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I really hope Mother's Butter Cookies make the reissue. I'm down to my last half dozen.

jello with a middle layer of sour cream, bananas and strawberries (from the freezer) - for school lunch, a scrambled egg sandwich made that morning on white bread with, yes, ketchup - pork roll and swiss cheese with relish and ketchup on english muffins for dinner - still love them all!

Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.

Dang!!! Kellogg is taking over the cookie industry!!! Wish they would do it right though. Gaucho's are better then Nutter Butter by Nabisco. Recipes can be duplicated... if the ingredients are the same i.e. flour, sugar, butter, whole mike. But when you start cutting corners by using HFCS, margarine and such to make it...Safe and better for you.. LOL. Cookies are desserts not health food. The name Mother's Cookies instilled home made goodness and taste not artifical stuff. My Mother used the basics. We did not have margarine or High Fructose Corn Syrup. Back to basics, please.

We also had the bologna/pickle/mayo sandwich filling growing up in Kansas. Though it was usually saved for traval occasions - we'd pack a cooler with the hash and a loaf of bread and stop at picnic tables to eat. I also loved the potato chip/mayo sandwiches.

Seeing all the references to bologna reminds me that when I was very small we had a maid and she would give me whatever I wanted to eat. It always really annoyed my mom when she found out that I had bologna with ketchup on it for lunch. Not a sandwich, just the bologna.

My sister taught me to eat hot dogs right out of the freezer and to put salt on sliced pickles.

My family still likes something we call "weenie stew" which is basically a red gravy with hot dogs cooked in it. You eat it on spaghetti. But that's the only thing in this post that I still eat, though it's been years since I've had weenie stew. I wonder if I have any red gravy in the freezer.......

My sister and I would put Kraft singles on a small plate and microwave it. She liked hers still gooey so she could scoop it up with a shrimp fork, while I liked mine cooked right before burning, so I could peel it off and eat it like a chip.

Also, asparagus and shrimp dipped in mayo, eggs cooked in the microwave mixed with either ketchup or soy sauce, broken up uncooked Taiwanese ramen noodles, toast dipped in hot chocolate, no salt & pepper on the table...only soy sauce.

I'm glad to see someone else ate cream cheese and green olive sandwiches. I loved these--the green olives with the red pimentos, on white bread. This was my favorite sandwich to take to school. And yeah, I haven't had one since, I now have a craving!

Also, one dinner my mom made was potatoes and spinach with sour cream. Mash up boiled potatoes, add cooked frozen spinach, eat with butter and sour cream. This must have been a left-over Depression-era thing. I now eat it occasionally as comfort food.

@lollie - re: the boxed mac and cheese with sliced hot dogs... my family used to do that too... my parents called it "polka dot macaroni and cheese". (I would always pick out the hot dogs, though... I've never liked them. Loved the mac and cheese as a child, but I would have none of it being defiled by evil hot dogs.)

And I remembered one more: tuna sandwiches with Pringles in them. Not real potato chips... it had to be Pringles.

My grandfather used to eat chocolate cake with french's yellow mustard

My husband grew up eating white bread and ketchup sandwiches, as well as bologna and Dorito sandwiches. His dad would mix Tang with instant coffee. Yerrrgh.

toasted marshmallow grilled cheese sandwiches. My husband is horrified, I keep trying to tell him to give them a chance.

Wow great stuff here guys! My mother used to put Ovaltine in my oatmeal, making it "chocolate oatmeal". We used to make kosher hot dog fried rice and also use the cut up dogs in macaroni and red sauce. We are a half filipino household, and though this isn't exactly a food, but I was so accustomed to eating so often with my hands, it freaked my friends out, and so I stopped. But I'll still do it at home!