sf wrote in :

> On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:13:07 -0700, Blinky the Shark
> > wrote:
>
>>> My mother used to make us "milk toast," which was simply buttered
>>> toast in warm milk with cinnamon and sugar sprinkled on top. Don't
ask
>>> me why. To this day, when I'm under the weather, I want milk toast.
>>
>>Ditto. And I haven't had it since (which is not meant to be
derogatory).
>>I'm not sure if I got cinnamon or not.
>>
> I used to make milk toast for myself, well into teenage hood for a
> snack.
>
> As a kid, when I was sick, mom fed us plain jello and either coke
> syrup or 7UP. No milk for upset tummies. I still don't like plain
> jello and I'm not fond of soda either.
>
> I used to give my own kids the chicken & rice soup with ginger that I
> have posted in the signature dish section of recfoodcooking.com...
> which they still crave today when they're ill.
>
>

As a child if ill I lived on that water Lipton Chicken noodle soup with
crushed soda crackers in it...I tried a while back was I had the
flu...made me upchuck the lot...too artifical tasting for me nowadays.

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