# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/81 "2022-06-04T08:01:07Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > Being ceramic, the jar lid had to be opened _very_ carefully so mom wouldn’t hear. We had Big Bird. Same story. Which reminds me. Cut and serve sugar cookies. I can eat quite a few. At least I usually wait until they are baked, but if I’m the one baking them, I underbake them. It’s easy for me to separate the Oreo filling from the Oreo cookiess. Nutter Butter filling is more difficult to separate. Still going to eat them, even if I can’t successfully separate the cookie from the filling. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/82 "2022-06-04T09:15:56Z")
I still occasionally eat my childhood night before footy dinner from when I was 12. Theory was, being as skinny as a rake, do some loading the night before playing U14’s footy. I cooked it myself then, mum thought I was nuts. basically assemble this. 2 slices of white buttered toast 2 fried burger patties on the toast. Top the burger patties with cheese slices Tip a heated tin of baked beans over top Place 1 fried egg, runny yolk on top as a garnish. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/83 "2022-06-04T12:58:51Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > Twizzlers. It’s the only candy I ever buy. If I don’t stop myself, I will consume an entire bag in one sitting. Pro Tip - When you first get them, cut them in half so they fit in a 1 quart zip lock bag. Keeps them from drying out. Yeah, Twizzlers are a weakness for me. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/84 "2022-06-04T15:18:27Z")
I like Twizzlers dried out! I cut the package open and let them dry. Then I can kind of gnaw on them. ---
**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 4, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/85 "2022-06-04T15:46:40Z")
They can’t dry out if you eat them all in one sitting! ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/86 "2022-06-04T16:43:40Z")
Believe me, they don’t have time to dry out. I especially like the “Pull & Peel” variety, except I rarely Pull & Peel them. I just take a big chomp out of the whole wad. There are similar candies I also enjoy. Wiley Wallabys are great. There’s just something about that soft, sweet, chewy texture. Nice to know there are so many Twizzler fans out there. ---
**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 4, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/87 "2022-06-04T16:53:23Z")
Fresh Twizzlers are fantastic!. Once they’re dry I’m not interested, they become fake-strawberry flavored jerky. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/88 "2022-06-04T20:22:28Z")
Mac n cheese with ketchup ---
**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 4, 2022, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/89 "2022-06-04T20:36:19Z")
I never liked Twizzlers, or as we called them when I was a kid “red licorice.” I _loved_ black licorice. Maybe that belongs in the “unchildlike” thread. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/90 "2022-06-04T21:00:56Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > Mac and cheese from a box. I can, and usually do, make it from scratch, but sometimes only the box will do. Yep. > [@Alessan](#): > > Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Yeah, but I make mine a bit more adult with whole grain bread, and jam instead of jelly. > [@panache45](#): > > Peanut butter and butter sandwiches, no jelly, made with huge slabs of Kerrygold butter. I felt small arteries hardening just reading this. 😛 > [@Tibby](#): > > Gimme a bowl of animal crackers with that too, pilgrim! Yeah, aren’t animal crackers small cookies? I mean, the ones in the little cute zoo boxes? Then why the song “Animal Crackers in my Soup”?? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wNwFXLcrsbc/hqdefault.jpg "Shirley Temple : Animal Crackers In My Soup Extended Version") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNwFXLcrsbc) > [@Railer13](#): > > Mac and Cheese in a box, but it’s gotta be Kraft. The generic store brands just don’t cut it. Yep! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/91 "2022-06-04T21:22:45Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Mac and Cheese in a box, but it’s gotta be Kraft. The generic store brands just don’t cut it. Yeah, when I lived as an expat in Hungary in the 90s and 00s, Kraft Mac & Cheese was like gold to the Americans. Anytime one of us would go back to the States, we’d bring back half a suitcase full of Kraft Mac & Cheese, and the other half cartons of American cigarettes. (I can’t believe I actually managed to quit smoking in that environment.) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/92 "2022-06-04T21:26:04Z")
Spaghettios with sliced franks. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/93 "2022-06-04T22:23:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yeah, but I make mine a bit more adult with whole grain bread, and jam instead of jelly. Oh, I make mine with cherry confiture in a fresh pita. I’m not a philistine. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/94 "2022-06-04T22:32:20Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Oh, I make mine with cherry confiture in a fresh pita. I’m not a philistine. Hmph. I use almond butter. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/95 "2022-06-05T00:48:06Z")
My store has a particular fudgesicle that comes 12 in a box. I eat a box within a couple of hours. I can only eat a box every other day. To have a box a day would require going to the store everyday, which is a no, or buy multiple boxes, the problem being I wouldn’t be able to stop eating them. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/96 "2022-06-05T01:14:18Z")
> [@Tarataratara](#): > > I like Twizzlers dried out! Just buy Red Vines and cut out the middle man. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/97 "2022-06-05T03:17:23Z")
> [@Thing.Fish](#): > > 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. Chef Boyardee ravioli I can still eat now. I don’t do it often - but I crack a can every other year or three for the nostalgia. When I do I must eat them accompanied by the original nacho cheese doritos for that double-junk food goodness. The why of that tradition/compulsion is lost to the misty memories of my youth. SpaghettiOs, I cannot. You’d think they’d be about the same thing and that’s how I remembered them from my youth. But as I found out after I tried both after a many-year hiatus, they’re very much not. SpaghettiOs are wayyyy sweeter for one and it’s not like Chef Boyardee is lacking in the sweetness department. ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/99 "2022-06-05T12:26:06Z")
I indulge in my childhood treat once in a great while: white bread and butter, sprinkled with lots of sugar and cinnamon. I suspect it was a thing my mom gave us when we had no dessert in the house, and I’ve since seen online that it’s considered a white trash treat. But I still like it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/100 "2022-06-05T14:06:09Z")
“White trash,” my ass! I do sugar and cinnamon on buttered toast all the time, especially for breakfast. Still working on the perfect ratio of S to C to B. Only been 55 years; I’ll keep you posted. 😉 ---
**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 5, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/101 "2022-06-05T16:18:06Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Chef Boyardee ravioli I can still eat now. Huge support for the Chef’s ravioli in this thread. I’m beginning to think the ingredients should be checked for something addictive. I had no idea the stuff was that popular but I think I may need to pick up a can and try it again for the first time in decades. SpaghettiOs just suck. Way more of that weird sauce in it, the stuff is practically a liquid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613.md?page=6)