The Tao of Cream Cheese and Jelly (and other childhood indulgences)
Today I enjoyed a trip down memory lane. I had a cream cheese and jelly sandwich, on white bread (of course.)
What were your staple childhood foods?
Did you ever dunk buttered rolls into hot chocolate? Yum!
Did you ever try toasted white bread, buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. This was a treat we were only allowed to have if we were too sick to go to school and had to stay home. We also got to make our sick bed the living room couch where we could watch re-runs of The Beverly Hillbillies and the Dick Van Dyke shows. Good times!
Yes Sheila! Cinnamon toast was (and continues to be) one of the best comfort foods. It was what we were given when we were sick, along with a cup of sugary, milky tea. Our sick bed was in a recliner in the living room. We watched Get Smart, Gilligan’s Island, etc.
I recently turned my daughters on to the joys of cinnamon toast. They agree that it rocks!
Hi Tom,
How well I remember the very first time I had a cream cheese and jam sandwich. I was probably 7 years old, and was invited along with my three brothers to a Sunday school picnic at Bear Mountain, NY. (I’ll bet you remember Bear Mountain being as you are from Peekskill, NY.) My Sunday school teacher had cream cheese and raspberry jam sandwiches to share with us, and we thought they were the most delicious sandwiches we had ever eaten. It was years before I ever realized what it was because cream cheese was a luxury that we never had in those depression years, and grape jam was the only jam my mother could afford to buy . When I grew up and first tasted cream cheese I finally knew what made that sandwich taste so good. To this day when I eat a cream cheese sandwich with raspberry jam, my mind always goes back to that Sunday school picnic in 1939 when those dedicated Sunday school teachers shared their sandwiches with four less fortunate children, and gave me a memory that I will never forget. God bless them. They have gone on to their reward.
Hi Flo! I sure do remember Bear Mountain and spent many days there. The zoo is still there!
Thanks for the lovely memory of your cream cheese and jelly days there!
Tom