What Food Equals Childhood to You?

[Anonymous]

Latch-key 80s/90s kid here:

Breakfast options:
Pop-tarts
Toaster streudels
Cheerios and milk

A typical packed school lunch for me consisted of:

Echo-cooler juice box
Bologna sandwich with Kraft American cheese
Shark bite fruit snacks
String cheese
An apple

After school snack:
Bagel bites
Handi-snacks

Typical rotation of dinners:
-spaghettios
-velveeta Mac n cheese shells
- sloppy joes
- Steak-umms on hot dog buns
-undercooked chicken coated in breadcrumbs, side of buttered “green (spinach) noodles” and Parmesan cheese, peas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Latch-key 80s/90s kid here:

Breakfast options:
Pop-tarts
Toaster streudels
Cheerios and milk

A typical packed school lunch for me consisted of:

Echo-cooler juice box—I meant *Ecto-Cooler”, the green juice with Slimer from ghost busters on the juice box
Bologna sandwich with Kraft American cheese
Shark bite fruit snacks
String cheese
An apple

After school snack:
Bagel bites
Handi-snacks

Typical rotation of dinners:
-spaghettios
-velveeta Mac n cheese shells
- sloppy joes
- Steak-umms on hot dog buns
-undercooked chicken coated in breadcrumbs, side of buttered “green (spinach) noodles” and Parmesan cheese, peas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Koolaid served in these cups at someone else's house
We didn't have these cups or koolaid.

We had those cups!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buttered egg noodles. I loved them as a kid.

Me too

[Anonymous]

Buttered noodles x 3

Also lasagna or spaghetti and meatballs on Sunday

My mom used to put mushroom soup in a pot of rice and dice up hotdogs in it.

Peanut better and jelly sandwiches

Chicken soup

[Anonymous]

Sunday night we went to the local Chinese restaurant and I loved the pupu platter and a Shirley temple.

Steak ums were a total treat. Chicken divan, frozen green beans with spatzle pasta, taco night with jello with fruit cocktail on the side, orange crush soda, alphabits cereal, handy snacks with the red plastic knife to spread the cheese on the crackers, giant brand mini Dixie cups of ice cream, snack wells devils food cake cookies, I could go on and on about the crap I ate growing up...

[Anonymous]

Anybody remember cracker baskets in restaurants? Wrapped 2 packs of different kinds. Maybe it was instead of bread. Loved those buttery ones.

Meatloaf baked with oatmeal inside and ketchup on top.

TV dinners. Fried chicken and fried scallops were the best ones.

[Anonymous]

Club sandwiches and chicken salad sandwiches take me back to country club summers every time.

For every malcontent on DCUM who seethes about country clubs, I don't think there's a more wholesome and All-American way for kids to spend their summers. Not to mention becoming a half-decent swimmer, tennis player and golfer are life skills you will enjoy until you croak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anybody remember cracker baskets in restaurants? Wrapped 2 packs of different kinds. Maybe it was instead of bread. Loved those buttery ones.

Meatloaf baked with oatmeal inside and ketchup on top.

TV dinners. Fried chicken and fried scallops were the best ones.

My mom put Quaker Oats in meatballs, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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!

I always got black walnut ice cream at our neighborhood High's store (it was similar to 7-Eleven). So delicious!

Last time I drove past the Thurmont, MD area I spotted a Highs, so they're still around maybe. I don't know if they still carry ice cream.

My favorite childhood ice cream was the Thrifty Drug ice cream cones that were served with cylindrical "scoops" (and only cost a quarter). Double chocolate malted crunch. Yum. There was a Thrifty near my grandma's apartment so we'd often get it when visiting her.

I’m old enough I remember when those scoops were 10 cents!

[Anonymous]

Anything jerk as my family is Jamaican ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Club sandwiches and chicken salad sandwiches take me back to country club summers every time.

For every malcontent on DCUM who seethes about country clubs, I don't think there's a more wholesome and All-American way for kids to spend their summers. Not to mention becoming a half-decent swimmer, tennis player and golfer are life skills you will enjoy until you croak.

NP

I remember living at the country club pool during summers. $1 at the clubhouse grill would get you a styrofoam container overflowing with steak fries. We would snack on those between kid swim at the pool, and pickup tennis in our swimsuits.

[Anonymous]

Tortellini en brodo
Mortadella, Proscuitto and Capocollo with various cheeses every Saturday for lunch
Mostaciolli and meat balls
Italian sausage and peppers
Tortoni for dessert
Italian beef sandwhiches

Italian-American, born and raised in Chicago

[Anonymous]

Franco-American Raviolios
Jeno’s frozen pizza (hamburger or Canadian bacon or combination pepperoni & sausage)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Koolaid served in these cups at someone else's house
We didn't have these cups or koolaid.

We had those cups!

Omg same!!!!!
Tupperware!—and they had sippy cup lids too that you could remove for when you didn’t need that anymore!