Gross Food I Ate When I Was a Kid

I liked cheese and ketchup as a kid. One of my favorite meals was when my mom would make us Kraft mac’n’cheese, I’d ask her for two pieces of toast. Then I would sandwich the mac’n’cheese in the toast, add an extra Kraft slice (or two), and eat the sandwich, dipping it in ketchup for added… flavor?

That much dairy and sodium sounds like a heart attack to me now.

I used to beg to make dinner for my family, and when they reluctantly relented, I would make Pasta Surprise. 

Rotini pasta + a can of diced tomatoes + a shit ton of mayonnaise = Pasta Surprise.

Somehow it ended up being an orange color every time.  The combination of tastes was horrifying. 

As a kid, our house was usually stocked with a deli delicacy called German Bologna.  I don’t remember much about it except that it was very thickly sliced and tasty as hell.  My sister and I thought that it was a gourmet treat to sprinkle a bit of shredded cheese on a slice of German Bologna and then microwave it.  For unknown reasons, the bologna reacted to microwaving by curling in on itself, making a little meatcup that held both melted cheese and bologna grease.  MMMMMMMMM.