Re: frosted Pop Tarts and Nutella
Is it a surprise that kids prefer food with more sugar?
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Thrasher’s French fries, an Ocean City Maryland tradition, serves French fries with vinegar, and has since I started going there 40+ years ago.
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This is very Canadian too. Growing up on the Canadian border of NY (literally, right on the border) all of our restaurants had shakers for vinegar right along with salt and pepper. I love vinegar on FF. I despise ketchup on FF or anything else for that matter.
In my own upbringing with my dad there were no special breakfast foods. Any food, any time. Eggs were as much supper as breakfast and a sandwich or whatever could be breakfast. Any sort of leftovers were almost always breakfast. I didn’t realize people ate leftovers later in the day.
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Vinegar on fries is canadian. We had those at Cedar Point in Ohio. Yum!
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Another Canadian thing (especially in Quebec) to do with fries is to make poutine out of them.
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“Is it a surprise that kids prefer food with more sugar?” - Ha, no. That’s why I tried to keep some options unknown. Sleepovers is also where the kids learned that not every family mixes their breakfast cereal (half sweetened, half not).
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We do the half sweet/half not cereals too. 
Yes, sleepovers mess up all our little secrets!
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We did mustard on french fries.
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We did a mix of mustard and mayo on french fries when I was a kid. I’d forgotten about that!
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H loves mayo on french fries, he learned that trick when he was in the air force stationed in Germany. It’s not bad!
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@MaineLonghorn , try a fish taco. They are fantastic. Probably started on a Pacific beach somewhere.
Things my husband ate as a kid that I’d never heard of: mustard on macaroni and cheese (the kind from the blue box), and peanut butter on hot dogs (try it, it’s really great).
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The bulk of the tacos that I eat are filled with fish. We even have sushi tacos here.
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Oh my! Cedar Point fries! Thick with skins on and drowning in malt vinegar. The ONLY way to eat them.
Also, yes to fish tacos. Once I had a fish taco, I never went back.
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@mom60 My mom always made savory French toast for us so I didn’t know there was a sweet version. I used to make the savory one for my kids until the day they ate French Toast with syrup at a friend’s house. There was no going back after that!
Another thing that I remember from my childhood is eating pancakes with butter and roasted potatoes.
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My favorite fries have a squeeze of lemon juice and some feta - they’re called Greek fries around here.
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The first time I had grits was when I moved to South Carolina for grad school. I asked for brown sugar or syrup for a topping. Just like we did for cream of wheat or cream of rice. Absolute look of horror from everyone at breakfast. Sacrilege. Grits are served with butter or cheese. Who knew.
Mayo on fries is great. My son and I like poutine.
In Pittsburgh we put slaw or fries on sandwiches.
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Ah the Primantis sandwich that has slaws and fresh cut fries on it…the best!
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Many restaurants here in MA have a local variation of the Reuben—fried fish with cole slaw replacing sauerkraut and tartar sauce replacing 1000 Islands dressing, still on toasted rye—YUM!!!
TOTALLY UNRELATED-------
I was reading up on the English soccer team Sheffield United (sad season for them, but I digress) and their team “song” mentions a “greasy chip butty”, which is a sandwich made of buttered bread filled with fries.
(The song is to the tune of John Denver’s “Annie’s Song”, BTW, which sounds really weird–check it out on youtube!)
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I think I would call savory French Toast a dutch baby!
My dad always ate ketchup with his eggs. Now as an adult I like some type of hot sauce on scrambled eggs.
The one condiment that gets used in funny ways is ketchup. My son always dipped his potato chips in ketchup. D2 STILL dips her bacon in ketchup!
French fries + good ranch dressing = 
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I like lots of these things-Cedar Point french fries and malt vinegar, ketchup on scrambled eggs, Primanti’s sandwiches, potato pancakes with salt and pepper. Also, buttered Saltine crackers with chili.
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