Cuisine d'Nostalgia: Ten foods you only eat because you used to
There are foods we eat only out of sheer nostalgia. Foods that, like cigarettes, probably take a sliver of your life away every time you consume them. But really? Totally worth it. 
Cookie Crisp: It's what's for breakfast.
Not only because they taste (for the most part) like what you remember from childhood, but because eating them again is like crawling under the afghan that your parents kept on that old couch you haven't seen (or sat on) for years. It's like time travel, yummy-style.
This is by no means a definitive list, since the number of dishes best served young is wide and varied -- but still, there are some delicacies that seem universal to generations X, Y, and Z. Or at least should be.
10. Banquet Pot Pies
Not all pot pies, mind you--the Banquet versions, the ones in the tiny little tins with the sauced-up mixed vegetables that taste like a lunchroom floor. Oh, but what a tasty lunchroom floor ... mushy peas, and in a pastry shell with burnededges. Completely edible, utterly comfortable, and a clear invitation to unfold a tray and eat dinner in front of the TV.
9. Any Sugary Cereal
A wide category, to be sure -- but really, aside from remembering sugar-fueled cartoon Saturdays, is there really all that much reason to still eat this stuff now and then? You use Splendain your coffee, and you buy sugarless gum, and then you eat Corn Pops? It makes no sense, really...unless maybe, just maybe, you use Splenda and choose sugarless gum in order to eat Corn Pops, Cookie Crisp or Crunchberries. In which case, well done. Well done.
8. Little Caesar's Pizza
Why was Little Caesar's popular when you were a kid? Because your parents' got two pizzas for the price of one, and were willing to sacrifice the roof of your mouth to Little Caesar's razor-like cornmeal dust in order to save some cash. This dynamic of sacrifice still holds true in adulthood -- only it's you saving the $10 now, moneybags.
7. Le Sueur Peas
Sweet, sweet Le Sueur Peas; they're almost like not eating peas. No, that's not their brand slogan, but for kids, it probably should be. Wet and delicate and mushy--this is vegetable candy. As an adult, you love them for the same reason, really--that is, if you can put it out of your mind that "la sueur" is French for sweat. Which ruins it all.
6. Tater Tots
There's no denying that these are just plain yummy. But really, "tot" is right there in the name. They're like little puffs of hash brown heaven, made for kids who haven't yet mastered the French fry. Sort of sad, really. But fry up a five-pound bag of them for a party sometime and there'll be none left, guaranteed.
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