Which favourite childhood food have you not eaten in years?

All sorts of things!

Food memories are tough to duplicate and often disappointing.

When my mother made bread she would pinch off pieces of dough and fry them in melted shortening until they puffed and were mahogany colored on both sides, dusted with cinnamon sugar while still hot. Similar to the pizza fritte that you find at state fairs and street festivals.
 
Post Crispy Critters cereal! “The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals,“ their musical ear worm!

And I think that Lolita Cheetah is hot! 🐆😍

 

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Yep, I haven't given up food that I liked as a child, if I want it I have it.

Potato pancakes, I use up leftover mashed potatoes. We ate them for breakfast with butter and syrup.

@auntbea, I use canned biscuit dough for that, they are also good deep fried whole and eaten with honey.

I have Cap'n Crunch in the pantry now. The only thing wrong with the poptarts is now so many flavors are frosted. Don't like that. Plain strawberry is the best!
 
Fried bologna or grilled bologna and cheese.

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I miss many of the old cold cuts that were mostly fat and salt, olive loaf was a particular favorite.
 
Hog Maw. It’s a Pennsylvania Dutch dish. My wife won’t make it because she says it’s disgusting.

Hog maw is a dish made from the muscular wall of a pig's stomach, which is cleaned and prepared as food. It's also known as stuffed pig's stomach and is a Pennsylvania Dutch dish that's often served during holidays. My wife makes a sausage and potato casserole, which is fine by me, but using the pig’s stomach gives it a bit more flavor.

It’s stuffed with sausage, potatoes and small pieces of carrots with a few spices added like salt and pepper. The cook then sews the stomach closed and puts in the oven and baked. Some people eat the stomach, I don’t because of the high fat content. The lining of the stomach that is used to hold the contents is also known as “tripe,” which is also high in content of vitamins and minerals.
 
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Cod fish with gravy on boiled potatoes. Last time was when grandma was alive many moons ago.
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That was always an inexpensive winter meal, today it would be in the luxury class!

We must’ve eaten a lot of it because the workshop at the farm was full of those old wooden boxes with the sliding tops.

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My mother's liver and onions. She loved it and so did my stepdad. I found it abhorrent. Organ meats, in general -- nope.

Her idea of "spaghetti" consisted of a thin, watery meat sauce with no meat -- just tomato paste and water. No seasonings. She simply had no idea.

She could not even think of eating a nice beef roast or steak without it having been through a nuclear meltdown. Shoe leather consistency was ideal. I didn't learn how good a steak could taste until I left the house to actually - get this - become a cook. She cooked everything to death, especially vegetables.

She was my Mom and I certainly loved her, but her cooking? Not so much.
 
Back in ye olde days of school, aged around 11, I'd eat school meals (meals cooked in the schools kitchen). They did a "cheese pie", which was more of a flan really. Damn, I'd love to have that again!
 

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