Kids meals you still enjoy...
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Balogna fried in ketchup. Warm milk and toast. Feel good meals my mom used to make me when I was a wee tot. Never grew out of them.
Tom
Tom
Hot dogs and beans are what i like--i also like to take to take a can of beans into the woods and cook them on the fire (in a pan) have done that since reading Ernest Thompson Setons book Two little Savages when i was 13! (thats when every kid in our neighbourhood wanted to move into a cabin in the woods) I also wanted a Daniel Boone hat but never got one. But i did train my dog to pull a sled with a real harness and made the sled of Ash and Hickory and bent the runners with steam.
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Okay mine is hot dogs. But I do have a great hot dog story,
In the town where I live there is a great restaurant that serves hot dogs. It is even called the dog house, I know every town has one. You can get a burger there but mostly it is hot dogs a hundred ways. The Dog House's owner rents his downtown store front part of the larger building. It has been there since world war two in the same place.
The owner of the building wanted to remodel the building so he went to the local bank for the money. The request went up the chain of the bank and wound up on the bank president's desk. He called the buildings owner in and said. "Sure we can make this loan even though no other bank would. But there is one stipulation and it goes into the second mortgage agreement. You must leave the doghouse alone. And you must never evict them so long as they pay their rent. In other words should you find a better tenant, you can't touch them. or we call the note in immediately."
Seems the bank president liked his hot dogs as much as me. I know this to be true, I worked for the bank as a contractor once and the story is quite famous in my town. I met the man who was bank president a the time of the remodeling. He was quite straight laced, but I can still see him doing that.
One other story 'cold pork and beans' straight from the can. I did that with my dad while we were hunting. We would stop at the country store for lunch it was always the same, cold beans and sardines. So when I was on my Asian vacation as a young man, for Christmas my sister sent me a box of food. One of the items was about ten individual cans of pork and beans. The other guys thought it was disgusting to see me eating them cold from the can... I think they were all democrats to be honest.
In the town where I live there is a great restaurant that serves hot dogs. It is even called the dog house, I know every town has one. You can get a burger there but mostly it is hot dogs a hundred ways. The Dog House's owner rents his downtown store front part of the larger building. It has been there since world war two in the same place.
The owner of the building wanted to remodel the building so he went to the local bank for the money. The request went up the chain of the bank and wound up on the bank president's desk. He called the buildings owner in and said. "Sure we can make this loan even though no other bank would. But there is one stipulation and it goes into the second mortgage agreement. You must leave the doghouse alone. And you must never evict them so long as they pay their rent. In other words should you find a better tenant, you can't touch them. or we call the note in immediately."
Seems the bank president liked his hot dogs as much as me. I know this to be true, I worked for the bank as a contractor once and the story is quite famous in my town. I met the man who was bank president a the time of the remodeling. He was quite straight laced, but I can still see him doing that.
One other story 'cold pork and beans' straight from the can. I did that with my dad while we were hunting. We would stop at the country store for lunch it was always the same, cold beans and sardines. So when I was on my Asian vacation as a young man, for Christmas my sister sent me a box of food. One of the items was about ten individual cans of pork and beans. The other guys thought it was disgusting to see me eating them cold from the can... I think they were all democrats to be honest.
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Okay, if we're gonna tell food stories:
When I was growing up in Mimai Florida my mom always kept Vienna sausages on hand, "just in case", she'd say, "that a hurricane would knock out the power. So...every little storm that would pop up, mom would stock up on Vienna sausages. After some time of this we had cans and cans of the little salty things and years later we kids used to kid mom about her emergency supply of readily available food. My sister and I found that old memory especially funny when we would have good thoughts of our now gone parents. My sis still lives in south Florida and whenever a hurricane threatens I'll call her and ask if she has a good supply of Vienna sausages on hand, "just in case".
Several years ago when hurricane Hugo was approaching Miami I packed up a can and sent it UPS, red lable, to my sis. The storm was just gaining strength and it was raining, winds in the 40 mph range and my sis was huddled in her house, hurricane shutters down and ready to ride out the blow when her door bell rang. A poor UPS driver, bundled in foul weather gear was standing there with this tiny package from Colorado. Sis saw the lable and who it was from and didn't have to open the package to know what she had recieved. She called me, laughing and said she'd get even. To this day if a hurricane is forming in the south Atlantic or a snow storm is threatening Denver each of us knows that UPS will arrive bearing a small package, "Just in case".
Tom
When I was growing up in Mimai Florida my mom always kept Vienna sausages on hand, "just in case", she'd say, "that a hurricane would knock out the power. So...every little storm that would pop up, mom would stock up on Vienna sausages. After some time of this we had cans and cans of the little salty things and years later we kids used to kid mom about her emergency supply of readily available food. My sister and I found that old memory especially funny when we would have good thoughts of our now gone parents. My sis still lives in south Florida and whenever a hurricane threatens I'll call her and ask if she has a good supply of Vienna sausages on hand, "just in case".
Several years ago when hurricane Hugo was approaching Miami I packed up a can and sent it UPS, red lable, to my sis. The storm was just gaining strength and it was raining, winds in the 40 mph range and my sis was huddled in her house, hurricane shutters down and ready to ride out the blow when her door bell rang. A poor UPS driver, bundled in foul weather gear was standing there with this tiny package from Colorado. Sis saw the lable and who it was from and didn't have to open the package to know what she had recieved. She called me, laughing and said she'd get even. To this day if a hurricane is forming in the south Atlantic or a snow storm is threatening Denver each of us knows that UPS will arrive bearing a small package, "Just in case".
Tom
Yea, good times. Miracle Whip and peanut butter on white bread, with cold milk, Peanut butter on banana halves, Thick bologna fried w/onions on sour dough bread, The mayo & PB on white sounds gross, but give it a try 
And Mom's warm hugs 
Oh, and pancakes made to look like bunnys, ect.
And Mom's warm hugs Oh, and pancakes made to look like bunnys, ect.
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This may sound strange but I beg you all to try - Peanut Butter and Bacon Sandwich!!
Just toast two slices of bread (any kind) and immediately put peanut butter on both sides, a few slices of bacon and put them together. The bacon and hot toast melts the peanut butter a little. It is absolutely one of the best combos you'll try.
I have no idea where it came from. We grew up eating it and almost everyone thinks it's weird till they try it. Never had a person try it and not like it.
Just toast two slices of bread (any kind) and immediately put peanut butter on both sides, a few slices of bacon and put them together. The bacon and hot toast melts the peanut butter a little. It is absolutely one of the best combos you'll try.
I have no idea where it came from. We grew up eating it and almost everyone thinks it's weird till they try it. Never had a person try it and not like it.
ok this aint kid food but i have been eating this all my life and we still cook it like once a month, ham hocks and beans in the crock pot overnight with corn bread smothered in butter and honey,yummy! and ya you guys do get a little weird sometimes but i love ya anyway
Knoxville calling!! I love that stuff! Just add fried potatoes.....may need to cook up a batch this week!
Ummm, OK, this is supposed to be a secret, so if you tell anybody, I'll have to kill you, but....when I come in out of the cold.....I like a big bowl of hot oatmeal, with a huge blob of melting butter, topped by brown sugar. Warms me right up. OK, I said it.
I used to love ham hocks and beans...but at my age, and the fact that old guys never trust farts, I have to be careful with HH&Bs.
Tom
I've eatin all kinds of homemade spaghetti however once in awhile I go for the canned stuff. Has to be hienz, nothing else will do. That bacon and peanut butter thing sounds like it might stay down too.
the spaghetti reminds me of something that happened to me in one of my many moves. I was cleaning out the refrig and cabinets before I hit the road the next day, I made a macaronni and cheeze dinner I had laying about, I also fried up the hamburger left in the frig. There was onion powder left over from trying to make frozen pizza edible. One tiny can of tomato paste joined the mix.
We still fix it now and call it glop.
We still fix it now and call it glop.