Is there a certain food or meal that reminds you of your childhood?
Something that makes warm memories come flooding back to you?
What is it and do you still eat it today?
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PB&J! (I occasionally still eat it, but it was pretty much all I would eat for school lunch for about 6 years.)
I can’t really think of anything…There are certain foods i used to eat back then that i don’t eat now anymore, but none of them specifically remind me of my childhood, not in a warm memory kind of way though. Some foods i’ll see and i may think “oh, i used to eat that in school”, or something like that, but there are no significant memories attached to food for me.
Which is maybe a bit odd, come to think of it, because i love food.
Meatloaf.
I hate it and haven’t eaten it in years. My brother used to call it “meatcake” XD
Is there anyone for whom mac and cheese doesn’t remind them of their childhood? There’s also grilled cheese and tomato soup. Tuna fish and rice. Welsh rarebit. Funny how all of these involve cheese.
One other—although in a different way—turkey at Thanksgiving. It’s hard not to think about all the Thanksgivings before at each new one.
Mushroom soup (Chinese cuisine). It’s still one of my favourite food.
The one who can make this delicious recipe already pass out long time ago and I can’t find anyone who can make such incredible soup anymore. She’s my aunt,and I always miss her if I remember about mushroom soup.
Oscar Meyer hot dogs and my mom’s meat sauce spaghetti.
Hot dogs and mac & cheese. I was very picky as a child and I practically grew up eating only those things.
Shin beef stew! :-/ we were poor back then….....
Cream of Wheat definitely reminds me of my childhood. My mother used to make it for me often and I always ate the bowl clean.
Sadly, I don’t eat it much anymore because I can’t make it taste the way it did when Mom made it and she died recently, so even looking at the box is painful.
I forgot to answer fully, apologies…. :-/
Shin beef stew…… I have been known to knock up a pan full during the long, cold, dark & gloomy winter months, it’s finding someone to share it with me that’s the nightmare now as I always seem to make too much of the bloody stuff! :-/
Even the cat’s turn their noses up at it Lol…………
Has to be rice pudding for me, unfortunately i cannot replicate my mothers recipe and nobody eats it in my house if i make it.
Velveeta grilled cheese sandwiches! I used to eat one every day for lunch. My grandmother used to put the Velveeta between two slices of Wonderbread and wrap it in foil. Then she would plug in the iron and when it was hot, she set it on top of the sandwich. When you heard it crackle, she turned it over and did the other side. It was a perfectly browned & melted sandwich (really flat too)!
On occasion I crave this and make it (not with Velveeta) and my daughter thinks using the iron to make a seandwich is hysterical.
Sausage, mash and beans!
And still the perfect Saturday evening meal :-)
My comfort food that reminds me of home is linguine with meat sauce and mozerrella melted on it.
A good old fashioned Sunday Roast, a childhood regular and favourite. Not so present in my life now but every now and again i get some friends together, find one of those cheesy sunday movies and just go to town :)
Baked purple potatoes. My mom and sister went on a trip when I was younger, I believe my mother chaperoned one of her field trips, and I was left with my father for a week. When I was little I loved potatoes. So, that entire week my father made me a different type of potato for dinner, Idaho, Russet, Yukon Gold, etc. On the last night my dad surprised me with purple potatoes. I don’t believe I remember ever being that excited again. I was 8, and purple was my favorite color. So, my father had prepared for me my favorite food in my favorite color. I love purple potatoes, they are just a bit sweeter and it looks all swirly when you add butter.
I’m with @wundayatta. Macaroni and cheese for me.
Also, corn dogs remind me of going to fairs, because that was the only time I got to have them.
@IBERnineD cooooool! I’ve never seen purple potatoes before! Didn’t know they existed until now either.
Miso Soup and rice. It’s still comfort food. I often put the rice in with the soup and make a kind of porridge.
French fries and pizza
I live in a relatively young country and when I ate these first time(I was about 4 and my country was about 9 years since it become a democratic country),they were very rare and few people were eating french fries and pizza often.So when my family was eating things like these it always was a big event(a large part of my family was coming and everyone had a good time) so that’s what remained into my memory.
tomato soup with whole milk in it eaten with slices of velveeta, most canned soups, really, and lots of different candies. Liverwurst but I don.t touch that now.
Doritos…
Anytime I drink Kool Aid, I’m zapped back to early childhood.
And just looking at an Otter Pop makes the sides of my mouth hurt.
Mashed Potatoes, Chocolate Ice Cream and Spaghetti Sandwiches! YUM!
mac and cheese, hot dogs (cut up into small pieces), those kid cuisine tv dinners (i got to eat them on occasional saturday nights before my parents went out and the babysitter came but not all that often!), breaded chicken cutlets with sliced white potatoes, onions and paprika. tuna salad with mayo on toasted white bread, and these prepackaged vanilla ice cream in a cone with sprinkles from carvel! delish. i still eat most of these things but they’re not the same (except dads cutlets, but only when he makes them).
@Aster : i at liverwurst too as a kid, i loved it!
Hamburger Helper and PB & J on white. My mom was a lousy cook and HH was a staple at our house, and whenever we went on road trips or to amusement parks my parents made stacks and stacks of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to keep from having to buy food. Talk about monotony on a 2,500 mile trip! I think that, combined with the fact that we always had to head to the Disneyland parking lot for lunch, might have damaged my brain’s fun receptors permanently.
Freshly-baked chocolate chip cookies. That and apple juice. It’s not food, let alone a meal, but when I was little I didn’t like drinking milk and always went for apple juice (which resulted in a cavity or two).
@SundayKittens I love Otter Pops! Especially the blue ones :) I would suck the colouring out of the them. That sounds weird, but it’s fun.
Geez.I have more then one. I think it’s chili. My dad made a awesome pot of chili. My mom made awesome casseroles. I love tater tot casserole.
My mom’s lasagna. Nobody makes lasagna like my mom. Every time she cooks it, I feel like I’m a child again, sitting at the table swinging my legs underneath.
Nang Myun and Galbi. They’re Korean dishes that my mom made on special occasions for me.
blintses and caviar. buckwheat. seeds.
Tattie hash…..trust me, you don’t wanna know. :¬)
Southern batter-fried catfish and a fat slice of plain cheesecake. I’m a health nut, but dadgum that meal reminds me of so many memories of being out at the lake property/cabin growing up.
Vanilla soja milk, because I was lactose intolerant and that stuff is delicious.
And on a related note Liga cookies but I haven’t had those in a long time.
Also pizza toast and french toast.
Cottage pie (or Shepherd’s pie) made to my mum’s secret recipe. And yes I do still make it occasionally, though not weekly as my mum used to do. My daughter’s boyfriend thinks it’s awesome.
Campbell’s Chicken & Stars with saltines always reminds me of being in my grandmother’s kitchen.
Hot buttered toast cut into strips.
Homemade Macaroni and Cheese
with elbow pasta, real cheese, cream of mushroom soup and a breadcrumb topping
My mother was a terrible cook, but this dish – she knocked out of the park.
Cheese Whiz on white bread with wilted lettuce. I had to take my lunch to school so the lettuce wilted. I loved it and I had the cutest lunch box!
@Samantha_Rae Tator Tot casserole is Ground hamburger ,mix can of cream of celery or mushrrom soup, mix in mixed veggies or green beans, Layer the top with tator tots. Bake 350 for a half hour and if desired and cheddar cheddar cheese throw it bake in for another 10 minutes or until the top is bubbly and the cheese is melted. It actually is very good,
There’s a few: I was never a picky eater and really loved some strange stuff.
Mac and cheese with ketchup
Tuna sandwhiches : cut into fours
Bologna and ketchup: really odd: I know
Spaghetti and butter
Spaghettios: the Where’s Waldo shaped kind- with meatballs (heated OR cold)
etc etc.
I don’[t any of this anymore, aside from Tuna occasionally
But these were some of my favorites
Peanut butter & J – yum. I loved that when I was a kid. I still eat the peanut butter, but skip the jam.
Weetabix give me warm & fuzzy memories :)
Baked ham with roasted yams, fresh boiled corn on the cobs and wild asparagus. Prune pastry for dessert.
A fresh cornish pastie from the local bakers in a bowl of warm Heinz tomato soup. Me and my mum’s favourite lunch, when there was just the two of us at home before I went to school. Walking to the bakers and buying the pasties was our morning activity. One of my favourites, along with balancing a plate of baked beans on toast on my knee sat on the sofa watching Rainbow. Heinz did well out of us. The son of the baker now helps care for my dad. Circles in circles in circles.
Airpopped popcorn served with a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice. We loved this more than cake.
SpaghettiOs with the little hot dogs made me extremely happy. (as @boxer3 mentioned)
I was obsessed with fudgesicles and bomb pops. I still always have to nibble all the edges off first.
My great grandmother letting me “lick the spoon” of whatever she was making (say cookie dough) if I would “keep still” while I watched her make it.
Home made ice cream using rock salt was standard fare for any big occasion.
And my family was never without Jiffy Pop popcorn.
My dad’s hobby was cooking and he would make a great variety of Eastern European dishes who’s names I could never remember or attempt to say.
Since we lived in Western Pennsylvania “Chipped Ham” was a delicatessen treat. He would cook it with a homemade barbecue sauce and serve it on fresh buns from the bakery. We would take extra buns to sop up the sauce. Unfortunately, ham no longer agrees with me and dad is gone and has taken his recipes with him, they were all in his head and he only wrote them on scraps of paper that we never thought to save.
What a shame.
Fried potatoes and corn. My favorite lunch.
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