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My Mum used to put salad cream on her salad and then sprinkle sugar on that! So did I as a kid. We're from Cornwall originally.
My hubbie is Norfolk born and bred several generations on each side and he's never heard of this sort of thing before. I guess it's a personal taste thing rather than a regional one.

Love the banana sandwich toasted,
lettuce yes no sugar
mom use to give us bread and butter with sugar on yuk she use to say it was good to clear the chest ?

Joan G

I have a friend from Devon who used to sprinkle his lettuce with vinegar and then sprinkle sugar on it. I quite liked it but wouldn't do it now.

I also used to sprinkle vinegar on cabbage.

Ann
glos

I tell you what my Mum also used to do which I hated. On a Sunday night we'd have a cold sort of buffet type tea and there'd always be dishes of salad stuff. The cucumber one would always be full to the brim of malt vinegar which you'd have to pick the cucumber out of. All it would then taste of was the vinegar. Yuk!

My Gran used to put sugar on her salad. I do it now and again. I like it makes the lettuce extra crunchy.
This is Lancashire.
Germaine
x

Hi Guys

Here's 2 for you.

Pepper on Strawberries

Soak fresh pineapple in salt water

This makes them sweeter.

My boss taught me that will i worked for the RAF.

Kate

Bananas on hot toast,YUM.
Gill

My mum used to cover pickling onions and red cabbage in salt overnight before adding the spiced vinegar.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

Hi soz

Soak Pineapple in salt water

Either pepper


kate

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