I was happy to hear others on this board also enjoy fried egg sandwiches with mustard for breakfast growing up. Here is another breakfast I would have growing up when I was in elementary/middle school, but first you get the back story. I rarely ate it because it only occurred when I was fortunate enough to get asked to stay at my great grandparents house.
My great grandparents were extremely smart and cool the more I think about it. They would invite one grandchild over to have dinner and spend the night, which was a rare occasion and made you feel important. They lived on a farm and my grandpa was that male figure that lacks in today’s world. You never stopped in front of the tv while wheel of fortune was on, and if you were lucky you’d get to light his pipe (with a match) he had just packed full of velvet tobacco while his chair after dinner and his long day of being in the fields and taking care of his cattle.
Probably one of the reasons a lot of my good memories are because of the way they treated us as kids. Made money with some blood, sweat and tears baling hay for them (square bales with hay hook). It wasn’t about the check at the end of the day… it was sitting in the grass after a long day’s work and eating the mounds of food grandma had prepared for all the guys that had been working all day (including her homemade butter noodles from scratch). Such great memories.
Anyways back to other simple breakfast I use to eat with GG Vince in the morning of the sleepover. We would have a bowl of regular corn flakes and add two spoons of grandma’s homemade strawberry jam. The best part was drinking the pink milk with my great grandpa before he left to head out to tend to the cows, crops and other work until sunset. I miss those days…