Your favorite food that got away

[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

It was the chicken salad from the Fordham University food services (1985-89).

I've tried to re-create it. I used real chicken but I couldn't get it to that "tuna salad" consistency. I tried canned chicken with mayo. I tried canned chicken with Miracle Whip. All to no avail.

This is more of a confessional/ that's life post. Whenever I was grossed out by what the "traditional" cafeteria was offering. I'd go down to the Ramskellar and get a chicken salad sammich with lettuce, tomato, and provolone.

Whenever I see chicken salad offered at a diner I always think, "SIIIIGGGHHH! It will never be the same..." but I order it anyway and I am unfortunately right.

[Slumbag]

My family and I spent years trying to find a real Stromboli after moving to Indy from PA. For years, we'd order them and get awful sausage sandwiches and cheap knock offs. It seemed like it would never end.

We finally found one place about two years ago that made them real (so, happy ending!)

[disneyspy]

i grew up in el paso and there was this place called chico's tacos,we would get these rolled tacos in a basket of three in sauce and cheese they were so fantastic,many companies have tried to duplicate their awesomness but the rolled tacos out there just dont compare,i also miss a whattaburger

[A.J.]

"I spent three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right."

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[Hottub]

Schrieber's potato salad.

I'vge come close with the macaroni salad, but the potato is impossible to recreate.

[thepaulo]

a marsipan pastry with a hard shell from Denmark and I can't even spell it correctly

Kansgkae

[TjM]

Mom's Chicken Marsala. I need to find a good CM recipe

[hurlmon]

good italian bread


since I moved out of the Bronx getting good italian bread has been a real pain. A local small grocery store started getting some so i was psyched. 5 minute drive. Well that placed closed so I'm back to square one. I do have a good italian deli a town over but I can't always drive 20-25 minutes each way when i want good bread. I do it a lot.... but can't always.

Oh and Fuzzybutt... Go Jaspers. :smile:

[King Hippos Bandaid]

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Adult Burger.... Peppercorn Bacon

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[Dougie Brootal]

"I spent three years in a POW camp, forced to subsist on a thin stew of fish, vegetables, prawns, coconut milk, and four kinds of rice. I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right."

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[JPMNICK]

in the mid 1980's reeses peanut butter cups used to come in wax paper and taste TOTALLY different. does anyone remember this?

[STC-Dub]

When I was in Grad School the dorm I was at had a great chicken breast thing.

[sarsbusdriver]

My favorite mass produced dessert snack was the Chocodile. It had a chocolate covered croc as a spokesanimal/mascot. Can't remember any more specifics but I loved it.

[jennysmurf]

My favorite mass produced dessert snack was the Chocodile. It had a chocolate covered croc as a spokesanimal/mascot. Can't remember any more specifics but I loved it.

We have them here. I have to mail a box to my brother-in-law from time to time. It's like a chocolate covered twinkie.

[Devo37]

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i think they still make them, but i can never find them in the store. loved those things!

[landarch]

http://www.abnerschicken.com

None better.

[IamFogHat]

Bump.

At my high school a Mexican lady who worked in the kitchen there for like 15 years made the best homemade chocolate chip cookies I've ever eaten. I miss those to this day.

[Chigworthy]

There's a column in one of the food rags (Gourmet maybe) that takes reader submissions like this and contacts the actual chefs/cooks and prints the recipe.

[mikeyboy]

The meatball grinder from House of Pizza, Lewisburg, PA.

Also, I had an ex girlfriend who made really amazing garlic french toast. She refused to give me the recipe because she said (jokingly?) that not giving me the recipe would prevent me from breaking up with her. It didn't, but it sure was tasty and I've never had anything like it since.

[IamFogHat]

The meatball grinder from House of Pizza, Lewisburg, PA.

Also, I had an ex girlfriend who made really amazing garlic french toast. She refused to give me the recipe because she said (jokingly?) that not giving me the recipe would prevent me from breaking up with her. It didn't, but it sure was tasty and I've never had anything like it since.

Boy that weekend alone has really brought up some memories eh Mikey?

[PapaBear]

Bump.

At my high school a Mexican lady who worked in the kitchen there for like 15 years made the best homemade chocolate chip cookies I've ever eaten. I miss those to this day.
We had an old lady in my HS that made my favorite chocolate chip cookies. She was an old school "mountain folk" kind of woman. We couldn't even get pics of her for the yearbook, because she thought it would steal her soul.