[Old School Hound]

This is a thread about remembering some of your foods from decades ago that you enjoyed when you were young. I am particularly interested in some favorites that have long since been discontinued, or maybe just foods you don't see anymore, or haven't consumed in many years. Feel free to pass along a story or two to go along with one of your childhood favorites.

My pawpaw's sister was a beautician. She had her shop in a little building beside her home. I would go over there with pawpaw when he went to get his hair done. She had one of those pop machines like you see on the Andy Griffith Show, outside of Wally's Fillin' Station.  You pull the top up , put in the 15 cents or quarter and  select your bottle of pop and slide it along the rack of the machine and open the bottle with the built in opener.  Here was always my selection:


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[Old School Hound]

One of the few things I ever remember stealing in my life... There was a little family grocery store in our neighborhood where all the kids would flock for snacks and goodies and such.  I took a box of these(SEE BELOW) , around the time I was in early grade school , apparently w/o paying for it. My mom found out and wore my ass out and made me go back and apologize and pay for it. 


Remember the string?

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[Old School Hound]

One of my favorite cookies growing up. Mom bought these all the time. She loved them , too. There were two long rolls of ten or 12 cookies. One roll consisted of the chocolate ones; the other were the vanilla. They were made by Keebler. They were discontinued several decades ago. GREAT cookie!!!

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[Old School Hound]

Still, when I open up Brach's CCR, the smell immediately takes me back to childhood. Nothing like it!!!


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[Old School Hound]

Do they still make these b!tc**s?   Haven't seen one in years. One of my favorites as a kid. Love that toasted coconut.


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[Granny Bear]

CCR and CCC (chocolate covered raisins/cherries) were my all time favorite childhood candies.  My grandmother used to make a concoction of scrambled eggs and molasses.  She called it egg butter, and served it with her homemade biscuits.  Everybody loved it, except me.  Her biscuits were phenomenal but I couldn't stand the egg butter!!

My grandmother was a very interesting person....at least to me.  She was widowed in her thirties and had five children to raise alone.  My mother was the oldest, and the only girl.  So naturally, she had to quit school to babysit while my grandmother went to work.  She was uneducated and unskilled.  But those circumstances didn't stop people of that generation.  She would clean houses, do wallpaper (I remember her staying up most of the night to make wallpaper paste), do ironings and anything else she could do to make a living for her kids.  She finally got a good job.  She was the first school cook that was ever hired by the county.  She fed an entire school, grades 1-8 with commodities.  This woman could literally make something wonderful out of nothing.

That said, one of my sweetest memories of her was when she would make popcorn balls with me.  I think that's my favorite food memory.  She had quite a few grandchildren by this time (I was her favorite   )  so, she would pop a dishpan full of popcorn, and let me make the marshmallow "paste" that we used to stick it all together.  There were no miniature marshmallows or marshmallow cream back then, so I would take a stick of butter and exactly 12 large marshmallows.  Melt those very very slowly on a wood burning cook stove, and add it to the popcorn.  At Christmas time, she would add red or green food coloring.  This recipe and her snow cream is very firmly ingrained in my memory.

[Old School Hound]

CCR and CCC (chocolate covered raisins/cherries) were my all time favorite childhood candies.  My grandmother used to make a concoction of scrambled eggs and molasses.  She called it egg butter, and served it with her homemade biscuits.  Everybody loved it, except me.  Her biscuits were phenomenal but I couldn't stand the egg butter!!

My grandmother was a very interesting person....at least to me.  She was widowed in her thirties and had five children to raise alone.  My mother was the oldest, and the only girl.  So naturally, she had to quit school to babysit while my grandmother went to work.  She was uneducated and unskilled.  But those circumstances didn't stop people of that generation.  She would clean houses, do wallpaper (I remember her staying up most of the night to make wallpaper paste), do ironings and anything else she could do to make a living for her kids.  She finally got a good job.  She was the first school cook that was ever hired by the county.  She fed an entire school, grades 1-8 with commodities.  This woman could literally make something wonderful out of nothing.

That said, one of my sweetest memories of her was when she would make popcorn balls with me.  I think that's my favorite food memory.  She had quite a few grandchildren by this time (I was her favorite   )  so, she would pop a dishpan full of popcorn, and let me make the marshmallow "paste" that we used to stick it all together.  There were no miniature marshmallows or marshmallow cream back then, so I would take a stick of butter and exactly 12 large marshmallows.  Melt those very very slowly on a wood burning cook stove, and add it to the popcorn.  At Christmas time, she would add red or green food coloring.  This recipe and her snow cream is very firmly ingrained in my memory.

Thank you, granny. LOVE the stories. That's my favorite thing about these old products that we loved as kids---- the stories attached to them. The goodies are easily forgotten, but the stories stay forever. More, please!

[Old School Hound]

One thing I remember from childhood that my granny used to make for us kids was something she called chocolate gravy. It was more like the best chocolate pudding ever or chocolate pie filling. Speaking of that, one of my favorite things as a child was when granny would make a pie, especially a chocolate or butterscotch pie, and let me lick her mixing bowl.

[Old School Hound]

I remember when milk was delivered to our house in glass bottles.  I'm not kidding, young folks. It really was.  I have the proof. I couldn't wait for the "milkman" to bring me my chocolate milk.


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Do they still make these b!tc**s?   Haven't seen one in years. One of my favorites as a kid. Love that toasted coconut.


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Yep, they still make them, it was and still is one of my dad's favorites.

[Old School Hound]

My hangout as a kid... I was there most every day., either playing the pinball machine, eating a sackful of those little burgers, or usually... BOTH.   Think of the best White Castle you ever put in your mouth, multiply the flavor 100 times, and you have what a Kyrstal Kitchen burger tasted like. Best sliders EVER!!!  The 5 cent price was from the 50's and 60's but the signage never changed, even when the prices did. I think the little burgers were 10 or 15 cents when I was a young kid. You'd walk in that place and Mr. Craig would have two or three dozen of those burgers on a grill at any given time.  Also, the vesy best soft serve ice cream you ever put inside your mouth... My sis and I would play pinball there for literally hours at a time.  It was located on Main St., directly across from where Hardees now sits.


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[Hoot Gibson]

I miss Twinkies and Suzy-Qs, as they were before Hostess went bankrupt and production moved to Mexico. Mexico produces some great food and drinks, but they need to up their game on junk food.

[Hoot Gibson]

My mother used to make a plain yellow cake baked in a cast iron skillet. She served it with sweetened strawberries and whipped cream. That remains my favorite take on strawberry shortcake. It wasn't authentic, it was better.

[Old School Hound]

My mother used to make a plain yellow cake baked in a cast iron skillet. She served it with sweetened strawberries and whipped cream. That remains my favorite take on strawberry shortcake. It wasn't authentic, it was better.

Nothing like those concoctions whipped up by mom(or granny).   They were always better than anything you could buy. There really is something to that "Made With Love" saying. Both my mom and granny still cooked with cast iron skillets late into their lives.

[Granny Bear]

I don't think my mom owned a cake pan, and I KNOW my Granny didn't. Baking in a cast iron skillet made the cakes a little crusty, and so delicious!!!

[Old School Hound]

I don't think my mom owned a cake pan, and I KNOW my Granny didn't.  Baking in a cast iron skillet made the cakes a little crusty, and so delicious!!!

And makes yummy, crispy cornbread!!!

[Granny Bear]

Crispy cornbread......The kind you like to use in a glass filled with milk or buttermilk!!!
Carb fest!!!

[Hoot Gibson]

The original Milk Duds that had a thick layer of real chocolate around the caramel center. Maybe it's just me, but the quality of the chocolate and the peanut butter in Reeses Cups seems to have nose-dived. More sugar, less peanut butter and chocolate.