You ate what?
While we’re on a roll with what you did when you were a kid…Â
When we were kids, Mom went to the store once a week. That was it. Nothing in between…no matter what. So, as soon as Mom got back from the store, the four of us attacked the sacks of groceries like wild animals. The good stuff was usually gone in a day. That left us to get creative on the other days.Â
Enter: Crisco and sugar. What? I know it’s gross, but hey, the combo is a main part of many cookies and junk. You don’t make a face at the finished product, why the ingredients? Yep, we did it (Suzie and me). Here’s how it’s done.Â
1-Make sure Mom is napping or busy outside.
2-Get teaspoon and chair to climb into cabinets. Be very quiet.
3-Scoop spoon in Crisco, then double dip into bag of sugar.
4-Eat it fast. Look around to make sure no one saw you. Get down from cabinet carefully during sugar rush.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:51 am
retch, retch,….spit…..
on the other hand……..a little crisco on a cats paw will help with hairballs…make em come shootin outta there…..
October 6th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
My brothers and I would butter up some bread, then add a thick layer of sugar. Toast it in the oven until the sugar melted into the butter.
We’d eat 4 or 5 slices in one sitting.
It’s a miracle none of us are diabetic.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I have to go along JChristie on the toast, although I would also add ground Cinnamon with the butter and sugar.
Another was Saltine Crackers and Hellman’s Mayo or Ketchup & Mustard sandwiches. A good condiment goes a long ways.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
And I thought I was unique in the butter and sugar sandwich department.
My dad would mix peanut butter and jelly together and then pread it on two pieces of bread, butter both sides and cook it like a grilled cheese sandwich. Excellent!
October 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
WRyker has the right idea. That’s still one of my favorite snacks.
JT’s little brothers went through a peanut butter and bologna phase. That’s disgusting.
October 6th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
It was tough growing up with two older sisters.
October 6th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
I just had a Crisco, sugar and mercury sandwich. mmmmm
October 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am
CT, we usually made our CSM’s with brown sugar. The bread was always Sunbeam “gummy white bread”, and if we didn’t have Crisco, there was always the real thing: LARD! You talk about mmmmm!
Did you have as much trouble as I did trying to keep the little mercury “balls” between the bread?
(I wonder if G. May will ever do a news segment about mercury balls.)
I’m not sure if I’d eat another CSM today, unless maybe I could wash it down with a little Vicodin and Scotch…say half of a 7.5 mg and about 3 fingers of The Macallan 25, neat, with a twist…
October 7th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Two words: Ketchup Sandwich….A-mazing!
October 7th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Chocolate ice cream with extra crunchy peanut butter and crumbled chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
October 7th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Ok, Sonja. That’s just gross.
October 7th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Sonja that sounds fabulous! I never ate lard by itself but my grandmother put it in everything and it made everything taste better. That and bacon!
October 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Before my mom could make the carmel apples out of “Wrapples”, we would eat the sheets of carmel.
Sherri used to eat spoonfuls of Kayro syrup!
October 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Su–I remember crawling on top of the dryer to get to the Wrapples! I still eat Kayro syrup!
October 7th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Anyone remember crumbling up cornbread, putting it into a glass and filling with milk? My grandpa would fill his glass with buttermilk?
October 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
That’s oh-so-old school. Wish I liked buttermilk.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Watch the “old” school as some of us might have a b/day right around the corner!!!!
October 8th, 2008 at 4:00 am
Family reunions in Oklahoma always meant watermelon cut with some uncle’s not-too-clean pocket knife and served with tons of salt. Sprinkle me some, baby. Heart-o-tack-on-a-rind.
Big at our house was an icing made of powdered sugar and margarine slathered between graham crackers.
The healthiest strange Southern Gothic food (who needs Halloween, it’s spookeee every day around here) would be
dry oatmeal and brown sugar. Stirred. Not shaken.
Who’s up for an onion, Miracle Whip and white bread sandwich?
Say, can’t all these recipes be found in that White Trash Cook book? I swear I look just like the girl on the front cover…
October 8th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Remember the watermelon and salt (and the pocketknife.
Also remember big lunches at grandma’s where they always sliced a big ripe tomato and put on a saucer (next to the salt shaker)
October 8th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Gosh, Kathryn, the white bread/onion/mayo sandwich brings back fond memories of my dad!
He loved that — all the while, I was grossed out when he ate it.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Totally did the watermelon, salt, big knife ordeal in the backyard at the picnic table at the grandparents. We would always go buy fresh veggies with them and snap peas and peel figs and my grandmother made crabapple jelly. SALUTE!
October 8th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
ok as the safety engineer, can I just say something about all of the above entries…. ya’ll need help !
October 8th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Yep Mel, snapped peas sittng in the living room watching tv. Had 4 huge fig tress in back yard and my mom used to smell up the house boiling or doing whatever to them and putting them in Mason jars. Never could eat those figs in those Mason jars.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
What about the dirty old knives used to cut the watermelon, kimmy?
October 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
i hated “fig preserves” too. the juice out of the jar aint too bad on toast……if your outta smuckers .
anybody remember pickled peaches?? or spiced peaches? been thinking about trying to make some homemade……you put them in a syrup of sugar with spices and a lot of whole cloves and pressure cook them. got way too much time on my hands…
October 8th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Sherri, you should stay away from knives period!!
October 8th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
How ’bout Miracle Whip and Peanut Butter sandwiches? That’s my mom’s favorite……excuse me I just threw up!
October 8th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Yeah, seems I remember our dad eating peanut butter/banana/mayo on white bread.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
My brother and I used to butter two slices of bread and make pork and bean sandwiches.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Just tried PB & Bacon. Not bad
October 9th, 2008 at 11:34 am
My Dad puts peanut butter on everything.
Did you ever eat a pear salad? It was half a pear on lettuce with a dollop of mayo and shredded cheese.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
will this never end????
October 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
ok….i didnt want to bring this up……grammaws ole fashioned double crust kitten pie……now stop this….
October 9th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Haaaaa…that’s the best tommy. Okay, fine. New topic.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Mel, did the pear salad thing - wonder who makes up these “dishes”????
Anybody ever had their mom warm up a couple of slices of SPAM in the old black castiron skillet and give ya a SPAM sandwich for lunch? DO not want to know what SPAM is!
October 9th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Dad made fried bologna sandwiches.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I remember the fried ones Sher. Now I still like bologna and mustard sandwiches, but eat the fat-free bologna which takes all the fun out of it!!
Now we all like the Jetson’s - just poke it in the microwave, push a button and zap!!!! Dang, we sound like our parents now!!!
October 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
You have to wonder about the first time a lot of food items were eaten, crayfish for instance?! Let’s catch it, make it throw up and poop, boil it, then pull it apard and eat it. Yummy!