I think they were called “toaster pastries” and came in a box of 96. Considering what the camp cost, I was flabbergasted at the crap food that was served up.
And “for safety reasons” no one was allowed to bring on ANY outside food.
I wonder how many remember the very first Pop-Tart commercial ca. 1965?
Fruit peddler pushes his cart through the streets of (presumably) old New York, crying “STRAW-ber-RIES! BLUE-ber-RIES! CHER-er-er,er-er-er-RIES!”
I didn’t try salmon until I was around 40. Now I love it.
Not tinned, I imagine.
No, fresh.
Pacific?
Living in the SF Bay Area for my teens, 20s, and early 30s I was exposed to a wide variety of ethnic foods and love all of them. However, even tho I have been enjoying Vietnamese pho noodle soup for years, I always avoided the Banh Mi sandwich, another Vietnamese staple, simply because I would not trade a bowl of that awesome broth for just a sandwich.
About three years ago the guy sitting next to me at work was taking orders for Banh Mi for lunch for the group, so I figured WTH, no soup competition this way, I will try it. Boy was I missing out - it was awesome! The first thing that came to mind was “Banh Mi? F*ck me! Why did I wait so long to try this!?!?”. Now whenever going for pho I will split a sandwich with my lunch mate as well.
That, I’m not sure about.
Almost 61, and never had a Pop Tart.
A-ha! Control group for our generation.
I’ll pretty much always try new food*. Goose, goat, baba ganoush, ackee, whatever, bring it on. And I’ll make a habit of periodically re-trying food I know I don’t like - Hell, your tastes change, give it a second (third…) chance. Used to hate mushrooms, now I adore them. Still working on mussels.
Mind you, I do draw the line at oysters.
j
* - given the limitation that I can’t eat red meat these days
Marine and prairie?
I have an aversion to banana flavored anything. Fresh bananas are OK - I eat maybe 2 a year - but you can have your banana breads, your banana puddings, your banana anything.
So just yesterday I succumbed to peer pressure and had a sip of this vile liquid called banana-flavored almond milk. I was turned off immensely by its appearance alone, and then its taste prompted my stomach shouted “WTF???” to my brain.
mmm
I have never eaten:
Spam
Twinkies
Pop-Tarts
Any kind of canned pasta
I recently tried Nutella for the first time, thinking it’d be like peanut butter. I wasn’t prepared for all that disgusting sweetness.
I like to try new foods. But i have a lot of foods i don’t care for, including anything with hot or sweet pepper. (Raw green pepper is okay, if it’s fresh. But once you cook it it makes everything nasty.)
So…hmmm. I’ve never had a big Mac, either. But that’s because i swore off McDonald’s burgers as a child. And i don’t generally like a lot of sauces and crap on a burger, so i can’t imagine I’d like it.
So, what did you order in place of the menudo?
I’ve seen canned menudo in the Hispanic section of my local grocery. I’m not adventurous enough to try it.
I prefer generic or store-brand Pop Tarts to the “real thing.”
I’m pretty sure I’ve had that. It was good, too - better than brand name Spaghettios, which I might have once a year.
When I was a kid, we always asked for Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat, and when I moved out on my own, it was one of the first things I decided to cook for myself, and found out why my mother never made it. Other people may like it, but I sure didn’t. All those spice packets to this day still taste pretty much the same.
Probably just a burrito platter with beans and rice.
Was it a good or bad WTF?