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What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I LOVED rax. They used to have some type of chocolate chip shake that I went nuts over when I was a kid. Did anyone else ever eat at a Rallys? They all closed in Michigan last time i was there.
I miss E.T. Cereal. and Hubba Bubba made a mint chocolate chip gum that was disgustingly awesome.
I'm also still upset about Jello pudding pops being discontinued.
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I've never met a cheese I didn't love. But I think fresh mozzarella is my favorite.
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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
are you kidding me? sourdough RULES. after living in california for years and now living in texas I wish I could buy some seriously good sourdough. I dream about that shit.
It makes great sandwiches. It makes great toast. It makes great everything. Go ahead and push it on me. I'll eat the crap out of it.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I LOVED rax. They used to have some type of chocolate chip shake that I went nuts over when I was a kid. Did anyone else ever eat at a Rallys? They all closed in Michigan last time i was there.
I miss E.T. Cereal. and Hubba Bubba made a mint chocolate chip gum that was disgustingly awesome.
I'm also still upset about Jello pudding pops being discontinued.
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I've never met a cheese I didn't love. But I think fresh mozzarella is my favorite.
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What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Oh, man, I thought I had blocked out my Gatorade Gum cravings!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I miss bbq munchos, planters cheeseballs (there is another brand available now in a large container that are good but...) and morton raspberry filled powdered donuts. Oh, those were the days.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
does anyone else remember "Milkshake" candy bars. Tasted like a chocolate malt.Also a Japanese hard candy in a round red tin. We used to call it umeboshi candy.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I think it was Keebler used to make these fudge sandwich cookies in a box. They were like a coco flavor with a fudge creme center. the were just called fudge sandwich cookies. Haven't been able to find them since the early nineties. The were great.Also miss the cheez balls in a can.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I loved lemon coolers too, and also pecan sandies. I also miss rice honeys cereal - they also had a really cool cowboy bee mascot on the package and in the commercials.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
OK, Marathon Bars were the bomb, especially frozen. Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called Chocolite. It was alll chocolate, but had a lot of air bubbles on the inside. How about actual Gatorade Gum? I do remember the bacon chips, they were small bacon shaped crisps. Does anybody remember Doritos Sour Cream and Onion?
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
For centuries, the only breads available were sourdough breads. Commercial yeast is a rather new invention in relation to the history of bread. Why anyone would bad mouth sourdoughs,shows that they have no knowledge or respect for the art and science of bread baking.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
What about Celeste's Pizza with the big pepperoni's not the little one's. Haha
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
OK, this is the thing with sourdough. The regular yeast thats used in regular bread, such as back on the east coast and many other parts of the country (and the world) wouldnt raise the bread out in california. ( back when california was first being settled) so they had to use a different type of bacteria (yeast) to make the bread rise. It has to do with whats in the water. This yeast made the bread taste sour. Hence the name sourdough. This also made cooks make totally different recipes for Pizza etc. I love breads and pasts. So for my own taste I like pizza and breads back east like in Pennsylvania, or new york. I live in Utah now and they dont have any breads or pizzas that I like. So Im not happy (but I'll live)
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
MALLOMARS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Man, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Banquet frozen cream pies. They used to cost about 25 cents and were really good to eat half frozen. Anybody remember those?
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
God I loved Fizzies as a kid! Cola and Root Beer Mmmmm. Also a powdered drink mix called 'Funny Face' Goofy Grape and Freckle Face Strawberry was my fav's. I used to and still love Necco wafers (not a candy kids gravitated too). Space Dust / Pop Rocks were good esp. if you chanced the urban myth on a dare and swallowed a whole pack to see if your stomach would explode. LOL! My all time fav though in the toxic waste I ingested as a kid has to be a cereal from the late 60s called 'Kaboom' kind of like Honey Comb's but dyed with fluorescent colors and caked in sugar. When you added milk all the dye leached out into this colorfull swirl. No wonder I was able to walk on the ceiling during the first few hours of class. LOL! Great site btw!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
You can go to fizzies.com and order any flavor you like! My favorite is cherry or grape. By the case for $12 or 15 - I can't remember. But what I miss the most are those giant Charms lollipops - I was proposed to with a handful of Charms Cherry because I was always seen with one stuck in my mouth! I was in the Army and they were at the ice cream store on base and one day an officer said I should at least take the sucker out of my mouth with I salute!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I LOVED ninja turtle pudding pies!!! and gadorade gum, jello pudding pops, Mcdonalds FRIED apple pies, Bonkers candy, Ecto cooler, grasshopper cookies, ... i wish i could remember more!!!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
i love sourdough... actually I didn't like it when I first tried it, too tangy for my kiddy tastebuds at the time. But, now that my pallate has evolved, the ones I've had recently are not even as tangy as I remember the original being... they just taste like regular white bread.
I don't know how this rates with Bay Area dwellers, but I liked the Boudin sandwiches I had the last time I was in SF.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
I live in Darwin, Australia, and work in a bakery and I've got to say, sourdough is my favourite type of bread that we make there. Actually it is my favourite type of anything we make there. You know a bread is good when a seventeen year old girl chooses it over a brownie or a cream bun!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
SF sourdough isn't ideal for everything but just because you can get a passable (not great, but passable) loaf at every supermarket on the west coast doesn't mean that it has ruined every other kind of bread. I live in NYC and don't think that the lack of good bread in local markets and bakeries is because of all the rye bread baked in the area. I think his anger is really misplaced on this one. Of course, I also have no idea who he is or why I should care about his opinion so whatever.....
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
There are various degrees of "sour" in sourdough breads. SF Sourdough is defined by a tartness that a French sourdough doesn't have. Starters that are rye based tend to be much more bitter than starters made with wheat. All too often in commercial bakeries all across the world, when a baker makes sourdough he/she is also using a flavour enhancer that is intended to up the "tang factor". As the proud caretaker of several home grown starters, I have a few that are very sour but I also have a few that make breads that have such a subtle tang that you would never know it was a sourdough based bread. It is all about the starter...
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
IT'S HARD TO GET GOOD BREAD IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA???????
surely, SURELY you jest. i have lived in new york for 12 years and i STILL miss the wonderful bread in the bay area, especially berkeley -- semi freddi's, acme, grace, and the cheese board, to name just a few of the absolutely world class bread makers there. new york's got a lot of catching up to do, imho.
i don't much care for the touristy kind of sour sourdough bread, but the "levain" that is used to make the baguettes at the cheeseboard and semi freddi's produces some incomparably delicious baguettes.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
I don't really care for bread, especially dark breads. The only kind of bread that I find tolerable has been baked within a few hours. That said, I actually miss dearly sour dough bread. The only place I've been able to find sour dough bread regularly in metro Cleveland is the craptastic bread Trader Joe sells. No thanks. I love sour dough bread too much. I can get rye everywhere here, but I can't stand rye.
For a month every summer for 20 years, my mother and I would vacation in SF to escape the heat. I ate crab sandwiches on sour dough bread every single day with a bowl of soup. What bliss!
Sour dough bread works with everything, if you like it a lot. :P It's the only bread I truly enjoy with rare roast beef, along with Best Foods mayo, alfalfa sprouts, cucumbers, and a dab of yellow mustard. Yum! It's great with lox or even with banana and honey sandwiches. It's wonderful in bread pudding too!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
ok....thanks all....now i'm freakin starvin......for some nice sourdough bread.....guess i gotta go to publix an get some.....i dont think i'd like sourdough bread dipped in olive oil.....but it makes a great stuffing for a turkey !!!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
Not that crazy about sourdough - I would never seek it out - but if it's good and it's fresh I enjoy it.
A severely underrepresented bread is salt-rising bread. It does not have that many "applications" (lol) but it makes the best toast in the world.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
I absoluty love sourdough - for anything - including French Toast and Bread Pudding. It makes FABULOUS sandwiches. I was born and raised in Oakland and my family owned a big Italian restaurant - so I grew up on sourdough. Sourdough is always my first choice. On the other hand, I absolutely hate rye bread. Yuk.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
sourdough is excellent in almost every application! SF sourdough is famous because of their particular wild yeast. back in the early days of bread, before commercial processes were developed for baker's and instant yeast, every bread was sourdough because the only way to grow the yeast culture was through capturing wild yeast. SF had a particularly nice strain, and that's why they have such a wonderful bread culture there. anyone who complains that sourdough isn't appropriate for certain cheeses or wines really needs to check themselves -- a lot of these cheeses were developed to be paired with sourdough, the only bread available at the time anywhere in the world.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
I'm going to assume that the problem with this statement is one of terminology, rather than ignorance. I believe the author has an issue with the flavor and versatilty of San Francisco sourdough, rather than sourdough breads in general.
'Sourdough' breads are simply breads made with natural ferments rather than from commercial yeasts. They can range from very sour tasting to not at all sour, depending on the ratio of lactic acid (mild-flavored) to acetic acid (sour) producing bacteria in the culture. Breads made with natural ferments tend to have more complex flavor profiles and texture and keep longer than straight yeasted breads.
'San Francisco sourdough' is made using a culture containing a bacterium (Lactobacillus sanfrancisco, natch) that is dominant in the local microflora of the Bay Area, and is a strong producer of acetic acid.
As for the idea that sourdough breads are "sour because in the US, particularly in San Francisco, it's hard to buy good bread", I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
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are you kidding me? sourdough RULES. after living in california for years and now living in texas I wish I could buy some seriously good sourdough. I dream about that shit.
It makes great sandwiches. It makes great toast. It makes great everything. Go ahead and push it on me. I'll eat the crap out of it.