Thread: Sh*t Food products you ate as a kid

So my brother and I were latch key kids for much of our youths. So we had to fend for ourselves from time to time. Especially during the summer. This is some of the crap we ate;









What crap did you eat as a kid?

Originally Posted by bsnub

What crap did you eat as a kid?

Much the same as you except no ramen noodles. We ate the Campbell's chicken noodle soup stuff. Would probably add the Goober's peanut butter and jelly in a jar.

I fucking hated them.
Could never figuire how or why they kept getting served.

The only processed stuff I can remember was some smoked cheese which came in a reddish-brown plastic cover. I loved it when I was young but I'm pretty confident that it was fucking awful in reality. My mother though was an early adopter of nose-to-tail eating so two childhood meals which stick in my mind are brains and tongue. Unfortunately, she was 30 or 40 years ahead of her time.

My dad actually liked Swanson's TV dinners so the rest of us had to go along when he got a craving. Back in the fifties when I was in grade school they had a lot of weird stuff like foil packets of breaded shrimp that you'd put in a toaster. My least favorite thing that my mom packed for my lunch was Oscar Meyer liverwurst sandwiches.

The very spawn of Beelzebub.

Spam, Kraft processed cheese.
luckily crap like cheeswhiz and mac an cheeze never made it to Oz

Used to eat "bombs" of this stuff, then talk shit for hours.

Sandwiches of this shit made by mom. One day I said no and have had none at all since.

When I was a boy scout, I had an addiction to aniseed gobstoppers....known elsewhere as jawbreakers.

My mother would put a pack of these nasty things in my brown bag every fokking day of school. To this day, the smell of 'em makes me want to hunk.



...couldn't trade 'em either.

Non-existent in Saigon.
Found only at the beloved PX.

in our house steak, potatoes and those hated Brussel sprouts so same as harry loved the steak and the fooking dog wouldn't eat the sprouts.

Those Vesta Beef curries were delicious in a weird sort of way and somewhat redolent of airplane food where one is never quite sure what the actual product comprises. I remember adding extra cayenne pepper to give it more of a kick. Perfect food for a night on the piss - not too much as to bloat one out and made one's belches and farts quite piquant.

My Mom didn't work. Made three meals a day for four kids. Mom, now 92, has finally admitted that she always hated cooking, but I don't recall anything but good meals.

Cereal for breakfast usually and toast, sandwiches and fruit and maybe a cookie or two for school brown bag lunch, often some type of casserole for dinner.

With four kids, we certainly weren't rich, but bologna and hot dogs were considered quality stuff back in the day.

Good job, Mom!

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

My Mom didn't work. Made three meals a day for four kids. Mom, now 92, has finally admitted that she always hated cooking, but I don't recall anything but good meals.

Cereal for breakfast usually and toast, sandwiches and fruit and maybe a cookie or two for school brown bag lunch, often some type of casserole for dinner.

With four kids, we certainly weren't rich, but bologna and hot dogs were considered quality stuff back in the day.

Good job, Mom!

Did you grow up in the Cleaver family, Davis?

When I was a kid I used to eat my bogers .

I liked it at the time but now I think it was actually shit.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

My Mom didn't work. Made three meals a day for four kids. Mom, now 92, has finally admitted that she always hated cooking, but I don't recall anything but good meals.

Cereal for breakfast usually and toast, sandwiches and fruit and maybe a cookie or two for school brown bag lunch, often some type of casserole for dinner.

With four kids, we certainly weren't rich, but bologna and hot dogs were considered quality stuff back in the day.

Good job, Mom!

Did you grow up in the Cleaver family, Davis?

Kinda....The military version of it.

I used to eat my Toe nails, that was preety shitty come to think of it.

Gave that away a week ago.

Originally Posted by withnallstoke

I remember those vesta meals my late mum used to buy the Chow mein ones I loved the crispy fried noodles !

Same here all our food was fresh,if we didn't like it tough shit.

Use the same on my kids now,if you not like it,there ain't anything different.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

My Mom didn't work. Made three meals a day for four kids. Mom, now 92, has finally admitted that she always hated cooking, but I don't recall anything but good meals.

Cereal for breakfast usually and toast, sandwiches and fruit and maybe a cookie or two for school brown bag lunch, often some type of casserole for dinner.

With four kids, we certainly weren't rich, but bologna and hot dogs were considered quality stuff back in the day.

Good job, Mom!

AO - used to have bologna and butter on white bread for lunch almost every day! I cannot eat the stuff these days. Also had a lot of hamburger and tuna helper.....

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

but bologna and hot dogs were considered quality stuff back in the day.

I'm rather sure that the quality was much better than today.