Are there any foods that you grew up eating - maybe something from your family's nationality - that others think are just plain weird?
Last week I was eating an asparagus and potato fritatta at work and at least 5 people asked 'what IS that??' in a way that made me feel like I was eating human remains.
eternityawaits
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I like peanut butter and fluff sandwiches with raspberry jam and mini chocolate chips It'll knock your teeth out I only have it once in a while.
My grandma used to eat pickled pigs feet. I always hated that cause when I went in her fridge there would be only one or tow left and they'd be floating in the jar. BLLEECCHHHH!!
ThreeTwenty
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I have to admit.....I had a kangaroo steak in Australia last year and it wasn't bad!!!
Sasha96
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kugulus is that grated potato thing. i think it has onion in it too.
Jess2
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Since I don't eat bread (well very little bread - I lost 47 pounds in 1 1/2 years) I eat hummus alot - with a spoon. For breakfast I have cottage cheese and brown rice - people think I'm weird, but it works for me! I also eat almond butter with jelly - again with a spoon. Yep, I eat strangley!! But I LOVE stuffed cabbage, which also grosses some people out.
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Bannana sandwiches! EVERYTIME I ate it in school or at work. I'd get these faces. I love them!! I don't think it's very 'Irish' but my husband eats them as well so I'm happy!! My Dad used to make applesauce sandwiches as well!!
I've eaten aligator, kangaroo stew & other stuff. If you go to any Brazilian or Portugese place where they have a Radizzio (sp) they just bring by all sorts of meat & you get to try them all.
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WhatNow...My MIL makes a beet salad...its beets, boiled potatoes and mayo!! She is from El Salvador and its big down there!! OI had never had that before and I didnt think that way one else in the world had beets with mayo!!
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Since we are Italian we do the whole Christmas Eve fish thing- my DH can't get over it because we have fried smelts (bigger than a sardine- the whole body of the fish fried minus head and tail)... and we also have fried eel.
Of course we have 'normal' fish too but we also have scungili salad (conch) with onion, celery and a lemon dressing.
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Mine don't seem so weird now
We like to mix cream cheese with sweet relish and stuff it in celery or just use it to dip vegetables in (I love that).
Lisa Rose
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Sassyz...I love scungili salad!!! We have that at Christmas also, along with all the other fish!!
pschica
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i love strawberries and sour cream - which sounds gross but is awesome - also my family makes lithuanian kielbasi from scratch - kinda like the hillshire farm kind but way different!!
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My mom used to make us peanut butter and bacon sandwiches... I only have one every few months, but it's total comfort food for me! Don't knock it 'till you try it! Tastes really yummy!
Robeymuse
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Venison! It is really good. It only freaks me out when my sister starts in with references to Bambi...
OctBride05
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i love scungili, octopus salad, and i eat pizza with thousand island dressing.
Jordan
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pschica...do you ever dip the sour creamed strawberries in brown sugar?? It's DELISH! It's good with peaches too.
Thrilled
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I like peanut butter and sharp cheddar cheese sandwiches....
I like to make pasta, drench it in parmesan cheese and then pour balsamic vinegar on it to make it 'tart.' FH cannot get over it - thinks it is so nasty.
Sage10.03
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Fried Bologna sandwich on wonder bread!
jennbaby
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I LOVE octopus!!!!
Lunatrek
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OMG, fried bologna! That's another one my mom used to make us... gee, she must have really been trying to fatten us up! (It worked... ugh...)
Jenn P
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Peanut butter and honey sandwiches…yum. I’m also a big fan of all features of the Christmas Eve fish spread while DH is totally grossed out by it.
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pschica - I sent you forum mail. Got any good Lithuanian recipes? I would love to surprise my dad with some.
I laughed at seeing kugalas - growing up we use to always laugh at my grandma and her Lithuanian foods like such. Now, that I am grown up and my am open to new foods I wish she was around to take me to the old Lithuanian restaurant (if it was still around!) or cook me up some kugulas!
