Flavors of Childhood?

MoxyLeigh wrote: »

Somebody just had to say choco taco...

not a fan!

Fire roasted ripened breadfruit and its toasty earthy seeds. My maternal grandfather would treat us to his roasts on his breadfruit farm or from his 6 trees he brought via seedlings when he moved to the City when he bought his home near the University in 1970 when my mum was accepted as one of the pioneer students, because we were always so good at guarding the trees saved for export harvests and not for subsistence uses, with our sling shots, keeping those pesky fruit bats away. I preferred it over chocolate or ice cream or Indian shaved ice.

777Gemma888 wrote: »

My maternal grandfather always planted sugarcane in his city backyard lot. Pre tropical cyclones or hurricanes, the temperatures are excessively hot. This was usually when we would trim the bush and slice off the sugarcane. You would then use your teeth to peel off the outer layer of barky waxy skin. You need to bite chunks off, then chew through extracting juices into your mouth, discarding the cordages and intermittent hard inedible stumps.

Girl you just gave me major nostalgia.

SuzySunshine99 wrote: »

I was the weird kid who never liked these.

Government cheese. Lots of my siblings turned up their noses at it, which meant more for me! I loved grilled cheese made with that cheese and pickles (usually homemade pickles).

My dad's homemade root beer - made with real cane sugar, I bet.

Snack cakes have always been my kryptonite - they are the one food I never eat now - but I remember the original Drake brand (before the name was sold to someone else) as being some of the best and whoever made the Banana Flip was a genius.

Fresh peas, pods included, from my grandmother's garden. I would eat any vegetable straight from the garden if no one stopped me, but her peas we're magic.

Blackberries picked while out roaming - so good!

Tuna spaghetti with green olives! My favorite of my mom's meals.

I don't actually like those Trolli peach gummi candies but OMG the Haribo ones...such a favorite. In junior high school, my friends and I would get dropped off at the mall on Friday nights and buy them in bulk and have them for dinner. We spent the food money our parents gave us on cassettes and cds.

seltzermint555 wrote: »

I don't actually like those Trolli peach gummi candies but OMG the Haribo ones...such a favorite. In junior high school, my friends and I would get dropped off at the mall on Friday nights and buy them in bulk and have them for dinner. We spent the food money our parents gave us on cassettes and cds.

That reminds me of these...

JennJ323 wrote: »

I would put 8 nacho cheese Doritos on a plate, take 2 slices of American cheese and break them each into fours, top each Dorito with a piece and microwave til just melty. I loved that!

Omgosh I forgot about that, similar. I remember melting cheese on some cracker, maybe saltines

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

pancakerunner wrote: »

That reminds me I used to have eggos with ONLY butter all the time. Couldn't find a photo of just buttered eggos so this plain one will have to do. But I would but so much butter on it and then microwave for additional few seconds after toasting so it the pockets were filled with melted butter and it was swimming in it.

Same! But with maple syrup too... ahh. I love eggos! I used to eat them frozen too...

Never heard of cinnamon toast till this thread!

My mum made the best chicken liver pate (I didn't realise it was because no one else wanted chicken liver and it was really cheap ) I now realise how much butter goes in to pate

Buying a quarter lb of bonbons, cola cubes or apple drops. Or if I wasn't flush with money, some 1/2 penny or penny sweets - agonising over how many of each you wanted, black jacks, fruit salad, flying saucers, white chocolate mice, etc...

Fighting over the cream from the top of a bottle of milk (milk was non-homogonised so the cream rose to top, sold in glass bottles, dropped to your door by the milkman) to add to a mashed banana.