This past week my husband and I took a day off during the week. We drove to Brooklyn for lunch. For the past few months he has been craving a roast beef sandwich from Roll N Roaster.  Roll N Roaster is a fast food sandwich shop famous for their roast beef in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. My husband grew up eating their roast beef sandwiches.

From the first bite I could tell that the sandwich was special for him. It brought back all of those memories of going there with his friends and family.  I loved watching him enjoy his food and his memories. During lunch he asked me what would invoke the same food memories for me.  My answer was Chicken Delite.

As a kid we would have Chicken Delite every Wednesday night. My Mom did not cook dinner on Wednesday nights because she played Canasta. in the evenings.  I remember the excitement that my brother, sister, and I felt when we saw the Chicken Delite car (yes, it had a chicken on the roof) pull up to our house. It meant we were about to eat some hot, juicy, and crispy chicken. I loved it so much that, when I went to sleep-away camp, my parents would bring a bucket up for lunch on Visiting Day.

The memories of that Chicken Delite bucket makes me smile, just as my husband was smiling today at Roll N Roaster. Which food memories make you smile?