I’m picky so I don’t eat it, but lots of people around here like to put cornbread in a glass of milk or buttermilk. I do love biscuits with chocolate gravy. I will pass on the brains and eggs though.
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off-topic, but we moved just as #1 was starting kindergarten & I was so upset that the only places we could get for her was 1/2 day afternoon- and it turned out to be the best.thing.ever. Their Dad traveled for work M-F, I didn’t have a job yet, so it was just the kids & me and we had the best mornings- no racing to get out the door!
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I don’t know if this is a food oddity - did anyone else eat chip beef on toast?
This was our “mom is going out and dad is cooking dinner” of my childhood - so once in a blue moon. 
Some type of prepackaged deli meat (they called it chip beef) and would heat it up in milk and flour to make a paste like sauce and serve it over buttered toast.
My dad also called in SOS (S%#t on a Shingle) and said it was what they ate in WWII - oh my gosh, it was so good and now I gag a little bit thinking about it and wonder how my organic eating, tofu loving, oat milk drinking kids would think about that if I served it for dinner !
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Most people eat it on toast. I love the sauce (basic white sauce with butter, milk, and flour - then add pepper to taste + some add Worcester sauce, I don’t), but am not fond of soggy bread so I switched to serving it over pasta or mashed potatoes. This is what my kids grew up with as a common meal.
Fast forward however many years med school lad has been away from home now (9?) and he called us incredibly excited one night. “Mom! Did you know you can serve it over toast? It’s easy and tastes so good!” I had to confess to him that yes, this is how I was brought up, but I hadn’t shared it with them.
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Probably a common thing decades ago, if you are referring to something like this:
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Here is the military history of the recipe:
https://www.navyhistory.org/2016/04/chow-creamed-sliced-beef-on-toast-s-o-s/
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My kids still always request it as a meal (over mashed potatoes or pasta) whenever they come home. Fortunately, so far every friend they have brought home has enjoyed it too - all except my vegetarian DIL, of course.
I don’t think it’s uncommon today. I still see it on many restaurant breakfast menus - either the chipped beef or sausage version. Last I knew even McD’s had the sausage version (though it’s been well over a year since we’ve gone to a McD’s).
Stouffer’s creamed chipped beef. Haven’t had it in many, many years but this is making me want to go find some,and have it on toast!
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My FIL loves SOS. His version is creamed sausage on toast. We have it once in awhile. My youngest son loves it too.
There’s a restaurant I go to that puts ranch and bbq sauce on their chicken salads. It is a best seller.
Speaking of that thin sliced meat (I think Buddig was the brand), I went through a period of making these “firecracker pops” for summer holidays.
Take a cleaned green onion.
Take a gob of cream cheese and wrap/press around the bulb of the green onion to make the bulb bigger.
Take a slice of that Buddig thin beef. Place over the cream cheese/onion bulb. Tie off the area below the bulb where the meat overlays with a strip of the greens of the green onion.
There you have it, a firecracker pop! I thought those were the most creative thing ever! Lol.
Do people still buy that thinly sliced packaged meat??
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I don’t know about Buddig because that comes in a plastic bag and, to us, really doesn’t taste good, though we only tried it once. We buy Hormel or Armour. Those come in glass and are found around Spam and other “canned” meats. Our store runs out of them often enough that we can’t be the only one buying them.
@CateCAParent it’s like a riff on ‘buffalo wings’ with ranch dip!
Grew up in northern Jersey - standard fare included Taylor Ham and Cheese on a roll, for breakfast add an egg. French fries with brown gravy are the bomb.
Now I live on Long Island, about 60 miles from where I grew up and people think I’m crazy when I mention either of those!
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I grew up eating creamed chipped beef on waffles - that was the bomb!! The waffles didn’t get as soggy as toast and added a slight sweetness to offset the salty sauce.
Taylor PORK ROLL @RingosMom! 
Love me a good pork roll, egg and cheese sandwich! (preferably on a toasted English muffin.)
In my teen years I worked at a hamburger joint on the boardwalk in Ocean City, NJ. Never heard of vinegar on french fries until the French Canadian tourists (who always came in June) asked for it. We thought it was weird, but now the same hamburger joint has the bottles of malt vinegar on the tables.
@VaBluebird my S and DIL live in Winston-Salem and chicken stew is a regular fall favorite - they have even hosted chicken stew parties! According to DIL, it is a dish native to that region. Their original wedding date was 10/10/20, and had that happened we were going to serve chicken stew for the out-of-towners dinner the night before the wedding. But wedding was pushed up to August - too hot for stew (and no out of towners except for H, D and I!)
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My mother used to purchase something we called “City Chicken”. It was essentially pork cubes on a stick. She would flour it and pan fry it. I guess they were cheap. I loved them as kid. I’ve never seen them since but they must have been at least somewhat ubiquitous in our area in the 1960’s.
@MaineLonghorn fish tacos are the best! I make them all the time for D2 and me. I also make a really good lobster taco.
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If you like fish you’ll likely enjoy a fish taco.
I’m not a huge fish eater but I do enjoy a fish taco if the fish is fresh. I prefer the tacos with the fish fried but those with grilled fish are healthier.
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A girl I knew mixed French and Blue Cheese dressings.
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I eat pickles with peanut butter. It’s a good sweet and sour snack.
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