Hi AskAnAmerican!
I’m nosy about which food and drinks you grew up. In my case, I grew up with Chocomel (A Dutch brand of chocolate milk), Sultana biscuits, Tutku cookies, Pop Kek, Cin cookies (A cookie of Eti with sprinkles and a layer of orange paste) wafers, Cicibebe, Chupa chups, Haribo, different products of Ülker such as their chocolates, Biskrem and chocolate from Lidl and Milchsnitte.
How about you guys
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It’s cow milk ans foods called dal with roti
Coca Cola
Little Debbie snack cakes
Butternut bread
Kraft Singles cheese
Jif peanut butter
Ritz crackers
Campbells soup
Keebler cookies (the “Soft Batch” brand variety was always my favorite)
Lay’s potato chips
Swanson frozen dinners and pot pies
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (a popular kind of candy)
Pepsi and Doritos.
For brand name stuff:
Tombstone Pizza
Some brand of frozen dinners for kids that had a penguin on the box.
Spaghetti made with sauce that was made from a powder.
Chef Boyardee
Gorton’s Fish Sticks
Pop-Tarts
Oscar Mayer Hot Dogs and Bologna
Coca-Cola
Zatarain’s Jambalaya mix
Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies
I don’t really eat any of that stuff now other than Tombstone Pizza, which I still like.
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I definitely ate a lot more Slim Jims, Ring Pops, Pop Rocks, and Shark Bites as a child than I do now. I’m at the older cusp of the millennial age range.
Coke, tab, Diet Coke, Snapple, Evian, New York seltzer, Clearly Canadian, Arizona
Goldfish, Doritos, dannon, pepperridge farms, Kelloggs
Ovaltine.
Kix and Life cereals
Ovaltine
Viva 2% milk
Lunchables
McDonalds (this was a treat as the vast majority of our meals were homemade. There was also an all-you-can-eat place we went to on occasion called Kings Table Buffet)
Kraft macaroni and cheese
Nestle Toll House cookies
Pepsi (grew up in a Pepsi family, I later defected to being a Coca Cola gal as a teenager though)
Cheez-Its
Little Debbie cakes (Cosmic Brownies were my favorite)
Dunkaroos
Fruit Roll Ups
Gummy snacks
Snickers
Cereals (I liked Froot Loops, Frosted Mini Wheats, Life, and Oreo O’s)
Reeses Peanut Butter Cups
Oreos (plain and mint flavored)
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream
Doritos
I don’t know the brand name, but I have strong childhood memories around those giant lollipops you could get at movie rental places – they had dozens of flavors and some of them were really weird.
Of those products we only have Haribo.
Pepperridge Farms ([various cookies](http://everything-pr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Pepperidge-Farm-2.jpg), [“goldfish”](https://i1.wp.com/diplomartbrussels.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pepperidge-Goldfish.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&ssl=1), sandwich bread)
Oreos (cookies)
[Annie’s](https://simplesavingsforatlmoms.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AnniesMacandcheese-1.jpg)
[Pop tarts](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/44f9ba08-8fd5-4874-9915-78e0bc9241fc_1.24ca37ab84bd0376f964a6e13a87465c.jpeg) (totally different from Pop Kek, apparently)
Home made chocolate chip cookies ([“toll house” cookies](https://www.crazyforcrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/toll-house-cookies-3.jpg)) and [snickerdoodles](https://divascancook.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_9924.jpg)
Reese’s, M&M, Skittles, Jelly Belly, various other candies.
As a young kid I remember my dad drinking root beer often enough that we called it “daddy juice”. [Capri Sun](https://i2.wp.com/considertheconsumer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Capri-Sun-Lawsuit-Capri-Sun-Class-Action.jpg?fit=1024%2C800&ssl=1) juice pouches. Powdered [kool-aid](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2027f394-cfbe-4033-9507-983a93c31baf.2734b325bc1234484b11965d4d141932.jpeg).
[Tastykake](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/d4f7be41-bb19-4816-b285-dafd3deda9d8_2.c2a7ec82420f5991d7ce87465dcb3d9b.png)
Coca Cola, Pepsi, 7UP, Koolaid, Gatorade, Ginger Ale.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with milk as a beverage.
Pizza 🍕
Homemade Pierogi (I’m Polish American).
Honestly, I grew up poor with a mother who didn’t really cook, so for me it was like 90% these things:
* school breakfast/lunch
* OreIda microwave tater tots
* hot dogs on white bread
* tacos from the cheap tex-mex fast food place in town
Mostly food made at home from basic ingredients, including potatoes from my grandparents’ farm and produce from our garden.
Going to Grandma’s house was a treat because she always had Tang and sugary cereals such as Froot Loops and Lucky Charms, which we almost never got at home.
Doritos + 3d, Flaming Hots, Hot Fries, Frutti-Tutti candy, Little Hugs Fruit Barrels (we called them Huggies) Mountain Dew (+red and blue kind) Pizzerias Chips, Moon Pies, Zebra Cakes, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Fruit Roll ups, War Heads, Oatmeal Cookie Pies, Squeeze It drinks, Icees, Strawberry Crunch Bar Ice Cream, Pizza Hut that used to come with PlayStation demo games inside the box. Cheetos, Ring Pop, Star Crunch Cookies, Royal Dansk, Lunchables, Cosmic Brownies, Altoids, Bagel Bites, Crème Savors (strawberry), Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Reese’s Puffs, Toaster Strudel, Butterfingers, Hostess, Capri Suns, Hi-C,Kid Cuisine, Fun Dip, Go gurt, Airheads, Keeblers Cheese and Peanut butter Crackers. Salted sunflower seeeds, Surge, Starburst, Kit Kats, Rice Krispie Treats, S’mores, White Cheddar Popcorn, Frozen Minutemaid slushies, Auntie Ann’s Pretzels, Corndogs…
I mean I can keep going 😂😂
Water
Cheez-Its
Fruit snacks (specifically some dinosaur themed brand that is probably lost to time)
Hi-C
Capri Sun
Sunny D
Golden Flake potato chips
Kraft Macaroni and Cheese
Chips Ahoy/Oreos/Keebler Danish Wedding Cookies
Kool-Aid
Tombstone frozen pizzas
Kid Cuisine frozen meals
Goldfish
If we are talking like snacks after school then V8, cranberry juice, cheese zits, gold fish, string cheese, peanut butter. I was a latch key kid so this was what I would binge when no one was really around, I wasn’t allowed much junk as a kid.
Shasta soda/Kool Aid
Kraft Mac and Cheese
Totino’s frozen pizza
Trix/Froot Loops/Lucky Charm
Besides condiments, about everything else was store brand.
My mom baked cookies and cakes regularly, so no store bought treats. Most of the meals were from scratch; my grandparents had a small farm and we canned a lot, made jams and grape juice.
YooHoo, Twinkies and Snack Pack pudding in a can and you would cut your tongue on the pull top lid when you licked it.
I got the Tutku cookies in a box of universal yums, they were really good. I’ll keep an eye out for Cin cookies next time I’m at the EuroMart, they look really good.
I grew up in PA. My father and one of my uncles actually grew up at Milton Hershey’s Orphanage after my grandparents died so Hershey’s was pretty big in my house but Reese’s peanut butter cups & Almond joys are the best imo.
Tasty Cakes – Butterscotch Krimpets, Kandy Kates and their glazed pies are the best.
Snyder’s Pretzels – the Old Thyme and Honey Mustard and Onion.
Kid Cuisine frozen dinners, Goldfish crackers, Capri Suns, Sunny D, JIF peanut butter, Teddy Grahams, and of course Lunchables.
Peanut butter and strawberry jam on cracked wheat, oatmeal and powdered milk, orange juice, Kool-Aid, homefries with ketchup and Tabasco, ramen with an egg and onion, chamomile tea.
And they say Americans eat nothing but junk… 😂
I didn’t grow up with anything like that. Sometimes my mom would buy Oreos, and once in a while we’d go to fast food places.
The thing I remember most is mini tombstone pizzas and Dr Pepper (my friends parents owned a bar, and we used to eat the pizzas a lot). But that’s really it.
dunkaroos, handi snacks, capri sun, bugles, shrimp chips, those tiny egg rolls in a bag, nong shim onion rings, cinnamon toast crunch, fruity pebbles, trix are for kids, kids cuisine, lunchables, lay’s sour cream and onion, lay’s bbq, mondo, pizza crunchabungas, country time lemonade, kool-aid, fruit by the foot, squeezit, mario soda, shark bites, push ups, snack pack, jell-o instant pudding, hi-c ecto cooler, those milky ice pops from asian grocery stores, otter pops, yan yan, pocky, white rabbit, hot pockets, pizza bagels
Welch’s Grape Juice
Nestea
Mountain Dew
Jif peanut butter
Sunbeam breads
Pop Tarts
Oscar Meyer Hotdogs
Nabs
Jiffy Pop popcorn
Chipsters (how I long for those)
Reeses
Most everything else came out of the woods/river/field
Growing up:
Our meat came from a local butcher, except for some Hebrew National products.
Bread and bagels mostly came from the local bakery. I don’t recall if we got supermarket white bread, as we tended to favor rye for most things.
Lox was sliced to order at the supermarket. Pickled herring was Vita. I don’t recall which brand of gefilte fish we bought. Other fish came from the local fish market. Fresh vegetables came from the local produce market.
Cold cereal was whatever I was into at the time. Hot cereal was Wheatena or Cream of Wheat.
We used Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise. This was probably a depression habit.
We got seltzer in traditional, reusable seltzer spray bottles delivered. Wine was Kedem or Manischewitz. We generally didn’t have soda except for when company was coming. We used frozen concentrated OJ, but I don’t remember if it was Tropicana or store brand.
Canned soups were Heinz. So was ketchup. Mustard was yellow, not brown, but I don’t recall the brand.
Food Club brand stuff.
Tastykakes
Herr’s chips
Pop tarts
Snickers
Hershey bars/kisses
Doritos
Wonder bread
Jif peanut butter
Smuckers jelly
Trumoo Chocolate milk (or yoo-hoo)
Hidden valley ranch
Kraft Mac n cheese
Velveeta “cheese”
Oreos
Ritz crackers
Hugs juice
I just threw a bunch of stuff I remember from my childhood
I’m from Michigan so in addition to all the name-brands other Americans are used to, we also had a lot of Faygo, Vernors, and Bettermade.
And while we did eat Oreos, we were a Hydrox family until we weren’t.
Vernors and Faygo pop (Rockin Rye specifically).
Detroit style pizza
Coney Dogs
To supplement the orange juice from a can of concentrate, my Mom added Tang. Not good, but in my family of six, it helped to make ends meet.
As a kid growing up in the 60’s it was all about packaged foods. For example, [Space Food Sticks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Food_Sticks).
My grandma always had a jar full of Famous Amos cookies.
I’m honestly just so thrown by your correct grammar in the title. Americans would not write like that, lol.
Oh – boring ole’ Midwestern fare – like porkchops and potatoes, canned spinach, canned carrots, pork n’ beans, spaghettiOs, liver n’ onions (🤮), hamburgers/hotdogs, and canned soup.
Drinks were Nestlé Quick, Yoohoo, and Dad’s Rootbeer.
I didn’t learn how to eat until I moved to California. Shortly after that I became a vegetarian. Thank goodness, or I’d a died of a stroke by now.
This is a stunningly open-ended question. Do you mean just treats, or our entire diet, or what?
Brigham’s ice cream, Cape Cod chips.
My most remembered meal is Kraft mac and cheese and fishsticks.
For sweet snacks. Little Debbie’s products – we liked the oatmeal creme pies.
For breakfast cereal I was a Honeycombs kid of gal. (brand is Post – a big cereal brand)
Hamburger Helper