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In reply to the discussion: Remembering the food of my childhood [View all]Backseat Driver
(4,392 posts)5. You must be older because
Cartoon Welsh's Grape jelly jars subbed for juice glasses; with three kids, we collected them; just try to find those small glasses now except in vintage/antique stores.
My mom was a good cook but made lots of SOS (S&*t on a shingle or Welsh Rarebit on toast points in a pinch - No Kraft Mac & Cheese w/ketchup or not was on our table.
We never had salmon filets - canned salmon loaves, real mashed potatos, and peas; fish sticks, anyone?
Braunschweiger lunch sandwiches were swanky, well... because it was just like French goose pate from jailed geese force fed with mallets.
Percolated coffee from the clear glass stemmed off a gas range; a lot fewer electric ranges, and no Mr. Coffee's or Keurig K-cups.
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Fried Spam with cheese on top was occasionally on our table, but we were a military family so
japple
Jan 2020
#9
My grandmother bought some kind of weird pie crust that came pre-made in sticks like butter.
Vinca
Jan 2020
#23
I love those, too. This summer I'm definitely going over there to sit on the beach and
Vinca
Jan 2020
#69
Succotash to me came straight from the devil. Even had a creepy name.
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2020
#50
The only appetizers were cheese and pimento spread on crackers. And only for very special
Cousin Dupree
Jan 2020
#54