For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for May 06, 2010

I’ve made those when I was little.

Beats mud pies!

down here they have ‘Hundreds and Thousands’ sandwiches… that is what the colored sugar sprinkles are called here.

One slice thickly buttered bread. Butter must be warm so that it spreads evenly and does not tear the bread. 4-5 tablespoons sugar heaped in center of bread slice. Hold slice over open sugar bowl and tilt rotationally to evenly coat butter with maximum amount of sugar. Dump excess sugar from bread back into sugar bowl. While exercising care not to lose and sugar adhering to the butter. Eat unfolded for maximum pleasure and sugar drippibility. Especially effective if eaten while walking though the whole house.

I just made my sugar sandwiches with bread and sugar, Ken, but Jif peanut butter on each slice of bread, with a large wad of softened butter inbetween was my other favorite.

I wish I could still eat before going to sleep, because I’ll be thinking about butter, sugar and bread all night long now, Ken.

Downundergirl, being an artistic, gourmet, I have lots of colored sugars, but never heard of ‘Hundreds and Thousands’ sandwiches. Thanks for the international twist!

I remember adding quik powder and sugar to margin butter and spreding it on homemade bread or tortillas. Back in the tx ranch I grew up in; the gro. store was a good 2hr drive away. When we wanted candy it was either prickly pears, aloe flowers(sometimes). mesquit sap (not sweet but a chewy treat) or experiment with the pantry…

Anyone here like white bread, mayo, and pineapple? Or banana? Or tomato?

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I’ll race ya to the kitchen, ladyfingers!

Try peanut butter and bacon or peanut butter and green olives.

I was getting hungry all the way until doublepaw’s post…

hey Glenbeck; ever eat bull nettle beans? We used to walk out in the pasture and graze on that and prickley pear apples, and those old sour mustang grapes.

When I was little, my favorite treat was bread, fresh out of the oven, slathered with butter and covered with brown sugar and cinnamon. Just thinking about it takes me back to my grandmother’s kitchen.

I used to put the butter and sugar on toast, and add a little cinnamon on top…mmm-mmm! Hadn’t thought of that for years

We sometimes ate ketchup sandwiches. I rather liked them when they were an option, but I detested them when they were all we had to eat. (Still better than fried onion sandwiches which would make me ill.)

But not one reference to marshmallow whip sandwiches, with or without PB?

I like to toast the bread, then butter it, then the sugar. For added taste put on some cinnamon to.

Another way, lay bread slice on plate, sprinkle sugar liberally on slice, then sprinkle milk on slice and enjoy. I think it was a depression era thing.

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Thank goodness they came out with splenda now we won’t get sooooo fat.

Because we couldn’t afford “treats”, we had sour cream on dark bread with a bit of sugar sprinkled on it.

If I were Mom, I wouldn’t know whether to be more upset about the sugar, or the atrocious grammar.

Sugar sandwiches are great - my mom used them as special treats - but brown sugar sandwiches are better!

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This is really one of your best ever Lynn.

pschearer–Absolutely! Marshmallow cream, smooth peanut-butter & a sliced banana– Yummy! We call these “Fluffer-Nutter sandwiches” …and yep–I’m from Texas.

We always made ours with cinnamon sugar. I had forgotten all about this until I read the comic. Brings back fond memories of sneaking them outside to eat so Mom wouldn’t catch us. (bet she wondered about the mess we most likely left though…)

Not sweet - but a ketchup sandwich - yum!

Took me back too many years! Bread, butter & sugar was a favorite after school snack. I’m old enough that there was no such thing as Twinkies. Peanut butter & bacon–yummmm.

If I went to the kitchen now, I would find: Whole wheat bread Peanut Butter Real Butter, soft on the counter Bananas just turning brownish Light or dark brown sugar

Or I could finish my comics and go to the gym.

mmm … I remember one of my favorite sandwiches as a kid was honey spread over toasted white bread and then sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. YUM!!! That would really get you wound up!

My mom told me she made soup sandwiches when she was a kid.

It was the brown sugar and cinnamon toast at my home when a kid for a Saturday morning treat. THICK layer of brown sugar!

what memories!

yeah, Fluffer-Nutter sammies………to die for

brown sugar, butter and cinnamon on toast………drooling

my hubby likes mayo and banana (ugh)

my ugh sammie is peanut butter and onion…….still love it

My dad sometimes took mashed potato sandwiches in his lunchbox. Is it just me or is that yukky?

Elly is more likely to be upset about the mess in the kitchen than the sugar sandwich. I think she should make her son participate in cleaning up the mess together with her afterwards, after she lets them enjoy the sandwich they made by themselves.

Pineapple and mayo–check Banana and mayo–check PB and olives–get real PB and onions–check but beware the explosive aftereffects. ketchup–po’ folks special soup-???????

My Dad used to make us sugar and butter sandwiches. His family was affected by The Depression and sometimes they made do with whatever they had. I think this was one of their “make-do” solutions, though they possibly used lard instead of butter.

If the Earth is ever invaded by aliens, they’d better watch out. Humans will eat anything, and “Kentucky Fried Alien” stores would be popping up within a month of First Contact.

How about peanut butter, mayo and sliced dill pickle?

Thebird55–you should try the mayonnaise, pineapple and cheddar cheese salad that seems so popular down here. Sounds like you’d love it!

I never had a sugar sandwich, but I love a good piece of toast thickly layered with cinnamon and sugar.

catlady1 I remember them days. Sneak into the kitchen grab a fresh loaf right out of the oven, Split it down the middle and put in a quarter stick of fresh creamery butter and run before Grandma could catch me. lol

Given how much sugar is in kids’ diets these days anyway, a sugar sandwich seems almost redundant.

And yes, I think the mess is what Elly’s reacting to, not the sugar sandwich itself (although she’s probably also reeling at the thought of what all tha sugar is going to fill her morning with – all she needs is two small children bouncing off the walls when she’s trying to get stuff done!) lol

I also remember making sugar sandwiches as a kid, as a teen and a young adult. Used brown sugar though. Much tastier. Any white bread will do, tho’ homemade is best. A nice layer of butter and then the brown sugar. Open top sandwich too. oh yummmmmy

furnituremaker :

IF there was rain, we might see the sour grapes but we never knew about bull nettle beans. I do remember eating Ebano tree beans, wild pomegranates, and pecans. we also had a couple of lemon trees, a peach tree, an orange tree and some kind of berry shrub also something called nispeross (kind of date looking fruit)…man the memories. As a kid I always wanted what was outside the ranch …now as an adult ;I live far from it, and can not find many of the things things that were free in it…

I was babysitting one of my granddaughters when she was about 5, and she was playing in the pantry. She came out with something white on her lips. I asked what she had been eating, and she said, “Real yummy!” Sugar.

We mixed the cinnamon and sugar together first, then covered our bread with it.

My brother’s favorite was peanut butter and mayonaise. (never tried it with dill pickles, Summerdog, but that could be a nice twist.)

My dad ate peanut butter and mayo, too, until he bite down on a yellow jacket on a fishing trip. He would have preferred those mashed potato sandwiches. (Or jelly rolled up in lefsa)

My best friend and I used to make pancake batter and toss in all sorts of things…chocolate chips, raisins, Crispy Critter cereal, marshmallows, currants, blueberries, Fruit Loops, sugar sprinkles, non-pareils, Anything we could find in her mother’s cupboard that was already opened was fair game.

The all time worst thing we added were those little metallic balls some people put on cookies. Metallic tasting pancakes are yucky!

Hi howtheduck: Just read your post and on my screen the bread isn’t green, it’s white. I also thought that Elly was in a sweatsuit as she is lots of times when she is home. What I really found amusing is that Lizzie is sitting on the table (probably courtesy of Mike), took one bite out of her sandwich and then decided that the sugar canister which he left open was much more fun than a sandbox or a sandwich..

I loved reading everyone’s childhood memories. When I was small (those many decades ago) my mom, when we were out of bread but had peanut butter would mix powdered sugar with peanut butter and make balls out of it and put them in the fridge. If we were having a good month and had powdered cocoa in the house she would roll some of them in it. That was our candy. YUM. She would keep track of them, however, and look out if you decided to steal any but the daily allowance!

I fondly recall fresh bread soaked in newly harvested honey, drpping with honeycomb bits through my fingers and onto my plate,the table, my chin, my shirt and everything else! Sticky and delicious! That was in summer, in late winter, substitute freshly boiled off maple syrup…..Mmmmmmm

yuck!!! oh my teeth!

I remember sugar sandwiches! YUMMY!

UNCLE EDWIN’S FAVORITE WAS BUTTERED TOAST WITH WHIPPED CREAM, BOLOGNA AND DILL PICKLES.

Mmmmm, doublepaw, peanut butter and bacon is still one of my favorites and I haven’t been a kids for many a decade. I also still like cinnamon-sugar toast.

I LIKED doublepaw’s ideas. My favorite as a kid was rye bread with butter and salt on it (to eat with a big hunk of plain chocolate). I still sometimes indulge by putting a little sea or kosher salt on my breakfast toast, but usually just plain cinnamon (need to brush afterward as it sticks between my teeth)

I never had a sugar sandwich, only honey.

However, I do want to try a fried banana.

The best is Peanutbutter and Marshmallow Fluff.

white bread Hellman’s mayo homegrown ripe tomato salt pepper

HEAVEN!!

As children we had a lot of sugar/cinnamon toast. In fact, we kept the sugar and cinnamon premixed in a jar. I was always adding more cinnamon when no one was looking.

THEBIRD Now they think we are too stupid to mix our own cinnamon and sugar. For about the same price per pound as cinnamon, the food packing industry will mix it for us. I wish I had a four slice toaster about now.

Sugar (or sugar and cinnamon) sandwiches are just a little bit better if you stick them under the broiler long enough to caramelize the sugar. (Or use your “Julia Child” kitchen blowtorch - lol)

Reminds me in “Peanuts” when Linus was eating Sugar Lumps dipped in Honey. He told Lucy they’re great with Cinnamon too.

Ketchup and mayo, PB and sweet pickles, PB and mayo, PB and bananas, Brown sugar and cinnamon, All starting with bread or toast well coated with real butter. Most of these I still eat 50 plus years later. In later years I also added chocolate syrup on plain bread when I needed a chocolate fix. No butter, the syrup needs to soak into the bread. I know, I’m not well, but I like this little world of mine.

All your reminiscences remind me of a favourite treat we had when I was small (tho my mother disapproved strongly of it): sour cream, brown sugar, and bananas. A large bowlful.

It was indeed too rich. But in those days we didn’t care.

I’ve just looked at the strip again, and I see green, not white, but it seems to me that that’s the bread wrapper, not the bread itself. You can see some folds of it on each end. The right side looks closed, and the left side looks like that’s where they took out the slices from.

We used to make those too. Spread some butter or margarine on both slices, then sprinkle with sugar.

At my house, it was bread and peanut butter with maple syrup poured on it. You had to have it on a plate (mom’s rule) and cut it like a pancake because the syrup made such a mess otherwise. Haven’t had one of those sandwiches in YEARS.