers. It is similar to eating cheesecake.

Cream cheese & green olives on toast is another favorite. Also, a slice of bread & butter sprinkled with sugar for an after school snack.

 

[malibuconlee]

Sterzing potato chips on bread with mayo sandwiches...
Ketchup on potatoes- any kind of potatoes....

saltine crackers with milk on them.

Where did you grow up that you had Sterzings!!?? I grew up in Keokuk and I still LOVE to get them when we go back.

I took some to South Dakota with me and my friends were passing around the bag sniffing the grease in them!!

 

[mytwotinks]

So did mine!! When I had a sore throat she would give me a little glass of hot Jello before it set. It was soothing! I give it to my kids too.

I had no idea there even were instant mashed potatoes until I was an adult.

We went on vacation every year and I was shocked that other kids didn't. Sometimes it was just camping, but we went somewhere every year, without fail..I keep that tradition up.

The only way to make macaroni salad is with tuna..or so I thought..but it's still the only way I like it!

Did anyone else put powdered sugar on French Toast? That's the way my Mom always made it for us.

Ketchup, peanut butter, mustard and jelly were always kept in the cabinet, not the fridge. Butter on the counter, not the fridge.
Probably while I hate cold condiments to this day.
I do keep the jelly. mustard and butter in the fridge now because we don't use it as fast as my family did and I think it would spoil. But I will never put ketchup or PB in the fridge!

My mom put powdered sugar on our French toast too! Tons of butter, powdered sugar and syrup!!!!! Yum

 

[disallday!]

Mayo on hot dogs...

everybody thinks it's gross

 

[mtdevine615]

Mine is putting butter on my PB&J. DW thinks it's weird but I picked up from my Father.