From the time my boys were old enough to eat real food, Pepperidge Farm® Goldfish® crackers have been a staple in my house. Starting from the days where we doled out handfuls, through to becoming a regular part of what we called "trail mix" (a mix of Goldfish crackers, toasted o's and puffs) and now, as an everyday part of their lunch at school that they have come to expect. Goldfish crackers are a happy childhood element in our home.
Goldfish crackers have accompanied us on many a park adventure, walks around the block, road trips, field trips, trips to Grandma's house, egg hunts, stockings stuffed and beyond. I have found Goldfish crackers and their crumbs in every crevice of my car, our strollers and life because they are a constant. I remember creating quiet shopping trips by handing a container full of Goldfish crackers to one of my toddlers in a stroller and being able to shop in peace as a result. Or being able to bribe a child into obedience with one of those little containers you can buy at most checkouts. Outside of diapers and bottles, I would say they are the most constant of memories in this household.
A regularly requested snack... Goldfish crackers. A real treat? Any variety outside of our usual "whole grain". My kids get the biggest kick out of buying any of the sweet variety or the special colored ones. It really wasn't until this campaign opportunity that I realized that Goldfish crackers really are a big part of my kids' childhood and definitely the most often purchased snack item. Just thinking about writing this post I realized all the memories tied to this snack food. I recall watching Goldfish crackers lined up for parades across the table, sorted into color groups, being used to learn counting and so much more.
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137 comments:
I remember eating cheese balls - those round, neon orange cheesy snacks. Other snacks would come and go, but those were almost always found in the kitchen cupboard. And I remember my mom sending me with a container when I went off to sleep away camp for the first time.
We used to eat "fluffer nutter sandwiches" as kids--peanut butter and fluff--and they were delicious! I think now I would probably think that they were too sweet, but it was such a great mix of salty and sweet. :)
Saltine crackers make me think of childhood.
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My favorite growing up was pears and fruit snacks
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Actually, goldfish was one of my favorite childhood snacks. I also loved peanut butter and apples. yarbr012 at gmail dot com
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I loved to snack on nuts
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My best memories of snacks I had during childhood are chex mix. But I really enjoy goldfish crackers and I don't care how old I am (55) I still like goldfish and love them still!
The one I can think of at the moment is Gushers. hah I love those things.
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I always enjoyed snack cakes and cheese crackers.
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My grandchildren just love goldfish. They are always in my cupboard.
My favorite snack treats when I was a kid where not the usual things. I loved my Mom's cinnamon toast, her saltine chocolate cookies, and her German pie that she always made!
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One of my favorite snacks as a kid was animal cookies, the plain and the frosted.
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My favorite childhood snack treat is animal cracker.
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my favorite snack as a kid was chocolate chip cookies. i loved goldfish too, though!
Thanks for the chance to win!
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I used to eat Fiddle Faddle when I was a kid. YUM!!
I was a little girl and my older sis and I loved eating goldfish crackers! Even remember the little smiley face on them
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My favorite childhood snack treat was tomatoes
I always loved fruit roll ups! It's funny though because I don't let my daughter have those - bad for the teeth!! She does eat Goldfish several times a week though!
My favorite snack treat was crackers with cheese on them. Thanks so much.
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Thanks again.
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One of my favorite snacks was peanut butter crackers.
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I liked popcorn, peanut butter, and rice krispie treats.
Our favorite snack has always been hot buttered popcorn.
As a child, my favorite snack was hot buttered popcorn.
My favorite childhood snacks were anything with sugar. Cookies, cake, ice cream, etc.
I love cheese and crackers, as well as fruit.
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We eat goldfish on a road trip whenever we saw an out of state license plate! brings back my childhood memories of eating goldfish in the car!
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My favorite snack as a kid was windmill cookies.
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We frequently snack on goldfish and carrots
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Ashley C
My favorite as a child was Cracker Jacks.
thank you
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Rice krispys brings back memories.
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Air popped popcorn with lots of butter :) My mom used to make it for us on movie nights and it was a wonderful treat and a wonderful time :)
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Fruit Wrinkles were my favorite!! Wish they still made them!! :) bethalee13 at gmail dot com
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My favorite snack when I was a child was Graham crackers!
my favorite childhood snacks are goldfish, fruit snacks and potato chips
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My favorite childhood snack treats where my moms homemade granola bars. The whole house would always smell so yummy.
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My mother would make a small batch of frosting and would let us make frosting sandwiches with graham crackers. Man I loved those!
When we were at grandma's, she would sprinkle pie dough with cinnamon sugar, roll it and bake it. The other grandma would peel an extra potato, slice it up and let us eat it raw while waiting for Sunday dinner to cook.
My favorite snack treat as a kid was Jello Jigglers! my4boysand1@gmail.com
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We would get a little box of animal crackers once in a great while . I really looked forward to that treat.
My favorite treat growing up was s'mores, it was always fun with my family around a campfire.
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I posted a tweet: https://twitter.com/FireRunner2379/status/602615086339989504.
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I liked moon pies
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Old fashioned red and white mints always remind me of my grandpa! He always had a pocket full of them!
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My favorite childhood treat was rice krispie treats that my grandmother made.
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Oreos & milk is my favorite childhood snack!
I always, and still do, loved fruit like strawberries, watermelon, and grapes!
Kim Meier
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I think of my childhood when I eat butterscotch. It reminds me of my grandpa.
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i love grill cheese as a kid
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Zero candy bars remind me of my childhood and walking to the old country store to buy a melty zero bar. YUM
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cookies and milk
pb & j and celerey sticks with peanut butter! mmmm! afjackly@oakland.edu
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My favorite childhood snacks include goldfish crackers and rice krispy treats.
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i liked rice krispie treats as a child
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my favorit childhood snack were gummy bears
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I always loved, and still do, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds.
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I was a total sucker for sour cream and onion or taco flavored Doritos! Oh yum! :-D
Angie
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Angie
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Chocolate chip cookies!!! In moderation, of course ;)
Lots and lots of fresh cherries.
This prompt stumped me a bit...for Bella on the rare occasion we had olives she would love to stick them on our fingers & eat them one by one. I did love to see Caleb get excited over his sandwich when he was younger, because I would use one white piece of bread & one wheat & cut out a shape & flip it...paired with a variety of types of sandwiches & cutters, lunch was always a mystery.
I used to love cheetos.
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White Cheddar Cheez its!
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I liked freeze pops.
When I was a kid I loved peanut butter and bananas as a treat!
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Peanut butter cookies were always a favorite treat.
My favorite childhood snack was popcorn. My granddaughters is Gold Fish crackers, she has been eating them her whole life.
Our favorite snacks are chopped vegetables, vanilla cupcake Goldfish and yoghurt
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Rice krispy treats with chocolate chips in them! I remember eating them with my dad growing up.
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I loved eating popcorn with the family on weekends when I was growing up.
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i loved buttery popcorn ... still do!
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Oreos were my favorite!
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As a child, my favorite snack was popcorn.
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I still like the Little Debbie Brownies and Oatmeal Pies!
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I love ice cream!
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Oreos and a glass of cold milk to dunk them in!
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popcorn
I loved popcorn balls
We ate lots of homemade popcorn.
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The sugar cookies,big pinwheel cookies are what I can remember
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I can remember eating Cheeots and Doritos out of a can as a child!
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I like sweet and salty. M&M's and popcorn.
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Strangely enough, my children always preferred fruit to the usual snack foods. In fact, they are adults now and still rarely choose cookies or snack crackers over fruit.
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One of my favorite treats as a kid was smores
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Ants on a log celery sticks
Graham crackers with peanut butter always bring me back to childhood
fav childhood snack was all the sugary cereals or Twinkies
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My favorite childhood snack treat is Goldfish, and I mean any flavor!
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Candy bars was my favorite snack.
Popcorn and Goldfish
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My favorite childhood snack was OREO cookies. Love those things!
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