Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

I can't tell if these are positive memories or bad ones.

My parent is also from northern Europe and this sounds right on

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

Why not eat this way as an adult? Not sure why it’s associated with childhood and not just normal life.

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 wrote:Microwaved breakfast meals with terrible frozen eggs and bacon.

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 wrote: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

You are from Eastern Europe

(So am I)

homemade clam chowder
fried catfish
hamburger helper
kool-aid
twinkies
tuna casserole

Anonymous wrote: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

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.

+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

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 wrote: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

Why not eat this way as an adult? Not sure why it’s associated with childhood and not just normal life.

Microwaved breakfast meals with terrible frozen eggs and bacon.

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 wrote: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

I can't tell if these are positive memories or bad ones.

Anonymous wrote: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

Wow, you ate well! I could be quite happy with this menu as an adult.

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

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