Tastes you remember from times you remember

[HardyGirl]

OK, we all have our favorite foods, and things we can remember that aren't made anymore. That's not what this thread is about. I mean, have you ever eaten something that's so closely connected w/ an experience, that everytime you eat (or drink) it, you associate it? Like for instance...

A special way a hot dog is made reminds you of Saturdays in the ball park w/ your dad

A sugar sweetened cereal (even if it's a current one), reminds you of Saturday mornings when you were a kid

Pizza from a certain restaraunt reminds you of watching horror movies on Friday nights

You know, things along those lines...

What foods or drinks remind you of happy past experiences?

[Rallygirl]

I am a very, very picky eater with a sensitive stomach, so most taste memories are, sad to say, not happy ones for me.

[MIB41]

Peanut butter and syrup mixed together and spread on bread. On Saturdays back in the 70's we had farm land in addition to our suburbia home life. We would cut wood, bail hay, clear out brush and any other maintenance needed on 90 acres of land. We basically worked from sun up to sun down and got home around 7 that night. So when we were leaving in the morning we threw this together to give us quick energy that would keep our bellies full and keep us going until lunch time. Anytime I have an itch to eat that, I remember those days well. It gave me my work ethic, that's for sure. I knew what a ten/twelve hour day meant at eight years of age before my friends knew what a part time job was at fifteen.

[HardyGirl]

Wow! Now that's a memory! Hard for this city girl to imagine!

Peanut butter and syrup mixed together and spread on bread. On Saturdays back in the 70's we had farm land in addition to our suburbia home life. We would cut wood, bail hay, clear out brush and any other maintenance needed on 90 acres of land. We basically worked from sun up to sun down and got home around 7 that night. So when we were leaving in the morning we threw this together to give us quick energy that would keep our bellies full and keep us going until lunch time. Anytime I have an itch to eat that, I remember those days well. It gave me my work ethic, that's for sure. I knew what a ten/twelve hour day meant at eight years of age before my friends knew what a part time job was at fifteen.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I associate the taste of a good chili dog with cemeteries. No, seriously!

Every summer, my Mom would take my sister and I out on a picnic after the last day of school (my Dad was always at work). We'd go to the Dairy Queen and I'd get a footlong chili dog. We almost always ended up at the big cemetery in town, where they had lots of benches, etc. It was very nice and peaceful, and we really didn't have any public parks in town, other than just a few playgrounds, with no tables or benches.

It seems kind of odd now, and I don't think my kids would go for it, but it's actually a good memory.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

Now that's one I would NEVER have thought of!

I associate the taste of a good chili dog with cemeteries. No, seriously!

Every summer, my Mom would take my sister and I out on a picnic after the last day of school (my Dad was always at work). We'd go to the Dairy Queen and I'd get a footlong chili dog. We almost always ended up at the big cemetery in town, where they had lots of benches, etc. It was very nice and peaceful, and we really didn't have any public parks in town, other than just a few playgrounds, with no tables or benches.

It seems kind of odd now, and I don't think my kids would go for it, but it's actually a good memory.

Chris

[Figuremod73]

Powdered eggs remind me of bootcamp. I cant stand them!

[Hector]

The smell of a simple ham and cheese sandwich with a banana takes me back to the late 60s as a kid opening his metal lunchbox during grade school, the lunch also included a little bag of Fritos, my fave back in the day. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich was also another good one, chased down by a half of pint of milk. Great memories indeed.

My mom's homemade flour tortillas just off the pan griddle smothered with butter is another all time favorite for sure.

[Mikey]

Fried balonie takes me back to the old days

[johnmiic]

If I have some good home made, italian chicken soup I sometimes recall when my Mom or Grandma were alive and would cook for me as a kid. They always made good chicken soup. My friend Mike's Mom also used to stuff me with soup for diner on Saturdays and then we would "retire" to the living room to watch wrestling.

[kingdom warrior]

Fried balonie takes me back to the old days

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use to make fried boloney sandwiches with cheese when i came home from school...Mmmmmmm

[Random Axe]

I fondly remember 1976, the bicentennial and the commemorative ice cream we had locally in Evansville, In. I have no idea if anyone else in the country had it, but to this day was the best I've ever had. It literally was like a flag with red and white stripes and a bit of blue. Inside the blue were little sugared stars that tasted like butter cream cake icing. actually the entire ice cream had that wedding cake flavor. My first baseball team played across the street form the shop.

Oh, and it anyone still like fried bologna, try it grilled. I get it cut thick, throw it on the grill and get the edges crispy and put it on toast with colby cheese.

[HardyGirl]

Ok, answering my own question:

1) I really don't drink it much anymore, but cherry or grape Kool-Aid and a hot dog tastes like summertime to me. A quick hot lunch and then PLAYTIME! Also potato salad w/ relish reminds me of picnics and swimming at Echo Hill in upstate NY.

2) Pretty much any sugar cereal reminds me of Saturday morning, but especially the ole standbys w/ mascots like Count Chocula, Frosted Flakes, Cap'n Crunch PB cereal, etc.

3) In the 70s there was Jenos Pizza snacks. This was a tray w/ 12 mini pizzas, 4 cheese, 4 pepperoni and 4 sausage. They don't make this anymore, but Totinos bought out Jenos (or changed the name, I'm not sure), and now when I eat Totino's cheese pizza, it takes me back to Friday nights, watching the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family w/ my older sister, and her making sure I didn't eat the whole tray by myself. (and even at only 5 years old, I probably could!).

4) Any red Jell-o w/ evaporated canned milk poured over it, reminds me of watching TV w/ my dad. We were the only ones in the family who ate Jell-o this way.

5) Cinnamon toast made in the oven reminds me of watching George Reeves Superman with my older brother. Last year for his birthday, I found some bootlegs eps on DVD, and when I went to visit him, I made cinnamon toast and we relived those days.

[Iron Mego]

Certain hamburgers can remind me of the ones I would buy after my Little League games. They had a certain flavor that I don't really experience often, but the cheeseburger at Sonic comes close. Those are some great memories.

[Hector]

Burger King reminds me of those free junior high school lunchtime burgers, which I hated, no wonder I hate Burger King to this day, lol.