What is your most child-like food?

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Frozen Tater Tots are a favorite childhood memory.

We always had a bag in our freezer. Easy snack that any kid over 8 or 9 can heat in the oven.

We also kept canned potato sticks in the cabinet. I still buy them occasionally.

I remember eating a lunch meat sandwich and tater tots for lunch. My mom worked and I was a latch key kid. I always fixed my own lunch during the summer.

Frozen french fries didn’t heat up well in the oven. They required frying to get crispy. My mom wouldn’t allow me near hot grease. Tater tots were kid cook friendly.

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Yes! Snow cream is/was a very rare treat. My mom, like yours, would add milk, sugar, and vanilla. The last time or two I made it, I used sweetened condensed milk and a bit of vanilla.

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@Tarataratara

OMG! Sweetened condensed milk! Brilliant!

But we don’t get much snow at our place in AZ. You need those good-sized drifts so you can scoop out a big bowlful. I’d end up with bugs, tumbleweeds and animal poop.

~VOW

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My great-grandmother made snow ice cream maybe twice. Because we live in Texas, snowy days were almost non-existent. Snow ice cream didn’t just mean sweet treat, it also meant day off from school. Woot!

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Straight Dopers ROCK!

Two items of my childhood I have described to other people for (over–shhh!) fifty years, only to be considered slightly crazy.

I bare the childhood memories to the world of SDMB, and I find (sniff!) acceptance.

Thank you!

~VOW

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There is a snow cream flavor of ice cream. I haven’t tried it; it just seems wrong. I’m getting tempted, though. Snow Cream® Ice Cream 1.5 Quart - Mayfield Dairy Farms®

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Not seeing a whole lot of snow in there…

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I’m going to relabel sweetened condensed milk cans as snow cream mix - add your own snow. Eight dollars a can. Nobody steal my idea.

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@Tarataratara

Wacky! Love it! “Snow Ice Cream mix, just add snow!”

~VOW

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A friend and I went through a deep fryer phase and it was real tasty. Fresh, deep fried tator tots are sublime, shake any spice you like, I did garlic salt last time but Ill bet a BBQ rub works great, too.

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Two words: CHEEZE WHIZ! Eaten straight out of the jar! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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I think you and me should get married. I live on pb&j, chicken strips (though I tend to bake or use my food ninja), canned pasta, and various other things that seem to be right up your alley.

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my aunt does this with nilla wafers or the generic version of and milk

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heres the "drink "i was talking about and I finally found some…
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.sCSJy8Te4c1YeAqps6qv-wHaHX?pid=ImgDet&rs=1

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When they first came out, I was in my 20’s, but I loved Kid’s Cuisine frozen dinners, particularly the hot dogs and hamburgers.

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YES! Grape drink or that purple stuff as Dave Chapelle says! I find grape juice too strong and would water it down. If I couldn’t find it, fruit punch drink would be my second choice.

Last year, before I was diagnosed with diabetes, I would drink a half gallon at work during the day. I’ve tried various sugar free mixes, but it’s not the same. SIGH

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Re Kraft dinner:

You know, when I first read this comment, I thought, “Nah…it just seems weird to me to cook separate things for myself.” But, next week, I have my :white_flower:Very First Colonoscopy! :white_flower: and I have to eat some junk that isn’t like we normally eat. And that is a perfect excuse for me to eat a load of Kraft Dinner! :star_struck:
Yeah, this is gonna be great.

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Wait, what? I had a colonoscopy last month, and the only things I was allowed to eat were jello and bouillon.

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Right, the day before. But a couple of days before that, no foods that have any kind of fiber in them.

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Oh, okay. Yeah, I had avoid raw fruits and veggies, among other foods.