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Your Childhood Food Obsessions

post #1 of 33
3/12/09 at 1:09am
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I don't remember this, but my parents told me when I was about 2 years old I was given some birthday cake, but wanted more peas first. In my teen years it was noodles, just about any kind of dish. That I do remember, and it's still true today. I remember eating dirt once:D It wasn't terrible but one bite was enough for me, I guess so I could say "been there, done that".

I'm glad I didn't make dirt an ongoing thing, but the peas and noodles obsessions are still there. How about you guys?
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post #2 of 33
3/12/09 at 1:41am
Asparagus.

My mother said I was fixated on the stuff from babyhood. The season in Scotland in those days was about 4 weeks in June/early July... It had to be fresh, not tinned or frozen.

It is still my favourite veg - and nowadays it is available in the UK all year round - it is flown in from all around the world - but I still prefer to eat the locally grown stuff!
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post #3 of 33
3/12/09 at 4:07am
I don't have any Food Obsessions
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post #4 of 33
3/12/09 at 5:03am
I've always been obsessed with eggs. Even when I was too young to verbalize it my Mom says I would make a "cracking the egg" signal to indicate I wanted eggs. To this day when I visit my folks my Dad uses the signal to ask me if I want him to make me some eggs.
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post #5 of 33
3/12/09 at 9:21am
My brother would only eat instant mashed potatoes, hot dogs and Peanut butter and jelly. My mother was not happy about this, but he was so thin, she was happy he ate anything. This went on for years, today he is a vegetarian.

My favorite days when when my mother made choux pastry. We had them as entrees and dessert!
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post #6 of 33
3/12/09 at 11:03am
Due to allergies, I wasn't allowed milk or cream as a kid, had to eat these nasty calcium wafers so as to not become anemic...There was always a big cold pitcher of milk from our Jerseys in the refrigerator with a good inch of thick cream floating on top of it. I don't know how many times I got sick and in big trouble from giving in and going after that cream with a spoon even though I knew good and well I was going to pay for it.
No milk allergy today thank god, and the Jerseys are still making that fabulous cream.
We didn't get a lot of treats, as it was a long way to town (it still is). I loved being able to get Nibs licorice on our monthly trips.
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post #7 of 33
3/12/09 at 1:38pm
I loved, and still love anything chocolate. But that's standard.
The weird thing when i was a kid, though, I always made a little puddle of oil, vinegar, salt and pepper on the side of my dish at the end of a meal, and dipped my bread in it. I couldn;t end a meal without it. I still will do it if i can get away with it.
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post #8 of 33
3/12/09 at 8:51pm

Favorites

My favorite as a child was noodles, so much so that it was and still is a family nick name for me. They were best with the gravy from my grandmothers roast beef, other favorite was V-8 juice, that and water were my only beverages until my late teen years, had dairy allergies that disappeared with adulthood but I guess I never developed the taste for dairy because of those early allergies. Also favorites back in childhood were fresh steamed spinach, fresh green beans, tomatoes, celery.....what can I say I was a strange child. My youngest son took after me I guess, when he was a little guy and I took him grocery shopping he would yell at the top of his lungs for his "candy" whenever we passed by the fresh string beans in the produce department, at 2 years old it was one of the only things that kid would eat so we always had pounds of then in the fridge. Now at 28 he rarely eats them. Time was I remember cooking three different dinners a night for the crew here, thank goodness I loved to cook or they probably would have starved.:D
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post #9 of 33
3/12/09 at 10:34pm
Roast beef & pillsburys cinnamon rolls :lips:
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post #10 of 33
3/13/09 at 3:01pm
Bread and gravy, I grew up in a large family and if the potatoes ran out we would eat gravy on plain old white bread. The habit has stuck with me and I almost prefer the bread over mashed potatoes :lol:
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post #11 of 33
3/13/09 at 4:19pm
oh, yes, another thing was a favorite, and i still make cinnamon raisin bread so i can do this, since i can't find it here - fried eggs with cinnamon raisin toast dipped in the yolk. I loved/love that salty-sweet flavor.
Oh, and i never salted my food, but i used to put a little mound of salt on the edge of my dish and dip the food in it before eating it.
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post #12 of 33
3/13/09 at 5:54pm
Burgers, cinnamon rolls, nachos. Still love all three.
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post #13 of 33
3/14/09 at 4:11am
Apparently I used to eat mountains of dried apricots, but I don't remember that! I've loved sprouts and broccoli ever since I can remember, and still do. I'm the least fussy person I know and always have been, my parents found it easy keeping me happy with any food really! Right now though my favourite thing in the world is hash browns - the best invention ever :lips:
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post #14 of 33
3/14/09 at 2:48pm
I've always been obsessed with pasta, too. I remember when I was little, my mom would let each kid pick a meal they wanted every couple weeks, she would buy the ingredients for it, and we would help her make it for dinner. I always chose either spaghetti, or macaroni and cheese :P
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post #15 of 33
3/16/09 at 1:32pm
mine was mustard. i ate it with everything possible. including peanuts. split the peanut in half, squirt some hotdog mustard in between and put the other peanut back on top for a peanut mustard sandwich. repeat 30x... how annoying is that? :lol:
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post #16 of 33
3/16/09 at 2:17pm
There's one dish I LOVED making for myself and am still, to this day, making:

1) Mash a banana with a fork (no food processors!!) with a t-spoon sugar
2) Add a bit of yogurt and mix.

For me that's a magical taste, to this day, and I keep on making that desert whenever I feel like going back to my childhood.
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post #17 of 33
3/16/09 at 5:31pm
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One thing from my childhood that I wish I could get . . . goatburgers. Goat meat was really common where I grew up. We'd have goatburgers made with meat we'd grind at home, with carmelized onions and spicy Indian ketchup. Yum.

Oh that reminds me of another--sandesh, a sweet made with milk and sugar. Sometimes I would ride my dad's bicycle to the other side of town just to get the best from the Jorhat Dairy.
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post #18 of 33
3/16/09 at 5:52pm
I can't pin it down to one, two, four or even 10 things. I had a very diverse upbringing when it came to food. I can say that the only things I would not eat were liver and onions, anchovies, Bakala and scallops.
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post #19 of 33
3/17/09 at 6:07am
Haha, very annoying indeed. No just kidding, I love meticulous eating. One of my favorite flavor combos is chocolate and potato chips. Eat a bite of chocolate, swallow, then eat 3 chips. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Cease when you have a belly ache.
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post #20 of 33
3/18/09 at 2:04am
I would beg for green peppers in the grocery store when I was little. I'm old enough to remember when they were only available part of the year. Our neighborhood grocery also sold what they called a Boston cream pie. It was a sponge cake with lemon filling and royal icing. I loved it. Never forget the first time I ordered Boston cream pie in a restaurant and got the cake with vanilla pudding between the layers and chocolate glaze on top. I thought they made a mistake. The lemon one is much better. Boston should claim it.
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post #21 of 33
3/18/09 at 12:03pm
I was a weird child. I used to suck on lemons which explains why i can't drink a glass of ice water without a straw now. I also liked sourgrass.

Tomatoes raw like an apple
chicken or shrimp cup o noodles
all kinds of shrimp
american cheese plain
button mushrooms

Also, I know it's nasty but in jr high my dad would take me through taco bell for a pepsi and hard beef taco for breakfast. But I wanted it. So gross!!
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post #22 of 33
3/18/09 at 9:13pm
Mac n cheese. Still love it.
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post #23 of 33
3/19/09 at 12:05pm
I went on kicks where I would obsess over things for a short period of time and then not want it again. I still do it but it's not as bad as when I was little.

Let's see, Cheetos are the big one I remember. I would eat nothing but cheetos and then be done with them.

Yogurt was another.

bananas were popular, now the texture freaks me out.

Anyone else like this?
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post #24 of 33
3/19/09 at 4:31pm
I had a craving for brown mustard- so much so that I got canker sores in my mouth from the vinegar in it. My favorite was cheese with mustard. I ate what is called "sandwich spread" for a couple of years. I think it's mayonnaise with sweet pickle relish in it, but it was all I'd eat between two pieces of bread for a long while.
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post #25 of 33
3/23/09 at 9:29pm

Onions!

My mom had to hide onions from me because I would eat them like an apple!:p She would find me at parties under the buffet table eating the onions.:lol:..HMMM...:look::crazy:
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post #26 of 33
3/26/09 at 7:10pm
:bounce:RICE is no. 1.:bounce:

I could probably count on my hand the number of times rice was not on the table. It doesn't matter what else is being served (pasta, potatos, etc) rice better be on the table. Always was, always will be.

In my 8-15 year old era, I was addicted to the Gino's Giant. Anyone from the Philadelphia area (over 45 years old) may remember those!:bounce:

15-20's Lasagna...I couldn't eat enuf of it. homemade, frozen, out of a can.... didn't matter.:bounce:
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post #27 of 33
3/26/09 at 7:26pm
Kippers!
Weekend breakfast.

Haven't seen them around in years
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post #28 of 33
3/26/09 at 10:12pm
mashed banana, yum. We Brasilians eat it along side Feijoada, a black bean and pork "stew", of sorts.

Also, mashed banana mixed in with white rice. drool drool:lips:
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post #29 of 33
3/26/09 at 10:30pm
hahahha when I was a kid, I used to LOVE canned mushrooms, I'd just munch on them straight from the can. Then, one day I became absolutely phobic of mushrooms, like i couldnt even TOUCH a wild one that grew in the ground, let alone EAT one. There used to be this huge toadstool that appeared each autumn that grew out the side of this oak tree, which I had to pass to get home. Anyways, I had to cross the street and close my eyes just to get home, i was so scared of it. Picking wild mushrooms was out of the question, still is pretty much, only just recently I have begun eating mushrooms, but not canned, thank goodness. The only ones that DONT freak me out are small brown or white mushrooms and they have to be sliced thin and cooked to the point where they caramelize in butter, garlic and salt and pepper. Those gigantic portabello shrooms are still totally grotesque to me.
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post #30 of 33
3/26/09 at 10:45pm
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Man did you see a Stephen King movie about mushrooms or what?
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