I actually ate meals like this when I was homeless 😢 I would eat ketchup on bread and pretend it was pizza. I love the way you share these dishes without making a mockery of them. You're a star Emmy 🌟
McDonalds ketchup and dumpster bread. garbage bags of tim Hortons for survival, before they started dumping the coffee grounds on the muffins,doughnuts and others.
@@Notinuseee Honestly, probably so. Restaurants can be really shitty about people gathering food from their dumpsters. It's so upsetting because the food is usually fine, just considered "old" by restaurant standards.
Wow, this video brought tears to my eyes and so many memories. As a child I was oblivious to any hardships my mom would go through to get us through tough times as a single mom of 4 in an alien country, she made sure we never went without and never ever let on she struggled to make ends meet. I had always thought it was a treat or something new. As an adult now, I know better and it breaks my heart. I remember eating toast and sugar grilled in the oven or ketchup and cheese toast, she hid the struggles so well I grew up thinking nothing of it. When I look back it dawns on me and shreds me apart. I am nothing without her and I pray I can repay her for the life I have been given. Xox
I ate many of these sandwiches growing up. My mom had a massive stroke very young after an operation on a brain aneurysm, my dad bailed and that left 4 kids and a disabled woman to live off of welfare... we always managed though!! and syrup sandwiches were awesome 😄
Not gonna lie, teared up a little with the sugar toast. My grandma Bev (R.I.P.) used to make me sugar cinnamon toast whenever I spent the night. And sometime honey toast. ❤️❤️❤️
OMG, my Granny used to do the same thing when I spent the night. Sugar toast (just margarine and sugar), and cinnamon toast (with margarine, sugar and cinnamon) were two things she made for me often as a child. I miss her so much.
Honey toast always reminds me of sleepovers at my grandma's house too! My other grandma would make homemade jam so we would have that on toast at her house. Grandma's always know what the best snacks are 🥰
It's a gud feeling dough takes u back I mean my mom still says "I'll cut off the crusts" when I complain about the first sandwich having a crust it gives me a homey vibe cause I'm barely around her this happens every time she visits though 😁
I love how respectful you are about how you present these foods. Even if you don’t personally like them, you always have something nice to say about it, and you talk about its practicality and origins. I’m personally very lucky to always have had good food on my table (thank you mom and dad ❤️) but it makes me happy to see such wholesome content. ETA: My parents used to make me toast with butter and sugar, but they also added a little cinnamon! It was so good!
Heehee... when I was very small I made myself a sandwich that included peanut butter and ketchup and mustard and I'm not sure what else. I can remember what a mess it was and my sister wouldn't let me forget it but I couldn't tell you what it tasted like. And yeah, I'm pretty sure I ate at least some of it. Never made it again, mind you, so that says a lot...
My grandfather used to tell about a time when he had nothing to eat but “Arkansas sandwiches.” An Arkansas sandwich had two slices of cornbread for the bread, with another slice of cornbread for the filling.
My dad is a baby boomer, one of 9 children He had to sweep the floors of the cafeteria every day to pay for his school meals One of my fondest memories as a kid is him mixing together peanut butter and syrup for dessert Nothing wrong with working hard, being poor and making use of what you have! 🖤
tayke flight, my grandfather would take peanut butter and syrup, mix them, pop that in the microwave and make peanut butter gravy. He told us he would do it on the stove top as a kid. But you put that on a southern biscuit and you have kid heaven. :) I Love my papaw!!!
This is wonderful! I've had them all as a kid. I'm 75 yrs old now. Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. Love ALL of your videos and recipes very much! 💕
My mom always joked they were called wish sandwiches because, "You wish you had more ingredients." She used to make sugar toast for dessert all the time, and wish sandwiches with butter as the "filling". I still eat them from time to time.
Emmy! Tomato sandwiches are a staple in the south! White bread, Dukes Mayo, ripe red tomato slices- and salt and fresh cracked pepper on there. Pair with a cheerwine for a delicious lunch 😊
You ever toast the bread? I more times than not have it untoasted, but sometimes I love it toasted. I love the crunch with the semi-soft tomatoes and the creamy mayo. Mmm
Videos like these really makes me appreciate the food I already have on my plate rather than be disappointed if a meal was lees than stellar on a particular day. Thank you for being so humble when discussing these sensitive topics
Best summer sandwich....fresh sliced tomato (preferably heirloom), mayo (Dukes or Blue Plate) and toasted whole wheat bread. Inexpensive, fast, and absolutely delicious.
My grandma made me a sandwich with mayo and 1 slice of tomato that was large enough to cover the whole bread and sprinkled some sugar on it. RiP grandma 👵
"ill do triangles on the next one" I literally smiled so hard bc you are the CUTEST CZcamsr every! I love how you know exactly what to say and how to describe everything you try. Keep up the great work Emmy!
@@beachgirl445 I eat Oscar Meyer bologna, Kraft cheese, and Hellman's or Miracle Whip, whichever is in my fridge at the moment. I also eat the pickles on the side. I *must* eat pickles. I love pickles. 😍 With WHITE bread. Not even the healthier wheat. 🤣 I eat WAAAAAAAYYYY too many of those. But I think they're delicious 😂
I grew up food insecure, and have had most of these. Differences for what I had included was everything was off brand. The fact is it didn't matter what tasted better we only got on brand if a very good sale was going on. Another thing is I rarely used one condiment, but instead used 2 together. Like ketchup and mustard sandwiches. Also would have syrup sandwiches but with a bit of a twist. Aka I would close it like a sandwich, and then open it up again, turn one slice around and close it again to get as much syrup coverage as possible then pull them apart and wait a minute as the sugar in the syrup crystallized on the bread. It was one of my favorites cause a sweet treat helped things feel brighter.
emccoy I also grew up with generic everything (unless an incredible sale) I ate ketchup and mustard sandwiches all the time. I also ate mayo sandwiches never did have a syrup one though just honey.
I still only buy off brand stuff, or make whatever I can at home to stretch a budget. I haven't bought bread in years because it's cheaper to make my own in the long run. I don't even have to be that tight with money anymore, I just got so used to it, and it really adds up.
Yeah. I lived off stale bread and bagels with thousand island for a long time. It’s what was left at the food bank. Or apple sauce with powdered non dairy creamer. Yay for being too poor for peanut butter and jelly.
As a kid we grew up very poor and when we could round up enough change we would make fried bologna sandwiches with a slice of cheese. My recipe was two slices of white bread, one (or two if we had enough left over) slice(s) of fried crispy bologna, one slice of cheap processed cheese thrown on the bologna while it was still hot, then a good amount of mayo with a bit of mustard. Also cheap saltine crackers with a bit of mustard on top.
My poor-time childhood favorite was ham and cheese casserole. Egg noodles, cream of mushroom soup, chopped ham, and cheese. You can make enough to feed 10 people for $10
I never met anyone else who ate just crackers and mustard omg I thought it was a weird craving I just had! :’) if I was feeling extra, I would add slices of ham 😂
Yes! My mom brings me tomatoes from roadside stands in the south when she comes to see me for this exact purpose. They're so much better than the store-bought near me.
Most Southerners will tell u with the mayonnaise sandwich that u should ALWAYS use "Duke's mayo" and no other kind of mayo should be used!!🤣🤣🤣 Especially if u r eating a tomato sandwich!👌🏼
I'm kind of disappointed you didn't mix the ketchup and mayo for one of the sandwiches. Ketchup/mayo is a very popular combination and makes the BEST condiment sandwiches.
I really like this hard times series. I make things like these all the time because I don't like to go shopping for food until I've used everything I have up. There's nothing wrong with cheap simple food.
Growing up in the South Mayo sandwiches was good and sometimes cut slices of Banana and Mayo put that on 2 slices of bread oh but my least favorite is potted meat and liverwurst sandwiches
lol I still definitely eat cinnamon sugar toast. My mom keeps a spice shaker at the ready with cinnamon and sugar pre-combined since it's persisted as a delicious treat through time in our household.
You have to butter the toast liberally, pour the cinnamon and sugar on one side, tip it so it slides across the butter surface, giving it just the right amount of dusting as the excess pours back into the Tupperware though! That's how you make it perfect 😋
When I was a kid we were very poor and always made cheese sandwiches lol it’s just mayo w an American slice of cheese lol. Another favorite to satisfy a sweet tooth was toasted bread, with butter and sugar and cinnamon. It was so good at that time 😂 #hardtimes
Videos like these remind me to be grateful for what I have in life. There was a period of my childhood when my breakfast was a microwaved potato with butter because we just didn't have anything else until dinner time. My pantry is full of food and my bed is warm and soft. I'm so grateful for this life
Sometimes when the cupboard was bare my mother would lighten the mood by joking that we could have a jam sandwich if we wanted it: Get two slices of bread and jam 'em together. :-)
When growing up, the few times we had Dijon mustard in the fridge, I loved it on toast! Gotta make me one soon... It's so interesting how many of these things actually work on bread and taste good. Here in South Africa, I've heard so many stories of what people used to eat on bread. My grandpa told me that when he grew up in the middle of nowhere on a farm, they used to eat lard and sugar on bread and considered it cake! Doesn't sound at all appetizing, but it might not be terrible as so many of these gross-sounding sandwiches prove to be. I've had quite a few "strange" things on bread that I've liked. When there's nothing in the fridge, I'd go to the cabinets. Chutney on bread is actually yummy! Melted cheese and mayo, peanut butter and golden syrup... Recently my favourite has been just plain toast. Nothing on it, not even butter🤣
steffers841 When I was a kid, my mom used to spread (fake) butter on a piece of white bread, not toasted, and then put a spoon full of plain white sugar all over the butter and give it to me for breakfast. Makes me absolutely cringe now, but I thought it was great back then.
I enjoy this series very much. My mom grew up very poor. She and her sister would make fried potato sandwiches. Leftover baked potatoes, sliced in circles and fried crisp in oil, salt and pepper, Fluffy white bread, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and pickles. They are fantastic! What was a memory of hard times for my mom ended up being a fond memory for me.
Emmy.. I use to be a home health aide and take care of the cutest little old lady. For breakfast she would have me make her what she called milk toast. She had a bread maker so she preferred it on homemade white bread. Take nice size slices as big as would fit in the toaster. Brown the toast so it's all brown but not burnt. Butter the toast with a nice amount of butter. Then cut the toast into bite sized pieces. Warm some milk on the stove to where it's nice and warm. Place the toast in a bowl, pour milk over toast and add sugar to taste. This was what she ate for breakfast most mornings. You should try it. It's not to bad.
My grandmother used to make “sugar toast” for breakfast. She’d take thick slices of homemade bread, spread a mixture of butter and cream on them, then sprinkle a lot of granulated sugar on top with a little cinnamon. Then she’d cook the toast in the broiler until the sugar melted into a crunchy top crust. She served it piping hot. Grandma died over 40 years ago, but I can close my eyes and taste that sugar toast right now.
When my son was little, he is almost 19 now, still a very picky eater but he liked the toast and butter with sugar so much when he was little, he called it sugar bread, so did his little brother who is turning 13 tomorrow! How I miss the cute little things they would say!!
My mom says I had full conversations with the glass Mrs. Butterworth. I loved her so much that I dubbed my neighbors, the "Worth's", Grandma and Grandpa Butterworth. 😂🤣
The taste of my late Soviet childhood: - A slice of "black" bread (Russian black bread is more grey than black; it's made from both wheat and rye flour), very fresh, preferably warm (if you managed to keep it warm all the way home from the store))) - Sunflower oil - unrefined, with a strong aroma of fried sunflower seeds - Salt for "first course" meal OR - Sugar for dessert Better yet if you use the crust for your slice of bread (as opposed to slices from the middle of your loaf). It warm, chewy, crunchy and absolutely delicious!
@alena, that sounds good. I bought a loaf of black Russian rye bread (it was really dark, near black) at a corner store about a month ago. I wish I knew what bakery carried it, because it was SO good (it had a few caraway seeds in it) and the corner store changed owners.
It depends on how you make it. Rich way....fancy bread, eggs, milk/cream, sugar, cinnamon. Cooked in a French way....ohh la la. Or poor way...white bread, mayo. Maybe some syrup.
My parents grew up poor during the 40s. I think you covered all their favorites. Except for a different version of your toast with sugar and margarine. My dad would take white bread sugar sandwiches to school. Instead of toast, it was just white bread and granulated sugar. Apparently, the key was dripping a little water over the sugar. So that it would melt into the bread. It was quite the hit with grade school him.
Mayo sandwiches were something else that my Dad and brother both enjoyed. I wasn't a big fan, but they both loved them. My brother is one of those people who put a LOT of mayo on things, so he made mayo sandwiches with a thick layer of mayo. I liked pineapple sandwiches, but I liked them a lot better with some peanut butter. Sometimes our school would have peanut butter and syrup sandwiches. It was pretty much the same as a peanut butter and jelly, but with syrup instead of jelly. Another unusual sandwich that my brother used to eat was a steak sauce sandwich. He would just put steak sauce on two slices of bread and make a sandwich out of it. He would also sometimes put steak sauce on toast.
They are both good, but syrup doesn't do the cool textural thing that happens when you slather honey on untoasted white or wheat bread. Been a fan of PB & Honey since I was a sproutling!
I was raised on my grandmother's cooking and it was usually pretty simple southern food. Sometimes she would throw together the quickest lunches and, to me, they were unbelievably delicious. On vacation once, she bought ingredients for banana & mayonnaise sandwiches (on white bread, of course). I crave that sandwich to this day. As a desert or for one of her famous "midnight snacks" she made a pear and mayonnaise 'salad'. The lettuce is a bed of iceberg (roughly torn into pieces) two or three canned, halved pears and in the center of the pear, a dollop of mayo or miracle whip. If using mayo, she would sprinkle a little sugar. Everything was topped with loads of shredded cheddar cheese. This recipe brings back so many good memories of childhood and I think its worth a try!
When my mom graduated from high school (during WWII) she moved to the east coast to work in Washington DC. For lunch she would go to a cafeteria and order a cup of tea. Always on the table were saltine crackers, sugar, cream, ketchup and mustard. She would mix some ketchup and saltines in the hot water and eat it as a soup.
When my friend and I were in high school and vegetarians, we would make ourselves an after school snack we called the “chickle” sandwich. It consisted of bread, mayo, cheap American cheese, and pickles slices. It was honestly really good, especially if you toasted it.
I love grilled cheese with dill pickles! I remember as a kid in Tennessee, there was a restaurant (Pig & Whistle?) That served a child's cheese pizza that had a slice of pickle in the center and I thought that was just the bee's knees
I just made my husband cinnamon toast for the first time in his life yesterday. The best way is to butter the bread, mix cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl and sprinkle it over the toast evenly. Then you pop it in the oven with the broiler set on low. It turns the cinnamon sugar into a crème brulee crust. He was blown away. He had always spread it on buttered toast without melting the sugar and cinnamon. It made me laugh. He's 58 years old and he was so delighted.
I grew up eating pineapple sandwiches! Loved them, but the best "Southern" sandwich is the banana sandwich, or the the 'nanner sammich. White bread, mayo and a sliced up banana. PERFECTION!!
Y u reading dis? Um wut as a Canadian it’s high fructose corn syrup mixed with artificial flavorings. We have pancake syrup here in Canada too but the actual maple syrup comes in a smaller bottle and has a little liquidier texture with a different sweet flavor. Idk how to describe it but it’s like comparing Honey and Agave.
I can't go back to pancake syrup... Yuck! I like mid season maple syrup! Early tastes like vanilla and late is just too strong lol Maple syrup is the best sweetener !
The syrup sandwiches really brought back memories. We mixed it with margarine also. I grew up very poor and before the government gave poor people food stamps to help out.We were tickled to death to have the government surplus program . You stood in line for hours to get your "commodities" that consisted of powdered milk , powdered eggs, peanut butter, oatmeal , "government" cheese and that sort of thing. The peanut butter was really thick and hard to spread so we added syrup to it and stirred it up together to make it spreadable. This was a sandwich we ate often and took to school in our lunches much like you might eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also took many, many cheese, mayo and lettuce sandwiches in our school lunches made from that government cheese. I was homeless for about a year and the free things at restaurants really do get you by. I got honey at KFC and used it and peanut butter to spread on the day old muffins I got for free at the Salvation Army. God Bless the Salvation Army, they do much more than anyone to help the homeless and those less fortunate.
I remember eating mayo sandwiches as a kid!! I love mayo! I loved how soggy the bread would get and I loved the tang of the mayo! I would let it sit out a second to let it kind of soak. I once asked one of my baby sitters for a mayo sandwich instead of whatever normal meal she wanted to make for me, and then she made me the sandwich and I didn't eat it right away. She was so confused and I told her I was waiting for it to soak and she looked at me like I was insane and told me to just eat the dang sandwich!
I loved when Emmy said “humble yes” around 10:30 because there’s this song called “Humble” by a rapper named Kendrick Lamar and his first lyrics are “I remember syrup sandwiches and gram allowances “ . I just thought I’d share that :) keep up with the great videos Emmy !
I had a few mustard sandwiches during my college years. My diet basically consisted of bread, bologna, mustard, hot dogs, and ramen. Instant ramen with a hot dog cut up into it was a gourmet meal in my dorm room. It's a miracle I'm still alive. hahaha Great video Emmy. Brought back some memories.
Thanks for sharing this video which brought back many childhood memories growing up the youngest of six siblings being raised by a single mom (now 77). As one could imagine, we didn't eat a top shelf cuisine. The margarine and sugar on toast (along with cinnamon sprinkled on top), mayonnaise with a slice of tomato on white bread, peanut butter on toast (with black coffee) were some of the things we ate. Other substitutes for treats were white bread broken into pieces in a bowl with sugar and milk and cooked rice with butter and sugar. Other cheap canned meat substitutes - something called, I think, Choplets made from flour gluten and another product that I believe was called Numeat which didn't taste anything like meat but consumed enough that I acquired a taste for it when used in sandwiches... All in all, a diet rich in starches, cheap cheeses and substitute meats.
Dude saltines with ketchup and pepper sounds awesome, it's amazing how you can never think of something your whole life, hear it, and instantly know that you'd like it
This makes my heart hurt. I grew up one these types of sandwiches as a child , and my mom tried her best to keep our bellies full. She was a single mom to us 4 kids and she always made these types of sandwiches appetizing and fun for us to enjoy. Looking back now I never realized how poor we where growing up , and I give thanks to my mom because she did the best she could ❤️
My grandma was super poor as a child in the depression. She would tell me about these types of meals when she would take my brother and I out to eat (usually to Friendly’s). I miss her. She was so loving and non-judgmental.
My husband, who was a child in the Great Depression, talked about the poorer kids bringing “jam sandwiches” to school. He was surprised that there was no jam inside. His friend explained they were called jam sandwiches because you’d take two slices of bread and jam them together. In the working class neighborhood I grew up in, I had ketchup sandwiches at a friend’s house. Another friend, who came from a family of 12 kids, often had sugar sandwiches as a treat: a slice of white bread sprinkled with sugar and folded in half. My first husband used to make lettuce and mayo on white bread sandwiches. The first time he made me one, I laughed, because I thought he’d forgotten to put in the lunchmeat. My mom told me about another condiment dish favored by broke, hungry students during the depression: ketchup soup. They’d go into a diner and order a cup of hot tea, which came as a cup of hot water with a teabag on the side. Then they’d take the ketchup bottle from the table and pour some into the water, add some salt and pepper and, voilà, instant tomato soup. They’d either save the teabag for later or have slightly tomato-y tea as a second course.
I actually ate meals like this when I was homeless 😢 I would eat ketchup on bread and pretend it was pizza. I love the way you share these dishes without making a mockery of them. You're a star Emmy 🌟
McDonalds ketchup and dumpster bread. garbage bags of tim Hortons for survival, before they started dumping the coffee grounds on the muffins,doughnuts and others.
Chef Cilla Casey aww baby, this is a sign you’ve moved forward and are loved
@@deaconknight9658 Wow, do you reckon they started dumping the coffee grounds ontop on purpose? If so that's just cruel
@@thatgall900 Thank you so much 🖤
@@Notinuseee Honestly, probably so. Restaurants can be really shitty about people gathering food from their dumpsters. It's so upsetting because the food is usually fine, just considered "old" by restaurant standards.
Sugar on buttered toast with cinnamon. Now that's yummy and we ate it all the time as kids.❤️🌹
Toast it in the oven with lots of cinnamon and sugar and butter, on Texas toast, until the cinnamon gets crusty. Awesome.
Still do.... with coffee. 😀
Love! My parents would always make buttered cinnamon & sugar toast for me when I was sick
We used to have peanut butter and sugar sandwiches. Ah the 80's. Lol
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Wow, this video brought tears to my eyes and so many memories. As a child I was oblivious to any hardships my mom would go through to get us through tough times as a single mom of 4 in an alien country, she made sure we never went without and never ever let on she struggled to make ends meet. I had always thought it was a treat or something new. As an adult now, I know better and it breaks my heart. I remember eating toast and sugar grilled in the oven or ketchup and cheese toast, she hid the struggles so well I grew up thinking nothing of it. When I look back it dawns on me and shreds me apart. I am nothing without her and I pray I can repay her for the life I have been given. Xox
well, i'm gonna legit try these as a treat and say a great big thank you to emmy and your mom.
I ate many of these sandwiches growing up. My mom had a massive stroke very young after an operation on a brain aneurysm, my dad bailed and that left 4 kids and a disabled woman to live off of welfare... we always managed though!! and syrup sandwiches were awesome 😄
Goes to show how strong you are. So glad you guys managed. Hope you are doing well these days.
Oh wow. Thank you for keeping me humble. ❤❤
Not gonna lie, teared up a little with the sugar toast. My grandma Bev (R.I.P.) used to make me sugar cinnamon toast whenever I spent the night. And sometime honey toast. ❤️❤️❤️
OMG, my Granny used to do the same thing when I spent the night. Sugar toast (just margarine and sugar), and cinnamon toast (with margarine, sugar and cinnamon) were two things she made for me often as a child. I miss her so much.
TaraBoo Art ARMY Good memories. ❤️. I miss my grandma so much too. I hope to share those kinda memories with my future grandchildren!
We always had that, going to go make me some, yummy!
@@deborahbuhrman2874 Me too, right now.
Honey toast always reminds me of sleepovers at my grandma's house too! My other grandma would make homemade jam so we would have that on toast at her house. Grandma's always know what the best snacks are 🥰
"I'll do triangles on the next one, okay?" I feel like one of Emmy's toddlers 😂
It's a gud feeling dough takes u back I mean my mom still says "I'll cut off the crusts" when I complain about the first sandwich having a crust it gives me a homey vibe cause I'm barely around her this happens every time she visits though 😁
🍞🍴 Thanks Emmy. I like mayo sandwiches. My babysitters used to give me them as a treat. Mom used Miracle Whip. (yuck) 😸
Syrup sandwiches are even better with toasted bread 😀
"Mrs. Butterworth still isn't talking to me."
MRS. BUTTERWORTH: "You know what you did."
🤣🤣🤣🤣
She's going bye bye soon
I love how respectful you are about how you present these foods. Even if you don’t personally like them, you always have something nice to say about it, and you talk about its practicality and origins. I’m personally very lucky to always have had good food on my table (thank you mom and dad ❤️) but it makes me happy to see such wholesome content.
ETA: My parents used to make me toast with butter and sugar, but they also added a little cinnamon! It was so good!
Definitely thought this was going to be all the condiments on ONE sandwich. Almost disappointed, but it's Emmy, so obviously I was not.
I thought the same exact thing, and BECAUSE it’s Emmy, I wouldn’t have been surprised at all lol.
Same. It would probably taste good, ketchup + mayo + mustard is a classic combo (burger sauce) and it would just be extra sweet.
same!
Same
Heehee... when I was very small I made myself a sandwich that included peanut butter and ketchup and mustard and I'm not sure what else. I can remember what a mess it was and my sister wouldn't let me forget it but I couldn't tell you what it tasted like. And yeah, I'm pretty sure I ate at least some of it. Never made it again, mind you, so that says a lot...
When you're poor, I imagine any number of odd flavor combinations taste better than hunger.
You would be surprized at how many homeless refuse to eat some food or just starve
Yeah I've ate some very strange stuff when I was broke or homeless. I've been homeless a bunch of times.
Oh, it does. Sometimes it just makes you sick.
I’ve lived in poverty for 6 years now, at times near homelessness. Trust me, we will choose going hungry over bad food.
You’re darn right that all kinds of food taste better than hunger. As the proverb says, “Hunger is the best sauce.”
Did she really link an idubz video??? She is too delightfully generous lol
My grandfather used to tell about a time when he had nothing to eat but “Arkansas sandwiches.” An Arkansas sandwich had two slices of cornbread for the bread, with another slice of cornbread for the filling.
That's just cornbread. That's a little different.
My dad is a baby boomer, one of 9 children
He had to sweep the floors of the cafeteria every day to pay for his school meals
One of my fondest memories as a kid is him mixing together peanut butter and syrup for dessert
Nothing wrong with working hard, being poor and making use of what you have! 🖤
You're so humble. I like you lol.
I loved peanut butter and syrup. That was my favorite breakfast growing up.
I have not thought about peanut butter and syrup sandwich on so long!! I am going right now to make myself one!! 💗💗
Rebekah. Try peanut butter and honey!💖✌🇨🇦
tayke flight, my grandfather would take peanut butter and syrup, mix them, pop that in the microwave and make peanut butter gravy. He told us he would do it on the stove top as a kid. But you put that on a southern biscuit and you have kid heaven. :) I Love my papaw!!!
This is wonderful! I've had them all as a kid. I'm 75 yrs old now. Thank you so much for the trip down memory lane. Love ALL of your videos and recipes very much! 💕
if ya have a garden,
Mustard & Onion on white bread, or,
Mayonnaise & Tomato on white bread.
Both economical and tasty.
My mouth is watering 😔 i miss having a garden and living in the south
My mom always joked they were called wish sandwiches because, "You wish you had more ingredients."
She used to make sugar toast for dessert all the time, and wish sandwiches with butter as the "filling". I still eat them from time to time.
Emmy! Tomato sandwiches are a staple in the south! White bread, Dukes Mayo, ripe red tomato slices- and salt and fresh cracked pepper on there. Pair with a cheerwine for a delicious lunch 😊
You ever toast the bread? I more times than not have it untoasted, but sometimes I love it toasted. I love the crunch with the semi-soft tomatoes and the creamy mayo. Mmm
I was about to comment this 😅😅
Just commented the exact same thing! So stinkin’ good!
DUKES! Gotta be Dukes! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Yes! I was looking for this comment.
I just recently lost my grandmother and I had a moment there when Emmy took that last bite. Love to all the grandmas.
Josh Dominguez omgggg me too. I teared up. I’m sorry for your loss by the way !
We can’t always keep the ones we love
Sorry for your loss. 💙
Thank you everyone❤
Videos like these really makes me appreciate the food I already have on my plate rather than be disappointed if a meal was lees than stellar on a particular day. Thank you for being so humble when discussing these sensitive topics
Put brown sugar instead of regular sugar it tastes better or if you do like cinnamon flavor.
Yum!
I'm going to do that next time!
your voice is so calming
Yesssss
laura fro Agree
@navypapercut omg me too, I fall asleep to her voice lmao
That is such a lovely comparison ( I loved Bob Ross).
@navypapercut i bet your friend will love her!!! ❤️
Best summer sandwich....fresh sliced tomato (preferably heirloom), mayo (Dukes or Blue Plate) and toasted whole wheat bread. Inexpensive, fast, and absolutely delicious.
Michael Nichols was just about to comment this!
A tomato sandwich? We eat those all the time at my house it even Bette rod u add avocado
Mmm with some fresh black pepper
With a sprinkle of salt over the tomatoes 🤤🤤🤤🤤
My grandma made me a sandwich with mayo and 1 slice of tomato that was large enough to cover the whole bread and sprinkled some sugar on it. RiP grandma 👵
"ill do triangles on the next one" I literally smiled so hard bc you are the CUTEST CZcamsr every! I love how you know exactly what to say and how to describe everything you try. Keep up the great work Emmy!
Girl, add some cinnamon to that sugar on your toast. That's where it's at!
Mayo sandwich. Add a thick homegrown tomato slice to it with a bit of salt and pepper. Ate that a lot growing up.
Yesssss... It's the best!
Mmmhmmm yes yes yes we had that all the time as kids
The best tomato sandwich mayo salt pepper 🥰
That's still one of my favorite sandwiches to this day!
I love to cut mine up into bite-sized pieces and eat them with a fork
Butter with cinnamon brown sugar on toast is the best my bro used to make it for breakfast everyday before school
Came into the comments to see if anyone posted this. Grew up with that too, it was a favorite of my mom's.
My mom used to make that for me too. It also tastes good on a toasted english muffin
Im making this as we speak
Toasted just slightly under the broiler so the sugar carmelized just a bit.. this video took me back to my childhood
isn’t that just eggless french toast? :v
When I was pregnant with my first child I couldn’t get enough hot sauce. I used to put franks red hot thick on warm buttered toast for breakfast. 😂
Cool.
Did you give birth to a tiny dragon? 😂😍 🐉
Unfortunately n. A human boy instead.
@@justjeni83 hahaha
Lol. Your baby must be spicyyyyyy
Got to try a mayo and tomato (preferably homegrown) sandwich! It’s literally the best thing ever! I usually deseed my tomato.
My favorite. On my grandmothers home made bread
A little salt and pepper on the tomatoes is even better.
Yes!!! Was jus gonna write this!!! I never heard of pineapple and mayo.. I thought she was gonna do tomato and mayo ... :(
Yes! I like it best when the bread is toasted and add a little pepper on the tomatoes.
Yes, we loved home grown tomato sandwiches in the summer!
Add pickle slices to the mustard sandwich and pre-toast the bread, and you have a college favorite of mine.
i used to do mayo, kraft cheese, and pickles.... it's pretty good haha
You forget to mention BEER college fallout....
@@beachgirl445 I eat Oscar Meyer bologna, Kraft cheese, and Hellman's or Miracle Whip, whichever is in my fridge at the moment. I also eat the pickles on the side. I *must* eat pickles. I love pickles. 😍 With WHITE bread. Not even the healthier wheat. 🤣 I eat WAAAAAAAYYYY too many of those. But I think they're delicious 😂
@@andrearamirez9924 as long as they're not bread and butter pickles. Those suck 😂
Used to do toast and mustard but instead of pickles I would do some diced yellow onion. Reminiscent of a sad meatless hamburger 😂😂😂
I think Emmy’s description of the mayo/ pineapple sandwich is the most negative I’ve ever heard her be...and yet she’s still just as kind as can be! 😊
Emmys staring down Mrs Butterworth is the most bitter I think she's ever been 😆
She didn’t even go in for her classic “just to make sure” second bite😬
Tomato and Mayo sandwiches are my favorite 😋 with a little bit of black pepper 🤤
Yes! So simple and delicious
my grandmother and I always loved tomato and mayo sandwiches. it's really good, especially with garden fresh tomatoes
That idubbbz reference really shook me lol what?!! My CZcams worlds are colliding
sgoodz when??!!!!
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THANK YOUUUUUU I didn’t watch it all but I luv idubbbz so
God I hate Idubbz but it’s cool she knows about him a guess
Sunkissed Showers LPS hes racist and annoying asf
I grew up food insecure, and have had most of these. Differences for what I had included was everything was off brand. The fact is it didn't matter what tasted better we only got on brand if a very good sale was going on.
Another thing is I rarely used one condiment, but instead used 2 together. Like ketchup and mustard sandwiches.
Also would have syrup sandwiches but with a bit of a twist. Aka I would close it like a sandwich, and then open it up again, turn one slice around and close it again to get as much syrup coverage as possible then pull them apart and wait a minute as the sugar in the syrup crystallized on the bread.
It was one of my favorites cause a sweet treat helped things feel brighter.
emccoy I also grew up with generic everything (unless an incredible sale) I ate ketchup and mustard sandwiches all the time. I also ate mayo sandwiches never did have a syrup one though just honey.
I still only buy off brand stuff, or make whatever I can at home to stretch a budget. I haven't bought bread in years because it's cheaper to make my own in the long run. I don't even have to be that tight with money anymore, I just got so used to it, and it really adds up.
Yeah. I lived off stale bread and bagels with thousand island for a long time. It’s what was left at the food bank. Or apple sauce with powdered non dairy creamer. Yay for being too poor for peanut butter and jelly.
I did the same thing with the syrup, letting it crystallize into a dense little layer! I thought I was the only one. 🤣
I grew up eating mayo and cheese sandwiches. From Arkansas so maybe it’s a southern thing? I still like them 🤷🏻♀️
With lettuce !! Still my fave here in Canada !! :))
Loved this as a kid! (From Massachusetts)
I had that for breakfast almost every day when I was pregnant. Sooo tasty and satisfying.
Im fromWashington and I also grew up eating cheese sandwiches with mayo. If we were lucky we would have tomato too
Same but from Missouri
I grew up eating cinnamon sugar toast and at the age of 50 I still do.❤
Alright. Cool. Awesome 🤷🏻♂️.
Cinnamon - Sugar mixed with butter on toast is great when not feeling well. I once ate an entire loaf with half a jar of Manuka honey.
I'm 67 and still eat it.
As a kid we grew up very poor and when we could round up enough change we would make fried bologna sandwiches with a slice of cheese. My recipe was two slices of white bread, one (or two if we had enough left over) slice(s) of fried crispy bologna, one slice of cheap processed cheese thrown on the bologna while it was still hot, then a good amount of mayo with a bit of mustard.
Also cheap saltine crackers with a bit of mustard on top.
Reagan Carter I love fried bologna with fresh garden tomato and mustard!
I like fried baloney (very fried) with mustard and onions. 😊
My poor-time childhood favorite was ham and cheese casserole. Egg noodles, cream of mushroom soup, chopped ham, and cheese. You can make enough to feed 10 people for $10
Don't forget to cut down the bologna so it doesn't bubble up xD
I never met anyone else who ate just crackers and mustard omg I thought it was a weird craving I just had! :’) if I was feeling extra, I would add slices of ham 😂
As a southerner I am extremely fond of tomato and mayo sandwiches. With the most squishy white bread you can find and some salt and pepper
Heck yes! That's a southern staple, isn't it? 😆
Me too
Yes! My mom brings me tomatoes from roadside stands in the south when she comes to see me for this exact purpose. They're so much better than the store-bought near me.
My favorite. My husband thinks its gross to put mayo on tomato sandwiches. But I think its gross not too.
Preach it sister!
Most Southerners will tell u with the mayonnaise sandwich that u should ALWAYS use "Duke's mayo" and no other kind of mayo should be used!!🤣🤣🤣
Especially if u r eating a tomato sandwich!👌🏼
Blue Plate mayo!
I'm kind of disappointed you didn't mix the ketchup and mayo for one of the sandwiches. Ketchup/mayo is a very popular combination and makes the BEST condiment sandwiches.
Toast with butter and cinnamon sugar is the best!
If your mom never made that for you, you've missed out big time.
I'd have friends stay over and ask my mom how to make cinnamon toast.
Emmy: Remember that episode of Content Cop where Ian-
Me: 👀WHAT?
My exact reaction lmfao the last youtuber id expect emmy to watch
DEADASSSSSSSS I was like yooooooooooo 🤣😊
I wonder if she ever saw the Filthy Frank vomit cake
iDubbz actually introduced me to Emmy
Daniel RC wait they've INTERACTED
The fact that Emmy watches idubbbz makes me love her sooo much more your awesome! 💙
I really like this hard times series. I make things like these all the time because I don't like to go shopping for food until I've used everything I have up. There's nothing wrong with cheap simple food.
Grew up poor and mayo sandwhich was my go to...especially with a big red tomato or a boiled egg sliced up on it .yummy
I had a tomato and mayo sandwich for lunch. The tomato was from my garden and the bread homemade. I added a little onion.
Mmhmm mayo sandwich with tomato heck yes, we used to have that all the time, especially on picnics
Growing up in the South Mayo sandwiches was good and sometimes cut slices of Banana and Mayo put that on 2 slices of bread oh but my least favorite is potted meat and liverwurst sandwiches
I still love a tomato sandwich with mayo, salt and pepper!
Tomato and Mayo sandwich. Yum!
Syrup sandwiches were everything when I was a kid. Also we ate cinnamon toast. Cinnamon, sugar and butter on toast. So good
I made the cinnamon sugar toast ALL THE TIME as a kid. I also messed up one time and used cumin instead of cinnamon. That was unfortunate...
@@cheezpuffg0rawr LOL Cumin 😂 I'm sorry but yes cinnamon toast was deliciouss
I grew up eating them also and now my kids are enjoying them also
lol I still definitely eat cinnamon sugar toast. My mom keeps a spice shaker at the ready with cinnamon and sugar pre-combined since it's persisted as a delicious treat through time in our household.
You have to butter the toast liberally, pour the cinnamon and sugar on one side, tip it so it slides across the butter surface, giving it just the right amount of dusting as the excess pours back into the Tupperware though! That's how you make it perfect 😋
When I was a kid we were very poor and always made cheese sandwiches lol it’s just mayo w an American slice of cheese lol. Another favorite to satisfy a sweet tooth was toasted bread, with butter and sugar and cinnamon. It was so good at that time 😂 #hardtimes
I eat cheese and mustard sandwiches to this day
i LOVED cheese sandwiches as a kid omg
Videos like these remind me to be grateful for what I have in life. There was a period of my childhood when my breakfast was a microwaved potato with butter because we just didn't have anything else until dinner time. My pantry is full of food and my bed is warm and soft. I'm so grateful for this life
This reminds me of when I was a kid and I used to make “bread nuggets”. You squish pieces of white bread into balls and dip it in ketchup
We did the same thing when I was a kid!
Or sugar! Lol
I did the same but with peanut butter
I would do mustard balls lmao😢
We used to call these “wish” sandwiches. Two slices of bread and wish there was something in between.
Sometimes when the cupboard was bare my mother would lighten the mood by joking that we could have a jam sandwich if we wanted it: Get two slices of bread and jam 'em together. :-)
Yes! My grandma told me her mom would call them “wish ‘wiches”
Hahahaha this made me laugh more than it should, I'm sleep deprived and everything makes me laugh so hard.
When growing up, the few times we had Dijon mustard in the fridge, I loved it on toast! Gotta make me one soon... It's so interesting how many of these things actually work on bread and taste good. Here in South Africa, I've heard so many stories of what people used to eat on bread. My grandpa told me that when he grew up in the middle of nowhere on a farm, they used to eat lard and sugar on bread and considered it cake! Doesn't sound at all appetizing, but it might not be terrible as so many of these gross-sounding sandwiches prove to be. I've had quite a few "strange" things on bread that I've liked. When there's nothing in the fridge, I'd go to the cabinets. Chutney on bread is actually yummy! Melted cheese and mayo, peanut butter and golden syrup... Recently my favourite has been just plain toast. Nothing on it, not even butter🤣
Brown sugar sandwich: bread-butter-brown sugar. My Mother was born during the depression and this was one of her favorites, MINE TOO!
In India we also eat chocolate syrup and bread it's nice too I don't know if that counts as a condiment but just thought of sharing
nuttela and bread is good so i would imagine that to be good aswell
My daughter sometimes will eat that before school. I keep thinking it's bad but really what's the difference between that and donuts?
@@proxyhacker89 lol true 😂😂 as a snack i think it's ok
People do that with Nutella all the time. No different really 😁
I've ALWAYS wanted to try this but thought it would be weird...now I'm gonna! Thanks for letting me know others do it hahahah.
I grew up eating toast with butter, sugar and cinnamon!! LOVE LOVE it!! One of my favorite treats!
steffers841 When I was a kid, my mom used to spread (fake) butter on a piece of white bread, not toasted, and then put a spoon full of plain white sugar all over the butter and give it to me for breakfast. Makes me absolutely cringe now, but I thought it was great back then.
Me too! SOOO GOOD! Other childhood favorite from my grandma was toast with fresh cream and brown sugar (the perks of them being cattle farmers)
@@AloneInTheGarden my mom talks about getting this as a treat when she went over to her grandmother's house.
Lol. My mom would make that for me a kid. I love it. Still eat it to this day.
Me too, I grew up very poor too!
When I was younger we’d eat toast with maple syrup because we didn’t have pancakes
I enjoy this series very much.
My mom grew up very poor. She and her sister would make fried potato sandwiches.
Leftover baked potatoes, sliced in circles and fried crisp in oil, salt and pepper,
Fluffy white bread, mayo, mustard, ketchup, and pickles. They are fantastic!
What was a memory of hard times for my mom ended up being a fond memory for me.
Emmy talking about idubbz felt like two worlds colliding 😂
Sprinkle cinnamon on top of that sugar toast and you have cinnamon toast. Had it all the time as a kid.
Christine's Creativity Cabinet I grew up and out on that after school
Broil it even better
We would mix honey and cinnamon together, spread it on bread, and toast it up in the oven. Delicious!
It's cinnamon toast like the cereal so it's gotta be good.
wow the 2 top comments are basically the same weird
I had a ketchup sandwich 🥪 at McDonald's once when they forgot to put the patty in the hamburger 🍔 luckily it had onions though 😅
Emmy.. I use to be a home health aide and take care of the cutest little old lady. For breakfast she would have me make her what she called milk toast. She had a bread maker so she preferred it on homemade white bread. Take nice size slices as big as would fit in the toaster. Brown the toast so it's all brown but not burnt. Butter the toast with a nice amount of butter. Then cut the toast into bite sized pieces. Warm some milk on the stove to where it's nice and warm. Place the toast in a bowl, pour milk over toast and add sugar to taste. This was what she ate for breakfast most mornings. You should try it. It's not to bad.
Thick and rich...yummm....and I got a chuckle out of the closed captioning translating "Itadakimasu" into "meet the lucky moms" LOL!!
That must be a bug in the system...it's supposed to say "Eat the ducky moss!"
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My grandmother used to make “sugar toast” for breakfast. She’d take thick slices of homemade bread, spread a mixture of butter and cream on them, then sprinkle a lot of granulated sugar on top with a little cinnamon. Then she’d cook the toast in the broiler until the sugar melted into a crunchy top crust. She served it piping hot. Grandma died over 40 years ago, but I can close my eyes and taste that sugar toast right now.
When my son was little, he is almost 19 now, still a very picky eater but he liked the toast and butter with sugar so much when he was little, he called it sugar bread, so did his little brother who is turning 13 tomorrow! How I miss the cute little things they would say!!
My mom says I had full conversations with the glass Mrs. Butterworth. I loved her so much that I dubbed my neighbors, the "Worth's", Grandma and Grandpa Butterworth. 😂🤣
Those syrup sandwiches are pretty good... especially if u toast the bread for like 20 seconds.
Hot homemade biscuits with butter and sorghum syrup. Off the chain.
@@richardroberts4355 mhmmm, thanks... I'm gonna have to try that.
Mix syrup n butter 50/50. Spread on both sides. Toast slowly. You're welcome 😋
Mix that syrup with some peanut butter and put it on white bread. One of my favorite childhood snacks.
Toss a slice or two in a frying pan. Toast it and sprinkle sugar or syrup. Cinnamon works fine, too.
Re: grandma's version
My mom taught me the same, but she also added cinnamon. You should try it with cinnamon next time!
The taste of my late Soviet childhood:
- A slice of "black" bread (Russian black bread is more grey than black; it's made from both wheat and rye flour), very fresh, preferably warm (if you managed to keep it warm all the way home from the store)))
- Sunflower oil - unrefined, with a strong aroma of fried sunflower seeds
- Salt for "first course" meal
OR
- Sugar for dessert
Better yet if you use the crust for your slice of bread (as opposed to slices from the middle of your loaf). It warm, chewy, crunchy and absolutely delicious!
@alena, that sounds good. I bought a loaf of black Russian rye bread (it was really dark, near black) at a corner store about a month ago. I wish I knew what bakery carried it, because it was SO good (it had a few caraway seeds in it) and the corner store changed owners.
Poor man's French toast....
White bread
Mayo on both sides
Fry
Sprinkle of sugar if you have it.
Cinnamon and syrup if you have it.
This is amazing! I remember this from childhood. :D
That's a good idea!
Isn't French toast already peasant food?
@@YourMom-rq6yl It certainly was, but this fits the video of using condiments. Also, making it that much cheaper by not using egg, milk, vanilla, etc.
It depends on how you make it. Rich way....fancy bread, eggs, milk/cream, sugar, cinnamon. Cooked in a French way....ohh la la.
Or poor way...white bread, mayo. Maybe some syrup.
The sugar toast but with cinnamon!
Also we used to do mustard, mayo, and chip crumb sandwiches.
I’m going to try that chip crumb sandwich!
I loved putting plain potato chips on my pb&j. It's the only way I would eat them.
My parents grew up poor during the 40s. I think you covered all their favorites. Except for a different version of your toast with sugar and margarine. My dad would take white bread sugar sandwiches to school. Instead of toast, it was just white bread and granulated sugar. Apparently, the key was dripping a little water over the sugar. So that it would melt into the bread. It was quite the hit with grade school him.
Mayo sandwiches were something else that my Dad and brother both enjoyed. I wasn't a big fan, but they both loved them. My brother is one of those people who put a LOT of mayo on things, so he made mayo sandwiches with a thick layer of mayo. I liked pineapple sandwiches, but I liked them a lot better with some peanut butter. Sometimes our school would have peanut butter and syrup sandwiches. It was pretty much the same as a peanut butter and jelly, but with syrup instead of jelly. Another unusual sandwich that my brother used to eat was a steak sauce sandwich. He would just put steak sauce on two slices of bread and make a sandwich out of it. He would also sometimes put steak sauce on toast.
Peanut Butter and Honey for the win!!! Trust me! (PB & syrup in a pinch)
Add Banana too and it’s sooooo good! Or if you’re feeling fancy, grill it.
Rollo Odinson oh yes! That’s what I’m talking about! 🤗
Or almond butter +honey 😍
They are both good, but syrup doesn't do the cool textural thing that happens when you slather honey on untoasted white or wheat bread. Been a fan of PB & Honey since I was a sproutling!
I’ve always loved peanut butter and syrup sandwiches
I just about cried when Emmy showed her sad face at Mrs. Butterworth's for not talking to her. How dare you not talk to Emmy, Mrs. Butterworth's!
I was raised on my grandmother's cooking and it was usually pretty simple southern food. Sometimes she would throw together the quickest lunches and, to me, they were unbelievably delicious. On vacation once, she bought ingredients for banana & mayonnaise sandwiches (on white bread, of course). I crave that sandwich to this day. As a desert or for one of her famous "midnight snacks" she made a pear and mayonnaise 'salad'. The lettuce is a bed of iceberg (roughly torn into pieces) two or three canned, halved pears and in the center of the pear, a dollop of mayo or miracle whip. If using mayo, she would sprinkle a little sugar. Everything was topped with loads of shredded cheddar cheese. This recipe brings back so many good memories of childhood and I think its worth a try!
When my mom graduated from high school (during WWII) she moved to the east coast to work in Washington DC. For lunch she would go to a cafeteria and order a cup of tea. Always on the table were saltine crackers, sugar, cream, ketchup and mustard. She would mix some ketchup and saltines in the hot water and eat it as a soup.
1 minute since uploading and a person has already disliked. How can anyone dislike Emmy???
Thick and rich.🥞
They didn't find the hidden word.
Probably just someone being a butt
Right? The nerve.
@@AngelDavis92 Of course!
When my friend and I were in high school and vegetarians, we would make ourselves an after school snack we called the “chickle” sandwich. It consisted of bread, mayo, cheap American cheese, and pickles slices. It was honestly really good, especially if you toasted it.
Sounds good. 🤓
I love grilled cheese with dill pickles! I remember as a kid in Tennessee, there was a restaurant (Pig & Whistle?) That served a child's cheese pizza that had a slice of pickle in the center and I thought that was just the bee's knees
Omg.. this was my favorite when I was a kid.
I just made my husband cinnamon toast for the first time in his life yesterday. The best way is to butter the bread, mix cinnamon and sugar together in a small bowl and sprinkle it over the toast evenly. Then you pop it in the oven with the broiler set on low. It turns the cinnamon sugar into a crème brulee crust. He was blown away. He had always spread it on buttered toast without melting the sugar and cinnamon. It made me laugh. He's 58 years old and he was so delighted.
I grew up eating pineapple sandwiches! Loved them, but the best "Southern" sandwich is the banana sandwich, or the the 'nanner sammich. White bread, mayo and a sliced up banana. PERFECTION!!
Holy crap! Someone else likes my delicacy :) I just commented this too
When she picked up that bottle and called it “maple syrup”, Canadians everywhere cried out in pain.
instant cringe!
I'm not even Canadian and I kept thinking, "Stop... no, stop calling it that, it's not even artificial maple syrup, it's just pancake syrup..."
Y u reading dis? Um wut as a Canadian it’s high fructose corn syrup mixed with artificial flavorings. We have pancake syrup here in Canada too but the actual maple syrup comes in a smaller bottle and has a little liquidier texture with a different sweet flavor. Idk how to describe it but it’s like comparing Honey and Agave.
I can't go back to pancake syrup... Yuck! I like mid season maple syrup! Early tastes like vanilla and late is just too strong lol Maple syrup is the best sweetener !
To be fair she said "syrup" not "maple syrup"
You had me at the “I’ll link the idubbbz video below.” Even though I’ve been subscribed for almost a year lol
The syrup sandwiches really brought back memories. We mixed it with margarine also. I grew up very poor and before the government gave poor people food stamps to help out.We were tickled to death to have the government surplus program . You stood in line for hours to get your "commodities" that consisted of powdered milk , powdered eggs, peanut butter, oatmeal , "government" cheese and that sort of thing. The peanut butter was really thick and hard to spread so we added syrup to it and stirred it up together to make it spreadable. This was a sandwich we ate often and took to school in our lunches much like you might eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also took many, many cheese, mayo and lettuce sandwiches in our school lunches made from that government cheese. I was homeless for about a year and the free things at restaurants really do get you by. I got honey at KFC and used it and peanut butter to spread on the day old muffins I got for free at the Salvation Army. God Bless the Salvation Army, they do much more than anyone to help the homeless and those less fortunate.
I remember eating mayo sandwiches as a kid!! I love mayo! I loved how soggy the bread would get and I loved the tang of the mayo! I would let it sit out a second to let it kind of soak. I once asked one of my baby sitters for a mayo sandwich instead of whatever normal meal she wanted to make for me, and then she made me the sandwich and I didn't eat it right away. She was so confused and I told her I was waiting for it to soak and she looked at me like I was insane and told me to just eat the dang sandwich!
I loved when Emmy said “humble yes” around 10:30 because there’s this song called “Humble” by a rapper named Kendrick Lamar and his first lyrics are “I remember syrup sandwiches and gram allowances “ . I just thought I’d share that :) keep up with the great videos Emmy !
keakey18 I thought she was referencing Kendrick too lol
I had a few mustard sandwiches during my college years. My diet basically consisted of bread, bologna, mustard, hot dogs, and ramen. Instant ramen with a hot dog cut up into it was a gourmet meal in my dorm room. It's a miracle I'm still alive. hahaha
Great video Emmy. Brought back some memories.
Thanks for sharing this video which brought back many childhood memories growing up the youngest of six siblings being raised by a single mom (now 77). As one could imagine, we didn't eat a top shelf cuisine. The margarine and sugar on toast (along with cinnamon sprinkled on top), mayonnaise with a slice of tomato on white bread, peanut butter on toast (with black coffee) were some of the things we ate. Other substitutes for treats were white bread broken into pieces in a bowl with sugar and milk and cooked rice with butter and sugar. Other cheap canned meat substitutes - something called, I think, Choplets made from flour gluten and another product that I believe was called Numeat which didn't taste anything like meat but consumed enough that I acquired a taste for it when used in sandwiches... All in all, a diet rich in starches, cheap cheeses and substitute meats.
My grandma would make me Pineapple sandwiches when I was little. I liked them. Mayo, pineapple and shredded cheddar cheese
Seeing the ketchup sandwich gave me flashbacks to Uni when I had no money and ate them almost daily
Toasted white bread with a little butter and brown sugar.
Saltines with ketchup salt and pepper
Saltines with cocktail sauce is my fav
Dude saltines with ketchup and pepper sounds awesome, it's amazing how you can never think of something your whole life, hear it, and instantly know that you'd like it
We always had saltines in our house. I would eat them with peanut butter or American cheese singles.
@@EmmyDereest thx!!! They were tasty
@@AmandaLovesOldFords or BOTH cheese and pb
I love cocktail sauce.
You should try mayo and ketchup or butter and ketchup....we eat those in Dominican Republic
This makes my heart hurt. I grew up one these types of sandwiches as a child , and my mom tried her best to keep our bellies full. She was a single mom to us 4 kids and she always made these types of sandwiches appetizing and fun for us to enjoy. Looking back now I never realized how poor we where growing up , and I give thanks to my mom because she did the best she could ❤️
My grandma never gave us toast, but she ALWAYS gave us hot fresh homemade flour tortillas with Country Crock 😋😋😋 I miss my grandma 😢
Awww❤ 🥺😔..My Nana makes fresh flour tortillas too. You made me tear up . I need to spend more time with her❤ hugs
"She's still not talking to me!" 😂😂😂 You made me giggle on that one. I really like a little anecdote about you. 😊
My grandma was super poor as a child in the depression. She would tell me about these types of meals when she would take my brother and I out to eat (usually to Friendly’s). I miss her. She was so loving and non-judgmental.
My husband, who was a child in the Great Depression, talked about the poorer kids bringing “jam sandwiches” to school. He was surprised that there was no jam inside. His friend explained they were called jam sandwiches because you’d take two slices of bread and jam them together.
In the working class neighborhood I grew up in, I had ketchup sandwiches at a friend’s house. Another friend, who came from a family of 12 kids, often had sugar sandwiches as a treat: a slice of white bread sprinkled with sugar and folded in half.
My first husband used to make lettuce and mayo on white bread sandwiches. The first time he made me one, I laughed, because I thought he’d forgotten to put in the lunchmeat.
My mom told me about another condiment dish favored by broke, hungry students during the depression: ketchup soup. They’d go into a diner and order a cup of hot tea, which came as a cup of hot water with a teabag on the side. Then they’d take the ketchup bottle from the table and pour some into the water, add some salt and pepper and, voilà, instant tomato soup. They’d either save the teabag for later or have slightly tomato-y tea as a second course.
Now I'm imagining Emma as a 5 year old staring at a Ms. Butters Worth bottle for hours with a mouth full of pancakes.
So cute! ☺
🤣
Some of you might call this a hard times sandwich but I call it lunch! 😭
Hey man do your thing. This channel is a judgement free zone.
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emmy, i’m living away from home for the first time and your videos feel like home. thanks for helping me fall asleep!! :)
I was not expecting my go-to favorite wholesome CZcamsr to watch idubbbz