Flavors of Childhood?

PIZZA HUT DESSERT PIZZA

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.

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/

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 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.

For the olive-haters:

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.

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

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

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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😪

We didn't have bulk candy like that in our grocery stores but we had a bulk candy store in the mall and it was VERY expensive. Like four or five individual Haribo peaches would be a dollar (in 1989!)...forget about anything caramel or chocolate, we couldn't afford it. So my friends and I would walk to grocery stores or dollar shops to get candy to sneak into the theater.

We'd always get icees and sour gummy worms at the theater haha

seltzermint555 wrote: »

PAPYRUS3 wrote: »

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😪

We didn't have bulk candy like that in our grocery stores but we had a bulk candy store in the mall and it was VERY expensive. Like four or five individual Haribo peaches would be a dollar (in 1989!)...forget about anything caramel or chocolate, we couldn't afford it. So my friends and I would walk to grocery stores or dollar shops to get candy to sneak into the theater.

We never got theatre candy because it was too expensive. The bulk candy bins at the store were super cheap and we had a penny candy store which was just tons of bulk bins!

Mom also would pop 2 bags of popcorn and put under the front of her jacket pretending she was just pregnant 😅

Homemade snow cones and ice cream