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

Malt syrup shouldn't taste awful. In Libya all the expats bought huge quantities of a Swiss malt syrup called Bio-Malt for brewing purposes. (You had to smuggle in hops or hop extract.) We would have been the healthiest bunch of people in the world had we used it as intended.

But now that I think of it, Roo hated extract of malt, although Tigger loved it.

In the US in the early 70s you could buy big tins of both plain and hop-flavored malt syrup in supermarkets, both with a beaming baby on the label. The hop-flavored stuff would have tasted awful straight, but I don't think anyone would have given it to a baby, despite the label. If you sent away for recipes to the address on the back, first you would get an envelope from the manufacturer with standard recipes for malt-flavored bread etc, and then a week later you would get an envelope with no return address, with a sheet of paper headed "Recipe for a five-gallon batch" and beer brewing instructions. Wine and cider were legal to make at home in those days, but not beer.

sashac, the German, specifically Bavarian, equivalent of gribenes is Griebenschmaltz, made with pork fat, onion, and apple. It's excellent. The French, specifically Touraine, equivalent is rillettes, also very good. Gribenes would ordinarily have onion already cooked into it.

I can't see putting butter on the bread you're about to spread with gribenes though.

My sister ate Christmas beetles... nasty little hard shell Beatles that look like black peanuts...

I ate Marmite and Honey... Yummy!

Edited by: kobusliferemotely

sashac, the German, specifically Bavarian, equivalent of gribenes is Griebenschmaltz, made with pork fat, onion, and apple. It's excellent. The French, specifically Touraine, equivalent is rillettes, also very good. Gribenes would ordinarily have onion already cooked into it

Wow! I never realized others actually ate schmaltz. Of course, since my mother kept kosher she wouldn't have used pork fat.

I can't see putting butter on the bread you're about to spread with gribenes though

Yeah, my dad used to be on the big side (he since lost a lot of weight and hasn't eaten gribenes for many, many years) and I constantly fight the battle of the bulge, partly due to habits learned as a child.

I remember when i was a kid, that 'Cod liver oil' was seen as being some sort of medicine.

It's rich in vitamin D, strauss. I don't think Australians would ever have had any need for it, but in England rickets was a problem.

Cod liver oil... a spoonful every morning. Foul! The remedy was a Haliborange vitamin C pill dissolved on the tongue which was a damn sight better tasting.

I got travel sickness as a kid. Lemon, orange & strawberry flavoured glucose tablets were fantastic!

No Vinny you are very wrong here, the Australian chemists sold it as we had this need for it and told us so, and i remember that they accualy sold it in bottles with a measuring spoon for every morning doses!

Actually Vinny is only partly wrong. Here in the US it is/was sold mostly as a medicine for constipation.

I loved cheese and grape jelly sandwiches for some reason but I dont think that is as gross as a peanut butter and mayo sandwich lol thats disgusting