Gross things you ate as a child or your kids eat?

I remember us kids on holidays down the South coast of NSW, we lived like kings eating such things as many fresh caught fish we could eat, prawns, mangrove crabs, blue swimmers, lobsters and abelone and any sea food that you could name. But we kids did think we were being hard done by, and pined for some 'real' food, like tinned baked beans, tinned spagetti and vegemite on cheese toast!

The staff here still cringe when I use marmite instead of butter on hot cross buns.

As kids we ate dripping sandwiches preferably with a thick sprinkling of salt.

I suppose i should explain 'cheese toast', we used to put sliced cheese on bread and grill it till it was nearlly burnt, then let it go coldish, and then smear vegemite all over it, we though it was the ants pants and just loved it!

I used to love ham and egg roll sandwiches with loads of tomato ketchup on sliced white bread. In the UK you used to be able to buy sliced processed ham slices which had hard boiled egg slice in the middle from the deli counter. It is like this. My mum would allow me to have this in my lunchbox for school once a week and it was such a treat...the thought of it now makes me feel a little bit ill!

My cousins used to climb up onto my Nan's kitchen counter and get into the high cupboards so they could eat the sugar straight from the sugar bowl - yuk - they also like sugar sandwiches.

Way back in the '40's and 50's white dread with a spread of sickly sweet and gooey canned condensed milk was considered a special treat for breakfast or dinner dessert especially for the kids.
When kids were recovering from colds/fevers,measeals or chicken pox a,"special treat" to boost them up was the ghastly Scott's cod liver oil emulsion on sliced white bread,the thought of which still makes me gag:))

OMG!! Cod Liver Oil on Bread!! I've given my daughter Mineral oil on occasion (on a spoon) which she chokes down asap. I can't believe anyone would force a kid to eat cod liver oil on bread! That's so cruel.

Our parents used to make my siblings and myself swallow a spoonful of tran (Norwegian cod liver oil) every morning when we were kids. Of course it has beneficial health effects, but I strongly suspect the real motivation was to toughen us up mentally: if you can swallow tran (must have been their reasoning) then you can also swallow the many frustrations and disappointments in life. Can't say it didn't work.

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When I was a kid I had to take the most disgusting liquid medication in the history of mankind. It was the consistency of rubber cement (but of course, not as sticky) and urine colored yellow. It tasted like burnt tires dipped in dog poop. Eventually, my mother told me that if I learned to swallow pills I wouldn't have to take it anymore. I learned really quickly.

When I was five I had to have a spoonful of 'malt syrup' every morning.
I think it also had cod liver oil in it as it tasted awful. It was because I kept getting colds and being generally not well.

If I fell and cut myself I had to eat liver, as I was told it would replace the blood I had lost.

I suppose you now know that your blood replaces itself so you don't have to expose yourself to liver every time you cut yourself NOTB. You poor thing.