Things you loved as a kid that you still love as an old person

Dinosaurs and giant monsters in general.

Cap’n Crunch
Three Stooges
Old School Pro Wrasslin’
Dogs
Not being in school a couple months during the summer.

Horses for me. I was one of those absolutely crazy horse girls. I ate, slept and breathed horses from my first meeting an old ranch horse at age 8 and well into my early twenties. Horses super-ceded my first love, which was Star Wars (also still like today but definitely took a back burner at that age).

I finally got my own horse in my teens but in my mid-twenties I switched my obsession to working dogs and for awhile, I told myself I liked the dogs better. I’m a decent, practical hand at dogs & horses that doesn’t anthropomorphize them but since I got back into horses 10 years ago, they are just magic. Even more so after I lost one and went without for a year- now I truly can say I am more horse-crazy now about my current horse as I ever was before.

Dogs
Almond cookies
Good bread
Okra
Watching cricket and football (soccer)
Playing tennis
Quizzing/Trivia
Bridge (card game)
Math
Detective novels

This is a good one. As an adult I am supposed to find it disruptive, I guess, in terms of its practical impact (getting to work, school closures, shoveling the driveway, etc), but none of that matters. Snow just makes me happy.

Another one: a glass of cold milk chasing a pastry dessert. I don’t drink milk otherwise; culturally it’s something only kids do, drinking milk with dinner or whatever. My preferred beverage with a meal, or just at random times, is sparkling water. And yet, if I’m having a bit of chocolate cake or other rich baked item, a cold glass of milk is just as satisfying now as it was when I was ten years old.

I enjoy milk with chocolate cake or a blueberry pie. I’ve never thought of that as childish, i guess. Just a good combination. I suppose it’s more “adult” to serve those things with a dollop of vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. Which is funny, because those are sweeter, and i think of “sweet” as a childish preference.

What a beautiful way to describe the ground falling away as your plane climbs into the sky!

(I love that bit, too.)

Cool Whip

Miracle Whip

Kraft Mac n Cheese

hot dogs

The two weeks in Spring when everything goes from dormant or dead to bright green. Where I live this is also the season of low humidity, no bugs, and warm sunshine. Those Autumn Color chasers are fools, this time of year blows the doors off your dying plants and frosty evenings.

Rain.

Agree. If you are flying during the day, not having a window seat is a waste of money.

Food: Banana Splits

Song: The Banana Splits theme song.

Dipping chocolate chip cookies into cold milk.

Watching old Sci-Fi and horror movies late at night on The Son of Svengoolie show.

Yes they are.

I loved the food as a kid, and last year tried a banana split for the first time in decades. It wasn’t a treat, it was an ordeal. How I used to eat all that at a third my current size is a mystery.

Cinnamon toast

The smell of rain approaching on a hot summers day

Vegemite on Toast

Reading

Cheese and onion sandwiches with ground white pepper

Deep fried Dim Sims

The smell of a freshly mown lawn.

I recently rewatched Strange Brew - the movie based on Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis’ SCTV characters Bob and Doug Mackenzie - for the first time in decades. Either: A), its absurdist comedy held up really well over 40 years or 2), my sense of humor hasn’t matured since I was thirteen.

In any case, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I actually own it on DVD, and re-watch it every few years. Still a very dumb comedy, but I still enjoy it. :smiley:

Oh yes, horses! Although I’ve never had one or been able to afford to ride. I just love to watch them.

I still love almost everything. An exception I can think of is playing in the snow. I’ve had enough cold, not interested in that. Playing in mud still sounds good though.