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What foods remind you of your childhood?

Posted by VampireFaust • 6/07/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: childhood, food, memories

I was just thinking of that this afternoon...what foods remind you of your childhood? For me it's cream of wheat (the ultimate poor family's breakfast...and we were POOR!), spaghetti and pastitsio...

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6/07/07

Anniepooh

Grandma's Chocolate Cake, ice cream with pb and Hershey's syrup (from a CAN), and mom's burgers.

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6/07/07

BlogCompetition

Got to be egg custards or having a full roast at my nanas which I still do today, in the same living room sat on the same chair

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6/07/07

Lainey

In the summertime fresh corn on the cob, a huge plate of home grown tomatoes, and my Dad grilling the hamburgers :-)

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6/07/07

robinj

Vegemite on weetbix cereal

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  *blink* *trying to imagine what that tastes like!* LOL!
6/08/07

cheftom

peanut butter & jelly :-p

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6/08/07

werelax

soup and grilled cheese

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  Grilled cheese is a good one too...
  My dad also used to make these awesome peanutbutter and honey with sliced banana sandwiches on this crazy sprouted hippie bread...ah, the memories.
6/08/07

Jaya

Interesting question, and
odd that I am not able to
think of anything... except
maybe ratatouie- I think my
Dad used to make that. Oh,
wait, now I remember something-
the tuna sandwiches I got over
at my best friend's house. Mmm,
I loved those! And no other
tuna sandwiches have ever
tasted quite as good...

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6/08/07

Serenacyh

Soya sauce fried chicken. My grandmother's recipe. Though I don't think it is possible to eat it now that she has passed on.

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6/08/07

TonyB

Biltong & Boerevors

Anyone have similar memories?

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  What's that?
2. 10/09/08
  
  SweetViolet
  
  My husband loves his boerewors, especially the Grabouw variety!
3. 10/09/08
  
  SweetViolet
  
  Biltong is South African for jerky...dried meat.
  
  Boerewors is a kind of sausage, but it is much more than that!
6/08/07

suburbqueen

I'm with cheftom...pb&j. Ugh!

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6/08/07

diamondssaphire

Lasagna...my mom made it for me every year for mt b-day.

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6/08/07

theliterate

Cashews

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6/08/07

Anniepooh

Gabrielle! Do you mind if I ask this over at my cooking blog? I know my readers would totally love it.

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  Of course! It would be a great question for your blog.
6/08/07

dedmond29

Canned Peas - I couldn't stand canned peas when I was a child and we had them at least once a week. The funny thing is, I am pretty certain my parents didn't like them as well, because I haven't seen them in their house since I left for college! They were just looking to feed the right things to their children (sniff ;-)).

Mind you, there were many other good things too, like lasagna and a great chili recipe.

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6/08/07

ThriftShopRomantic

Capri Suns in the foil packets. Where you try to put the straw in and inadvertently end up shooting punch across the table at your lunch buddies. :-)

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6/08/07

2WriteHands

PB&J. At 27, I sometimes buy those uncrustable sandwiches for my lunch, just so I can reminisce.

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  LOL!
6/08/07

mrsnesbitt

Peasepudding! I remember being about 7 at infant school. I liked peasepudding (then) and one day we had it for dinner, with baked beans, chips and pie. As nobody else liked it, I swopped my beans, chips and pie for their pease pudding. I was left with a huge pile of pease pudding.....which I ate, every last bit! Well a stomach full of pease pudding in an active 7 year old is not a good idea! For the 7 year old or anybody in a 2 mile radius! I did not eat pease pudding again for over 20 years! LOL! Wild yet so true!

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6/08/07

BuurTilleen

Potatoes! I was a champion in peeling hot potatoes. Then every time I see Swedish crisp bread it brings back memories of summer days on the beach: the bread had gone all soft and wobbly. Oh and one more memory from the school canteen: black blood pudding - loved it!

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6/08/07

jacks

Jam, bread and jam. Cream crackers with butter sliced from a block. Sausages swimming in real lard. Potatoes from the garden. Goosegoggs stolen from someonelse's garden. Jammy dodgers, nibbled all the way around until only the jam bit remained. Bon-Bons and Sweet Peanuts bought by the quarter.

Ahhh the memories.

Now its stewed cabbage and soggy soup.

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6/08/07

forveterans49

I remember eating squash for a whole week due to my mother being laid off from her job. I hated it for years and now have grown to love it. On certain tv nights, mom would serve us popcorn with thin slices of radishes and it was good. We were poor and therefore, had hamburgers and things of that order. My mom worked hard most of her life and would come home tired and didn't always want to be in the kitchen so...we would go out to eat at restaurants often. One place we went I would get mashed potatoes with chicken gravy and that was heaven.

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  I hear ya on the squash thing too. My mom was unemployed for a LONG time and we ate squash casserole for weeks. And mac and cheese with beans. LOL! Going out to eat was a major luxury back then.
6/08/07

rogueprofessor

I remember, as a reservation Indian, eating beans and cornbread, corn, more beans, squash, pumpkin, cattail stalks,potatoes cooked every way, and fry bread. And when the US Govt decided to let us have rations--cans of chipped beef and gravy (which always gave us the "runs").
Now, I eat everything except chipped beef and gravy.

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  Hey...great blogs! Loved the "Kooky things you hear your bosses say" post!
2. 6/08/07
  
  Anniepooh
  
  I've heard tell that cattails are edible...this is the first I've heard a real person mention it.
6/08/07

jerrydrussell

Beans, cornbread and Fried potatoes. that's home cookin' Still is to this day.

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1. 6/08/07
  
  Anniepooh
  
  Are you a southern boy or a mountain man? Neither? My mama is from Indiana and we ate lots of beans and cornbread.
2. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  man...i'm getting hungry now...
3. 10/09/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  Oooh, I hear 'ya! My mom still makes cornbread, pinto beans (w/chopped onions) and fried potatoes w/onions, when I visit Kentucky.
6/08/07

celticbydesign

Two food types

- potatoes (I grew up in Ireland, so go figure)
- some very strange vegetarian stuff (Mom tried to convert the family to veggies only)

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1. 6/08/07
  
  VampireFaust
  
  My father used to go through phases like that...Eventually he gave up trying to convert us carnivores. LOL!
6/09/07

thereyoucome

rice porridge, my brother and me got up about 5.00 am in the morning, and it's ready there over night.

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6/10/07

Theresa111

A) Sauerkraut
Never liked it but had to eat the stuff when it was served (free lunch at St. Peter's Catholic School, Staten Island, NY).
B) Alphabet Cereal
I would read the letters out loud to Mama, my grandmother.
C) New York Pizza
The best I've ever eaten. (Joe's Pizza, Staten Island, NY).

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10/08/08

fstasu

Italian Spinach Torta, and Fresh Raisin Focaccia bread, will take me back to my Nona's kitchen every time I smell them.

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10/08/08

polybore

Homemade apple pie.

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10/08/08

tonymas

watermelon and french bread
fresh peas and french bread
pasta with french bread
I think we ate french bread with everything

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10/08/08

jadedconformist

My dad's fresh hybrid blend of carrot and apple juice. Who knows what else was in it. Dad was a mad scientist with the food processor. I remember almost puking the first time I saw him throw some sort of cactus in the blender and then chug down the goo.

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10/08/08

inmyredhead

Fish sticks and Spaghetti-O's. All five of us kids got warm fuzzies when we got to have this for dinner!

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10/09/08

meowkiss

nice post..
piece of bread with butter or anything creamy and hot over bread

cuz my mom always prepare that for school.

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10/09/08

roentarre

I missed oyster omlette granny used to make a lot for me

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10/09/08

7masterheathen

Cream of Wheat. Cap N' Crunch. Mom's homemade lasagna. Mom's homemade potato salad. There's more but that should do ya for now.

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10/09/08

SweetViolet

Homemade bread. Gramma Violet always made her own bread because Grampa Violet wouldn't eat store bread, so there was always the smell of fresh bread in her house...and my house when she came to visit.

Sauerkraut (homemade)
Home-canned cherries
Thuringer sausage and Monterey Jack cheese sandwiches
Fudge
Potato salad with eggs in it and mustard in the dressing

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10/09/08

Onchong

Banana Q, turon, lumpia, bitsu-bitso, butsi-butsi, puto-kutsinta, sapin-sapin, ginatan-mais, ginatan-halu-halo, halu-halo, okoy, palabok, tokwa't-baboy, nilagang mais, tamales, maruyang saging, maruyang camote, nilagang camote, atbp. wowwww!!!

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10/09/08

Sebastyne

A dish that is made out of pig liver mixed with rice porridge and raisins and then cooked in the oven. I love that stuff, but most people hate it.

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10/09/08

Desorientee

Good old apple crumble with custard - stoggy British food. Thanks mum

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10/09/08

chrissred

This is amazing, I was just thinking of this the other day.

I would be reminded of my childhood by kartoffel brei (mashed potatoes), pomme fritz (french fries), canned corn. Also, strawberry yogurt, goya milk chocolate, star rice( plain rice with star margarine), sapin-sapin, and arroz caldo.

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10/09/08

cranelegs

just last friday i had a jar of gerber's carrots and peas, and i was reminded of teething.

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1. 10/09/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  :o)
10/09/08

jadeflower

Pineapple ices.

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10/09/08

drjay1966

jello...

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10/09/08

aningeniousname

Ants and those termitey things that live in big termite mounds, I forget what they are called.

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10/09/08

myriadlife

Can't eat runner beans, I hated the stringy bits as a kid but got made to eat them up anyway. Still hate them.

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10/09/08

mikodragonfly

Ooh - those little candies called "Smarties" - anyone remember those?

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1. 10/09/08
  
  roadgurl5
  
  yep...every Halloween (yum!)
2. 10/10/08
  
  chrissred
  
  oh yes, my comfort food!
10/09/08

Prattman

Liver and onions. My dad's favorite. I actually liked it, but I haven't eaten it since childhood.

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10/09/08

alwayswinner786

Spinach omlette,and egg noodles this is somewhat my regular food my mom used to pack for my school lunch.

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10/09/08

faithsju243

Grilled cheese and razzles!

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10/09/08

roadgurl5

My favorite lunch in elementary school was every Friday---fish sticks, parsley potatoes, cornbread and this funny kind of lemon dessert that was really good...anyone remember having the lemon dessert?

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10/09/08

pinkmimosa

space food and those fizzy pop tablets

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10/09/08

kdawg68

-spaghetti O's
-flavor ice
-kool aid
-cadburry eggs
-chocolate santa/chocolate rabbit (there was always something disturbing about eating Santa or the easter bunny)

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10/09/08

JaydenVasara

cream of rice (w/a lil butter and brown sugar) and french toast!

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10/09/08

melindaville

My mother had to be the world's worst cook. I remember one nightmare she made--tater-tot and cheeze whiz cassarole. Ick!

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10/09/08

RTBjr73

no foods comes to mind that I enjoyed completely as a child, however I will never eat chesse filled hot dogs again (I had it for lunch damn near everyday one summer for lunch). And I told my wife that if she ever wanted a divorce that she did not have to yell or scream at me...just put a chicken pot pie in front of me for dinner, that I will know that it is over.

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10/09/08

Bricore

Ice cream..
Coffee and donuts..lol..

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10/09/08

lordsomber

Baby formula.

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10/09/08

KitchenGadgets

Grilled Cheese Sandwich

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10/09/08

lotusb

My mom's homemade fudge.

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10/09/08

Scribblerchick

Childhood meant Cream of Wheat, baby. My mother didn't learn to cook well until I was in middle school. Before that there was lots of chicken pot pies, fish sticks, lima beans from a can, tuna salad, etc. She taught me to cook when I was 5 and I quickly saw it as a way to improve things. Forty years later I love to cook, as does my brother...

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10/09/08

Bayho

oooo i love cream of wheat!! soo goodd.and i never considered it a poor familys meal.. anyays besides cream of wheat otter pops remind me of being a little kid. and top roman haha oo those were the days

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7/18/09

Desorientee

Lemon meringue pie - my mum's favourite dessert particularly after a traditional Sunday dinner.

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7/18/09

greencurmudgeon

Peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches, served with an ice cold glass of milk.

I wanted to bring this in for my (university) students when we had a lesson about writing for children; that plus the Crayola crayons I did bring would have created an afternoon of total regression.

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1. 7/18/09
  
  crpitt
  
  To regress them further you should make them crayon in their non dominant hand
7/18/09

Epicharis

There aren't really any foods that remind me of my childhood...but I recently saw 'Iced Gems' in a shop and had a flashback to childhood...

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1. 7/18/09
  
  crpitt
  
  Whoa! they remind of my childhood too, I hated them.
2. 7/18/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  I liked them as a kid, when I had them recently they were disgusting! I also saw 'Rainbow Drops' recently which was another flashback!
3. 7/18/09
  
  crpitt
  
  Now I liked rainbow drops
  
  Stop flash-backing me!
4. 7/18/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  *desperately tries to think of another nostalgic food*
5. 7/18/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  This is the best I can manage:
  
  Do you remember when Starburst were called Opal Fruits?
6. 7/18/09
  
  crpitt
  
  Yes I do
  
  Did you ever buy jumbo ice pops from your corner shop?
7. 7/18/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  I don't think so...do you remember Fab ice-lollies?
8. 7/18/09
  
  crpitt
  
  No ice pops? That is awful
  
  Don't they still make Fab Ice lollies?
9. 7/18/09
  
  Epicharis
  
  I haven't seen them in years...not that I've really been looking!
7/18/09

cathy13

Money Cake

Mom would wrap coins in wax paper and hide them in the batter of our Birthday cakes!

When you got the quarter is was incredible!!!!!!

also:
beans and weiners
macaroni and tomato soup
and mashed potatoes mixed with canned corned beed

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7/18/09

dsriharsha

Everything I eat.. I am Peter Pan.. I am still a kid

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7/18/09

theshutterbugeye

Fish sticks. Yep, grilled cheese with a slice of tomato. Orange macaroni (I never eat this anymore but my mom/dad would make some sauce for macaroni using tomato soup. It was orange, thus the name).

Diane

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7/18/09

Cynnamama

ha... you will go "eeew" at this one here! My big sister made some chocolateroni, you're thinking, "what?"
elbow pasta mixed with Nesquik and a little bit of butter.
Have I or will I want to try it again... heck, no!

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7/18/09

Mike768083

Macaroni!

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7/18/09

jafabrit

weetabix, scotch eggs, pork pies, hot custard on fruit pies, rhubarb crumble, trifle, picked eggs, cheese on toast, marmite, jam tarts.

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7/18/09

wehireu

tea, lemon chiffon pie, apples, oranges, oatmeal

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7/18/09

yileen

A fish-based soupy/noodle Malaysian dish called "asam laksa". Thinking about it makes me reminiscence about the days when I used to eat asam laksa while reading my Enid Blyton book...

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7/18/09

Floormodel

anything burnt on the grill, covered in miracle whip, smothered in JELLO, or containing Spam...

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7/18/09

nothingprofound

Hot dogs, pastrami sandwiches, pizza, cream sodas, egg creams, elbow macaroni, vegetarian vegetable soup, Good Humor ice cream.

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7/18/09

amybyrd21

Fresh tomatoe sandwiches from the garden on white bread with bama mayo and salt and pepper.

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7/18/09

trailofpen

Peach cobbler.

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7/19/09

Frosty78

There's a place near me where I can get a good Frito pie. Reminds me of Little League days at the ballpark.

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7/21/09

RTBjr73

what comes to mind is the foods that I could not stand, but was made by my mom to eat ALL THE TIME.

cheese filled hotdogs on a slice of white bread
frozen chicken pot pies
homemade mac'n'cheese

anytime I smell these, I want to puke.

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7/21/09

exit2013

I would have to say 'Smores'.

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7/21/09

stellak

My grandma's lemon pie, till this day I havent tasted anything like it.

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