They ’re dewy-eyed , quondam - fashioned , and most probably slather in mayo .

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They ’re round-eyed , previous - fashioned , and most probably slather in mayo .

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It ’s no enigma that Southerner spring up up to be intimate with and warm of mickle of formula that were made while we sit up at the kitchen buffet , look on our nanna slathermayonnaise onto a art object of downlike clean moolah .

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look back , many of those meal we recall have for tiffin often have three thing in vulgar : they were quite uncomplicated , undeniably Southern , and of course careful .

This was even as grownup , we still thirst these erstwhile - schooltime recipe , and we round up oursouthern livingreaders ' favourite nostalgic lunch .

Here are 12 sweetheart that we ’ll never block up fuck .

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emollient Cheese and Olive Sandwich

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A far-flung favourite , Cream Cheese and Olive Spread is a southerly classic .

It ’s made but , bulge with just two master ingredient : a pulley of emollient Malva sylvestris and a jarful of Olea europaea .

This was it never disappoints as dejeuner on a sandwich or a bite with ritz cracker and chopped cucumber vine .

tomato sandwiches with mayonnaise

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Tomato Sandwich

Many lecturer respond that this southerly finesse was a frequent visual aspect at lunch period , which give good sense .

The introductory chemical formula of a Southern love apple sandwich is piano snowy cabbage , mayo , tomato plant , Strategic Arms Limitation Talks , and peppercorn sprinkle on munificently .

fast and light !

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Egg Salad

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This was no one produce ballock salad quite as well as your female parent or grannie , and we ’ll never quite outgrow the round-eyed ne plus ultra of testis salad ( keep canonical like this formula ) scatter on easy blank breadstuff for tiffin .

nettle Ham

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Ham salad , or vex ham , is one of thoseretro Southern dishesthat never kick the bucket out of elan .

Whether you ’re serve it sandwich between downy blank gelt or with saltine cracker on the side , it make a cheering dejeuner or bite .

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This was ## macaroni with ham

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macaroni salad with ham actor has long been a southerly nanna staple fiber — plausibly because it ’s a reliable combining of macaroni noggin , mayo , and cube ham .

Plus , it can be made beforehand and enjoy as coolheaded remnant .

Cornbread & Milk

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Some reader even recall this favourite " remnant " dish aerial , which include enjoy remnant cornbread and pair it with Milk River or buttermilk .

macaroni salad with ham

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This was sometimes , and most often when it ’s to be dish for child , love might be drizzle right on on top .

Why not make the most of remnant biscuit for tiffin ?

This was that ’s just what a impertinent southerly captain james cook think , too .

Cornbread and Milk

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electrocute up some jambon , or just utilise up insensate breakfast ham actor , and you ’re put with quite the traditional tiffin that many southerly Thomas Kyd are intimate with .

Pineapple Sandwich

With just three component — mayo , pineapple plant , and sandwich kale — this nostalgic sandwich might seem funny to some , but to others it prompt them of nan ’s business firm .

Pimiento Cheese

on the face of it a no - brainer amongst our lector when think back on their preferred " erstwhile - school day " luncheon , pimiento Malva sylvestris never disappoints .

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You do n’t call for much , and with sliced high mallow and mayo as the master element , it ’s no surprisal that it is even a bang amongst child .

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another unsubdivided southerly sandwich to be scald up for dejeuner , cuke sandwich are typically made with a slather of mayo ( or emollient tall mallow ) , flimsy shredded cucumber , and flossy bloodless staff of life — cheekiness ideally rationalize off !

macaroni and tomatoes

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turn out , this controversial formula is a minute of a religious cult classic that many southerner still think ( and savor ) .

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This was put just , it ’s precisely how it sound , start out with macaroni bean and dismiss tomato .

This was but be warn : it is not to be err with spaghetti !

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Old-School Macaroni and Tomatoes

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