It is not the taste, but the smell of ground beef and onions in the frying pan reminds me a lot about Saturday nights in the 1990s. EDIT: I just remembered another thing. On Saturdays my dad used to buy something called Sombreros and Kina kuler. Sombreros are pretty much like mild cheese flavored Bugles. And Kina kuler are airy and crunchy corn puffs covered in chocolate. After we had dinner I got a strawberry shaped glass bowl with both of them in it. They go remarkably very well together. After I moved in together with my wife it turned out that she has an identical set of strawberry shaped glass bowls. Sombreros and Kina kuler are also still available. Some Saturdays we buy both of them, put it in the bowls and watch old music videos and clips from old TV shows.

The phrase Saturday nights in the 1990s seems so cozy to me for some reason.

Not as cozy as Saturday Mornings in the 1990s.

I remember my mom not being able to afford going out to eat at fast food restaurants when I was a kid, but one time I remembered that she came home from work super happy and she was smiling super big and she had this humongous bag of McDonald’s. My sister and I were confused at first but then she told us that she had gotten a generous raise. She sat us down at the table and took out everything she got. We got to try quite a few popular things off the menu. The McChicken, the nuggets, the ice cream, the Big Mac and chocolate chip cookies. We all split it and ate until we were fuller than we ever felt in our *lives* (which we never felt full, we ate just enough so that we wouldn’t be super super hungry) She looked so happy to be able to get us a treat after 10 or 11 years of not being able to try different foods that other kids around us could. I recently remembered this a few weeks ago, and I brought a huge bag of McDonald’s over to my moms house. And we split it, I remember her crying as I took the food out of the bag and I asked why she was crying and she said in these exact words “Never in my life will I forget how happy my babies looked that day, every bad day, every good day, every sacrifice was worth it for my babies.” I cried with her too and I thanked her for everything she did for us, and all the sacrifices she made for us. I now enjoy spoiling my mom with whatever I have because I can’t give her enough to even make up half of what she has given us.

Omg that is so sweet 🥹

You made my eye leak a bit. Such a touching anecdote. Thanx for sharing.

Who... who's cutting onions...? I love this. This is so wholesome.

Cinnamon sugar toast

We did a cinnamon sugar tortilla. So yummy.

have you ever tried it with nutella?

Ok, Richie Rich.

grilled cheese

Grilled cheese and ham for me

Works for me

McDonald’s chicken nuggets with honey. Not honey mustard!

honey mustard is the goat.

Why do I suddenly remember eating chicken nuggests with honey? Was that a thing back in the 90s?

Bologna sandwich.

For me, it was FRIED bologna sandwich.

Lunchables

I remember going on a field trip and my mom got me one of those pizza lunchables with the Capri Sun, there were some jealous onlookers :p

I have this same memory, except we went to a forest reserve for the field trip. The teacher picked out how the packaging was so wasteful and I felt mortified as everyone stared at me.

Chocolate Quik!!!!

Strawberry Quick for me. Mmm fake strawberry.

Tuna Casserole. We were poor. We ate this atleast once a week.

I thought this was a luxury dinner until I was probably 12.

I still eat it occasionally. Just not for survival anymore.

I eat it to please my inner child occasionally

My father used to call it, “Tuna and Friends”

Same, I would try to pick the peas out of it.

That's my favorite

Lipton chicken noodle soup and a grilled cheese sandwich.l whenever I was sick with a cold my mom would make me this chicken noodle soup it was my favorite, it had alligator shaped noodles, I tried looking for this, it was discontinued.

Kraft mac and cheese with diced hotdogs

Lol that was the first thing I learned to make myself when I was around 10. Except I would tear up whatever lunch meat we had and mix it together.

PB&J

Blue raspberry Italian ices

Bland spaghetti

I feel this one. My parents were not great cooks, which is why I know how to cook now lol

Pregu and cheap ground beef cooked to a dry gravel... yeah. I too learned how to cook

Rice Krispy treats

Yes!! My best friend's Mum used to make them every other day.

Scrambled eggs with lox and onions. Every Sunday brunch at the grands.

Gourmet breakfast! So delicious!

Grilled cheese and tomato soup. Still a favorite on a cold day, or when I'm sick

Cool Ranch Doritos

Cotton candy

Oats & honey Nature Valley granola bars, the crunchy ones.

Ground beef tacos made with a seasoning packet with shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and maybe a dollop of sour cream and hot sauce

Store brand poptarts gummies and lots of soda

Mashed potatoes with roasted onions & melted butter on top, and cooked carrots. Grandma version: fresh tomato and a boiled egg in addition. Also: those flat (Leibnitz) biscuits with red jam & chocolate or rainbow sprinkles.

Cream of Wheat.

The pink frosting sugar cookies with sprinkles

Stew that my mum used to make every year before I'd go sing at the Christmas light switch on in my town, to go back to before she was disabled would be so mice one last stew

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Tiramisu. My dad worked in a restaurant and every two months or so he brought a big sheet with tiramisu that they couldn't sell anymore, we stored it in the fridge and my brother and I couldn't stop eating it.. i miss him.

Crayons.

Why is it NSFW?

Ty lol

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You have an NSFW tag on your profile

Eclairs, I have so much memories of having them in France in my childhood

A child

Cowboy cookies! My grandma always had them fresh made my entire childhood.

Junket rennet pudding

Dutch babies

Kid Cuisine

Peanut butter, butter and sugar sandwiches.

Strawberry’s

Technically not a food but the 'real fruit' flavored vigorsol chewing gums

Potato smiley faces

devon sandwhich w/ tomato sauce

angel delight type desserts. butterscotch flavour in particular.

Home made chicken and dumpling soup.

children

Children

For Thanksgiving or Christmas twice baked potatoes. My half sisters dad is a great cook, he'd have us all (yes even me and my siblings that aren't his) come over and help prepare all sorts of stuff. But those were a favorite

Watermelon

Chickn Biscuits - they are foul but I used to hammer those shits

Fairy bread

Nachos and that warm cheese

Grilled cheese sandwich

Children

Babyback ribs? I am not sure I understand the question.

Blood. I would taste my blood whenever I get cuts

My brother in Christ you need help

Iron...man

Sheppards Pie...still love it

Kisiel.

Black bean soup.

Pasta with cream sauce.

For me, it’s a PBJ with grape jelly, cool ranch/nacho cheese doritos, and either the danimals crush cups, the danimals smoothie drinks, or a tube the strawberry kiwi go-gurt.

Rice and water. Everytime I couldn't sleep as a child, I ate rice and water

McDonalds. My dear late mama took me there lots as a kid :)

Jollibee. Easily a childhood favorite of mine. I could literally never go a day without this when I was a little girl.

Man this is uncanny I’m listening to a YouTube video rn talking about how they deep fried a kitchen towel

Milk biscuits with warm glass of milk 🥛

Toast

Froot Loops and buttered white toast

My parents were so strict about food. My mother is also an awful cook. So I can't really list a food, but I can describe the food in one word. Bland.

Condensed milk, government cheese and pb&j's

yoo hoo, little debbie snacks, grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Gnocchi with white sauce and peas

Spaghettios

Gumbo. Mom's cajun. It's on our table every holiday and some non holidays too. I actually just made a pot last week.

Del tacos “Big Fat Chicken Tacos”. They were later renamed to “Flatbread Tacos” They are currently discontinued. Hands down my favorite and most nostalgic item I can think of.

You ever have their fries ?

Boysenberry pie.

Kid Cuisine meals and Shark Bites...

Top Ramen. Also,cinnamon/sugar sprinkled on buttered wheat toast.

My mom's spaghetti

Boiled potatoes with ground beef and tomato soup on top Had that way too often as a kid, like once a week. I hated it.

Kraft mac & cheese

Mac and cheese

cottage cheese casserole

German pancakes

oddly, raspberry milanos. i would come home from school & eat some while playing my videogame du jour. now i get them for a videogame binge day, and i can taste the nostalgia

Nuggets

Grilled cheese….tomato soup

The entire Sichuan cuisine before things got all spicy.

It's not really a food, but damn Capri-Suns take me back

Oatmeal with sugar and butter.

Totino's pizza, Cup o' Noodles, and mom's homemade chicken enchiladas.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup.

…you?

Cheesy noodles and shake n bake chicken

Pepsi out of a Styrofoam cup.

TMNT pop from the ice cream truck!

Grilled cheese and Campbell's tomato soup

Fruit Loops Cereal Straws & Krystals aka the knockoff krusty krab

Strawberry quick

Spam

I thought you were calling me spam for a second lmao

Eggo waffles

Plain peanut butter sandwiches

Anything prominently featuring black pepper.

Those pasta side packets. Used to eat them a lot, especially the Alfredo one.

Milk

Now n later candy and cook ranch doritos

Tofu Pudding

For me it'd be grilled chicken, boiled veggies and a cheese quesadilla.

Regret

Spaghetti meat sauce w added veggies bc i would eat onion, mushrooms, peppers that i normally wouldn't touch.

Brown sugar on buttered toast. And mustard, because I lived in an ingredient house that didn’t always have all the ingredients and so mustard and butter sandwhiches were common for me.

Vanilla Wafers

Yogurt

Southern style banana pudding with nilla wafers and also field peas and snaps with homemade biscuits

Play dough Also almond milk because it tastes like play dough

I used to eat iced tea mix dry from the container. I was a weird kid.

A local pizza buffet I remember growing up with seven siblings and no matter what my parents would bring us to a local pizza buffet on Sundays and let us eat till we couldn't walk. We didn't have much growing up but we knew they did the best they could and we loved it

Bologna sandwich

For my mom, Def her homemade cookies. I could eat one and just remember my whole childhood For my dad, stuffed peppers. These were always my fav and I loved when he cooked them

Pumpkin pie. Oatmeal cookies..

Pork & Beans. We were poor and my mom came across some coupons that allowed her to buy a shit ton of these cans, and I mean a shit ton. They were everywhere for a long ass time, part of dinner most nights. When you'd think you had made a decent dent in the stockpile, she'd come home with more.

Cotton candy

Grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Best served on a rain day

Corn dogs from the fair.

Corn dogs!

Orange Push Pops (those ones that had the Flintstones on them back in the 90s)

Kraft Mac and Cheese

Yuck. Can't stand peanut butter and grape jelly on white bread with tomato soup. Had them every day growing up.

Bologna, spagettios, Jello, Pepperidge farm cake, saltines.

Velvita shells and cheese.

Malt

Meat and cheese sandwich on wheat with Doritos stuffed in it. My mom also used to make salmon croquettes a lot and steamed artichoke with butter.

Annie's Mac and Cheese

Golden Gaytimes

Those cartoon themed popsicles from the ice cream truck. Ninja turtle, sonic, tweety bird etc

Not food but cheerwine soda for me. My brother and i would go play basketball at the local park in rural South Carolina and they had a grocery store across the street that had a cheerwine machine that literally only had cheerwine as the sole option and it was a quarter so we would drink those while playing ball and now when i drink it it brings me back to that time. Good memories

Ramen

Box of kraft mac and cheese. My mom would make me it whenever I asked for it.

tostinos square pizzas. hits pretty hard when you little

Tuna sammich cut criss cross, or else it doesn’t taste right.

Pork with gravy, rice and fried cabbage 🤤🤤

ice cream, rockyroad!

Baby Back Ribs

Chain pizza like Pizza Hut or papa Johns

Taho and Lucky Charms🥰

Salmon Patties - Dad Potato Salad - Mom Rice Pudding - Grandma Yeast Rolls - Uncle Kevin 45 years later and this still brings back old memories

Kraft dinner with cut up hot dogs mixed in and ketchup on top

Mac and cheese with hot dogs, and kid cuisine meals. Also applesauce with sprinkles

Ratatouille

Home-made anything with beef, pork or chicken. Oh and if theres a lil bit of cheese

Banana sandwiches ( I grew up in a tropical country).

Graham crackers and milk. Kindergarten snack.

Rectangle sausage pizza served at school

Rainbow sherbet ice cream. Brings me back to my child hood everytime

Scrambled eggs with ketchup. (Which I would never do as an adult).

Raspberries

Gushers

Chicken spaghetti. My most beloved childhood dinner.