Speaking of childhood food memories, is cinnamon sugar just a (US) Midwest thing? My mom would combine cinnamon and sugar and put it on toast for me when I was little.
@montecook American Southeast here and my mom did that, too.
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As an every day thing, maybe. As a combination, definitely not. We use it to make Apple Dumplings, French toast, pies, etc.
@montecook KCMO here and we certainly always had some on hand as a kid. Tho nowadays it’s cinnamon & monk fruit sugar instead of cane—gotta keep that glycemic index low.
@montecook Grew up in Maine, and while cinnamon sugar put on toast at home wasn't the most common thing, it did visibly exist! I remember the old premix shakers existing, but in my family's opinion it wasn't really worth an additional purchase when you could just mix your own.
@montecook My grandmother used to make me cinnamon toast in the oven that was just cinnamon and granulated sugar on buttered white bread heated until it caramelized. Because my grandmother made it, I also had my mom make it, but I don't think she would have otherwise.
I always thought cinnamon toast and French toast were the two ways you could really have fancy toast for breakfast, and I didn't like French toast (and still don't) so it was cinnamon toast for me.
I'm in Charleston, WV.
@montecook here from central California and I absolute had this as a kid (and miss now that I'm older and have moved out). Although I will say my dad's family is from Wisconsin and my mom's dad is from Chicago so maybe the midwest found its way into my life
@montecook no, i grew up with it in NC
@montecook México, here.
My granny would make me toast with cinnamon, sugar and butter. Still make some for a night snack from time to time.
@montecook my Southern grandmother (west virginian) would make toast with cinnamon, butter, and brown sugar as dessert quite often.
@montecook We definitely had that. Born and raised in California. We kept a jar of cinnamon sugar on the counter next to the butter.
@montecook Poland, Europe here. We use cinnamon sugar to bake cakes. We hardly ever eat toast bread, yet alone with sugar. Also, baked apples with rice and cream are delicious
@montecook Yes, this happened. I'm not from the Midwest, but my parents grew up there.
@montecook Used to have it sometimes in the UK too.
@montecook Yes, my mom from New Mexico did this too. I still love it.
@montecook It was a thing in Western Canada (or at least my part of Western Canada) as well.
@montecook I grew up in the DC area, and yes, that was definitely a thing.
@montecook South Africa... cinnamon sugar is a staple on pancakes (the thin plate-sized kind), sago pudding, rice pudding, donuts, and melkkos (rolled-dough strips or cuttings, or macaroni cooked in milk).
@montecook Mid-Atlantic chiming in - my grandmothers and mother would make cinnamon-sugar toast for me when I was young, say the 1970s.
@BeefGriller @montecook east coast, upper south. Still a thing~
@montecook It's big in Canada, too
@montecook Definitely a thing in Northern Germany. Kids love it.
Though we do have various cinnamon and sugar pastries around here too.
@montecook …I’m from East Frisia (NW Germany) and cinnamon sugar is an important childhood memory of mine. Rice Pudding with cinnamon sugar (still loving it) and noodles with cinnamon sugar (yikes) were regularly put on the table at our (working class) home. I don‘t know…a lot of folks from our region migrated to the Midwest in the late 19th century… especially to Iowa. 
@HeyeBodo @montecook I think the whole Midwest is essentially New Germany.
Oiselarius (he/him) @montecook Colorado too.
@montecook I've had it every where from Spain to Louisiana.
@montecook If there's a place with no cinnamon toast, I don't want to go to there.
@montecook@dice.camp my Mom did the same in NY
@montecook I grew up in the New York Tri-state area. We did this too.
@montecook we have a full on shaker of it in the kitchen, just in case a need for cinnamon sugar toast suddenly occurs. Full disclosure, my wife's parents are from the midwest, so that's probably where the idea comes from. We're in the PNW.
@montecook That was a childhood staple for me in New Mexico!