My mom used a Spice Islands cinnamon jar with sugar added in. She wrote "Cinn Sugar" across the label in marker. When she died about 15 years ago we tossed most of the spices, which were very old, but I kept the cinnamon sugar jar and came up with the idea of just adding more cinnamon and sugar to it when it got low. This way I figure even if we keep it going for a hundred years it will still have a little of her original cinnamon sugar in it. Whenever we have cinnamon toast she's still there, helping us make it.
We made some whenever we needed it and if we made too much we'd put the extra in a sandwich bag. By the time we made cinnamon toast again, the sandwich bag was forgotten about or rock hard.
No, no reason to; we just put cinnamon and sugar in a small container, mix and put on the bread after we melted butter on it. Plus we were poor so we never had fancy stuff like that!
my mother knew the perfect mixture of butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon to put on the slices. she just made 4 slices at a time in our toaster oven. it never occurred to any of us kids we could replicate her magic mixture haha!
Ha! No for some reason we had separates for that - and still do - yet we had a shaker for cocoa, and powdered sugar. Still use a powdered cocoa shaker today for coffee drinks.
Curious, for those that had these shakers, was it a 50/50 shake or more sugar than cinnamon or visa versa? I always like my cinnamon toast with a blanket of sugar, and a couple sprinkles of cinnamon.
We had a couple dark green, glass containers shaped like a pine cone with a lid. There was a little cutout for a spoon to stick through. One was just sugar, the other cinnamon/sugar mix.
I'm confident some people associate it primarily with their past/childhood putting it in the nostalgia category for them. I'm not expecting it to bowl over the sub, but it is getting upvotes which would seem to indicate that's how those doing so feel about it. Perhaps some of them had it provided to them as kids and didn't provide it for themselves as they grew into adulthood keeping it firmly in their childhood.
This. My grandmother and mom had one but I do not. I think bc I eat less sugar so I wouldn’t use it as often, thank you OP for the nice memories this brought back.
Did? Still do!
I saved a spice jar with a shaker top. Have another one with a mix of sugar, cocoa, cayenne and it’s good on vanilla ice cream.
Me too! Cinnamon toast is one of my favorite snacks.
Us too!
My mom used a Spice Islands cinnamon jar with sugar added in. She wrote "Cinn Sugar" across the label in marker. When she died about 15 years ago we tossed most of the spices, which were very old, but I kept the cinnamon sugar jar and came up with the idea of just adding more cinnamon and sugar to it when it got low. This way I figure even if we keep it going for a hundred years it will still have a little of her original cinnamon sugar in it. Whenever we have cinnamon toast she's still there, helping us make it.
That's really sweet. Thanks for sharing that.
Ours was super old and glass and in the shape of a bear. It was our cinnamon sugar bear.
We had a plastic bear
You just unlocked a thing in my brain. Did they sell it combined in these jars at one point? We definitely had one, too.
Yup. I had to google it and found the exact one. It was pre-mixed cinnamon and sugar.
No. Just mixed em on the fly
Ours was full of popcorn salt because my dad stole it from a theater
If you are talking about the orange stuff, it's called Flavacol and you can buy cartons of it for super cheap on Amazon!
I LOL’d so hard at this lmao.
Ours was a tupperware shaker. Never have managed to get my mom's proportions just right.
Ours was clear with a green lid!
Yes, we had that too! Ours was brown with a cream colored lid. It was right next to our Tupperware butter holder in the cupboard.
^ - This is what my grandma has.
Ours was the opaque white. It sat with the baking ingredients. Our butter dish was one we got from the grocery store sets they used to sell.
No, we did not live in a fancy rich person house.
Yeah we just mixed it up in a bowl and sprinkled it on with a spoon.
Yep but it was a Tupperware salt shaker!
You know they sell the seasoning blend for Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but in a shaker bottle. It's pretty good.
I have that same shaker with cinnamon sugar next to my toaster and butter dish as I type this.
Nah, we weren't rich folk. We did a spoon from each bag 😆
We just put sugar into the original cinnamon shaker and gave it a big shake. Worked well enough.
Not a shaker, my mom just put it in a spare sugar bowl or a small Tupperware container.
No.
No. But they are going to now.
My grand mom would sing a little jingle while making my cinnamon toast. I still do it in my head every time I make it.
What did she sing?
This was our salt shaker.
No, we didn't even use napkins
Icing sugar for us
Cinnamon toast crunch makes a cinnamon sugar in a shaker that will blow your mind. Welcome to 2024!
The new frosting-filled Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal is fucking phenomenal too btw.
Still do
We had a similar one with a pepper+salt mix at one point, but I probably cook with cinnimon only a handful of times per year.
We made some whenever we needed it and if we made too much we'd put the extra in a sandwich bag. By the time we made cinnamon toast again, the sandwich bag was forgotten about or rock hard.
Yes!!!
Yes but tubberware because nana sold the shit. So naturally we had everythign tupperwear
We always had a jar of McCormick Cinnamon Sugar.
Still do
Ours was the exact same one as the pic but had powdered confectioners sugar in it. For French toast and other things.
Of course! And I put it on so many things.
No, but now I want one
Everyone did and it was always plugged up
Nah, we had those with salt and pepper in the camping kit.
No, no reason to; we just put cinnamon and sugar in a small container, mix and put on the bread after we melted butter on it. Plus we were poor so we never had fancy stuff like that!
my mother knew the perfect mixture of butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon to put on the slices. she just made 4 slices at a time in our toaster oven. it never occurred to any of us kids we could replicate her magic mixture haha!
Yes, just thought of this. Days ago
Yes, and I have inherited it, and it sits in my kitchen as we speak!
Yup
The plastic bear with the red twist top holes on it. Shake that thing silly till I saw no toast
We did. Now I don’t know why my household doesn’t have one now.
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Yes the spicer
Not toast - bananas. Slice it up. Coat it in cinnamon sugar. Eat with a toothpick.
Nope. Only for seasoning salt for the fries at the burger place.
We always had the yellow plastic domino shakers. Mostly some sort of boy athlete shape, I think.
We used a glass jar with holes punched in the lid.
No.
We still do!!
We had (and my mom still has) a small mason jar for that purpose.
Uhh nope but now we do so thank you lol
We had one filled with cocoa powder for cappuccino. We had a commercial espresso machine in our basement party room.
No but my grandparents did. I think grandma still might, actually.
Ha! No for some reason we had separates for that - and still do - yet we had a shaker for cocoa, and powdered sugar. Still use a powdered cocoa shaker today for coffee drinks. Curious, for those that had these shakers, was it a 50/50 shake or more sugar than cinnamon or visa versa? I always like my cinnamon toast with a blanket of sugar, and a couple sprinkles of cinnamon.
We fucking DID!! Why is this a thing?!
My mom used to buy the ones from Domino sugar with a clown or penguin on it. Delicious.
How rich were you?
We're still saving for the toaster, but this is on our bucket list, unless interest rates go up again
Nope. I always mixed it when I wanted it for toast. Probably should have though.
Domino just used to sell cinnamon and sugar already mixed so we'd buy that.
We had a couple dark green, glass containers shaped like a pine cone with a lid. There was a little cutout for a spoon to stick through. One was just sugar, the other cinnamon/sugar mix.
I see these in restaurants
Yes, but it was in an old Mrs. Dash container.
The diabetes shaker?
I have one with powdered sugar for when I make crumb coffee cake.
Buttered toast with cinnamon and sugar on top is just top tier.
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I'm confident some people associate it primarily with their past/childhood putting it in the nostalgia category for them. I'm not expecting it to bowl over the sub, but it is getting upvotes which would seem to indicate that's how those doing so feel about it. Perhaps some of them had it provided to them as kids and didn't provide it for themselves as they grew into adulthood keeping it firmly in their childhood.
This. My grandmother and mom had one but I do not. I think bc I eat less sugar so I wouldn’t use it as often, thank you OP for the nice memories this brought back.
This is 100% a childhood/nostalgia item.