# What "un-childlike" foods did you like as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [June 4, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653 "2022-06-04T02:35:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/1 "2022-06-04T02:35:12Z")
Inspired by [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-most-child-like-food/965613/64) What is something you liked as a kid that isn’t necessarily geared to a child’s palette? For example I loved salt & vinegar chips as a kid, still do. And when the late Mr. J was little the servers in the px would watch him enjoy liver & onions! What about you? ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/2 "2022-06-04T02:37:43Z")
Lobster is the first thing that comes to mind. I first had some when I was about 5 and loved it. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/3 "2022-06-04T02:56:47Z")
Jajangmyeon: > **[Jajangmyeon (Noodles in Black Bean Sauce)](https://www.koreanbapsang.com/jajangmyeon-noodles-in-black-bean-sauce/)** > > This popular Korean-Chinese noodle dish is very easy to make it at home with the black bean paste, called chujang. Delicious! One of my favorite dishes at a tyke. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/4 "2022-06-04T02:57:56Z")
From a very young age, I liked _un-childlike_ foods such as liver & onions, creamed chipped beef on toast (S.O.S.), and kipper snacks. I’ve been eating them regularly for 6 decades. In fact I just made L & Os today. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/5 "2022-06-04T03:00:17Z")
Spinach. I have always loved spinach. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/6 "2022-06-04T03:01:10Z")
Steamed broccoli. (Granted I had it in the broccoli-and-cheese-potato form, usually.) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/7 "2022-06-04T03:29:24Z")
I also liked liver and onions as a child, because my parents did too and nobody told me it was supposed to be gross until they served it in the school cafeteria. I also remember when my grandmother made a mincemeat pie and my parents tried to persuade me not to taste it, but Grandma gave me some anyway, and guess what? I loved it! To me, it was a raisin pie, so what was the big deal? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/8 "2022-06-04T03:30:26Z")
Smoked oysters and kippers ---
**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, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/9 "2022-06-04T03:41:31Z")
I enjoyed liver & onions. I really liked tinned fish, like sardines and mackerel. My mom used to send me to school with them in my lunch. I was up for the smoked oysters from a tin, eaten with a toothpick, as well. (Hell – it’s probably been about close to 40 years since I last had them, too – back when I was a kid.) Pickled herring. Pickled beets. Chicken hearts (my brother and I would fight for the one in the chicken soup.) Fried chicken livers from Brown’s chicken. My mom’s rumaki sans chestnuts, which were a special snack for Saturday night movie watching. Chicken aspic with vinegar (still one of my favorites, but only when visiting my parents. I never buy it or make it for myself.) Beefsteak tartare. Radishes. Is corned beef hash “un-childlike”? After I discovered it, that was my favorite breakfast to order the rare times we would go out for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/10 "2022-06-04T03:54:21Z")
Porkchops, thin cut, over cooked and slightly burned, with iceburg lettuce and tomato wedges salad (with carrot rounds and/or radishes) and ketchup based salad dressing. That was our version of “beans and weenies” meal when I was a kid, and I loved it. It’s comfort food for me. Well not the ketchup salad dressing. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/11 "2022-06-04T03:57:39Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I also remember when my grandmother made a mincemeat pie and my parents tried to persuade me not to taste it, but Grandma gave me some anyway, and guess what? I loved it! To me, it was a raisin pie, so what was the big deal? I love mincemeat pie! I think it may be the beef suet ingredient that turns some people off. I’m American, but my mother (RIP) was a WWII British war bride, She was a top-notch cook, particularly talented with pie/pastry crusts. So, mincemeat, steak & kidney and other English pies were in constant rotation in our house. And, I too always loved spinach. Quite good with a chopped hard boiled egg mixed in. ---
**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, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/12 "2022-06-04T04:03:44Z")
My mom would mix ketchup and mayo for a salad dressing. I thought soup and salad was a very elegant, ladylike meal to eat, so I loved to have a bowl of canned soup and that salad for such a sophisticated lunch. ---
**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, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/13 "2022-06-04T04:04:23Z")
Fruit cake. Claxton fruit cake to be specific. I’ve always loved dried fruit and nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/14 "2022-06-04T04:13:21Z")
Caesar salad. Made from scratch, with anchovies and coddled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/15 "2022-06-04T04:31:16Z")
I have a hard time even thinking of “childlike” food. Man, in my house, you ate what mom cooked or you went hungry. So, yeah, I grew up on liver and onions, Pigs in the Blankets, all sorts of ‘Mexican’ food, sushi and sukiyaki, spinach, the whole menu. The only thing I won’t eat (just about) as an adult is lamb/sheep. Disgusting, stinky greasy meat. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/16 "2022-06-04T08:18:29Z")
I grew up eating - and enjoying - whatever was served, no exceptions. I never understood why so many kids didn’t like the foods I loved. The only two foods I’ve ever had that I won’t eat again are haggis and Limburger cheese. ---
**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, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/17 "2022-06-04T09:31:01Z")
I always like steak, I liked it even more as an adult when I realised it didn’t need to be cremated like my mother cooked it. Liver, tick, although my version is better. Liver, onions, bacon with a red wine sauce. ---
**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, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/18 "2022-06-04T09:34:09Z")
Wow. I can only assume you’ve had some really badly cooked Lamb. A Lamb leg roast with garlic and rosemary, and all the veges is food of the gods. Loin chops are mini T bone steaks. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/19 "2022-06-04T10:11:15Z")
When i was very small, my parents would give me the lemon wedge to chew on when they ate at a restaurant. That seems unchildlike to me. I, too, loved rumaki (without the water chestnut) and still make it sometimes as a treat for myself. I’ll have to check it the other thread to see what people think childlike foods are. Some that are mentioned here seem like food every child likes. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653/20 "2022-06-04T10:15:45Z")
Coffee. Folks are skeptical when I tell them that my daily breakfast as a child, going back to age 5 or so, was peanut butter toast and a cup of coffee. mmm [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-un-childlike-foods-did-you-like-as-a-kid/965653.md?page=2)