discussion of messed up food we ate as kids.

[vash]

I was a latch key kid. 100%. I remember toasting bread, and smashing a slice of Kraft American cheese between the warm slices and calling it lunch.

growing up in the 70's I remember the major ingredient of food was "convenience". it had to be fast and easy. TV-dinners. Swansons chicken Niblets!! stuff setting us up as adults destined for doctor lectures. hahah. I was 8, and I could cook up a TV-dinner like a pro.

thankfully those Chef-boy-R-dee days are behind me...

I just had group chat with my siblings. we were struggling to remember this thing we ate as a kid. no effen way it gets past my lips today.

anyone remember this culinary delight? (no Google cheating)

[Eric Hahl]

Steak-Em!

[Paul T]

I lived on Steak-Um and Hormel chili for awhile....amazing I survived! lol....

[Rikao4]

in another place this was called ..
American food..
grew up on real Schnitzel & real Bratwurst..
remember my first Hot Dog..
and Pizza was with a knife and fork..

Rika

[vash]

Originally Posted by Eric Hahl

Steak-Em!

dang...that was too quick. hahaha..

my liver is 40% Fois Gras at the moment because of crap like this food.

I remember guzzling gallons of full fat vitamin D milk as a kid. that couldn't have been a good idea.

[pwd72s]

Sure the full fat milk was good for you. Why? Because your generation burned that fat by playing outdoors, not playing computer games. Hell, we could all still eat that way...IF we had the metabolism of a still growing and very active body. Alas, that's not the case, so we have to pay attention now.

[cockerpunk]

its bonkers how much high quality food has become available, and at reasonable costs.

like, its amazing how much better food is, even since the 1990s.

even your greasy bar burgers are 10x better than they used to be, never mind the fact that you can go to any farm to table restaurant, get out the door for 200 bucks with booze, and have had a top 10 in your life meal.

its frankly shocking when you really look at it.

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by vash

dang...that was too quick. hahaha..

my liver is 40% Fois Gras at the moment because of crap like this food.

I remember guzzling gallons of full fat vitamin D milk as a kid. that couldn't have been a good idea.

Well, I grew up on that stuff too! We'd melt Velveeta on them. How's that for doubling down on the bad.

[GH85Carrera]

Our mom was always home to cook for us. Many times we were served just white bead and gravy for dinner. She was a great cook, and we ate well most of the time.

When I moved away from home and became an "adult" I ate a lot of gummy Japanese rice with just soy sauce on it for some flavor. On Friday, payday I would splurge and pour a can of Campbell's soup over the rice instead and savor each bite. I had a Panasonic rice cooker and it got lots of use. I could eat for 4 cents per day. Potato soup was another staple.

I don't miss those days of being broke.

I do remember one time I drank a 6 pack of beer and ate a bag of Doritos for dinner, likely on payday. I only did that once, as there was no one to say you shouldn't do that.

[Tidybuoy]

When I was a kid, we kept mayonnaise in the regular kitchen cupboard. One day I told my mom that my friend's mom keeps the mayonnaise in the refrigerator, and she got mad at me and said we are not doing that.... Maybe because there were 8 kids in my family, we went thru the mayo so fast it did not matter. We also lived in San Francisco, so our cupboards were probably cool.

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by vash

I remember guzzling gallons of full fat vitamin D milk as a kid. that couldn't have been a good idea.

As a kid, you needed the fat and the calories. My wife made me start buying whole milk when the grandkid was staying wth us a lot

[id10t]

Originally Posted by vash

I was a latch key kid. 100%. I remember toasting bread, and smashing a slice of Kraft American cheese between the warm slices and calling it lunch.

I make grilled cheese that way when I don't feel like taking the time to heat and then clean a pan to do it "the right way"

(toaster on 3, 2 slices cheese, 15 seconds in the nuker)


My screwed up meals were anything mom tried to make as a "normal" dinner. IE, her idea of a roast chicken was to put a chicken on a platter, cut up two potatoes and a few carrots and put them around it, and toss it in the microwave for 15 minutes.

As bad as that sounds, re-read and notice I said nothing about salt, pepper, garlic, etc....

Thankfully dad could do some cooking and we had a old black lady maid who cooked dinner 4 nights a week for us.....

[oldE]

Milk? We had a small herd of dairy cows and Dad sold raw milk in our community. There were a couple of inches of cream on top and you had to shake it up to avoid the blob of thick cream.
We put in hundreds of pounds of potatoes, turnips and carrots in the celllar each fall. I don't think I had rice until my sister took me to a Chinese restaurant.
If I wanted crap food, I had to get it at the local store.

Best
Les

[jyl]

I ate weird stuff as a kid. Chicken necks, sea cucumber, snails, Camenbert, etc. But it was pretty good food. I sometimes had TV dinners, that was a fun treat.

One thing about the US, we can eat a wide variety of ethnic foods. Chinese, Mexican, Japanese, Middle Eastern, Thai, Italian, we’re the melting pot of food.

[matthewb0051]

Anyone remember the breakfast stick thing that came along when Tang was a breakfast beverage? Some astronaut thing to go along with Tang. It was like a Slim Jim but sort of chocolaty IIRC

[masraum]

Originally Posted by oldE

Milk? We had a small herd of dairy cows and Dad sold raw milk in our community. There were a couple of inches of cream on top and you had to shake it up to avoid the blob of thick cream.
We put in hundreds of pounds of potatoes, turnips and carrots in the celllar each fall. I don't think I had rice until my sister took me to a Chinese restaurant.
If I wanted crap food, I had to get it at the local store.

Best
Les

We live ~20 miles from 3 different dairy farms. We buy 2 gallons of raw milk about every other week. It's so much better than anything that you can get it the store.

And if you want/need to buy cream for any purpose, almost all of them have some sort of thickener in them, guar gum, xanthum gum, carageenan, etc...

[rfuerst911sc]

When my wife and I started dating their family had a summer trailer/camp near Cayuga lake in upstate NY . It was there that I was introduced to scrapple . It makes Spam look like health food . But yummy with eggs for breakfast . Yeah I remember Swanson TV dinners we would eat those every once in a while . Yes the good ole days

[wdfifteen]

I grew up on a dairy farm, so whole milk w as a given. We had a vegetable garden and my dad was into fresh vegetables. We killed a steer and a hog and probably a couple of dozen chickens every year. My mom hated it. She fed us a lot of bologna and Colby cheese on white bread if dad wasn’t in on the meal.

[rfuerst911sc]

^^^ My mom was trained in Germany to be a butcher , she would have loved your farm . She was like Edward scissorhands with knives going crazy . Every deer I ever shot she would skin and butcher it . She was 4 ' 10 " the deer were taller than she was

[cantdrv55]

In the PI, we ate fish and rice everyday for breakfast then washed it down with black coffee. I was 6-9 years old with this diet