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Think this might be a regional "delicacy" ??

Years ago when I was a very small child my nan dipped lettuce into sugar to encourage me to eat it. I liked it at the time but could not face the idea now.

I mentioned this to a work colleague the other week and she said "Oh my mother in law does that - but she's from Norfolk."

The odd thing is that my nan's mother was from Norfolk so I was wondering - is this a Norfolk thing or does anyone else remember this / do this? And if so, what part of the country are you from?

Jill

Hi Jill
Mam used to make us lettuce and sugar sandwiches for tea,we liked them,could possibly have been because sweets were on ration at the time.
We also ate very finely sliced apple in sandwiches too...delicious!
I was brought up in Northumberland.
Mau x

Hi Mau - that's a bit further away ... Was your mum a Norfolk woman by any chance?

Reminds me of the banana and sugar sandwiches one of my aunts used to make - they were totally yummy.

I know someone from Sussex who puts sugar on her salad instead of salad cream or mayo etc

I've never heard of lettuce with sugar, - I was brought up in Hampshire. but always thought it strange when a friend's mother gave us cut up tomatoes with sugar on, if I stayed there for tea.
She was from Manchester or thereabouts, I think.

Gwyn

I am Norfolk born and bred from a Norfolk woman and Bucks man, but this sort of rings a bell, altho not something my family did. My Mum had a really sweet tooth so she would have done it if she had known about it I am sure lol
Lizx

It seems to be from all over the place then and not just Norfolk. Interesting.



I put a bit of sugar on tomatoes when I bake them - sliced - lovely.

Mam was from North Shields,Northumberland.

I had banana sandwiches at lunchtime,has to be on brown bread though :O) lurvely!

Oh Liz - you've turned my theory on its head there! The Norfolk thing must just be a coincidence then.

I'm going to have a banana sandwich one lunchtime this week - I could eat one now!

Well of course tomatoes are supposed to be a fruit so therefore putting sugar on them would be the correct thing to do. !!! I put a few grains sugar on my tomatoes only to make them sweeter as I have cut out salt in my diet now.

Having said that I knew a lady who put salt on a Granny Smith apple - said it made it sweeter - I tried it once and she was quite right.

But sugar with lettuce - yuk yuk yuk LOL

Tina x

Salt on an apple? I'll have to try that one - but it sounds almost as odd as lettuce with sugar.


Thank you all - I know now it's not a Norfolk thing - I'll have to remember to put it in my notes for my nan though - so that future generations can go yuk as well!

Jill

LOL Jill.

I wonder if in years to come they will be eating real food or a food pill! LOL

tina xx

I vaguely remember my gran giving me lettuce with sugar on - she's from Hampshire, but her mum was from Suffolk.
Always had banana & sugar sandwiches though!!

I thought that my husband was nuts when I first met him.
He was the only person that I knew who put sugar on his tomatoes.
Peanut butter and banana butties are yummy.
I used to have crisp butties or sugar butties as a kid.

One of my exs used to put sugar on tinned tomatoes before he fried them lol I used to have banana and sugar sandwiches when little and do have them occasionally now only without the sugar.
I must try the salt on apples tip.
Sorry I messed up your theory Jill. lol

Lizx

At after school club my son had apple and crisp sandwiches.

We always put sugar & vinegar on lettuce as kids. Suppose you could call it sweet & sour. It was a thing that my mother had always done, she came from Huntingdonshire. We never took to my dad's way of eating porridge though, with salt. URGHHHH! He was a Scot,
Hilary. x

Hi Jill
I always had sugar on my salad when I was little to make me eat it and a friend of mine made a dressing for her childrens salad with milk vinegar and sugar, another friend puts vinegar on all her meals whatever they are.

I still like odd things like salad cream and sugar sandwiches, salad cream on my chips and peanut butter with jam sandwiches!!!.

I have heard that pepper is good on strawberries but never tried it myself.

Jenny x

Hi, i came from Cambridge, some one once made some tomato jam, she gave me a jar,not bad but, i won't be making any. I also remember have lettuce (cos) with sugar & vinegar, and having banana & brown sugar sandwiches. Now there's a thought for lunch!!

Sue

My husband likes blackberries crushed with a fork and put on bread