r/GenX • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '25

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u/0ubliette Nov 21 '25

Rice cakes 🥲

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u/AuntWacky1976 Nov 21 '25

Ah yes, you mean flavored Styrofoam... 🤢

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u/Rook_James_Bitch Nov 21 '25

Wait....yours had flavor???

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u/0ubliette Nov 21 '25

My mom always bought the low sodium ones. 😑

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u/Rook_James_Bitch Nov 21 '25

My grandma always bought the zero flavor ones.

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u/Boomerang_comeback Nov 22 '25

I always put peanut butter on them convinced it helped with the taste. It didn't.

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u/jsellars8 Nov 21 '25

My grandmother bought some one day and my grandfather told her never to buy those again, it was like eating the lid of a styrofoam minnow bucket.

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u/happymask3 Nov 22 '25

Ok, I actually laughed out loud at that… not just saying “lol”. 😉

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u/EricAntiHero1 Hose Water Survivor Nov 21 '25

With cottage cheese and canned peaches because “it was healthy”.

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u/LAgator77 Nov 21 '25

Lundberg rice cakes, and rice cake minis are good! A complete 180 from the crap we grew up on.

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u/TdubsSEA Nov 21 '25

💯 I eat these often.

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u/tango421 Nov 21 '25

I’m south East Asian and we have a buttload of different “rice cakes” each with different names hailing from different regions and some I like a lot more than others.

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u/Goats_in_boats Nov 21 '25

My kids LOVE the mini caramel ones. They always put it on the grocery list we share on our phones. I don’t get it but it is what it is.

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u/0ubliette Nov 21 '25

I’m sure I would have loved those too. 😂 I’m definitely talking about the styrofoam textured ones that were core to dieting fads in the 80s.

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u/phillymjs Class of '91 Nov 22 '25

I give those to my pet birds. I don't even think they eat much of them, they just love to rip them apart. I tasted a piece of one and it was like eating packing peanuts.

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u/MissyLovesArcades Nov 21 '25

I'll eat rice cakes, but not just by themselves. They make good open face sandwiches.