Soul food of ones childhood
Why did it always seem that in order for me, as a child, to enjoy the food I was eating it had to have come from some sort of a package perhaps a box or can. Mom could have slaved all day in the kitchen to prepare a nice garlic roast with mashed potatoes and fresh vegetables, and yet the irresistible taste of powdered, process cheese sprinkled over soggy noodles and splattered with Heinz ketchup always seemed to have that edge. Who needs fresh pasta and homemade meat sauce served with oven backed garlic bread, when you can have animal shaped pasta from a can, already immersed in some sort of orange wanna-be tomato sauce at the press of a button. Fruit snacks were a big thing. Coming in all different shapes and sizes, musical instruments, animals even round ones that when you bite into them gushed out fruit juice into your mouth. It seemed appetizing at the time. The best though, still to this day, would have to be the ever famous Fruit Roll Up. Wrapping them around our dirty, little kid fingers made them that much more tasty. Sucking them down till there was nothing left, but still leaving that desirable, artificial fruit flavour on our finger for hours to c
How could it have been that these foods, if you can even call them that seemed to be such a delicacy to me as a five year old, now the mere thought of actually in taking them kills my appetite and sends my taste buds into chaos! Now I won't lie, I still enjoy the odd shot of whipped cream, the trip to the convenience and perhaps I even still grab for the Mr. Big, but that nice roast I once turned my nose at or the pasta and meat sauce as oppose to the childhood Zoodles or Alphaghetti are far more enjoyable then I ever could have imagined a decade ago. Well the choice always simple. What kid wouldn't instantly grab for the Mr. Big. The name said it all. It truly was the biggest of them all. It didn't matter that it was pretty much my least favourite chocolate bar. Snickers, Mars, Skor, you're all great but I was going for quantity not quality. How about the lick-a-stick. They were great. Mom loved when we got those. Two different flavours of sugar eaten off a solid sugar stick. The biggest challenge was to not break the stick or eat it before you were done, or else you would have to resort back to the good old finger to scoop up the powder and slurp it off. The
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Cherry Blasters, Roll Wrapping, , Mars Skor, Zoodles Alphaghetti, whipped cream, shot whipped cream, chocolate bar, shot whipped, meat sauce, solid sugar,
Approximate Word count = 797
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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