What Food Equals Childhood to You?

[Anonymous]

Totino’s party pizza
Kraft mac & cheese
Spumoni ice cream
Boxed scalloped potatoes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drive thru Dairy Store half gallons of ice cream in exotic flavors like black walnut, pumpkin, mint choc chip.
Getting the burger at Biff Burger and going across the street to McDonald's for the fries.
My first Whopper with Cheese when the Burger King opened.
KFC when it had original recipe only and mashed potatoes and gravy.
Yes I am a Boomer.

Ooooh, I have not had black walnut ice cream in many years!

If you want to go all out, try making brownies with black walnuts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Boomer mother's home cooking (Spanish and German heritages)
Arroz con pollo
Spareribs, sauerkraut and dumplings
Liver and onions
Hot German potato salad
Angel food cake
Baked Alaska
Pineapple upside down cake
Baking powder drop biscuits
Pot roast yes ketchup

None of this is Spanish.

Arroz con pollo is. My father made it. He was from Galicia. My uncle made it too. It's paella without the seafood.
People who think it's only Cuban and Latin American are ignoring the Moorish influence on Spain predating New World Exploration.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroz_con_pollo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tomato slices with salt. This was something my grandma ate as a snack almost every single day. Sometimes she'd eat a tomato like an apple (salting it as she ate). It's something I haven't really seen other people do but we'll sometimes make them up to remember grandma.

I grew up in Georgia (the state) and many older people did this with Vidalia onions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tomato slices with salt. This was something my grandma ate as a snack almost every single day. Sometimes she'd eat a tomato like an apple (salting it as she ate). It's something I haven't really seen other people do but we'll sometimes make them up to remember grandma.

I grew up in Georgia (the state) and many older people did this with Vidalia onions.

That's probably a health or home remedy thing.

[Anonymous]

Jello Pudding Pops with the thin sheet of ice that formed on the outside.

Yogurt push pops - not in a plastic tube, but an actual cardboard cylinder with a plastic stick that you used to push the yogurt out

Lamb chops with Campbells mushroom soup as "gravy"

[Anonymous]

Sara Lee pound cake
Homemade fruit punch (orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine and ground cloves)
Homemade bread with caraway seeds
Cherry fruit pies
English muffin pizza topped with breakfast sausage
Pepperidge Farm milano cookies
Ground beef and rice wrapped in boiled cabbage leaves, topped with egg and lemon sauce
Broiled rockfish with olive oil and scallions on Sundays

[Anonymous]

The frozen orange juice from concentrate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sara Lee pound cake
Homemade fruit punch (orange juice, pineapple juice, grenadine and ground cloves)
Homemade bread with caraway seeds
Cherry fruit pies
English muffin pizza topped with breakfast sausage
Pepperidge Farm cookies
Ground beef and rice wrapped in boiled cabbage leaves, topped with egg and lemon sauce
Broiled rockfish with olive oil and scallions on Sundays

Yes! My mother made this for us for lunch on weekends.

[Anonymous]

Chef Boyardee ravioli
Fireballs
Apple Jack and Lucky Charms cereal
French bread pizza
Frozen egg rolls
TV dinners
Twinkles, Hostess apple pies, Ho-Hos
Ice cream sandwiches
Salad made with crushed nacho doritos ('taco salad')

I cook fresh plain foods as adult as a result! But about once a year indulge in Lucky Charms.

[Anonymous]

Grandma's ambrosia: fruit cocktail + marshmallows + shredded coconut + sour cream

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grandma's ambrosia: fruit cocktail + marshmallows + shredded coconut + sour cream

Oh man. That or my mom's jello cream cheese walnut congealed salad was how you knew we had company.

[Anonymous]

Hostess hoho’s
SweetTarts
Quick pies (grilled cheese sandwiches made over a campfire)

The first two were rare and prized treats

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grandma's ambrosia: fruit cocktail + marshmallows + shredded coconut + sour cream

Oh man. That or my mom's jello cream cheese walnut congealed salad was how you knew we had company.

You know I'm old when this sounds good, lol. And I actually loved tomato aspic.

[Anonymous]

-This green pistachio jello ambrosia salad with mini marshmallows. I only ever got it at church potlucks, it was always there, but i have no idea who was making it
-Rice a roni
-Plain cheerios. I never ate them but my dad always did - actually still does - and they 1000% ARE my dad just like Polo cologne
-snackwells. My mom was on the early-90’s lowfat crazy train and she would get SO MAD when we would eat the snackwells that were covered in chocolate and had marshmallow in them.
-Swansons frozen breakfasts/sandwiches
-Toaster strudels