Reddit, what's the most messed up food your parents would make regularly when you were a kid?

Get ready for a lot of cursed things in this post.

My mom would mix cooked mac and cheese with applesauce in a bowl and give it to us.

My mom was from the quote, boiled the ever-loving crap out of everything school of cooking.

Carrots boiled to sad, orangish lumps, broccoli steamed beyond any recognition.

Corn may have started fresh, but by the time she was done with it, it resembled creamed corn, but lacking any possible flavor or texture.

Barbecue chicken?

Boiled that sun of a gun completely before you blacken it on the

grill, lest you and everyone you love die horrifically from salmonella. The things she would do

to a steak are crimes against humanity. Combine all this with an 80s desire to avoid salt at all

costs, and my dad's pathological fear of bad breath resulting in a blanket household ban on

onions and garlic, and meal time was a grayish, disappointing place. I now take cooking very

seriously. When they were younger, my grandma and her siblings were forced to eat cream

of mushroom soup sandwiches. Her dad was sliced the soup like cranberry sauce and spread it across the bread.

The thing is, listener, this is an example of two great things that don't go together.

Cream of mushroom soup?

My mom uses it to make tater tot casserole.

It's very good.

Adds a lot of richness, savouriness, and creaminess. Sandwiches?

Can't go wrong with them. They're one of my favorite things to make. But a cream of mushroom

soup sandwich? Are y'all out here drinking your sandwiches? My mom liked to make spaghetti.

That's not weird, I hear you say. Let me mention that she made it with raisins.

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