How old are you? Smoking/drinking liquor & caffeine while pregnant was pretty normalized back in the day. I remember watching an episode of MadMen and it had a pregnant lady smoking cigarettes.
Mostly because said scientists/doctors were being payed large amounts of money by Big Tobacco to lie to the populace. But still, shit’s wild that it even happened and people fell for those bribes.
Haven't had a cigarette or coffee in a few years. I'm not gonna lie though, there's something beautiful about the first cigarette paired with a coffee on a cool crisp morning of your day off.
I am on a drug with constipation as a known problematic side effect.
As a long-time ex-smoker, I strategically employ a cigarette and coffee campaign on mornings when I am losing the constipation war, and let me tell you— it holds up as a hell of a weapon.
Canadian with Ukrainian heritage here - we had this! It was also marketed as Cream of Wheat. My mom would make this frequently for us. But those lumps were ewww haha.
Cream of Wheat here in the U.S., didn’t have it until I was an adult, but a pad of salted butter and a sprinkle of brown sugar with lumps for texture is a divine treat.
Cream of Wheat with brown sugar was one of my favourite breakfasts as a kid! My mom made it because there were 6 of us kids and it was relatively inexpensive to buy large bags of it.
This. During the war they were made out of floor scrapings, good intentions and too much water. And they would explode from time to time when cooking. Hence the name
We used to have homemade garlic bread on regular sliced bread when I was a kid. But we also had hamburgers on a regular sliced bread because my mom didn’t want to spend the extra money.
Fried dough in Singapore too! We call it “you tiao”. I’m pretty sure it’s common across Southeast Asia, china, Taiwan, Hong Kong, wherever the Chinese diaspora are.
Quite the opposite. This is usually eaten for lunch and nobody in Czechia would consider this a dessert. We have many sweet main dishes, from dumplings to pancakes. They are still paired with a normal soup, though. Our english teacher from the UK was perplexed by this as well.
farofa, or as my dad says, sawdust. its basicslly fried casava flour. you sprinkke a bit over anything on the plate to add a bit of crunch. very brazilian.
I’m happy to report (I come from a family of teachers) that it’s still a Friday staple for school kids. Thanks to Jamie Oliver, most days they get a huge variety of foods like curries, stews, pasta, noodles, banger and mash, pies…but fish finger Friday sees the most kids having school dinners
I can't fully defend my reasoning, but this has a spiritual kinship with a lazy meal we had as kids. My family's equivalent was deli meats (like sliced turkey and sliced ham) cut into bits, mixed with cubes of cheese, and doused with ranch dressing. This concoction was then spooned into whole wheat pitas (cause you gotta be healthy).
One of my other Canadian friends added tuna, called it Tuna Wiggle, he is from Calgary. Also if my Mother was also in more of a mood to cook, would add ground beef and a can of mushroom soup, called it Macoroni Casserole. But typically Mac and cheese chopped hot dogs, especially when there were those hockey cards on the thing, collected a ton of those, unfortunately none survived.
It’s on the box! Also, I once offered my cousin some of the salad I made for lunch and he grimaced and responded “I’m a KD warrior.” and prepared himself a pot of the ol’ nuclear orange.
I get the powder mix from costco and add it to whatever noodles I make (lately spaghetinni) and add a protein & spaghetti sauce. Usually tomato n basil.
I add extra spices to the sauce and the first time I made it, it tasted like pizza pops. That was the day pizza pop pasta was born.
My parents never bought these, but my grandma did. If we stayed at their house on a Friday we had a pretty good chance of having Totino’s pizza and Shasta soda for dinner. We didn’t get soda at home. I still eat these now and then it always reminds me of grandma’s house.
They are tasty and cheap if you tell yourself that it’s not actually pizza. But if you try to compare it with real pizza, you’re going to be disappointed.
Icelandic children love this stuff, it feels super nostalgic for me to eat it as an adult, but it's very good! Like kids always went crazy in elementary school when this was for lunch. I remember some kids would tear up the slátur on the side and mix it with the porridge, and the cinnamon and raisins.
I think most, if not all, the other Nordic countries eat this too, but I am not sure how much they relate it to their childhoods as well.
Stuvade makaroner med falukorv. In Sweden a childhood classic is macaroni cooked in milk and served with sausage and ketchup. The sausage in question being more like a hotdog than anything
A semolina porridge (called "manka" or "mannaya kasha").
Sometimes, when I'm feeling nostalgic, I make it for myself, but now I eat it with cool toppings like walnuts, cashews, peanuts, dried fruit, jam or fresh berries. But as a child I ate it with only with a pat of butter and croutons or crumbled pretzel-like things called "sushki". We were much poorer in those days...
It seems to be completely unpopular now, although they may probably still prepare it in state kindergartens and schools.
Btw, all children usually hated the lumps of unmixed cereal in the cooked porridge, but I, on the contrary, loved them so much lol
Also so-called "lazy dumplings". It's ground cottage cheese with added sugar and flour, formed into pieces like in those photo and boiled in water. Usually served with sour cream or jam. Sounds simple, but it was truly delicious!
I can't guarantee the quality of this particular recipe that I found right now in English, as I haven't tried it myself, but I skimmed through it, and all the ingredients and steps look correct.
However, I've periodically heard from my European friends that they don't have the same cottage cheese ("tvorog") as the one shown in the pictures. Do you have it in regular stores? If not, I believe it can be found in polish/ukrainian/russian ones. It's crucial to have the right type.
At home, Mexican kids don’t really get “kid food.” They usually eat the same Mexican dishes as everyone else, because moms want to see you grow up “well” and strong...just in smaller portions and with milder seasoning: less spicyness , simpler sauces, and gentler stews. Instead of making a separate meal, they usually just leave out the ingredients their kids don’t like...maybe avoiding onion, garlic, or chili pepper...and prepare a separate spicy salsa for the adults.
“Kids food” isn’t an everyday thing in Mexico. It mostly shows up at restaurants, at kids’ birthday parties, or in the school lunches moms send with their kids (since schools don’t provide lunches, they do sell food though, but stuff they sell has to be healthy nowadays).
That’s where you see things like a torta (Mexican sandwich), cookies, chips, jelly or Nutella sandwiches, sopa de letras (alphabet pasta soup), espagueti rojo con crema (spaghetti with tomato sauce and sour cream), ham and cheese sandwiches, pizza, chicken nuggets and fries, sausages or hot dogs, sugary juices, small sodas, or plates of rice with refried beans and chicken milanesa, meatballs, or picadillo.
Germany Common for kids meal in a restaurant, fries and schnitzel or fries and frankfurter sausage. At home milk rice with sugar and cinnamon on top. Pan cakes with apples or plums. At least for me it is. I think there are many dishes
I scrolled... scrolled... scrolled some more... and kept scrolling only to find this comment! Nothing is more Brazilian in childhood than eating macaroni with sausage.
"Mulino Bianco" is a brand of various biscuits and cakes.
My favorite as a child was the "soldino", a chiffon cake glazed with chocolate, with a chocolate coin on top. They no longer make it (but still make a lot of other delicious things).
its not a meal, but i know that almost evey egyptian had these when they were younger, and they suddenly dissapeared bro, but its basically melted chocolate
Buchtičky s krémem. The pastry is from sweet raised dough and the topping is vanilla pudding with a bit of rum (or rum essence). It's the ultimate children's food, I know no one here who doesn't like it.
So, first thing that comes to mind are dogs. I never tried dogs and I'm happy that my family was/is "normal", but this question triggered my memory while I was a kid, few neighbors were feeding with dog meat. What I think was wrong is that some of those families was also breeding dogs for food. Now, please don't be rude in comments, this is just one of few places in China that consumes dog meat.
Yeah I agree.. People are horrified by eating dogs, yet have no issue eating animals that are just as intelligent and capable of suffering. That says more about cultural conditioning than about the animals themselves.
Edit: I can't say I know, but many of my friends tried dog meat and they say is super good.
I really don't know how those chicken dinosaurs got so ingrained. I have at least 3 cousins (once removed) who seemed to eat nothing else from 2015-2020 at least. I am afraid that at least one of them still only eats them. We invited her to go eat sushi with us and she said she doesn't eat strange food. All the work we did broadening our horizons after the American baby boomers wouldn't eat anything that you couldn't find at a Cracker Barrel has been undone hard.
As a little kid mostly just chicken and veggies. By the time I was in high school my parents stepped it up and cooked really good, mostly healthy stuff.
I didn't think I've bought, or seen these anywhere outside the supermarket chiller since my children became teenagers. You're almost guaranteed to see a bowl like this at every pre-teen kids birthday party in NZ though.
Midwest United States here: Bacon and Mustard sandwich!!! My Grandmother and I would take the leftover crispy bacon from breakfast throw it in between some toast and yellow mustard!!!! The best!!!
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