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Dymphna

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Ok, seriously, this thread is about Bologna.

I bought some on a whim the other day. I haven't eaten the stuff since I was a little kid. I don't think I've ever bought it before and I know I've never served it to my own children.

So today, the daycare kids got bologna & cheese sandwiches for lunch. The whole bunch of picky, turn-their-noses-up-at-anything-new, little monsters ate every bite. The only thing left on any of their plates was some bread because one of them pulled her sandwich apart and ate only the inside.

So anyway, it got me thinking about kid food past and present. When I was a kid, for example, chicken nuggets didn't exist. We had fish sticks, but they were for dinner, not lunch and they came with "tarter sauce mix" that was really just some relish that you mixed with mayo. Spaghetti-O's are something else I never buy, but we practically lived on as kids. I served them to my own kids for the first time about a month ago.

My children have never eaten a twinkie. I have nothing against twinkies personally, I just don't think to buy them. Back in February, for the school Valentine's day party, I was assigned to send in "snack cakes." I told my 7-yo to choose and he picked something that he'd always wanted to try, but never had...ho-hos. I love ho-hos, I just don't feel the need to buy them.

My kids eat poptarts like they are going out of style. But straight out of the box. We always toasted them first. Pizza was a once in a while treat, not a staple and when I was really little, we made it from a box that was only a small step from making it from scratch. Had to let the dough rise and everything. McDonald's was also a once in a blue moon treat. We ate it inside the restaurant or once in a while took it home, but never, ever in the car.

So what other differences are there in kid's food past and present?
 
kwillia

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I don't fry foods. My kids were raised on baked chicken, baked fries, etc.

We planted potatoes this year and when my mom told them how she used to make homemade french fries for us when we were kids, my kids were in awe at the idea. I could have bonked her on the head for telling them...:bonk:
 
Dymphna

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kwillia said:
I don't fry foods. My kids were raised on baked chicken, baked fries, etc.

We planted potatoes this year and when my mom told them how she used to make homemade french fries for us when we were kids, my kids were in awe at the idea. I could have bonked her on the head for telling them...:bonk:
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Homemade french fries....forgot about those. Mom had a veg-a-matic.
 
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Sindy

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Ranch goes on everything now, lumpia, pizza, what-ever. When I was a kid, I don't think we had ranch, it was hot-bacon/vinegar dressing on leaf lettuce (hated it if someone added sugar as my aunt did), or maybe the french dressing you can't buy anymore.

Went to a drive-in ONE time where you got the tray to hook to your window. THAT was a huge treat. That was the only fast food I remember eating until I turned 18 and tried my first Big Mac.

We HAD to eat bread when we ate meat. One slice of bread for each piece of chicken. Couldn't fill up on meat alone....but mom baked all our bread. Hated it when I was a kid. I liked the soft store bought bread, Wonder.

I didn't realize how well we ate until I grew up.
 
morningbell

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WOW! I had bologna as a kid but the butcher down the street mad it, he also made out hot dogs, liverwurst and any other beef or pork we could get there. The chickens we had came from our neighbor down the street (in the opposite direction).

Chicken nuggets didn't exist, I was only allowed to have McDonald's once a year at The Hatboro Horsham homecoming/Thanksgiving parade. We were never allowed to eat prepared meals from a can (I never knew they existed until age 12), Chef Boyardee was the devil and spaghetti-os were sacrilegous. The only fried things that were allowed were fried clams purchased at the local seafood store every once in a great while.

I never had a cavity ever, until my parents divorced and my step mother moved in at age 12. We were allowed to make our own lunch, hot dogs with the cheese in the middle we made ourselves in the microwave and any canned food item courtesy of the devil.

Did you ever notice that everything is in nugget form now?

Nobody invented soup nuggets yet, I'm all over that. Hot molten soup in a bread casing, you bite into it and get third degree burns all down your chin, AWESOME!
 
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Dymphna

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Sindy said:
Ranch goes on everything now, lumpia, pizza, what-ever. When I was a kid, I don't think we had ranch, it was hot-bacon/vinegar dressing on leaf lettuce (hated it if someone added sugar as my aunt did), or maybe the french dressing you can't buy anymore.

Went to a drive-in ONE time where you got the tray to hook to your window. THAT was a huge treat. That was the only fast food I remember eating until I turned 18 and tried my first Big Mac.

We HAD to eat bread when we ate meat. One slice of bread for each piece of chicken. Couldn't fill up on meat alone....but mom baked all our bread. Hated it when I was a kid. I liked the soft store bought bread, Wonder.

I didn't realize how well we ate until I grew up.
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When Ranch dressing first came out it was a powdered seasoning packet that you mixed with buttermilk and mayo.

My parents still buy wonder bread :dead: My grandparents always bought the coarsest wheat bread on the market and I hated it, but it was close to what I buy now. A couple of weeks ago, my husband went to a weekend long function where at the end of it, they had food left over and begged people to take it. He came home with 4 loaves of bread, that may have technically been called "wheat" but was more like white bread. One of my kids hated it and one of them liked it because it was kinda like what grandma has.
 
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Sindy

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OMG! Mom went and bought french onion dip for potato chips one time. We thought that was the most amazing thing ever!

If we got cereal it was sugarless. We raised 100 chickens a year, a steer that was butchered in the fall, a black angus that we treated like a pet and gave names to every year, and then they bought a pig and had that butched into cuts they wanted. On top of that, a huge garden patch that was about 2 acres and they planted everything in it from corn, watermelen, potatoes, to asparagus. They didn't grow broccoli though, so I never ate that until I got into bootcamp.

Just thought of something else, those little weiner dogs made out of beef lips that came in the can. Next to the deviled ham.
 
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Sindy

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You got me remembering now. Such was the attraction for "store bought food" which in in a kids mind is soooo superior to home-make food, I took my allowance and bought cambells chicken noodle soup one time. I ate it while my little brother and sister stood at the table watching me as I wouldn't let them have any. They spent their dime on candy bars.
 
kalmd

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I remember when my parents went out and left us at home, we were so excited because we got to eat a tv dinner. Of course back then, they were in the foil tin and cooked in the oven. It was such a treat.
 
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tiltedangel

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corn fritters! mom used to make them and homemade donuts they were so good and dunked in vermont maple syrup! i had forgotten about home made french fries used to make them all the time they definitely are good...and the all time school lunch favorite...fluffernutter! still love those! just tried something new last night amish friendship bread...the house smelled great and it tasted good too...being from the north we never had some of the things that are down here....
 
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Sindy

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This old fart is only in the lower mid 40's range. My parents lived on farms during the depression though and they NEVER forgot that experience. It's drumed into my head. A few years of living on my own broke so now I feel (I am) like my parents saving money where-ever I can, even if I don't have to.

If it were available around here though, I couldn't afford to buy the quality of the food we were brought up eating. Grain and grass fed black angus, free range chickens that were also pets and sausage we made ourselves (it was a cool game). Fresh fish, frog legs, eggs, etc.

For all the good stuff, we probably had lead paint on the walls, mercury, and red dye number 5. I also drank perfume one time because I thought it smelled good.
 
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Kain99

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Sindy said:
OMG! Mom went and bought french onion dip for potato chips one time. We thought that was the most amazing thing ever!

If we got cereal it was sugarless. We raised 100 chickens a year, a steer that was butchered in the fall, a black angus that we treated like a pet and gave names to every year, and then they bought a pig and had that butched into cuts they wanted. On top of that, a huge garden patch that was about 2 acres and they planted everything in it from corn, watermelen, potatoes, to asparagus. They didn't grow broccoli though, so I never ate that until I got into bootcamp.

Just thought of something else, those little weiner dogs made out of beef lips that came in the can. Next to the deviled ham.
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Green Karma!
 
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Sindy

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Thank you Kain99!
Does anyone remember in 72 when sugar became expensive (could have been a lie by my parents, I was only 8)? Anyway, they put saccerine in the Kool-aid and I haven't been able to drink that or anything else with an artificial sweetner since. Prefer water over anything with that "other" taste.
 
Sonsie

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kalmd said:
I remember when my parents went out and left us at home, we were so excited because we got to eat a tv dinner. Of course back then, they were in the foil tin and cooked in the oven. It was such a treat.
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I remember those!!! The chicken was crunchy, incredibly greasy and wonderful, the mealy salty potatos were to be savored, and the soupy fruit desert was better than any homemade pie my mom ever made. It's amazing what kids like. Oddly enough my own kids won't touch the very things I lusted over as a child. No Mac & cheese in a blue box, no spaghettios, not even a PBJ will get past their lips. They did eat my tekiyaki beef and pineapple kabobs and fragrant thai rice tonight though, go figure.
 
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Sindy

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You know, my kids as all kids now, get the advantage off ALL of the great foods out there. We had the basic farm food, so rice was exotic, as was mexican food, asian , etc. I miss what we had growing up, but to do it again, I would miss the variety available just here in southern maryland. I think I would miss the crabs the most.
 
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