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>

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What do gooseberries taste like

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

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.

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My grandma always had new potatos with the creamed peas.

Think bitter/sour with no sweetness whatsoever...

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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.

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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!!

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

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mulberries

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.

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

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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.

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Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.

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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!!

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

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