20 WORST Foods From The 1970s, Nobody Wants Back!
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- 20 WORST Foods From The 1970s, Nobody Wants Back!
Discover the culinary disasters of the 1970s with "20 WORST Foods From The 1970s, Nobody Wants Back!" This video explores 20 of the most reviled foods from that era, offering a glimpse into a time when taste buds were often left disappointed. From gelatin salads to canned creations, these dishes will make you grateful for modern cuisine. Join us as we revisit the foods nobody wants a second serving of!
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Luckily, we've "evolved" as a country, and tend to stay away from highly processed, salty, preservative packed foods like t.v. dinners and have moved on to alternatives, such as McDonalds, taco Bell and Wendy's........
LOL
😂😂😂
I like it with crackers too!
Thank you for the laugh.
I was a young adult in the 70's and still enjoy each of these except for powdered milk, space food bars (never seen them before) and instant breakfast.
((COUGH)) It's funny how just 4 days earlier, some of these were from the 60s and WANTED BACK
haha!
I just realized that!
You noticed that too, huh.
This entire thing is a lie. Obviously.
If I could use downvote the entire channel 100 times I would.
@@castielsgranny4308 Why waste precious time watching something you don't like?
I must have been a weird kid because I loved liverwurst. Liverwurst on white bread with either mayo or Miracle Whip. And I still like Tuna Helper. Still love Spam too.
I still love Liverwurst !!! But We couldn't bring a can of "Spam" in the House, because When my Dad was in the Army, I guess that's all they ate in the field !!! Lol
Spam is the future meat delicacy, for those smart enough to stock it. Sodium we now find out, is generally not a problem. Loved Hamburger helper, vague memories of Tuna helper. Stayed clear of liverwurst as liver made me wince.
If you've had really well made Liverwurst, particularly from the Pennsylvania Dutch farmers markets, you'd be part of Team Liverwurst for life.
Remember having liverwurst quite often in the 1980s. Haven't had it in years, but I did like it as a kid.
I don't think I have had 'tuna helper', but we often made macaroni and cheese and added a can of tuna and chopped tomatoes... it's fine. Still do it today for something quick and cheap... but graduated to Albacore tuna.
I have it in my fridge right now. My youngest loves it on crackers.
Funny how many of these "70's Foods" were around in the 50s and are still sold in USA supermarkets. This video is a great example of that very common Internet occurrence where a 30-40 year old criticizes things that he/she has no actual experience with, but somebody probably told the producer that they are bad, so those items got included in this POG.
Pretty amazing that there are so many "LIKES" while most of the comments are negative.
I'm now inspired to try things when I was younger! Maybe it's reverse clicckbait!
As of right now it has 7 more down votes than up votes, 883 up vs 890 down.
T.V. Dinners, Vienna Sausages, powdered milk, Instant coffee, canned vegetables, fruit cocktail and several other items on this list can still be found in stores where I live, and are still being widely sold. While Jell-O salads may not be seen as often as they once were, the Ambrosia-style salads are sometimes mainstays at potluck dinners and other community carry-ins.
Agreed. And there are plenty of things today that are MUCH worse.
Hamburger Helper still exists and is still popular here where I live.
Yup. The chili cheese looked so good lol
*eating pot pie*
We used it a lot when camping or money was tight. We all enjoyed it.
Where in the sam hill do you live?
@@yfa6244 In the U.S., in a major metropolitan area. Stores here are always stocked with HH... multiple varieties, even several kinds of Tuna Helper.
It's still around but not Tuna Helper
TV dinners started in the sixties not the seventies and nobody has shifted their preferences as mentioned in the video. A whole isle is full of them in every store. The only difference is that they are in plastic containers now.
Except for Jell-o and TV dinners, pretty much every product mentioned here had their origins dating back to World War II and the need to feed troops and to provide emergency food to millions of starving people around the world.
anything can be a tv dinner if you want it to be. even a quart of ice cream!
And they are just as bad as they were 60+ years ago 😩
My daughter loved those Vienna sausages when she was a baby. And I’m not sure we realized back in the ‘60’s how processed foods were detrimental to our health. With many more women joining the workforce,convenience sometime won over quality.
@@marianneodell7637 No, they are much better tasting but still highly processed. Eat them sparingly.
Now be honest spam has huge sales world wide along with massive following among a wide groups of peoples world wide.
Spam is hideous!😂
I love Spam!! Not sure why so,e people hate it - may be because the ingredients were not what was told!!!
Im 63 and love Spam with fried potatoes and eggs.
Fried spam with rice and BBQ sauce! 🤤
Spam is huge in Hawaii. They even have a Spam festival. They also have Spam Musubi, which is delicious.
Love ambrosia salad to this day...I was a young adult in the 70's. I made/make sos wth crumbled bacon, my own homemade gravy, then sprinkle boiled crumbled egg yolks on top. Don't make it much anymore, only occasionally. The secret is to brown the flour so you don't have white paste.
I like Ambrosia Salad too. 🤷
Superchef Mattty Mathewson loves Ambrosia salad and even made a video showing how to make it. It is yummy.
I do want to try SOS...
My wife is American and I'm British... She makes the ambrosia just like in the video. Never seen anything like it, lol
I like the mix of textures. I like contrasts and mixtures in general.
Tuna noodle casserole is delicious. Some crispy onions on top. Yum
Tuna Casserole is hideous! I’m OK with tuna salad but nit when it’s hot! Yuck! Never had fish growing up because my Mom was allergic to fish!!! Nit sure tuna qualifies here but just never had it till college helped make it a cheap food!
If you were a waspy lousy cook that was the way you made tuna noodle caserole… ours had celery not peas. Spices fine chopped onions and the topping was flavored bread crumbs and parmesion cheese. No egg noodles Ronzoni Italian rotini were used. Delicious!!!!
I made a great tuna casserole for guests from Asia. They loved it and ate it all up. They told me they have a similiar recipe in their country.
Agree.
@@sandybruce9092 So, you have a problem with warm tuna. That's hardly grounds for dismissing the dish as "hideous." And yes, tuna is a fish.
As an Australian who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, I can assure you that boiling vegetables to death was also a ubiquitous culinary practice in Australian households in that period. At picnics in our warm summers we would also be served a highly processed and salty canned substance known as Camp Pie, the ingredients of which were a secret that we preferred not to have revealed to us.
Overboiled and over salted. Same here in 1970s California.
And Vegimite.
Google translates "vegimite" as "vision". Come on now. Vegemite (proper spelling) is an Austrlalian food spread. Everyone knows that. Remember the Men at Work recording "Land Down Under'.
Boiling veggies to death was apparently an essential feature of southern American cooking, too. Dad, born in Kentucky, rebelled against that. Which meant we grew up actually liking most veggies.
Thank goodness my dear Mom had never overcooked vegetables! When al dente vegetables became a popular, healthy choice in the late 1970s/early 1980s, my Mom cooked vegetables even less than she did before. She wanted to keep the nutrients in the vegetables instead of boiling them away. As a matter of fact, as a little girl, she let me eat my vegetables raw!
I still love tuna noodle casserole to this day.
All of these date to at least the fifties and most are still around. TV dinners are absolutely fifties.
They retained popularity well into the '60s, and can still be found today in most supermarkets and some other stores. There are even several different companies that produce them, more than there were in the '70s.
I still like some of these foods but then I’m in my 50’s so they’re from my childhood! Lol😂
I was a teenager in the 1970s. Many of these dishes my family still eats, all homemade - not boxes or canned unless I am working out of town or working 6am to 111 pm shifts in the office. One thing we never eat are jello salads. We like are gelatin without added fruit or meat.
I love tuna helper, liverwurst or braunschweiger, canned ham, spam, vienna sausages, potted meat, hamburger helper, chipped beef on toast, instant breakfast, and my wife still loves cheese balls. Who is the pompous jerk bad mouthing my favorite foods? I have about ten cans of spam and the same number of vienna sausage in a pie safe downstairs.
Spam is great but never could stomach Vienna sausage. Not sure why. Chipped beef on toast is the best but it’s very difficult to find fresh dried beef - I can buy it around York and Lancaster Counties, PA but it’s very expensive. The jarred stuff is way too salty to use without help! The fresh dried beef is fabulous!
@@sandybruce9092I thought Vienna sausages were fine but didn't like spam much. We're such opposites, the culture war continues!
Amour sells it in a jar, most supermarkets carry . Next to Canned Meat. Just soak it for a couple of hours and rinse to get the salt out. @@sandybruce9092
Boiling vegetables into submission has been a stape of English cooking for a thousand years. Pottage anyone? Imagine that making it to the colonies.
I grew up on veggies boiled to death and for some I still prefer them that way! I don’t cook them that way now!
My mother grew up during The Great Depression, and she always cooked everything to death. It wasn't until I got out on my own that I had anything that she would have considered "undercooked" and discovered some new flavors that I'd never tasted before, although I'd been eating the same foods all my life.
My mother still does to this day, especially when making soups. She will literally put everything in the pot at once and let 'er boil lol.
I have taught her to steam vegetables...unfortunately she over steams them into mush. She doesn't understand the concept that vegetables should still have a bite to them, insisting that they are "raw".
Some people cook them more than needed bc crunchy vegs makes their stomach hurt. Esp as they get older. Cruciferous vegs add another problem. There's not enough GasX for some folks.
@@magpie92766 : If crunchy vegetables make their stomach hurt, that's a digestive issue that needs to be addressed. I'm aware that there can be digestive changes as we age, but there are ways to overcome any new problems.
I miss the canned ham because we would put it through the meat grinder to make ham salad. Our homemade ham salad was the best!
And it still is! Spam makes terrific ham salad - although I’ve noticed that markets tend to call it ham spread now - not sure why!
While we don't use canned ham, every time we have leftovers from a ham dinner we always put them through the grinder and make our own ham salad. Still use my mother's grinder that she had from the 70's. All solid metal parts.
Today's meat grinders would probably fall apart in 3 years.
Ok, the TV dinners, the ones in the foil tray that you had to heat up in the oven and could not microwave, those were delicious. I'd eat them today if I could find them! And the Carnation instant breakfast drink mix, my family and I loved those! Also, if you don't love Ambrosia Salad, well, you're evil.
Canned fruit is a good way to have fruit in a hurricane or other circumstance where electrical power is lost.
I get fruit in a light syrup - and as single fruits instead of a hodgepodge of types. Not all fruit play well together.
I'm 35. Some days I have canned fruit mixed with cottage cheese for breakfast. It's healthier than any sugary cereal or breakfast sandwich and is more filling.
When I was a kid, I used to freeze fruit cocktail until it became like slush. It was so refreshing,and I still treat myself to it now and then.
@@tanikokishimoto1604agree. I keep canned fruit stocked for when I want something out of season. Especially peaches and pears. Never cocktails though
Carnation instant bfast is great.
they had it in the late 80's too--kept me alive thru high school 😂 grab and go🏃🏼♀️💨
I used to slam a can of ready-to-drink Instant Breakfast before I would go rollerblading!
A great pre-rollerblading beverage!
I love that stuff, and I am not even a milk drinker,but I love the vanilla.
I used to love Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars and was really bummed when they vanished.
I do miss the Instant Breakfast variety pack -- Chocolate, Chocolate Malt, Vanilla, Strawberry and Eggnog...
InstantBreakfast Chocolate wasn’t bad
Me too, the vanilla one! I had to have it when I was little before school. lol
Don't remember Eggnog. I used to love Carnation Instant's Carnation Eggnog Powder and Tang (orange and grapefruit only). I tried Tang before it fizzled out and can't see why even liked it now. Same with Crystal Light-too sourm
i miss Carnation MILK!! 🤩
Instant Breakfast Eggnog was my favorite!
In the mid 2000s, I found myself as a forty-something guy working in an office with a bunch of twenty-somethings. There was one other guy my age in that office and he was kind of famous within the office for living in the past: "Why can't there be good shows like Adam-12 anymore?" - Get the picture? Well, one time he jumped up from his desk and darted into the kitchen exclaiming "Oooh, my TV dinner!" and all my young coworkers laughed and looked at me as it had become my role to translate, "he means frozen entree" I said.
It's only been 4 hours and this comment is already aged, no one calls it a "frozen entree" anymore. Get with the times, old man!
@@hellmuth26What DO they call them now?
I call all those frozen meals TV Dinners
Tuna noodle casserole
Pot Pies
Cheese Puffs
...these are some of my favorite comfort foods ❤️
I love spam! Fried!
Yes!!! Fried!!!
This list has some items that some people might have hated, but most of this is still around and widely used.I have never seen anything other than canned fruit added to Jello. I never cared for that although I like both separately. Powdered milk was useful for cooking applications and emergency supplies, but I never knew anybody who used it in place of milk for drinking on a daily basis.
Frozen dinners, Chicken etc.. take up whole aisles of stores. Ambrosia is still a thing in the south. I love tuna casserole an it is at least still affordable. Hamburger and Tuna Helper still sell a ton at my local store. Cheese balls are snacks like Cheetos and people still buy them.
The constant assertion that people wanted healthier options is laughable when you look at obesity rates and diabetes now as opposed to then.
Spam is from WW II.
Special Process Army Meat
@@speedysteve9121This is where people claimed that the “Meat” was scraps, etc. which it is not! It’s actually very good ham.
As a teen, I thought SOS was quite tasty. I didn’t become a vegetarian until I was TWENTY .
Most of these foods are still eaten today.
I must be old I still like most of the things you mentioned
I AM old (almost 70) and I agree with you on that (although I never really cared for the Jello salads my mother made).
I remember many of these things, some were quite good, thanks for the memories!😯💯👍!
3:29 . . . After close to 50 years, I still love those kinds of Jell-O salads today... with fruit or vegetables.
i've got no beef with jello 🤷🏼♀️ --didn't see us buying organic blah blah collagen powder bc we had what we needed from jello
I'm gagging at the thought of someone putting tuna in Jell-O 🤮
@@melissacooper8724 That is a weird one! I remember my mom making the Jello salads in different colors with fruit cocktail in them, and lime Jello with green onions, celery and green pepper (I believe it was only those three). These were very good.
Lime jello with chunks of canned pears (or fruit cocktail) and chunks of cream cheese is my favorite!
OMG My Mom would make Carrot Jello, for Thanksgiving & Also put Fruit cocktail In Jello to !!! 😂😂😂
I hate, absolutely hate Jell-O with anything in it!!! Jell-O with fruit can still be purchased in those small cups at the grocery store. I want my Jell-O bare!!!
I'm in the wrong decade then!!!
I actually liked Utz Cheese balls, Hamburger Helper, Liverwurst and Fruit Cocktail as of TODAY. I have all 4 of those items in my fridge/pantry which I bought recently too in the last few months (2024).
Liverwurst is good !
Many of these go a lot further back than the 70s.
I’m a child of the seventies. Having survived eating each of these (except liverwurst) has left me wondering how I’m still alive. And I sometimes have a strange and unexplained craving for creamed chipped beef on toast.
Oh man, I love SOS. About 99% of the time I order that when I go out to breakfast.
Tou haven't lived until you've had SOS prepared by somebody just out of Boot Camp who is TRYING to be a Shipboard Navy Cook, and is really pissed off that he has weekend duty !!!!!
I love SOS and biscuits and sausage gravy
That was Great Depression food somehow the craving is passed down genetically lol
I liked and still eat few of these things. Jello salads of all types, ambrosia salad, SOS and Spam. I am a child of the late 60’s and early 70’s so 🤷🏻♂️
SOS is fabulous. I’m originally from York, PA and we had it ( and still do) made with dried beef!
Another great way to fix it. 😀@@sandybruce9092
We ate SOS once a week. But Mom added curry to the cream sauce and used tuna instead of chipped beef. I think it was an acquired taste. Any time I mention it to anyone outside the family, they look terrified. 😂
My mom made a delicious soup out of canned ham. No I'm not being sarcastic. I loved it.
Considering the majority of these items are still on grocery store shelves today... I'm sure these 'video authors' enjoy their Tofu Thanksgiving turkey dinners, from which comes from processed soybeans.
😄😄😄😄😄👍👍👍
I’m a vegetarian and I not only remember liking these foods as a child but also know that they are all still made (except space sticks)
and a lot are very popular too. why does he think SPAM isn’t popular? or that people don’t still eat hamburger helper? I think he sounds more like someone who used to eat this stuff, then decided to eat a higher class diet and thinks everyone else did too?
@@AKayfabe You're probably correct AKayfabe , now the 'author' can afford to eat 'High on the Hog', as they used to say!
My mother made jellies salads. I told her it was not real food. That made her mad.
even my younger friends eat tuna noodle casserole these days🤷🏼♀️
Ambrosia is heaven and it's making a comeback.
7:36 . . . The CHERRIES were everything !!!!
I'm quite sure chipped beef and cream is still around in the US today.
Yes.stoffers makes it frozen
Tuna Helper. 🤢
Liverworst is still sold and eaten. My mom liked it thru the 2000s.
Go to any dollar store and you can still find a lot of these weird foods. But why would you want to eat them.
🙃
I love liverworst
I enjoyed tuna noodle casserole and hamburger helper and fruit cocktail as a kid.
The only ambrosia salad I know is made with fresh fruit and whipped cream with the shredded coconut, and it is yummy. Always see it at potlucks.
We happen to LIKE cheese balls!! and eat them to this day!
An early commercial for Hungry Man dinners featured a certain Jeffrey C. You know him as Kenickie from GREASE or Bobby Wheeler from TAXI
Well, if they overcooked vegetables in the 1970s, then they're undercooking them today. Some veggies benefit by slow cooking, like cabbage & all it's relatives. Grilled brussels sprouts...eew!
Hello, commentator I am not sure where you live or where this video was made.🤷🏼 but I have the products that you showed on this video they are still available in the USA.. not that they're that good to eat but they are still on shelves in the USA😅😅
Baby Boomer still go shopping, that's why.
@@yfa6244Are you criticizing us Boomers?? Not a good move!!!
@@yfa6244Gen X goes shopping too.
Um in case you haven't noticed, there is an entire aisle in the frozen section dedicated to nothing but TV dinners (most of them still taste like a$$ though).
What's wrong with ambrosia? And I guess I'm weird because I always liked cheese balls lol.
The product that I was expecting to see was "boiling bags" which I often ate (at home) for school lunch in the 70s. My favorite combo was the cream chip beef on toast with a Ding Dong for dessert :) Instant mashed potatoes was another lunch fave when pared with the boiling bag with meatloaf.
Those bags were excellent. I remember rice like that and the chipped beef.
@22:54, Planters cheese balls was just on the last video I watched titled "Foods from the 1980s people want back". In addition, my supermarket can't keep regular hamburger helper in stock. And if anyone in the Chicagoland area knows of any diners that serves chicken ala king, please let me know; it's one of my favorite dishes.
Ha. Just made boiled dinner yesterday. Make tuna noodle casserole quite a bit. Ambrosia for any get togethers is always brought by someone.
There was on old joke from the 70's that went "We were so poor we only could afford Helper Helper". This is because the hamburger was not supplied and was the most expensive ingredient. Usually Hamburger Helper was just a box of pasta and a spice flavor packet. That's how they could sell it for 50 cents. Even today you can get a pound of pasta for only $2.
I literally just ate one of those Banquet pot pies less than a week ago. They're delicious comfort food. I love a lot of the other items on this list too. Especially cheese balls. I was just watching a video talking about how much people miss those Planters Cheez Balls and wish they would bring them back. They were so addictive.
See ya when we are roomates in the cardiac unit! Lol
I still love liverwurst but it has to be the Oscar Mayer brand
and the TV dinners were best back then in the aluminum trays especially the turkey with dressing...
Spam is still good too and in Hawaii it's one of their favorite items to eat with every meal... Swanson used to have the best pot pies too never really liked Banquet pot pies and again it was still a lot better when it was in aluminum trays... There was nothing wrong with Carnation Instant Breakfast especially for kids who didn't eat breakfast...
Gotta love how you claimed here fondue didn't become popular until the 1970s and most eventually hated it due to how it was often prepared. Yet in the 1950s foods people miss video, you mention it become popular before that decade and people actually miss that stuff.
Dear Lord, this is stupid. Can anybody just get on CZcams and make sweeping assertions about other people's opinions regarding meals that were eaten 50 years ago?
my mom once brought home 2 packages of liverwurst...and I asked if we were expecting company...
she could barely say 'I had a coupon'...
Ah, memories... space food sticks, i found out later, were never used by astronauts. But all us kids thought they were the coolest food to have in your lunch box. Future Astronauts of America, we all were!
We didn't have a lot of money growing up in the 70's so getting a tv dinner was actually a treat and a luxury.
None of these items fell out of flavor with those of us who grew up in the 70’s and 80’s.
The irony of you putting Hamburger Helper into both stuff people miss and people NEVER want back videos based on the same decade.
It’s just one of those foods people either love or hate. Personally I really like Hamburger Helper!
And just think, Liverwurst turns to actually be the healthiest thing of the 70’s lol
My late mother LOVED casseroles and jello salads! I had so many of those things that I do not eat them now. Same with fruit cocktail.
The only jello I didn't like was green jello with mixed vegetables 😮. Orange with mandarin oranges ok😊
My parents never made casseroles or Jell-O salads when I was growing up.
what do you mean nobody wants back.. almost everything you showed in this video is still around today.
Indeed. And most of it predates the '70's. Liverwurst came to the US, from Germany, in the late 1800's. Stouffer's sells tuna noodle casserole, every day of the week.
Not sure how these are 1970s things, when all 20 are still commonly sold today. Has this dude been out of his house since the 70s? Maybe he thinks that flying cars are a thing, and that rubber wheels are a 1970s thing. Someone should check on him and make sure he's not just sitting there watching Jeffersons reruns on his Betamax.
TV dinners were from the 50`s. Alot of the ads in this video are black & white. Some are clearly from the 60`s like powdered milk.
@@jackmehoff2961Powdered milk was long before the 50s! I hate it! Smelled funny to me.
@@sandybruce9092 Oh Yes, probably from WWII.
I grew up in the 60`s, we had powdered milk on our puffed rice every morning or on our oatmeal in cold weather.. Smelling funny was the least of our problems, mom never measured how much she put in lol.
@@jackmehoff2961 Just thunking about not measuring 😳😳😳. Coming from a dairy and farming family for generations back in PA, real milk only allowed. I don’t remember even having 2% back in the 50s, 60s. Only thing thst made me choke was the non-fat milk that my Grandma drank (and she was married to the dairyman!!!). It looked kind of bluish in a glass - nothing like the non-fat milk of today.
@@sandybruce9092Sometimes it was thick sometimes it was thin, but it always had lumps .
I grew up on a farm in west Michigan but no dairy cattle. My mom`s uncle had dairy cattle. H`d give us milk & ice cream which I thought tasted funny lol. I miss our home raised eggs, I can`t eat store eggs anymore .
"Mmmm... I don't know why they call this stuff hamburger helper. It does just fine by itself." - Cousin Eddie, National Lampoon's Vacation
I'm surprised that Stove Top Stuffing or Shake N Bake wasn't included since they seem very similar to Tuna and Hamburger Helper - both in packaging and saltiness. I think they are all still available in the stores but are easy enough to make from scatch with less salt.
My grandpa fought in WW2, and he couldn't even look at a can of spam.
My Father walked across Europe in 44-45 and also wasn't very fond of "SPAM" when he came home.
During WW2 there was such a huge demand for a shelf stable meat product that Hormel couldn't even come close to producing enough actual "SPAM".
In its infinite wisdom the GOVERNMENT contracted with just about anybody who could somehow cook something that was once part of a pig and get it into a can.
The resulting 'processed pork product' was sent it off to the troops in boxes labeled identical to those containing actual "SPAM". The only way to tell if the producer was an honest to God real meat packer, like Hormel, or Swifts, or Armours, or somebody who just got a government contract somehow was by the lot number stamped into the can, and there weren't too many GI's who could decipher those numbers and letters.
As a result, any type of canned, ready to eat, pork product, no matter how little it resembled actual "SPAM", was called "SPAM" by the GIs, and many wouldn't touch actual "SPAM" when they got home.
Spam is still really popular in a lot of places. I have reduced salt spam in my pantry right now.
I’ve got regular Spam in my cupboard right now. I actually like Spam but I can see that it’s easy to get tired of it.
My Dad felt that way with chicken. He wouldn’t touch even a bite - he said he thinks they were fed squab which is baby pigeon. He was in England for about 3 years! Yet he would eat Spam - wonder if it has to do with what service a guy was in - Did was in the AAC (Army AirCorps)!
My dad told my mom If she ever brought spam into the house he'd leave and never come back. He had so much of it when he was in the Marines. I'm glad we didn't have to ever eat it.
Those TV dinners in the tin trays were excellent. I wasn't much concerned about their health benefits, I didn't eat them every day, but when you're short on time those were good. Way better than the ones in cardboard like today.
Remember the 💎 “Crystals” in the Instant ☕️ Coffee making it “Richer” 👌 😂
I STILL like Hamburger Helper. No, it's not the healthiest stuff out there, but it sure beats starvation.
Yeah, those can be found in some weird flavors at the back part of discount stores.,
I USED TO TASTE CANNED HAM AND SAY, SOMETHINGS WRONG HERE. IT DOESNT TASTE LIKE THE HAM WE WOULD HAVE AT CHRISTMAS...
I remember having canned ham a few times when I was a kid in the very early. 60s or maybe the late 50s - it didn’t taste like real baked ham but I’m guessing I ate it (no choice!!!).
I still make Hamburger Helper,, it's great,, & Spam is wonderful (I used to take it to the field in the Army in the 80's it was better than MRE's),, lol
I use to like the orange jello with shredded carrots "salad" when it showed up at pot lucks when I was a kid; ambrosia salad too (probably because they were sweet).
I've always liked jello with fruit, especially with a mound of whipped topping, but I've never had it from a packaged mix. I also like fruit cocktail, especially in jello, sometimes along with bananas for varied flavor. Far as other canned fruit goes. I think the decline in sales has much to do with availability. In my experience, people do prefer fresh fruit, but in my younger years, many fruits were not available during early spring, winter, and late fall in the northern states, so here in my state (MI) if you wanted peaches, pears, pineapple, apricots, grapes, berries, etc. many people bought them in a can. In my case, my mother and most of my family canned most of these things from fresh so it was better than factory canned, but that wasn't a choice most women made for feeding their family so canned was the only other choice.
My grandmother canned fruit. I remember the jars.yummy😊
I am just a minute into the video and i have to comment, Tuna Noodle Casserole is awesome!! Not the Tuna Helper one necessarily though i had it before and it was alright. But I make it with Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup and frozen peas it is Delicious!! I have it at least once a month, and have for years. Cmon now, lol
I substitute the Mushroom soup for Cream of Celery. Much, much better.
@@marlenalinne I actually use two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup and one can of Cream of Celery soup along with milk and butter with the frozen peas. very delicious!!
Jell-O molds/salads and Ambrosia salad are two things I am glad to see out the door. Was never a fan of canned fruit, canned ham or canned sausage, and I cringe at the "Helper" franchise as most of us in the modern day do. Boiled vegetables have basically been replaced by either steamed veg or the "blanch and shock" method which aims to keep their texture to some degree. Spam, however, is still very much alive and well; a lot of people enjoy it here in the South and my mother-in-law sends a lot of it to a kid she sponsors in the Philippines because they love the stuff in SEA nations. TV dinners are still alive in many forms. Cheez balls are never going away; ask anyone who eats Chee-tos Puffs. And if you remove instant coffee from any workplace breakroom, you are going to be a marked man to be sure.
I hated milk as a child. Powdered milk was purely "of the devil". Now, I did like the peanut butter Space Food Sticks. It was like eating sweetened peanut butter flavored Play-Doh! :D
Fresh ambrosia salad is available at most grocery store deli's. Liverwurst is a lot older than the '70's as are some of the other items.
I love chipped beef on toast, Hamburger Helper, Spam Musubi, and fondue. Unlike my Boomer parents, I hate tuna casserole.
Bring Space Food Sticks back! Especially the peanut butter flavor!
I still get the Vienna Sausages and eat them straight out of the can. I'm not much for nostalgia but that is an exception for me.
Tried hb helper tuna, nope. My mother had one I liked. 2 cans Campbell cheddar soup, 16oz noodles (cooked) , 2 cup milk, ( I adjust) lots of can tuna drained. Heat
Homemade Mac and cheese baked the best.I made on top of stove with noodles,milk and cheese not Velveeta 😮
2060: "While frozen pizzas were a popular food of the 2020's, it slowly lost favor over time". 1960's-2010's: "WTF"
Powdered milk is about as appealing as powdered water...
I'll make it to use In recipes that call for milk...that's as far as it goes. When I was a kid I would only drink it with a heavy dose of chocolate syrup 😅
I recall that powdered milk was commonly used in the show MASH.
Powdered milk is a very useful thing to have in the kitchen. Not to drink, but to use in recipes.
Being born in 71, I just had a memory overload òf childhood. I can almost taste n smell everything anew. Oh the stories we can tell of what we ate.
I loved the food from the 70's for the most part especially Tuna Helper and TV Dinners. I really thought they were cool. My mom was a single parent and we didn't have much so she did her best. The problem is people these days complain, are given to many options and really don't understand the value of hard work and the suffering our parents did to provide for us.
My family ate these things too. Both parents worked a lot and I did a lot of the cooking when mom couldn't. The 2 siblings with kids fed them nuggets and other things like that instead of actual meals. Those kids are so picky at family gatherings and they're all grown. They have no idea how lucky they are we still have mom and how great a cook she is. Well except one niece that has been learning from her grandma. She gets it but rest are just as you described
Is interesting that most of these foods are a STAPLE culinary delicacy in other countries and made recipes where those foods can be a highlight of a good meal, like can tuna, vienna sausages, cocrail fruit and Spam. Personally some of those recipes like ambrosia and instant coffe I enjoyed while growing up. Nestlé Nescafé instant coffee is amazing 🥰! And space food sticks remind me of the jerky sticks and protein bars that we have right now. I think most of these trends and foods evolved and are still part of people's lives in the US. Is just modified differently than before
I love the pun at 16:12....hilarious!
My Saturday morning cartoon viewing will forever be associated with a breakfast of Pilsbury Space Food Sticks and Tang!
There was a big change in our supermarkets in the 1970s.
When I was a kid in the 1960s supermarkets were seasonal, you got strawberries in the spring, fresh corn in late summer, and when the potato crop came in during the fall that was it until the next fall.
I watched the mega-supermarkets come in with international shipping giants and change the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables.
The only time you could have fruit and vegetables out of season was if it was frozen or canned.
The fresh produce section was smaller than half a standard aisle.
Things were very different back then.
It wasn't all bad, you looked forward to seasonal produce and how it was woven throughout the year's holidays.
Kind of like pumpkin pie in the fall and winter holidays,
and cranberry sauce.
Watermelon every 4th of July.
I still eat these foods once in a while... young people trust me when you get old if it looks, smells, or taste like food it's going to be on the forbidden list.... lolol 😅😅😅
4:25 Better than biting into a wobbly, meat-infused relative with outstanding warrants.
Ahhh, Cherished holiday memories.
Born in 1967. I grew on ALL of these. Still have fond memories of the Pot Pie. And Cheese Balls and Vienna Sausages are still around. SPAM is still going strong.