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I think I might try the sugar on lettuce to get my kids to eat more.

I used to love sugar sandwiches when I was little but always got wrong for eating it.

I found my mother eating a very strange sandwich one day, cheese & golden syrup!
I told her she was very strange but tried it. YUMMY!

We always have a sprinkling of sugar on lettuce and tomatoes.

Also - Gill and Lisa - love the cucumber and onions in malt vinegar - really tasty!!!

(I'm originally from Derbyshire.)

Steph x

my nan used to make cucumber & onion soaked in vinegar too.she would put it in a big glass bowl overnight to soak and we had it on bread and butter.

I dont much care for lettuce
so after reading this thread
i thought well i'll try some lettuce
with a little bit of sugar wasn't bad .....
then i thought o.k. i'll try the tomatoes
with sugar, ohhhhh they were lovely
so in future it'll be sugar on my toms
Hazelx

My husband would often make his own sandwiches for lunch (sugar and tomatoes) he,s a London boy !!
I had Cocoa and sugar sandwiches when I was little,loved them for picnics in the Devon countryside,I could'nt eat them now !
Marilyn

Sliced cucumber & onion, soaked in malt vinegar, with cheese sandwiches & salard, my mum used to love it.
Gill

My grandad always put sugar on tomatoes - said it was a tonic.

Used to put vinegar on cabbage - my Dad said it stopped the cabbage "repeating".

Maybe I was just a gullible child.

My mum used to love bread and dripping and a couple of years ago when I went to visit her in her nursing home I took her a few stawberries in a plastic bowl and said guess what I've brought you and she said oh bread and dripping lol.
Jenny

Dripping - used to love it. My dad (who was the cook in the family) used to save the dripping in a cup and I used to carefully prise the dripping out of the cup (when it was set) and scoop out the gravy from the bottom. On hot toast with a bit of salt! Delicious. Although, can't say I'd eat it now!

Jill

Hi soz

Soak Pineapple in salt water

Either pepper


kate

My Dad used to put sugar and vinegar on his lettuce, he was born in Cardiff, and I still live here now.

Your thread's still doing well Jill :O)

I don't use much sugar nowadays,too fattening,but have tried black pepper on strawberries.....roll on the Summer for English ones,the Best!

Can I ask what part of Tyneside your mother was from Mac?

Bread and butter with sugar on - a special treat during the war years can still remember the crunch. I also add a little sugar to tinned toms. takes the bitterness away

Nolls

oh no this sounds disgusting,
lots of it,
salt on pineapple
sugar on lettuce
oh no i feel sick now the thought of the sugar

Yep My Grandma had sugar on tomatoes and on lettuce she was born in Lincoln but one parent from Bedfordshire and the other Lincolnshire.Have a cousin on that side who still does. YUK

Banana sarnies my all time fave.
Toasted sounds good!
Tricia xx

Mum was from Cheshire and always put sugar and vinegar on lettuce!
Anyone like me and just love the black dripping from the bottom of the roasting tin on toast?
Cheese and apple make great sandwiches too.

I have heard that ground black pepper is good on strawberries but as I hate pepper I haven't tried it. When you do the salt on pineapple, do you soak the whole pineapple is salt water or when it is cut?

When I went out with an American, years ago, he made me peanut butter and jelly (jam) sandwiches but I am not a great fan of peanut butter.
Interesting thread this,

Lizx

Jenny
The salt draws the water out of the onions and cabbage so that the vinegar is not diluted.
I remember sugar on lettuce and sugar on bread and butter, this was in Plymouth.
Pat

Good job I'm eating my lunch as this thread - bizarre as it is - is making me hungry.

Peanut butter sandwiches with celery or cucumber are lovely by the way.

Bananas on hot toast? I'll have to try that one!

Salt making things sweeter sounds really weird - how does that work?

Going to give the strawberries and pepper a bash this summer. Should I use the powdery pepper or ground black pepper?

Jill

I'm in Cardiff and have heard of sugar on lettuce