What is your most child-like food?

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.

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.

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.

I like Twizzlers dried out! I cut the package open and let them dry. Then I can kind of gnaw on them.

They can’t dry out if you eat them all in one sitting!

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.

Fresh Twizzlers are fantastic!. Once they’re dry I’m not interested, they become fake-strawberry flavored jerky.

Mac n cheese with ketchup

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.

Yep.

Yeah, but I make mine a bit more adult with whole grain bread, and jam instead of jelly.

I felt small arteries hardening just reading this. :stuck_out_tongue:

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”??

Yep!

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.)

Spaghettios with sliced franks.

Oh, I make mine with cherry confiture in a fresh pita. I’m not a philistine.

Hmph. I use almond butter.

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.

Just buy Red Vines and cut out the middle man.

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.

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.

“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. :wink:

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.