Flavors of Childhood?

bear2303 wrote: »

NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »

I remember sometime, on Friday nights...we used to have "hot dogs and popcorn" for dinner! We used to boil and then roast hot dogs over the flame of our gas stove and then pop some popcorn on the stove top (on the stove...microwaves weren't invented then) put salt and butter on the popcorn and wash it down with kool-aid --roasted hot dogs and popcorn was THE BEST dinner!

Oh my goodness you just reminded me that when i was a kiddo my mom would take us to the movies and occasionally we'd get to have hotdogs and popcorn for dinner! We didn't make it at home ever but the combo of hot dogs and popcorn is totally amazing!

Nice, cold can of condensed milk that was sitting in the fridge for a while. Make two holes on the top, and sip away. And pan fried hot dogs. French toast.

Another thing this thread inspired me to think of ( that I haven't thought of in YEARS)...

Salt pork
When I was a child, sometimes instead of bacon, we'd have "salt pork" and I LOVED it (and hadn't thought of it nor has any in YEARS!). We would let the salt pork boil in a lot of water for a long time and then fry it...it looked like this (before and after)

Potato and cheese perogi with fried onions and sour cream. Borscht. Potato pancakes. Peas and plums picked from my grandparents garden.

Nougat bars. The Summer roll was my favourite.

pancakerunner wrote: »

I recently had a craving for spaghetti-o's so bought a can and they've changed the recipe 😭

pancakerunner wrote: »

Mmmmmm yesss. I am craving corn dogs now. I went through a phase where I'd have 3-4 corndogs dipped in mustard every day when I got home from school, lol.

pancakerunner wrote: »

I LOVED Apple jacks as a kid...the box looked like this back then:




We only ate cereal on Saturday's (My mother cooked/prepared our food/all of our meals, all the time or as we got older we cooked stuff--rarely eating out or rarely eating stuff that didn't need to be cooked/prepared ourselves), we only ate cereal on the day we "wanted" to stay inside (Saturday's until noon, and that was when we watched tv/Saturday morning cartoons), other than that...we had to be on "death's door" (super sick), OR on "pains of death" as PUNISHMENT (for something we did wrong)--staying inside was absolutely a "punishment" of some sort back when I was a child. We NEVER wanted to stay inside and not go outside to play--EVER.

We weren't really allowed to nor did we want to be/stay at home during the daytime (spring, summer, fall or winter) FOR ANY REASON ( if we were "dautling" inside--my mother would tell us "go outside and play")--this wasn't an question/suggestion--it was a command, other than sickness--even homework was done in the evening AFTER coming in from playing during weekdays. Rain, snow, sleet or hail wouldn't keep us kids inside...we were outside playing no matter the weather or at someone's (other than our own) house playing--even when at someone's house playing, we didn't/wouldn't stay in over someone else's house playing all day either. WE WENT OUTSIDE TO PLAY ALL THE TIME. We stayed "outside" playing until the lights came on-- we went (HAD TO) go outside to play ALL the time, and if it was really inclement weather--we would go to someone else's house and visa versa at our home, as I think of it...we (my friends, siblings, parents, etc.) were RARELY sick as well.

Everyday but Saturday's we would mainly ate either bacon/sausage, eggs, piece of fruit, toast, or oatmeal/cream of wheat/malt-o-meal/grits, boiled eggs, piece of fruit, regular or raisin toast with butter and jelly, and every once in a while we had orange juice with our breakfast, other than that, water (from the tap).

This was one of my ALL time favorite Saturday morning cereals, period. Also this was second & third best:





On RARE occasion, my parents would "splurge" and get us these most coveted cereals for Saturdays: