What Food Equals Childhood to You?

[Anonymous]

Campbell’s tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches before it was trendy.

[Anonymous]

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

We had both!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP and for two years 1977-79 lived outside of Cincinnati where we were told was a test market for new products.

Summer of ‘78 Hershey Whatchamacallit candy bars were new and just about all our swimming pool snack bar sold. Other options were packs of large, round Sweet Tarts that we’d lick until our tongues bled. So gross.

Skating rink sold flat 6 inch rectangles of Jolly Ranchers in green apple and cherry. You’d lick it to a droopy point and then toss otherwise it would take an hour to finish.

I remember having original Capri Suns at a friend’s house and I felt like an astronaut.

Bought original Gator Gum at a sporting goods store.

Around that same time my grandparents in Dallas were friends with a food scientist at Frito Lay's in Dallas, and I remember being given Jalapeno potato chips many years before they ever hit the shelves.

[Anonymous]

Lemon meringue pie
Chocolate meringue pie
Apple crumble pie
Peach pudding
Chocolate chip cookies
Raisin cookies
Sugar cookies with pink icing for Valentine’s Day
Divinity fudge

Grandma was quite a baker.

[Anonymous]

Jiffy Pop popcorn outside on a fire

Entenmann's Crumb Donuts - had to look up the name of it, we called them worm donuts, because the crumbs on top looked like little worms

[Anonymous]

Chicken McNuggets. I remember when they first came out and getting them was such a big deal. They were basically McDonald's attempt to compete with one of their competitors -- take out Chinese food. They were basically sweet and sour chicken. That is why 2/3 of the first sauces offered were hot mustard and sweet n sour (the other was barbecue).

[Anonymous]

Honey Nut Cheerios
Hot roast beef sandwiches on kaiser rolls
Butterscotch Krimpets
Stouffer’s french bread pizzas
Hi-C

[Anonymous]

Fresh peaches
Fresh strawberries
Fresh, whole oranges
Fresh carrots, cooked and mashed at home
Homemade spinach omelette
Homemade birthday cakes, creatively decorated. No frosting at all.
Barbecues + salads+ chimichurri
Polenta with funghi porcini

[Anonymous]

beans and franks
fish sticks with lots of tartar sauce
poached eggs on toast
Spam
cinnamon toast
popovers with chicken salad in them
avocados with tuna salad in them
watermelon carved into the shape of a basket and hollowed out and various cut up fruits put inside
strawberry pavlova (mom just called it "a meringue") on Easter

[Anonymous]

Buttered egg noodles. I loved them as a kid.

[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 both!!

Can I come to your house after school?!

[Anonymous]

TV dinners
Chicken and stars soup
Spaghettios
Orange Push-ups
Pudding pops

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:TV dinners
Chicken and stars soup
Spaghettios
Orange Push-ups
Pudding pops

OMG, yes!

[Anonymous]

Eating green beans straight from the can.

I still prefer canned green beans over fresh to this day!

[Anonymous]

I still have those colorful Tupperware cups! At least two of them!

Kool Aid
Tang!
Creamsicles
Campbells soup
Wonder read
Kraft singles
Jello
Sara Lee pound cake
Cream of wheat with butter, sugar and raisins.