This thread has made me so nostalgic for shizz on a shingle. We had it on toast - biscuits would actually elevate the experience, I'll need to try it that way - and I actually enjoyed it. When I got older I was surprised to find out most people thought of it as bad food. Maybe my mother just had the magic touch to make it taste good. I've made it a handful of times and it came out pretty good, and then I had a harder time finding chipped beef and stopped making it.

I have no nostalgia for cinnamon toast because I never stopped making it. I always have the ingredients around, and it's such a quick snack to make if my sweet tooth is demanding something.

My "thing I eat that I'm not sure anyone else does" is plain puffed rice cakes with jam spread on top. I don't always keep rice cakes around, or even jam. But when I do have them around, it's another quick sweet-tooth satisfier. If I don't feel like having something overtly sweet, I eat the rice cakes plain. Something about puffed rice just agrees with my taste buds.

I don't know if it's dying out, but I never hear anyone mention cinnamon toast anymore (toast, butter, sugar, cinnamon). That was my go-to snack when I was a kid and we didn't have anything else snackable in the house.

This is the thread for me, I am a weirdo grazer and have made some questionable concoctions that end up converting my friends. Never tried beans and Mac but I totally would, that sounds delicious. I like to scoop baked beans with salt and vinegar chips. Also peanut butter, banana and honey in a tortilla. Leftover curry with scrambled eggs in a tortilla for breakfast, I call it a currito. Cream of wheat with bone broth, so good when you’re sick. My grandma used to make green jello with carrots, still a go to, but thankfully I never had to try the aspic frankendinners she used to make.

This channel, Tasting History is one of my faves. He recreates recipes from all sorts of historical sources. Theres one from the titanic menu from a survivors pocket, cuneiform tablets, hieroglyphs, so many cool recipes.

I'll tell you what I miss, frozen juice in a tube used to be my staple. I'd defrost and dilute it a little at a time so it wouldn't go bad. I haven't seen that in grocery stores for years.

Someone mentioned cream cheese and honey - this reminds me that there are many Roman recipes that are actually really good (I was thinking of honeyed leeks, and libum).

My grandfather always insisted that there be head cheese at New Year's dinner... drowned in vinegar.🫣

That one can stay in the past.😅

I suspect he had a plate at a BBQ and the baked beans mixed a little with the mac & cheese and he was all, “I could eat A BOWL OF THAT!”

Lol, Sunday cookouts will do that to a person.

Speaking of, I almost never see pineapple upside-down cake. Hello fresh has a version that slaps, but otherwise I never see it in restaurants or trending on social media. Bring it back! It's so easy and cheap!

I’d heard of shit on a shingle before, but I’ve never had it. The name is pretty unappetizing! My mother is the daughter of Irish immigrants, so I’ve been exposed to foods that aren’t endangered, just not commonly eaten in America, (e.g. black pudding). I remember once telling a friend that my mom had made soda bread and she genuinely thought I meant bread with soda pop in it. My mom likes to claim that “Americans just don’t know about” certain foods that she thinks of as being Irish/from the British isles more broadly, even things that sound far fetched, like roast potatoes.

A toasted english muffin topped with colby jack cheese and toasted again. When it comes out of the toaster slather it with peanut butter and have with a glass of cold milk

I loveee Kraft mac and cheese and am so intrigued by the baked beans addition… I think I have to try this one!

Something I love is cheese + sweet things…. cheese and fruit is fairly common, and I like cheese and jam sandwiches (Swiss with raspberry or peach? Omg…) and I have been known to eat a slice of cheddar with an Oreo…. it’s actually so good 😂😭 (And I’ve never even been pregnant so frankly can’t wait to see what cravings I might have then! lmfao)

Another sweet and savory combo I love is rice with avocado, sriracha, and mango!

(Ngl I really can’t tell if these are weird things or not lmao)

Pickle sandwich!!! I chop up a regular pickle (or use slices, but I can never find those anymore) and put it on bread with mayonnaise and yellow mustard and some pepper. Best eaten with a side of plain walnuts too. People are disgusted when I mention it, but it’s one of my favorite foods. I don’t know why people are so taken aback by a pickle sandwich, it’s just a regular sandwich minus the meat and cheese (which I don’t eat anyway).

My family hates eggplant and I LOVE eggplant parm.

Nothing, I am far from adventurous or quirky with food. I avoid sweet and savoury mixed, don’t like that at all.

along the lines of your dad's mustard on potato chips, I like dipping mozzarella sticks in honey mustard. Why? Because close to 15 years ago, a friend and I shared an app sampler at TGI Friday's and the exact same thing happened. Magic.

Fish roe in a tube. Mills kaviar never kalles though.