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Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Those cheap cookies shaped like flowers with a hole in the middle and Hawaiian Punch. This was our snack in nursery school circa 1980.
Totally agree about Luck Charms. Fruity Pebbles too.
What is better than I remembered is bologna. Ate it everyday for years then not for a long time...and went back to it...still good! (BTW, this is deli bologna, not Oscar Mayer.)
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Isn't that Spanish (Castellano) on the "vintage French one?
I think that the it's funny that a leaf over a bear's crotch is more provocative than bare one!
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In Defense of Chef Chris Cosentino's Foie Gras
Shouldn't we be encouraging the use of all parts of the animals we slaughter and eat (and savor)? Although I won't eat liver, I know I should because only eating the flesh or choicest parts of animals is a serious luxury which I should appreciate.
Likewise, being able to choose not to eat this or that (like not eating meat at all) is a privilege that is severely under appreciated. But that's another topic.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Those cheap cookies shaped like flowers with a hole in the middle and Hawaiian Punch. This was our snack in nursery school circa 1980.
Totally agree about Luck Charms. Fruity Pebbles too.
What is better than I remembered is bologna. Ate it everyday for years then not for a long time...and went back to it...still good! (BTW, this is deli bologna, not Oscar Mayer.)
Risqué Orangina Ads Stir Controversy
Isn't that Spanish (Castellano) on the "vintage French one?
I think that the it's funny that a leaf over a bear's crotch is more provocative than bare one!
In Defense of Chef Chris Cosentino's Foie Gras
This is really a great treatise on liberty and political behaviors that just happens to be about foie gras. Chris could just as easily be talking about another hot topic issue, say gun control, without any change in the logic behind his arguments.
At any rate, I'll have to try and celebrate by consuming more than my per capita 1/400 of an ounce.
In Defense of Chef Chris Cosentino's Foie Gras
I'm veg, but I have no issue with people eating sustainable, humanely raised meat. (I accept that most people eat mass-produced meat, but I don't like it.)
My issue with foie gras is that I'm not sure it *can* be produced humanely. It's essentially induced disease, which is cruel by nature. Now, I'm not going to start harassing chefs, but I wish those who jumped on the organic/local/etc. bandwagon would take the moral road here, too.
In Defense of Chef Chris Cosentino's Foie Gras
I want to preface this by saying that I am a meat-eater, I do not condone the extremist tactics of many "animal rights" groups, and I do not support a ban on foie gras. I fully agree that it is an "easy target", that people should be more concerned about industrial agriculture, etc, etc.
That said, the fatal flaw in the pro-foie position from a humanitarian standpoint is that we are producing a disease state (hepatic lipidosis), and the very delicacy we aim for is the diseased organ itself. The argument that migrating waterfowl gorge themselves naturally is bunk for various reasons. It is certainly true that we produce a great deal more disease as a result of industrial production conditions (feedlots, battery cages, veal crates, gestation pens, etc.), but at least in theory those practices could be eliminated, and we could produce beef, dairy, eggs, poultry, and pork (and even veal) from happy, healthy animals. It's not really possible to produce foie gras from "natural" and physiologically healthy ducks (or at least it is not being done in the US that I am aware of).
In Defense of Chef Chris Cosentino's Foie Gras
Agreed, this is a case of anthropomorphism. It's surprising to me that protestors are going after someone like Chris Cosentino, who is such a proponent of sustainable eating where every bit of the animal is used. In any case, Incanto is one of my favorite restaurants, hands down. And this reminds me, I'm due for another visit.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
I still love Fig Newtons, too but will enjoy any Fig Newton 'knockoff". I did like popscicles but today find them too sweet and lacking in flavour. I even ate them through my university years but their allure was probably their cheapness... I was a pretty eager eater - loved all vegetables except parsnips which I now adore. I steam them lightly and caramelize them in butter and brown sugar - one of my many fave vegetables. I liked meat in my childhood but eat it rarely today. I loved hotdogs but don't enjoy them today. I'll eat one at a barbecue but I'd rather have something else. Foods are so nostalgic. We travel back in our minds to the very moment of tasting. I love the evocative nature of food as well as the taste.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
I wonder if today's kids, 15 years from now, will be getting nostalgic about the same nasty kids foods. Definitely not Bourdain's kid unless she swears off game birds!
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Captain Crunch!
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
If I get a craving for a childhood food I have to cuccumb to it no questions asked. The only thing that I will not eat now (thank God for no craving) is lamb and liverwurst that THEN i liked, now I won't touch it.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Snowballs (yeah the pink things), Candy Corn, those stupid orange peanut shaped marshmellow things (what were they supposed to taste like anyway?), anything marshmellow including Mallow Mars, But for some strange reason I like a smores (only made over an outside fire) maybe once a year.
I always hated bologna, didn't like hotdogs (unless drowning in ketchup) until I was a teenager (and discovered really good mustard, not that yucky yellow stuff) and now I only eat them at the "game" or grilled crispy from The Blarney Stone. Guilty pleasure - and then I am sorry, Big Mac, Chocolate Shake and fries (only once a year) considering you can get a sublime burger with MacDonalds quality fries in so many places in NYC. Must be that special sauce. Always hated any cold cereal and still eat oatmeal (from scratch) the way my mom made it with milk, butter, sugar and cinnamon - a true comfort food on a crisp cold winter morning.
Love:
Snickers
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
but Lindt Chocolate is the adult thing, oh those truffles!
Boo on who said Girl Scout Cookies, support a good cause, eat the thin mints and tagalongs (another guilty pleasure that I insist on sharing with my entire family).
I am a New York food snob and a former restaurant professional so I crave the stuff I can't make myself. Never got into frosting in a can or brownies from a mix. I can make it faster and better.
DISTROY ALL PEEPS! Must try blowing them up in the microwave, thanks for the idea.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Am I the only person who cannot eat Captain Crunch cereal as an adult? OMG the stuff shreds the roof of your mouth and put you into insulin shock. What was I not thinking?
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Ramen Noodles. That pure salt seasoning packet and those waxy noodles. My friends and I used to LOVE them for an after school snack. They are the one food I absolutely can't stomach anymore.
I loves me some Skettios, though!
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Gad! You execute Peeps -- for fun! (Gulp!) I adore Peeps, and I'm probably old enough to be your grandmother. I also still like Moon Pies, but I nuke them so they become s'mores-like. I also have learned to love exceedingly dark rich chocolate, assorted organ meats and all the other frou-frou foods favored by self-proclaimed gourmands. The difference, I believe, is that in childhood we only THOUGHT we could have eaten Peeps for breakfast, lunch and dinner; we couldn't have then anymore than we could now. All things in moderation -- even Peeps.
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Strange maybe, but that makes it a great advertisement.
"Is that a bottle of Orangina in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
PEEPS...my stepmom sends me a package each Easter specifically so I may have the thrill of microwaving those neon-colored chicks of sugar death. I am not a violent lady by nature but watching those things expand and explode is FUN! Just a suggestion...spray the inside of the microwave oven with a very thin coat of cooking spray or something like it, because you'll be using every ounce of elbow grease you possess to clean it! LOL Although cleaning it up would be good exercise...:-)
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
sloppy joe from the lunch truck that provided lunch to my school (you know, the kind that goes to construction sites?) with strawberry milk. i might eat the sloppy joe now if i wasn't vegetarian, but the combination of the two. ew.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Ugghhh... bologna sandwiches with mayo on white bread (crusts trimmed off). Even the thought of it now makes me shudder. And I'd have it with a glass of Hawaiian Punch - even worse!
Oh, and my mom used to make this disgusting casserole with hot dog chunks, elbow macaroni, and canned tomato soup that for some unknown reason, I loved as a child. (By the way, my mom really is a great cook - don't know what was going on with this recipe...)
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it is odd but I still liked it, very sexual
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this objectifies animals as sex crazy beasts, i am offended!
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Yep, definitely creepy and strange, but I pick animated shimmying zebras in ads over real shimmying women in music videos any day.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Apple Jacks. With the best milk afterwards. I used to live on the stuff. I can maybe do it once a year now but only one bowl (used to do at least three each morning) and then I have to chuck the rest of the box. But the milk is still awesome.
I'm surprised by the Doritors haters. Was never a nacho cheese fan, but the cool ranch???? Can eat a bag of those in one sitting to this day. And the habanero ones they had recently were really good. Though I think I lost a layer of stomach lining because of them.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Things that are pink.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
Growing up in Nebraska, one of the most popular dips for potato chips was bacon horseradish, I used to love it as a kid. I tried some a few years ago and it was nothing like I remembered, I couldn't even eat it! Also, my grandparents always have Braunschweiger, I used to love it as a kid, but I tried it a few years ago and nearly gagged. Maybe I was a weird kid.
I love fig newtons, when I want a quick store bought snack.
Like most of the above, all those tooth-achingly sweet things that are marketed to kids (pop-tarts, sugar cereals, twinkies) are impossible to swallow now, though I do occassionally like a Little Debbie Swiss Cake Roll or Peanut Butter bar (the layered one). I tried both twinkies and ding-dongs again in grad school and couldn't finish them.
I never cared for any of those Chef Boyardee products, canned meats, and I only like hot dogs cooked over a fire when camping.
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I don't think there's actually anything wrong with this ad, but it's definitely pretty creepy and strange.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
What the hell happened to Icees? You know, the snowy-textured slush with the polar bear logo? Or did I change? Anyway, I used to live for them; I had one at a movie theater recently for fun and I gave it away to my friend because I found the taste so strangely un-cherrylike.
andywho, you are my hero. I still love the ravioli, too.
Foods We Loved as Kids, Maybe Not as Adults
OMG! I love the comment about slim jims tasting like ass and tires. LOL! Okay, and to all the fig newton haters out there...what are you thinking?? Newtons are the best! I can eat a whole sleeve with a pot of tea. Comfort!!!
However, I'm 100% on board with the Chef Boyardee Meat Raviolis...BLECH. I used to LOVE LOVE LOVE when my mom would serve me them...and now the mere smell sends me lurching from the room gagging.
I also used to eat a Hostess apple pie in high school every day for lunch, with a bag of Doritos and a nutty bar. And I weighed 98 pounds soaking wet! Now of course, I cannot imagine how I have any teeth left in my head at all.
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Shouldn't we be encouraging the use of all parts of the animals we slaughter and eat (and savor)? Although I won't eat liver, I know I should because only eating the flesh or choicest parts of animals is a serious luxury which I should appreciate.
Likewise, being able to choose not to eat this or that (like not eating meat at all) is a privilege that is severely under appreciated. But that's another topic.