As a kid what meal did you beg for?

[BlkHawk]

When your folks asked you what you wanted for supper, what did you beg for?

I always wanted hamburgers with French fries. We butchered our own livestock, so most nights it was steak, roasts or pork chops. Almost never had hamburgers as a kid, now of course I want the steak.

 

[Ace Bandage]

As a kid, we ate our meals as a family every night (except for Friday when we went out to eat). Mom was a damn good cook too. It'd be hard to narrow it down to one favorite childhood meal. Probably either meatloaf or cube steak (with brown gravy and mushrooms) for the main meal. Homemade mashed potatoes and sweet corn were the best sides. Although for breakfast, biscuits and gravy from scratch was unbeatable. Nothing was better than waking up to that on a Saturday morning. The smell would wake you up, that's how good it was...

Nowadays, it's probably a tossup between beef and noodles and slow cooked baby back ribs. I never thought I'd miss home cooking so much. No matter how much I (or a female) try, nothing beats mom's cooking. When we were younger, my brothers and I would rush through the meal so that we could get back outside to play. Never realized how good we had it as kids.

Honorable mention: pot roast with potatoes and carrots, from scratch blueberry muffins and pancakes, salmon patties, mom's chilli, and pineapple ham. Oh, and Christmas cookies and sugar cream pies.

 

[STDiva]

My nani always made the best ribs. I would beg my mom to make them since we obviously cant visit every day. It took her a while to perfect the rrcipe, but she got it eventually.

 

[RASQ]

candy

those other assholes are lying to shit, lol! what sort of kid asks for cubed steak, lol! and that other kid asked for ribs??? LOL!

 

[BCT]

Chicken Fingers and Fries.

 

[STDiva]

candy

those other assholes are lying to shit, lol! what sort of kid asks for cubed steak, lol! and that other kid asked for ribs??? LOL!

Ribs have been and always will be better than candy.

 

[grower_boy]

Steamed shrimp. Which is ironically what I had for dinner earlier today.

 

[Harley Spencer]

Usually tacos, pizza, and other garbage foods since we didn't get to eat that kind of stuff very often, and very rarely ever ate out (maybe once every few months we'd get a pizza) since we struggled so much financially.

 

[Marshall Stack]

now of course I want the steak.

Of course you do.

 

[BlkHawk]

Usually tacos, pizza, and other garbage foods since we didn't get to eat that kind of stuff very often, and very rarely ever ate out (maybe once every few months we'd get a pizza) since we struggled so much financially.

I think I was 12 before I had a pizza that wasn't frozen first. The closest pizza place was thirty miles away.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Either Pizza or McDonald's

 

[bobjustbob]

We rarely ate out. If we did it was more of an event than a treat. Not much chance to acquire a taste of junk food.

Pork chops. Mom would just broil them with seasoning and I was an animal on them. I would take on Joey Chestnut if challenged. Another thing was mom's scalloped potatoes. I could get them more often if I helped in preparing them. Peel the potatoes then shave slices so thin they could only be done by a hand peeler. What a bitch that was. Oh but they come out perfect.

 

[sean miguel]

As a kid my parents issued 3 meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week and a half a roll on Sundays.
It was never enough of course and when I'd ask my dad "Please, sir, may I have some more?" He would be incredulous and go, "More?!?!?"
Then I'd run away.


Just kidding. It was either McDonald's or Burger King, whichever one offered the best toy at the time. My mom was a really good cook as well. Spaghetti or meatloaf were my favorites at home.

 

[316sherm]

Fast Food

 

[Armanaeus]

I never really begged for anything. But when I was a kid there were a few times I really wanted to go to McDonald's so that my mother would buy a 52-rouble Big Mac, even though at the time I thought it was a bit pricey.

 

[Deepcover]

Brown rice and brown peas aka rice and peas (West Indies food)
Lasagne
Oxtail - Great west indies meat:yummie:

 

[lurkingdirk]

Growing up my mother was a terrible cook, and had no money, so we grew most of our own food. That meant that we ate things that stored well. We had boiled potatoes, some over cooked meat, and some vegetable (such as brussel sprouts) boiled to the point of mush. That was our meal about 340 days a year.

So the meal I begged for was "Not that." Periodically we splurged and had grilled cheese. That felt pretty good. What I really wanted as a kid, though, was probably french fries.

So, of course, I became a chef for a while. There was a period of about 10 years when I never made potatoes once. I'm over that now.

 

[Marshall Stack]

There are stories on this thread that tug at my heartstrings. Is there a central location that we could send canned goods or an Applebee's gift card?

 

[Harley Spencer]

There are stories on this thread that tug at my heartstrings. Is there a central location that we could send canned goods or an Applebee's gift card?

The most common places that people donate food to are food banks and food pantries, though most of the people that are going to those places are people on welfare, and not everyone who's poor goes on welfare. My family was never on it. My stepdad worked full time and provided for the whole family, while my mom was mostly a stay at home mom with the occasional part-time job. Our family was too proud to try to get welfare or any other type of assistance. So even if you donate to some places, it's not always going to go to the people who really need it, but it is a good start.

My mom cooked dinner Monday through Friday, we lived on only buying groceries once a month with the occasional run to the local store for a jug of milk or loaf of bread, my stepdad went hunting for every hunting season in existence (deer, turkey, bear, sometimes went fishing, even sometimes shot squirrels and rabbits in our backyard), and when he'd get something, we'd butcher it up and store it in a freezer to last us for a few months without having to go buy meat. We were never on welfare, never got food stamps, there was no food bank near us, didn't have health insurance.

So yeah, when I begged for food, it was something we didn't get to have very often.

 

[larss]

Sausages. All types - Good old british bangers, sauna makkara, hot dogs, dutch smoked, boerewors, bratwurst.