/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.17374642]

You know you had a great childhood if you grew up with this shit.

[Anonymous No.17374646]

>>17374642
Zoom zoom

[Anonymous No.17374693]

>>17374642
even as a kid i knew this shit was bad.
also the pudding always came out over 9000 degrees

[Anonymous No.17374702]

>>17374642
>chicken nuggets in fries with a side of pudding
>Okay, but they need a healthy side of vegetables too!
>Good, more corn!

[Anonymous No.17374707]

>>17374642
>you had a great childhood if your parents fed you highly-processed frozen crap cooked in a microwave instead of homemade meals

[Anonymous No.17374754]

>move to US at 9 years old
>watching SatAM cartoons
>see spot for this kid cuisine stuff
>beg parents for it
>okay.png
>they come home with a few varieties of the stuff
>they're all bad
They looked so fun that it was quite upsetting how bad they were. Related, some time after that, I saw a spot for Weavers chicken and asked my parents for that, too. They, of course, said "no" because they remembered how much I disliked Kid Cuisine. Then we moved back to home country.
Fast forward some years and I've moved back to the US on my own. Went shopping one day, say a bag of Weavers and remembered how much I wanted them as a kid so I bought a bag. They, too, were shit. Completely devoid of flavour and had an offputting, overly soft texture.

I guess when you grow up eating real food, you'll never really like most things like that. I saw "most" cuz I'll fuck up a a turkey pot pie. Like, holy shit, dem bitches be delicious. Frrl.

[Anonymous No.17374766]

>>17374707
Sorry for your situation, anon :(

[Anonymous No.17374779]

>>17374766
>sorry you had two middle class parents, anon :(

[Anonymous No.17374783]

>>17374707
>highly processed food is le bad

[Anonymous No.17374864]

>>17374783
>believe science!
>wanting to eat the food you evolved over thousands to millions of years to eat?
>are you some kind of nazi?

[Anonymous No.17374962]

>buy one of these meme things marketed towards adults for the hell of it
>check nutrition facts
>96g of carbs
what the fuck do they put in these, had to give myself like 50 fucking dollars worth of insulin (type 1 diabetic) and was still hungry afterward

[Anonymous No.17374969]

was never allowed the kid cuisine

[Anonymous No.17375144]

I think I begged for something like this a couple of times because TV pushed it on me. It was worse cafeteria food and I didn't ask for it again.

[Anonymous No.17375146]

>>17374783
Unironically yes it is
>>17374642
Sorry you grew up with parents who didn't or couldn't cook

[Anonymous No.17375148]

>>17375144
I guess I'm ashamed as a kid I was suggestible enough to whine until my parents bought it but proud that I'm not so suggestible that TV could make me think it tasted good.

[Anonymous No.17375153]

pretty sure the microwaved plastic mutated my dna

[Anonymous No.17375158]

>>17374754
They're just shit food with brightly colored marketing to attract kids. Seems you were wise to that at a young age, and it's definitely because you had real home cooked food.
I will still tear up some Stouffer's frozen Mac and cheese every once in a while, honestly it's pretty good

[Anonymous No.17375170]

I only had them a couple of times, I only remember the scalding hot pudding that always had a few corn kernels mixed in and solidified into a sponge like texture

[Anonymous No.17375176]

>>17374702
huh?

[Anonymous No.17375182]

>>17374754
what did you eat before moving? Like boiled cabbage and potatoes?

[Anonymous No.17375187]

i did say i hated this shit here >>17374693
but i just remembered they had like a blue pudding dessert and i did like that

[Anonymous No.17375206]

>>17374783
5'6 malnourished manlet hands typed this

[Anonymous No.17375213]

>>17375187
actually i looked it up and it was this.
i think the stuff on the left was applesauce and the container of frozen dessert would lift out while you microwaved the rest

[Anonymous No.17375831]

>be a kid
>all the food I get is home cooked and delicious
>even the bread is baked by my dad
Now that is suffering.

[Anonymous No.17375838]

>>17375831
>dad baked bread
I hope it wasn't the 80's everyone would have made fun of you for having a faggot dad.

[Anonymous No.17375841]

>>17374642
i'm a britfag so we didn't have these
we had these and they were actually good

[Anonymous No.17375856]

>>17374642
>fries and nuggets coated in seed oils
>GMO corn
>high fructose corn syrup chocolate pudding
I fucking hate this world so much.

[Anonymous No.17375922]

>>17375838
"What a faggot, he's backing bread!".
That's a new one.

[Anonymous No.17375928]

>>17375922
you must've lived in san francisco.

[Anonymous No.17375967]

>>17375928
In a very conservative place actually. Where people appreciated a man being handy and didn't straight go to thinking about sucking dicks.

[Anonymous No.17376000]

>>17375967
>a man being handy
I bet he was, every friday night at the truck stop.

[Anonymous No.17376025]

>>17376000
this is your brain on judaism

[Anonymous No.17376030]

>>17376025
Says the guy with the deeeeply closeted faggot father.

[Anonymous No.17377152]

>>17374642
A great childhood is your father walking out at age 6 and you trying cigarettes at age 8. A TV dinner is not an indicator of prosperity, pula punk.

[Anonymous No.17377364]

>>17375182
Risotto. Polenta. Roast ibex. Roast duck with apples. Beef burgundy. Proper breads and cheeses. Bouillabaisse. Älplermagronen. Friarielli. Summer truffles. You know. Just typical foods and dishes, nothing special.

[Anonymous No.17377738]

>>17374642
>You know you had parents that fucking hated you if you grew up with this shit.
ftfy.
those things tasted like shit.

[Anonymous No.17377740]

>>17374783
it le is

[Anonymous No.17377808]

>>17377152
When I was 8 years old, my entire family fucked me under the Christmas tree. As my granfather entered, my brother mocked me, singing "jingle balls, jingle balls!"
All I could think was "Oh Santa, why hast thou forsaken me?"
And that was still a better experience than eating Kid Cuisine.

[Anonymous No.17378101]

>>17377364
Cont.
My childhood was typical, summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds, pretty standard really. At the age of 12 I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it.

[Anonymous No.17379787]

i was always convinced those type of meal trays were just training for america MREs

[Anonymous No.17379799]

>>17374642
except I was sexually abused by my only friend and beaten by my parents for whatever they felt like

[Anonymous No.17379812]

>>17374642
Kids cuisine was the shit. I still want to eat them now.

[Anonymous No.17379829]

>>17379812
Why not just buy the Swanson or banquet dinners, it's the same but cheaper

[Anonymous No.17380022]

I remember begging for these all the time as a kid, because of the marketing for them on the package and on TV. Looking back it was pretty disrespectful to my parents cooking. Would give anything to have one more home cooked meal with them again

[Anonymous No.17380033]

>>17380022
same anon my dad would give it to us when my mom was working tho

[Anonymous No.17380648]

>>17378101
Y'know what's funny? We did go to Yangon/Rangoon once. And it was, in fact, during the summer.

Also, what's so uncommon about fucking corn porridge, rice and macaroni-and-cheese?

[Anonymous No.17380708]

>>17375153
The mark of my dignity shall scar thy dna

[Anonymous No.17382015]

I actually never liked these. When we would do TV dinners, my favorite was always the Swanson Macaroni and Cheese dinner. Mac and cheese for the entree, peas and carrots for the veggie side, and cinnamon apples for dessert. This pic is of the one from the 60s or 70s, can't find the box for the one I ate in the 90s, but the only real difference in the meal is that there were carrots with the peas.

[Anonymous No.17382049]

>>17374754
wtf are weavers

[Anonymous No.17382098]

>>17374707
Sorry you grew up getting loafs of bread and peanut butter from your local shelter

[Anonymous No.17382155]

>>17374642
>processed food equates to a good childhood

[Anonymous No.17382181]

>>17375213
holy shit that brought up memory of my old hometown heb

[Anonymous No.17382310]

>>17382049
wtf is google

[Anonymous No.17382468]

I would beg the shit out of my parents for these. Mom never wanted to for two reasons;
>they seemed overpriced, we had the money for them, but it was a paltry amount of food for the price
>she knew they were fucking bad for me
I would beg and beg all day at the supermarket for whatever the TV shilled at me and whatever kid-brained me would interpret as "fancy" or "high cuisine" from all the cooking shows I watched. The buzzwords descriptions also worked really well on me. Beef Wellington flavored Lay's(tm) potato chips in a matte black bag with fancy lettering? Please mom, please, and it's a bargain, they're only a few dollars. I had a few wealthy friends and their parents generally didn't care and they were always eating frozen meals or packaged shit, so I started thinking it was a rich person thing. I would be super fucking happy and think of how when I'm a grown up scientist, I'm gonna eat Marie Calendar and Lunchables every day, instead of fucking made-from-scratch veal Milanese and and roast vegetables like I did at home.

Now that I've grown up I've come to be really thankful for my mom doing what she did.

[Anonymous No.17382475]

>>17375856
>s*ed o*ls
it should be a bannable offense to post these two words together

[Anonymous No.17382478]

>>17374642
I ate these for a while when I was a kid, but one day after coming home from school in the 4th grade I decided to cook one in the oven and for some reason i misread the directions and cooked it for like an hour and a half and the brownie smelled so bad when it burned I can still smell it to this day. After that I never touched them again

[Anonymous No.17382501]

Can anybody explain why processed garbage like this unironically tastes better than real food as a child? I remember liking this shit better than my mom's home cooking (and her cooking is good)

[Anonymous No.17382533]

>>17382475
Why? If anything it should be bannable to put seed oils in our food. It's pure fucking poison and it's EVERYWHERE. Everything from bread, sauces, fried food and even most canned food contains it.