Today upset waitress linked to this site on nursemyra’s blog. It’s wonderfully awful, and I even recognised a few ‘favourite dishes’ from my childhood.
Of course that was back before I even knew what broccoli was and these days I tend to be something of a food snob. But there are still some things that I occasionally crave (like chip butties) even though they also gross me out, and so I wonder if inside every food snob there also lurks a food philistine with a shameful secret desire for things that they will only eat when they think nobody is watching.
What’s yours?
casa azahar 
Hm…grilled cheese sandwiches…tuna casserole…I also love a good hot dog once in a while…
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Fried egg butties followed by some form of chocolate dessert.
But not deep fried coca-cola. Not even if its diet coke.
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Being from Oklahoma, we at a lot of beans and cornbread, I eat mine with ketchup, just like when I was a kid, when no one is around. And salt on lemons! 🙂
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I like trashy food – a ton – but just the basics. I mean, I ate a lot of Chef Boyardee last week. I like hot dogs. But I guess if I’m going to the trouble of making something, it’s going to be not “trashy”. Those all take too much work for what you get out!!
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Hmmm, nothing here sounds terribly secretly shameful so far. Well, except for the Chef Boyardee.
The chip butties I used to eat in England were served on sliced white bread slathered with butter, then with lots of salt and malt vinegar sprinkled on the chips. Luckily they don’t have anything like this in Seville – and it’s never the same making it at home (trust me, I’ve tried).
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Gotta ask: what is a ‘chip buttie’ and an ‘egg buttie’? the description sounds interesting… a ‘crisp sandwich’?
My food foul? Butter and onions on soft white bread.
No explanation for it, other than it was a strange comfort food from my childhood…
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Buttie = sandwich.
And chips in England are fries.
Meanwhile, I found this recipe in the White Trash Cookbook. My mother used to make these and we loved them…
corn fritters
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corn fritters are a breakfast staple in trendy cafes here though they are make with fresh kernels not creamed corn.
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Look, the problem with this whole concept is that white trash does not cook. They go to McDonalds, Hardees, Burger King. They heat up microwave pizza pockets and leftover grilled possum. They do not cook, therefore they do not need or have a cookbook. Also, they probably cannot read or write and so could not have written a cookbook to begin with.
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I’m with Noggin – a fried egg sandwich.
Real white bread + butter + fried egg = heaven
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Had fried eggs on toast for breakfast! Yay!
Missed the mention of crisp sandwiches, too. Ideally these should be made with cottage cheese and lettuce as well as crisps, on wholemeal bread. So not seriously junky.
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Ewww, that really sounds gross (cottage cheese in a sandwich??).
And a proper philistine always eats their buttery egg buttie with HP sauce. 😛
Does anyone remember tuna casserole* with crushed crisps sprinkled on top? Talk about sodium overload.
*basically a tin of tuna, tin of condensed cream of mushroom soup, and cooked noodles all mixed together in a casserole dish and heated through in the oven.
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remember tuna casserole? i had to eat it once a week as a child… along with meals of kraft macaroni and cheese, frozen fish sticks and peas… other than the mac and cheese, i can’t eat much of any of that list without mental anguish!
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Sounds like the Trailer Park menu also existed in suburban Winnipeg.
There are things I used to love as a child (Kraft dinner, weiners & beans, fried baloney on buttered white bread sandwiches) that I’ve since adapted.
So these days it’ll be a proper ‘mac & cheese’ (made with real cheese), lentils with chorizo, and also grilled chorizo or fresh sausage ‘hotdogs’ served on toasted flour tortillas with paper-thin sliced onions, crispy lettuce, dijon & a bit of mayo.
One thing my father used to make that I still like is fried cheese. Thick slices of sharp cheddar ‘fried’ in a cast-iron pan until it goes all melty and just slightly crispy, and then slapped onto some hot buttered toast. Mmmmm… calories!
Did you also drink vast quantities of Kool-aid when you were a kid, daisy? I’m surprised I have any bones at all, let alone teeth, as this was always the standard beverage at meal times.
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Spam and eggs. I love Spam.
And lard-fried fish and chips – my favorite still 40 years after leaving England.
I reject Treet, however, under any and all circumstances.
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*goes off to google Treet*
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Wiki tells me that Treet is similar to Spam but made from chicken and pork (Spam is made from ham and pork) and is also cheaper.
According to this ad Hoagy Carmichael liked Treet.
Fried Spam sandwiches were also a childhood favourite. Can’t imagine eating it now though – reminds me too much of cat food.
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I can remember having spam fritters as a child. And bread and dripping – how come no-one has mentioned that?!!!
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Because nobody here is as old as you? 😛
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Wilted lettuce is good too: lettuce drizzled with bacon drippings
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