Kid Sandwiches

Well, i for one wasy very curious to what a tuna salad or egg salad, or baloney was.

To be frank, in those days, people were disparaged for ethnic foods. Today, we have come to realise what a wealth of good food there is out there.

I remember our rustic and sometimes rather fancy dinners, and i would wonder..my friends have t.v. dinners and McDonalds or Burger King, or canned food..what is that like.


Now, i realise how fortunate i was. My mom had the idea, that you could skim on certain things, but never on good quality food..she has specific places where she purchased meat, cheeses. Usually speciality shops and the farmer's market.

My favourite though, from the time, was very fresh mortadella, asiago, and pickled cherry peppers, with plenty of crusty bread>>>>>>>>>MMMMMMM>>FOODGASM.

I so enjoyed this whole forum, you guys and gals were cracking me up with these 'fond memories" of childhood sandwiches.... My sides hurt with laughter, I think everyone was smokin something????

...no childhood fond memories???????

I still shudder to think about one of my favorite childhood sandwiches......Miracle Whip & yellow mustard between 2 slices of white bread

My 5 year old just created a new sandwich which he takes in his school lunch....ramen noodles drained and put on white bread. I think he adds potato chips when he gets to lunch room.....

Big Kahuna Kooks


My 5 year old just created a new sandwich which he takes in his school lunch....ramen noodles drained and put on white bread. I think he adds potato chips when he gets to lunch room.....

That sounds tasty, but not very healthy (carbs + carbs + more carbs when he adds the potato chips)!   
 
Have you tried switching him to a St. Paul sandwich (egg foo yung on white bread)?  It would have a similar taste and would be a lot healthier. 

Most sandwiches that were sent with me to school were wrapped up in about 3 feet of waxed paper- to cover the surface of the desk or table, which according to my mother needed to be covered.There are a couple of sandwiches that stand out in my memory- PB, mayo and lettuce, on buttered bread was an almost daily offering from 1st grade through 4th. And then, for most of 5th grade, bologna and american cheese on white bread with mustard. To this day, I cannot even stand the smell of bologna! But PB w/mayo and lettuce- on buttered white (Pepperidge Farms), now that's a treat!

I had the same sandwich almost every day for 6 years.

White bread, one slice of bologna and French's Yellow Mustard.

Once or twice I had cream cheese and diced black olive.

I used to trade my sandwiches with Yvonne.  Yvonne was from Holland and used to bring Hagel  (Hagle?) sandwiches to school.

Hagels were chocolate sprinkles.  Paired with real butter and white bread the were the sandwiches I dreamed of.

I started early.

 English muffin pizzas.

In a pinch, white bread, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese.

Yum.

mine was fried ham mustard and lettuce

White bread, sliced vienna sauages, Miracle Whip, lettuce.
 
Spam salad sandwiches(shred spam on a box grater, minced onion, diced celery,diced sweet pickles, Miracle Whip, dollop of mustard).  Spam salad sandwiches are also great grilled.
 
Peanut butter & my grandmother's homemade grape jelly.

I was lucky enough to be able to walk home for lunch-+ peanut butter with rasperry jelly-seeds and all.And beef barley soup.

My Mom never drained the tuna very well, they were a soggy mess by lunchtime, but we loved them. She also did sliced olives with mayo, lettuce and something else, don't know what she added, but they were wonderful. Wish I had payed more attention!

roast beef with ketchup on white bread (from my daddy's bakery);
beef bologna on seedless rye (also from daddy's bakery) with yellow mustard;
egg salad on white bread

all totally yum! my mom couldn't cook but she could make a sandwich!

mar52


I had the same sandwich almost every day for 6 years.

White bread, one slice of bologna and French's Yellow Mustard.

Once or twice I had cream cheese and diced black olive.

I used to trade my sandwiches with Yvonne.  Yvonne was from Holland and used to bring Hagel  (Hagle?) sandwiches to school.

Hagels were chocolate sprinkles.  Paired with real butter and white bread the were the sandwiches I dreamed of.

I started early.

maybe you should be in charge of the bailout, marlene. How did you consistently talk  Yvonne into giving up Chocolate Sandwiches for Bologna?

Big Kahuna Kooks


My 5 year old just created a new sandwich which he takes in his school lunch....ramen noodles drained and put on white bread. I think he adds potato chips when he gets to lunch room.....

I used to add potato chips to my otherwise bare hamburgers telling everyone that the "crunching" sound was from eating grown up lettuce.

I had a Batman lunchbox, but I don't recall eating many sandwiches. My mom was a teacher, so it was cafeteria food for me! (wasn't too bad back then).

I remember those 35¢ lunches.  I got to work in the cafe in the 6th grade so they were free.  That's where I heard about John Kennedy's death.

Bill...  I'm thinking Yvonne never got to have boloney sandwiches like I never got to have chocolate.

We were both quite happy with the exchange.

She also taught me to love salted black licorice.

Ham on white bread with mayo was a favorite.  My dad was in the Navy and my mother used to buy Navy-issue, quart-sized preserves at the commissary.  A pbj sandwich with either peach or pineapple preserves was also a favorite, and still is. 

When I was in elementry school back in the 40's my brown paper bag would hold PB & jelly, cream cheese and jelly, liverwurst with ketchup and sliced canned corned beef with French'e yellow mustard.  Sometimes I would get tuna salad to which I would add potato chips. 

WarToad


We also had one of those camping pie makers.



You butter up two pieces of bread, put some combo in the center, and toast it on the burner. Mom let me do aall kinds of stuff in it for my lunch the next day. Peanut butter and bacon, salami and cheese, corn beef-kraut-swiss were favorite combo's.

Oh we did these @ camp!!! They called them Pudgy Pies. You can put pizza sauce & cheese and then whatever toppings--cooked pizza sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, etc.

Then you could cook your dessert while you were waiting for your pizza Pudgy Pie to cool. You butter the bread & put any kind of pie filling in. One of the counselors warned us, "If you don't leave it in the fire long enough, it'll taste like bread & apple pie filling. But if you "cook" it right, it will taste like a hot apple pie." Oh they were good.

For lunches, we were poor so I got a reduced price lunch ticket. It was a different color from the other lunch tickets, but I didn't care. It was blue, I liked blue & was too little to realize others may judge me by that.

If we made sandwiches for lunch at home, it was usually bologna, cheese, mustard & lettuce if we had any lettuce. Or roast beef & cheese & mustard leftover from a potroast dinner, pb&j of course or just plain peanut butter. Sometimes my mom would make a spread out of cream cheese & chopped green olives & put that on bread. Love those! Still love those, especially good on pumpernickel. She would do tuna & egg salad, too. And once she discovered deviled ham & Hormel canned turkey & ham, she would do Ham Salad. Ham, pickle relish, mayo, pepper, perhaps Lawry's. I don't like ham, but ate it. Lunch is lunch. :)

As I got older, we would try peanut butter with bacon, pickles, marshmallow fluff & honey. The bread for most of the sandwiches was white or wheat. My mom got rye bread too sometimes, but I cant stand caraway seeds, so she got to eat that by herself.

My mom wouldn't buy Wonder Bread. I was raised on Pepperidge Farm, and that's what I buy my family now. (Although they make fancier breads now than they did back then, and we get Whole Grain White, which is white bread without the guilt, apparently.)  I used to put potato chips in my PB&J sandwiches. I also occasionally got tuna, but try as she might, mom couldn't get it dry enough and it would inevitably be soggy by lunch time. Finally I got her to start sending the bread in a bag and the tuna salad (Bumblebee in water, diced-small celery, and Miracle Whip) in a Tupperware container, so I could construct them at the lunch table. Worked much better. My favorite, though, was monterrey jack cheese and Oscar Meyer Salami for Beer. I don't know if they even make "Salami for Beer" anymore. The last time I saw it, you could only get it in a multi-variety cold cut pack, but that was years ago. They apparently now only make cotto, hard, and beef cotto salamis.
 
Now the kids eat yellow American cheese on their sandwiches to the exclusion of any other type. My daughter wants bologna, my son wants hard salami, both with Miracle Whip. (Which hubby won't go near!)
 
Neither like peanut butter and jelly, however, which I find odd in American children. Their father, however, is English, and perhaps they inherited the aversion from him. English people think "Jello" when they hear "Jelly", and are revolted by the very thought. You'd have to say "jam" to them. But it's still not a traditional English thing. Hubby did introduce Nutella to us, though, and now my daughter loves Nutella sandwiches, and they both eat it on toast most mornings.
 
However, Hubby also loves Marmite, which makes us all gag. He'll eat that with peanut butter. Bleah! I won't kiss him until he's brushed his teeth. lol