December 12- Childhood Food Memories- Part 2

-Mom’s home cooking- her tomato soup cake, beef soup, pepper steak, macaroni and cheese, fresh baked bread (from frozen dough), and sandwiches- Taylor ham (sometimes with egg and /or cheese) and Steak-Umms.

  

We liked when she’d cook us breakfast for dinner -fried potatoes, hash, scrambled eggs, baked beans, and toast.

  

She would make us our favorite meals for our birthday dinners. I always picked stuffed peppers, mashed potatoes, and corn. Mike chose lasagna which mom used Cousin Donnas’ recipe for.

  

When she was baking, she’d sometimes let us eat the leftover cake batter in the bowl and a little of the dough from the chocolate chip cookies.

-Ice Cream – My favorite flavor used to be maple walnut but then it was mint chocolate chip like my brother’s. We liked getting this from the Magic Fountain and Carvel. Mom used to get ice cream cakes from the latter for our birthdays (and other occasions) sometimes. We loved the commercials for their cakes – Fudgie the Whale (Father’s Day), Wicky the Witch, Tom the Turkey, Cookie O’ Puss, and Cookie Puss.

    

We’d sometimes get Good Humor ice cream from the truck or the store. I liked the chocolate éclair, Creamsicles, Fudgesicles, and chocolate coated bars.

  

My brother and I also enjoyed the little cups of ice cream with the small wooden spoons. We would sometimes pretend that our ice cream sandwiches were various types of regular sandwiches like ham and cheese.

-Salty snacks – Jiffy popcorn made on the stovetop, Pringles, Super Pretzels from Bradlees snack bar (3 for a dollar special sometimes), Fritos, and pretzel rods. There was a company that delivered chips and pretzels in tin type containers. I think that it was called Charles Chips.

-Crackers- Ritz with cream cheese, saltines with peanut butter, and grahams with jelly or jam.

-Strange snack- Mike liked mixing Alpha Bits cereal with cream cheese and sugar. This was a weird combination. As if the cereal didn’t have enough sugar as is.

Carvel cake 1983

Creamsicle

Note- All photos except for the Carvel ice cream cake are from the internet