Foods From The 1950s That Should Never Come Back
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Meat and sweet combos, soup sandwiches, and so much Jell-O. The 1950s was marketed as a time of domestic bliss, but was it? Was the strange food they churned out a comment on how it wasn't all it was cracked up to be? It's entirely possible.
#1950s #Recipes #WeirdFoods
Monterey souffle salad | 0:00
Ham banana rolls | 1:18
SPAM fiesta peach cups | 2:09
Frosted ribbon loaf | 2:51
Campbell's soup sandwiches | 4:05
Canned hamburgers | 4:54
Ambrosia salad | 5:37
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Would you like to see any of these make a comeback?
No. Food, like everything else, has gotten out of hand. I'd like to see a bit more of the simpler dishes that tasted like what it was made of instead of the new, improved flavors that taste like nothing I can identify. Ah well, that's progress for ya. ❤️
Yes! I still eat them, and I miss eating them more often.
The ham-banana rolls don't look so bad.
Don't hate on the ambrosia salad. It's delicious.
I love it! Anytime my parents took us to grocery store, that's the first thing I go for!
Exactly. My first thought !
Wut?! How can u NOT like Ambrosia?! I still make it to this day but I'm 45. I will always love this dessert
I'm 71 & I still love Ambrosia!!
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Ambrosia has and will always be my top line favorite !! I always think about it but now I'll write down all the ingredients go to the store and fix and enjoy !!! Oh but a double batch !!!!! Lol
I LOVE ambrosia!
I love ambrosia!
Ditto. Been a holiday staple since I was a kid
I’ll be right over 😁
Hurry !!! Kathy I'm trying too save you a bowl but I'm failing !! Lol but seriously I used can oranges and wow !!!brought back a flood of memories !! Good ones of elder kin folks that were all so kind !!! Now I'm the elder !!! Lol seriously people fix this !! I'm glad I did
You all at Mashed don't know what you're talking about when it comes to Ambrosia salad! It's BOMB! Especially with sour cream and mini marshmallows!
Everyone I know LOVES ambrosia!
Ambrosia salad is awesome
Yeah but my family uses whoo cream instead of sour
Ive seen someone swap the sour cream with whip it for the ambrosia salad, was pretty good
That's the only way I've ever seen it
Never saw the sour cream used. My grandmother would make it each Christmas and thanksgiving and her recipe still is used today. I do think she added vinegar. Or so says my wife. I never tasted it. But want it for the meals. 😋
that is what i do - cool whip and no sour cream. i also put coconut in it. i guess that this is technically 5 cup salad.
I still love ambrosia salad!
People still cook with Campbell's soups today. Try searing pork chops or loin, mixing your favorite cream of (chicken, mushroom, celery, broccoli, etc) Campbell's soup with a half soup can of milk, pour in a baking dish, add the pork, spoon some soup on top of the chops and bake, covered 45-60 minutes. Bomb flavor, the soup becomes yummy gravy for mashed potatoes or rice and the meat you can cut with a fork!
Jell-O dishes were very popular and still are. I have all my mom's copper Jell-O molds. In the 50s, my mom made a Jell-O fruit salad every holiday meal. She made 2 big packages of red Jell-O using half the amount of cold water (or the juice from a can of fruit cocktail), set the Jell-O then beat it with a mixer until it was in fine pieces. Then she stirred in drained cans of fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges, a cubed apple, a banana or two, chopped walnuts and whipped cream. We're on our 3rd generation of this holiday favorite but we leave out the banana and nuts (the banana turns brown by the next day & some don't like nuts). In the 80s we made Jell-O cakes that were delicious! Lastly, when Jell-O and Knox gelatin came on the market it was an opportunity for the average American to finally have something only the rich could afford previously. The prior process of making gelatin from animal feet, horns and hooves into something that could "gel" into either a sweet or savory dish was so labor intensive and required refrigeration that only the rich could afford it. Therefore, women in the 40s and 50s used it like crazy, and everyone was on the bandwagon to create something new with it.
Ambrosia, still loved by many. We put shredded coconut in ours. And, the ribbon loaf was delicious! We knew it wasn't cake and you're really going to pooh pooh a raw tomato garnish? Please.
As far as canned hamburger, we never saw that in our part of America but my grandmother canned venison burger meat every year. Mixed in a white gravy and poured over biscuits or toast was her version of SOS. You make it sound as if Spam was the only canned alternative to canned hamburger but there was, and still is, canned beef, chicken, ham, corned beef, tuna, salmon, mackerel, oysters, sardines, kippers, clams and more.
All in all, this video insults the average American who lived during those times coming out of a depression and a World War who were happy to have food at all and grateful for new products and the money to buy them!
Ambrosia salad was big when I was young and yes it sucks using sourcream use cool whip instead. Tastes much better.
4:05 I've known people all my life who like to drizzle tomato soup into their grilled cheese to make a pizza sandwich.
5:37 What the heck is wrong with ambrosia?? I have a lady friend who makes that, and it's a great dessert.
Grilled cheese and tomato soup go hand in hand.
@@moand7862 and I loved my tomato soup and pb sandwich. Dipped of course. Not stirred or shaken. 🙃. Two fav combos of mine still.
I’ve never heard it called a Pizza sandwich. With an open face grilled cheese we would punch holes in the cheese & fill it with tomato soup. My son places whole pieces of cheese in his soup or mixes tomato with Mac n’ cheese & calls it choup 😂
@@samanthab1923 Why have I never thought of putting mac and cheese in tomato soup?! Brilliant.
@@moand7862 He said he gets more compliments when he tells people! Enjoy 😊
The best ambrosia is with cool whip instead of sour cream then add pistachio pudding mix with the fruit cocktail mix and multicolored marshmallows. Finally, garnish with chopped pistachios. Excellent!
Ooohhhhh! Never heard of this addition of pistachio.
I’ll have to try it. I love pistachios .
Yes !! I forgot the pudding mix !! Thank you !!!
YES! See, that turns it into Watergate Salad! And It Is AWESOME too!
@@loriphillips8263 oh! I’ve heard of that ~ strangely enough 💚
That is actually a Watergate Salad though, not Ambrosia!
Ambrosia salad is amazing. Better with sour cream than cool whip. The tanginess balances the sweet marshmallows. Add some mandarin oranges and not too much sour cream. Don't want it swimming in it.
I mix 1/4 cup cool whip light then 2/3 cup sour cream then 1 regular size yogurt !!! Me ,I like peach it's good !!! And if you add coconut ?? Do you roast yours first or pour straight from bag ???? I've done both then sometimes none at all !!! But don't fix just a single batch !! DOUBLE IT !!!! LOL ENJOY
We favour yogurts, fruit or plain, to other in our Ambroaia as described above. Oranges , pummelo, excellent additions
i remember people didnt put all kind of stuff on their hamburgers back then. basically just onions and ketchup.
depending on how it's prepared ambrosia slaps!
What's wrong with ambrosia salad? I'm not sure I've ever had it made with sour cream, but if there is enough sugar like from fruit canned in heavy syrup it should be fine and probably better than making it with Dream Whip. Dream whip was nasty if you didn't mix it into something.
My family does whip cream and fruits for ambrosia its fire
We use cool whip in our ambrosia and love it! I also remember my mom making ribbon loaf for gatherings. I was a kid and I loved it!
I love ambrosia ❤️
Ambrosia is delicious!
That it is and I still make it.
Yummy
I order it on a cruise once and everyone told me it was old people food. I thought it was delicious
My school would serve it with lunch occasionally and I LOVED it!
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Ambrosia salad is amazing and delicious! The end result of mixing sour cream and marshmallows is basically like a sweetened whipped cream, ie, Cool Whip. And the ribbon loaf did not have sweet cream cheese icing like you would have on a cake, it was a savory cream cheese spread. It's called a sandwich loaf because you would slice it and place a slice between bread. No one would expect a sandwich loaf to taste like cake!
I always liked a mbrosia salad but in our house if it was new food meaning this was the first time in your life to have that food we had to try it. I was told by the time I was 3 I had already tried more different foods than most adults do in a lifetime.
Ambrosia's okay. it's typically at every family function i've ever been to.. some substitute whipped cream for the sour cream
There are still quite a large number of people who eat ambrosia salad regularly. While I can certainly appreciate the distaste for it, many people both young and old alike still eat it, especially at family meals and get togethers.
Ambrosia salad is amazing!! Yes, it sounds odd for sour cream to be added to marshmallows but some cheesecakes have sour cream in it and it's wonderful. The marshmallows soak up the sour cream and the juices from the fruit creating a wonderfully sweet dessert.
glad they still sell chef boyardee ravioli my favorite meat in a can
I never heard of most of this stuff and I was around in the 50s. I don't believe I missed anything, but we have plenty of disgusting things today, so it just goes along with the times. We all may soon be wishing for some of that stuff they were just talking about. Don't make fun.
It’s all how you were raised. Same here. We had Jello & Velveeta but never mixed or fruit added 😂
@@Neil-ht8fv It’s true. A lot of people don’t cook with butter, they use oil. Tastes different.
I was taught to use whip cream NOT sour cream for my fruit salad. I’ll just keep MY recipe 😏
Ambrosia w whipped cream/a little bit of powdered sugar/pecans/Honeycrisp apples/grenadine cherry's/ marshmallow/mandarin orange/ fruit cocktail/ and diced celery is the reason ambrosia is the food of the gods...
Today ambrosia salad is made with cool whip!
•Frosted ribbon loaf would be great with Mashed potatoes as the "frosting"
•Spam is f*cking disgusting
^Ambrosia is delicious, if it's anything like Hawaiian Salad.
It is
LISTEN, here in México my mum make the ambrosia salad with yoghurt and condensed milk instead of the sour cream, usually for Christmas dinner. Everyone should try it.
Am I the ONLY 1, who went straight 2 the comments , when she said Ambrosia Salad? I mean, HOW can you have a PROPER Holiday, Pot Luck, Family Reunion or Summer Picnic with out it? She is crazy! And then there is Watergate Salad! (All though, we use Cool Whip on both, Sour Cream don't sound half bad! I mean, mayo is AWESOME on a Pear Salad!}.
No Lori !! I'm there with you !!!
way back then/when my mother used to make something similar to the Ribbon Loaf. She called hers a Sandwich Loaf. not sure when or where she got this idea but if I remember right, there was ham salad, egg salad, chicken salad I think and pimento loaf. The bread was cue lengthwise, crust taken off then smeared with the Cream Cheese. there were 6 of us in the family and we all loved it, Dad loved it the most. but when I was a kid I didn't like cream cheese so I'd scrape it off. LOL Of course I love cream cheese now, 65 years later, but haven't made the sandwich loaf, me and my 2 remaining brothers talk about it all the time trying to remember if there were more than the other ingredients in it. Never did find her recipe for it. We don't get out much but not sure there is anyone who hadscapability of slicing the bread lengthwise. maybe we'll find someone some day.
Find a loaf of home made bread & a good bread knife! Y'all can make it.
Never had ambrosia salad with sour cream, my mom and aunts always used cool whip.
Ambrosia still looks tasty!!
Gonna say this right now, these kind of desperate dishes strike me more as a carryover from The Great Depression, where any food was good, no matter how bizarre... because, you know, people were starving...
This video is so snarky, I love it lol. Please make more of these
Ambrosia is actually good
Ambrosia has been updated to use cool whip...one of my faves
My aunt still brings Ambrosia to all family events, then usually leaves with 95% of it untouched. Stuff is nasty, yo.
I’m 62,whenever I’ve had ambrosia salad it’s always been made with coolwhip or whipped cream. I don’t remember anyone ever using sour cream . It’s been a long time since I’ve had it because now days I don’t eat pork and it’s hard to find kosher marshmallows.
P.S. ambrosia salad is yummy.
A food combo I enjoyed as a kid (not quite back to the 50s) was extra sharp cheddar, peanut butter, and mustard on saltines. I haven’t had it in a longtime but would still enjoy it
You won’t eat Hamburger from a can but you will eat Spam ? Doesn’t make any sense .. both nasty 🤮
Yeah, that's hysterical. They got so many clowns running this channel lol
I don't know about those other things but I absolutely love Spam! Nothing better, except maybe haggis!
Ambrosia is bomb with whip cream instead of sour cream....
Most people never tried those jello recipes. We laughed about them. No one took them seriously.
True.
A blast to the past and dry-heave!! Thank you but no thank you!
I had Ambrosia salad last year. It was so good. Then again marshmallow salads are still common around here.
I saw canned hamburger with bun on Amazon and eBay; popular in UK.
I thought the ambrosia had cream cheese.. that's what my grandma used.. 😋😋
The yummy ginger ale 🥗 salad 😋
This is making me hungry...
Recipes with historical origins have been around for hundreds of years. Although they change over the years they maintain their popularity.
I can't find the words to describe what I just watched..It's between the strange jello salad and the ribbon loaf.
I had to stop the vid. Made me nauseous
I prefer sour cream in the ambrosia salad. Cool Whip is full of chemicals! The marshmallows make it sweet along with sweetened coconut. When I first tried this as a kid, I loved it!
"RAW UNSEASONED TOMATO" I think this chic needs to slow down and think about what she's talking about ! I love raw uncooked tomatoes, especially on my salad !
thinking is hard for some millennials
My grandma always made jell-o salads with fruit and I still hate it! Jell-o should only be drank when you’re sick and cannot eat regular food.
Missed the mark on Ambrosia Salad. It's a classic.
I like Ambrosia Salad.
I wouldn’t survive the 50s foods mixed like they were. Weird concoctions for sure!
Love Ambrosia Salad.
Yeah, the sand-which soup thing is shit on a shingle!!! Also, cream of mushroom, celery, chicken is a gravy like consistency. You’re wrong there.
Shit on a shingle was what my Pop called the left over roast chicken mixed with Campbells cream of mushroom & served on toast 😂
Sounds quite judgemental. I have eaten some of these that were really very good. There are lots of foods today that turn my stomach, think imitation meat.
Love ambrosia!!!
Ambrosia salad is still a thing and it is delicious, when done right. Use just enough sour cream to bind the mixture. Too much, and it becomes soupy and gross. The sugar on the marshmallows sweetens it. Vanilla yogurt works for this, as well.
I eat like that now. Don't knock it till you try it. NGL that tuna lemon jello thing looked good maybe with cream cheese.
I make ambrosia salad to this day and my friends love it. Also, I’m in my 30’s
The ambrosia salad I've had didn't have sour cream, it had cool whip?
I give this video a like because I had relatives serve me some of these when I was an innocent child in the 1960's. Would I serve them to people that I like today, umm, no. Do I still have an affinity for SOME recipes that use SPAM and some that involve JELLO - I admit that I do.
Ambrosia is awesome
Hot roast beef or turkey sandwiches were like soup on a sandwich but you used gravy instead.
It fit the need at the time. Give it up.
This must be the culinary school Sandra Lee graduated from 🤢 Kwanzaa cake anyone?
Everyone in the comment section is making me want to try this Ambrosia salad now.
I thought ambrosia had whipped cream not cream cheese. I can be wrong. It’s been forever since I had some. But that dish is delicious
Boo!!! Ambrosia salad rules!!!
Ambrosia is actually pretty good, my mom makes it for holidays
I don't get why she thinks raw unseasoned tomatoes are distasteful. Personally I love tomatoes cooked or uncooked seasoned or not. Especially if they come fresh from my greenhouse.
When young, the only way I would eat bananas was to dip them in tomato sauce.
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Your great !!!
Canned shit in the 50s prolly were fresh
I don’t think that this is useful or helpful. Most of the items denigrated in this have roots in some sort of dish from Europe, brought over by immigrants and adopted over time in the U.S. As an example, the savory cake, this is simply “voileipäkakku” or “leipäkakku” (Finland) or a Scandinavian Sandwich Cake, so a Nordic dish. Sure, it’s a bit old-fashioned, but it’s still enjoyable and enjoyed by many. So instead of slamming these items, perhaps linking them to their origins and history and how they changed over time with a disclaimer that it is to taste and might not match our modern palates. Just an idea.
Ambrosia salad was good!
Scanned Pinterest for vintage ads with recipes. Most of those recipes were nasty at any time.
I once made a Ritz Crackers Mock Apple Pie. You read it correctly.
Look it up. Ewww. 🤮
I like Spam especially with pineapple slices and on a burger bun. I can do without the other ingredients in the aforenamed recipie.
No way
I'm genuinely wondering wtf 🤔
I've never seen a ambrosia recipe that requires sour cream? It usually asks for whipped cream. I think you guy's are just adding the sour cream to make it on this list and if the original recipe asked for sour cream now day's no one adds that to their ambrosia 🤨
Jello is still the best thing around
Ambrosia salad isn't made with sour cream it's made with cotton cheese and cool whip still gross
It's made with pistachio pudding, whipped cream, pineapple and tiny marshmallows. Make it right.
@@joltjolt5060 It is made many different ways yours is only one of those ways!
My mom used to make lime jell-o, canned pineapple and cottage cheese (might have been ham, but we were vegetarians). It was just as delicious as it sounds! 🤢
Yup. I used to avoid any green jello/cottage cheese molds like the plague. One innocent taste was enough.
Oh my gosh out of all of the things on CZcams this one actually turned my stomach. This has to be one of the grossest videos I had to stop in the middle. I don't know if I can finish. Turning Green as I pen this ( Reaches for Prilosec OTC )
So, what's wrong with ice cream for supper?
Not. A. Darn. Thing.
Half of these sound is cross
Like banana and ham, wtf
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maybe instead of shitting on recipes from the '50s, you could actually try making them? gelatin salads (aka aspics) have a long culinary history, and I'm guessing that some of the weirder ones (like ham and banana) probably tasted pretty good to the people publishing it - otherwise they wouldn't have published them.
Canned burgers were bad.. very freaken bad
No meat in cans! Ever
Min-gi Park: Post-war American food is the worst!
Someday people may be as rude about what you eat... You didn't invent taste buds. People were happy the war and the depression were over. They had food and could have fun. Leave them be.
Luckily more Immigrants came to the USA & made food better lol
Yeah like the McDonald Bros and Tico Bell... Oh and Papa John ! What a idiot. Why DONT you go someplace better than america.
You should probably know that just about ALL the people in the US were immigrants, and they brought their foods here and it is the source for many of the foods that so many not from the US scoff at!
Yeah like Papa John, Tico Bell and McDonald Bros ! Oh and PF Chang.