Everyone has food that they’ve loved since they were a kid.
Maybe it’s macaroni and cheese with cut-up hot dogs (yum!), or peanut butter and jelly sandwiches . Or maybe it’s the chicken noodle soup that your mom would make whenever you were sick.
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Believe it or not — even the Queen has a favorite childhood food . As it turns out, it’s one that she still eats to this day at 96 years old.
The Queen is all about her routine.
According to Express , she’s woken up every day at 7:30 a.m. with an earl grey tea, the radio, and a morning bath.
Everything about this has to be proper. That’s why she has one of her team check the bath with a wooden thermometer to ensure it’s not too hot.
Then, Her Majesty has one of her three dressers (yes, she has three personal dressers) lay out her first outfit of the day.
This is followed by a hair styling appointment with her personal on-site hairdresser. By 8:30 a.m., she has her breakfast served promptly in her private dining room.
Ah, to be a Queen!
Even her food habits are the same, day in and day out.
Chef Darren McGrady, who cooked for the Queen at Buckingham Palace for 11 years, told Hello! that she eats mainly British and French food.
“We cooked a lot of traditional French food like halibut on a bed of spinach with a Morney sauce.”
As a chocoholic, she always had room for dessert. Her favorite is chocolate perfection pie, which is made with cinnamon, meringue, and chocolate cream.
When she eats her favorite fast food — a venison burger — she won’t even have a bun with it.
AND she always eats it with a knife and fork! “Her Majesty’s Victorian upbringing dictates that the only thing you would pick up and eat with your fingers is afternoon tea,” McGrady said.
McGrady used his YouTube channel to share the sandwich the Queen has eaten every day since she was five years old.
Any guesses? Peanut butter? Turkey? Cucumber?
It’s jam and butter! “Just bread and jam with a little butter, usually strawberry jam,” McGrady said.
The Queen was served this as a little girl and has eaten for Afternoon Tea ever since.
“We’d make the jam at Balmoral Castle with gorgeous Scottish strawberries from the gardens,” he said.
In his video, he sandwiched the jam and butter together and then cut them into circles.
“They were called pennies, after the size of the old English penny.”
People in the comments were stunned over her choice of sandwich.
“The weird thing is, going school in England anyone who had jam sandwiches was called poor,” one viewer wrote.
“And here I am finding out The Queen eats them, wish I could show the bullies this haha!”
Many were tickled to find out that they enjoy the same thing as the Queen. “This kind of eating is just so darn civilized and refined. It makes me feel important, like a Queen, to eat the same menu.”
Others shared stories of their parents making them the same sandwich as a kid.
“My mom always made us strawberries that way, with sugar and cream. It’s so good, especially if you let the sugar sit for a bit in the berries first. I’m doing that tomorrow!” one wrote.
Of course, not everyone was impressed with her choice.
“The Queen has eaten a jam sandwich every day since she was a kid,” a person commented. “A bloody jam sandwich? Boring! If I was queen I’d definitely be more boujee than that.”
