~*~Oreo Cookies & Cherry Kool-Aid~*~
 

Ahhhhhhh, memories of childhood revisited...

What did you eat as a kid that you remember fondly and with a smile and then tried to recapture the "flavor" as an adult?

<bleh> Cherry Kool-Aid and Oreo cookies - don't know why as a kid I thought that combo was the greatest thing on earth!

A couple years ago I went to a farmer's market and there was a stand that was selling gooseberries. I walked by the stand a couple of times remembering as a kid I used to hide in the alley between houses and "sneak" gooseberries from the bushes of the neighborhood grandma - boy, those were good!

I was trying to "recapture" the joy of that memory when I purchased a pint of gooseberries from the stand. With eager anticipation I made my way to the car and unloaded the goodies I bought into the back seat - all except for that pint of gooseberries. I got behind the wheel of the car and opened up the pint and picked out a fat juicy looking gooseberry and popped it into my mouth...

Do you all know what an unripe gooseberry tastes like? Furthermore... do you all know what a ripe gooseberry tastes like? <bleh>

What do gooseberries taste like :mad:

I have a pitcher of Cherry Kool Aid in the fridge right now. :slurp:

You are all now going to find out what a STRANGE kid I was......LMAO

My great grandmother used to make me creamed peas......I even loved them COLD. They were my absolute fave!

....And now that she is gone no one.....no one....can make them the same way. :(

My grandma always had new potatos with the creamed peas.

Think bitter/sour with no sweetness whatsoever...

I am such a kool aid junkie. I called and complained when they stopped offering the good swag for kool aid points. I've got the glass pitcher, beach towel, t-shirt...I'm a kool aid whole and I'm proud of it....

But I digress. Rhubarb. Rhubarb pie, bars, bread...and sauce. That's what I love from my childhood. I think it's totally underappreciated. Now I'm going to have to go out and get some.

Everything - fortunately my mom taught me how to cook and now I can share my kids the tastes and wonders from the 50's. Geez, did I just date myself all over again!

Green or grape kool aid and lots of Jello - any flavor!! :thumb:

Fruit punch Kool Aid and Frito corn chips, used to get that all the time in day care, was sooo good lol

mulberries :slurp:

and my Grams made instant chocolate jello pudding better than any human on earth or in the Heavens. I can't even eat it anymore.

I've passed the lovely sweet pickles-and-milk gene onto my six-year old daughter. :D

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My great grandmaother made creamed peas with an *awful* pot roast that was cooked at 10,0000C for about 100000000000 hours..........but I loved it (and her) anyway.

My grandmother baked every Friday and there was always a fresh loaf of bread or batch of carmel rolls coming out of the oven it seemed. Used to sit at her kitchen table with a big pad of butter and a glass of milk and gorge on her bread and rolls.

OMG, I can feel the saliva buildup again. :)

I have no doubt that she's in heaven and that they started a regular Friday baking day and all the heavenly host are sitting down at their tables with a big pad of butter and glass of cold milk in front of them waiting for the next batch.

Oh yeah, my mom always made me a German candy/cake dish called "Cold Dog." Wow! Rich, rich layers of delicious chocolate with layers of rum-soaked vanilla wafers in-between. She always made the "loaves" in a wax-paper lined Valvetta Cheese box. After making them, they're put into the refrigerator to firm up and then sliced like bread.

(No doubt there are some of the above heavenly host are no doubt at her table, too!!!)

Sure hope she saves me some.

I've found recipes on the web, but haven't gotten my wife to make any yet. Hopefully, one of these days. :drool:

Every Thursday i used to go to my Grandma and Pops after school...and every Thursday it was the same *LOL*

Fresh bread jam and cream (and the occassional bread vegemite and cream) all washed down with a Milo spider (milo and lemonade...it frothed up)

I loved Thursdays!!

Going blackberry picking as a kid and helping mom make the cobbler. Yummy!

vegemite and cream ? I tell me kids how things were in my childhood days and carry on when i see something from my youger days that i enjoyed, and all they do is look at me like i'm stupid. but i know what they missed out on.

My childhood faves:
chocolate milk in my applesauce...mmm

Dunking Oreos in lemonade....mmmmm :)

I know, I know :dizzy:

Someone I know used to eat peanut butter and syrup sandwiches. I'm not too sure on that one. :)

On days when she wasn't working my mom always made us grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch. They were sooo yummy in my tummy. I always remember feeling sorry for my mom becuase she would cook several of them and we would gobble them up as fast as she could cook them, never thinking about leaving one for her. She would never eat until we were all done.

Now that I have child, I understand this. She either a) had undying love for her children, which I'm sure is true or b) used that to lengthen the break she was taking from housecleaning! lol

I have tried to replicate this for my son, but somehow my sandwiches turn out slightly blacker...

OH, and I think we have the makings of a heavanly Sunday dinner! osuche's grandma brings the roast, dicksbro's grandma brings the bread and my grandma made the meanest mashed potatoes on the planet. May her mashed potates rest in peace, becuase I"m sure she isn't - she's for too nosy to be doing anything like that!

Try it :slurp:

Its great my grand mother made them with Karyo syurp and we are bringing our grandkids up with it. And I can still smell her peanut butter cookies even tho shes been gone for several years

OMG I thought that was just a weird thing passed around in my family!! They are delicious. I can't even keep peanut butter in the house, because I know I will eventually make peanut butter and syrup sandwiches and they have to be sooooooooo fattening! lol

My favorite candy as a child was called Mint Juliep {sp?}, it was taffy and came in little, individual wrapped squares. If I close my eyes, I can almost taste it....if only they still made it :(

When I got older it was my grandma's homemade bread and homemade fried apple pies "sigh".

My Grandma used to make her own sauerkraut and she would then make a sauerkraut cake to die for. Grams where are you?????

Absolutely delicious, then & now...something my wife enjoys as well, altho she turned her nose up at my suggestion that peanut butter & honey was also good, esp. the way the honey crystalizes on contact with the bread...alas, as a diabetic, I can have my fill of PB, but hold the syrup...
One thing I had a taste for as a kid that some have found odd was Orange Pez...it reminded me of the orange-flavor children's aspirin (anybody remember when parents actually gave their kids aspirin? :yikes: )

peanut butter and honey is sooooooo good. pb and cinnamon sugar is yum, too.

vanilla popsicles for me. there was this guy that sold twin-pops in halves out of a window in his garage down the street from our house, in the days when that was cool and no-one would have labeled you a pedophile just cause you sold popsicles in the summer time to kids on bikes. i had one the other day and is was nasssssssssty. maybe cause i lost the whole experience; riding my red shwinn around town, hoping to spot a dime on the ground so i could get one and go sit on the curb with my friends playing my car/your car, slurping a vanilla popsicle

So, ya think the guy was getting off on watching little girls slurping on vanilla popsicles?




< bad scotz...no biscuit for you...>

nope...then again i was young and naive.

uh...i'm still naive :p

LOL @ all of you... :D

wyndhy... we would play my car your car too! I would tell someone about the game and they hadn't heard of it!!! LOL :D

As a kid I would get pancakes and put peanut butter on them with coconut syrup... I have tried it again as an adult and it is really gross.. yuk

pretentious little bitches we were, heh? :p:D

LOL.. yeah - we must have been!! Hey! If the car was a junker but had a hot boy in it did you keep the car or did you junk it?? LOL LOL :lust:











(I always kept it.. ;) )

OMG! keep!!!!!
no-brainer lol


are you sure we weren't seperated at birth?
:grin:

Oh you mean you ladies played for the cars???? We just played for the boys :p

LOL....well, if we were we had a couple of other "hussy" sistas.. LMAO :D

Oh, and Lil - ;) That is the only reason we kept the junky cars lol

we called that one my boyfriend/your boyfriend :p

Hey, who you callin' hussy...hussy!! :rofl:

You know who I am talkin' bout... ;)


























HUSSY... :rofl:

Is this the Hussy convention? :D

Graham crackers and leftover cake frosting! I had a red kool-aid fetish for awhile when little.

I absolutely loved beets with lots of butter as a child... my parents had a large garden and froze/canned many good veggies but beets were one of my favorites. I haven't touched them since.