Saw this question on a Twitter post and thought it would be fun to see what people remember.
Favorite snack as a CHILD.
I was reminded of some by reading the thread. (thread actually was started by Padma Lakshmi)
snack pack mini cans of chocolate pudding
Space food sticks!
Captain Crunch cereal dry
The little cheese/cracker snacks (spreadable cheese - yum)
The homemade snack I remember us making:
Leftover tortillas or my mom’s homemade thin Moroccan pancakes (she called them maffleta - not the same as muffuletta) spread with butter, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and rolled up like a cigar.
Lays potato chips (regular yellow bag thin kind) in Pace salsa (medium, nonchunky from the big jug “picante sauce”). Beats tortilla chips any day of the week!
Look at you all. Coming right at us with the BEST snacks!
@thumper1 I believe we got the Charlie Chips in the can delivered to the house somehow?? (does anyone remember that??)
Pop tarts yes @deb922 - you were a pioneer on the homemade kind, now a trend! (also I’ve been going through a love of Doritos in taco salad - fabulous!)
@momofboiler1 , I’d love to compare a Frito then to now - wonder if they are the same!
When I was quite young - like 5 - I can remember coming home from kindergarten and my mom giving me a tiny chunk of blue cheese (!) to snack on - wild!!! I would eat it teeny tiny bit at a time. I do love a strong cheese!
Funny… the first thing that popped into my mind was chocolate pudding cups, even though we didn’t have it much. (We usually had it made from box, with way to stir in cool whip or something to make it even better.).
Around age 6 in Brownies scout meeting we had a devine new snack. I tried describing to my mother, and she said she’d ask other mom for recipe. LOL - it turned out to be Twinkies (which I’d never had), and that’s actually something I don’t like very much now. However cocunut covered chocolate cake snowballs still sound good, though I’ve not had one in decades.
For a very very special snack, my mom would take us to the Italian bakery in town for a giant cookie with chocolate sprinkles.
(Mostly though we ate fruit and cheese for snack. My parents were both European and never bought pre-packaged anything. I was in college before I had my first hostess cupcake…blech although I did like Entenman’s donuts when I could get it at a friend’s house).
I have a recipe for Twinkies that I made and saved from when I was a teen/young adult. Hard to replicate that sponge cake.
We only got Twinkies or Hostess cupcakes with the chocolate/squiggle white frosting the once or twice a year when we had to pack lunch for a school field trip.
The most frequent snacks I remember eating at home were either slices of wonder bread (which I would break up into pieces and roll into little dough balls…I have no idea why) or apple slices and PB.
The prepackaged snacks were not available for at-home grazing, only allowed to pack one in our lunch bag for school. My favorites were the chocolate hostess cupcake or those cheese cracker and PB sandwiches. I hadn’t thought of those in years until a couple of weeks ago when a nurse handed to me upon waking up from my colonoscopy
These I meant to post above!!! There was something so special about having your own little serving size! The 60s-70’s answer to 100 calorie snack packs!!
We had a Hostess “day old” store not far from where we lived. Everything that was just past their freshness dates landed there, and for short money. It’s a wonder I wasn’t 300 lbs.
I used to take dance lessons 4 days a week after school. My friends and I always walked from our school to the dance school and on the way, we passed a little corner store. Armed with cash every day, we would go nuts! Combos (those cheese filled pretzel bites) or Munchos, Lik-M-Aid (which I think is Fun Dip these days), Bit O’Honey, those Planters Peanut bars that were like rectangle brittle but not as dark, and sometimes a pickle or pickled egg or pickled sausage from the big jar on the counter. Gosh I miss the days of being able to eat anything and everything!
My mom didn’t buy packaged snacks. She did bake awesome cookies, and I took over that job as I got older. If we wanted a snack, we made cinnamon toast or a peanut butter sandwich.
