20 Forgotten Foods From The 1970s, We Want Back!
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- 20 Forgotten Foods From The 1970s, We Want Back!
Take a trip down memory lane with "20 Forgotten Foods From The 1970s, We Want Back!" This video explores 20 quirky and weird foods from the 1970s that have been forgotten but are still missed by many. Join us as we revisit these nostalgic foods and discuss why they hold a special place in our hearts.
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Half these have never gone away.
More than half, actually. In fact, other than Tab, you can still get any of these, although you may need to hunt a bit for some... or make your own.
@@XianHu yeah, pineapple chicken is super popular in Asian restaurants in the west, deviled eggs never faded away and shows up at most potlucks, and shrimp cocktail show up on most American resturant appetizer menus and you can find them pre-made in many super markets. Hamburger helper is in damn near every supermarket too
I was going to say something similar! But use name-calling, cuz, well, name-calling can be good fun! "heathens haven't been to a church meal if they haven't had Watergate salad recently!" 😊
And most of these are still available, and some are still pretty popular in certain circles.
Never heard of Harvey Wallbanger cake.knew of the drink. Never tried the drink Don't Hickory Farms still sell cheesecakes? Are Hickiry Farms around?
DUH
Every kitchen where I grew up has a Bundt cake pan.
Mine still does ...
And usually hung on the wall...
Just rediscovered mine yesterday!
I miss those. My asshat aunts and uncles took all my grandmas which mostly ended up being sold.
@@arthas640 😠 That wasn't nice.
Eggs Benedict is still very popular today, no need to "bring it back" because it never left. Just about every restaurant that serves breakfast dishes offers some type of Eggs Benedict. There's a place in my childhood hometown (Monterey, CA) that has several varieties on their menu or you can "build your own" by choosing favorite ingredients. I make it at home regularly - usually for breakfast, but also sometimes for lunch or dinner.
99% of these are still popular so they can't be brought back
I love eggs Benedict! 😊
Love Monterey. Was visiting there about 9 or 10 years ago and stayed in a hotel in dtwn. Monterey. Went to a program/ music at the Golden West Theater on Alvarado St. So many great restaurants but most pretty expensive. Do you still live there? I love eggs Benedict. 😊
I’ve never seen eggs Benedict on a menu and I’ve never tasted it.
@@MichaelMowl-kh1pm Just go to any American diner for breakfast on Sunday, or pretty much any brunch buffet.
Oddly 'pineapple chicken' looks a lot like a good sweet and sour chicken in good Chinese restaurants in the UK.
I get it in Thai restaurants here,usually called sweet and sour.
That's exactly what it is lol.
I thought so too
Add maraschino cherries, green Bell pepper, and onions with the pineapple and you have Sweet and Sour chicken. The sauce is brown sugar. vinegar and corn starch. I make this occasionally still. Served over rice.
@@djg5950 I make it a LOT here. It's one of our favorites! I put different fruits and veggies in depending on what I have. It's really good with chopped dates, dried tart cherries or cranberries, onions and peppers, and I use coconut oil to cook my chicken pieces in. It gives it an almost pina colada taste. I put ketchup in the sauce along with brown sugar, white and apple cider vinegars, crushed garlic or garlic powder and soy sauce. I don't put cornstarch in the sauce usually, because I put it in the coating for the chicken (just cornstarch and eggs, salt and pepper). I dredge the chicken, give it a fast fry to seal the juices into the meat, then put it in a baking dish with the sauce on top, and bake for 30 min. at 375 until the chicken is cooked through. The cornstarch in the coating of the chicken thickens the sauce plenty, so I don't add it to the sauce ingredients.
Sorry, that's all probably TMI. I do love it though, and we have it often. I'll have to try it with maraschino cherries in the mix!
Deviled Eggs never went away - they are a great hit at any potluck.
It sure did not, I make them all the time, but then again I have chickens.
Have them every holiday
Exactly, I make several batches every year from holidays to birthday requests. Love em.
And they started long before the '70s.
Love deviled eggs!!❤
Every bridal shower I attended in the 70s featured gifts of at least 1 fondue pot, 1 electric wok and a deviled egg dish!
Deviled eggs has always been a favorite in my family. Very popular at reunions.
Deviled eggs! Love them!
Not any that I went to.
The fondue pot and deviIed eggs for sure.!! The wok wasn't as popuIar in my area. Mr. Coffee pot and Crock Pot were aIways there! Tupperware and CORNING ware, too.
I just ate a piece of carrot cake yesterday:)
I bet 100% of the people that lived through the 70's tried Tang at least once.
Tang is still available and it ids great.
Yes. Disgusting.
It was popular because it went up with one of the astronaut crews in the 60s!
@@Peg-zl9lr try it warmed up like a hot cocoa....the gritty texture is gone and the flavor is much better
I loved tang lol
I still make carrot cake and beef stroganoff.
I still make beef stroganoff.
I just watched three new "keto friendly" beef stroganoff recipe videos the other day.
The old lady goes with the always cheesy 'beef stroke-me-off'. That's as close to getting freaky as yer gonna get, sadly.
Never liked carrot cake or zucchini bread and hate the cream cheese frosting. Now beef stroganoff is a different story. Since mushrooms are my favorite vegetable I make a lot of dishes using mushrooms. Probably 40% of these recipes are still made today.
I have made both this week and I wasn't even born yet in the seventies (still in Mom's tummy).
Since when have people been making shrimp cocktail sauce with mayo? We eat it with a ketchup based sauce that has horseradish & other hot stuff, plus a little lemon juice.
Exactly!
It is made with mayo, sour cream, ketchup, worchestershire sauce, Tabasco and a splash of brandy. It is often called pink sauce where the cocktail one is with horseradish
@@cristianocapasso5870 Not in my world it isn't. Never was, never will be. 65+ yrs old.
That is the UK version (hint: que Gordon Ramsay). The sauce they use is called 'Mary Rose'. In North America, it's always been 'cocktail' sauce, usually with shrimp hanging off the side of a stemmed glass.
I like it with baby shrimp, cocktail sauce and celery.
You know you are a child of the 70’s if Watergate salad, shrimp cocktail, deviled eggs in a Tupperware serving platter and Quiche Lorraine are still served at Thanksgiving & Christmas meals.
I used to buy individual-sized Quiche Lorraine at my local deli at least once per week right up into the 2010's, only stopping when I moved away and couldn't find a replacement. (Yes, I make something similar at home but without the crust.)
@@jeanvignes My French teacher from 1973 made Quiche Lorraine for us and printed the recipe for the class. I still use it.
We always have devil eggs and Watergate salad. Yum!
I still make my own quiche once weekly for breakfast, carrot cake always for Easter, & jello salad for every occasion & holiday.
What about jello 1-2-3?
What! No Shake and Bake? And ah haelped!
Love that! I remember that commercial lol 😂
Lol.
Shrimp cocktail never left. It is everywhere.
Nope. Never again.
Shake n Bake ruled. That was Soo good.
Wendy's did not have taco salads in the '70s. I worked at Wendy's in the '70s. Taco salads came in the '80s.
Taco Bell had them in a huge fried tortillas.
I agree, (tacos)sometime in the mid 80's along with a salad bar and chili besides their burgers , fries and choice of sodas.
yes added after the Knoxville worlds fair
Wendy's Taco Salad. Yesterdays's chili made with left over hamburgers from the day before that - LOL!
They came out in 1982.
Carrot cake remains very popular in my region. Beef stroganoff (from scratch) is a staple at home, as is eggs Benedict, tacos and taco salad, and zucchini bread.
Absolutely. Same here. I'm constantly getting requests to make more zucchini bread!
I have carrot cake at least once every fortnight: I absolutely adore the stuff!
Courgette bread always does the rounds when it's the right season… there are many gardeners and allotment owners around here (in the UK) that grow courgettes. YUM.
Please tell me where you are so I can never go there by accident.
$3 a serving in the 70s was not a budget price. Adjusted for inflation, $3 in 1973 would be over $21 today.
My parents had 7 kids and while Dad earned enough for us to eat well, Mom kept household expenses down where possible. She says in the mid-70s, she could put together a decent dinner for around 5 or 6 bucks. Our neighbors' family owned a meat distributor so we got "in" on some good deals. I don't wanna say they were mobbed up or anything, but once a month, a half-dozen big black Cadillacs with New York license plates would be parked in their driveway late at night...
His $2 to $5 or $3 to $6 budget prices forget that $6 an hour was good pay in '74. So that second example is 1/2 hour to 1 hour of your pay. Fast forward to today and a comparable $35 an hour so you are talking $17 to $35 today. His "budget" one would be $12 to $30, not exactly a budget meal.
Oh, what a great story!@@yossarian6799
Given the Fed Min Wage was $2 hr in '74, his prices are way off.
My Mom was would make an entire supper with dessert for a family of six for under 3:00....
Out of those 20 foods I eat at least 16 of them on a yearly basis and at least 12 are still served in local restaurants, hardly forgotten. My favorite one that I never see in restaurants anymore is Rumaki, my wife and I love it and make it at least once or twice a year.
Me too❤
Growing up in the seventies myself, these prices maybe good for now days but in the seventies, these prices were out of reach for many families.
True. My parents had 6 of us, so while we def got a lot, they were frugal of course.
Our Dad made a good living so we managed to eat well. Mom, though, was thrifty by nature and we 7 kids enjoyed simple favorites like shepherd's pie, spaghetti with meat sauce, lebanese chicken and rice, sausage-and-potato bake, and Irish stew.
Yep, salaries were much lower then. If one made $10,000 a year you were doing fairly good. A new car might have been under $3,000, but that was a big chunk of money then!
no kidding! a dollar a pound is affordable?? And who made frog legs at home? And beef stroganoff has never been "really affordable."
Sure was when 4-5 dollars an hour. Was top wages.
Taco salad was not an "appetizer". It was a main course. If these prices in here are per serving, that would be pricey in 1970, unless your daddy was well-off. Shrimp cocktail, for example, was not cheap to most families back then. You have no idea.
So was pizza! We made the crust st home (just bread dough), and each guest brought an ingredient. Salami, ground beef, whatever you want! Avocado was practically free! And tomatoes were practically free! After baking, avocado slices and salsa!
I had g forgotten that my mom often made Taco salad. I loved that stuff.
If you lived on the coast shrimp, clams, fish & crab was actually pretty cheap. When I was a kid, I went with my dad often to the gulf, to pick up buckets of shrimp and burlap bags of crab & clams right off the boats.
I don't remember anything with taco in it until the early 80s. I know we didn't have tacos in our school lunches in the 70s...
Back then shrimp cocktail (or prawn cocktail where I live) was only a treat food right through into the late 90's and you only saw it as a Xmas entree or at a restaurant.
Pineapple upside down cake is a traditional family holiday cake we have at Christmas and Easter. I sometimes make my own version of Hamburger Helper by adding onion, green bell pepper, diced tomatoes and lots of cheddar cheese.
That's how my mother fixed it back in the 60's. Growing up without a lot of $$$, you did what you had to do to survive. Man oh man, I really miss those days. Now, it's just me and my wife but I still fix a box of hamburger helper once in a while.
@@billirvin9057 It's a good hearty meal on a cold day. I like to eat Jiffy corn muffins with it.
My mom is 91, she still frequently makes a pineapple upside down cake and she also makes a banana upside down cake.
@@hannakinn Banana upside down cake sounds really good. Same ingredients except for the pineapple?
Another crowd pleaser was Chinese Chicken Salad. We used uncooked ramen that was in the brick form, that cost 10 cents. Every ladies luncheon had it.
Also the sandwich cake. We got a loaf of unsliced bread, and cut it the other way like a three or four layer cake. One layer was chicken salad, one layer was egg salad, one layer was something else (tuna or salmon or shrimp salad) then frost the thing like a cake using cream cheese. Decorate with pimento or radish roses. Slice like a cake. Huge hit!
Sounds great
I will try that this summer! Sounds great!
Thanks, one of our gas stations with a deli still sold the Chinese chicken salad when my kids were little. Now I'm going looking for that recipe, I used to love it. ❤
Those were both delicious and I still make them!
The popularity of Swedish meatballs may have been due to the Swedish chef on the Muppet Show! Bork! Bork! 😃
There was a blink and you'll miss it moment in the 1970s when Scandinavian food was popular, especially in the form of Swedish smörgåsbord.
Deviled eggs never went away just come to our family barbecues.
Hell yes, we have Deviled Eggs at all family get togethers.
Made some for easter dinner with fresh eggs from a friends free running chickens
We have deviled eggs all the time. They are good!
True, and they were around long before the 70's.
My favorite picnic food. My grand daughter is an expert at making deviled eggs. I taught her well. Put a couple slices of jalapenos on them, your welcome.
God, I miss the 70s
It was my favorite decade
Very colorful, true freedom
I liked the "60's food" better.
No dedicated crime-fighters everywhere thinking you look suspicious and want some ID stat in addition to where you're going and where you came from.
@@carlsaganlives6086 that’s right brother
I’m just taking a stroll smoking, some grass getting mellow. I’m good Officer.👮
Hi, how are you?
I’m good how high are you?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s just out of sight man peace✌️
My Mamà, may she R.I.P., made everything scratch. Even the non Hispanic dishes, she tried to make scratch, except "Pasquetti", lol. That of course were store bought. The Sauce was scratch at least. Even Chop Suey was scratch. Her French Fries were the best ever, oh yum. Fried Chicken as well. She made I believe of 10 American dishes & mostly scratch. Loved Jiffy Popcorn! No pop was allowed. All juice freshly made from the fruit plus "Aguas Fresca", Jamaica, 🍍, etc. I did the same, no pop ever at home & fresh fruit drinks. More work, however great memories & very nutritional. Great memories. 😊 "Isa"
We still had issues in the 70's but yeah my favorite decade also!
I've never lost my love for shrimp cocktail. Yep hard to find nowadays so I make it at home for me and my wife. Who the hell ever fried their deviled eggs?? never heard of that till now. Yeah, quiche went away because it's a lousy meal. Not much of a snack, certainly not a meal, too-greasy excuse for a "light lunch", just never resonated with me. Remember back in the day when "Quiche-Eater" was a derogatory term? Ha, those were the seventies! Fondues....oh gosh so much effort to eat! Hamburger helpers, oh yes! And today's Hamburger Helper Beef Stroganoff is the best. Great video!
Its my favourite!
I never liked quiche either. Tried it once, thought it was disgusting. (Jan Griffiths).
Quiche is still a popular breakfast dish and is VERY healthy and delicious if made right.
“All I see are millions of frogs on tiny crutches” - Kermit the frog, The Muppet Movie (1979).
Yes! I love that movie!
Movin down the road, Footloose and fancy free. Getting there is half the fun come share it with me😁
My english teacher had a panel cartoon of a restraunt with a frog legs special in the window and a frog in a wheelchair outside😂
@@winkhorn I remember that one. 🤣 Poor Froggie!
I never ate frog legs and don't want to! Ew
Remember *boil -in -bag* ?
Before microwave ovens became small/affordable/available, frozen beef 'n gravy would be sold in sealed plastic bags. You could take the bags out of the freezer and them into a stove-top pan of boiling water. I can still remember seeing my mother bring the entire pan of boiling water to the dinner table, and we would then "fish" the individual bags out of the pan. On your dinner plate, you had to figure out how to get the darn bag "slitted" open, so you could eat.
I am 73. I get a Pineapple Upside Down Cake once a year, every year...on my Birthday.
I remember when my new wife of 2-3 months had the flu in 1974, the year we got married. I made dinner for 2-3 days in a row for us. Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper was one of those meals. Another one was Hamburgers, made on a grill outside, and the other one was some kind of Swanson TV dinner.
We got a "Poppy Red" Fondue Pot as a wedding gift though I was never a fan of cheese fondue . Swedish Meatballs and sweat & sour meatballs were always a favorite of mine when we entertained at home, along with deviled eggs.
We have deviled eggs 2-3 times a year, usually with a holiday meal. I am going to try the ones that they rolled in Bread crums and fried. They looked good.
This was a fun video. Shame on all you complainers about what was included. If you don't like it, move on, and make your own videos.
Or using bisquick for impossible pies
I am also 73 and have gotten pineapple upside down cake for my birthday a l so since I was around 16 years old. After mother was unable to make it my daughter took over and makes it for me. ❤😀
My 1st wedding was Christmas Eve day 1977. I got the flu in January 1978, right after the blizzard of '78. Aaaaaah, what memories!
pineapple chicken sounds more like sweet and sour chicken/pork
Nope. It’s more like teriyaki.
At Panda, it’s called sweet fire chicken.
my mom used to make Rumaki =featuring bacon-wrapped chicken liver and water chestnut will steal the show at any cocktail party.
How funny..the guy in the frog costume is Charles Durning. You may remember him as Pappy O'Daniel from O Brother Where Art Thou.❤
Yes, yes! I did recognize him. I always think of him from "Tootsie".
I think of his character from The Hudsucker Proxy.
That was in the Muppet movie.
Every holiday table- OceanSpray Jellied Cranberry Sauce!
Still widespread. A basic test of US citizenship is to eat it since no European would do so.
We always had homemade.
I have at least 2 cans in my cabinet.
LOVE it! YUM!
I still use it but I'll take homemade whole berry sauce first!
I don't know how old you are, but back then we didn't call Chicken Kiev, chicken "keev." We pronounced it "kee-ehv."
Modern propagandists felt like changing the pronunciation like a year and a half ago. I will never call it KEEV.
@@JohnPrepuce Kind of IIke changing definitions, they just make chit up.
Like Peking duck won't become Beijing duck, I think chicken Kiev (two syllables) won't turn into one syllable any time soon.
One is the Russian pronunciation and one is the Ukrainian pronunciation. Calm down.
It is my understanding that the people who live in that city want the city pronounced Keev. because the Russians forced the Ki ev pronounciation on them against their will so now that they have some power they want it their way. I don't blame them. Now whether or not the dish's name should be changed I can see both sides of the arguement.,
By the comments, I’d say these were never forgotten and are still eaten today.
WHAT ETHNIC CUISINE IS BEEF STROGANOFF APART OF?
Yes...Im looking for my Mom's Cake Platter and Punch Bowl set...Gonna make myself an Upside down Pineapple Cake with a side of Jell-O Aspic.
My mother would make Swiss steak in her green electric skillet, served with mashed potatoes.
My mom makes that about once a month my kids love it
I must make Swiss steak for my son's birthday every year but have modernized by browning the steak in air fryer & then compiling in crockpot to cook on low at least 6 hours.
Avocado green? :-)
Mine too
Avocado green carpet, curtains & appliances...the 60's craze!
Thankfully, Hamburger Helper is still available and I love it!!
Me too! 😂
Me too! 😂
To full of chemicals. Make it from scratch. Taste so much better.
It used to cost less than a dollar.
I loved the one with the rice... havent been able to find it in years. have at least 3 of the others in the cabinet not... tuna helper too!
Ambrosia (fruit salad)
The earliest known mention of the salad is in the 1867 cookbook Dixie Cookery by Maria Massey Barringer. The name references the food of the Greek gods.
We always called it Hawaiian salad. I still love it.
Never could stand the stuff myself. My kids loved it. Lol
this so called watergate salad that he speaks of was always called pistachio salad and is always sold next to the Ambrosia salad in the deli :)
We called it Waldorf salad!
@@debbiejohnston494Waldorf salad didn't have pistachio pudding!
It had apple chunks, from the iconic Waldorf -Astoria hotel in New York.
I never had pineapple chicken, but we used to have apricot chicken.
What I remember are the wonderful cocktail parties. Everyone was beautifully dressed and hors d'oeuvres. were served all through night with drinks, by waiters hired for the evening, they were such wonderful evening's, everyone mingled and people actually spoke to each other. Often they were a prelude to the theatre, and we'd often go back to the host/hostess place afterwards for a nightcap and snacks.
Wow
Y’all had money
You sure as hell didn't live in a small town in the middle of Iowa.
Back when people learned how to make "small talk" as a life skill by observing their elders. Now THOSE were the days. You didn't bring up anything too serious or upsetting. The rule was to never bring up money, sex, religion, or politics. You might say, "Did y'all end up going fishing last week?" or "What a beautiful sweater -- did you make it yourself?" but never "How much was your bonus this year" or "I can't stand Nixon, I can't believe anyone voted for him." There was an art to it, and when Uncle Max had too much to drink and started grumbling about "the commies" it was time to bundle him out to his car and hand the keys to Aunt Rose to get him home safely before he ruined the party.
I koshered and then marinated chicken with Saucy Susan (made with apricots) and BBQ'd it. My in-laws made pigs of themselves! LOL
I koshered and then marinated chicken with Saucy Susan (made with apricots) and BBQ'd it. My in-laws made pigs of themselves! LOL
I remember spice cakes as a kid.❤
If you can't find spice cake mixes in stores, you can jazz up a white or yellow cake mix by adding spices to make spice cake. Do a search online for "how to turn a yellow cake mix into a spice cake mix"
I still make them.
Shrimp cocktail is terrific, with jumbo shrimp. I won't eat those micro-shrimp things
In the late 70s my friends and I were poor college students so we would each bring one ingredient for Taco Salad. We also would do the same thing for a bake potato bar...another 70s trend.
They have baked potato bars and macaroni cheese bars now
We used to do this in the 90’s for a work lunch
Great idea
Apparently this channel hasn't came out of the 70s, Cheese balls are still sold in stores, Hamburger helper is still sold in stores, Carrot Cake is sold in almost every buffet and restaurants, Ambrosia salad is still sold in grocery store delies in my area, Taco Salads can be obtained in so many restaurants and State fairs, Zucchini bread is found right next to carrot cakes,
Carrot cake is not a common desert option at restaurant. I have never seen an ambrosia salad in a grocery store. Zucchini bread is sold a farmers market or craft fairs but not sold in restaurants
Couldn't find any other parades to rain on, eh?
Wrong
You must be In New York or Cali Bay area. Those are the islands for nostalgic dishes. Throughout the rest of the nation these dishes are rare. The one exception is carrot cake. No one is eating the trst
I see Carrot Cake at my favorite diner's cake & pie case almost every time I go in.. unfortunately, it's nowhere as good as my mom's was. 😕
My mom used to make orange juice chicken. No, not Panda Express orange chicken. I'm talking about braised chicken made with sauteed onions, garlic, other seasonings and orange juice. She used to serve it with rice and some kind of green vegetable, usually broccoli. The savoriness of the chicken and the sweetness of the orange juice work really well together.
My mom did something similar with mandarin orange slices, but it didn't turn out very well and I sipped on my milk often during those dinners!
Minute Maid frozen, right?
@@carolynhunt7333 Minute Maid was common, but she would use whatever was on sale.
Beef Stroganoff is still with us. And it is a 19th century dish that has always been popular.
What do you call a cow that masturbates ? Beef Stoke an off
It goes back to the time when Napoleon Bonaparte hosted Russian general Stroganoff for dinner. The general had bad teeth, so Napoleons chef designed a soft dish that he would have little trouble chewing.
@@emmitstewart1921 Not a single word of that is even remotely true
Lots of people make deviled eggs today. It’s a favorite for parties and pot lucks. I have a friend who makes the best ever deviled eggs and when he shows up with a platter of them they are gone immediately.
FamiIy reunion pot Iuck Iast year: Swedish meatbaIIs, taco saIad, deviIed eggs, carrot cake, bacon wrapped water chestnuts, SLOPPY JOE'S, puIIed pork, homemade sausage and saurkraut, fried chicken, fruit bowI, homemade pies and cookies and a whoIe Iot more.
@truthmatters8241 At our last Family Reunion it was A LOT of Fried Chicken, Pulled Pork, baked beans, pinto beans, Mexican Cornbread, various potato dishes, mayo based salad & dozens of different desserts. Lol
@@kkaye76 Yummy!
Didn't get past #1. We eat frog leg dinners all through Lent in south Louisiana, and any time we can. I'm glad y'all not eating them. We never stopped. More for us!! Taking your kids gigging is a bonding thing.
We eat frog legs all the time down here in Ga.
And deviled eggs
@@mstrt3749 deviled eggs on there? That's crazy. At any Sunday or gathering several people bring loads of them and there's never any left over. I think yankees made this list
@@checoniapw1273 Definitely wasn't someone from the south!
That's ok though, different people, different cultures my friend!
Agreed. Still very popular here in Florida.
Not hard to find frog legs in Vegas restaurants.
TAB was introduced in 1963, not the 1970s. However, it became very popular in the 70s.
I miss Tab !
Ugh. That was the nastiest soda ever.
@@Linda7647 I thought Moxie was the nastiest but yeah Tab was right up there as one of the nastiest. 🤢
@@SassyPumpkins1313 I've never heard of Moxie.
@@Linda7647 it was vile. Might have only been in New England. Was one of my older brothers fav soda 🤢
@13:44 - He's all, "Just add the Helper mix to ground beef & pasta, and POOF!! Dinner is served!!" And, I'm like: "POOF!! You have to cook it, first!!😂😂😂
Man beef stroganoff didn’t go away at all. I can’t speak for other families but we still have a cheeseball at every get together. I’m expected to bring a cheeseball to all the friend gatherings to this day.
Remember when every steak house served Steak Diane and Chateaubriand? My Mom still cranks out classics like lemon poppyseed cake, pineapple upside down cake, Italian easter pie, beef stroganoff, corbin steak, chicken cacciatore, chicken cordon bleu, pork chops with apple sauce, and sardine bread... and still makes _the_ best Amish apple dumplings - drizzled with warm vanilla pudding of course!
Steak Diane was one of my father's favorites. I miss you, Dad😢.
Beef Stroganoff is the Wednesday night special at a restaurant near us. Always sells out.
Can we come over for dinner?
And Carrot Cake.
Sardine bread sounds interesting and delicious. I will look up a recipe, thanks.
I love Watergate salad. We’ve always called it the green stuff.
Ambrosia is similar.
Glad I missed it.
Fondues were a compulsory wedding present back in the 70s. We did chocolate covered fruit in ours too.
Yes and punch bowls.
@@Barbarian-tw6jf - freeze little toy spiders in ice cubes for Halloween cocktails
Fondue was mostly a party thing. As I knew it, you filled the pot with cheese, melted it with the little lamp that sat under the pot. Then you had a platter covered with chunks of bread. You speared the bread on the long forks that came with the set ,dipped it in the melted then ate it. Mostly it was an occasion to drink lots of wine.
@@emmitstewart1921 That's cheese fondue, as opposed to the meat fondue in the video.
When I make cheese fondue I use a regular nonstick pot, and make it right on the stove. Temperature control is super easy and the pot is easier to clean.
Still pretty cheap to make.
Anyone remember Carnation Breakfast Squares. I miss them to this day
Yes! I do!
Yes! I remember those and the "instant breakfast" that was basically a milkshake. We rarely had those, but asked for them a lot.
@@loufancelli1330 they actually still make those.
They were really, really good! I miss them, too
Cannot forget.
Nope, you got the shrimp cocktail that we ate in the 70’s all wrong. You showed how we eat it now back then it was different, especially the sauce.
Sau-Sea jarred shrimp cocktail came in glass jars that could be used as juice glasses afterwards. They were tiny shrimp in cocktail sauce. They came in sets of 3 for something like $1.25.
@@richardvinsen2385yes! I used to have a few of them. A somewhat cheap snack, pretty decent!
You are absolutely correct. Even the Sea Pac shrimp cocktail sold in glass jars (sadly no longer) is more authentic than what's shown here.
I don't know anyone or any restaurant that serves what looks like 1000 island/remoulade sauce base with shrimp cocktail. Tomato-horseradish cocktail sauce the proper.
Carrot cake, zucchini bread, bundt cakes, pineapple upside-down cake, deviled eggs, watergate salad (and watergate/pistachio cake), taco salad, ambrosia salad, etc. are all still common to make.
Hamburger Helper still exists as well.
It's true, all of these were popular in the 1970s, but the costs quoted are too high for most. I was an earner in the 70s and considering the minimum wage was about $1.60 to $2.60 per hour anything back then that would've $1.50 per serving would be about $15.00 today... unaffordable unless you were splurging. I remember a can of green beans being $0.06 cents, a loaf of bread being $0.15 cents, and a pound of ground beef being $0.75 per pound. Gasoline was $0.39/gallon in the early 70s and $0.59 cents by the late 70s.
I didn't work until 76 but I remember getting 4 loaves of bread in a brown grocery bag for a buck and whole chickens were around 1.10 each, depending on weight. Easter special on eggs was 29 cents/dozen
When mom was filling up the mustang she would tell me to get a $5 out of her purse... and she would come back with change!
@@sandi-midnight-mueller6550 I remember those days.
In these days $2 could get ya hamburger fries & medium drink for under$2 not to mention the burger was about double the size of today's regular burger😮
They were delicious.
Interesting. Most of these food dishes were regular fare long before the 70s, and many still are. There were a couple I'd never heard of before, too.
My brother and his wife and infant were living in a housing project shortly after Vietnam. He had a job, as a salesman, but his pay was commissions, and he was not a good salesman. I was over at their apartment one day and when my sister-in-law was taking care of my nephew in the other room, I had looked into their fridge to see if there was anything to drink. All that was in there was a partial bottle of milk. I asked my sister-in-law why, and she said they had no money to buy food, so they were feeding my nephew watered down milk, my sister-in-law was eating a half sandwich of peanut butter every day and my brother was eating what he could beg off co-workers at his job. I went home and told Mother and we decided to step in. I was medically retired from the Army so I had commissary privileges. I would go out there and buy baby formula for my nephew, and lots and lots of hamburger helper meals for my brother and his wife. He was eventually offered a job and so I had moved in with them for a few months to drive him to work until he had gotten enough money to make a down payment on a car. I liked hamburger helper back then and still like it. I think it seriously helped save their health and getting the baby formula out there at the base I know saved my nephew. BTW that was before food stamps and even when they first came out, you had to buy them, and with him not really making any money he would not have been able to take advantage of the program.
Hahahaha! We still eat A LOT of these dishes! Just had Swedish meatballs last night, Hamburger Helper the other night and used our Fondue pot a couple of weeks ago and Quiche is a must have!!!! LOL!!!
I live in the Midwest, ambrosia salad is at every gathering, along with deviled eggs 😂
Sounds like Easter dinner table to me. 😊
No thanksgiving without ambrosia.
That and carrot salad at every church fathering. Shredded carrots, raisins and some sort of cream dressing.
carrot raison salad .....and peanut butter and raisins on a celery stick which we called "ants on a stick "
@@whatadollslife we called them “ants on a log” when I was in Girl Scouts. 🤭
Zucchini Bread was inflicted on families that had a garden with one zucchini plant. Having more than one zucchini plant made for a terrible neighbor. It still does.
Heh heh heh.
@@ghostladydarkling3250 Really? Lots of zuchinis if you have just 2 plants? Does it take a lot of room because I am considering finding out if they can be grown in zone 6 if you only need a couple of plants to have a decent harvest
@@jacquelinecallejas1390 They grow in Iowa just fine. I grew up eating zucchini (and zucchini bread) in the 70's and 80's so take my word for it.
P.S. have plenty of room in the garden, they take up room like pumpkins.
Well, Jacqueline, sometimes when the boy zucchini and the girl zucchini like each other very, very much...
I make stuffed zucchini with ground beef, shredded cheese and pasta sauce. It’s delicious!
So many of these are still available today...thank goodness 😊
The 1970s can keep frog legs, in my opinion.
I had it once, wasn't too impressed.
Mine too.
I tried them once at a Chinese buffet. Tastes like chicken, but those little feet as you eat the meat...🤢
Omg My father loved them 🤢
My favorite food from the 70s: Koogle peanut butter. Absolutely loved it, especially the cinnamon, vanilla, and banana flavors. Ate it every day after school.
I ate the living daylights out of Koogle! Mom read in Good Housekeeping, or some publication, how unhealthy it was (insane % of saturated fat) and stopped buying it. i remember throwing a hissy fit right there in Pantry Pride because she wouldn't buy any more... and got my backside warmed by her infamous paddle.
I was in kindergarten and enjoying my new favorite breakfast cereal when Dad sat down to have his scrapple and eggs. He took one look at the purple-hued milk in my bowl, gagged, and ran into the kitchen. I remember him yelling to Mom: "We buy these damn kids everything they ask for, but I want that purple shlt out of this house before I get home from work!" And so went my last bowl of Sir Grapefellow...
Wow , I do remember that stuff ... Wasn't there a Apple Cinnamon ???
@@C.Brown5150 I loved the cinnamon flavor but I can't recall any apple flavor. The only flavor of Koogle I didn't like was chocolate, which was downright disgusting. 😖🤮🤮
Skippy was mine! My loved Laura Scudder.
And do any of you remember fuffernutter? Marshmallow fluff with peanut butter.
🙏Bring back Chefs Surprise!! The boxed like Hamburger Helper with macaroni and (I believe, maybe kidney beans?) I absolutely loved it!!!
I first had frog legs in the late 50s and haven't had them since, but shrimp cocktail and deviled eggs are still on my menu. I hate ambrosia salad! Thanks for reminding me about my fondue pot and thanks for the memories!
I had them in the early 80s when I was barely into my school years. NOpe! no thanks.
When Anchor Inn was a popular restaurant with a bar as part of the place. I used to eat frog legs.
My dad would also cook up hamburger helper if he felt time was short. What is nice about hh is it's flexibility. Nowadays my man puts veggies into it. Like peas n carrots. Or what else we have in bags of mixed veggies. Also we put in different spices to add a boost to it.
One can still find cheese balls online like at Swiss Colony.
As for ambrosia salad. My dad only used canned fruits, grapes, & whipped cream. He would make his own whipped cream by using half n half.
When my dad made carrot cake he would throw in an extra large handful of carrots into it.
Betty Crocker Date Bars will forever be mourned by those of us old enough to remember it.
No, some of us are still trying to forget!
Homemade date bars are very delish
I use a 70s recipe
Please share recipe. Thank you@@YeshuaKingMessiah
Hamburger Helper is an inexpensive, tasty meal. I still make it quite often, albeit dressed up a little with extra veggies and spices. Yum ! 😋
Thank you for your service I love hamburger helper
I get the hamburger helper style in a bag from the free food pantry. But nothing beats the box of real Hamburger Helper.
Y’all are sick
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Here's a cooking tip: If you're too pressed for time to cook the ground beef, just upend a can of Alpo over the HH and voila! Nearly instant suburban gourmet dinner!
YUM ? You have no taste buds left do you ?
Tab came out in 1963. As a child and preteen, I used to walk to the local liquor store to get a cold Tab in the summer.
And back then all the soda was in glass bottles! I miss those...
Lord I tried tab when I was a kid in the 70s and my god I couldn’t stand it
Still love and make Carrot Cake. I have many requests for this for Birthday cakes.
It makes great muffins too.
Yep! That and my mom’s favorite: German chocolate cake!
Tab Cola had an interesting taste
You spelled awful wrong. Lol!
Tasted like toothpaste to me. I couldn't stand it. Glad it's gone.
That was my thought, no one wants Tab back. Makes me gag just thinking about it lol
Yuk.
It tastes like chemicals mixed with seltzer. Blecch and good bye!
What were devilled eggs doing on that list? They’ve never gone away and are still much loved.
Watergate salad is fabulous!
I remember the taco salad bar at Wendys..We could leave school for lunch (7th grade 1993) and would go there often.
The prices you quote mean nothing unless you also said the quantities. Also I had Deviled Eggs and Sweedish Meatballs in the 40s!
And still do!
I still make deviled eggs, shrimp cocktails and quiche lorraine and have two complete copper fondue sets from the 1940's for making fondue bourguignonne and two enameled fondue sets for making cheese fondue.
You are very cool.
" Taste evolved ( ... ) " - Rat milk , cockroach chips and meat made of trees . We're doomed ...
I still make cheese balls every holiday season.😋
Born in 1959, never heard of the pineapple chicken dish,all the rest of them yes
I knew it as sweet and sour chicken
It will always be KEY-EV, whether it's the chicken dish or the city. It was never pronounced any other way until about a year ago. But I'm not playing along. 😊
A lot of those foods were popular in traditional American cooking and can be found in cookbooks from the 50's and earlier. For instance, both Watergate salad and Ambrosia were of a type that actually was considered as salads in old-fashioned kitchens. Others I used to see in restaurants as a kid.
Daddy Jack the first guy who was making beef stroganoff in this video he owned a restaurant in New London, Connecticut he lived near to me on the Groton side of Mystic, Connecticut, he passed away a few years ago, met him a few times really good guy and chef RIP Daddy Jack 👨🏼🍳🙏🏼🌹🕊️♥️
I noticed that also I've watched all his videos I was so sad when he passed away may he rest in peace
I was sad to learn he passed away. I really enjoy his cooking videos.
That sucks! I use his chocolate bourbon pecan pie recipe all of the time and its a huge hit! Love his cooking videos and plan on trying some more. RIP Brother!
You’re so lucky you got to meet him! I still watch his videos. They relax me. He was the best. RIP Daddy Jack, cooking with the blues.
0:50 frog legs, 2:07 watergate salad, 3:20 shrimp cocktail, 4:37 pineapple chicken, 5:54 devilled eggs, 6:53 Tab, 8:20 Harvey Wallbanger cake, 9:38 rumaki, 10:46 quiche lorraine, 11:58 fondue bourguignon, 13:19 hamburger helper, 14:35 cheese balls, 15:36 carrot cake, 16:33 beef stroganoff, 17:48 ambrosia, 18:54 eggs Benedict, 19:57 taco salad, 21:04 zucchini bread, 22:02 chicken kiev, 23:17 swedish meatballs.
Deviled eggs were around LONG before the 70s
And never left.
"It's not fried. It's Shake n Bake. And I helped."
I believe that's pronounced, "halpd"
My grandma used to make Harvey Wallbanger cake. Delicious! I found her old recipe and made it for a cakewalk at my work once, and everyone loved it!
I love the idea of this cake! It’s so different from the drink. 🤭
Devilled egg is referenced on the old DENNIS THE MENACE show, starring Jay North in the late 19t0's
Tab was introduced in 1965. The sweetener was changed from Saccharine to Cyclamate in c1968, until that was banned in '6i9. With Saccharine it was horrible. It's comanion was a citrus concoction called Fresca, equally horrible.
Being 78 I remember these quite well
Daddy Jack Chaplin making the beef stroganoff from 2010. He passed 2021 RIP, his channel remains with many great recipes
If you remember the '70s, you weren't there.
That saying orginated for the sixties but equally true for the seventies 😅
Im 20 and very thankful that i was able to try some of these recipes. Watergate salad is a fave.
Another 70s dish you found in every restaurant, sliced avocado and grapefruit salad. I still love it. And the decor was always the same. You had to bat away all the hanging fern fronds , like as not, they hung from rattan or macramed pot holders.
I still make avocado and grapefruit salad.
Me too, it's simple to make, healthy and delicious.@@tanikokishimoto1604
I would like to bring back those 70 prices.
Beef Stroganoff was around way before the 70's.
I don't think he was talking about when foods were 'invented' but when they became so popular for a phase. Beef Stroganoff - as I recall from culinary history books - came into being about mid 1800's or so.
Yeah but the seventies version used ground beef and Liptons onion soup.
Thanks for a walk down memory lane! I remember so much of that growing up in the 70s.
This video takes me down “Memory Lane”, I’d love recipes for these wonderful dishes.
I have all of them from my mom and grandmother... But I'm sure google can help you out there... Most of them are still being made everyday, they aren't really "forgotten" :)
0:46 Frog legs are still largely consumed all over the world....Maybe the restaurant that was in business back than, no loner exists.
Is that Charles Durning playing the part of Doc Hopper? It sounds like him.
That was him !
The pronunciations are hilarious! The last one though had me seriously rolling. Lesion berry jam hahahahahaaaa
When I was a kid, my mom would make a big batch of Hamburger Helper Cheeseburger Macaroni once a week. She would make it in a dutch oven. It would last around 4 days. So pretty much that's all I ate for dinner for 4 years straight. I can't even look at a box of it now without getting nauseous.
I’m sry
It rly was grossss
We ate HH at least weekly
Tuna Helper too yay
My mom served it so often that I swore a solemn vow to never eat or serve it ever again.
Hamburger helper was FOUL!
I had carrot cake yesterday 😁
Hamburger Helper is still available in this day and time. I still love it.🥰