Well, as most of the list Aussies would recognise, my favourite is cheese
and vegemite "sangas" (that's australian for sandwiches)...  I also love
egg, mayo and lettuce, and vegemite cheese and lettuce... but that whole
mayo/peanut butter thing, man, that's just weird - i thought peanut butter
and jelly (we call it JAM) sangas were bad enough... ;-)

tan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Whaley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: OT-Totally OT but...


> Okay, are we into strange (= different) food now?
>
> My mother used to make sandwiches out of thick sliced homemade bread,
> slathered with homemade butter and liberally sprinkled with sugar.
> Sometimes brown sugar, with lumps in it. . .
> Back then, altho' I didn't really know it, we were as poor as church
> mice (height of the depression) and I got a lot of inventive meals.
> Like you, I just thought all Ohio country boys ate that way.
> I'd go to school and trade with classmates who (poor kids!) had
> home-cured pork and mayo sandwiches.
> Both of us felt we got a treat!
> And we did! Her mom wouldn't let her eat that way, had she known, and my
> folks didn't have the money to get the pork.
>
> keith whaley
>
>
> tom wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Keith Whaley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> > > Most obviously, you've never HAD peanut butter and Mayo.
> >
> > Wow, someone else who doesn't think pbm is gross. My mom made these
> > for me as a kid, I always thought it was an Oklahoma thing.
> >
> > She would draw little messages in the mayo which I would look for as a
> > little kid.
> >
> > tv
>

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