What Foods Bring Back Memories Of Your Childhood
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baked beans...I hated them then and I hate them now, the smell alone gags me. My mom was one who believed you had to have a serving (how ever much she heaped on your plate) of everything that was on the table and you had to clean your plate. I hated the smell and taste of baked beans, so I would gag and choke on them, eating them one bean at a time and if I didn't finish the ones on my plate within the allotted time given by my mom, I had to eat them cold the next morning as my breakfast....ahh, childhood memories.
I had never heard of anyone else having to eat it cold for breakfast before. Thought I was the only one. Of course I was anemic as a child so they were trying to get me to eat back then. Years later I still have a hard time leaving anything behind.
As for food memories spaghetti I guess. Still love it. Miss my grandmother's cooking though. She passed in 91' and was Lebanese. She would make this dish of lamb, rice, tomatoes and stuff it in cored out squash. So good. Also her stuffing I've tried to make but never comes out right.
poultry seasoning
celery boiled with juices of turkey
sage
day old bread toasted and cubed
she'd mix it with her hands and bake it
You could eat it cold out of the fridge ( never mushy)0 -
Count Chocula
Dr Pepper
Cheesecake
Shepherd's pie
Mince meat pies
Big macs0 -
Dip N' Lick
Charleston Chew
Artichokes
Banana Bread0 -
Dunkaroos
Black bottom cupcakes
Candy cigarettes
Lemonheads0 -
Black licorice and water.0
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fresh baked bread right from the oven, with butter. My mom used to bake bread every time we'd have a snow storm. We'd come in from shovelling and there'd be hot bread ... YUM.0
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Peyote...0
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Oatmeal - I still like it now, oatmeal anything0
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Fried crappie.
and
Fried crappie.0 -
Twinkies
Mac n Cheese
McDonald's Chicken Nuggets
Banana Gulgula (Indian mini donuts)
Sooji Ka Halwa (Indian style cream of wheat)
Broccoli with melted American cheese0 -
Graham crackers and apple juice
Marshmallows
Mac n cheese
Tootsie pops
Twinkies
Candy corn
...to name a few0 -
Ellios Pizza Squares
Fried Spam Sandwiches
Grandma's oatmeal or farina made with either whole or evaporated milk, sugar, cinnamon stick, and vanilla extract mmm.
Strawberry frosted poptarts
Tang
King Vitamin Cereal
Vienna Sausages
Cheese wiz
Gushers
Peanut Chews
Chick-o-sticks
Homemade deep fried garlic dumplings with red bean stew on those days we didn't have money for anything else, yet somehow it was still the best meal ever.
Cheese pastelillos
Goya flan0 -
When I was a kid my mom used to make three things that at the time I wasn't a fan of, but now that I am grown up (and she has passed away) I really wish I had the chance to have them. I don't know the recipes for them and don't know anyone to ask. They are
Bar-B-Cups ( that one I can get pretty close to - pilsbury buttermilk biscuit cups filled with ground beef mixed with bbq sauce, topped with cheese and baked - pilsbury has it on their website so I make them now sometimes)
Stuffed Flank Steak (I hated the meat part but loved the stuffing - some sort of bread and egg combo - I would put up with the flank steak to have it now)
Split pea soup with ham - there are a lot of recipes on the internet but I just haven't found one that is exactly the same. There was a restaurant that came close but they stopped serving split pea soup.0 -
Fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy, and corn. A regular staple several times a week growing up on a farm.
Took me years after moving to town to eat fried chicken, drink milk (wasn't fresh from the cow anymore) and eat eggs. Ate too many eggs on the farm since we had an abundance. I love them again now.0 -
Biscuits and Gravy
A dinner my mom called "Chicken Confetti". It was a cut up whole chicken pan fried, then cooked for hours in spaghetti sauce. Whole pieces and sauce served over spaghetti.
Poached eggs on toast.0 -
kraft dinner with cut up hot dogs and ketchup stirred in
zoodles/alphagetti eaten with buttered bread
melted cheese on triscuits
dill pickle popcorn
ketchup chips forever
a marshmallow salad my grandma always made
allllllllll Danish food because im half Danish
pushpops
flakies
fruit punch juice boxes0 -
My mom loves to bake and almost any cake/cookie/bread/pastry reminds me of that, but the one that always makes me feel like a little girl is a soft cookie she called "hermit cookies" that are made with cinnamon, raisins, and sour cream. I don't come across them often but sometimes they turn up at potlucks or whatever and I get super excited.0
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1) Corn pops
2) Cinnamon toast (put in the oven on broil, not toasted in a toaster)
3) White rice with soy sauce (ate LOTS of this during rough times)
4) White rice with cream of mushroom soup
5) Sorbet push up pops remind me of the yummy Flintstone ones I used to eat in the summer
6) "Behave Ralph"... that's just what we call it (and to this day still call it that!). We called it that because of the commercial from the 1980's for kielbasa with one character saying to another "behave Ralph!" so whenever my mom made kapusniak (kielbasa, potatoes, carrots and cabbage) we just refer to it as "BEHAVE RALPH!"
7) Every time I see wheat thins I get the urge to make ghetto nachos like I did as a tween
8) BULGOGI. We had Korean neighbors who brought me homemade bulgogi for my 10th birthday. First time I ever tried it and I was hooked thereafter. Before they moved they gave the recipe to my mom
9) Mini pot pies that come in a box
10) "Cheese stuff"... it's a cheese dip that my grandma and my dad make. They just mix a buncha crap in a bowl. Cream cheese, bleu cheese crumbles, feta, worcestershire sauce...my grandma mixes in olives when she makes hers but my dad omits them. Not sure what else they put in it but I definitely need to get the recipe. It's amazing on celery and carrot sticks. They still make it during holiday get togethers. I'd skip the turkey, gravy etc and just eat the cheese stuff !0 -
Tinned irish stew, I used to have it when I came home from school for lunch, tinned rice pudding with bramble jelly jam in it and a local dish called panacalty. Basically sliced potatoes, onion, corned beef, bacon and sausage cooked together with gravy and always mopped up with a ton of white bread! We only had white bread in the 70s, ha!0
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Birds Eye fish fingers - my Dad worked for Birds Eye and money was tight when we were growing up so we ate a lot of Birds Eye foods from the staff shop.
The other one is a bit odd - "hedgehog".
The story was recounted at my Mum's funeral about one of her signature dishes. There would be a big build up before someone new (often a grandchild) was indoctrinated into the delights of Mum's hedgehog. Plenty of viewing of the hedgehog cooking in the oven and tales of how the hedgehog was captured....
It was only revealed at the last minute that the "hedgehog" was actually a mixture of savoury beef mince and mashed potato moulded into the shape of a hedgehog and the "spines" and facial features were made out of bacon.0
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