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[Bonkers1]

Is there something that brings back childhood memories every time you see it?  Mine is fruit cocktail - there were three kids in my family and I remember my mother rummaging through the can to be sure we each got a cherry.

[twinsister]

@Bonkers1  - I remember my cousin and I would fight over getting the cherry if fruit cocktail was served.   Also at Thanksgiving all of us kids would want to get the wishbone!

[luvmybeetle]

I have a female cousin that's the same age.  When we were little we used to fight over who got to eat at a picnic with the RED dish.  My mother had these plastic dishes of all different colors and she always got the red one.  

So when we were older one year I bought a big plastic red platter and gave it to her at Christmas.  We both just laughed.  

On a serious note I always think of my mother every Christmas when I'm cooking dinner.

[Puppy Lips]

I remember fruit cocktail! Have not thought about that in years. I have a lot of trigger memories. Sticking with the food theme, it would have to be cranberry juice. My Dad’s Mom would always have a small glass of cranberry juice at each place setting whenever she had us all for dinner, which was only for special occasions.

[Pong3]

Fruit cocktail was a staple of my youth. 

[Meowingkitty]

For some unknown reason my mother would put fruit cocktail in jello. 

[Carmie]

My mother didn't serve canned fruit cocktail too often, but when she did, she would always added sliced ripe bananas to it.

I remember the toys in cereal boxes.  We were not allowed to open a new box until the boxes already opened were finished.

We would eat a lot of cereal to finish the box so we could be the first to open the new box and get the prize.

[Desertdi]

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@Meowingkitty wrote:

For some unknown reason my mother would put fruit cocktail in jello. 

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@Meowingkitty 

My MIL did that...served it on a scrap of lettuce, and called it a "salad"...     di

[Desertdi]

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@twinsister wrote:

@Bonkers1  - I remember my cousin and I would fight over getting the cherry if fruit cocktail was served.   Also at Thanksgiving all of us kids would want to get the wishbone!

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@twinsister     

At Thanksgiving, my grandpa got ONE drumstick...and all the other men would actually F I G H T over the other one.   It really scared me to see THAT going on at a "family" meal.      di

[AngelPuppy1]

The wishbone from the turkey for one thing.  We each wanted it.  We would grab a side and pull and if you got the big side, you got your wish!