What is your favorite childhood memories?

Mine would be fried bologna sandwiches on white Wonder bread with mayo. Fry the bologna until nice and brown. To keep it from curling up, put a slit in it, at least one, more if ya want to get "crazy" with it. Now that's some serious ghetto food from my childhood right there.

I have grown and found some others that weren't in my childhood, a hot dog sandwich, for 1 other. Slice opoen 2 Nathans hot dogs, and fry them until they are browned as you like tham on both sides. Toasted bread, mayo, Doritos nacho cheese chips, cold beverage, and it's time for comfort food.

One other from my best friend from the AF, Taylor pork roll, if you can find it. It comes in a cloth wrapped, plastic shrink covering with a red Taylor symbol on it. Slice it, and fry with your favorite breakfast for some more comfort food.


You know some of mine............what's your's?


BBTank

Homemade potato soup, my moms is still the BEST...although mine is getting better every time I make it!
cabbage and polish kielbasa
ham hocks and beans
deviled eggs (omg my moms are off the chain)
HOMEMADE Egg noodles w/shredded beef roast...best part was she'd make them and roll them out and we'd try to sneak the edges off, :yum: then she'd roll them up jelly roll style and slice them SUPER thin. then we all would help unroll them and let them dry all day...

OK Queen, we gonna have to fight on this deviled egg thing.......Mrs.Tank really makes the best. I'll con her into........I mean I'll ask her nicely, to make some if we come on the BBQ weekend.
Ya know what's the best about bragging that your "stuff" is best?
Somebody is gonna make some to eat, and then ya wind up like fat boy Tank, 265lbs., but I'm not complaining, just gainin!!!!

Don't make me fly my mom here from FL!

Also sliced cucumbers and onions in some kind of vinegar/sugar combo. Sounds strange but that is good eatins!

You have Mrs. Tank bring them up I will be happy to help decide! We'd love to meet you guys, and enjoy good eats with awesome friends!

Peanut butter and banana sandwich
Still have em at least 1x a month

Nice..... the fried bologna sandwich.

I had a nieghbor growing up and his Mom made them EXACTLTY like that.

I still make them and my kids kids also dig it.

Good times

every sunday my mom would make us spicy taters/ bisquits and gravy for breakfast, mmmmmmmm

My favorite was chocolate cake in a bowl with milk. (like cereal)

OMG, we used to do the same cucumber and onion thing, vinegar with water, added some salt and pepper. Red onions are the best I think. No sugar for us, our BBQ sauce was always vinegar based, so we had no problem with it.
We used to have the Preacher over EVERY Sunday for fried chicken. Well, you'd call him Preacher, we just called him Daddy!!!!!

Dang BBT, where are you from? We lived in the midwest, and my family still owns a bunch of farmland in IL.

Born and raised in Rockingham, NC. And I don't like NASCAR.......which stands for Not Another Sport Centered Around Rednecks!!!

EASY on NASCAR! I hope y'all can make it for the BBQ @ RAZOR casa!

Another favorite over the years has been:

A slice of good ham, your fav.
spread chream cheese on the ham totally coverd
place a pickle of your choice, I like the Nathan's
roll it up like a jelly roll, and slice it like pinwheels.

Good finger food for a party!

My aunt and uncle have lived in Rockingham for the last 30 plus years.

That there's cucumber salad. Skin and slice your cucumbers and sprinkle with salt. Let them sit for a little while in a colander. The salt will help release the excess water. Then mix those bad boys with some vinegar and a itsy bit of sugar, sliced onions, and my grandma would add a little bit of vegetable oil in there too, maybe to protect the cucumbers Heck, I just make it the way she says to make it. Sprinkle some paprika (we're Hungarian) on top and let it chill in the fridge for about 30 minutes or so. I LOVE cucumber salad.

There is also a version where you use sour cream instead of all that vinegar. Equally good, but I've never made it that way.

I always remember eating a hunk of fried liver. Also, sugar and butter sandwiches. Circa 1982. We were pretty poor.

Miricle whip and white bread was one of my fav snacks...

we was dirt po too...

Only because your DAD would spend all his money on model airplane stuff......

Momma don't like no miricle WHOOP up in this house. I don't disagree, it just doesn't agree with my tastbuds. I can always pick it out on a sandwich.

Miracle Whip is

Never knew there was a difference between miracle whip and mayonaise until a year or 2 ago. Wife told me. I'm either not that picky or never dumped mounds of the stuff on my sandwiches to taste a difference.

Sharon we used have those too. We used to have cut up hotdogs in bbq sauce and mac and cheese. We ate alot of fried food, round steak with mast tators.. Every sunday we would dinner at my mom and dads, after we were out of the house, ribs, fried potatoes baked beans and always bread and butter. my favorite was before school mom would always make homemade cocoa and toast on the skillet. miss those day.

Sadly thats not too far from the truth. That or his real airplane.

Another thing zI did is I would get a cup of milk and pour sugar in it...drink the milk then eat the rest out with a spoon. YUCK!!!!! I can not imagine that now.


There is a huge difference between Miracle whip and best foods.

Hater.

Hey, careful, that Kelster is my new friend, because of that comment!!!! I just don't like miricle whip, I don't know what it is, other than a taste that's not to my liking.
Cacti, I used to do the milk and sugar thing in a bowl for cereal, then drink the milk to taste test it. Then I'd have to start over to eat my cereal. OMG, I can't imagine doing that now. Alcohol is my way for sugar intake, and a fine way it is!

During the Summertime they used to hand out sack lunches at the rec centers, (1 per kid, no seconds).

We'd peddle down there and grab a lunch, but they were never satisfying.

We learned that if we peddled to the next town we could grap a second lunch.

We would earn $$$ doing yard work. We'd sometimes go to All-You-Can lunch eat at Shakey's.

One day the Manager came up to us and offered to refund our money if we would stop eating and leave. He couldn't keep the buffet line up fast enough for his regular customers..lol

Free lunch was the best as a broke kid

Good times.

miracle whip = poo poo gawd i hate that stuff!!

i still make the cucumbers and onions in vinegar. here is what i do.

i get myself a large spaghetti sauce or mayonaise jar (glass only) completely clean.

i slice up cucumbers about 1/4" thick (any thinner, and they get mush in a couple days), and slice up either red or brown onions thin, about 1/8" thick or thinner if you desire, and a couple jalapenos thinly sliced (habaneros if its only for me).

i layer them in the jar as follows:

layer of cucumber, layer of onions, sprinkle with sugar, lay a couple slices of jalapeno on top, and repeat, until jar is full. i toss in a teaspoon of whole peppercorns, and a dash of salt. fill jar to top with white vinegar, and put on lid. put in fridge for about 12 hours or so, and turn jar over for another 12 or so hours. in about 24 - 36 hours i have sweet and spicy cucumbers and onions.

i can eat a whole jar by myself. i love them, problem is, they dont love me. heartburn city....

beware, the habanero version will light you up!! :ebbg:

A tortilla cooked on the burner of the stove.....butter, salt and hot sauce on it.

White bread with just mustard on it.

Hot dog on a fork cooked on the stove. Still can hear the sound when you put the fork in water to cool it off.

peanut butter and pickle sandwiches

Fried egg in the hole....and fried bologna for lunch while watching Speed Racer!

Hot Dog on a fork, cooked over the stove burner...we used to get in trouble for burning all the forks LMAO!

Another favorite was Peanutbutter and Jelly sandwich dipped in tang.....sounds gross now, but loved it as a kid!!

Hot tortillas and butter

Or toasted bread with peanut butter and honey YUMmmmmmmmmm

Buttered toast dipped in hot chocolate

cow tongue tacos

beef liver kabobs

tripe spagetti

pig hoof soup

grilled peanut butter samwich

Forgot about those, now I'm hungry.

I just remembered one.............

My great grandfather (Atlas Dargon Williams) would walk about 12 miles to Munn's Grocery to buy 3 great big honey buns, the old style ones. Well, there wasn't a choice, I guess, it was in the 60's. That man would never come to the front door, he would walk thru the woods and come up to the back door. "Pa" would hand my sister, brother and me each a honey bun right when he walked in the door. To this day, I can't eat a honey bun, because of him. I'll have one the next time I see him......hope he has one ready for me.

avocado, tomato and sliced red onion on sourdough bread with miracle whip, salt and pepper

I was right there with ya, mouth watering and all, until miricle whoop. Ya lost me then...........

Peanut Butter and Jelly w/ Cheetos! Dont knock it till youve tried it.

Peanut butter pizza!! Yes you keep the sauce on it too. Dont knock it till youve tried it

Sliced open Nathans hot dogs, fried in a pan, make a sandwich with all the right toppings for you, and put nacho cheese Doritos on it also.

Last week my wife made what she called an authentic old school Oklahoma type dinner

Beans, fried potatoes and corn bread. Next day was interesting

Cheese crisps: Layer cheese on totrilla stick under broiler till bubbly and edges are cripsy lightly salt slice like pizza and eat. YUMM
Buttered tortillas: Self explanitory. Heat over burner little butter and your good.
Cheese sandwhiches: Cheese and miracle whip on white bread
Bologna sandwhiches: bologna and mustard on white bread
mac and cheese with corn and a1 sauce
Moms Tuna Sandwhiches: Tuna, Mayo, relish (grandmas home made relish is the bomb) mix it up and put on white bread then some plain lays or cheetos on top o the tuna put the other slice of bread on and go to town

Wow reading this really brought me back.

Amy - you must try cheetos and yogurt. YUM dip the cheeto in your yogurt and enjoy

We did the cucumber/vinegar thing. Grandpa called them poor man's pickles. It was a favorite snack of his and mine. I LOVE me vinegar. I can eat it straight.

Homemade tortillas. OMG heavenly. Fresh homemade tortillas are better than a freshly baked choc chip cookie to me. I remember being called in with my friends so we could each get one freshly made. Didn't even add butter. Rolled up with a napkin to help us not burn our hands.

Fried corn tortillas. Just that. I'd get hungry waiting to fry all the tortillas for dinner, so I'd 'accidentally' tear one removing it from the oil. Oooops guess you can't do anything with that - guess I'll eat it. Now that I'm adult I always just set one aside to munch on and I don't have to pretend to ruin it

Olive tacos Fried corn tortillas loaded with olives. a little cheese, garlic, and salsa. Sounds weird, everyone makes a face the first time I serve it to them. Then they finish up by making sure they know how to make them at home.

Rushkemshnooshkem. No idea how you really spell it, It's a danish dish that I think unless you were raised on would hold no appeal. Basically a creamy soup with LOTS of Turnips, some taters and onions.

Fried ham sammich. I HATED ham when I was little so my mom doused it in Heinz 45 sauce with a little honey right after frying it. I ate it right up!

Fried hotdogs and mac n' cheese. Slice the dogs up, fry em till they start to get a little black. Put on top of the macaroni and eat!

Fritos topped with chili and cheese.

Hot dogs with Franco American Spaghetti . . .