What are some of your "off beat" favorite snacks?

[Jim Franklin]

I like ginger ale with my tomato juice, a gooey mixture of butter, peanut butter and syrup mixed together for a sandwich (to which I sometimes add a little cinnamon), an onion and Miracle Whip sandwich, potatoe chip salad using Miracle Whip and crunched potatoe chips, crunched Graham crackers and whipped cream. Several different combinations of lunch meats, cheese, sweet pickle and MW on a cracker. No I am not weird because I live in Idaho, I was born that way.

[Joel Merrill]

By far my favorite is a Keebler Townhouse cracker with a slice of extra sharp cheddar cheese and a big blob of Tabasco Sauce. :fav07

Joel :cs02

[Belinda Y. Edwards]

cream cheese, chili and nacho chips........

[Terri Knoll]

anything with spam!

[Joel Merrill]

anything with spam!

anything????????????? Oh the thoughts that are entering my head :basic05

jOeL :fav17

[Jim Franklin]

Joel, through your mouth, nose or ears? Or is that "non-sensical?" I would suggest Tillamook cheese for the extra sharp cheddar. Must be the Saturday after the main football season is over without a major college team to watch.

[Bruce Carriker]

I must be boringly average when it comes to snacks. I can't think of a single "bizarre" menu item that could crack Jim's list.

[Joel Merrill]

Joel, through your mouth, nose or ears? Or is that "non-sensical?" I would suggest Tillamook cheese for the extra sharp cheddar. Must be the Saturday after the main football season is over without a major college team to watch.
Ears mostly, theirs not much between them :fun06 I've heard of that kind of cheese but I don't think I have ever tried it. I don't think it is very common here. I don't remember ever seeing it in the stores. I like all kinds of cheese but I like sharp cheeses the best. When I go to Wisconsin I go through Fenimore on highway 61. There is a cheese factory and store on the south edge of town that has more kinds of cheese than you can shake a stick at. Last time I got some cheese that had been aged for 8 years! I think they had some that had been aged 12!!! They also put all sorts of things in the cheese like morel mushrooms or blue berries or salami or hot peppers or nuts or even chocolate. My favorite pizza in double cheese. My cholesterol is probably high because of cheese, but hey, I'm from Wisconsin, I can't help it. I love cheese. Cheese is good with Spam too :basic05

Joel :fav18

[Jim Franklin]

You are more than a "cheesehead," you are a cheese body. Tillamook is from the dairy area on the coast of Oregon. The farming area around Boise is quite a dairying area and we have a cheese factory here called "Swiss Village." So now your posting on NazNet instead of hanging wall paper.

[Joel Merrill]

Y So now your posting on NazNet instead of hanging wall paper.

We ran out of paper. We were just getting good at it too. I ordered $270.00 worth of more paper. Then I went up town and bought our Christmas cards and a present (getting a late start this year). Then I changed the oil on my car. My wife had the Gather Homecoming on TV. I used to like that kind of music but now I am so tone deaf, it doesn't sound good to me anymore. (Take care of your hearing, folks!) So I came in here so I wouldn't have to listen to it. Anyhow, all this talk of snacks has made me hungry. I think I'll go in the kitchen and make some venison burgers. :fav07

Joel :cs01

[Terri Knoll]

We ran out of paper. We were just getting good at it too. I ordered $270.00 worth of more paper. Then I went up town and bought our Christmas cards and a present (getting a late start this year). Then I changed the oil on my car. My wife had the Gather Homecoming on TV. I used to like that kind of music but now I am so tone deaf, it doesn't sound good to me anymore. (Take care of your hearing, folks!) So I came in here so I wouldn't have to listen to it. Anyhow, all this talk of snacks has made me hungry. I think I'll go in the kitchen and make some venison burgers. :fav07

Joel :cs01

I want some venison!

[Joel Merrill]

I want some venison!

Come on over. I've got lots of it :basic01

I just remembered another favorite summer time snack. I make somemores in the usual way and then I put a slice on banana on them, YUMMY!!!

I like bananas because they have no bones :basic05

jOeL :bannana

[Laurie Florence]

Hi, some of my favourite snacks are: cheddar cheese melted on Aeroroot cookies, cucumbers soaked in vinegar and mustard sandwiches made with 12 grain bread.
By the way, I also love to eat Sara Lee strawberry cream cheesecake for breakfast. Think about it - it's the perfect all-round meal. You have your dairy and protein (cream cheese). You have the fruit (strawberries) and you have your starch (graham cracker crust). It's the perfect food and a great way to start the day!

Blessings!

[Terri Knoll]

yummy, ya'll made me hungry! luckily (is that a word?) Mandy came home with some senigan (fillipino rib soup) and I pigged out!

[Joel Merrill]

My dad likes scrambled eggs and peas. It's really pretty good. My grandson, Ethan, was snacking on the chocolate pudding earlier today.

Joel

[Jean Johnson]

One of my rather unusual foods is kimchee sandwiches. Having lived in Korea for nearly 12 years, I have quite an affinity for the spicy stuff. However, I'm the only individual I know of who makes sandwiches with the stuff. Normally, it is eaten with white rice or put into a stew. I have two portions of it right now in my refrigerator, as some of my Korean students gifted me with some not long ago.

Jean

[Cecil Wallace]

I would suggest Tillamook cheese for the extra sharp cheddar.
Well, I can't hold a candle to all your weird snacks.
I'm a peanut butter addict. I like the natural kind, like Smuckers. I take a jar of creamy and a jar of crunchy and mix them well, then just have a snack of "Peanut butter on peanut butter."

But speaking of cheese, we have a package of Tillamook hot pepper cheese in the refrigerator right now. It is my favorite. I discovered it in a local grocery store, so now I can enjoy it.
We have toured the Tillamook plant in Oregon, and sampled their goodies.

I'll let all you weird eaters get back to your snacks, and I'll go get some peanut butter.

:basic05

[Anne and Dwayne Hood]

Well, I really like kimchee also. I pulled a mean trick on a Korean friend once. she would feed so much extremely hot food to her, so I added a lot of Cayene pepper in checken stew that I served her.
she had a fit, it was so hot. But, we loved being invited to her home. She was married to a Marine that was stationed in Millington. their children immediately began calling us Mimi and Poppi. that is, when they could talk. The 17 month old started it first, while the baby was 4 months old. They left the base here in 1986. The girls are grown now, and we are still in touch with their dad.
Being from the South, I love tomato sandwiches, whick Dwayne does not eat. He said that tomatoes are something to go on a sandwich, like lettuce.
I cannot understand why people like to eat ketchup on eggs. Maybe, some of you do that, too. And, of course, I LOVE GRITS, mixed with a sunny side up broken egg yolk.

[Dana Grant]

One of my rather unusual foods is kimchee sandwiches. Having lived in Korea for nearly 12 years, I have quite an affinity for the spicy stuff. However, I'm the only individual I know of who makes sandwiches with the stuff. Normally, it is eaten with white rice or put into a stew. I have two portions of it right now in my refrigerator, as some of my Korean students gifted me with some not long ago.

Jean


Hey Jean -- nice to see you posting!!!

(I don't have any strange snacks -- just celery and peanutbutter -- but just wanted to say HI to JEAN!!)

[Doris Grant]

How about a peanut butter and pickle sandwich or a peanut butter and banana sandwich, both are good.

Doris

[Barb Bouldrey]

DORIS!!

I like peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches, too. The first time I made one after we were married John wondered if I were pregnant!

I also like peanut butter and Miracle Whip sandwiches.

I also like peanut butter on my French toast.

Barb

[Stan Hall]

Peanut butter, banana and mayo sandwich.

[Joel Merrill]

My sister-in-law likes ketchup on her eggs and on her macaroni and cheese and she likes ketchup sandwiches. I knew a girl when I was a kid who would just dump ketchup out on her plate and eat it.

My wife likes to put jelly or pancake syrup or cake frosting in a bowl and eat it by it's self with a spoon :eek:. I told her she wouldn't like it if the kids did that but she does it any way.

I've known people who liked a slice of cheese on their apple pie. That always seemed strange to me :fav03

I like potato chips in my baloney sandwiches and pancake syrup on my scrambled eggs and sausage.

Joel

:cs01

[Jean Johnson]

Thanks for the greetings, Dana! I'm wondering how you're feeling since starting the physical therapy. I've been praying for you. Stick to "normal" foods. Maybe that will help. :basic01

Jean

[Bruce Carriker]

I guess the closest thing to "weird" that I do with my food is I like my grits with a little bit of butter and grape jelly. In the Army I learned to eat them, but I never could do the salt, pepper, and hot sauce like the Southerners did.

[BobHunt]

The best kind of raisin bread, and also some of that Crackerbarrel Cheese, in yellow wrapper. Toast the bread and slice some cheese on the toasted raisin bread....that is awesome!
Also get some egg bagels, some grated cheese, Krakus sliced ham, and lettuce. Make up a sandwich, without the lettuce until you microwave it, then put on your lettuce and amyo or mustard.

[Eugenia Whitten]

Jim Franklin ~

We were raised on Peanut Butter, and Syrup but my dad always put a touch of butter in the mix. And would eat it on bread. I still have it every great once in a while. I thought that this was a "southern Tennessee" mix. I just never thought anyone else ever ate this - don't it look gross?? But man! tastes good. Thanks for the memories of my dad.

[BobHunt]

a banana sandwich, except I spread butter and grape jelly on the bread and then cut up the banana on top.

[Joel Merrill]

a banana sandwich, except I spread butter and grape jelly on the bread and then cut up the banana on top.

I like slices of banana on crackers.

Joel

[Michael B. Ross]

My most favorite food: raw oysters and horseradish. I also love mustard on fried potatoes.

I like ginger ale with my tomato juice, a gooey mixture of butter, peanut butter and syrup mixed together for a sandwich (to which I sometimes add a little cinnamon), an onion and Miracle Whip sandwich, potatoe chip salad using Miracle Whip and crunched potatoe chips, crunched Graham crackers and whipped cream. Several different combinations of lunch meats, cheese, sweet pickle and MW on a cracker. No I am not weird because I live in Idaho, I was born that way.

[Cecil Wallace]

That has to be the weirdest "snack" yet posted.
You can have those oysters and horseradish!
:fun04
My most favorite food: raw oysters and horseradish. I also love mustard on fried potatoes.

[Michael B. Ross]

Now, now. Cecil. First, I would guess you have never tried it. Second, if you have you probably had four day old oysters because it took that long for the delivery truck to get to east Texas. (just having some fun with you)

That has to be the weirdest "snack" yet posted.
You can have those oysters and horseradish!
:fun04

[Cecil Wallace]

Now, now. Cecil. First, I would guess you have never tried it. Second, if you have you probably had four day old oysters because it took that long for the delivery truck to get to east Texas. (just having some fun with you)
I really would not care if they were shucked from the shell at the time of the catch and placed on my plate.
First, I would NEVER eat a raw oyster.
Second, I really don't care for oysters that much, however prepared.
And to add horseradish makes me shudder just to think of it.

I think that I shall stick with my peanut butter!

Oh, and they can get oysters to our area from the Gulf of Mexico in one day.
I'll just have them routed on to you.
:)

[Pam Little]

i love crunchy cheetos dipped in peanut bitter.. tastes like cheese crackers / peanut butter. A favorite of me and my best friends growing up...

[Bob Evans]

I keep waiting for someone to make a theological arguement out of this thread but I think I will be waiting forever.

Plain peanut butter on a spoon. Peanut butter and vanella Icecream. Peanut butter on fig newtons. Peanut butter on circus peanuts. Peanut butter and maple syrup. Macademia not cookies with peanut butter. Peas and masned potatos mixed together. Pecon pie with a dollop of peanut butter.

[Jim Franklin]

I like a mixture of peanut butter and pancake syrup as a topping for vanilla ice cream. Another taste treat that I make that I have never seen offered at any restaurant is an apple milk shake. I have used both apple sauce with milk and vanilla ice cream. I have also used apple butter. Oh, perhaps there are younger NazNetters who are not familiar with apple butter.

[Jim Franklin]

Eugenia, the peanut butter, butter and syrup mixture was first introduced in our family by my older half brothers in the 1930s in the Northwest. Perhaps there was some mental telepathy between them and someone in your family. In our family it was called "Super Goo."

[Joel Merrill]

I really would not care if they were shucked from the shell at the time of the catch and placed on my plate.
First, I would NEVER eat a raw oyster.
Second, I really don't care for oysters that much, however prepared.
And to add horseradish makes me shudder just to think of it.

I think that I shall stick with my peanut butter!

Oh, and they can get oysters to our area from the Gulf of Mexico in one day.
I'll just have them routed on to you.
:)

The important thing to remember when eating oysters is that you never ever bite into one and then look at it :eek: That is why God made them bite sized.

Joel :fun10

[Gina Stevenson]

... the PB mentioned a lot isn't bad. Don't think it's odd, tho' ... it's rather "normal," isn't it? A staple ... at least here in the States? Still find it rather strange that when one goes to a place that specializes in breakfast that -- when one asks for peanut butter for their French toast, or waffles, or pancakes -- they don't have it! Yes, I have to remember to take it to Denny's, or not have any. Now, IHOP has peanut butter. Sometimes -- most of the time (tho' it's been "eons" since being at Denny's) -- I'll forget to take my own PB to Denny's. This might even be why my favorite fudge is peanut butter ... grew up with peanut butter on these breakfast things that usually have just syrup on them; the PB & syrup mix tastes a bit like the fudge.

OK, now the oddity for which you were looking ... 'love radish sandwiches!! They require more than the usual amount of butter -- real butter -- than most things; here's something on which I do not conserve. Don't even conserve on the amount of salt (usually use it lightly, but not on radishes). Then, it needs a wee bit of pepper, too. Mmmmmmmmmm ... RADISH sandwich. ;)

'Don't think it's odd, myself, but have been told more than once it just might be.

[Gina Stevenson]

... the PB mentioned a lot isn't bad. Don't think it's odd, tho' ... it's rather "normal," isn't it? A staple ... at least here in the States? Still find it rather strange that when one goes to a place that specializes in breakfast that -- when one asks for peanut butter for their French toast, or waffles, or pancakes -- they don't have it! Yes, I have to remember to take it to Denny's, or not have any. Now, IHOP has peanut butter. Sometimes -- most of the time (tho' it's been "eons" since being at Denny's) -- I'll forget to take my own PB to Denny's. This might even be why my favorite fudge is peanut butter ... grew up with peanut butter on these breakfast things that usually have just syrup on them; the PB & syrup mix tastes a bit like the fudge.

OK, now the oddity for which you were looking ... 'love radish sandwiches!! They require more than the usual amount of butter -- real butter -- than most things; here's something on which I do not conserve. Don't even conserve on the amount of salt (usually use it lightly, but not on radishes). Then, it needs a wee bit of pepper, too. Mmmmmmmmmm ... RADISH sandwich. ;)

'Don't think it's odd, myself, but have been told more than once it just might be.

PS * oysters, tho' yucky raw, aren't as bad cooked. Used to love oyster stew; now, for some reason, you keep finding clam chowder, but no oyster stew. Perhaps because they found that even cooked oysters have something in them not too good for us, just as raw ones? Don't miss it anymore, but used to love it ... with LOTS of butter ................

[Bruce Carriker]

My most favorite food: raw oysters and horseradish. I also love mustard on fried potatoes.

If there are oysters in heaven, you can have my share. :basic01

[Donna Adams]

We hosted a high school student from Venezuela two years ago. His name is Jorge. For breakfast one morning, he made three toaster waffles, he covered them with cream cheese, added slices of salami and then syrup! :eek: I had to leave the table because I thought I would lose my breakfast. It was so gross.
He loves salami on anything.

[Joel Merrill]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Vegemite yet. That must mean that Naznetters don't think Vegemite is an off beat snack :basic03

Joel :cs02 just a bit dingy

[Steve Reece]

Braunschweiger, fried pork rind with salsa, green olives stuffed with garlic, roasted seaweed, pickled okra -- not all at once, mind you -- pickled baby corn, green olives stuffed with onions, pickled mushrooms...
My wife says I eat so much pickled stuff that I will not have to be embalmed when I die.

[Michael B. Ross]

Men, your rejection of oysters here and in the great beyond simply means there will be more for me, now and later. I thank you.


My most favorite food: raw oysters and horseradish. I also love mustard on fried potatoes.

[David McClung]

My most favorite food: raw oysters and horseradish. I also love mustard on fried potatoes.


Oh there is nothing better than An oyster on a cracker with horseradish and a shot of tobasco on top.. We calle em Roosters around here..
Ok after reading all this, I am really hungry.. Gotta be some Bananas or Oysters around here somewhere...

[Michael B. Ross]

3 or 4 years ago, the Church of God (Anderson) sent me to Portland for a few hours of consulting on pastoral development programs. The schedule resulted in my having a couple of free days, so I took my adult son with me so we could tour the NW. We saw Mt. St. Helens and other sites.

One day we traveled a Washington peninsula north of Cape Disappointment. Towns on the peninsula include Long Beach and Oysterville. North of Oysterville, we went into a wholesale oyster business. We told them that we both love oysters, so they actually sold us oysters at wholesale price. Then, one of the owners stood near an outside table where my son and I sat and shucked them for us, as many as we could eat!

It was one of those moments my son and I will remember all of our lives. It was almost sacred. I thank God for it. The weather was beautiful, the oysters were fresh, and the moment was special.

Truthfully, I have never had better oysters. They were huge, and they had the best taste of any I have ever eaten. I think they came out of Willipa Bay.

Oh there is nothing better than An oyster on a cracker with horseradish and a shot of tobasco on top.. We calle em Roosters around here..
Ok after reading all this, I am really hungry.. Gotta be some Bananas or Oysters around here somewhere...

[Cecil Wallace]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Vegemite yet. That must mean that Naznetters don't think Vegemite is an off beat snack
A theological turn to this thread.
Vegemite should not be considered a "snack," but a "sentence" to an evil place for mentioning it, or worst of all, eating it!
Sorry, you Vegemite lovers.
There must be a "Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God" in there somewhere.

Signed,
A Peanut Butter Addict:)

[Joel Merrill]

Men, your rejection of oysters here and in the great beyond simply means there will be more for me, now and later. I thank you.
The oysters are okay. Horseradish is for horses. Yuck! :eek:

Joel

[Wanda Van Winkle]

In elementary school, the cooks made a hot dog, sliced lengthwise, opened, with mashed potatoes on top, and cheese on top of it.

It's something I remembered a few years ago.

I like the taste, although it sounds odd.

Now, the chances of us having hot dogs, mashed potatoes, and cheese in the house at the same time are almost nonexistent. We don't keep cheese, I seldom make potatoes, especially mashed, and only get hot dogs on an occasion of craving.

But I seem to have had one opportunity this last year to eat a hot dog with mashed potatoes and cheese on top.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else does this, or if it were something invented by those elementary school cooks to use up the leftover mashed potatoes. :)

[Gina Stevenson]

'Do slit the rare hotdog I eat once every few months ... or more.

Don't care much for so much bread surrounding it with a hotdog bun, so fill the dogs, instead of a bun. Haven't tho't of potatoes; might be interesting. What I'll usually put into the slit hotdog is cheese, mustard, onion. Someone mentioned horseradish; might be good, too; usually is good on anything mustard goes well with. ;)

Not your post, Joel, but I'll answer here that horseradish is NOT for horses! I love it! It's sooooo gooooooood! :fav18 :p

In elementary school, the cooks made a hot dog, sliced lengthwise, opened, with mashed potatoes on top, and cheese on top of it.

It's something I remembered a few years ago.

I like the taste, although it sounds odd.

Now, the chances of us having hot dogs, mashed potatoes, and cheese in the house at the same time are almost nonexistent. We don't keep cheese, I seldom make potatoes, especially mashed, and only get hot dogs on an occasion of craving.

But I seem to have had one opportunity this last year to eat a hot dog with mashed potatoes and cheese on top.

I'd be interested to know if anyone else does this, or if it were something invented by those elementary school cooks to use up the leftover mashed potatoes. :)

[Gerald Spear]

Sardines with mustard sauce and a few crackers.

Potted meat with hot sauce on crackers.

Vienna sausages with crackers.

Good old sharp cheese with crackers.

Sause meat with hot sauce on crackers.

Pickled pigs feet, a little hot sauce with crackers.

Good greasy, fresh from the oven, cracklins.

All of the above needs a good cold R. C. Cola to wash them down.

To come to think about it a good cold glass of butter milk will also do the trick.

[Paul Whitaker]

Tomato sandwich with mayo
Cold bean sandwich (from leftover beans) with bbq sauce
Bologna and cookies - like a sandwich
Pretzels and orange slices