Poll or Prompt: What Were Your Favorite Foods as a Child?

I've asked you about the foods you hated as a child. Now, it's all about what you loved! 

My mom made great casseroles. Homemade mac & cheese with Velveeta and cracker crumbs on top. Pork chop casserole--delicious greasy egg noodles with the pre-cooked porkchops on top, garnished with mustard. Porcupine balls--giant meatballs of ground beef and rice and tomato sauce or paste. That was her everyday cooking. Sunday dinner was always a hunk of meat (cooked perfectly), sometimes with baked potatoes, sometimes mashed, with delicious gravy, and a veggie, sometimes a salad. 

 Grandma H.'s house: anything she cooked, and it was usually a perfect roast beef with potatoes and carrots roasted along with the meat. Swedish meatballs, yum! Grandma had a great recipe for Hungarian goulash. 

The desserts she and Aunt Evelyn made were the best! Our favorite was a giant ring of meringue topped with several flavors of ice cream. The meringue was absolutely perfect in shape and flavor. They made exquisite cookies: spritz, pepparkakor, cornflake cookies, butter riches, almond delights, meringue cookies, many more. We always got a tin full of them to take home, carefully layered with wax paper. Even after dessert, when the stomach mounds had receded, we got a glass of ginger ale with sherbet in it. Pretty special!

 My favorite restaurant food was anything with french fries.

 Special shop treats: cotton candy, chocolate ice cream.

 Much of this food I have never made myself. I have made several kinds of meatballs, including one that's similar to the porcupine balls. I have learned how to properly cook meat, but let my husband take over for festive occasions, as he used to be a professional cook and is very organized with large meals. I have made some of the cookies, but baking is tricky when you have to eat gluten-free. I have never tried the meringue shell or meringue cookies. I haven't had the courage. But--meringue is gluten free! Someday....

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What were your favorite foods when you were a child? What was Mom's best? Grandma's or other relative's best? Any restaurant favorites?  What about dessert? Do you still eat any of these? Share your memories!