I’m a tail end boomer and remember every one of these questionable gastronomic delights. My mother didn’t allow them in our house because she was determined her only child would eat healthy food. Which is one of the reasons I enjoyed spending time at my friends, whose parents weren’t nearly as vigilant.
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A taco shaped artificially flavored banana sponge cake with overly sugared cream filling. A heavenly treat for my 7 year old self.
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Cheese in a can! This was the height of cool when I was young. The fact I’m still alive after consuming it all those years ago is a testament to its high level of preservatives.
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Required lunch box dessert when I was growing up.
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The pungent aroma hit you as you walked past Spencer’s gifts and Sam Goody’s… half a mile away. And it was guaranteed someone in your family would receive a gift box filled with inedible sausage for Christmas.
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My parents never ate a frozen dinner in their life but when they went to the city for the evening and I had a babysitter? Swanson fried chicken with that horrible little apple cobbler was my consolation for having to stay home .
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I remember eating the vanilla version of these when I was a teenager. God only knows what they were made of. We questioned nothing back then.
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And finally, the only product I might still eat today. I remember them being quite tasty.
Do any of these items bring back nostalgic food memories for you?
And if not, what were some of your favorite childhood horrors?
I don’t usually recommend products on my blog but every once in a while I find something so good it has to be shared.
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I’d seen these advertised online but never paid much attention. Then they showed up at my local grocery store and I gave them a whirl. They’re called Buttermints but they’re not the old chalky kind restaurants used to let you spoon out of a dish upon exiting, no. These are luscious, creamy, chock full of flavor little nuggets of pure bliss. Yes, they’re pricey… but rich enough so you only need one at a time.
Notice I said need. If you can stop at one? You’re a far better person than I.
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This aerial ballet brought to you by a crow who was not pleased a red tailed hawk was perched in his territory.
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Pardon the blurry photo. He was pretty far away.
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Best squirrelly explanation of social media I’ve ever seen.
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I’d never owned a white car before the new Subaru I bought last year but I have to say I’m enjoying it. You’d think it would show the dirt more than the darker colors, but you’d be wrong. I wash this pearl white Forester far less than my previous black.
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