Well played.
I’m digging this spaghetti idea with little meatballs and sausage slices instead of hot dogs, because hot dogs in tomato sauce is an abomination unto the FSM.
I have seen some favorites and some downright yucky stuff, reading through this thread. But one of my childhood favorites hasn’t been mentioned yet, so I’ll bless everybody with this memory.
When Imstarted kindergarten, the school was literally just across the street. Momma could stand on the front porch and watch me walk through the kindergarten door!
From the very first day, I came home to a special treat I had never had before. Momma took a coffee cup, broke up several graham crackers inside, then added enough milk to make a mushy mess.
You eat it with a spoon.
Nirvana!
I confess, I still enjoy that to this very day. I’m almost 70, and I loves me some mooshed up graham crackers in milk!
~VOW
I think I’ve mentioned this elsewhere here, but as a very young boy, I’d visit my grandparents, and eat breakfast with them while my folks slept in.
My grandpa dunked his toast into his coffee, so I dunked mine into my OJ.
55 years later, it remains a favorite treat, though I very rarely have toast, OJ, and the privacy to enjoy it without scrutiny. But I have actually considered it as my death row last meal.
Graham crackers dunked in milk.
my aunt does this but with nilla type of cookies (those little round cookies about the size of a quarter used mostly for banana pudding)
before Nutella and its imitators became commonplace one of my grade school teachers would take gram crackers and break up them in half and put cake frosting on it as a snack for us …and we got to vote on what kind of frosting we’d have the next day
And for the kids who couldn’t have sugar because it made us hyper … well she took a dim view of that and we kept it a secret …even the diabetic girl got it because teach and the girl’s mom worked out an acceptable amount …
Do we include the crap we learned to eat as teenagers in this thread, because, if so… 
Maybe use stock or broth to cook it to avoid watering down the meatball flavor? I boil brats in beer till done, then throw on for grill marks. I wonder how the spaghetti would taste if cooked in beer.
You have some chances coming up to try it…
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One other blast from the past that I will seek out occasionally:
https://littledebbie.com/www/snackproducts/view/53/nutty-buddy
yes 2 or 3 of them are dinner
Oh VOW, I still eat that today, sometimes. I, uh, use an entire pack of crackers though, always have.
Not a childhood favorite for me, but close, very close.
missed it by that much
Do you know what I miss? the fake fruit “drink” or “punch” that was made by dairies that sold for like 1.00 a half or full gallon that was always next to the milk and had 101 flavors … …
Thank you. I was beginning to think my sister and I were the only two people on earth who enjoyed this treat. Everyone I explain it to gets the “you’re crazy” look on their face.
I also use a whole pack now. And have you noticed the crackers are smaller, and there are fewer in the pack?
I crush the crackers while they are in the pack, and then I place them in a large insulated mug. I add enough milk to make the mixture much more “liquid-ey” than the original “pudding” texture. I stir the mess very thoroughly, then I sit back and enjoy my delightful graham beverage.
One of Life’s little pleasures I can still enjoy.
~VOW
Ooh, thought of a good one. When trying a new Mexican place, I always get the ground beef (picadillo) a bit child-like. I’m not into steak/asada, the pork leaves me flat unless the place is a star for that, chicken’s ok but gimme ground beef, with course (edit: course cut, 1cm cubes) veggies like potatoes or carrots, chiles mixed in.
Thank you, I will get back to dunking. It is a funny word. When I typed it I thought - maybe that’s not a real word!
Wow! I never thought I’d hear about someone else eating this. We called it mushed-up graham crackers in milk. My grandma always fed me this. She would warm up the milk first so it was like a bowl of hot cereal. Sometimes she’d sneak in an egg to make it more healthy. I hated that. I’d watch her like a hawk to make sure she didn’t. My kids loved mushed-up graham crackers too.
Ginger Snaps
I tried Spaghetti-O’s once since we got them for my kids. It tasted the same as when I was a kid, but I was BLOWN away at how horrible it actually tasted to me now. Just awful.
Has anybody ever had Snow “Ice Cream”?
I’ve asked friends from all over, who have lived in places with snow about this. (I never bothered asking anybody in SCal!) Nobody has ever heard of it.
When I was a bitty kid, we lived in Alaska. Daddy was stationed at Elmendorf AFB. After a snowfall, when the drifts were pure and undisturbed, Momma would go outside and scoop up a big bowl of fresh snow. In the kitchen she would add milk, sugar, and a bit of vanilla.
So simple! So wonderful!
After Alaska, Daddy was transferred to Southern California. When he retired, my parents stayed there.
I never had snow ice cream again until I made it for The Daughter when we lived in Germany.
~VOW