#1 2008-08-30 00:04:46
Pixifood (PIKZ-ee-food), noun: Any food substance that is highly pleasant to the taste as a child and tastes shockingly unpleasant once you become an adult.
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#2 2008-08-30 00:17:00
We still have not come to a consensus on whether Kentucky Fried Chicken just doesn’t taste as good when you’re an adult or if Kentucky Fried Chicken has simply gone down in quality.
It's the quality that changed. It used to be great but some time around 15 or 20 years ago (oh my GOD I'm getting old) it went from being good fried chicken to being greasy crap. I mean, the bag will leave oil on your car seat if you order it and take it home. I suspect the quality took a dive when they started putting drive-thru windows in their restaurants.
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#3 2008-08-30 00:21:29
I loved reading that. They included my all-time biggest pixiefood, Spaghetti-O's.
If it hadn't been for Spaghetti-O's With Meatballs I would have starved to death as a child. When I went off to college, in a fit of homesick misery--for my childhood as much as for my home--I purchased a can of Spaghetti-O's With Meatballs for comfort. I heated 'em up, dumped 'em in a bowl and, as I had done nearly daily for much of my childhood, dug in. I couldn't manage one bite. The one mouthful I took I had to spit out. (You know those moments when you put something in your mouth and your esophagus just says, "No." and closes up?) The "meat"balls looked like factory-extruded turd spheres. How did I ever eat that stuff?
One item they left off their list: Vienna sausages. In my household they were a rare, special treat, and I loved 'em. Gah...
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#4 2008-08-30 00:48:52
My Pixie Foods That Haven’t Been Mentioned Yet:
Moon Pies
Chef Boyardee
Carmel or Candied Apples
Hostess Cupcakes
Many of the items named in the article were things I loved as a child. And like George, I loved Vienna Sausage (barf!).
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#5 2008-08-30 01:49:35
fnord wrote:
And like George, I loved Vienna Sausage (barf!).
My dad taught me how to eat 'em out of the extremely novel (at the time) pull-top can. He'd upend the opened can so that most of the goo would trickle out (gah) and then fill the can with vinegar, and sprinkle liberally with pepper.
The Daddy part of the memory is a good one; but the memory of the texture of those things...just...gah.
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#6 2008-08-30 01:59:03
fnord wrote:
My Pixie Foods That Haven’t Been Mentioned Yet:
Moon Pies
I still love Moon Pies.
Mine:
Coca-Cola (I can still drink it, but I really prefer not to)
Oreo cookies
Ketchup, which I just cannot fucking STAND any more
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#7 2008-08-30 02:05:48
jesusluvspegging wrote:
I still love Moon Pies.
I wouldn't say "love," but I do still like them and eat them occasionally.
Mine:
Coca-Cola (I can still drink it, but I really prefer not to)
Oreo cookies
Ketchup, which I just cannot fucking STAND any more
That was my lunch one day last week.
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#8 2008-08-30 09:49:01
I can't contribute. I ate olives and pickles as a child. Loved them, still do (and Le Chef's mini raviolis, which I secretly eat by the bucketful).
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#9 2008-08-30 23:07:40
I'd add "McDonalds French Fries" but I suspect they've dicked with the oil they use to cook them since I was a kid.
I just remember them as being ambrosia in the '60's.
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#10 2008-08-30 23:19:21
Baywolfe wrote:
I'd add "McDonalds French Fries" but I suspect they've dicked with the oil they use to cook them since I was a kid.
I just remember them as being ambrosia in the '60's.
They've dicked with the oil. At one time the oil used to cook them consisted of 93% beef fat. Because of flatulent noise from health nuts and a lawsuit by a Hindu who claimed he was made unclean by eating McDonalds fries, they're now cooked in vegetable oil.
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#11 2008-08-31 09:15:40
and a lawsuit by a Hindu who claimed he was made more unclean by eating McDonalds fries
Fixed that for you.
How about every kind of super sugar cereal? I don't think that adult taste buds can handle Super Choco Malt Candy Bombs. And gum? What adult can chew Bubblicious for 10 hours a day?
But I still like peanut butter just as much as day 1.
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