Unhealthy/Gross foods growing up
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?0 -
Bread balls! Squish up a piece of white sandwich bread into a little ball and eat it. As kids we thought they were great!9
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.4 -
We definitely still have bread & butter with spaghetti..1
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
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MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
I don't know very many people that actually consider american cheese to be real cheese, lol. That's just all we ever had growing up so I didn't know. I would never put plain american on some chips now and call it nachos
I love all the things on them now, the more, the better!
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star crunch cookies, beef and cheese sticks, and cheese doodles - the run of your under 50 cent snacks at any nyc bodega really, really wish someone discouraged me from eating that growing up in hindsight1
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The weirdest thing my mom used to regularly offer would be turkey and mustard sandwiches. Neither my brother nor I were big cheese eaters, we didn't like mayo and mom didn't want to chop up any veg to go on it. So, just turkey and mustard.
Other than that, we ate pretty good food. We ate out almost every night for dinner at a restaurant. Although Taco Bell was a big thing. I ate a lot of cheese- free burritos. Also a lot of frappaccinos. From 8th grade to junior year of high school, I had one for breakfast at least 4 times a week.2 -
emcclure013 wrote: »On the butter note.... my mom used to put butter with any sandwich. Ham sandwiches had butter, turkey sandwiches had butter, pb&j had butter. The one I did like, and I still enjoy, is a toasted English muffin with butter and jelly with a slice of cheddar cheese in the middle. Rarely have it these days, but it's nostalgic!
Sounds perfectly normal to me! I think this might be an English vs. American thing, though. From what I can tell, Americans tend to put mayonnaise on sandwiches rather than butter. At least, in savoury recipes...
I don't have a strong memory of childhood, but I do remember that we had Nesquik milkshake powder in the cupboard. It was a rare sweet snack, around because it was needed to disguise the taste of my brother's epilepsy medication. I used to sneak spoonfuls of the raw powder, as well as spoonfuls of plain sugar...my mum was so angry, but eating in a relatively restricted way made me want to binge and steal food when I got the chance. You think I'd have learned from those patterns, huh?! Edit: also, LOL when my little sister accidentally drank the epilepsy milkshake when she was sneaking food she shouldn't have had. She was fine, but the image of how panicked everyone was still makes me laugh.0 -
MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »MonkeyMel21 wrote: »I used to make nachos with tortilla chips and melted AMERICAN CHEESE slices and nothing else, dipped in mild Pace Pecante salsa.
How are you supposed to make nachos?
With real cheese.
eta: and refried beans, black beans, taco meat, onion, jalapeno, tomatoes, etc.
Ah... didn't realize there were rules. Or that American cheese wasn't real
I don't know very many people that actually consider american cheese to be real cheese, lol. That's just all we ever had growing up so I didn't know. I would never put plain american on some chips now and call it nachos I love all the things on them now, the more, the better!
I was just messing with you... generally speaking, I like my nachos better that way too. But it did prompt me to do a quick search about the actual origins of "american cheese" and I found this article that is both fascinating & hilarious:
https://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american-cheese.html
Now, not only do I want nachos with american cheese, I want a cheeseburger, mac & cheese, queso...1 -
Bread balls! Squish up a piece of white sandwich bread into a little ball and eat it. As kids we thought they were great!
Ha! I forgot about this. We weren’t allowed white bread in my house, and when I was 11 I started babysitting the kids across the street. Their house was always full of candy and snacks that I wasn’t allowed to have, but the one thing that I was obsessed with was eating their white bread because I had never had it before. After the kids would go to bed I’d sneak a piece, and before I ate it I’d squish it up into a ball. I didn’t know that anyone else did this!3 -
Cheese in a can!
We only got it when we went camping but Oh god that *kitten* was heaven!
Now however the idea scares me.0 -
Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?3
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RachelElser wrote: »Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?
I think those died right along side 3D Doritos, and Surge.3 -
crtripto165 wrote: »star crunch cookies, beef and cheese sticks, and cheese doodles - the run of your under 50 cent snacks at any nyc bodega really, really wish someone discouraged me from eating that growing up in hindsight
This stuff. And pork rinds, Funnyuns, Raisin cream pies, oatmeal cream pies, commissary cookies, and greasy Drakes or Hostess fruit pies. Unfortunately they followed me into adulthood.0 -
My mom insisted we eat breakfast, cause you know, most important meal of the day. We had either waffles drowned in syrup, white rice with sugar syrup(1 egg, 1 cup sugar beaten on low speed an hour or more, light, fluffy, sugary heaven), or cinnamon toast. Never a hint of protein.
Dessert for breakfast all the way.3 -
We used to make sandwiches out of anything, miracle whip, ketchup and mustard. Mother also made butter and onion sandwiches. She cooked all the time so we ate well. I loved when Daddy made SOS: left over roast and gravy on toast like he had in the Air Force. And Nestle's Quik powdered chocolate in milk. Yum!1
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RachelElser wrote: »Dunkaroos. Do they even make them anymore?
A woman at my gym recently told me she was excited for her trip to Canada because it's the only way she can still get Dunkaroos. So, yes, in Canada?2 -
I used to make white bread, bologna, ketchup and mozzarella cheese "pizza bread". It made my mother sick. And I could eat a dozen deviled eggs in a sitting if my parents let me.3
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