Nostalgia (Beware Food Porn)

earnie

earnie

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

On this day filled with the bounty of good food, family, and friends, a friend, neighbor, and assistant to another neighbor, a master smoker brought me a new treat to taste. I have tasted the smoke master's ribs, and I passed on to him an article about smoked garlic (I still have some in my freezer) and smoked butter. This time he smoked the old fashioned big logs of baloney and his partner in crime assistant brought me some.

Oh, Oh, My! Oh Yes! That brought back memories of having fried baloney and scrambled eggs for breakfast as a child long, long ago. Which is exactly what I had for breakfast this morning. I know that many food purist would not touch baloney these days and consider it unhealthy. And I know it is bologna, but in my mind, it will always be baloney. And I just couldn't resist.

Anyone else remember having fried baloney and scrambled eggs for breakfast? I can't say that the smoked baloney is a favorite or something I need to do again, but it did bring back memories of those childhood foods. A culinary, cultural moment of epicurean fare! Or, a frantic search for other past culinary nibbles. Pepsi Cola and a Moon Pie, molded aspic salads, ambrosia, pickled pigs feet....someone better stop me. lol What are your childhood food memories?

Earnie

 
Never had fried baloney & scrambled eggs but DH and I had fried baloney on rye sandwiches on

Monday. He likes Dijon mustard on his and I like Ketchup. mmm mmm good!

 
Gee, I feel old. After thinking of childhood favs, I realize I can't eat ANY of them now.

Fried baloney Sandwich w/ mustard & summer tomato slices. Or for breakfast. It was always "rag" boloney.

Fried eggs that were basted in sausage drippings left over in the skillet until the top was just set.

Chocolate mile with Hershey's syrup from a can.

Cheese toast made with white bread, 5 small dabs of butter (4 corners & the center), and real cheddar cheese toasted in a gas oven.

Beer. Yep. As a kid. I don't recommend it to other parents, but I will treasure the memories of myself and my grandfather from nearly half a century ago for all of my days.

Saltine crackers. With peanut butter. With cheese. With baloney. With sardines. In meatloaf. In hamburgers. In salmon patties.

Those jello salads at family reunions. The ones that are orange or green, with pineapple or pecans, made with cottage cheese, etc. (They were trash talking these salads on Wednesday, so I'm a little embarrassed to admit this.)

A bottle of ice cold Coke with salted peanuts dropped in it.

Pickled eggs that were sold in HUGE jars in country stores. They were pink and as sour as any pickle you'll find. Just needed a little S & P.

Spam. Haven't had it in years, but I remember it was quite tasty.

Wonder Bread used to make tiny loaves of bread - in a tiny Wonder Bread wrapper - a little bigger than a hot dog bun. Oh, to sing the joys of soft white bread. We got them at Easter.

Shoney's Big Boy's and onion rings when Shoney's was just a drive-in. The original Big Boy was a gastronomic delight, and back then, the onion rings were huge, hot and homemade.

My Matmaw's hamburgers. She had to put stuff in to make the meat stretch, like eggs and crackers, and they were really fried. That is a childhood memory I have not been able to replicate, and I have never tasted another hamburger so special.

Chicken & Dumplings. Dense, chewy, delightful dumplings. Not biscuit pieces, not spoonfuls of drop dough. Not a low sodium, all white meat, fat free, gluten free chicken & dumplings wannabe.

 
Marilyn, is that a Pennsylvania 'thing' chipped ham....I never heard of it until my

now deceased wonderful mother in law told me about it. We were able to find it at a meat market here in town, surprsingly!

 
There were some kind of frozen chipped beef steaks...

little things that would cook in mere minutes. But with a tablespoon of barbecue sauce on each side, they made the best quick BBQ beef sandwiches in a pinch! LOL! Steak-Umms are similar, but not quite the same.

 
I really enjoyed this Angiebaby. And I'm right there with you on the jello salads. My aunt made

some amazing ones.

 
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