What food/drink did you love when you were a child, but can't stomach now?
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Hot dogs, cold straight from the fridge.2
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mcdonalds chicken nuggets. Yuck.1
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Nestle strawberry milk, ANY little debbies, captain crunch with crunch berries, count chocula... we never got any of these b/c they were name brand and expense for 5 kids...but when we did we ate and drank like there was no tomorrow
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Bologna. I ate a bologna sandwich I think almost everyday growing up with mustard and white bread.
Tried one 15ish years ago and yuck!2 -
I used to love all the little frozen things, like pizza rolls and such. And things like rice-a-roni. I think they're so gross now.
Wow this reminds me of a recent conversation. There use to be these round toaster pizzas. Similar to pizza rolls, but designed for the toaster. I loved them when I was a kid. You can't find them anymore. The closest thing is a pizza hot pocket, which is not the same.
Rice-a-Roni (and noodle-roni) are just too salty for me anymore.2 -
bigbandjohn wrote: »I used to love all the little frozen things, like pizza rolls and such. And things like rice-a-roni. I think they're so gross now.
Wow this reminds me of a recent conversation. There use to be these round toaster pizzas. Similar to pizza rolls, but designed for the toaster. I loved them when I was a kid. You can't find them anymore. The closest thing is a pizza hot pocket, which is not the same.
Rice-a-Roni (and noodle-roni) are just too salty for me anymore.
i actually made some rice-a-roni recently, within the last few months. some other brand maybe. I took one bite and couldn't eat anymore. It was like pure salt lol1 -
leanjogreen18 wrote: »Bologna. I ate a bologna sandwich I think almost everyday growing up with mustard and white bread.
Tried one 15ish years ago and yuck!
One of the most common lunches my mom packed for me in grade school was Oscar Meyer bologna with a slice of kraft american cheese on a potato roll. Loved it. I'm not big on Oscar Meyer bologna anymore, but some good deli Boars Head bologna with cheddar cheese on sourdough? I would jump at that in a second!4 -
Banana yoghurt and banana milkshake. I used to have at least one of each every single day. Now I throw up 20 minutes after eating them! I don't know why they randomly don't agree with me anymore3
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bigbandjohn wrote: »I used to love all the little frozen things, like pizza rolls and such. And things like rice-a-roni. I think they're so gross now.
Wow this reminds me of a recent conversation. There use to be these round toaster pizzas. Similar to pizza rolls, but designed for the toaster. I loved them when I was a kid. You can't find them anymore. The closest thing is a pizza hot pocket, which is not the same.
Rice-a-Roni (and noodle-roni) are just too salty for me anymore.
i actually made some rice-a-roni recently, within the last few months. some other brand maybe. I took one bite and couldn't eat anymore. It was like pure salt lol
I make rice-a-roni and similar sometimes. I just use only half of the "seasoning packet" and it's not too salty.1 -
I've been trying to think of one, but I think I'd pretty much eat anything I would eat as a kid. Not that I would make the same choices now because some aren't the best for diet/nutrition, but from a palette perspective, I would still enjoy it all.
My palette has gone the other way. There are a ton of things now that I enjoy that I wouldn't have been able to stomach as a kid. Avocados, pretty much any spicy food, salads, cake, and a whole bunch else I enjoy now that I wouldn't have touched back then.
My palate has expanded as well. I remember not liking cheese as a kid.
Mom didn't serve spicy food. Or Ultra Processed food. I miss her granola. I don't miss having to grind wheat berries to make flour. Or having goats for milk. I just don't drink milk. I didn't LOVE it as a kid, but never developed a taste for cow's milk as an adult.1 -
Canned pasta, I loved the ravioli and spagettios from a can as a kid. Can't handle them now.
Also hamburger helper.
Part of it might be my mom cooked a lot of prepackaged foods and I cook mostly from scratch now.
Oh eggs, I literally can't stomach eggs, they make me sick for days after I eat one.1 -
Little Debbie snack cakes, apple juice, totinos pizzas, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and grilled cheeses with just kraft American cheese.1
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Chef_Barbell wrote: »Mayo sandwiches. Ugh why?
I remember as a preteen or maybe early teenage age putting mayonnaise on popcorn & other times mustard. Now I look back & think WTF was wrong with you?
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CentaurusSoter wrote: »I think a lot of these items were what we were told we should like as kids of the 80s or 90s. All the advertising made it seem like not having these foods meant you were a loser with a poor lunch. I've gone back and checked nutritional info on a bunch of things.. and it's bad. Just look at any extreme burgers, pizzas, fried on the go foods we ate. No wonder people like me have weight issues. Even the fruit drinks back then were just softdrinks in disguise. Sunny D, Bunnybread, most Kraft things at kid-height.. our cereals, which of course needed a metric ton of sugar, marshmallows, and chocolate. IF you want to have a lifetime sugar addict, that's how you could do it. Fruit roll ups, gushers, sourblasters, etc etc etc.christschild2 wrote: »WATERMELON. THEY AREN'T THE SAME AS THE ONES THAT HAD SEEDS. NOT AS SWEET AND HAVE TO PICK ALL THOSE LITTLE SEED SHELLS OUT. I DON'T LIKE EATING THEM. AND JELLO. I FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAS. AND LET ME NOT FORGET GRAPE KOOL-AID. THANKS TO JIM JONES.
That wasn't kool-aid brand if I remember right.
Ugh Sunny D is another product I loved as a kid & had a few years ago & couldn't stand it. Not sure if it was from it being sickly sweet or just the taste.1 -
I used to crunch up a bowl of saltine crackers, pour Ranch dressing all over it, stir it and eat it with a spoon. The thought completely repulses me now.1
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They used to serve government cheese when I was in elementary school. I loved it.
Vanilla milk, which was whole milk, artificial vanilla extract and sugar stirred together.
Chef Boy Ardee ravioli
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I used to melt American cheese on Doritos... now as an adult that just sounds so wrong.1
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One of the most common lunches my mom packed for me in grade school was Oscar Meyer bologna with a slice of kraft american cheese on a potato roll. Loved it. I'm not big on Oscar Meyer bologna anymore, but some good deli Boars Head bologna with cheddar cheese on sourdough? I would jump at that in a second!
The bologna needs to be fried, with mustard in addition to the cheddar cheese. Sometimes known as a redneck steak & cheese sandwich.
Now, blood sausage is a different matter - used to love it as a kid (boiled, then fried, served with crusty bread and boiled potatoes), not so sure how I'd feel about it today.
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One of the most common lunches my mom packed for me in grade school was Oscar Meyer bologna with a slice of kraft american cheese on a potato roll. Loved it. I'm not big on Oscar Meyer bologna anymore, but some good deli Boars Head bologna with cheddar cheese on sourdough? I would jump at that in a second!
The bologna needs to be fried, with mustard in addition to the cheddar cheese. Sometimes known as a redneck steak & cheese sandwich.
Now, blood sausage is a different matter - used to love it as a kid (boiled, then fried, served with crusty bread and boiled potatoes), not so sure how I'd feel about it today.
My kitchen is a "no fry zone" for bologna. My mom used to cook it and stink up the whole house. Ugh and bleh.
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One of the most common lunches my mom packed for me in grade school was Oscar Meyer bologna with a slice of kraft american cheese on a potato roll. Loved it. I'm not big on Oscar Meyer bologna anymore, but some good deli Boars Head bologna with cheddar cheese on sourdough? I would jump at that in a second!
The bologna needs to be fried, with mustard in addition to the cheddar cheese. Sometimes known as a redneck steak & cheese sandwich.
Now, blood sausage is a different matter - used to love it as a kid (boiled, then fried, served with crusty bread and boiled potatoes), not so sure how I'd feel about it today.
My kitchen is a "no fry zone" for bologna. My mom used to cook it and stink up the whole house. Ugh and bleh.
I personally love the smell lol3 -
Chef_Barbell wrote: »One of the most common lunches my mom packed for me in grade school was Oscar Meyer bologna with a slice of kraft american cheese on a potato roll. Loved it. I'm not big on Oscar Meyer bologna anymore, but some good deli Boars Head bologna with cheddar cheese on sourdough? I would jump at that in a second!
The bologna needs to be fried, with mustard in addition to the cheddar cheese. Sometimes known as a redneck steak & cheese sandwich.
Now, blood sausage is a different matter - used to love it as a kid (boiled, then fried, served with crusty bread and boiled potatoes), not so sure how I'd feel about it today.
My kitchen is a "no fry zone" for bologna. My mom used to cook it and stink up the whole house. Ugh and bleh.
I personally love the smell lol
There are plenty of smelly things that I actually love the scent of but that one...nope.
I do enjoy some bologna though!1 -
When I was a kid, my mom would make bologna and eggs. Fried chopped up bologna and onion in butter, beaten eggs poured over and scramble the whole thing. I loved it, but unfortunately I became intolerant to eggs
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Kraft macaroni and cheese, the one in the box made with powdered cheese.1
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I used to melt American cheese on Doritos... now as an adult that just sounds so wrong.
Even as an adult (haven't done this recently though) I would take a jar of salsa & usually shredded mozzarella cheese or taco blend cheese & nuke it in the microwave for a few minutes. Sometimes I would forget & the cheese would get a bit hard/crispy. I would then take a bunch of tortilla chips & dip it in the cheesy mixture.2 -
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kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »I used to melt American cheese on Doritos... now as an adult that just sounds so wrong.
Even as an adult (haven't done this recently though) I would take a jar of salsa & usually shredded mozzarella cheese or taco blend cheese & nuke it in the microwave for a few minutes. Sometimes I would forget & the cheese would get a bit hard/crispy. I would then take a bunch of tortilla chips & dip it in the cheesy mixture.
^that sounds pretty good honestly. As a young teen, I would often melt a thin layer of mozzarella on a plate to the perfect consistency without burning and then peel it off and eat it. My parents wouldn't buy string cheese so hey, that kind of worked. The weird thing about that (looking back) is I thought it was like super decadent, high calorie, guilty pleasure snack, etc, and I bet I wasn't eating more than 1 oz of cheese!
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seltzermint555 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »I used to melt American cheese on Doritos... now as an adult that just sounds so wrong.
Even as an adult (haven't done this recently though) I would take a jar of salsa & usually shredded mozzarella cheese or taco blend cheese & nuke it in the microwave for a few minutes. Sometimes I would forget & the cheese would get a bit hard/crispy. I would then take a bunch of tortilla chips & dip it in the cheesy mixture.
^that sounds pretty good honestly. As a young teen, I would often melt a thin layer of mozzarella on a plate to the perfect consistency without burning and then peel it off and eat it. My parents wouldn't buy string cheese so hey, that kind of worked. The weird thing about that (looking back) is I thought it was like super decadent, high calorie, guilty pleasure snack, etc, and I bet I wasn't eating more than 1 oz of cheese!
Yeah! In recent memory, I've done this with real (not canned) finely-grated parmesan cheese. Sprinkle light layer on plate, microwave until crisp, blot any non-essential oil that's escaped, and eat the resulting delicious crispy protein thingie. Lots of happy for surprisingly modest calories, because it doesn't take much cheese. Now you can buy a similar product all made up, in bags.2
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