TBT: What Food From Your Childhood Do you Miss The Most?
For our Thorwback Thursday topic this week, we wondered what foods you used to eat all the time when you were a kid, but you can't get anymore....
JStew: Boy... for me there's so many. Luckily, my the cooks in my family have kept pretty detailed and extensive recipe boxes over the years. But if I had to pick just one thing... it'd be my grandmother's fudge. Sure, you can get fudge anywhere, but she had a recipe that had been handed down tons of times. It's extremely complicated and time consuming, which is why we don't make it anymore, generally. But I've never tasted anything close to hers since she passed some 25+ years ago. As I sit here right now though, I can almost taste it in my mind..... man I miss those days.
Cori: When I was little, there were a few candies in particular that I loved. Thankfully, you can still get Charleston Chews, Mambas and Laffy Taffy. But I haven't seen Lifesaver Holes or Bonkers around anywhere in decades! I also can't find those rolls of red licorice--I think they called them Danish circles or ribbons. I loved those--way more than twizzlers--because they were easier to chew! I miss those! As far as family recipes go, my late Aunt Phyllis used to make a jello salad that was so yummy. I miss that, too.
There's a lot of great history in family recipes. Let's look at some of what you liked too....