http://www.democraticunderground.com/1147754Oh my.
I think I'll check off mine as the primitives bring them up.
hedgehog (27,957 posts)
Things you ate as a kid that you'd never eat now because of your health:
Spam
Corned beef hash
Hot dogs
Koolaid
franksolich dined on Spam one time, as a little lad. franksolich hasn't touched the stuff since.
I've never gone within ten miles of corned beef hash.
I dined on hot dogs occasionally as a little lad, but they had to first be burned black. The last time franksolich had a hot dog was probably when Richard Nixon was in the White House.
I never messed with Kool-Aid, not even as a kid; colored sugar water damaging to the teeth.
NRaleighLiberal (22,951 posts)
1. Oreos (by the roll). Potato chips (by the bag). many a bologna sandwich.
Beefaroni - every Saturday, it seemed. My mom was not a good cook and just kinda shoved junk food at me - and it took me over 50 years to really get a grip and get healthy (food intake-wise).
I dined on Oreo cookies as a little lad, but probably not since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.
I dine on potato chips once in a while; either Lay's barbequed flavor, or the sour-cream flavor.
Bologna sandwiches--now, that's a horror story here. My younger brother and I were the last in a large family, and frequently baby-sat by our resentful older siblings, which of course included feeding us.
Fried bologna (with the edges cut so it wouldn't curl) on
white bread with
fake mayonnaise.
At least they used to burn my bologna before shoving it at me.
franksolich has had Beef-a-Roni on occasion, but probably not since Gerald Ford was in the White House.
Viva_La_Revolution (25,792 posts)
2. Hamburger helper
hot dogs
soda
I still eat mac and cheese. just not a whole box by myself
Hamburger Helper, never; hot dogs, already mentioned; soda, Diet Dr. Pepper only; boxed macaroni and cheese, rarely, maybe two or three times a year if that much.
Ya Basta (67 posts)
3. Pizza, cheese burgers, hot dogs...
Baloney
Frozen burritos
Canned tamales
Canned beefaroni
Chili Cheese Fries
Macaroni and cheese
franksolich dines on pizza about five times a week, going to the convenience store in town to buy a slice of pepperoni pizza for supper.
Once in a while, maybe six times a year, I go to the Valentino's place in the big city; for those who don't know, Valentino's makes the best pizza in the world. After dining at Valentino's, one never wants to try another brand of pizza--no way--and I haven't.
As for cheeseburgers, I've had them, and still have them--maybe once or twice a year these days--but was never partial to them. Plain hamburgers, pressed down hard on the grill so as to squeeze out every drop of grease, are another story. Maybe ten times a week, a hamburger from the VFW Club or one of the two bars in town.
Hot dogs, Beef-a-Roni, bologna, already mentioned above.
Frozen burritos, canned tamales, not on your life. Never have, never will.
I have no idea what "chili cheese fries" are; I've probably seen them, but they probably didn't look appetizing, so I ignored them.
kdmorris (3,842 posts)
4. So many...
Kool-aid, sugared cereal, pancakes/pancake syrup, cake, candy, pie... pretty much all of the sweets. I add some in occasionally, but so rarely as to be given up.
Fast Food (any of them)
Kool-Aid, already mentioned.
Sugared cereal, never; just plain cereal (corn flakes whatnot) with milk and an enormous dollop of sour cream.
Pancakes and pancake syrup, a lot, as a kid and now. With real butter, not fake butter.
Cake rarely, and only vanilla, no others.
Candy; well, the last package of candy I recall purchasing, Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
Pies--cherry pie is never safe within a mile of franksolich, and I don't mean just a slice, but the whole pie. Apple pie too is fine.....provided the apples are cooked
all the way through, which unfortunately they usually aren't. Pumpkin pie, sure. But
no other sorts of pies, just those three.
franksolich dines on fast food two times a week (I'm very regular in my habits), but as there's no problem with weight, the blood pressure, the blood cholesterol, &., &c., &c., it's not enough to do any harm.
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And now, here we have the defrocked warped primitive, who's as mean and ugly as a snake:
Warpy (64,142 posts)
5. Wheat. I'm allergic and that one hurts.
That alone cut out 95% of the junk food I'd gravitate to like Triscuits and Wheat Thins when I wanted to comfort eat.
I don't eat sickly sweet supermarket chocolate. I'm on the hard stuff, free trade high chocolate liquor content bitter chocolate.
So.....now the defrocked warped primitive's "allergic" to wheat, too.
The defrocked warped primitive over the years has provided a long list of things she's "allergic" to, but there's something singularly peculiar about her "allergies."
It seems the defrocked warped primitive is "allergic" to only things good for her, but not allergic to anything bad for her.
