Anonymous
04/25/2025 16:04
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Crab cakes
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:55
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
shredded cheese.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:55
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the Soviet Union. So… almost everything?
Good one. Pepsi from our small village store twice a month. Fanta and icecream when I had a chance to go to city.
The basic food was usually available and special food didn't exist. Had no idea what yogurt was for example.Fries and potato chips also didn't exist.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:51
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Jumbo shrimp with cocktail sauce.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:48
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
I grew up relatively poor. My parents cooked everything from scratch, pretty much. And they were into all kinds of foods cause they were foodies. But that doesn’t mean we could afford those treats. So artichokes we got once a year. Asparagus (with my mother’s amazing hollandaise sauce) maybe twice a year. It wasn’t that we didn’t eat and savor “unusual foods.” It’s that they were treats. I can afford them regularly for my own children, but that makes them less special.
Agreed. Certain foods used to be more expensive.
My grandfather used to make a dish called "city chicken" which was pork and veal fashioned into drumsticks and seasoned to taste like chicken because chicken legs were actually more expensive than those meats when he was young.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:45
Subject: Re:What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Still remember having my first kiwi when it arrived at the grocery store. We got them in our stockings.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:44
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
I grew up relatively poor. My parents cooked everything from scratch, pretty much. And they were into all kinds of foods cause they were foodies. But that doesn’t mean we could afford those treats. So artichokes we got once a year. Asparagus (with my mother’s amazing hollandaise sauce) maybe twice a year. It wasn’t that we didn’t eat and savor “unusual foods.” It’s that they were treats. I can afford them regularly for my own children, but that makes them less special.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:40
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
I never had a poptart until college. My mother didn't buy things like that either.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:39
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
I seriously doubt you had Tongue Tuesdays and Smoked Oyster Saturdays.
BTW tongue is not unusual at all in a lot of countries and would definitely not be a fancy food treat. Although I did love it as a kid. Do they even sell it here?
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:39
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Seafood. It was expensive on menus where I grew up and my mom didn't know how to cook it so we had it basically from Long John Silver on Fridays in Lent and nothing else. When I started making my own money I'd order it at restaurants and feel very proud of myself.
Now we cook seafood once or twice a week, for health and variety. My kid wouldn't blink to have a crabcake for dinner, but it would have to have been like, my graduation celebration for me to order something like that.
Now we cook seafood once or twice a week, for health and variety. My kid wouldn't blink to have a crabcake for dinner, but it would have to have been like, my graduation celebration for me to order something like that.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:38
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
I get it. Our pantry was full of junk after my mom married my stepdad and a high school friend who lived nearby would come over to eat it lol -- he got so excited over Doritos and Pepsi, ha ha. I couldn't figure it out because I thought the food at his house -- I remember homemade granola his mom who was into health food would make -- was so much better.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:35
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:Going to Red Lobster or Ponderosa was a once a year treat.
OMG, yes. These were the only two restaurants we went to. And my mother didn't let me get sour cream on my baked potato at Ponderosa because it cost extra. I now put a huge amount of sour cream on my baked potatoes and looooove chives on there. My mother would get popcorn shrimp at Red Lobster -- we only went like once a year, and it was usually when she'd fought with her (second of 3) husband.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:33
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
My parents were hippies, my mom was into health food, and we didn’t have a ton of money when I was a mid, so we didn’t buy a lot of processed/packaged foods.
As a result, something like an EL Fudge cookie or an Oreo seemed like such a treat because usually we had things my mother baked at home. (and she sometimes put wheat germ in her oatmeal cookies)
As a result, something like an EL Fudge cookie or an Oreo seemed like such a treat because usually we had things my mother baked at home. (and she sometimes put wheat germ in her oatmeal cookies)
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:32
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
I come from a generational family of foodies, so nothing was off the table. We routinely ate wide variety of foods that might have seemed unusual to others, including beef tongue, smoked oysters, artichokes, etc.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
My family didn't do processed foods. To me growing up, these were ultimate gourmet foods. Frozen pot pies was the bomb. Those chocolate HoHos were the bomb. T.V. dinners were amazing. Coca Colas were heaven. I'm serious.
Anonymous
04/25/2025 15:32
Subject: What was a fancy food treat for you growing up that isn't fancy anymore?
Anonymous wrote:Berries are the first thing I think of. We never, EVER had fruit in the house other than bananas, Macintosh apples and navel oranges. A richer friend's mom once served us sliced kiwi and strawberries for a snack and I talked about it for months to my mom.
I remember when the first sushi place opened in my Michigan hometown in the late 90s and my family thought it was very outre ("raw fish???"). Espresso is also a good one --that was something for Frasier Crane to drink, not suburban moms.
Chex Mix was something my mom actually prepared as an appetizer for holiday guests, not an everyday snack out of the bag like now.
OMG, are you me, lol? I grew up in SW Michigan and I remember when a hibachi place came around 1988, and they served some sushi as well, and I ordered it and my family watched me eat it, horrified and fascinated at the same time. I was in high school and my boyfriend and I would go there for sushi and consider ourselves the most sophisticated people in town, lol.