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

Yonah Schimmel's still makes knishes on the Lower East Side, as they have for over a hundred years. They're now on Houston St, just up from Russ & Daughters Appetizing.

Alas, Guss's Pickles no longer has a shop in the neighborhood.

sigh I haven't had a knish for more years than I can remember. I really need to get to the Knish Shop. The problem being that a lot of delicatessens make a mushy knish with heavy chewy dough that just isn't right. Finding a nice crispy one isn't all that easy.

sashac, our standard for everyday knishes were the heavy, doughy ones sold at a kosher deli across 86th Street in Bensonhurst. They formed a solid base for the hot dogs and pickles we'd eat.

The homemade ones are so much daintier and crisp. I like them, too.

Anonimo - My problem with the doughy ones is probably that, for much of my early life we went to my grandparents' house for dinner. My grandmother always, and I mean always, served the crisp mini meat knishes and kosher pickles as an appetizer. They were my favorite part of the meal. I never even saw the doughy ones until years after we stopped going. The first time I bought one, I didn't know it was doughy and the flavor was different. It wasn't bad, just very dissapointing.

PS - my daughter's new disgusting favorites are eating cold dim sum (dumplings, in this case pork). And then drinking the sauce that comes with it.

Edited by: sashac001 due to watching her daughter have her snack.

did no one eat snot????? I didn't either .... but my granddaughter seems to have a fondness

I think even people who eat an occasional snot ball would be put off by snot-like food. After all, they know the snot didn't come from their own nose.

I used to eat butter, whole sticks at a time. They had to hide the butter dish from me so that I wouldn't scarf it all down.

You did walking - did you ever say whether your cousin ate them raw and what he did about the stingers?

@sascha

He'd just squash 'em and lick 'em off the back of his hand. He had exceptionally fast metabolism and needed his snacks between meals.

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