Flavors of Childhood?
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Ironwoman2219 wrote: »Chocobananas! 😋
Its a good thing you told us what those were.2 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »A weird childhood flavor to enjoy, but I remember sorrel soup. We only had sorrel seasonally, and the season didn't last long so it was special. Green almonds and green chickpeas, too, for the same reasons.
A more "normal" flavor of childhood: I had white bread, with a sprinkle of granulated sugar in a bowl, then milk is carefully poured in as to not completely dissolve the sugar. The bread was creamy, the sugar was crunchy, and the milk was.. well, milk, I love milk. A similar one was biscotti crushed into a bowl then tea poured on top and eaten with a spoon.
Makes me think of wood sorrel. Back when I was 4 ( I was attempting a cartwheel, only that my mum's sisters had left the clothes line low, which was invisible in the dark. My arm got caught and the sheer force of my body snapped my arm, much to my father and grandfather's utter shock. Lol) and broke my forearm, my mum's mother would boil up a huge pot of it in bone broth to help heal my bone.1 -
My grandma used to make me cinnamon toast but she called it "special toast" and she also put powdered sugar on them. Special toast and bacon (not together) were the key highlights of my trips to grandmas house.
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Ironwoman2219 wrote: »Chocobananas! 😋
My favourite banana dessert was butter pan fried cinnamon bananas.
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When I was a teen (eons ago) my high school had a program where you could work for a free lunch by being a cafeteria food server. Those of us who couldn't afford to pay for lunches did this. The milk machine was the elite job, haha. Anyway, the head woman employed by the school cafeteria was this incredible older lady who used to sweep the state fair every year with cakes, pies, bread, jams, jellies, etc. She made these delicious peanut butter brownies that the school served almost every day. (Probably why I am on MFP now). In the summers, she drove a school bus that would pick up kids to go to strawberry farms and pick berries for money. Which I did. She was such a wonderful person, she gave me the recipes for her peanut butter bars, her hot buttered strawberry jam, and on the side after school one day taught me how to make those decorated sugar easter eggs with the hole in one end and a little scene inside. I still have and treasure her recipes.
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You know what's sad? The kids of today's "flavors of childhood" are going to be Halo Top and chobani and Perfect bars haha5
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quiksylver296 wrote: »My grandma made graham cracker/frosting "sandwiches" for us, and hot jello to drink when we were sick. Oh, and cinnamon toast.
(When I went looking for a image for cinnamon toast, I found it in a recipe site. Who in the kitten needs a recipe for cinnamon toast?!? :laugh:)
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Fresh fish every week since my dad would fish every weekend. We live in Australia but sometimes it was perogi with cabbage and bacon or potato and cheese, cabbage rolls,borscht and potato pancakes since mum was from Ukraine.4
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I don't eat fish or hot peppers anymore, but I could certainly increase the amount of coconut cheese and substitute the fish requirement with shredded chicken (poached) in chimichurri sauce and maybe a healthy dose of lemon pepper too. It would certainly hit the same memory bank notes.
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pancakerunner wrote: »You know what's sad? The kids of today's "flavors of childhood" are going to be Halo Top and chobani and Perfect bars haha
Oh man that is kind of sad! A lot of my friends' kids are addicted to all sorts of snacks from the Asian market and I can see them remembering Pocky, seaweed snacks, sesame & botan rice candy, etc.0 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »You know what's sad? The kids of today's "flavors of childhood" are going to be Halo Top and chobani and Perfect bars haha
Oh man that is kind of sad! A lot of my friends' kids are addicted to all sorts of snacks from the Asian market and I can see them remembering Pocky, seaweed snacks, sesame & botan rice candy, etc.
So the funny thing about that is that all that stuff is stuff that I grew up on! Because I'm japanese and from hawaii (which has a huge asian influence) all those things were things that were totally normal snacks to me and my friends!!!2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »You know what's sad? The kids of today's "flavors of childhood" are going to be Halo Top and chobani and Perfect bars haha
Children in this area enjoy Mexican or Asian inspired snacks and drinks. All manner of yoghurt styled snacks. Think most adults, no matter your race in SoCal has their versions of Mexicana or Asiacana eats ( adapted exotic dishes customized to American palates).
Mangonada and street style Mexican fruit cups
Street tacos and carne asada fries
Takis & Flamin' Cheetos
Seaweed, seaweed and nuts combos
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I'm showing my age (and probably my nationality!), but the things I remember are
- herrings in oatmeal, fried
- potatoes in oatmeal with butter
- salty porridge
- oranges with sugar
- shelling peas
- stovies
- tablet
- treacle toffee
- Arbroath smokies
- mutton pies
- raspberries and brambles
- Tudor crisps
- butteries/rowies
- rhubarb tarts
- Angel Delight and Bird's Dream Topping
- evaporated milk and tinned fruit
The list goes on and on!5 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »You know what's sad? The kids of today's "flavors of childhood" are going to be Halo Top and chobani and Perfect bars haha
Oh man that is kind of sad! A lot of my friends' kids are addicted to all sorts of snacks from the Asian market and I can see them remembering Pocky, seaweed snacks, sesame & botan rice candy, etc.
So the funny thing about that is that all that stuff is stuff that I grew up on! Because I'm japanese and from hawaii (which has a huge asian influence) all those things were things that were totally normal snacks to me and my friends!!!
That's seriously cool! I never tried any of that stuff until my 20s at least - but my friends' kids are exposed to it even as these little Midwestern children and of course the greater Asian culture influence they have from manga, anime, video games, etc...so they're all about it!2 -
I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
pomegranates make me cringe... the open spores. I have trypophobia and the seeds remind me of maggots.2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
pomegranates make me cringe... the open spores. I have trypophobia and the seeds remind me of maggots.
Wow...sorry about your "trypophobia" I had to look it up. I'll be thinking of BLOODY (added that just because the juice and drips can look like BLOOD) cringy maggots as I devour my/a BIG OLE HUGE one tonight--hmmmmmm
. Thanks for sharing and best wishes for/with your illness(es).
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
Ooh I loved them too! Although I ended up eating them over the sink because they squirted juice.0 -
pancakerunner wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
pomegranates make me cringe... the open spores. I have trypophobia and the seeds remind me of maggots.
😂 I can’t eat pomegranates. They make my stomach sick for some reason. I’m glad now though because I’ll never be able to look at one without seeing maggots.0 -
NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
I do too. Our tree in the backyard frosted out. I shall get my sister to trek to the upper groves and check a few trees there. Hopefully, they survived. Hit and miss with fruit trees this year. If we find some, I shall post our haul.1 -
pancakerunner wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »I LOVED these as a child and still LOVE them now and they are super in season and just a good as when I was a wee little one:
pomegranates make me cringe... the open spores. I have trypophobia and the seeds remind me of maggots.
Seeing jiggers isn't exactly appetising.1 -
My dad made the BEST Baba ganoush which we ate with fried yucca or thinly sliced taro (dasheen) my mother fried up. Perfect Sunday afternoon snack whilst reading our books or buttoning up homework.2 -
pancakerunner wrote: »seltzermint555 wrote: »pancakerunner wrote: »
I don't remember the cup art but the top and product, yep! I got this only 1-2 times from the ice cream truck but loved it.
@seltzermint555
This was the brand sold in all Pacific island tuckshops in the 60's to 80's. Treats were phased out in the 90's to the present by the governments in favour of real cooked food.
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*sigh* Flavors from my childhood...
Some of them seem so disgusting now lol but back then I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
Peanut Butter Ring Dings
Devil Dogs
homemade lemon meringue pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie
Christmas cookies with frosting
spice cake with peanut butter frosting
Hmmm, seeing a sugar trend here.
and my mom's potato salad(never tasted another that could compare)
my mom's Thanksgiving dinners
Yeh, I definitely grew up during the Kool-Aid and Twinkie years. Horrible horrible way of eating.0 -
*sigh* Flavors from my childhood...
Some of them seem so disgusting now lol but back then I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
Peanut Butter Ring Dings
Devil Dogs
homemade lemon meringue pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie
Christmas cookies with frosting
spice cake with peanut butter frosting
Hmmm, seeing a sugar trend here.
and my mom's potato salad(never tasted another that could compare)
my mom's Thanksgiving dinners
Yeh, I definitely grew up during the Kool-Aid and Twinkie years. Horrible horrible way of eating.
I read that as "Kool-Aid Twinkies" and was honestly curious... now I'm picturing kool-aid soaked twinkies.0 -
Thinking back, my family ate a lot of Little Debbie snack cakes. Oatmeal creme pies, zebra cakes, strawberry short cake rolls, fudge brownies, nutty buddy, swiss rolls, pumpkin delights. Even though the honey buns seemed popular, we never had those. I assume my mother didn't like them.
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RelCanonical wrote: »Thinking back, my family ate a lot of Little Debbie snack cakes. Oatmeal creme pies, zebra cakes, strawberry short cake rolls, fudge brownies, nutty buddy, swiss rolls, pumpkin delights. Even though the honey buns seemed popular, we never had those. I assume my mother didn't like them.
Dang... now I want a zebra cake0
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