# What childhood food did/do you like? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680 "2006-06-29T21:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/21 "2006-06-30T04:43:05Z")
Cantaloupe. My grandmother, back in the day when California was all shiny and new, used to cut into a ripe cantaloupe, and we’d have it for breakfast, slurping it up, nibbling to the rinds. Whenever I eat a canteloupe, now decades later, I’m back in my Grandma’s kitchen, enjoying that first good taste of cool melon sanctuary. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/22 "2006-06-30T07:08:28Z")
I just love those Lunchables pepporoni pizzas. They shouldn’t be a substitute for a real lunch and I don’t know why I enjoy them so much but they’re just so much fun to make and eat! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/23 "2006-06-30T10:48:54Z")
Letter-shaped soup pasta. I’m kind of looking forward to when The Nephew is big enough to get it. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/24 "2006-06-30T13:03:59Z")
In reading everyone else’s responses since I posted, I see I eat a lot more kid foods than I thought. I love spaghetti noodles with just parmesan and butter (and salt). That was always how I ate spaghetti as a kid before I learned to like tomato sauce, and once in a while I make a batch for myself for lunch. I also indulge in the occasional can of Spaghetti O’s, and I’m with **fishbicycle** on the cereal. I always buy what’s supposed to be kids’ cereal. The most adult cereals we buy are Frosted Mini Wheats and Honey Nut Cheerios (well, the generic brands of those, but I don’t know what they call them). ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/25 "2006-06-30T14:44:01Z")
Oooh, yeah, my grandma used to always have those for me and I’d put them on my fingers and eat them off from every side. It’s funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday - I had to buy some graham crackers for a cheesecake crust, and I realized I’d never actually _bought_ them, meaning as a grownup. And I saw the cinnamon ones that were a real extravagance when I was a kid, but they weren’t in the recipe. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/26 "2006-06-30T14:47:15Z")
Damn it, I forgot to check the box. That was in reference to **delphica** ’s butter cookies, the flower shaped ones with the holes in the middle. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/27 "2006-06-30T16:23:16Z")
Graham crackers I ate and still eat like cereal, in a bowl with milk. They are mush about half-way through. Bright orange mac and cheese I was introduced to in my teens and I still love it. Nilla wafers seemed to appear in class occasionally; not a choice anymore. Milktoast: Make toast, butter and add a layer of white sugar. Lay flat on plate and add milk from the side for it to sop up. I guess I was all about adding milk to things! ---
**Author:** ![badbadrubberpiggy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/57b2e6/32.png) [@badbadrubberpiggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/badbadrubberpiggy)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/28 "2006-06-30T16:43:42Z")
'Nilla wafers & banana pudding. I love to cook, so I rarely have convenience foods around, but these still haunt my pantry. Yummmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/29 "2006-06-30T16:55:53Z")
'Sketti O’s. Smells like vomit, tastes like heaven. Also, the Gerber Rice Cereal for babies and the blueberry mooshed up baby food. Yes I have issues, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/30 "2006-06-30T17:16:43Z")
Twinkies, but these days I only eat 'em after they’ve been dunked in coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/31 "2006-06-30T17:50:43Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > I’m blanking on the name of these cookies … plain butter cookies, in a basic flower shape with a hole in the middle? You could put the cookie around your finger, like a ring, and then nibble around the outside part. The box was blue, and had a picture of a little blonde girl on the front. We used to get these as snacks at nursery school. If there was a box in front of me right now, I’d probably eat the entire thing. Those were [Salerno Butter Cookies](http://i4.peapod.com/c/SR/SRG4I.jpg). I loved those when I was a kid, too. I’ve had them more recently than that, though :). I used to L-O-V-E Popsicles. Just the plain, boring Popsicles, no natural flavors or anything. Not so much anymore, really. I also liked Lima Beans when I was a kid. I don’t anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/32 "2006-06-30T20:48:15Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > Kraft macaroni and cheese. I wouldn’t eat “real” macaroni and cheese until I was an adult, and I still prefer the Kraft stuff–not reheated, though. Fresh out of the pan. I basically cannot have the stuff in the house, because if I do, I will make it rather than anything else, and eat the whole box at one sitting. > > Ooh. Now I want some. Oh man, me too. Meeeeeee too. I would eat kids’ cereal now, just because my mom never let us buy it as kids…but you know the sugar content is through the roof, it won’t fill you up, and that stuff is EXPENSIVE. I am such a nooge 🙂 I still eat graham crackers and milk. Just had a bowl yesterday. Today I had graham crackers and peanut butter. Sometimes Saltines and peanut butter for dinner. I eat hot dogs for a meal on a regular basis, too 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/33 "2006-06-30T21:10:46Z")
Another vote for raft macaroni and cheese. I can not stand the real homade stuff, but this I love with hot dogs cut up in it. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/34 "2006-07-01T02:29:43Z")
I have eaten peanut butter and jelly almost every weekday for probably 35 years. Folks at work joke around “Here comes Minor7Flat5 with his peanut butter and jelly again…” My wife’s family find this amusing – they are from South America and do not send their children to school with PB&J. I asked her about her foods from childhood and she mentioned things such as _Farinha Lacta_, a tasty powder that one uses kind of like oatmeal, that she likes to pour over a very particular type of banana that we don’t have here. She also misses the powdered milk from Brazil – American powdered milk is usually nonfat, but the stuff she had as a child was the Real McCoy, with all the fat, and was quite yummy all by itself straight out of the can. She continues to this day to cook condensed milk until it turns into a caramel-like substance and she eats it right out of the can. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/35 "2006-07-01T02:49:49Z")
> [@Dogzilla](#): > > I’m going to go with Spaghettios and Chef Boy-ar-Dee Ravioli. Yes! Although I can’t say I’ve given them up. When I had no appitite I ate them because I needed to eat something familar and mushy. Despite the fact they’re fairly disgusting. Although I never thought they smelled like cat food…you may have just ruined it for me. And Carnation Breakfast Bars…which were like incredably dense and (possibly?) more nurtrious brownies. So that was breakfast and luch…surprised I grew up at all. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/36 "2006-07-01T04:00:35Z")
> [@Angel of the Lord](#): > > Those were [Salerno Butter Cookies](http://i4.peapod.com/c/SR/SRG4I.jpg). I loved those when I was a kid, too. I’ve had them more recently than that, though :). I’m glad someone remembered what these are called, it was driving me crazy. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![TwoOnSunday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@TwoOnSunday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoOnSunday)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/37 "2006-07-01T04:46:50Z")
Fig newtons. I ate them at least twice a week, but haven’t had any in around 15 years. I wonder if I would still like them. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/38 "2006-07-01T15:12:01Z")
Wow, this has been a trip! Salerno butter cookies - check, fig newtons - check, Krack dinner (as my friend calls it) - double check. Most of these, oddly enough were older childhood foods for me, as when I was young my mother was into all whole, unprocessed food with no refined sugar. I don’t think a packaged food entered our house until I was 6. One thing I remembered this morning was natural peanut butter and honey sandwiches on whole grain bread. (I’ll take “Things you should never give a toddler under the age of 2 for $1000, Alex!”) These were a staple of my childhood. When I started school, I was so embarrassed to have this heavy brown bread in a classroom full of white Wonder bread, I would scrunch my sandwich up in a ball and wrap it in my napkin and throw it out. Later, I found out I could trade my pb+honey for at least two Ho-Ho’s or a dozen gumdrops. Or, my favorite, Skippy and strawberry jelly on Wonder. :smack: My poor mother. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/39 "2006-07-01T15:20:11Z")
When I was a kid, Chef Boyardee could do no wrong. I used to eat raw bacon when I was a kid too. It amazes me that I’m still alive to type this very post. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680/40 "2006-07-01T15:34:04Z")
Cream cheese and salted peanuts on white bread. Food of the gods!! Especially when the bread was super fresh, so you had to be really careful when you spread the cream cheese, then you mooooshed it down till the peanuts made visible bumps. I want some now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-childhood-food-did-do-you-like/362680.md?page=3)