White bread, Miracle Whip (never mayonnaise) and sprinkled with red pepper. Yummmm!

Actually been thinking about one for a couple of weeks, just haven't done it yet.

Bob

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Originally posted by recoatlift:
Around age 6, my Sicilian mom started including me on sandwich’s other than PBJ. I became addicted to these sandwiches, capicola, salami, Italian sausage peppers and sugu, Italian beef dipped in beef juice with peppers and onions

Surely a huge level up from PB&J…

But now that’s not real unusual is it?

Italian sandwiches are my favorite.

White bread, sweet relish (mounds of it) and mayo. Still enjoy one from time to time when its hot out. Really cools you off!

My parents went through the depression, and had 3 boys. Many, many of the sandwiches listed here we served at my house. My mom knew how to really stretch a buck, and feed a family of 5. Onion sandwiches on white bread with mayo was a standard, along with white bread and margarine(couldn't afford butter) and sprinkled with sugar. This thread has brought back so many good memories from my past.

As a boy, my father would make a sandwich with raw chop meat on white bread. Yuk!

P B & Grape jelly with fresh sausage on fresh homemade bun

I don’t think I ate any “unusual” sandwiches, I just say there were sandwiches I haven’t had again in a long, long time. Fried bologna comes to mind. I always kind of liked them, but we never buy it. My folks HAD to buy bologna, we couldn’t afford ham and roast beef for every day eating.

Haven’t had liverwurst (or braunschweiger) in a long time either, but I suppose I still like it. Like I said, not unusual, just not eating them now.

Liverwurst sandwiches, and, when there were leftovers, meatloaf sandwiches. I think the meatloaf sandwiches came from my parents growing up with their depression-era parents.

The favorite was a slice of limberger cheese, slice of bermuda onion on home baked white bread. Variations included rye bread, from bakery, yellow mustard added, sometimes butter added.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Not greatly unusual, but pimento cheese sandwiches. My mother often made them for my school lunch box.

A couple of months ago something reminded me of them and I began looking for pimento cheese in my grocery stores, but couldn’t find any, so they must be somewhat unusual.

I eventually found “Price’s Pimento Cheese Spread” on Amazon Fresh.

My dad ate those all the time when I was a kid and I would never try one. I didn’t know what it was. Today I will eat them and my grocery store makes it fresh in store.

All these sandwiches with chips on them! I gotta try it. I mean I have the chips next to the sandwich and eat some after a bite of the sandwich so why not just put them ON the sandwich!!!

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
Cucumber sammiches.

Fresh cukes out of the garden, sliced thin-ish (about 1/8 inch).

Sweet white or yellow onion, also sliced to the same thickness.

Layer cukes and onions in a widemouth quart jar.

Prepare a marinade of 1 cup cider vinegar, 1 cup water, a healthy pinch of salt, a heaping teaspoon of sugar and a dash of black pepper. Mix thoroughly, pour over cukes/onions, screw the cap on and shake thoroughly. Refrigerate overnight.

Bread of your choice, (I prefer 12 grain) toasted to a golden brown, slathered in REAL butter.

Put a nice thick layer of cuke slices, a few rings of onion on top, more buttered toast on top.

Not sure I've ever managed to stop at just one...

That is what got some people through the depression. Hence the term “Bread and Butter Pickles.”

A lot of interesting combinations. Going to give a few of them a try.

Not my favorite from my childhood but does fall in the unusual category: cold macaroni and cheese on white bread. A little high in carbs I’d say.

I see so many mayo and PB combos. I just don’t know if I could try it today. I am sure if that was what I was given as a kid then I would love it. Just a surprising combo I never would have thought of.

I scanned these pretty quickly. Anyone put Nestle quick powder on a peanut butter sammich?

Peanut Butter & Jelly with crushed potato chips on it.

Pinto beans on white bread. Mash 'em up a little.
Was good stuff.

Peanut butter and cream cheese with a tall glass of cold milk.

Mt dad: peanut butter and mustard sammich.

"White bread, butter, thick slice of onion with black pepper. Slice of bologna if available."

yes...and eventually my buddy's mother introduced us to the entire wreckage of the 'cold cuts' choices of some unidentifyable meat-named stuff with bits of olive, pimento, something she called 'head cheese' that neither of us 11 year olds would eat.

For a while the liverwurst/braunschwiger kept us
busy for a few weeks but eventually the lure of a decent peanut butter & sliced sweet onion recaptured my attention.

The grandparents tried to introduce kipper snacks & lutefisk but something I said or did
encouraged them to change their offering.

There were ample variations of plain baloney on
white bread/mayo to get me from grade school to high school.

I don’t think these qualify as weird, but our family didn’t have a lot when we were growing up.

Toasted muffin or sourdough with spaghetti sauce and melted cheese on top.

We wanted sushi as kids. It looked cool and it’s what “rich people” eat, according to my older sisters. So my mom took some wonder bread decrusted and rolled it flat with a rolling pin. Spread some cream cheese, some Carl Buddig meat, a slice of American cheese, a layer of lettuce and a thin log if opinion in the middle. She would roll it like a sushi roll, and slice it. At my age I didn’t know it wasn’t sushi, and I thought it was beautiful and tasted great. She sure did a good job with a hell of an imagination to make us kids feel special.