Favorite Childhood Junk Foods

[RBS]

Pre-10 years old:

M&Ms
Lays Potato Chips
Charms Candies
Pix (those sugar-filled straws that you poured
right down your throat)
Sweet Tarts

Post-10 years old:

Pringles
Pretzels
Three Musketeers
Mallomars
Chips Ahoy and Milk
Nestle Tollhouse Chips, just the chips

[clinthopson]

My mother's chocolate chip cookies, warm out of the oven with a big glass of milk.

Excuse me while I wipe a tear away.

[Noj]

Cap'n Crunch
Cocoa Pebbles
Froot Loops
Cookie Crisp
Golden Grahams
Corn Pops
Frosted Flakes
Apple Jacks

...good thing they hose down cereal with vitamins!

[Tanager]

Mom was *really* strict wrt. eating junk food, but I did manage to develop a love of:

Nacho Cheese Doritos
BBQ Fritos
Sour Cream and Onion potato chips
Soft pretzels (come to think of it, any pretzels, all of which I love to this day)
Anything chocolate

One of my alltime faves (thanks Dad for introducing this to me), and something my wife and I love (and so I'm recommending it to y'all): Peach Ice Cream and Ginger Ale float. A taste made in heaven.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

Devil Dogs
Ring Dings
Potato Chips
Charleston Chew
Cheese Popcorn
Ice Cream Sandwiches
Squirrel Nuts

I'll think of more later.............

[Jim Dye]

One of my alltime faves (thanks Dad for introducing this to me), and something my wife and I love (and so I'm recommending it to y'all): Peach Ice Cream and Ginger Ale float. A taste made in heaven.

Ooh! That sounds great! When I was growing up, my dad always used to make a Chocolate Ice Cream and Orange Nehi float. Sounds gross, but it's really quite good.

[Gentle Giant]

Chocolate...and chewwwwwy! It's Marathon John!

[Monte Smith]

I guess I was peculiar, but for me nothing compared to a plastic sandwich bag filled with Cheerios. I would stuff my whole face with dry Cheerios--forget milk--and just keep them in my maw until they were liquified. 'Course, I did the same thing with communion wafers. No, I don't mean I crammed hundreds of eucharists down my throat. Just the one. But I wouldn't chew it, I would let it dissolve. If I still had it in my mouth when I got in the car after church then I had really accomplished something. I recall that one Sunday at CCD (Catholic Sunday school), I was taught that this was somehow a sin. The body of Christ should be chewed and never played with. Well hell. I might even be misremembering that lesson. It might not be a sin, I might not have been taught that. I might not be held accountable for that at the End of Days. Oh, and Sweet Tarts. Yum! Loved the giant ones, too. Grape was my fave, then cherry, then lemon.

[SinginSumo]

Then and now...

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[RBS]

Starbursts
Juicy Fruit -- sometimes they would pull my fillings out!
Tang (ugh)
Mounds -- three at a time, man

[tippy]

Marathon bars (whatever happened to those anyway?)
Junior Mints

and my all time favorite food when I was a kid

Watermelon!

[Pete C]

Hostess Sno Balls

[Pete C]

At the movies:

[Pete C]

And egg creams

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[Pete C]

Malteds (liquid) and malted milk balls

[HLAW]

Fig Newtons.
Peace and all that.

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[Brian Olewnick]

(from a site):

Peel The Candy Dots Off The Paper

Half Of The Fun Is Eating The Paper

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[Pete C]

[Jimmy Cantiello]

[Brian Olewnick]

[Jimmy Cantiello]

This thread is reminding me of how much fun I had as a kid. Didn't worry about anything, not weight, cancer, cholesterol, fat, and how bad everything was for you. You just ate what ever the hell you wanted. Thanks, Sumo............

[Pete C]

A required stop on long car trips:

[Monte Smith]

Pete C:

Were you a Cookie Puss man or did you prefer Fudgey the Whale?

[Pete C]

The sassy one:

[Pete C]

Originally posted by Monte Smith
Pete C:

Were you a Cookie Puss man or did you prefer Fudgey the Whale?

Neither. Chocolate cone with sprinkles, or the occasional flying saucer.