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

Bananas on hot toast,YUM.
Gill

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

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
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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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!!

LOL Jill.

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

tina xx

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

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

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

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