What was your Favorite Childhood Food?

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Permalink Reply by Kimberly Rogers on September 23, 2009 at 6:39pm

You must be from the east coast. People in the west don't know about Marshmallow Fluff.
I was in the Chicago airport last year and they had a peanut butter and jelly kiosk. I ended up ordering a fluffernutter for my once a year sandwich. Maybe it's time for another one!
I used to like peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. And any of the seafood that I used to get during my summers in Maine.

Permalink Reply by MTippingAtelier-Admin on September 23, 2009 at 7:37pm

OH my gosh!! My mother used to eat peanut butter and pickle sandwiches (on toast) and I love them as well. My family comes from West Virginia and I don't know if it's a southern thing. I have never met another person who has ever eaten one and when I mention them people look at me as if I were nuts;) I have never had a fluffernutter or peanut butter and banana sandwich...I also grew up loving fried yellow squash (dipped in egg and flour) and fried green tomatoes (dipped in cornmeal). To me these are like eating candy:)

Permalink Reply by Purple Daisy Jewelry on September 27, 2009 at 9:43am

I don't think I can pick a favorite food. My mom was from the deep south - Tupelo, Mississippi and my dad was from Texas - so interesting, fattening foods we had. We had homemade cornbread at almost every evening meal (no one can make it like my mother did). We ate lots of purple hull and black eyed peas, fried chicken and fresh veggies when we could get them. Then there was the "healthy" salad LOL. Lettuce with onions and bacon grease poured over it with a splash of vinegar served with cornbread pancake style. I loved this! Purple hull peas were also a favorite. I also loved leftover cornbread crumbled in a glass with milk poured over it.

So you know why I have a such a trim figure . . . NOT!

Permalink Reply by Stone School Vintage on January 22, 2010 at 6:20am

Oh My Fluffernutter Sandwiches!!!! My Sister and I buy a big jar of marshmallow and one peanut butter and make these while watching out favorite movies from the good ole days!!! It is best to do this when it is raining : )! (these are the only sandwhiches i will eat on whitebread)
lets see favorite food from childhood.... Sunday Night Homemade Pizza and Chocolate Milkshakes watching Wild Kingdom with the whole family!!!!

Permalink Reply by Admiredhistory on June 16, 2010 at 2:41am

Can't say that I had a favorite food. I came from a family of great cooks, so I ate quite well.

I can tell you what I miss though. My grandmothers relishes. Grandma had a homemade relish for everything and they were wonderful. Most of the ingredients came fresh from her garden.

Grandma also made pickeled pears that were to die for.

Permalink Reply by takapitcha on July 27, 2010 at 7:13pm

My grandmothers home canned peach preserves. Oh dear my mouth is watering just imagining it!! She lived near multiple orchards in the high desert in California, and she would go to the farms and buy a dozen lugs of cherries, nectarines, cucumbers and peaches that were as big as my head! She would spend a week canning jar after jar... Noboby can replicate her preserves or dill pickles. And watermellon rind pickles.... fabulous!!
I also loved a big bowl of Wheaties with a thin sliced banana and cold, FROSTY cold milk. Delish!!! (A fave dinner to this day in the summer!)

Permalink Reply by Starshinin on August 1, 2010 at 9:11pm

my two most favorite is a hot fudge recipe, which you pour over ice cream. my aunt came up with the recipe in the 1920's while learning to be a teacher
the other is called phildus, which is sauerkraut with ground beef, which my grandmother made and came over with her from germany in the 1800's..
what can i say, i'm an oldie lol

Permalink Reply by Aralis Bloise on August 24, 2010 at 12:01pm

My sister and I were talking about this one thing we ate when we were little, not only because it was one of a favorites, but because everyone we tell about it a) has never heard of it b) thinks it's disgusting.

Deviled ham and grape jelly, cut into 4 (not 2!) squares.
I want to buy some deviled ham now and see what it tastes like. I don't remember the last time I had it, but I'm sure it's been decades.

Another favorite snack was a slice of Sara Lee pound cake, buttered and toasted in the toaster oven, then cut up into little cubes.

Permalink Reply by jenscloset on August 24, 2010 at 12:36pm

My favorite meal was a cheeseburger casserole-hamburger meat with the refrigerator rolls on top with lots of cheese! Also my Mom made the yummiest caramel dumpings! My Mom an amazing cook! I don't know how she did it, but she managed to have gourmet meals (ok so the cheeseburger casserole not so gourmet!), and raise 5 kids (and we kind of turned out ok too!).

Permalink Reply by Alley Cat Lane on October 10, 2010 at 10:16am

I grew up in Key West, so between Grandma's yard and the neighbors, we were surrounded by tropical fruits - papayas, Cuban bananas, guavas, sugar apples, key limes, soursops, avocados, etc. A lot of them were used to made preserves and ice cream. One of my favorites a neighbor lady made was guava duff - a thick cake with chunks of guava boiled in pans on the stove and served warm with a sugary white egg sauce. Yum!!

No one could out do Grandma's homemade chocolate pie and key lime pie with 2" thick meringue and gooey, buttery pie shells. And don't get me started on restaurant key lime pie served today - it's nothing like the thick yellow tangy pie Grandma made.

I have never been able to find any fudge like hers either. I remember her standing by the stove holding a big pot and beating the mixture for what seemed like hours. It came out hard, sugary, buttery, and filled with marshmellows and walnuts. The soft mushy fudge sold today doesn't come close to Grandma's wonderful fudge.

Then there were the Cuban sandwiches, fried cod fish cakes with fried plantains (yum), grits and grunts (fish), doughboys, ...

Wow! And I wonder why I have always had trouble keeping my weight down. LOL.
Carolyn