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Ok, we are taking the kids for a train weekend. We are going to stay in a train youth hostel (in the old sleeping cars from the 30's), eat in an restaurant (that is in a restaurant car from the late 20's) and take a steam train. The kids love trains.

Here is the one part that I have not figured out. We are going to cook several meals on our own, but I can not think of anything that would be train related. When you think of train food, what do you think of?

All I could think of was- kinder candy (Switzerland)
Littel bags of nuts (amtraks)
and...

Oh wait,that is about it. Any ideas?

UK trains sometimes do great cooked breakfast (eggs, bacon, toast), all cooked in the train galley and eaten at your seat. Otherwise it's tiny packets of individually packaged cake and bad coffee/tea.

I've eaten Tom Yum for breakfast on a Thai train and quails eggs on a Malaysian train. Or you could go the Indian route and try and do all the things they sell through the windows (couldn't identify much of it) washed down with chai sold from a bucket. Whatever country you are in, it's usually snacks or sandwiches in my experience, unless you eat in the restaurant car.

I really like the idea of the stuff sold through the window.

OK - stuff sold through windows it is... In Malawi they had a whole bucket of deep fried chicks - with little legs sticking out. Just grab on to the legs and CRUNCH! Or in Thailand there's the whole baskets of cockroches. Or... Oh wait - you're looking for stuff your kids will eat??

How about boiled eggs - that's always one of my favorite. And soda poured into plastic bags with a straw sticking out the top. Samosas are good train food too.