Funny Foods

Published on June 18, 2004 By trina_p In Misc

I almost hi-jacked Dharma's birthday blog yesterday with this topic but it got me thinking about all the weird stuff I ate as a kid and a teen and an adolescent.

Like all good Aussie's I LOVE vegemite (my husband hates it - I think he's nuts and completely unAustralian) However unlike most Australian's I won't just have my vegemite on bread or crackers.

When I was little - say 9? I used to have vegemite and lettuce sandwiches -- and if there was no bread I'd have a salad I'd get a small tupperware container with some lettuce and toss some vegemite through it and eat it for lunch at school -- I would do the same thing with lettuce and peanut butter and lettuce and pineapple juice (I wouldn't eat the pineapple just put a couple of teaspoons over my lettuce)

Another thing I had with vegemite was French Toast - bread dipped in egg wash and fried then spread with vegemite and slices of cheese and either nuked (microwaved) or grilled until the cheese had melted -- like zebras - no different to cheese on toast really except it was french toast.

The second best way to have vegemite (and this is in noway new or my invention) is on vitawheats and make worms with the butter and vegemite (good to put lettuce and cheese on too)

But my favourite way to have vegemite is with red frogs (gelatin lollies in the shape of frogs coloured red) - red frogs were really cheap at highschool like 5c (which is expensive compared to primary school when 10c would have got you 10carrob chocolate buds wrapped in baking paper - which you could re-use for tracing.
Anyway my friends and I would by LOTS of red frogs and chocolate frogs (oh chocolate frogs - they were coconut roughs shaped like frogs but twice the size of a red frog and cost 10c each - you could also get white chocolate frogs, plain chocolate and white/caramel -- but I would only eat the coconut ones and you could make them last for ages if you ate one leg at a time and sucked all the chocolate off until there was just coconut.)
So we'd go to the tuckshop alot and buy lots of frogs to eat in class (especially senior english) Rin's (my best friend) mum had a breadmaker and she'd make Rin vegemite sandwiches everyday - and rin and I would have half each because one of us ALWAYS had $2 and would buy each of us a sausage roll - everyday (I miss school!!!!!!) Anyway as you may have noticed or should come to by the end of this article I'm adventuous when it comes to food and mixing - so it came as no srprise to me that I said "hey lets put a red frog on this vegemite sandwich -- so we did and it was fantastic and we at red frogs on our vegemite sandwiches forever after.
Even when we'd tell people they'd all go OH YUCK - but you can't knock anything until you try it - so many of the people who said OH Yuck - are very big fans because they were brave enough to try it and liked it - including my former pastor.
The best thing we did though was at my 17th birthday party someone asked if we'd cooked them - which of couse only having them at school we hadn't so we went inside and put our sandwich in the microwave -- that was GOOD ----- but better was a couple of days later when I had a bagel and cut it in half and spread it with vegemite and put a couple of frogs on it and nuked it - now that was HEAVEN. (I also used to put kraft cream cheese spread and salami on my bagel)

At home after school my sister and I would have bowls of ice-cream and I would crush up whatever biscuits we had in the house at the time and stir them through my ice-cream withor without chocolate topping until it was whipped smooth and creamy - my favourites were ginger snaps (but oreos and anything with chocolate worked to)
I love to mix all the flavours of neopolitan ice-cream together so you've got this pinky/brown mess - mmm

Spreading Ice-cream on hot buttered toast is fantastic -- especially if the bread is a grainy bread like helga's - the ones with flour on the top aren't so great though.
Speaking of chocolate topping - a good snack is water crackers (small plain crackers with no salt and very little flavour - spread with chocolate topping)
Sausages dipped in chocolate topping is also quite nice.
Speaking of nice - Nice (pronounced neece) biscuits (the square ones with sugar granuals) believe it all not taste FANTABULOUS if you spread them with a little tomato sauce (ketchup)

McDonalds!!!!! - anything with ice-cream --- an oreo mcflurry spread on english muffin, french fries dipped in your pov cone (30c ice-cream cone) mcflurry spread on hash browns - definitely my favourite.
Word of warning - never have the hotcakes with the orange juice - maybe its just me but the juice curdles everything in my stomach - especially a bacon & egg mcmuffin.

Chips --- crisps with ice-cream - especially plain or salt & vinegar chips with cappocino ice-cream
put chips (crisps) on ALL sandwiches!!!!!! (especially ones with lettuce - not not ones that will be toasted)
and Hot chip sandwiches with tomato sauce - defitely not new but VERY yummy

Another thing you can do with water crackers (and this is something I ate last winter when I was pregnant) is dipped them in cup-a-soup --- continental hearty beef is my favourite - but spring vegetable is nice too.

Coming home from a big night out - hungry? How about a stir-fry -- don't have any chicken, beef or pork strips - no problem you could use fish or sausages. - Fish is my personal favourite but don't cook it too long it crumbles into the sauce and you can't pick it up.
Or how about Mashed Potato with onion bacon cheese and curry powder?
or pizza potato -- raw potato is yummy enough by itself but a nice thing to take the edge off the rawness is put a little tomato sauce and cheese and nuke for like 20secs - till cheese melts really - the potato will be half soft//half crunchy and perfect.

Pizza sausages are also yummy - tomato sauce, onion and cheese over sausages and grilled.

Don't feel like a boring sandwich -- how about combining HAM, CHEESE, HONEY and PEANUT Butter. ---- seriously I converted so many friends in highschool to this combination - it's really great in a toasted sandwich maker to so the cheese melts and the honey soaks into the ham and bread.
Ham cheese and egg in the sanwich press is good too.

Other sandwich fillings were roast beef or pork with tomato sauce and heated in the microwave for a few seconds (obviously not for school - although you could have them cold)
and then you've got boring like ham & tomato sauce, chicken & mayonaise, curried egg & lettuce.

I feel like I'm forgetting some important ones........

How about cheese and capsicum salad -- no kidding I was at a friends house and I didn't feel like eating anymore of the rich dessert (which I made - I put a recipe up sometime) so I got some of the packet grated cheese and diced up some red capsicum (pepper?) and tossed them together in a bowl and ate it -- they all thought I was totally nuts ----- they really should have expected it - it's not like they just met me we'd all been friends for years.

Another one I had while pregnant (but don't blame the baby - she just wanted the honey) was garlic bread with honey - I know she just wanted the honey was because I regularly wanted honey on toast -- just to be different I had honey on garlic bread one night - I liked it -- the baby made me pay for it though

Please remember that only 2 of the above things were a result of being pregnant the rest were mostly from highschool. Alot of teenagers experiment with drugs I experimented with food.
and drinks ---- always mix fanta and coke if you have them - add some red softdrink too.
or how about if you make cordial ice cubes - solid cordial and when they're frozen put a couple into a glass of water.

That's all I can think of for now ---- I'll update as I remember and feel free to add your own weird combinations if you like.

*disclaimer - you may have noticed I always say tomato sauce - this is because I personally don't like BBQ or HP - if you do feel free to substitute

**Author takes no responsibilty if illness occurs from trying this at home -- I liked it and it never made me sick - what's more I'm not fat - so I say it's gotta be good

(my Nana used to say you can't fatten a thoroughbred - I think I have a fast metabolism or something)

Comments

Muggaz

on Jun 18, 2004

wanna know something really whack?

Milk with Lime cordial.... don't knock it till you try it.

also, celery with Peanut Butter smeared through it...

Big Ups to Vegemite!!!!

BAM!!!

trina_p

on Jun 18, 2004

Oh yeah on the celery & peaut butter - that's not new though --- there are a million non-weird things I could have put like the obsession I had for carrot sticks and french onion dip or carrot sticks and smoky bacon dip.

I've heard you can get drunk off Milk and Red cordial - but I haven't tried it -- I did once have 11 red cordial shots almost in a row - we were playing this game "let's ignore chris - we can't even look at him "acknowledge" him even and if you do you must have a red cordial shot -- so we're playing Mafia right and he's the narrator and I'm Mafia --- which is why when the game ended I had to have a red cordial shot for every time I looked at Chris -----and the really silly thing is Chris had absolutely no idea that 5 people were ignoring him the whole night.

Jamie Burnside

on Jun 18, 2004

I had tried eating vegemite a few times. I thought it was awful.

Once I was at an Australian bar in Japan, and I told the Australian bartender just as much. He said that I didn't eat it right. He gave me some spread thin on saltines, and I thought it was really good! What a surprise.

Teegstar

on Jun 18, 2004

yeah, jaime you really really can't eat vegemite by itself, it has to be taken in very diluted form (eg with lots of butter on toast mmmmmmm).

i'd believe that milk and lime cordial would be nice.... it would be like a lime milkshake

trina... reading all of this brought back soooo many weird and cool memories (i burned my lip on that microwaved red frog and vegemite sandwich) -- not just from stuff that you and me and others did together but from me being a kid too

primary school tuckshops were the best in the world -- my friends and i were addicted to eucolyptus drops and burger rings.

neapolitan icecream mixed together with milk
put fries in your mcdonalds cheeseburger (not new, i know -- we 'invented' that when i was about 6)
white chocolate on toast -- get a well-toasted piece of bread, sprinkle white chocolate chips and microwave for about 10 seconds -- the chocolate goes the consistency of nutella and it's AMAZING
tim tam slam (where you suck coffee/hot chocolate through a chocolate biscuit) but instead of using a tim tam use a kit kat chunky -- it's EXTREME!

i'm hungry.

Teegstar

on Jun 18, 2004

neapolitan icecream -- should be with milo, not milk (ew!)

trina_p

on Jun 18, 2004

I was about to say - eew teegs - but anything with milo/ice-cream is good!!!!!

I made the worst milkshake ever the other day (after making the best one ever)

Worst, milk, coffee, chocolate topping and mango ice-cream ---- just don't do it.

BEST - milk, chocolate topping and connosiur coffee ice-cream with grand marina swirl and chocolate coated almonds all whizzed up together!!!!!
YUM!!!!!!!

dharmagrl

on Jun 20, 2004

Mmmm...vegemite. I ran out, and my supplier won't have any more for a while...that sucks!

I've always mixed up my Neopolitan ice cream....yummy!

Celery and P-Nut butter is good for a snack....and Pepsi and milk is awesome!

MasonM

on Jun 20, 2004

Ok, what is milo????

As a kid we used to mix peanut butter, maple syrup, and sugar into a paste. Made great sandwiches.

trina_p

on Jun 20, 2004

Milo is essentially a chocolate malt powder that you put in cold milk and it floats on top and tastes yummy must e eaten with a spoon

can also be made with hot water/milk and drank like hot chocolate

sprinkled over icecream

or weetbix

they now make milo bars and milo biscuits - which is weird

Milo is like Ovaltine -- but better - more granulated and you can eat it with a spoon very easily

MasonM

on Jun 20, 2004

Thanks for clearing that up

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