Childhood may be over in a flash but certain experiences stay with us until the end. School meals, for instance, will be with us throughout our lives for all the wrong reasons. These bad food memories are unfortunate, but as a wise man once said ‘the sweet just isn’t as sweet without the bitter’. With this in mind, it is therefore a necessity for us food lovers to experience some of the poorer quality nosh out there.
Fortunately, for every poor quality dish we were subjected to as children, most of us would have also had some greats they can remember too. It was this, and the current Birds Eye competition that MyDish is partnered with, that got the team thinking and inevitably asking, ‘what are the classic childhood meals that most people absolutely loved?’
Well, after much research conducted by the research arm of the MyDish team, we are pleased to say that we have this nicely wrapped up for you.
The top five classic meals for kids:
Fast-food
Kids are kids, and pretty much all kids love fast-food. Whether it is the taste of the food or early signs of deep rooted consumerism, it doesn’t really matter. The fact is, kids would probably eat junk food all day if they could. Pizza Hut, Happy Meals, chips, french-fries and burgers are all good. Hosting a birthday party at McDonalds is the height of sophistication for a six year old and could lead on to big things in the playground.
Rice Krispies Treats
A true classic in every sense. Not only are Rice Krispies Treats so widely loved, but access to these tasty treats is strictly for children. As an adult these beauties are rarer than a Dodo. You could even go as far to say that the main motivation of having children is Rice Krispies Treats. Classic.
Alphabet Spaghetti on Toast
Only as a child could eating pasta shaped letters improve the taste of a dish considerably. Hours of fun were had eating those little letters. Some kids got so into it they even discriminated against parts of the alphabet. The letter J always did taste a little funny.
Jelly
Jelly, like Rice Krispies Treats, is another one of those dishes you just cannot eat as an adult. Picture the scene, restaurant, hot date, things going well, and then the object of your desire orders the jelly. Ouch. It is a dish strictly for children and any adult partaking in it is at risk of irreparable image/reputation damage. Children have no such worries though, and hovering down a wobbly jelly was, in the words of the north, ‘proper champion’.
Aeroplanes/Trains
Generation after generation of UK kids have lived on an early diet of aeroplanes and trains. Strange in consistency and never tasting the same, young children all over would eagerly gulp down fast approaching, low flying food. It may be hard to recall, but in those days, if food wasn’t coming in at speed and making comical noises, we just weren’t interested. It’s hard to know if at that age, a child understands they aren’t eating a plane, but the arrogance of youth suggests to me they deemed the plane and train easy mechanical prey.
