What meal takes you back to your childhood?

[Dirty Hippie]

For me it is fried mullet, cheese grits, coleslaw and hushpuppies.

Some years we had it for Christmas dinner. My momma would stand out in the yard frying a mess of fish in a gas fish cooker. We would eat at the picnic table at my grandma's house under the magnolia.

Can anyone tell I'm from the South?

[lenidog]

1. I wouldn't have guessed in a million years with that menu

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. American Chop Suey

elbow macaroni, tomatoes, hamburger, melted cheese, and cracker crumbs on top. I think it's a New England thing...

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

9. Yeah I used to love that when I was a kid too .

Except I did not have any with cracker crumbs on top . And I am from the South .

[RetroLounge]

3. My Dad making a thick sirloin on the grill

with my mother's homemade french fries in the deep fryer on the stove.

MMMmmmmmmmmmm...

RL

[graywarrior]

4. Shit on a Shingle.

Hamburg on mashed potatoes, although I haven't had it for over 20 years.

[mike_c]

5. hamburger helper, and canned sloppy joes, and chef-boy-ardee....

My mother was a hideous cook. Thing was, she COULD cook if pressed-- she just never enjoyed doing it.

[jobycom]

6. Mullet?

You ain't from around Biloxi, are ya? Nah, couldn't be. You'd have mentioned Barqs.

[Dirty Hippie]

8. No I'm from (and still live in) Tallahassee n/t

[jobycom]

12. Well, nobody's perfect.

I had a flat in Tallahassee over spring break. Hard to find hotels in Tallahassee over spring break. Other than that, I like the city. There's a Golden Coral across from a little park with a pond that my kids loved playing at.

[Cha]

7. Spaghetti is the only meal I

would eat now that takes me back to childhood.

Vegan, you know..now I'm making new meal memories.:P

[Floogeldy]

10. Prolly minute steaks, mac and cheese, veggies, Wonder bread.

B-)

[bertha katzenengel]

11. McDonald's hamburger & fries.

Our staple. We ate that for at least one third of our meals when I was growing up.

[kedrys]

13. Kraft Macaroni and Cheese

I wouldn't touch the stuff nowadays, but we had it often when I was very small and my folks weren't well off. I just about died laughing when I heard Terrence and Phillip on South Park making a reference to Kraft Dinners, as in "When I die, please bury me with a side of Kraft Dinner..." :P

[shanti]

39. that would be hilarious if

it wasn't so friggin true, ctfu! my ex grew up on the stuff, and wanted it a lot, so my sons did too. i never saw the appeal...

[Maddy McCall]

14. Chef Boyardee Pizzas.

I remember my mom making them.

[JVS]

15. Pixie Stix and Fun Dip!

[Floogeldy]

18. No wonder U so crazy!

Sugar on the brain.

B-)

[tedoll78]

16. Gumbo.

Specifically, my mama's gumbo. Or as close as one can get to it.

So good.. mama..

[Bluebear]

17. Grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup!

After swimming!

[KitchenWitch]

30. me too

[Ready4Change]

19. Amphetamines.

At least that's what I think my parents would say. ;)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. soups

My grandmother made wonderful homemade soups and chowders. My favorite was her potatoe soup.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. The time-traveling soup

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Southern vegetable dinner:

green beans (cooked with ham)
squash
corn on the cob
mac and cheese (home made of course)
cornbread
sliced tomatoes
cucumbers marianated in vinegar
sweet iced tea

and one of my mom's good pies for dessert:
chess, buttermilk, lemon meringue, pecan.............or lemon pudding cake (known in my household as "the lemon thing")


second childhood meal:
white beans, cooked all morning with ham or bacon
cornbread
coleslaw
sweet iced tea

and one of mom's good pies...etc


third one:

Welsh rarebit made with excellent aged cheddar cheese, on saltines with pickles and onions. A favorite Sunday night supper at our house.

[auntAgonist]

23. fried egg sandwiches

on a crusty bun. Every Saturday! We'd sit and watch wrestling and eat our lunch!


aA

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Emotionally, or physically?

[Jara sang]

25. My mom used to make me this mint chocolate chip souffle

with whipped cream on my birthday. I loved it. I never ever have seen it anywhere else. I thought it was one of a kind. Still haven't seen it anywhere else.

[Burma Jones]

26. Slim Jims and Delaware Punch

Also, Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Potato Soup

[Skittles]

27. fish and chips in a newspaper, doused in vinegar

spent a lot of my childhood in England - I remember my grandmother saying YOU CAN'T LIVE ON FISH AND CHIPS but I pretty much did

[mykpart]

28. Sometimes my parents would eat something exotic in the

dining room, and the children would eat in the kitchen. Our meal then was Spam, fruit cocktail and shoestring potato sticks, all at room temperature. I still like Spam!

[mondo joe]

29. Pastina in chicken broth. My first solid food and the mainstay of sick-

days.

Even now I always have a supply of pastina on hand for sick days.

[Not_Giving_Up]

31. Pot roast, mashed potatoes, rice, biscuits, and gravy

Every Sunday as a kid, this was lunch at my grandma's house. YUM!

[Wapsie B]

32. Oven roasted turkey

with apple-raisin dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, homemade biscuits, and groundcherry pie for dessert.

[Robeson]

33. mashed potatoes, fried okra, fried squash and pinto beans....

...yeah, I'm from the South too.

[BeTheChange]

36. I just made cornmeal fried yellow squash tonite..

That definately takes me back.. okra too. Sweet potato casserole.

Grew up in the south, but from itallian stock, so the meal that most takes me back is chicken parm with a big ole pot of spaghetti and meatballs with grandpa recipe from the old country.

[Heidi]

38. And fried catfish or crappy.

YUM.

[nytemare]

34. Cooking bags, Spaghetti O's, ramen noodles.

Mom didn't like to cook much....lol.

[NMMNG]

35. Fried clam strips with cole slaw and french fries

I used to get them all of the time when I went out to eat with my grandparents at a diner in my hometown. Later in life I'd get the Clamboat Platter at Friendly's. (I've since become a vegetarian so the clams are off my menu).

[shanti]

37. tacos, and i'm a gringa:-)

grew up in southern cal, third generation, and love mexican food. mom used to stop by the tortilleria after work for the freshest corn tortillas. other than tacos and potato salad, she was an uninventive cook. (sorry mom)

[Technowitch]

40. Roast turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, and buttered corn

Close second would be my mother's meatloaf.

[Tsiyu]

41. Melanga

(Eggplant Parmesan for the non-Italian)


From the time I was a babe that was a special occasion staple- slices of eggplant dipped in egg and milk and seasoned bread crumbs and grated cheese and then fried and baked in a casserole with sauce and mozzarella. That smell brings back the graceful lilt of my Grandma's voice and a bunch of Italian relatives scattered around the rooms eating and running their mouths....

Now I want some. Bother....

[Saphire]

42. My grandmothers chicken gumbo