"French- fries up my nose. PIckles between my toes. Mcdonald's is the place to be. Wa wa wa!"

PQ - I was so jealous of people who had their birthday parties at McDonalds! Lucky you.

Possibly delicious (I have a hideously sweet tooth, after all) but wrong.

The thing I want to eat from my childhood is toasted marshmallows. There is absolutely no reason I couldn't buy some marshmallows and toast them, but it wouldn't be the same as eating them off a partly burnt twig while sitting around a campfire.

That, and I've found that revisiting foods you used to like but now never have... you remember why you never have them.

I have a whole bunch of happy memories tied up with the soft serve ice cream machine at the Pizza Hut buffet. It was such a rare treat to eat out and i couldn't believe that there was such a magical thing as SELF SERVE ICE CREAM. i still daydream about pulling that handle and watching the ice cream flood out and curl up in my bowl. swoon!

PQ - I loved the self-serve ice cream machine too! I would always go back for 2nds. Sometimes 3rds.

PQ - Oreo pizza! If it's anything like the Oreo No-Bake Dessert from Jell-O, I bet it's delicious.

Thanks for bringing a nice memory to mind.

Food and family tradition go together very well. When my mom died I said the only things I wanted were all of her recipes and her sewing machine. (Tons of fantastic memories.) When I pull out the recipe cards I see her side notes and the year she copied it and I am instantly back to my childhood. I also have my grandmother's recipes, which is cool, too. It's interesting to see how food goes through fashionable changes. My grandmother's recipes were not fat conscious at all (!), and yet no one had a weight problem. Interesting, huh?

Someone wrote they came here looking for inspiration just to be greeted by dessert pizza and that it was unnecessary...

They are the MOST lucky people in the world to have never experienced food-attached-memories and that they only got fat because of lazyness and genetics! However, for ME -- food and memories and socializing were big factors in my weight-gain. You can be thin after a large weight loss and still have to deal with the emotions of eating in your day to day life. If you don't confront them now -- you could regain weight. But, I doubt you will because you are REALISING that these are the types of things that 'caused you to gain weight in the first place. Your eyes are open this time :)

ewww.

I found my digestive system wasn't too much the worse for wear after overeating just the savory pizzas, but if I added more than a taste of the dessert pizzas to the eating orgy, digestive pain was sure to ensue! My thin friend Dan could (or would) put away more than I did in a sitting, and was always sick after. "What do you expect after eating 16 slices of pizza?" I asked the last time we were there. He ate so much and felt so awful, he never wanted to go back.

PQ - Little Caesar's was our favorite pizza chain when I lived in Indiana as a kid. Then we moved to Lousivlle, home of Papa Johns and that became our fave. I thought Little Caesar's had gone out of business until I noticed one right by my mom's apartment. I think I know what I'm going to have for my birthday dinner this year. Mmm..

Little Caesar's is not the same for me anymore. Now that they have the $5 pizzas, the quality has completely gone down the tubes. What I wouldn't give for a piece of their pizza from back in the day though!

PS-Anyone who dismisses dessert pizza is on crack. It's tasty stuff. Horribly bad tasty stuff that I don't eat anymore (ok, maybe once a year), but tasty stuff nonetheless...