What Food Equals Childhood to You?
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Anonymous
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What food reminds you of childhood? I bought a Pepperidge Farm coconut cake from the freezer section yesterday because I saw it and remembered my grandmother buying them when I was little. That's what made me think of this. I'll start:
Pepperidge Farm coconut cake, and pound cake Kool-aid olive loaf alphabet soup, and chicken and stars soup Viva! Italian dressing on iceberg lettuce salad Tuna Twist (I insisted my grandmother buy it because I liked the commercials) chicken a-la-king cream soda English muffin pizzas |
Anonymous
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fresh strawberries
fresh milk boiled, mashed, and roasted potatoes roasted pork fried eggs root vegetables stews goulash black currant jam fresh white bread pancakes herring oatmeal butter with everything everything pickled cucumbers, tomatoes cabbage/sourkraut different sausages, ham, smoked fish meat, carrot/cabbage, and jam turnovers potato salad beets |
Anonymous
Wow, you ate well! I could be quite happy with this menu as an adult. |
Anonymous
I can't tell if these are positive memories or bad ones. |
Anonymous
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I was raised by Hippies so...
Tofu pups Carob "chocolate" Edamame Black seaweed sesame salad Rice Cream ice cream Lots of Indian food Almond butter sandwiches on whole grain bread |
Anonymous
| Microwaved breakfast meals with terrible frozen eggs and bacon. |
Anonymous
Why not eat this way as an adult? Not sure why it’s associated with childhood and not just normal life. |
Anonymous
| My parents cookies healthy meals and didn’t buy processed food so a huge childhood treat were tv dinners. Such a special night when we had a babysitter and the tinfoil tray, from the oven, with fried chicken, a scoop of mashed potatoes and corn. I loved them. |
Anonymous
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+1 for Kool-Aid
Spaghetti-Os - which my mom never bought, but I'd down a whole can when I stayed all night at my cousin's house Otter Pops/Pop-Ice - the cheap popsicles, with plastic edges that would cut the corners of your mouth at times Slush Puppies 
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Anonymous
OP here. Yes, pork roast for me too! And it is still one of my fave things, although I rarely make it. I should make it more. |
Anonymous
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homemade clam chowder
fried catfish hamburger helper kool-aid twinkies tuna casserole |
Anonymous
You are from Eastern Europe 
(So am I) |
Anonymous
OP here. For me on this note, which I wish I'd remembered to put in my original post -- it was Swanson tv dinners. They were awful. We would have fried chicken, Salisbury steak, spaghetti and meatballs, veal parmesan, roast turkey, and meatloaf -- at least that I can remember. I had to make them for us when my mother was out hanging out at the bar (which, unfortunately, was pretty often). The chocolate cake dessert thing always burned and the whipped potatoes were very, very whipped and tasted weird. |
Anonymous
OP only asked what foods = childhood for people. Plenty of those foods are going to be things one could eat as an adult in "normal life." No one asked about "food for kids." |
Anonymous
My parent is also from northern Europe and this sounds right on |