Laura - 80's novelty foods :)

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Laura -- I LOVED the wax candy lips!! I think it was just the novelty of

them... Also, the little wax bottles, where you bit off the top and got a

mouthful of sugar water and food coloring -- those were great! Tang was

nasty, though I did try it because of the astronauts. My dad once bought me

a package of freeze-dried (I guess) ice cream that the astronauts

purportedly ate. I wanted very much to be an astronaut (or a paleontologist

or Nancy Drew, depended on the day) so I ate the stuff, even though it was

nasty -- I even said I liked it. Do they still make Pop Rocks?? Those were

so much fun!

 

Audrey S.

 

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:27 PM, L.B. <elbee577 wrote:

 

> I looked at this list, but don't think I hate most of these foods.

> Some (eggplant), I have come to LOVE...bell peppers I love when ripe, RED

> (or orange or yellow), sweet and juicy, but my DH insists that only the

> " green " ones are the " right " kind of pepper that he will eat.

> (Nothing I say will convince him of the sweeter flavor of the red ones--he

> has it in his mind that only HOT peppers turn red!)

>

> I wouldn't know about the anchovies--I don't think I've ever had them,

> unless they're the same as sardines, which I HAVE tried in the past....not

> my favorite by any means!

>

> Personally, my " add " to this list would be " custard " . Mom gave us

> little ramekin bowls

> of individual, crust-less custard when I was very young, and, rarely also

> made a custard

> pie in a crust. I think I LIKED " custard " until one day, eating custard

> from a small bowl, I noticed the way I could slice into it and then it would

> get " watery " where the slice was...and suddenly the bland " milk-egg-and

> slightly vanilla " taste seemed " gross " to me--I have not

> liked or even felt I could stomach " custard " ever since. My DH, however,

> simply adores

> custard of any kind and BEGS me to make him a pie or a baking bowl of it.

> I have so far

> refused, since I have to LOOK at it and think about it as I make the

> stuff. So far, I have

> not been able to get past my personal gross-out with custard. (To

> compromise, I do make

> PUMPKIN custard ( " pumpkin pie " without the crust) or butternut squash

> custard--and he is

> happy with that, and so am I.)

>

> Other things that I think are either love or hate: Okra, very ripe

> banana, cooked blueberries (I HATE them, but love raw ones! My parents and

> DH think I'm the crazy one, because they love blueberries stuck into all

> kinds of baked goods!)...I also think PRUNES

> are weird, but I frankly LIKE eating them!

>

> That was an interesting article: I veered off on a couple of their

> other lists...interesting.

> I think some of the stuff from the 80's (Capri Sun, for example) rival the

> weird and horrible stuff I used to " love " as a kid: Tang, " Fizzies " ,

> Marshmallow Fluff, Wax candy " LIPS " ...

> INSTANT (Bleah!) mashed potatoes, " Dream Whip " ... to name a few of the

> atrocities!

>

> One might ask the question, " Have we come any farther or are we any

> better off, considering what sorts of " foods " are on the market now? Give

> me eggplant AND Brussels sprouts and tomatoes and beans and okra and

> rice...and some of those other love-hate

> (but healthier) foods--ANY day!!

>

> Peace!

> Laura B., in Illinois

>

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