Favorite childhood Foods, Stroll down memory lane.

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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My mother fed us carrots. Alot of 'em. Probably explains why I got spectacles like coke bottles now, hehehe...

I reckon one of my favorite things to eat was coffee cake... With obscene amounts of brown sugar topping on it... Now I can't hardly stand to eat the damn stuff, haha...

HI there...so glad to see another person who remembers the old Prince Castle burgers....yummy...that was a grand childhood treat to be taken out there...I seem to remember that it was near North and Harlem aves...tho I could be wrong...

And Flukys? Yessiree....best dang stuff in town....I originally grew up in the Humboldt Park-Logan Square areas of Chicago, but when I got married, moved to my husbands area, West Rogers Park....originally we lived on Farwell Ave, just off of Ridge, and when we went out for our once yearly fancy dinner for New Years, we always went to Grassfields on Ridge...

Then later we moved over to Estes Ave, just off of Clark St...right next to the railroad tracks...and right across the street from the Adelphi Theatre side exits...

One of our favorite places for burgers and dogs, was Bills...that was in the 70s...and they are still going strong today...my husband goes back to Bills every time he visits Chicago, from our home here in Olympia, Wasington...

And I agree....a 'soda' is always something that has ice cream in it....

And I remember all the Jewish Delis and such...West Rogers Park had many Jewish businesses and residents, altho my husbands family, who lived there for years, were pure Sicilian...I remember Ashkenaz, I think on Touhy...used to go in there for great cheesecake...

Those were the days...

After rereading my post, I realized I made an error...our first Tv, was a little screened job, in a big cabinet...I think we got that one around 1950....had it for years, until slowly the picture tube dimmed and dimmed to where you could almost see nothing on the screen...

That is when dad finally broke down, and bought our 2nd TV...that one came from 'Mad Man Muntz'....Wouldnt that be a hoot, if your dad, sold my dad, our great long lasting TV...

What I remember about that TV, was that we loved it, because the screen was so much bigger than our old TV...I think the screen on our old TV was about 10-13 inches, but the new 'Muntz' TV had a 19-21 inch screen, and we thought that was just so fine...I also remember that the cabinet of the TV, was an odd color, one which I rarely saw then, and never see now...it was like a beige, or tan, or light brown...and I think dad said it cost $99...that set lasted for at least 15yrs, and rarely if ever needed repairs, perhaps just needing an occasional tube replacement...

Dad always said, it was the best $99 he ever spent, as it lasted so long...he always said, God bless 'Mad Man Muntz'...have no idea why he called it that...I think he just liked the way those words sounded together...

Fried Chicken from Morrison's Drive-In Logan WVA.

Borden's peach ice cream.

My noni's (grandmother's) homemade bread, italian cookies, spaghetti, and meatballs.

50-50 bars

My dad making cocoa from scratch from Hershey's powder.

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