# What is your most child-like food? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [June 3, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613 "2022-06-03T05:25:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/61 "2022-06-03T18:27:52Z")
I would kill for some Kraft dinner, but haven’t actually eaten it in forever (husband doesn’t like mac & cheese in any form). 🤷‍♀️ But I do eat popcorn and grilled cheese sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/62 "2022-06-03T19:12:15Z")
Deconstructed Oreos. (It doesn’t count if you just bite the whole thing like a grownup.) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/63 "2022-06-03T19:34:23Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > I would kill for some Kraft dinner, but haven’t actually eaten it in forever (husband doesn’t like mac & cheese in any form). OMG! Just buy some and make it for yourself. I still love leftovers the next day when it’s cold. I get a lot of Kraft Dinner and Velveeta Shells and Cheese these days, without the kids around I only make real mac&cheese for parties and I can only remember the recipe for too much. ---
**Author:** ![hostility](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hostility](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hostility)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/64 "2022-06-03T19:40:10Z")
Same here. I think it’s a combination of changed tastes from childhood to adulthood and… they’ve probably changed the ingredients over the years. When we were kids, they probably made it with beef tallow or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/65 "2022-06-03T19:52:46Z")
> [@Esprise\_Me](#): > > Deconstructed Oreos. (It doesn’t count if you just bite the whole thing like a grownup.) The only Oreos I will eat are mint, but I only have those occasionally. But when I do I always either deconstruct them or dip them in tea, partly to get them wet enough that I can taste both cookie and mint at the same time, partly to give the tea a very subtle mint flavor. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/66 "2022-06-03T20:24:24Z")
I still eat Chef Boyardee --my favorites are the ravioli—Beef Ravioli, Mini Ravioli, and Over-Stuffed Italian Sausage Ravioli. I also like Beefaroni . BUT I prefer Campbell’s(formery Franco-American) Spaghetti-Os over Chef Boyardee’s attempt to copy them. I also prefer Kraft Mac and Cheese over the fancier baked versions but as I get older that much cheese kills my stomach. I also Totino’s Party Pizza. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/67 "2022-06-03T20:26:06Z")
Gorton’s Fish Sticks and Tater Tots. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/68 "2022-06-03T20:30:02Z")
Cool Ranch Doritos. ---
**Author:** ![SacFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@SacFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SacFly)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/69 "2022-06-03T20:31:31Z")
I still love PB&J, but now enjoy it with a cup of coffee rather than a glass of milk. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/70 "2022-06-03T20:37:25Z")
> [@Esprise\_Me](#): > > Deconstructed Oreos So…after you twist the top (or bottom) off the cookie, you now have two halves of the cookie. One has very little or no filling, the other has most, if not all, of the filling. In what order are they eaten? Do you eat the one with the filling first, or the one without the filling first? Or are you like me? I scrape the filling off with my teeth, leaving two barren cookies, which can be enjoyed separately or together. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/71 "2022-06-03T20:40:05Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Iced Zoo biscuits. Only South Africans would understand. I had to google. They’re cute! But I prefer Mother’s Circus Animal cookies. One bite – and the only time I’ll eat sprinkles. > [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I’m sure it’s not the same thing, but I recently purchased these, which were a favorite of mine as a kid > > [Amazon.com: Mother's Circus Animal Cookies, 9oz : Grocery & Gourmet Food](https://www.amazon.com/Mothers-Circus-Animal-Cookies-9oz/dp/B09BDCKMFT) You ninja’d me! I just ordered some from Amazon. In small packs, so I won’t eat a whole bagful. > [@chela](#): > > My mom had a strict 2 cookie per person rule, us kids would plot and scheme around it Reminds me. My mom had a vintage “Smiley” pig-shaped cookie jar ( a gold Smiley for those who know cookie jars) that an old boyfriend had won at a carnival for her. Being ceramic, the jar lid had to be opened _very_ carefully so mom wouldn’t hear. Even when I thought I’d been sooooooo careful, I’d hear her yell from the living room “Who’s in the cookie jar?” ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/72 "2022-06-03T20:49:00Z")
Cap’n Crunch Spaghetti-Os with meat balls. I keep a few cans for just in case, like a monsoon storm and I forgot to go grocery shopping. Lucky Charms. Squeezable apple sauce. Good for work. ---
**Author:** ![Esprise\_Me](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprise_me/32/2947_2.png) [@Esprise\_Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprise_Me)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/73 "2022-06-03T20:52:06Z")
Once you’ve separated the halves, there’s really no wrong way to go. Like many enterprising '80s kids, I independently invented Double Stuf Oreos before the company cottoned on to the idea, but I would also sometimes do what you did and eat the filling all on its own. The important thing is that you play with your food enough to gross out anyone with overly delicate sensibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/74 "2022-06-03T20:56:15Z")
Sounds like there are a lot of us who regarded Chef Boyardee ravioli to be a great delicacy as kids. I no longer see the appeal, to put it mildly. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/75 "2022-06-03T22:49:45Z")
That’s how I like to eat Nutella. (Which reminds me, I need to get a new jar.) I also like chicken nuggets (Ian’s, which are GF and therefore expensive, are by far the best) and fish sticks, especially with Tater Tots. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/76 "2022-06-03T22:50:18Z")
I agree, although I’m pretty sure the recipe has been changed. It’s NOT the same as it once was. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/77 "2022-06-03T22:51:50Z")
They used to be 6 for $1. My local grocery store now sells them 4 for $1. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/78 "2022-06-04T02:00:28Z")
Popcorn and grilled cheese together. Woo. Ah, nostalgia. Im trying to think of something not mentioned yet. Guess cabbage, dumplings with butter.edited to add pixie stix. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/79 "2022-06-04T02:26:15Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > Sounds like there are a lot of us who regarded Chef Boyardee ravioli to be a great delicacy as kids. I hated it as a kid. It was so salty that you could smell the salt in it and had no redeeming qualities otherwise. Then again I also hated spaghetti sauce (preferring to add only butter and grated cheese) so maybe I just hated the tomato sauce. To this day I dislike spaghetti with the sauce smoothly mixed into it because not only does the mild red color just look wrong but it also reminds me of cold and stale leftovers in a red-stained Tupperware bowl. ---
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> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > Those look lovely! And they _are_ barely recognizable. I can make out the spring bok and the birds but what kind of creature is the blue one? > [@ctnguy](#): > > I think it’s supposed to be a bear. A shmoo. [![](http://ditext.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ShmooV2-1024x616.jpg) ](http://ditext.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/ShmooV2-1024x616.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613.md?page=5)