Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 03:08     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
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.


My dad does both of those. He grows his own tomatoes too.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 02:41     Subject: Re:What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Maypo
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:20     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote: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


-Home made apple pie and Byers ice cream
-Root beer (couldn’t pay me to drink it now)
-Beefaroni
-Hamburger helper
-kool aid w too much sugar
-meatloaf and mashed potatoes (homemade)
-Parker house rolls
-jiffy cornbread
-shakys pizza
-Sara Lee pound cake


PP add chocolate eclairs and strawberry shortcake icecream bars from ice cream man who came around most summer days.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:20     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote:In the late 50s our elderly neighbors from Michigan used to babysit me sometimes and served "milk toast" that was 2 toasted and buttered white bread slices in a shallow bowl covered with warm milk. Seemed very exotic.


I wonder if all of these milk / starch meals were Depression era foods?

Egg noodles in milk
Milk toast
Saltines broken up in milk

The last was my grandfather’s (b. 1909) comfort food!
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:14     Subject: Re:What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Refrigerator drawers filled with fresh oysters for Thanksgiving festivities. My grandparents retired to Cape Cod from Boston area and my grandfather would go to the public beds. We are so many oysters — always raw on the half shell.

Also Ben and Jerry’s factory seconds for $1 / pint. Some had too much stuff or the wrong combo of fillings. I grew up in Vermont.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:14     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote:Peas with those little pearl onions. I can't find them anymore. They were still in the stores a few years ago, both frozen and canned, but seem to have gone the way of the dodo now...


Gross. Never had
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:10     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote:Bumps on a log: celery sticks with peanut butter, then raisins on the top.


Omg yes! We called it ants on a log.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:03     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote: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




And bong vape and water?
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 01:02     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote: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


-Home made apple pie and Byers ice cream
-Root beer (couldn’t pay me to drink it now)
-Beefaroni
-Hamburger helper
-kool aid w too much sugar
-meatloaf and mashed potatoes (homemade)
-Parker house rolls
-jiffy cornbread
-shakys pizza
-Sara Lee pound cake
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 00:55     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote:Bologna and cheese sandwich on the whitest bread with the yellowest mustard. I don't really want to eat one again, but I can taste them in my mind. Preferred lunch at the late, with the big bag of shared chips and the grape soda.


My mom (b 1941) was a healthy cook but she loved a fried bologna sandwich. She wouldn’t regularly buy it but on occasion she bought it just for this.

She also ate saltines broken up in milk, like cereal, which she got from her dad who was coming of age during the Depression.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 00:51     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Anonymous wrote: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.


Yes x1,000,000. Tv dinners were such a treat. Once my mom put a devil dog in my lunch and I really thought it was someone else’s brown bag lunch!

Otherwise, homemade dill pickles, English muffins, berry crisps, mom’s beef and broccoli stir fry, homemade spaghetti sauce, homemade soups, dad’s baguettes in his bread phase (followed by a home brew phase)! Also then all my moms diet foods (weight watchers creamsicles, nutrition systems crap)
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2025 00:33     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
I loved buying those classic ice cream sandwiches at school. They were 25 cents.

I tried so many new foods in the school cafeteria. My parents were immigrants and moved to an area that was not diverse and had few immigrants. Meatball sub, cheesesteak, pork roll, etc.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 15:59     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
Those school treat paper cups of ice cream with the wooden spoon. Mostly you tasted the wood.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 15:57     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
In the late 50s our elderly neighbors from Michigan used to babysit me sometimes and served "milk toast" that was 2 toasted and buttered white bread slices in a shallow bowl covered with warm milk. Seemed very exotic.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2025 15:52     Subject: What Food Equals Childhood to You?
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.