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While some of these things are truly bizarre, (BOILED pot pies????) some are fairly common, e.g. cheese on apple pie. And when you say crackers and milk, if you're talking about graham crackers, I did that myself as a kid. Even after General Mills came up with "Golden Grahams", I liked plain graham crackers in milk better because they weren't so sweet.
My parents never ate anything weird. To them, broccoli was foreign.
My grandmother (who has always been skinny, by the way) would eat ONLY Lettuce sprinkled with Sugar for days on end if she felt bloated or thought she'd gained weight. My mother said that as a child / teen, her mother (my grandmother) would force her to do it as well.
My mother passed away over 30 years ago and my dad passed five years later. I do recall some of the weird things they would eat.
Brains & eggs fried ... I think the brains came in a can ... not sure as I never would partake of that delicacy.
Fried livermush sandwiches with mustard
Cornbread and sweet milk or buttermilk ... I do eat cornbread and sweet milk
Fried Tripe
Pickle pigs feet
Cantaloupe with vanilla ice cream
Souse
Crackling bread
My mother ate raw potato with salt and she would take a white piece of bread, add a slice of american cheese and a tomato slice on top of that and put it under the broiler. The problem was the tomato made it all soggy, but she loved it, while it grossed me out.
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My mother passed away over 30 years ago and my dad passed five years later. I do recall some of the weird things they would eat.
Brains & eggs fried ... I think the brains came in a can ... not sure as I never would partake of that delicacy.
Fried livermush sandwiches with mustard
Cornbread and sweet milk or buttermilk ... I do eat cornbread and sweet milk
Fried Tripe
Pickle pigs feet Cantaloupe with vanilla ice cream
Souse
Crackling bread
That sounds really, really good. I do this sometimes, cut up apples, peaches, bananas, sometimes one fruit and some somtimes many, and put a scoop of vanilla ice cream with the chopped up chunks. IT's really tasty. I'm thinking the weird foods might just be "Depression era" foods when...you didn't want to waste money. And to be honest, I've never seen my Dad bake anything....ever. That would explain the boiled pot pie. He can BBQ and grill like a champ. Makes his own sausage, and it blows anything you ever got in the store away. Even the fancy stuff.
My mom was pretty normal. My dad? Welllllll.......
Crushed saltine crackers and milk. I've never tried this. I'm frightened to try this.
Raw potato with salt. Peel potato, salt potato, cut off pieces, add more salt. Chew, chew, chew.
Canned tuna scrambled eggs. Said it had a lot of protein. (It's an acquired taste.)
Boiled pot pies. Not broiled. Boiled. Like the cheap ones in the tin. Dump them into boiling water. I thought it tasted like turkey flavored school paste.
Peaunut butter pancakes. These were surprisingly vile.
I'm sure I'll think of some more later.
I still eat peanut butter pancakes. Dad used to make fried egg sandwiches-made the house smell awful for hours.
My mom would concoct the most bizarre sandwiches ever. They almost always included peanut butter and mayonnaise with additions like sardines, hot pickled peppers/cauliflower and similar items. GACK!!!
My grandmother (who has always been skinny, by the way) would eat ONLY Lettuce sprinkled with Sugar for days on end if she felt bloated or thought she'd gained weight. My mother said that as a child / teen, her mother (my grandmother) would force her to do it as well.
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some are fairly common, e.g. cheese on apple pie. 
And when you say crackers and milk, if you're talking about graham crackers, I did that myself as a kid. Even after General Mills came up with "Golden Grahams", I liked plain graham crackers in milk better because they weren't so sweet. 
