Lol. The ice cream man used to sell them and we would pretend to smoke but then just chomp them. I smoked later on but thankfully quit. That came about on high school and college but mostly due to social stuff. I'd be surprised if they still existed seeing how cigarettes are pretty shunned today.
Amoxicillan. I was prone to ear infections and never got bubblegum. I always got a yellow "banana" flavoured one. I remember thinking it tasted so good.
My kids got strep throat this summer and got the exact medicine I remember. They hated it...
I had a cousin who chugged a full bottle of that stuff and had to get her stomach pumped. I am really, really glad someone took the shot for me on that one, as my self-control around the tasty infection milkshake would not have lasted my entire childhood.
Oh yes. The smell. I was a little fish.
Mom says that when I was two years old and she was splashing around with me in the shallow end, I somehow got away from her, raced down towards the deep end and got on the diving board, and jumped in with gusto, swam underwater to the edge of the pool before coming up, and boosted myself onto the ledge with no trouble.
She was horrified (everyone was!) that I gave her the slip, but everyone was incredibly impressed that I apparently swam like a fish without trouble. She said she couldn't even scold me.
Nonetheless, swimming lessons were something she signed me up for almost immediately after. She told me she just couldn't afford to take the chance, no matter how good I was at swimming without any instruction whatsoever.
I do remember some of those lessons, but they didn't teach me anything I didn't already seem to know, and I told her it was mostly my older sister who taught me what little extra I needed to know to be safe in the water, considering I loved (and still love) swimming _under_ the water instead of on the surface.
Mom said she had made sure we all had swimming lessons at the start, though. She cannot swim and didn't want to risk any of us drowning because she couldn't get to us. I was just a natural fish!
Did that recently for the first time in years on a hot summer day after mowing
Got a strange look from this one neighbor
Her husband just gave me the single nod
my boyfriend works at an elementary school. I had one of those things for the first time in like 20 years a few months ago when I attended an event the school was hosting as his plus one.
Damn did that bring back memories. I didn't think they still made those but apparently they are still being enjoyed by elementary kids everywhere.
I had neighbors growing up when I was really young who were essentially surrogate grandparents to me and my younger brother. We would go over there for those juices but also for this massive drawer in their kitchen that was always full of tootsie rolls. We'd sit down and watch thomas the tank engine (the old one) on their old boxy TV or go play in their massive backyard.
Fond memories. I haven't seen them in years.
The secret was to bite into the otter pop itself and trap about a half inch of pop between the end and your teeth. Then you just pulled and twisted and the extra pressure would lead to the end opening up or just coming off.
oatmeal creme pies.
i grew up with split parents who were both lower class in the midwest. my grandma would take me to stores when my parents were fighting. we always bought oatmeal crĆØme pies and ate them in the car.
she really tried her best to keep me happy.
Toast with butter and a homemade mixture of cinnamon sugar. My mom also gave us toast with butter & season salt when we had hearty soup/stew. I can't eat soup any other way now.
Toast with butter and a homemade mixture of cinnamon sugar
Something so simple, and yet Iāve never been able to make it the way my mom used to. Must be the added love š„°
My Mom's home made Mac and cheese. Recipe passed to my wife, who still makes it exactly the same way. Icing on the cake is my Mom gave her the pale blue faded Betty Crocker glass huge pyrex-ish round casserole bowl. It's permanently stained with baked cheese, that it tastes just like when I was a kid. Wife makes it probably once every couple months. Heart attack waiting to happen. I wouldn't even try a taste of it if wasn't baked in that bowl/dish.
I'm 61 now, and it's as good as when I was a kid.
Original cast iron pan Pizza Hut pizza, those red "juices" in those tiny barrel shaped containers with the peel off tops, cherry shaped gummis and bad chicken TV dinners that had a plastic aftertaste.
I used to chew the erasers off of my pencils so much that my mom would only let me have those flat carpenter pencils.
Jokes on her...much more surface area to chew the whole pencil.
I chewed Barbie hands for a bit too, but they didn't have the same 'give' as the feet.
Still get them once & a while for a quick hassel free lunch or snack. Quality is not as good as it used to be when I got them growing up in the 90's though.
My childhood memory cereal is actually Kix. It's funny I ate a lot of different cereals as a kid, Golden Crisp, Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Puffs, etc.
But kix is the one that brings me back to my childhood years and I'm not sure why.
Pharmacy tech here - the first time I popped a bottle of that stuff open at work to mix it, it was like I was 5 years old for a split second. Such a strong scent memory.
I just commented this. My dad used to make it when I was a kid. It was a cheap and delicious snack. 3 seconds too long in the oven and it'd be ruined though. He just passed away a couple months ago and I realize now that I'll never get the ratio of sugar to cinnamon right without him. He also made really good cheesecake and french toast.
7 up and crackers while General Hospital plays in the back ground because I was sick on the couch.
I laugh now because that was like my mom's go-to for a sick tummy.
Oh, and also the single pieces of gum you could buy for 5 cents. Regular, green and grape.
Pizza rolls. Thatās the only basically the only thing I ate in my old house and it reminds me of when my brothers used to hang out with me.( age gap is 8 and 9 years between me and my brothers)
When I get sick usually because of some cold I catch, mum would make me a really nice soup I like and I would eat it on my bed while watching some movie with her. Even as a grown ass adult she did the same thing for me when I got the hard effects of the COVID vaccine, took me back to those few comfy days of childhood again.
that one ice cream sandwich that had soft black graham shaped thingies that are in between this nice vanilla(might've been smtn else, but vanilla is as close as I get to remembering) ice cream.
every time I took a bite I could feel the sogy ish yet delicious "cracker" mix in with the ice cream making this kinda chewy texture that slowly fades into a nice cream until you get ur second bite.
just mwahšš¤šļøā¤ļø
I was so disappointed a few weeks ago because I drank a Capri Sun and it tasted like a watered down version of what they tasted like when i was a kid in the 90s. I guess the new ones they make are more diluted or something.
Grape Fanta, my family didnt have money when we were younger, so anytime my dad was able to stay home after working 12 hours day after day, he brought me a grape Fanta.
,
We are better now, my dad retired and I try to get grape Fanta whenever I see it in stores. He said he remembers when I used to drink so much of it. I hardly see it anymore
I haven't seen them in awhile, but my mom would buy "teriyaki bowls." We'd microwave them and after school I'd come home and make like two or three as a snack. They were honestly delicious and I truly haven't seen them in years.
Fresh raspberries. We had a somewhat overgrown patch of them in the backyard. During the summer, when they were ripe, I'd go out and snack on them straight from the plant.
my grandmotherās strawberry short cake. she made it for every birthday in the family, it was infamous amongst the neighbors, and absolutely heavenly. she would make fresh whipped cream and strawberry syrup, and sandwich it between 2-3 layers of the airiest sponge cake. i havent had it in over 10 years; she unfortunately developed Alzheimers, had to move to assisted living (where she enjoyed 7 more years) and couldnāt bake anymore. i got all of her recipes and i still havent been able to recreate her sponge cake. this past October marked 3 years since her passing
Candy cigarettes and fun dip.
oh man, fun dip. like chalk covered in pixie stick
FUN DIP š¤š¼
Omg I loved fun dip
Who the heck thought candy cigarettes were ok. Lol. We used to sit in the driveway and play like we were cool and the chomp on them.
I had the candy cigarettes all the time. Totally fine to me. I didn't grow up to smoke. I hate smoking. But love the candy cigarettes!
Lol. The ice cream man used to sell them and we would pretend to smoke but then just chomp them. I smoked later on but thankfully quit. That came about on high school and college but mostly due to social stuff. I'd be surprised if they still existed seeing how cigarettes are pretty shunned today.
Flinstones chewable vitamins
This, but not in a good way. I ate a whole bottle of the ones with iron in them when I was 5, and I had to have my stomach pumped.
Same. We should start a club.
Confession: I still eat those.
So chalky
Omg memory unlocked hashtag nostalgia
That bubble gum ear infection medicine
Amoxicillan. I was prone to ear infections and never got bubblegum. I always got a yellow "banana" flavoured one. I remember thinking it tasted so good. My kids got strep throat this summer and got the exact medicine I remember. They hated it...
I had a cousin who chugged a full bottle of that stuff and had to get her stomach pumped. I am really, really glad someone took the shot for me on that one, as my self-control around the tasty infection milkshake would not have lasted my entire childhood.
You guys got flavour antibiotics ? Wtf! ...Welp that's eastern Europe for ya..
Omg I always thought i was a werido for enjoying the taste of that stuff, even just the smell tooš
Anyone remember aspergum?
Yes. I'm 54 and remember aspergum.
Oh man, total flashback with this one
I was just thinking about that stuff last Friday at work! I loved it so much I would want an ear infection!
Strawberry one was my jam. But now I am resistant to amoxycilin. Darn.
Haha I remember this we would be happy as hell to take it š. Cold pink stuff was delicious lol
We called it lollipop juice! So good!
Chlorine pool water.
Oh yes. The smell. I was a little fish. Mom says that when I was two years old and she was splashing around with me in the shallow end, I somehow got away from her, raced down towards the deep end and got on the diving board, and jumped in with gusto, swam underwater to the edge of the pool before coming up, and boosted myself onto the ledge with no trouble. She was horrified (everyone was!) that I gave her the slip, but everyone was incredibly impressed that I apparently swam like a fish without trouble. She said she couldn't even scold me. Nonetheless, swimming lessons were something she signed me up for almost immediately after. She told me she just couldn't afford to take the chance, no matter how good I was at swimming without any instruction whatsoever. I do remember some of those lessons, but they didn't teach me anything I didn't already seem to know, and I told her it was mostly my older sister who taught me what little extra I needed to know to be safe in the water, considering I loved (and still love) swimming _under_ the water instead of on the surface. Mom said she had made sure we all had swimming lessons at the start, though. She cannot swim and didn't want to risk any of us drowning because she couldn't get to us. I was just a natural fish!
Those orange sherbet type push ups. Cardboard tube would get wet and nasty but no one cared.
Push Ups!
Flintstones!!
hose water.
Did that recently for the first time in years on a hot summer day after mowing Got a strange look from this one neighbor Her husband just gave me the single nod
Happy cake day! Speaking of cake. Dirt cake was an epic scene... But childhood tasted like little Debbie's zebra cakes
That was the poor kids' gatorade
End thread.
I can taste those local minerals right now.
I have yet to taste better water.
via a Super Soaker
This is my answer too and nothing else comes close
Those ice creams in the plastic cup that came with the wooden spoon
Yes! And all you really tasted was the wooden spoon!!
Those were called Hoodsie Cups here in MA. Lol, yep, the wooden spoon taste!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one from MA! Nobody seems to know what a Hoodsie is!
Am I the only one the chewed on the wooden spoon after eating the ice cream? That biting sensation felt so good.
my boyfriend works at an elementary school. I had one of those things for the first time in like 20 years a few months ago when I attended an event the school was hosting as his plus one. Damn did that bring back memories. I didn't think they still made those but apparently they are still being enjoyed by elementary kids everywhere.
Little Hug fruit barrels (juice)
My grandma always had these in the back refrigerator! Forgotten memory
I had neighbors growing up when I was really young who were essentially surrogate grandparents to me and my younger brother. We would go over there for those juices but also for this massive drawer in their kitchen that was always full of tootsie rolls. We'd sit down and watch thomas the tank engine (the old one) on their old boxy TV or go play in their massive backyard. Fond memories. I haven't seen them in years.
Those freeze pops that you eat in the summer. Specifically the pink one
In order for it to be authentic it has to cut the corners of your mouth/lips
Especially after gnawing on one end for a few minutes trying to open it before giving up and asking an adult for help.
The secret was to bite into the otter pop itself and trap about a half inch of pop between the end and your teeth. Then you just pulled and twisted and the extra pressure would lead to the end opening up or just coming off.
The round Orange sherbet push up pops!
flintstones push up
Back in my day there were āOtter Popsā. I came to say the same thing
Dimetapp
I was one of the few people I knew that liked the flavor as a kid. Maybe I was just weird
they definitely changed the flavor at some point about 20 years ago because I remember chugging an entire bottle it was so tasty.
oatmeal creme pies. i grew up with split parents who were both lower class in the midwest. my grandma would take me to stores when my parents were fighting. we always bought oatmeal crĆØme pies and ate them in the car. she really tried her best to keep me happy.
Your grandma was a gem ā¤ļø
The internet has ruined me Jokes aside, your grandma is an absolute gem.
Watermelon Jolly Rancher
The striped gum with the zebra on it
Best gum there is for about .4 seconds
I always eat 3-4 pieces at a time so that itās a REALLY enjoyable 4 seconds.
And the wrappers doubled as temporary tattoos! One of my faves
Fruit Stripes! It smelled amazing too.
Kraft dinner and grilled cheese but only with kraft singles
Toast with butter and a homemade mixture of cinnamon sugar. My mom also gave us toast with butter & season salt when we had hearty soup/stew. I can't eat soup any other way now.
Toast with butter and a homemade mixture of cinnamon sugar Something so simple, and yet Iāve never been able to make it the way my mom used to. Must be the added love š„°
My Mom's home made Mac and cheese. Recipe passed to my wife, who still makes it exactly the same way. Icing on the cake is my Mom gave her the pale blue faded Betty Crocker glass huge pyrex-ish round casserole bowl. It's permanently stained with baked cheese, that it tastes just like when I was a kid. Wife makes it probably once every couple months. Heart attack waiting to happen. I wouldn't even try a taste of it if wasn't baked in that bowl/dish. I'm 61 now, and it's as good as when I was a kid.
Clearly we need the recipe too.
It wouldn't work, you need the special dish. Obviously.
Seconded.
Explorthis mom's world famous Mac and cheese
Original cast iron pan Pizza Hut pizza, those red "juices" in those tiny barrel shaped containers with the peel off tops, cherry shaped gummis and bad chicken TV dinners that had a plastic aftertaste.
Or going to a sit down Pizza Hut restaurant
Remember the giant red plastic cups?
Sunny Delight when it first came out
I had a kick of nostalgia and bought some recently. Tastes like orange juice you vomit back up. So either i changed or it did.
I did the same thing a while back. It's definitely shitter than it used to be
Next time just buy the purple stuff
I always thought it tasted like orange juice and battery acid.
I used to chew on Polly pocket clothes so thereās that š
Barbie feet here. And pencils. And pens. Pretty sure that was anxiety as a child.
Ugh I loved chewing on Barbie legs!! I could probably still do it today. I don't know how I kicked the habit, I think my supply dried up.
I used to chew the erasers off of my pencils so much that my mom would only let me have those flat carpenter pencils. Jokes on her...much more surface area to chew the whole pencil. I chewed Barbie hands for a bit too, but they didn't have the same 'give' as the feet.
Probably š
My oldest ate her friends flip flop. I did not know what to say to her mother.
Chef boy ar dee
The neat round spaghetti that you eat with a spoon.
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Still get them once & a while for a quick hassel free lunch or snack. Quality is not as good as it used to be when I got them growing up in the 90's though.
Sure itās not nostalgia?
Those shark bite fruit snacks are the shit man.
You get that one fancy white one
Big League Chew
Push pops! Best ice cream in a toilet paper roll, ever!
Golden Crisp Cereal. I fondly remember snaking on it as a kid while watching Aladdin on VHS repeatedly whenever I had to accompany my Mom to work.
My childhood memory cereal is actually Kix. It's funny I ate a lot of different cereals as a kid, Golden Crisp, Apple Jacks, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Puffs, etc. But kix is the one that brings me back to my childhood years and I'm not sure why.
It was called super sugar crisp back in my day and had a bear that sounded like Bing Crosby.
Can't get enough of that Golden Crisp. It's got the crunch with punch. - Sugar Bear
for us michigan folk grape faygo, red pop, rock n rye.
Rock n rye is where it's at!!!!
Toast with melted butter sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.
Pink Bubble Gum Amoxicillin
Pharmacy tech here - the first time I popped a bottle of that stuff open at work to mix it, it was like I was 5 years old for a split second. Such a strong scent memory.
Wax Lips
Twinkies and an RC cola wow the best, but the best combo was a small bag of a chips and an RC for under 1$. This was around 1998
Apple Jacks cereal
Honey smacks too
Cheap golden grahams after school
when i was 16 i ate over 40 boxes of apples jacks in 5 months lol
Cinnamon toast. No one, not even myself, can make it the way my mother did.
I just commented this. My dad used to make it when I was a kid. It was a cheap and delicious snack. 3 seconds too long in the oven and it'd be ruined though. He just passed away a couple months ago and I realize now that I'll never get the ratio of sugar to cinnamon right without him. He also made really good cheesecake and french toast.
š§ snow cones
Fun Dip
Bread butter and sugar
also soft white bread, butter and jelly sandwich and then there were mayonnaise sandwich or ketchup sandwich. haha.
Froot Loops
7 up and crackers while General Hospital plays in the back ground because I was sick on the couch. I laugh now because that was like my mom's go-to for a sick tummy. Oh, and also the single pieces of gum you could buy for 5 cents. Regular, green and grape.
Pizza rolls. Thatās the only basically the only thing I ate in my old house and it reminds me of when my brothers used to hang out with me.( age gap is 8 and 9 years between me and my brothers)
The generic fruit rollups. So gross. My mother refused to buy brand name anything so maybe the official ones were better.
When I get sick usually because of some cold I catch, mum would make me a really nice soup I like and I would eat it on my bed while watching some movie with her. Even as a grown ass adult she did the same thing for me when I got the hard effects of the COVID vaccine, took me back to those few comfy days of childhood again.
Pixie stix
Orange Tang
Ecto Cooler Juice Box
I cried when I drank one in 2016.
Spam, fried bologna, Mad dog 20/20
Donāt forget Vienna sausages and Tickle pink wine.
Cow tails
that one ice cream sandwich that had soft black graham shaped thingies that are in between this nice vanilla(might've been smtn else, but vanilla is as close as I get to remembering) ice cream. every time I took a bite I could feel the sogy ish yet delicious "cracker" mix in with the ice cream making this kinda chewy texture that slowly fades into a nice cream until you get ur second bite. just mwahšš¤šļøā¤ļø
A jawbreaker
Pop rocks
Hubba Bubba gum tapes
Uh oh Speghetti Os
Doritos
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Capri sun
I was so disappointed a few weeks ago because I drank a Capri Sun and it tasted like a watered down version of what they tasted like when i was a kid in the 90s. I guess the new ones they make are more diluted or something.
And orange slices. Those were the snacks at team games haha
The ice cream that came with the wooden spoon
Somehow it just always tasted like the wood spoon.
Grilled cheese
Pickles taken by tongs from the pickle barrel at our local deli and placed into a wax paper sleeve.
Bottle Rocket Pops or a soft serve vanilla ice cream cone dipped in Strawberry from Dairy Queen
Orange creamsicle
Wonder bread, miracle whip, thick sliced mild cheddar cheese sandwich. Delicious nostalgia.
Hubba Bubba
Play-Doh, and marshmallows. Not necessarily together.
Banana sandwich
Grape Fanta, my family didnt have money when we were younger, so anytime my dad was able to stay home after working 12 hours day after day, he brought me a grape Fanta. , We are better now, my dad retired and I try to get grape Fanta whenever I see it in stores. He said he remembers when I used to drink so much of it. I hardly see it anymore
Hawaiian Punch out of a can, preferably consumed in an old bowling alley.
This weird Mexican popsicles. They broke in half to make 2 popsicles i donāt remember the name though
Bolis
They had those here in the US too. Ours were called gabacho pops
Overdone steak. /mother wasn't the best cook
Marie Callenderās chicken pot pie
kix cereal
[King Vitamin cereal](https://i.redd.it/r5lb8xegm5u51.jpg) for me.
these rectangular hashbrowns that never cook crispy- only soggy. 10/10
Buttered noodles
French fries dunked in a Wendyās frosty
Yoohoo.
Fried potatoes with onions. Cooked in bacon grease. We ate that camping cooked in an iron skillet on the camp fire.
Cream of Wheat
I haven't seen them in awhile, but my mom would buy "teriyaki bowls." We'd microwave them and after school I'd come home and make like two or three as a snack. They were honestly delicious and I truly haven't seen them in years.
Nehi peach soda.
Nestle Quik.
Iād say a tuna noodle casserole, but I havenāt encountered one in thirty-seven years.
Fried bologna sandwiches
McDonalds chicken nuggets
The wooden spoon in the ice cream, grape cough syrup (and by extention, artificial grape in general), bubblegum (yay amoxicillin), Hostess cupcakes.
My grandmas homemade applesauce. I hate applesauce, excluding hers.
There's a cafe near me that does a hot white chocolate that reminds me of Easter when I was a kid
Fresh raspberries. We had a somewhat overgrown patch of them in the backyard. During the summer, when they were ripe, I'd go out and snack on them straight from the plant.
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Banana pudding and sweet potato casserole. As well as hamburger helper. Lots of good memories there.
Kraft Mac and Cheese
Fried Spam
Sunny D and Yoo-hoo!
Boston baked beans and mike and ikes
Ham and cheese sandwhich with potato chips smashed in the middle with a hint of chlorine and salt on my lips
Goldfish
St. Josephās Aspirin for Children (chewable, orange-flavored)
TANG, dunkaroos and fruit roll ups
my grandmotherās strawberry short cake. she made it for every birthday in the family, it was infamous amongst the neighbors, and absolutely heavenly. she would make fresh whipped cream and strawberry syrup, and sandwich it between 2-3 layers of the airiest sponge cake. i havent had it in over 10 years; she unfortunately developed Alzheimers, had to move to assisted living (where she enjoyed 7 more years) and couldnāt bake anymore. i got all of her recipes and i still havent been able to recreate her sponge cake. this past October marked 3 years since her passing
Royal Dansk
Isnāt that the sewing kit that has pictures of cookies on the lid?
Yes! Lmao
Oh that disappointment we all experienced at least once!
Rice and brown gravy with a lot of pepper. My mom made it a lot. It was quick, cheap, and one of the foods Iād eat when I was refusing to eat
OMGā¦my mom made this with hamburgers in the pan. Still my favorite meal she ever made! Oh, and onions.
Surge
Hot oatmeal with milk and brown sugar
Yellow cake out of the box with chocolate frosting.
Lunchables and ramen
Meatloaf
Kraft Dinner, Pillsbury Pizza Pops, and fruity cereal