Flavors of Childhood?

WinoGelato

pancakerunner wrote: »

hanky pankies!

Hmm. What is that?
My husband’s favorite Super Bowl appetizer is what he calls “mini pizzas” which is basically cocktail rye bread baked with a topping comprised of velveeta, cooked pork sausage, and a little bit of tomato sauce all mixed together like a thick chili cheese dip.

I have to say I love them too.. this looks similar from your photo.

pancakerunner

PIZZA HUT DESSERT PIZZA

pancakerunner

WinoGelato wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

hanky pankies!

Hmm. What is that?
My husband’s favorite Super Bowl appetizer is what he calls “mini pizzas” which is basically cocktail rye bread baked with a topping comprised of velveeta, cooked pork sausage, and a little bit of tomato sauce all mixed together like a thick chili cheese dip.

I have to say I love them too.. this looks similar from your photo.

exactly the same... you can get fancy and add some Swiss cheese and ground beef to the mix

seltzermint555

meatloaf and canned green beans with ketchup (on the meatloaf and the green beans)

Not gonna lie, I've had this about 3 times in a week. It's a once-a-year nostalgic thing for me.

mbouchard1234

Melted cheese sandwiches
Peanut butter and banana on toast
Fruit by the foot/gushers gummies
Grilled cheese
Popcorn with real melted butter on top

pancakerunner

seltzermint555 wrote: »

meatloaf and canned green beans with ketchup (on the meatloaf and the green beans)

Not gonna lie, I've had this about 3 times in a week. It's a once-a-year nostalgic thing for me.

This was a childhood favorite for me as well. Green beans and all... with melted butter/

pancakerunner

mbouchard1234 wrote: »

Melted cheese sandwiches
Peanut butter and banana on toast
Fruit by the foot/gushers gummies
Grilled cheese
Popcorn with real melted butter on top

PB and banana toast with honey!

midlomel1971

My mom's tuna noodle casserole (with cream of mushroom soup)....this would be my last meal on earth if I had to pick one. Fruit roll-ups, Rice Krispy Treats, bologna sandwiches (basically a piece of bologna on two pieces of white bread w/ a little mayo), my Grandma's stuffed peppers.

LeannJeffers

My mom was blind and it always amazed me that she could cook/bake and do all the ordinary things a SAHM would do, she has since passed away and I will always miss her cooking. On that note: Mom's hamburger hotdish with crushed up club crackers, Mom's chocolate chip cookies, Kraft Mac & Cheese (Spiral), graham crackers with frosting, Ritz crackers with peanut butter in the middle and dipped in chocolate almond bark (another one of mom's)

pancakerunner

LeannJeffers wrote: »

My mom was blind and it always amazed me that she could cook/bake and do all the ordinary things a SAHM would do, she has since passed away and I will always miss her cooking. On that note: Mom's hamburger hotdish with crushed up club crackers, Mom's chocolate chip cookies, Kraft Mac & Cheese (Spiral), graham crackers with frosting, Ritz crackers with peanut butter in the middle and dipped in chocolate almond bark (another one of mom's)

Emphasis on the spiral mac and cheese haha. Your mom sounded like an amazing human.

Noreenmarie1234

LeannJeffers wrote: »

My mom was blind and it always amazed me that she could cook/bake and do all the ordinary things a SAHM would do, she has since passed away and I will always miss her cooking. On that note: Mom's hamburger hotdish with crushed up club crackers, Mom's chocolate chip cookies, Kraft Mac & Cheese (Spiral), graham crackers with frosting, Ritz crackers with peanut butter in the middle and dipped in chocolate almond bark (another one of mom's)

That is amazing! Funny I ONLY liked spiral Mac and cheese as a kid. It was the only kind I would eat. I was certain it tasted completely different from the regular one. I still prefer spirals.

SuzySunshine99

For the olive-haters:

brittanystebbins95

Tomato soup & grilled cheese
Corned beef hash with eggs and bacon
Strawberry rhubarb crisp
Zucchini bread
Ham and butter sandwiches (my great grandma would feed them to us every time we went to visit, they were sooo good!)
Cinnamon rolls from the package that exploded and scared the crap out of you when you twisted it to open
Breakfast sausage links rolled up in pork sausage
Spamwiches (these sound gross, I promise they are amazing... I still love them to this day, the only way I will eat spam. You put spam, onion, and cheese through a meat grinder together, spread it onto hamburger buns, and broil them open faced in the oven until they're dark brown... so good)
Bologna spread (it was some kind of spread made with super finely chopped bologna, mayo, pickle relish, and who knows what else, but we took it on every single canoe trip)

pancakerunner

pancakerunner

Noreenmarie1234

Bags of bulk candy from the bins at the grocery store. That was such a treat. Especially before going to the movies We’d go and get bags of cheap bulk candy.

PAPYRUS3

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

Bags of bulk candy from the bins at the grocery store. That was such a treat. Especially before going to the movies We’d go and get bags of cheap bulk candy.

This was so not my experience...my mom would bring treats in her bag😪

NewLIFEstyle4ME

When I was growing up, eating out and/or eating "fast foods" and even frozen foods was never a regular situation for us. We used to eat out or enjoy fast foods every few months or so, or even a few times per year or on a special occasion only. The reason we didn't eat out regular nor eat frozen foods (called frozen dinners back in the day), was because my parent used to tell us when we'd ask if we could have some for dinner (like many of our friends did), they would say "eating frozen foods, eating out at restaurants often and eating fast foods regularly is for "rich" folk". My mother was a homemaker/SAHM and cooked everything from scratch. She told us it was cheaper and better for us to eat home cooked meals and that was as they say, THAT!

Much like how different it is today to have wooden floors in your home/apartment (instead of having carpeting) were for "poor folk"...back then, rich peeps (or peeps with money to spare/burn had carpeting ). Having wooden floors back then was actually kinda of embarrassing and again, a sign of poverty...we had wooden floors--we couldn't afford carpeting. It's amazing how time changes. We used to joke about paying for water or air (from gas stations)…paying for/selling/buying water and air was something that we honestly believed could NEVER happen in a million years. Also, back in the day, if you came outside with wrinkled clothes on, with dirty looking clothes on (called "distressed” look today) and/or had holes in your clothes, people felt sorry for you AND stayed away from you, because coming out in public looking like that was a sign of mental illness and/or a sign that something was very wrong with you. Wow--how times have changed! Also back then, only sailors/marines (and/or "tough" military guys), bikers, gang members, criminals/jail inmates, "ladies of the night" (as we used to call them) and such had tattoos. Tattoos for so-called "regular folk" or to express so-called "body-art" for "the average Joe" was unheard of. Even pierced ears was looked at with a "side-eye" back then—up until around the mid-70’s did pierced ears come into vogue—definitely something me and my friends had to ask permission from our parents to do/get.

That said...here's some stuff we used to be thrilled/a super treat to get eat for dinner, that was the exception to the rule of home-cooked from scratch (breakfast, lunch and dinners) daily.

Chinese Food (maybe we'd have this once every few months or so)
Shrimp fried Rice:

Shrimp egg foo yung


Shrimp w/black bean and lobster sauce:

Egg rolls w/hot mustard sauce

Katmary71

I loved hot dog Spaghetti Os as a kid though I rarely had hot dogs. My favorite dinner was a Hamburger Helper taco casserole, it was so good!

lightenup2016

Actual homemade Chex mix
Twinkies
Those sticky, chewy peanut butter candies at Halloween
Fake mint edible cigarettes
Dinosaur egg jawbreakers