ITT: foods your mother fed you when you were sick
>>22164063Those plus this
>>22164064s a l t y
>>22164063I would have those with butta. They can't be sourced in Australia so I've had to buy picrel in stead. Tastes the same but the texture isn't quite right. Plus they don't have any salt on them
>>22164063Saltines, bullion from a cube in a coffee cup, dry toast, and warm, flat lemon-lime soda or ginger ale. It could not be cold and fizzy she said. All the food had to be bland. Once she had this bag of puffed rice. Like rice cakes but each one was smooth and chewy like styrofoam and they were in a big oversized bag like cheap cereal but it was from the hippie co-op store maybe. I haven't seen anything like it since. It was totally useless as a snack or whatever it was supposed to be. It had NO flavor. No seasoning, salty or sweet. Nothing at all. It was horrid. Maybe there's something to it though. Like fatty or spicy foods would have made me sicker. But it really sucked being sick at my house during my early years when I couldn't really protest or get away with anything.
>>22164080This is an imageboard
>Kozmo.com was a venture capital–funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics and more"[1] and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States. It was founded in March 1998 by young investment bankers Joseph Park and Yong Kang in New York City, and was out of business by April 2001My parents had this and I would pretend to be sick and stay home from school while they went to work. They let me use it and I ordered all kinds of Dreamcast and N64 games and DVDs. It was modern day app delivery way before it became a thing. It was actually a revolutionary business for the time and I was sad when it folded.
>>22164085You are a person
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>>22164087They had that in other cities too. I only heard about it after it was over though.
>>22164139I know, I didn't live in NYC. kozmo was in a few east and west coast cities when it was active. In 1999 and 2000 it was insane to order a rental game or movie using dial up internet and have it delivered by a bicycle courier in less than an hour.
>>22164080it sounds like she was doing a modified brat diet. bananas, rice, applesauce, toast technically but usually just used as a substitution to say "bland food". it's good when you have nausea and stomach upset, which sounds like why she was trying to avoid cold and carbonated drinks (both hard on inflamed stomachs) but was giving you salty foods (electrolytes to replace those lost by sweating, cramping, and shitting and keep your fluid balance correct) and citrus and ginger soda (ginger helps ease nausea). the rice thing may have been to just give you calories or keep your stomach from aching with hunger when you're restricted like that. puffed rice cakes and melba toast were common bulk diet foods for very low calorie diets in the 80s and 90s. they were meant to fill you up with minimal caloric intake while acting as a substitute for heavier bread products, and they were common with people following dash (dietary approaches to stop hypertension) diets which limited sodium. it was something you were supposed to have as a snack to munch on but be limited in flavor so you wouldn't do so mindlessly, and they're easily digestible.
>>22164165Yeah, this was the 80s and early 90s. Gatorade too. But warm.
>>22164172yeah, gatorade with the electrolytes too. if you've ever had a sore stomach cold liquid tends not to mesh well with it. it's too harsh, that's why you're always told to consume room temperature liquids. hot ones work the same way but if you have a respiratory infection the steam helps clear your sinuses so you get an exception. if you're ever really dehydrated or have been in excessive heat you shouldn't drink cold water for the same reason, you can end up puking it back up. room temp in those scenarios but you can put cold water on your wrists/forearms, back of your neck, forehead/scalp, feet, and chest to quickly cool off. it works best if you sit in front of a cool breeze or fan, if you can.
I honestly can't recall a time when my mother bothered to make anything different or special when I was feeling sick.
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>>22164063>>22164064Mostly these but sometimes beef & vegetable in place of chicken noodle
>>22164063Whenever I get a cold or flu water becomes unbearable to me. I don't know why but it's just totally repulsive and is painful to swallow. The painful part I get because of my sore throat but the very thought of water makes me feel awful for some reason. Since I was a kid my mom would always buy me 7up and it's the only thing I can tolerate to drink while being sick. Something about the bubbles just helped it go down and soothe my throat. Now I associate 7up with being sick and never drink it otherwise.
bread is called Zwieback
Yum.
>>22164063>>22164064those and sometimes this plus some wheat noodles. consomme and wheat noodles is still a comfort food for me to this day
>>22164063If you had a tummy ache, apparently this was the #1 cure
