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Listening to @jameslileks' podcast The Diner is like a window into my past, especially when it comes to food. Over the past few months, I've grown reacquainted with baloney sandwiches (Oscar Mayer makes a triple-thick slice now!), chicken and tuna salad sandwiches, Chex cereal, grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup, and so forth. One of my favorite lunches is a jalapeno-pimento cheese sandwich. Another is a good old-fashioned BLT. I tried Spam, but couldn't get back into it the way I could with other foods.
I've also come to renew my love for Underwood's Deviled Ham spread, and basic Campbell's soups, like vegetable beef, bean and bacon, and chicken and rice. I had an Eggo with my sausage and scrambled eggs this morning. I've gone back to 90% white bread for everything. Every now and then, I'll get some bagels, Nova smoked salmon, a red onion, and Philadelphia onion & chive cream cheese and have bagels & lox for breakfast.
I rediscovered my killer recipe for slow-cooker Salisbury steak for dinner, enjoy Stoeffer's Creamed Chipped Beef on toast for breakfast, and occasionally have hard-boiled eggs as a snack anytime.
About the only nostalgic foods I have not had the hankering for are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and sugary cereals. As a matter of fact, Life is about the sweetest cereal I like now. For all other cereals, I put no sugar on them.
What kind of nostalgic foods have you folks had recently? Maybe you weren't spurred on by James on The Diner, but perhaps you were sitting around thinking about high school, and how you used to take your high-school sweetheart to dinner on Friday nights at Shoney's Big Boy restaurant and drive-in. Instead of sitting in your car outside, you took her inside for a romantic sit-down dinner of Half-A-Pound of Ground Round for you and shrimp for her.
Your thoughts?
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I LOVE lox and bagels! And once a week I treat myself to PB&J. And I do like my oatmeal with honey, raisins and strawberries; that about satisfies my sweet tooth. Fun to think about favorite foods.
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When I was a little kid growing up in a small town north of Boston, every Fourth of July, the local Rotary Club and the churches would host a "field day" for the kids in town. We did all the routine stuff--sack races, potato races, three-legged races, and all the other things you can remember. We played the games on a big open field in the center of town. By lunchtime, we were pretty hot and sweaty and hungry and thirsty.
The Rotary Club and other organizations had set up big grills and tubs of ice on the village green. The food was free for all the kids who participated. It was a fun time to be a little kid, and to this day, I still have a ridiculously irrational fondness for Hoodsies with their little wooden spoons attached to the lids, ice cold cokes in those slender green bottles, and grilled hot dogs.
It's not the food, I think. It's the wondrous memories the food evokes. :) :)
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And yet...and yet...a few months ago at the grocery store, I said to myself, What the heck, how about a head of iceberg lettuce! I regretted it.
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When I was a kid I would crumble so many crackers in it, it would almost be a solid mass. May have to try it again.
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