Chipped beef actually goes back a long way. I remember in the great actress Louise Brook’s memoir “Lulu in Hollywood,” she relates how she used to dine in the finest restaurants in the very early 1920s but always retreated to Chipped Beef on Toast after all the complicated food.
I’ve tried banana pudding and been unsuccessful with it. I think it may be the artificial flavor of Nilla Wafers and my “meh” attitude towards baking them from scratch!
LOL! If I made it from home-made vanilla wafers, my crew would probably say, ‘it doesn’t taste right’; which usually means it doesn’t taste like Mom’s or Aunt Sally’s...
I guess it’s what you grew up on. I see lots of recipes trying to fancy-up the traditional green bean casserole that’s made from canned soup and French’s fried onions; and I’ve tried a couple of them. It just doesn’t hit the same spot ;-)
-JT
I buy vanilla wafers at Trader Joes. They have specks of vanilla bean seeds in them and remind me of homemade.