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filmbuff Wed 24-Feb-16 15:08:26

Was reminiscing with DD yesterday recalling how when she was younger her favourite sandwich was cream cheese, banana, honey and ready salted crisps! (I think the first three could be quite nice together but the crisps? No)

Made me wonder whether other gransnetters or their families had combinations that they liked that no one would necessarily think of putting together. I'm not sure I've ever gone for anything more outlandish than toast with jam and cheese myself

aggie Wed 24-Feb-16 21:21:50

I accidently had Nutella and Marmalade it was delicious smile

grannyqueenie Thu 25-Feb-16 00:24:34

Peanut butter, crunchy of course, and golden syrup...yummygrin

loopylou Thu 25-Feb-16 06:52:12

Fried bread sprinkled with sugar, tastes like doughnuts - I was introduced to this by a school friend's Maltese mum.

HannahLoisLuke Thu 25-Feb-16 11:50:27

Delia Smith has a recipe for apple pie made with cheese pastry, it's delicious.
I like crunchy peanut butter with honey on toast, don't think it's very unusual though.
I also like a cheese sandwich made with hot cross bun instead of bread.
I also make a cheese and herb bread and butter pudding sometimes. Serve with a watercress salad.

harrigran Thu 25-Feb-16 14:25:38

When I lived in a Nurse's home, afternoon tea was cheddar cheese and raspberry jam sandwiches. Probably we were supposed to have one or the other but we lumped them together for speed. If I could blag an apple from a patient then I would have cheese and apple sandwiches.

annodomini Thu 25-Feb-16 15:23:26

My family think I'm odd because I like banana and marmalade on toast. For me they're a match made in heaven!

Juggernaut Fri 26-Feb-16 09:47:07

Eating cheese with fruit cake is quite a normal thing, personally I like a lovely creamy Lancashire cheese with it, but my grandfather always ate it with Cheddar. Christmas cake or Christmas pudding fried in butter has been a tradition in our family since my grandfather was a child!
We always serve apples with cheese in a salad, and I make apple and cheese muffins, they're glorious!

JackyB Fri 26-Feb-16 12:30:46

Everyone turns up their nose when I eat my favourite : tomatoes on toast.

While the toast is in the toaster, I put the tomatoes in the microwave for 2-3 minutes until they are mushy, then put them on the buttered toast and sprinkle with salt- mushy, slushy, luvvly comfort food.

annodomini Fri 26-Feb-16 13:13:55

JackyB, you are not alone. I am very partial to tomatoes on toast, though I fry the tomatoes in a small amount of olive oil and serve sprinkled with chopped basil. As I live alone there is no-one here to disparage my tastes.

4i43 Fri 26-Feb-16 13:17:10

Marmalade on fried bread with bacon.

grannylyn65 Fri 26-Feb-16 15:10:05

I once asked one of the residents at the care home I worked in ,what was his idea of weird food, quick as a flash he replied 'Black pudding and meringues!!!

Daddima Fri 26-Feb-16 16:09:44

My auntie made us banana sandwiches with Cadbury's Flake. Yum.

I have a friend who maintains that EVERYTHING can be put on a sandwich!

Thingmajig Fri 26-Feb-16 18:32:03

We occasionally have a nice croissant breakfast which is really just the aforementioned croissant with scrambled and bacon ... to this my lovely but strange husband adds in lashings of cheese, jam (any flavour) and then even more lashings of ketchup over everything and may have a pickle on the side.
He does put some weird combinations on his plate, but I blame this on him being Danish!

It might be a Scottish thing but my father used to eat butter (big slabs of it) and sugar sandwiches. Yuck!

Ana Fri 26-Feb-16 18:40:53

My Uncle had sugar on buttered toast for breakfast every day of his life.

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 26-Feb-16 18:54:11

Yum! envy

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 26-Feb-16 18:55:18

Why do they have to tell us how bad nice things are for us? Sigh!

Esspee Fri 26-Feb-16 18:59:52

Apple sandwich. Sometimes I sprinkle some sugar on it, sometimes cinnamon. Best with a tart apples like Granny Smiths.

ajanela Fri 26-Feb-16 19:53:06

In Portugal they don't get apple sauce with pork or cranberry sauce with turkey.

grannylyn65 Fri 26-Feb-16 19:59:37

Am definitely going to try some of these!??

ninathenana Sat 27-Feb-16 01:20:24

I have an aversion to mushy tomatoes, I can't touch them let alone eat them, yuck !

Willow500 Sat 27-Feb-16 06:53:54

My MIL used to do tomatoes on toast sprinkled with curry powder which was lovely - my own mother would put left over mash on toast. When I called from my friend on the way to school 50 odd years ago she would be having fried bread with marmalade on for breakfast or toast dipped in brown sauce both of which I tried and loved as well!

mumofmadboys Sat 27-Feb-16 07:14:53

Grilled cheese and banana on toast is good ! Eaten this since a uni friend introduced it to me