My child has childhood nostalgia

[primsong]

My son said a discussion had come up on Reddit about what foods you missed from childhood, and he got nostalgic (or as nostalgic as an early-20s person can be)... said he decided that the garbagey food he'd enjoyed the most as a child was worth looking at again to see what it really tastes like, though I warned him it won't be nearly as good as he remembers.

He bought a small bottle of an overly sweet orange juice concoction called SunnyD, and two Kid Cuisine tv dinners, one with chicken nuggets in the shape of Hello Kitty's head and a side of mac-and-cheese, another with mixed nuggets and fries, plus "chocolate pudding with an edible cookie spoon!"  Added a cheap package of those chocolate covered mini doughnuts where the brown coating is barely detectable as "chocolate."   He offered to share, so it looks like we'll have Nostalgic Garbage for dinner tonight.

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[archersangel]

tried sunnyD once & didn't like it.
the kid cuisine tv dinners didn't come out until i was past the age they're probably intended for.
had some of those kind of doughnuts not too long ago.

[primsong]

He drank all the SunnyD, said it "wasn't that bad" - I didn't even try it. The only dayglo-orange thing I eat is macaroni and cheese. The dinners were surprisingly pretty good except for the pudding which was so tooth-achingly sweet I threw it out. The 'cookie spoon' was tiny and made of pink colored...rice starch, maybe? It sort of dissolved in the pudding so it's effectiveness was questionable.

Can't go wrong with doughnuts, even cheap ones, had mine with coffee (something I definitely was not allowed as a child myself). ;-)