My Mom kept the good snacks up high in a cupboard. Those snacks such as Ding Dongs, hostess cupcakes and twinkles were reserved for lunch boxes. Same with the canned pudding and canned fruit cups. We would climb on the countertop and sneak treats and leave the empty box. When my Mom asked who ate them our answer was always “I don’t know”. I loved Hostess cupcakes! In HS I would walk to the liquor store with my friend and buy a twin pack of them and a pack of Trident gum. Mind you this was breakfast.
Favorite after school snack was cheap white bread toasted spread with margarine. We could eat piles of toast.
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Yes, Lik-M-Aid!!! Loved the sour taste!
Lemonheads was my preferred candy of choice.
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They sold hostess cupcakes at your liquor store? Wow!
Doritos I remember. Twinkies and other hostess and Little Debbie treats. I have a hard time remembering childhood! But we didn’t have a lot of pre packed snacks, but we always had ice cream and the “wall of Coke.” Our long hallway from the garage had 6 packs of glass bottles lined up the whole way and three packages tall!!!
I also had a pop tart every day for breakfast when I was at home from 7th grade through high school. But when I went swimming in the mornings, my breakfast of champions was a king sized pack of Skittles and a super big gulp of Diet Coke
I ate a lot of hostess cupcakes, yodels, and ding dongs. I was an exceptionally picky eater as a child. My family claimed I only ate red, brown, and beige - basically - chocolate, rare steak, and potatoes!
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I grew up in north Jersey where Drake’s products were sold. Loved the yodels, ring dings, yankee doodles, and funny bones. My mother tried to hide them, but we usually found them. My S & DIL bought a Twinkie maker for $5 at a yard sale. They’ve made them a few times. They’re nice and spongy and they even figured out how to inject the cream with a straw.
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Potato chips with sour cream (my father was Polish American). Still my favorite snack.
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We have my childhood Charles chips can and cookie can on “display” in our kitchen.
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“Snack” to me implies something eaten regularly. So for me, that would be apples, bananas, pretzels, PB on crackers
“Treats” would be Tastykake Krimpets, Kandykakes, Ivins spiced wafers, Dixie cups, soft pretzels with mustard, Entenmann’s coffee cake
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My mom was not from the US so I think while sometimes she tried to put her country/cultures food into our diet often she wanted as an “American wife” to embrace the American food culture.
Which reminds me of another frequent treat: Rice Krispie Treats! (homemade not the ones you can get now, pre made!)
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My father passed the tasty cakes factory on the way to work. Our freezer was filled with raspberry popovers, Kandycakes, crumpets, tasty cakes, coffee cakes, chocolate filled cupcakes, ….
I could always feed my friends.
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My uncle who will be 105 next month says his secret to longevity is a TastyKake and a cup of coffee every night before bed! He is sharp as a tack!
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My mom would freeze cherry Kool-Aid in ice cube trays. On hot days, she’d wrap a paper towel around the bottom of them, and we’d sit on the porch and enjoy a cool treat. She also froze big green grapes. We liked those a lot on hot days, too.
My favorite, though, was Friday night TV at my grandma’s enjoying a roaster pan full of highly buttered and salted popcorn with my two aunts who are just a couple of years older than me. Just the best!
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We had some fruit… especially liked it when my grandparents brought back oranges from Florida. Lots of cinnamon toast. And sometimes hard boiled eggs mashed with mayo (ie egg salad, without bread). But my “favorite snacks” listed were the ones that were NOT regular items.
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Apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, peanut butter crackers, popcorn. My mother was super over controlling over my eating so it was heavily regulated. She was afraid I would become fat and guess what? I did. But that’s another thread.
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These. Any and all. I loved them, and still do. Thank goodness I rarely ever see them anywhere. FWIW, I grew up mostly in CA, and we had these there.
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Then, and now. I would do a lot of work to earn a Hostess Cherry Pie. My first job was scooping ice cream in a small dairy store that sold other things. My three main treats I’d buy myself after a night of work were either a Hostess Cherry Pie, Lay’s Sour Cream and Onion chips or a Slim Jim!!!
Still love them all!!!
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Yes to these! I forgot they existed and maybe only had them once or twice but for years the word “breakfast bar” would get me excited and then disappointed when faced with a granola bar, nutrigrain bar, or any bar that wasn’t this thing that I’d had (maybe only once or twice) when I was like four years old. Thanks for the memory!
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Yes, I too loved those growing up in SoCal as well. Great, I will be thinking of them now.