http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ Daily Kitten Chat Forum Topic: What is a special memory as a child with food en Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:13:08 +0000 http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400211 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:15:17 +0000 HuddysMama 400211@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Grits. My mom made awesome grits. Smooth, creamy, buttery grits.</p> <p>When I was growing up, my grandmother had to send us grits. She sent them to England, to Montana, to Alaska. My friends now still have trouble believing I never saw grits in the grocery store until I was 12.</p> <p>Also, when we would go to Glacier my mom always cooked just like we were at home even though we were in an AirStream. We'd have beans and rice, fried chicken, breakfast with all the trimmings. It was awesome. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400183 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:37:58 +0000 WillowandWindismom 400183@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>My grandmother was an amazing cook. But her kitchen was about as big as a minute. I don't know how she did it, really. My grandparents were the best. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400176 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:34:05 +0000 mollycat71 400176@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>wish I would have grown up with WWM, YUM! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400171 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:29:53 +0000 WillowandWindismom 400171@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Frozen custard cones from Sandy's on Barton Springs Road in Austin!!! My grandfather would take me every Wednesday after we went to Kiddy Land, which was 1/2 price on Wednesday. It was an old-timey amusement park with rides just for little kids.</p> <p>And my grandmothers fried chicken and mashed potatoes! And her chicken and dumplings and pinto beans and cornbread.</p> <p>*sniff - I miss them all* </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400170 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:29:45 +0000 mollycat71 400170@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I was nicknamed "Auschwitz Amy" growing up I was so skinny. My doc also had a similar recommendation for my parents. They fed me all sorts of crap to make me nice and "fat" like the rest of the family. To this day I have a distorted view of eating, food, and what's good/bad. I really am mad at that doctor for doing that. That was mean, I was just a very active child! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400168 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:25:42 +0000 Sheba's Mom in Phoenix, AZ 10/8 400168@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I don't think this is what you had in mind, but here goes:</p> <p>I was a skinny child (in the 50's chubby was good). At my checkup at 5 years old the pediatrician told my mother to feed me, every night, a cup of mashed potatoes made with heavy cream, hoping to put weight on me. She shoveled this crap which was like wallpaper paste into me for years. Today I gag at the sight of mashed potatoes! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400082 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:57:22 +0000 Siobhan 400082@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>My paternal grandmother used to make homemade noodles. I think she cooked them in turkey or chicken broth. We -always- had noodles with a huge turkey at the holidays. My aunt learned from her how to make them, but they were never as good. I wanted to learn how, but didn't get the chance. I wish I'd been more assertive about wanting to learn.</p> <p>Grandma never used a bowl, she always made a well of flour on the counter and cracked her eggs into it and mixed right there. She always said that it was harder to make good noodles on humid days. (I know humidity can affect bread). I loved her noodles...I could eat nothing else but noodles and gravy and be 1000% content. My mother-in-law used to make noodles too, but nowhere near as good as Grandma Hazel :-) But my grandmother-in-law used to make divinity at the holidays and that was good! That too could be affected by humidity. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400078 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:50:55 +0000 katthays 400078@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Oh YES! My Mom made the best strawberry jam! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400076 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:48:04 +0000 jeankit 400076@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Sweet reminder of berry picking...Up North again, raspberries, blueberries or<br /> black berries...savoring them while picking or having for breakfast with<br /> cream &#38; bit of sugar! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400070 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:30:51 +0000 TrufflesMom 400070@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Dad would take the kids and drive to the nearby dairy farm where they sold all kind of dairy products they made there. Including ice cream - huge fresh cones, dripping everywhere while you watched the cows. (Couldn't get in the car with cones dripping like that!)</p> <p>Or Dad would pile the kids in the car and drive to Pick YourSelf farm - I have picked strawberries, blueberries, peaches, blackberries and more. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400067 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:26:10 +0000 mollycat71 400067@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>When the whole family went to the "tasty freeze" and get ice cream cones. They were the chocolate/vanilla twist cones! No one has ever made ice cream that good since! YUM! 2bp, she STABBED U? Wow, she really wanted it! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400065 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:24:05 +0000 oakcrone 400065@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>My aunt's Sweet Tea. My mom never made iced tea, so one of the highlights of visiting the grandparents, aunts, uncle and cousins was Aunt Manda's tea. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400062 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:23:16 +0000 JoanfromNewJersey 400062@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Family vacations were down the shore and we would go to an ice cream place. I almost always got a chocolate milk shake!<br /> KH, when hubby and I bought our house over 20 years ago, there was an A&#38;W uptown. Soon after we moved up there, they closed. We loved having those root beer floats with the mugs right out of the freezer after a day on Greenwood Lake. </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400059 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:21:31 +0000 2bpurring 400059@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>My grandpa's corn fritters!!!!!!! My aunt once stabbed me in the hand with a fork, I went for the last fritter with my hand and she used her fork..can you believe after she stabbed me with her fork, she grabbed my fork and ate the fritter!!!LOL </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400057 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:15:30 +0000 katthays 400057@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Ohhhh, you were way up north then.....actually, I remember the A&#38;W in Waupun...hmmmm, actually not sure about the A&#38;W in Portage anymore.....I think it might be gone now.<br /> YES, BLACK COWS!!!! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400055 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:11:43 +0000 Kilroy 400055@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>When I was little and we went to visit my grandmother, my cousins and sister and I would go to the beach and at some point the ICE CREAM TRUCK! would show up. We got these ice cream cones wrapped in paper that had gumballs down at the bottom of the cone, you had to eat the whole thing to find out what color gumball you got :)</p> <p>Thanks Jean, for starting this :) </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400053 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:10:03 +0000 jeankit 400053@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>"Up North" is way up there in Oneida County, 3 Lakes, WI...AW we stopped there<br /> too for a "Black Cow" and Onion Rings...heartburn heaven now! Is there an AW<br /> still in Portage area...Hmmm, sounds like a road trip if ever in the vicinity! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400052 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:09:54 +0000 2 Popoki 400052@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>LOL That's was I was wondering! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400049 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:07:51 +0000 katthays 400049@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>LOL, 2POP....I was thinking of YOU when I asked Jean where up north! Maybe she was a Lake Puckaway girl, too! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400047 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:06:36 +0000 katthays 400047@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Root Beer Floats at the A&#38;W, of course....where did you go 'up north"?? I am in the Montello area....do you know Portage? </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400046 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:06:17 +0000 2 Popoki 400046@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>Jean - wondering what you mean by "Up North" ... it is a phrase we used all the time, too. Lived in Milwaukee (well, West Allis) and went Up North to the lake.<br /> It was at the resort there that I would get the best strawberry soda ! </p> http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/topic/18116#post-400040 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:02:22 +0000 jeankit 400040@http://www.dailykitten.com/chat/ <p>I enjoyed stopping for a DQ treat after swimmming when Up North! Our dog, Rusty got a cone in a cup...Kitty, Winkie got a smidge and we got "Dilly Bars"! </p>