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Favorite childhood Foods, Stroll down memory lane.
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Posted on 07/16/2002 9:13:00 AM PDT by chance33_98

What meal or food reminds you of your childhood? Anything unusual you ate that you remember?

font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">I remember Start powdered breakfast drink...like Tang only better! Also, Kellog's Puffa Puffa Rice cereal. Part of the jingle went: A new-a a now-a a-Kellog's a-bring-a you...toasted, toasted rice" - something like that. Big Buddy gum. Two that have been mentioned, but need another nod are Whip 'n' Chill and Bubs Daddy gum. Well...think I'll grab my Super Ball and ride my Stingray bike (with the banana seat of course) over to the junior high. Be back for dinner, Mom! --- Rich, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1957

MilkShake Bars
I had a sweet tooth for Holloway's "Milkskake" candy bars and "Mallo Cups" made by Boyer. Milkshakes candy bars tasted something like a malted Mars Milkyway would and Mallo Cups were similar to the shape and size of Reese's Peanutbutter cups except with marshmello centers. I know where some of the old types of candy are still sold that some of you mentioned like the wax coke shaped bottles with different flavors of drink inside. I've seen them at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Restaurant. Along with other old familiar candies. Too many to list. I really enjoyed reading everyone candy memories. --- Billy, Nashville, TN - 1957

Bond's Ice Cream Parlor
We visited the one in Clifton The name of the shopping center was "Styertown"
When you went to Bond's with the gang, you always got the AWFUL -AWFUL milkshake. After drinking 3 (in one sitting) the fourth was free. Most of us had trouble getting the third one down. If you accomplished this task, your name went on a list posted on the wall. There was a lot of barfing associated with the Awful-Awful. Better than the Awful-Awful was the Pig's Dinner. This was a wooden pig's feeding trough, lined with waxed paper, and containing the largest ice cream sundae you ever saw. After finishing one of these, you got a button which stated - "I was a pig at Bond's" These buttons were collected, and most of us put them on our sun-visors. --- BJH, Carlstadt, NJ 1960

ChoChos
When I was a child growing up in Brooklyn, New York, I loved to eat Cho Chos so much that I got the nickname of "Cho-Cho". My family moved west when I was 10 years old and I never saw or heard of them again. Many years later, while working in the city of Oceanside, Cal., I met and married a wonderful woman. Lo and behold, while talking of our pasts, Doris mentioned how much she used to love eating cho chos as a child while visiting her grandparents in St. Louis, Mo. This was the first person I had ever met who even had heard of this treat. We often have wondered whatever happened to those delicious Cho Chos. --- George Ahrens, Brooklyn, NY 1931 (currently residing: Oceanside, CA) married to 1947 Baby Boomer: Doris Ahrens, St. Louis, MO

Double Delight Ice Cream Bars
My gosh, I remember Double Delight ice cream bars, long and narrow vanilla w/a tunnel of fudge through the middle. Also Sweetie Pies, like moon pies only better. The best soda's were Nesbitts orange, strawberry and grape. Nutty Buddy ice cream cones. Fizzies, tho the ones they have out now are not as good as the originals. Walnettos; now there is a candy they need to revive! I also was hooked on Jello's Whip N Chill and Jello 1,2,3. The original candy cigarettes actually helped me quit smoking. 7-UP bars first came in milk chocolate, then they made them in dark chocolate. I thought I saw some on the market about 15 years ago. My Gramma had a small grocery store and I remember sneaking pop from the garage. Quench was one of the greats, a grapefruit soda that really quenched your thirst. Eskimo pies were called ice cream slices. Thanks so much for the website, it brings back so many wonderful memories. --- Judi, Kalama, Washington 1955

Radioactive Candy Powder
When I was in junior high, the rage was that powdered fruit-flavored stuff in a flat envelope. Pour it onto your tongue and it effervesced! To a kid, it was a cool thing. I liked the grape flavor. There was a rumor that they were radioactive, which made them even more desirable to some. In 6th grade, it was Now Or Laters, which, when pronounced by my deeply southern schoolmates sounded like "annihilaters", which confused me; having moved from the midwest. They still make them; they're like Starburst Fruit Chews. Space Food Sticks ruled. In 5th grade, everyone had to have Whacky Packs bubble gum. Not for the gum, which probably no one chewed, but for the stickers that satirized popular consumer products. Rice-a-Phony, the San Francisco Treat. --- John Reep, Jacksonville Florida, 1964

White Tower Restaurants
The last "official" (still owned by the company) White Tower Restaurant closed this past November here in Pittsburgh. It was just torn down recently. When I was an usher at a downtown movie theatre I used to eat at the Sixth Street White Tower everyday. Where else could you order a burger, have it cooked fresh and actually eat it in one of those stupid 15 minute dinner breaks?

I also remember when Hardee's was Sandy's here in the midwest. Was it me, or were they better then? Here's a really hard one. It might be Pittsburgh only, but here goes. Braun's used to bake these. They were sort of like Twinkies, but the had a rasberry swirl inside of them. The called them Captain Astro Snacks. Complete with a mascott in what looked like a metallic gold colored Flash-type costume. No one seems to remember this but me. --- Steve, Pittsburgh, 1961

Shakey’s
Until I read John's memories [below], I had forgotten all about Shakey's pizza parlor -- we had one here, too. I recall going there with some high school buddies in the early '70s. They served a weekday lunch buffet with all-you-could-eat of pizza, fried chicken, and fried potatoes. Some of the pizza toppings seemed pretty exotic at the time -- such as pineapple with ham, etc. I wonder if any Shakey's restaurants are still in existence today. Also, I can recall in the '60s we had a hamburger stand called Chuck-a-Burger. Don't think many of them remain, although I do believe one is still in operation in the St. Louis area. Also, like Diana, I recall Sandy's. At some point it did become a Hardee's, though I don't recall in which year. --- Dave, Belleville, IL, 1957
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To: CholeraJoe
OMG, you are SUCH a 'bama! Brains, yet!
21 posted on 07/16/2002 10:06:41 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: one_particular_harbour
Eggs fried in bacon grease - that is much better than the cooking in Yankeeland.

Only way I fry an egg. This Yankeeland must be New England or something.

22 posted on 07/16/2002 10:09:19 AM PDT by NeoCaveman
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To: xsmommy
I et chitlins with fried okra, too, ma'am.

They're pig's intestines cut into small pieces, breaded and deep-fried.

23 posted on 07/16/2002 10:13:56 AM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: CholeraJoe
i pinged you to the Galatoire's thread, mr. N.O.'Bama.
24 posted on 07/16/2002 10:14:57 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: one_particular_harbour
what disturbs me the most is that i can picture this completely.
26 posted on 07/16/2002 10:38:50 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: one_particular_harbour
Why dirty up perfectly serviceable glassware and plates when you can avoid it? Already, by chugging out of the milk and eating out of the skillet, I can avoid washing one glass and one plate. If I eat off the spatula, I avoid washing a fork as well.

And you are saving the Environment. Just think of all the water used to clean dishes, some poor fish no one ever heard of might vanish from lack of water. We have to work hard to save mother earth so that when the sun finally dies out there will be plenty of life here to destroy :)
27 posted on 07/16/2002 10:44:38 AM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
Junket

Nesselrode(sp>) Pie
28 posted on 07/16/2002 11:38:39 AM PDT by APBaer
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To: chance33_98
White Castle burgers
29 posted on 07/16/2002 11:39:51 AM PDT by APBaer
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To: chance33_98
I liked Quaker puffed cereal"shot from guns". Borden milk because of Elsie the cow. Artic Circle for soft ice cream.Mrs Grass chicken soup and fied egg sandwich for lunch.Anything from Sears candy counter. White Castle burgers.In college, Annie Greensprings wine or Bali-hi(sp?) wine.
30 posted on 07/16/2002 11:47:50 AM PDT by MaggieMay
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To: chance33_98
If this were a Democratic site the answers would be a lot different:

-Paint chips.
-Paste.
-"Dog candy".
-"psychedelic water" from the stagnant pond behind the neighborhood dump.
-Mud pies.

-Eric

31 posted on 07/16/2002 11:48:14 AM PDT by E Rocc
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To: one_particular_harbour
Spinich greens with hot bacon grease poured on it was my Dad's favorite. I loved brains with eggs until I found out it was pork brains. Aso balony gravy over buttemilk biscuit's.
32 posted on 07/16/2002 11:54:47 AM PDT by MaggieMay
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To: chance33_98
While we were anything but poor, my favorites included sugar sandwiches for lunch and dried beef gravy on toast for dinner! I also liked Quisp cereal and riding my bike to the drug store to spend my meager allowance on Bub's Daddy bubblegum, pixie stix, B-B Bats,sweetarts and jawbreakers. Ah, those were the days!
33 posted on 07/16/2002 12:57:36 PM PDT by slugbug
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To: slugbug
It seems amazing to me at times how when you look back it was always the simplest things that stick with us. I remember trips to the candy store, getting monster newspapers (monster Times I think) and thinking about how magical the world was. Now I see the world through a whole new light, and perhaps that is what I miss most.
34 posted on 07/16/2002 1:00:38 PM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98
My childhood delights.

Candy Cigarettes, Royal Crown cola and Scooter Pies, Boy's Life magazines, Daisy BB guns, Cheeseburgers at Oscar's Drive-in in El Cajon, CA., John Wayne showing at the local cinema, watching Combat, Gunsmoke, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea on TV, and my metal Rat Patrol lunch box.

Those were the days.

35 posted on 07/16/2002 1:19:07 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr
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To: chance33_98
Turkish Taffy and penny candies from the Candy store.
36 posted on 07/16/2002 1:24:02 PM PDT by katnip
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To: chance33_98
Owensboro, KY, 1961: We had a place called "Red Barn", where you could get 10 hamburgers for $1. Then 8, then 5, then 1 for $1. Then it was gone. Three of us could stuff our faces good for a buck.

My grandmother's fruit salad, 1957-1987. No words can adquately describe how good this stuff was.

Friday nights, 1960-62: My mother made popcorn in a skillet and burned it 8 times out of 10 (I didn't care). Then we'd watch The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits before "reruns" was in my vocabulary.

[Yes, I'm old, too.]

37 posted on 07/16/2002 1:37:14 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper
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To: CholeraJoe
Ah, yes.... RC and a Moon Pie..... the perfect afternoon repast!
38 posted on 07/16/2002 1:39:06 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper
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To: MaggieMay
I loved brains with eggs until I found out it was pork brains.

Well, there's no danger of Mad Cow Disease then is there?

39 posted on 07/16/2002 1:47:31 PM PDT by CholeraJoe
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To: TheGrimReaper
Something about an RC in a glass returnable bottle served icy cold just can't be duplicated.
40 posted on 07/16/2002 1:48:39 PM PDT by CholeraJoe
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