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Medusa

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orange juice and fried bread with salty butter ,nutella bread ,granny smith apples with salt ,home made jam,incredible dishes of grandmom
 
My grandmother used to get orange government cheese. I loved that stuff.
 
Powdered egg, product of Canada. In dark brown, waxes cardboard cartons. When I was a child in London the ration was one real egg a week for a child and one a month for an adult.
 
Medusa said:
orange juice and fried bread with salty butter ,nutella bread ,granny smith apples with salt ,home made jam,incredible dishes of grandmom
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The biggest treat for me was after my dad and I spent a hard day of work on the farm, he sometimes would take me down to the store for an RC Cola and a moonpie. I never grew out of loving RC cola and moonpies and still drink and eat them today.

Going down to that store was an almost daily routine. The store was in a small building with two gas pumps outside it and our post office boxes behind the counter where we would pick up our mail.RC Cola.jpg

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Toast with cinnamon and sugar. That was an occasional treat at breakfast.

"Porcupine" meatballs. They were just regular meatballs with rice as a filler. I had no idea getting them meant we were strapped for cash and mom was trying to stretch a pound of ground beef.

Johnny DeMarco's Pizza. I don't know if there was anything special about the pizza but legend is that one of my first spoken sentences was "Stop Johnny Marco's. Buy pizza" as we drove by one day.
 
Pudding and fruit pies from the convenience store along with Dr. Pepper. Root beer and a hotdog sandwich with that cheap yellow mustard. Pringles and bazooka bubblegum.
 
Perotista said:
The biggest treat for me was after my dad and I spent a hard day of work on the farm, he sometimes would take me down to the store for an RC Cola and a moonpie. I never grew out of loving RC cola and moonpies and still drink and eat them today.

Going down to that store was an almost daily routine. The store was in a small building with two gas pumps outside it and our post office boxes behind the counter where we would pick up our mail.
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Man, sitting on the tailgate with Pop and drinking a Coke was a definite treat. We'd compare the marks on the bottom of the bottle to see who got the one from farthest away. Thanks for the memory!
 
My parents taking us kids half-way across the county to get the best frozen custard I've ever eaten! It didn't happen often enough to suit us, but the hint that we might go was sufficient to guarantee angelic attitudes from us all day long! :lamo
 
Lutherf said:
Toast with cinnamon and sugar. That was an occasional treat at breakfast.

"Porcupine" meatballs. They were just regular meatballs with rice as a filler. I had no idea getting them meant we were strapped for cash and mom was trying to stretch a pound of ground beef.

Johnny DeMarco's Pizza. I don't know if there was anything special about the pizza but legend is that one of my first spoken sentences was "Stop Johnny Marco's. Buy pizza" as we drove by one day.
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Toast with cinnamon and sugar was one of the big treats in our house too!

On the bad side, Mom used to stretch the ground beef with "GAG' milk soaked cubes of stale bread. I just gagged again, thinking about it.....

Mom's home made, slow simmered 'scetti sauce was about as good as it got on your birthday!
 
Sweden said:
Powdered egg, product of Canada. In dark brown, waxes cardboard cartons. When I was a child in London the ration was one real egg a week for a child and one a month for an adult.
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I've heard that by the end of the war children in the UK preferred powdered eggs over real eggs.
 
Whistle Stop Pop Shop where dad would take us to fill up a wooden case of our favorite flavors. That was a big deal.
Jiffy Popcorn
Cream of Wheat
Orange Creamsicles
 
varied by age and location

in the backwoods of upstate south carolina, a trip to the store meant a bottle of orange crush from a rectangular bin somehow maintained at 32.00001 degrees ... ice would form on the bottle's neck as the cap was removed, using the bottle opener that was part of the cooler
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on the air base movie tickets were 15c for kids and all sodas, popcorn, and candy were 10c each. arriving by bike with a dollar in hand meant watching a flash gordon episode, a warner bros cartoon, and the feature while sipping a large coke, accompanied by sugar babies, brown cow, charms, milky way, package of powdered donuts, chunky, and pack of double bubble gum. yea, Dad said i was getting 'fat'; Mom insisited that i was only 'pleasantly plump' ... wonder how i got that way

and at that time, all of our meals were home cooked - at least until the first mcdonald's arches showed up. hamburgers were 15c. hey, i was all of nine years old; i'd eat five. the only thing that saved me from being too big to eventually slim down was not having a pizza until i was a high school senior

fun trip down memory lane
 
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Smokey Mountain Hot dogs.jpe

Smokey Mountain Hot dogs.
 
vesper said:
Whistle Stop Pop Shop where dad would take us to fill up a wooden case of our favorite flavors. That was a big deal.
Jiffy Popcorn
Cream of Wheat
Orange Creamsicles
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Ooohh!!! Orange Creamsicles!

We had Al's Corner Store a block away. If I had a quarter I could go down there and get a bag full of candy necklaces, candy dots that came on a long strip of paper, pieces of bubblegum, etc. If I planned right I could also get a popsicle for a nickle but, if I skipped out on some of the candy, I could get a creamsicle (or one of those push up pops that came in what looked like a toilet paper tube with a stick out the bottom) for a dime. It was always a tough decision.
 
Lutherf said:
Ooohh!!! Orange Creamsicles!

We had Al's Corner Store a block away. If I had a quarter I could go down there and get a bag full of candy necklaces, candy dots that came on a long strip of paper, pieces of bubblegum, etc. If I planned right I could also get a popsicle for a nickle but, if I skipped out on some of the candy, I could get a creamsicle (or one of those push up pops that came in what looked like a toilet paper tube with a stick out the bottom) for a dime. It was always a tough decision.
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A quarter back then could buy a lot.

I loved the orange push ups too. We had a Ben Franklin 5 & 10. They had the most awesome candy counter. Jars upon jars filled with goodies. I would stand there a long time trying to make up my mind.
 
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zyzygy said:
I've heard that by the end of the war children in the UK preferred powdered eggs over real eggs.
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I think that most of the powdered eggs in our rations probably went into cakes my mother baked.
 
Lutherf said:
Ooohh!!! Orange Creamsicles!

We had Al's Corner Store a block away. If I had a quarter I could go down there and get a bag full of candy necklaces, candy dots that came on a long strip of paper, pieces of bubblegum, etc. If I planned right I could also get a popsicle for a nickle but, if I skipped out on some of the candy, I could get a creamsicle (or one of those push up pops that came in what looked like a toilet paper tube with a stick out the bottom) for a dime. It was always a tough decision.
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Candy dots! I always ate more paper than dots.
 
Groogrux said:
Candy dots! I always ate more paper than dots.
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I'm not sure what they stuck them to the paper with but you pretty much never found a strip where the dots had fallen off.
 
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Russian fried pasties.They are basically like empanadas or some other fried meat pie.This Recipe tastes exactly like what I had as a kid especially when dehydrated onions are used instead of fresh onions.

Ellis canned Tamales. These are basically to tamales what Chef Boyardee is to ravioli. Basically mushier or softer that its frozen or homemade counterparts.

My mom's homemade lasagna.
 
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Groogrux said:
Candy dots! I always ate more paper than dots.
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Oh, the memories! Heck with picking the dots off, the teeth worked just fine!

Our corner candy store was the stop on the way home from Church on Sundays. Parents would get the Sunday newspaper, and each of us kids got a dime to spend..... and that got you plenty when things were a penny!
 
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