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!

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.

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.

Timelies all!

Sleepy...

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.

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).

Not just white bread, but Bunny Bread. Ever have that, Hil?

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.

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.

I'm wondering whether I was the weird one or if my friends were. So: chocolate milk, white bread, dessert after dinner, soda. Everyday food or treat food when you were a kid?

I was allowed to make my milk chocolate (or pink!) with Quik, because it was the only way to get me to drink it. White bread was the default (Butternut). Soda was bought only if we were sick, because my mom believed that the burps brought forth by carbonation would make us feel better. Cookies were rarely around, and snack-cake-like things (Little Debbie, Twinkies, et al.) were never EVER around.

Dessert after dinner -- I think it was a treat food, but I'm not sure.

Sometimes I wonder if not having access to "treat food" as a kid led to me eating way too much of them as an adult (including now). And sometimes I just wonder if I need to get my eating back to a mentality of "everything is *allowed,* but not everything should be indulged in daily."

And then my inner 7-year-old rebels at that. It's all circular.