Summer food memory....
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Getting blue or pink lips and fingers eating cotton candy at the amusement park. And one time Mom
packed a "picnic lunch" for me (around age 7) and my sisters to have a picnic on a big quilt laid out in the back yard under a shady tree on a lazy summer day. What stands out in my memory was snacking on tiny cocktail smokey links in a small thermos...oh we loved those smokey links...made our picnic feel soooo special.
packed a "picnic lunch" for me (around age 7) and my sisters to have a picnic on a big quilt laid out in the back yard under a shady tree on a lazy summer day. What stands out in my memory was snacking on tiny cocktail smokey links in a small thermos...oh we loved those smokey links...made our picnic feel soooo special.
melissa-dallas
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My dad telling us that we didn't LIKE those red sticky candy apples at
the County Fair (we did), when I know he just told us that because they made such a gosh-awful mess & he didn't want to deal with it or have it get in his car.
the County Fair (we did), when I know he just told us that because they made such a gosh-awful mess & he didn't want to deal with it or have it get in his car.
melissa-dallas
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Did anyone but me ever have a pickle sno-cone?
Pickle!! Oh My! We were at the local flea market this weekend and they were serving (m)
non-alcoholic Margarita snow cones and bloody mary snow cones.
That was a first for me....Next time, I think I may have to par-take...(Line was too long)
But, PICKLE snowcones!!!????
Barb
non-alcoholic Margarita snow cones and bloody mary snow cones.
That was a first for me....Next time, I think I may have to par-take...(Line was too long)
But, PICKLE snowcones!!!????
Barb
melissa-dallas
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The stands usually had great big jars of pickles and sold them individually,
so I guess it was a short jump to pour the leftover pickle juice and use it as "syrup" too.
The margarita sounds kinda like one of my Baskin Robbins favorite flavors when I was a kid-daiquiri ice.
so I guess it was a short jump to pour the leftover pickle juice and use it as "syrup" too.
The margarita sounds kinda like one of my Baskin Robbins favorite flavors when I was a kid-daiquiri ice.
melissa-dallas
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And Mandarin Chocolate-the orange flavored almost black chocolate ice cream. (nt)
debbie_in_ga
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Getting my tongue stuck on orange "push ups" from the ice cream boy (10 cents!) for what seemed
like every time! Also, being little and having my mom take us to the lake. The refreshment stand sold frozen "MilkShake" candy bars on a stick.
Lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, and cottage cheese on the plate with whatever we were having for dinner.
Then later that night, we'd sit on the porch while the big truck would come by and spray for mosquitoes! Ahhhh!
Debbie
(with surprisingly only 10 fingers, 10 toes and two eyes!)
like every time! Also, being little and having my mom take us to the lake. The refreshment stand sold frozen "MilkShake" candy bars on a stick.
Lots of tomatoes, cucumbers, and cottage cheese on the plate with whatever we were having for dinner.
Then later that night, we'd sit on the porch while the big truck would come by and spray for mosquitoes! Ahhhh!
Debbie
(with surprisingly only 10 fingers, 10 toes and two eyes!)
melissa-dallas
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Sounds like Texas. When we had a garden my favorite lunch was a bowl of cottage
cheese with chopped up fresh tomatos, cucumbers & green onion with Lawry's seasoned salt. And yes, there was ALWAYS cottage cheese on the table to put on your tomatos and usually sliced canteloupe too.
cheese with chopped up fresh tomatos, cucumbers & green onion with Lawry's seasoned salt. And yes, there was ALWAYS cottage cheese on the table to put on your tomatos and usually sliced canteloupe too.
thanks for all the memories, mine and yours. for me it would be
warm bolgna sandwhiches at the beach. picking honeysuckle flowers and sucking the nectar out. chewing on sassafrass stems. ice cream & lime rickies. picking blueberries in the early morning and my Aunt would blueberry pancakes for breakfast. picking tomatoes from the garden and making a sandwhich and the mayo and juice would run down your arm.
spending summers with my Gram & Pop in S. Jersey and having philly cheesesteak sandwhiches, philly sticky buns, tasty cakes and snow cones. my gran Pop having half a melon for breakfast filled with cottage cheese. (goanna have to get a fresh melon this weekend for that) root beer floats with my grandfather's home made root beer.
as a teenager, crabbing and have a crab boil after. claming and fresh raw clams after or thrown on grill and dipped in butter. shrimp rolls at the drive in movie.
warm bolgna sandwhiches at the beach. picking honeysuckle flowers and sucking the nectar out. chewing on sassafrass stems. ice cream & lime rickies. picking blueberries in the early morning and my Aunt would blueberry pancakes for breakfast. picking tomatoes from the garden and making a sandwhich and the mayo and juice would run down your arm.
spending summers with my Gram & Pop in S. Jersey and having philly cheesesteak sandwhiches, philly sticky buns, tasty cakes and snow cones. my gran Pop having half a melon for breakfast filled with cottage cheese. (goanna have to get a fresh melon this weekend for that) root beer floats with my grandfather's home made root beer.
as a teenager, crabbing and have a crab boil after. claming and fresh raw clams after or thrown on grill and dipped in butter. shrimp rolls at the drive in movie.
Red currants, hot dogs and coffee >>>
Me and my sister used to pick red currants for dessert in late summer. After dinner we ate them in bowls with lots of vanilla sauce. It was yummy!
Also going fishing or canoing with my dad, eating hot dogs that were BBQ'ed on open fire. The hot dog was usually black as charcoal on the outside but it still tasted delicious.
My parents were great berry pickers so every fall we picked a ton of strawberries, wild blueberries, black currants, cloudberries and raspberries. My dad was very much into healthy eating and he made smoothies from juice and frozen berries back in the 70-ies and we loved it. Usually I and dad were the early risers so when the rest of the family got up, we had already had a breakfast of smoothies and a sandwich. It was great!
When my grandmother visited she was always up early and made coffee. My parents were tea drinkers so I loved it when my granny was at our home because I loved the smell of coffee in the house when I got up in the morning. I still do. The difference now is that I also drink it smileys/smile.gif
Me and my sister used to pick red currants for dessert in late summer. After dinner we ate them in bowls with lots of vanilla sauce. It was yummy!
Also going fishing or canoing with my dad, eating hot dogs that were BBQ'ed on open fire. The hot dog was usually black as charcoal on the outside but it still tasted delicious.
My parents were great berry pickers so every fall we picked a ton of strawberries, wild blueberries, black currants, cloudberries and raspberries. My dad was very much into healthy eating and he made smoothies from juice and frozen berries back in the 70-ies and we loved it. Usually I and dad were the early risers so when the rest of the family got up, we had already had a breakfast of smoothies and a sandwich. It was great!
When my grandmother visited she was always up early and made coffee. My parents were tea drinkers so I loved it when my granny was at our home because I loved the smell of coffee in the house when I got up in the morning. I still do. The difference now is that I also drink it smileys/smile.gif
dawn_mo
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Going fishing on Lake Minnetonka with my godfather, and catching tons of sunnies and crappies,
then going back to the house, where the fish magically appeared all gutted, headless and ready to fry. Then fried to perfection in his big old cast iron frying pan. The same pan he would fry his delicious oven-fried chicken in. Yum!!!
then going back to the house, where the fish magically appeared all gutted, headless and ready to fry. Then fried to perfection in his big old cast iron frying pan. The same pan he would fry his delicious oven-fried chicken in. Yum!!!
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whipappeal
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Fruit-flavored hard candies at the pool, crabapple jelly from my grandparents' orchard, ....
...homemade popsicles, lots of grilling, tortilla chips and homemade guacamole.
Darn, I miss all these things!
...homemade popsicles, lots of grilling, tortilla chips and homemade guacamole.
Darn, I miss all these things!