On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 10:36:16 AM UTC-5, Jill McQuown wrote:
>
> I noticed banana pudding showed up on that list circa 1955. That's
> another thing in my years in the south I've never actually made. The
> versions I tasted all involved Nabisco Vanilla wafers and boxed pudding mix.
>
> Jill
>
My mother always made a huge banana pudding for Sunday dinner from
scratch (it's an easy recipe) in the mid-40's. My oldest brother
absolutely l-o-v-e-d her banana pudding and my parents would have
to stop him from overeating and becoming sick. One Sunday they said
nothing and let him eat as much of the banana pudding as he wanted
which was almost the whole bowl. He became violently ill from his
overindulgence and he said it was a full 10 years before he could
eat banana pudding again.

Who says you can't fill up teenage boys with food?!?

;-)