I can't remember ever having actual ice cream at home. If we did have something similar, it was either ice milk or Tofutti.
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Hil R. - Mar 31, 2010 2:53:44 pm PDT #20133 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
megan walker - Mar 31, 2010 2:54:53 pm PDT #20134 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
We didn't have much that was processed, but my Dad really drank a lot of soda (that he bought by the case through his job), so we were allowed one can of soda a week.
The French aren't big on desserts so I don't think we had that normally, but we did have ice cream around.
Summers in Vermont had different rules. Spaghetti sauce from a jar! Root beer floats! Pringles!
Lee - Mar 31, 2010 2:57:12 pm PDT #20135 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
White bread and a small amount of soda were common place. I don't remember much chocolate milk though, and dessert was only a sometime thing. Ice cream used to be a treat, since we could make a family trek to Baskin Robbins about once a month, but then my father discovered Haagen Daz.
Sue - Mar 31, 2010 3:00:59 pm PDT #20136 of 30001
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White bread, soda, and dessert were all regulars at my house. But dessert may just be a cookie or something. It wasn't a special thing made each day.
The French aren't big on desserts so I don't think we had that normally, but we did have ice cream around.
Ha! My dad's family all have dessert after dinner, which I always blamed on them being French. But I think the whole family must have terrible sweet tooths? teeth? My dad has to have something sweet, even if it's a piece of fruit.
Sheryl - Mar 31, 2010 3:01:15 pm PDT #20137 of 30001
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Scrappy - Mar 31, 2010 3:04:18 pm PDT #20138 of 30001
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Soda was allowed, but not with meals, and only before 5pm because of the caffeine, and not every day. Chocolate milk, you bet, and white bread, but the Pepperidge Farm kind. Dessert we had, but usually cookies or fresh fruit with sour cream and brown sugar on top. Once we got older, ice cream with chocolate sauce was the Sunday night treat.
Jessica - Mar 31, 2010 3:04:44 pm PDT #20139 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So: chocolate milk, white bread, dessert after dinner, soda. Everyday food or treat food when you were a kid?
I wouldn't say white bread was ever a treat - it was the default bread until my parents switched to buying only whole wheat. Chocolate milk was a treat but a pretty common one. We almost never had soda in the house, and dessert was more or less only for special occasions.
My household follows mainly the same pattern. I don't buy white bread or soda. We almost always have chocolate syrup in the fridge for making chocolate milk or egg creams. I don't really do desserts (the big exception being that pregnancy turns on my sweet tooth).
Dana - Mar 31, 2010 3:08:49 pm PDT #20140 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Not just white bread, but Bunny Bread. Ever have that, Hil?
megan walker - Mar 31, 2010 3:08:53 pm PDT #20141 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Ha! My dad's family all have dessert after dinner, which I always blamed on them being French. But I think the whole family must have terrible sweet tooths? teeth? My dad has to have something sweet, even if it's a piece of fruit.
That's more what I meant, it's usually fruit, not like a pie or cake or what I think of here when I think of dessert.
Plus there's the whole "fromage ou dessert" question in prix fixe meals, implying that dessert is not really a given.
aurelia - Mar 31, 2010 3:10:51 pm PDT #20142 of 30001
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So: chocolate milk, white bread, dessert after dinner, soda. Everyday food or treat food when you were a kid?
Treat. We got most of those things when we stayed at the paternal grandparents. And we'd get pop (soda) when we had pizza.