Funny/strange things you ate as a kid.

by IP_SEC 66 Replies latest jw friends

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  whitman

  Two things come to mind. My brother and I used to play in the boat pretending to be stranded. We ate dog biscuits because they were our 'rations'.

  Second - I spent a lot of time in the bush holidaying as a kid. My brother and I (he's the bad influence - not me!! I swear!!) found some tadpoles. We built a fire and found an old tin and put the sliced up tadpoles into the boiling water with a turnip we stole from the garden - seems we were trying to make some type of soup. I don't recall whether I actually ate it, but I know the intention was to eat it. Perhaps I've blocked that from my memory....I also cannot eat turnips now under any circumstances.
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  whitman

  Oh - did you know that tadpoles are all spirals inside?
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  IP_SEC

  Cool story whitman. I too did a lot of survival stuff as a kid. LOL in practice of the Great Trib

  Made chocolate chip mud cookies as a kid, with tadpoles for the choco chips LOL
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  IP_SEC

  I canna start another topic Is anyone else getting error when trying to clicky pm inbox?
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  redredrose

  Well, I certainly can't top the nuked tadpole story!
  
  My grandmother made delicious fried squirrel and rabbit and gravy.
  
  My granny used to cook up head cheese (cook a whole pigs head with peppercorns and onions and vinegar, take the skin off and put the rest of the shredded meat and broth in a pan where it would set up because of the gelatin, and slice it and eat it cold) that was good. She also prepared her own chitlins, and would cook brains and eggs for my daddy.
  
  The oddest things I liked (aside from the head cheese) that I liked when I was little was summer tomato sandwiches with Dukes mayo and potato chips. They are still delicious.
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  dinah

  BFD why would you pull a fish's eye out. Crude comment deleted----I've put myself in time out.
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  Casper

  When I was little...my Mom would fry up squirrels, including the head.

  When it cooled I would put the head in my hand and hit it with the back of a spoon and then eat the brains.... it looked and tasted like bland mashed potatoes.

  GOOD LORD... just the thought of that, makes me sick now.....

  Cas
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  CandleLight

  I ate the little purple flower necter too.. :-)

  Basiclly anything my brothers tried, so did I... didn't want to be called a sissy...

  rabbit, squirrel, fish, crawfish, worms, an assorment of strange plants, cat food, alagator tail, dirt, raw potatoes, uncooked spagetti, dandylions, sand, and a minnow.

  but wouldn't try rolly polly's... cause I thought they were cute.

  -CL
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  Soledad

  yous are grossing me out.

  I ate and still eat: flowers, squid ink, pizza and fried chicken with mayonnaise, fish head. none of that is that strange if you think about it.
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  justified

  squirrel brains