TakeThreeThursday

It‘s Friday, but here‘s a #TakeThreeThursday from me!
We didn‘t have the “trendy” foods in my house growing up—my mom wouldn‘t buy us that stuff! She was all about homemade stuff…mostly. Lots of dinners that had cream of mushroom soup as an ingredient. 😆

My three are: Nerds, Cap‘n Crunch, and Kudos bars. My mom DID buy Kudos bars, and we got Cap‘n Crunch (the peanut butter one!) at my grandma‘s house. And I was obsessed with Nerds in jr. high! ⬇

BarbaraJean @dabbe BTW, I love this generation-themed food question!! Lately I‘ve been slightly obsessed with generational categories. My parents were born in the middle of the Silent Generation, but my in-laws are Boomers. My siblings are squarely Gen X, and I‘m at the tail end of Gen X. My oldest niece is barely a Millennial (1995), but her four younger siblings are all Gen Z. I‘m the (much) youngest child of two almost-youngest children who married late ⬇ 13h

BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) …so the age differences are kind of wild. Over the holidays, I realized my MIL is only 8 years older than my BIL (my sister‘s husband), but she‘s TWENTY years younger than my dad. 13h

dabbe W🤩WZA! That is wild! My two older sisters are late Boomers (as is my husband), and I am the oldest Gen X-er (born in 1965), and my sister is an mid Gen X-er (1970). I forgot all about Kudos bars! Loved those and miss them! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 12h

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Dilara

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Gen X growing up in France, here.
The 70s/80s were the time that US-style convenience food really took off. That's when Kellogg's breakfast cereals became ubiquitous, and how I loved my Coco Pops (or Chocopops as they were then called here)!
There was also a thing for substituting every fat with sunflower oil, and sunflower-oil margarine was big. We walked back on that 😚

#TTT #TakeThreeThursday @dabbe

Dilara Parents mostly cooked from scratch or semi-scratch, except for tinned fish & ravioli. Food was mostly French and Indian, with the odd - no doubt bastardised - Italian dish. Occasionally goulash, paella, couscous, or a US or UK dish (hamburger, scones), the only East-Asian dish on a regular rota being fried rice, until Asian ready meals became available in the late 80s. Most of our exotic-to-us recipes came from Tupperware cookbooks 😁 (edited) 24h

dabbe How interesting! Loved Coco Pops, too. They actually turned the milk brown! And yep, sunflower oil was good then not good--just like peanut/coconut oil! And those Tupperware cookbooks, well, and just Tupperware in general. There was always a Tupperware party going on at someone's house in our 'hood! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 14h

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Texreader

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Gen X: I learned to make salisbury steak as a teen, and the family still loves it to this day! I loved chocolate Carnation breakfast bars. They were my breakfast in high school. Sadly no longer around. When I was really little, my go-to cereal was Sugar Smacks! I would love having those again. Mom would pour a bunch in an empty glass mayonnaise jar for long car trips to eat dry as snacks. Mmm mmm good!

@Doll8455 What foods did you love as a kid?

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mrp27 I loved those chocolate carnations bars too! Wish they were still around. 1d

TheBookHippie @mrp27 OMG yes!!! Yummm. I forgot all about them! 1d

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TheBookgeekFrau I miss Sugar Smacks 1d

Doll8455 Mama‘s oatmeal cookies; grape bubble yum; and candy cigarettes. 21h

dabbe I miss those Carnation bars, too! Do they still make the Carnation breakfast drink? I didn't like that as much because no matter how much I stirred, I could never get the powder completely blended in! 🤣 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 13h

GingerAntics They stopped making Sugar Smacks?! WHY?! 13h

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kelli7990

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For #takethreethursday, I‘m talking about the food I grew up eating. I‘m a Millennial. I was born in 1990. I had to google what foods Millennials grew up with because I couldn‘t remember. There was a lot out there. I remember eating a lot of the foods that were mentioned in the Google screenshot. I also grew up eating cereal and drinking Coke and eating Pop Tarts and candy. I remember eating Long John Silver‘s too. I was a little girl in the 90‘s.

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Booksblanketsandahotbeverage Long John Silver‘s was good. Did you ever eat at a Skipper‘s? I dream about their fish sometimes. 2d

kelli7990 @Booksblanketsandahotbeverage I‘ve never heard of Skipper‘s. I don‘t think we ever had a restaurant with that name here in Texas. 1d

dabbe A lot of these were eaten by us Gen X'ers, too! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

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TheEllieMo

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This may be my own bias talking, but I feel that I don‘t even need to say what generation I am, because people will know thanks to the infamy of these icons of the dinner tables of my childhood:

- the prawn cocktail
- the cheese and pineapple hedgehog
- Angel Delight (Butterscotch, obviously)

Caroline2 Butterscotch 🤤 2d

Dilara UK seventies child? 😁 22h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I've never had any of these. 19h

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dabbe My guess: Gen X in the UK? The hedgehog makes me wanna 🤢, but the Angel Delight? YUM! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

TheEllieMo @Dilara @dabbe yup, born late 60s so grew up in the seventies ☺️ 14h

TheEllieMo @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick they were everywhere in the UK in the 70s! Prawn cocktail still exists but has been gentrified, Angel Delight is still available in all major supermarkets, but the cheese-and-pineapple hedgehog has thankfully been consigned to history 14h

TheEllieMo @Caroline2 it‘s absolutely the best flavour! 14h

dabbe @TheEllieMo Old Gen X-er here: born in 1965! Something we have in common. 😊 14h

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick That's why I'm not familiar! I have only spent 2 weeks in England 25 years ago. 6h

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dabbe

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I got a little carried away. All of these were introduced during the Gen X years of 1965-1980. And I ate all of these. In abundance. Not so much anymore, but I may have to go back and visit a few of these gems. 🤣

Bookwormjillk Jello pudding pops were so good!!! 2d

willaful I'm a deprived child, my mom wouldn't have any of these in the house! 1d

TheBookgeekFrau Jello pudding pops were my favorite! 1d

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RamsFan1963 Even though I was born in 1963, I still consider myself Gen X not a Boomer, and I hate the Boomer X subcategory, sounds like a bad superhero name. 1d

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🤩😋💝. 1d

AlaMich And microwave popcorn was a revelation! 🍿 1d

LibrarianRyan OMG. Funny story. My brother-in-law who was a cook in the army, took a can of manwhich to work for lunch one day. He was a cook in the army for 11 years. And he did not know you had to add meat to manwhich. 1d

CSeydel My daughter wanted to serve “80s food” the night we watched the Stranger Things finale, so she asked her dad and me, what are some 80s foods? We both said, SPAGHETTI-Os 1d

CSeydel (She did not want to eat Spaghetti-Os) 1d

CSeydel @RamsFan1963 I never heard it called Boomer X, but I agree with you it sounds awkward. I‘ve seen people born in the border years (late 50s/early 60s) call themselves “Generation Jones” but I don‘t know where that name came from. 1d

DGRachel Spaghetti-Os with meatballs was my go to! I miss Jiffy Pop on the stovetop, even though microwave popcorn is so convenient. The Jiffy Pop always burned but nothing beat watching the foil expand like some kind of space age treat. 😂 1d

Hooked_on_books Oh my gosh, Jello Pudding pops! That‘s a blast from the past. 🤩 1d

Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick All such tasty treats! 19h

dabbe @Bookwormjillk And it still saddens me to remember that Bill Cosby did those commercials. I adored him back in the day. Now ... 🤬. 15h

dabbe @willaful My mom wouldn't either! Until my parents divorced. She went back to school while working and basically let my younger sister and me eat whatever we wanted. My two older sisters are still jealous about that! 🤣 15h

dabbe @TheBookgeekFrau IKR? 😍 15h

dabbe @RamsFan1963 You're close enough! I was born in 1965, the supposed first year. I wear my Gen X title with pride! 🤩 15h

dabbe @AnnCrystal 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @AlaMich I remember standing in front of that microwave with my mouth hanging open. Couldn't believe it! 🍿 15h

dabbe @LibrarianRyan That. Is. Priceless. 🤩🤣🤩 15h

dabbe @CSeydel I hated Spaghetti-Os but LOVED RavioliOs! 🤣🤩😍 15h

dabbe @CSeydel I'm with her! 😍🤣🤩 15h

dabbe @DGRachel IKR? Now, when I think of that, I think of Drew Barrymore popping Jiffy Pop in the first movie SCREAM! 😱🤣🤩 15h

dabbe @Hooked_on_books IKR? 🤣🤩😍 15h

dabbe @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick They were, weren't they? And so healthy, too! 🤩🤣😍 15h

AlaMich @DGRachel I was dying to try Jiffy Pop because of those darn commercials, but my dad would never buy it because we already had a succession of electric poppers. 14h

dabbe @AlaMich Pretty much the same here for the most part. We even had to just do it on the stove in a pan until the huge bottle of popcorn was gone; then, we might be able to have the Jiffy pop! 🤣 14h

willaful @dabbe I'm pretty much as old as Gen X gets and I completely reject the entire concept of “Boomer X!“ Call me Geriatric X if you must! 12h

dabbe @willaful You belong with us cool Gen X-ers, period! 💙🩶🖤 12h

JenlovesJT47 Oh dear Lord you have no idea how much I miss Planters cheeseballs and cheese curls!! They were SO delicious! They had the cheeseballs make a reappearance a couple of years ago but they were not the same. 😭 8h

Sparklemn I still think about pudding pops when I wander through the frozen foods aisles. But alas… 7h

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I loved eating them with toothpicks! 🤩 6h

dabbe @Sparklemn 🎯🤎🎯 6h

MemoirsForMe Oh my… I‘m a true Boomer who missed this party by a few (ahem) years. I lived on pop tarts, Devil dogs, ring dings and Cap n Crunch with Bazooka Bubble gum in between. 👵🏻 3h

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dabbe

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Changin' it up a bit! I've been in nostalgia-mode, so ... the topic today is FOOD. Comment below or create your own post with three foods that were big in your generation. Maybe they were even created during your generation! Be sure to share your generation, too, if you want. I can't wait to see what you come up with. Tagging a few to get the ball rollin'! All are welcome to play!!! 😍

Kristy_K, mcctrish, DebinHawaii, Mimi28, Aims42, DrSabrinaMoldenReads, Cuilin, AmyG, kspenmoll, TheBookHippie, Amiable, JenlovesJT47, Texreader, CogsOfEncouragement, BookishMarginalia, AnneCecilie, Susanita, TheLudicReader, Suet624, TieDyeDude, Deblovestoread, Librarybelle, Tamra, mcipher, Chrissyreadit, Read4life, Cathythoughts, Skygoddess1, BarbaraBB, CatLass007, Mollyanna, eeclayton, Ruthiella, Bookwomble, CBee, MaGoose, kelli7990, Jari-chan, TheAromaofBooks, Sparklemn, lil1inblue, aroyse, AnnCrystal, WildAlaskaBibliophile

JenlovesJT47 In high school I lived off of hot pockets and pizza rolls. And grew up drinking Surge. (I miss that stuff!). I swapped a Surge addiction for a Mt Dew addiction which I still suffer from 😆 #imissthe90s 2d

dabbe @JenlovesJT47 I #didthedewtoo! That was the drink I needed to stay up all night in college studying for exams! That and No-Doze got me through the mid 80s. Thanks for playing and sharing! 💙🩶🖤 2d

WildAlaskaBibliophile Jello salads, meatloaf, tuna noodle casserole. Guess my age, lol. 2d

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TheBookHippie Canned chocolate pudding, unfrosted cinnamon sugar pop tarts and god help me …TAB… 2d

SamAnne I‘m GenX but the late life accident so all my brothers are boomers. We didn‘t eat a lot of junk food on our house but yes, my working mom@made a lot of tuna casseroles, jello salads. I drank a lot of the nasty sweet Vienna instant coffee. And eww, Vienna sausages. 2d

mcctrish I was born in ‘64 but I‘m the oldest and I recently read that cusp babies identity with the next generation if they are oldest - it‘s captain crunch, doc pep and taco kits for me 2d

BookishMarginalia Tab! Orange Fanta! Cameo cookies (which are Nabisco cookies sold only in Puerto Rico), Betty Crocker mix brownies, Steak Ums 🤣🤣🤣 2d

CatLass007 1961, so I‘m a late Boomer. Boomer and proud of it. Mom worked and Daddy helped with the dishes but he didn‘t mess with the cooking. I don‘t think we knew a lot, if anything, about the dangers of processed foods back then but we at a lot of TV dinners growing up. 2d

Ruthiella What I remember as big on the ‘70s was kiwis, yogurt and bran muffins. All foods that existed obviously for centuries but were only “discovered” in my corner of Southern California when I was a child. Honorable mention goes to granola bars. 1d

willaful @SamAnne my husband is like that too. We used to joke about fixing up his oldest brother with my mom. He was originally diagnosed as a uterine tumor. 😂 1d

AnnCrystal 🙋🏽 Millennial. So many options. Growing up, It was during the junk food (probably poisonous) craze 😂. Favorites: hot pockets 🍕 Nerds 👾 Squeezit 🥤...also Lunchables, but they were expensive, so was an occasional meal treat. (edited) 1d

marleed I began adulting in the 80s - 70s teenager here. I was a motherless kid of a single dad (and nuns😜). Let‘s see - I remember shake-and-bake chicken legs, tang, Idaho mashed potatoes that came dried and in a plastic bag, oohhh and my favorite- potted meat sandwiches 😜 1d

CSeydel You won‘t have any trouble guessing how old I am from my list: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Spaghetti-Os, and Little Debbies (edited) 1d

TheLudicReader I am a boomer. I remember 1-2-3 Jello, my mom mixing regular milk with powdered milk and water to stretch it further, and Whoopie pies. 1d

Ruthiella @marleed Shake n Bake. Totally remember that! 😆 1d

Hooked_on_books @SamAnne I‘ve been a vegetarian for 30 years now, but as a little kid, I actually loved Vienna sausages. 🫣 My mother was horrified. 😂 1d

Chrissyreadit kraft mac-n-cheese, frozen pot pies, nesquick chocolate milk, 1d

rwmg Generations seem to be getting shorter. I remember when a generation was about 25 or 33 years, i.e., 3 or 4 a century depending on who was counting. Or are a lot more 15 year olds having babies now? 1d

mcipher All the sugar cereals - Froot Loops, Trix, Cap‘n Crunch, Cocoa Pebbles… PopTarts, Crystal Pepsi, Cool Ranch Doritos… 1d

aroyse Gen X here - does anyone remember those little boxes of single serve variety cereals? Each box was lined with wax paper, with a perforated front so you could open it up, pour the milk in, and eat directly out of the box. (edited) 1d

SamAnne @Hooked_on_books I did too! And so gross. Do they still exist? 1d

CSeydel Oh you know what I just randomly remembered … Snackwells! The defining food brand of the 90s. Obviously the secret to eating healthy was eliminate fat and crank up the sugar 🙄 1d

Hooked_on_books @SamAnne I just looked them up in my grocery store app, and they sure do! 😝 1d

CBee @CSeydel omg Snackwell‘s - and they weren‘t even that good 😂 But I do still love spaghetti O‘s 😁 (edited) 20h

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile I'm guessing Millennial, though you have Gen X traits, too! We had lime green jello salad with chunks of lettuce in it! 🤢 I actually love tuna noodle casserole and meatloaf. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @TheBookHippie OMG! TAB! That was the diet soda before Diet Coke came out. If I remember right, it had a slight citrus taste to it. 🤢 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @SamAnne Oh, lordy, those sausages! And the too sweet coffee! 😱 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @mcctrish I see you as Gen X all the way, baby! Taco kits and pizza kits, especially the Appian Way Pizza Kit! I still love Captain Crunch and can eat it in a baggy like snacks. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @BookishMarginalia OMG, I loved Orange Fanta! Never had the Cameo cookies, but yes to the brownies and steak ums! We called them Sizzle Steaks here in Phoenix! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @CatLass007 And what a revelation those dinners were! You could get your tv tray, plop down your dinner, and (of course) watch tv while eating! What a novelty! 🤩 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

mcctrish @TheBookHippie I actually identified with Fresca more than Tab 😆 15h

dabbe @Ruthiella Kudos to you and your family for healthy foods! Kiwi fruit didn't seem to be in the store until the 70s, if my memory is correct. And what a novelty! Still love it today. 🥝 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @willaful 🤣🤩😍 15h

dabbe @AnnCrystal I loved Nerds! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤣🤣🤣🤣 15h

dabbe @marleed Potted meat as in something like deviled ham? Or Spam? And how could I forget Shake-and-bake? Kudos to your dad, btw; he raised quite a lovely lady. Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @CSeydel I want to say Gen X because all these appeared pretty much during that period. Am I right? Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @TheLudicReader A late boomer! Was that the layered jello? Loved that stuff! We called Whoopie pies Moon pies, and I still love them! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @Chrissyreadit Still love ALL of these! Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

WildAlaskaBibliophile @dabbe Gen X, born 1977 😊 15h

dabbe @rwmg Good point. Or are they getting shorter because we now have such short attention spans? 🤔 15h

dabbe @mcipher Sweet and salty ... we were hooked! 🤩 15h

dabbe @aroyse Oh yes, I remember! I thought that was so cool! No dishes to clean up afterwards, especially if you ate it with a plastic spoon as well! 😍 Thanks for sharing. 💙🩶🖤 15h

dabbe @mcctrish Loved Fresca! And Teem and Squirt, too! 💚 15h

dabbe @WildAlaskaBibliophile I was close! I'm the oldest Gen X-er, born in 1965. 😊 14h

dabbe @CBee Those Snackwells tasted like cardboard, but we'd eat 'em because, hey, cookies! 🤣 14h

WildAlaskaBibliophile @dabbe 🤗 13h

CSeydel Yep! 1975. 13h

dabbe @CSeydel Though I'm ancient compared to you, we're still in the same cool generation! 💙🩶🖤 13h

marleed @dabbe I don‘t quite know. It cam in a tiny can and was easily spreadable on a slab of bread. I‘d make a sandwich for my school lunch. No condiments required. When I married (at 20😳) and came home with a couple cans, Craig was like what the hell is this. Me: For sandwiches of course. Craig: Have you read the ingredients!? Me:😱. …I‘ve not eaten it in 40+ years! 10h

dabbe @marleed Now that's hysterical! 🤣 9h

Sparklemn Diet Mountain Dew, Little Debbies, and Cool Ranch Doritos. Gen X 1971. And I eat all of them still! Rarely, however. (edited) 8h

CBee @WildAlaskaBibliophile same 👋🏻🥰 3h

WildAlaskaBibliophile @aroyse yes!! We had those when we'd go on vacation! And Club crackers with Cheese Whiz! 😆 1h

WildAlaskaBibliophile @CBee 💓💓💓 1h

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CindyMyLifeIsLit

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I missed the question about the fictitious movie title, but since I‘ve seen Home Alone a million times (who hasn‘t?), I‘m pretty grounded on the details. I went and looked at the “25 Interesting Facts” and was surprised that Joe Pesci carried his method acting to the point of actually biting a child! That seems a little intense.
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dabbe

dabbe I agree! And he was aloof to Cullkin to make sure he was afraid of him. Plus all of his f-bombs! Thanks for playing and sharing. Nice score, too! 💚🤍♥️ 3w

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BookmarkTavern

Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook | John Hughes, Jason Rekulak

Hahaha! Nice! Anyway, I totally guessed on half of these, and I‘ve only seen this movie once like six years ago! 😂 Might have to brush up on this movie!

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dabbe It is a funny one! ♥️🤍💚 3w

Deblovestoread You did great. I got 69% and I watch it every year. 3w

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OriginalCyn620

Home Alone: The Classic Illustrated Storybook | John Hughes, Jason Rekulak

A perfect score! Home Alone isn‘t my favorite by far, but I‘ve seen it tons of times, and it is pretty funny. Here is my favorite Kevin quote: “Bless this highly nutritious microwaveable macaroni and cheese dinner and the people who sold it on sale. Amen.” 😂

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dabbe #woohooyou! I need to watch it again! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🩶🩵🤍 3w

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