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ORIGINAL: TreasureKY

  So is graham crackers with frosting.  (A treat my mother used to make for me.)

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And Wonder Bread really DID last a couple of weeks!

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ORIGINAL: windchymes

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ORIGINAL: TreasureKY

So is graham crackers with frosting.  (A treat my mother used to make for me.)

Oh wow, that's a memory I had forgotten!!! My mom used to decorate cakes for people so she made those for me frequently with the leftover frosting. So good!!! Thanks for that one!

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Nabisco chocolate chip cookies. I grew up on those things as my mom and aunt worked for Nabisco. The cookies don't have the same taste or texture they had way back when.

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ORIGINAL: LinnaeaBorealis

In my family, we got our sugar & butter rolled up in potato lefse, not bread. Yummmers!!! And the fact that we older people are still around & pretty healthy I think says more for the lack of crap in our food as children. My mom & Granny made most everything from scratch. At Granny's the eggs came right out of the chickens & the chicken we ate was fresh killed. She didn't go to a supermarket for much. We took the bus into the city & went to the Pike Place Market for fruits & vegetables & she bought her meat at the Pure Food Market or she went to the butcher in Ballard. She even made her own lunchmeat, Rollepulse. And that's another thing that won't ever taste right, since nobody makes it with mutton anymore. Anybody even know where to buy mutton???

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

try coke zero ;)

actually, fountain coke is close to old coke....

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ORIGINAL: TreasureKY

Mom used to whip up a small batch of butter, cocoa and powdered sugar to make chocolate frosting.  I made some for my own boys years ago when they were small, and made myself one for old times sake.  Blech! 

I decided that some good memories are best left to just memory. 

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ORIGINAL: LinnaeaBorealis

I used to go to the drugstore in town & get real coca cola that they made by putting the syrup in the glass & adding the carbonated water & stirring it. I hate fountain coke now. It tastes watery to me. I love the Mexican Coca Cola & get it as a treat sometimes.

Pretty much nothing tastes like it used to. Remember when store-bought bread only lasted a few days, not a couple of months??? Or maybe only us old farts can remember that. I pretty much avoid most packaged foods except for a couple of different kinds of cereal. My one exception is generic mac n cheese. OMG!! Talk about a comfort food from the past!!! And I made it one day decades ago, then discovered that my milk had gone bad, so I used sour cream instead. I always use sour cream now, never even buy milk. Milk tastes blah to me because I was brought up on raw whole milk.

As for yogurt & sour cream, I don't skimp on those. I buy plain Greek yogurt which is nothing but milk & cultures. I can no longer eat store-bought ice cream because of all the additives; it makes me physically ill. Ice cream should be cream, sugar & whatever flavor, fruit whatever one puts in it. Ever read the list of ingredients on a container of ice cream? It contains about 25 items now. WTF is all that crap???

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: LinnaeaBorealis

I used to go to the drugstore in town & get real coca cola that they made by putting the syrup in the glass & adding the carbonated water & stirring it. I hate fountain coke now. It tastes watery to me. I love the Mexican Coca Cola & get it as a treat sometimes.

Pretty much nothing tastes like it used to. Remember when store-bought bread only lasted a few days, not a couple of months??? Or maybe only us old farts can remember that. I pretty much avoid most packaged foods except for a couple of different kinds of cereal. My one exception is generic mac n cheese. OMG!! Talk about a comfort food from the past!!! And I made it one day decades ago, then discovered that my milk had gone bad, so I used sour cream instead. I always use sour cream now, never even buy milk. Milk tastes blah to me because I was brought up on raw whole milk.

As for yogurt & sour cream, I don't skimp on those. I buy plain Greek yogurt which is nothing but milk & cultures. I can no longer eat store-bought ice cream because of all the additives; it makes me physically ill. Ice cream should be cream, sugar & whatever flavor, fruit whatever one puts in it. Ever read the list of ingredients on a container of ice cream? It contains about 25 items now. WTF is all that crap???

Try the Haagen-Dazs "Five" Series. Expensive, but real.

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ORIGINAL: LadyHibiscus

Hostess products, and most packaged baked goods. Just NOT GOOD. Ditto canned soups, which taste like saltwater with garnish to me.

Shoot, if it's processed, it ain't what it used to be. Just as well to avoid it.

Don't get me started on fresh tomatoes with bug resistent skin you can't get a knife through!