20 Forgotten Foods From The 1960s, We Want Back!
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- 20 Forgotten Foods From The 1960s, We Want Back!
Join us on a nostalgic journey as we rediscover the quirky and weird foods of the 1960s in our video, "20 Forgotten Foods From The 1960s, We Want Back!" Explore a curated list of these culinary gems that have faded into obscurity but still hold a special place in our hearts.
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Pineapple upside down cake is still my favorite!!
Mine too!
Me too
I make pineapple upside down Bundt cakes
I have everything to make a pineapple upside down cake in my pantry.
@@RoyalFlush7096 always
Pineapple upside-down cake still exists. It’s delicious.
Never made fruit cocktail cake. Blech.
@@VickiTakacs. Fruit cocktail cake? That sounds disgusting. Not the same as pineapple upside down cake.
@@VickiTakacs.
Give the old traditional English fruit cake a try !
Made from dried fruit.
It is a dessert in some restaurants I've been to. I also make it.
Exactly, we make it often!
Anybody remember Jiffy Pop Popcorn? You would move it over the burner, and the foil on top would expand into a dome as it popped. Also, I still make several of these dishes. Good food and economy are timeless.
It is still around. My friend buys it all the time
It’s still around. I love it ❤
Yes momma bought it, and we would all gather around and watch daddy cook it on the stove
You still can find Jiffy Pop.
I literally just made popcorn on the stove last week. I ran out of kernels but ALDI doesn't sell them and that's where I was doing groceries.
Ambrosia salad is alive and well in the Midwest. Every church supper.
It's also found Thankfully at "Buffets",. 😊 "Isa"
yes, along with most of these foods!
yes, and I can still smell the Swedish meatballs at the pot luck church suppers
Recipe please?
Just fine Down South In Georgia too
Swedish meatballs is still, and will probably always be a staple in Sweden. It's one of our national dishes. And based on the fact that IKEA sells 180 million of them every year I can't see how it's a forgotten dish around the world.
You are exactly right. Still going strong!
These never went out of style. And there's no substitute for IKEA, though we try.
Love Ikea food
We have Swedish meatballs every Christmas Eve and always have. And IKEA can’t match my Aunt Phyllis’ meatballs, although the Lingonberry and Cloudberry preserves are quite good.
Yeah. Was surprised to see that on here. I still love Swedish Meatballs. One I've never even HEARD of is 'Butter Mint Peas'. Can't figure that one out.
The death of the green bean casserole has been greatly exaggerated.
😂😂😂 I am 62 and believe it or not, somehow I have NEVER had green beans casserole!! I actually want to try it cause everyone I know says I am deprived 😂😂
@@lisabishop6266it’s nasty
I like green bean casserole. My bonus granddaughter likes to make it sometimes for big family meals at my son and DIL's home. Bet she'll do one for Easter dinner.
@@silkyswomanNot if made properly.
@@susanmorgan8833 I’m not a fan! I love green beans just without cream of mushroom soup on them. Just my preference
I loved many of these recipes. One that was missing from the list was the Chung King canned chop suey with the chop suey in one can and the crunchy noodles in the other. That was very exotic where I grew up and was a treat dinner in the early 60's. I'm so glad Asian cuisine is widely available now!
I used to love that canned chop suey too! In a fit of nostalgia I bought some a couple of years ago--yuck! Memories are still good though. Looking back, I imagine my mother served them as a "treat" now and then to give herself a break from cooking!
@@user-zb7uh2ob1r LOL - thanks for saving me a from trying it again. I couldn't imagine it would be as good as freshly made. Those crunchy noodles, though, they were so good. 😋
Oh my gosh, yes!
I just made it last week!
OMG, I remember eating that when I was a kid. I have like 4 cans of it now in my cabinet right now. I like it, sorta a fast tasty meal when you don't have time to cook. LOL
What? No meatloaf? No Marshmallow Fluff? Say, this is nostalgia: The whole family stopping whatever they were doing to sit down at table and eat a meal together. I would set the table for six - silverware and napkins and glasses. I made dinner and lined the plates up on the countertop and served each with a meat, vegetable, and "carb" . Everything was homemade. I usually also had a big bowl of green salad on the table and everyone passed the basket of bread and the butter. It was "Please pass the salt.", etc. No one shouted, ever cursed, - let's not even mention cellphones. You talked. Talked. "Conversation". A great art, now dead. - My brother spoke about lying on his bed, doing homework. He says he remembers the smell of pot roast (hey, there's another 60's favorite - affordable too) and roasted vegetables and wondering what was for dessert. - The best part was when he heard our mother call him: "Jimmy! Dinner's on the table." What an entirely different world it was. God bless America.
You are exactly right, the smells that would fill the house were so wonderful and we ate at the table trying to sneak the peas to the dogs ( we had two...Taffy & Trixie) once a year there was the homemade Root Beer and that was amazing. Didn't really eat Spam but we sure did eat Pot Roast. Thank you Mom for not feeding us TV dinners. I didn't feed them to my kids either and in my 70's I sure don't want to start 😂😂
Young people would never believe You. They never knew the pre communist state of existence
That was in the good old days. Now the meat stinks. All meatloaf tastes terrible. I've tried several recipes and have decided never to eat it again.
So So Grateful to be a Baby Boomer ❤ I could relate to your memories. I believe many of our Generation could as well 😢
If they ever brought back Swanson TV dinners in the foil tray, I would buy them instead of the TV dinners sold in heat resistant microwavable plastic containers. Back in the old days we weren't in a big hurry for everything. At a 20-25 minute baking time once you got home from work you just place your dinner in the oven 30 minutes before your favorite TV Show. It is my own opinion that the taste of a baked TV dinner is far superior from it's microwavable counterpart of today.
I SO agree!!! I keep buying TV dinners every few months, but yea, they are NO where near a good as the '60's foil ones 😢😢😢
When I was growing up, a microwave oven was about 6 feet tall, weighed about 750 pounds, had to be water-cooled, and cost, in today's dollars, up to $52,000 -- another good reason to use the regular oven! 😊
PorkChopJones,
When TV dinners first came out, they were intended to be just as nutritious as a regular (home cooked) meal. They were intended to a quick alternative to home cooking. And they tasted almost as good as my mother's cooking.
But modern TV dinners are not made to be tasty. They are made with the lowest cost ingredients and sold at the highest price that the company can get away with. Taste and nutrition are close to last on the list for the modern version of these things.
But then, for a society that eats "Hot Pockets" and "Tide Pods" I guess flavor doesn't matter. 😁
I bake mine in the toaster oven. The cardboard box is not damaged at all. Not even singed. But still not as good as the metal trays. Before the cardboard, before the aluminum foil, there was the heavy metal trays. I don't know if they were tin or solid steel, but there was no recycling ♻️ back then. It all got tossed in the 🚮 trash, all those heavy metal trays. We didn't even bat an eye!
I remember the vegetables having an unpleasant metallic tang from cooking in those aluminum trays.
Even with these kind of foods, most people back then were thin. The vast majority home cooked.
The covid isolation taught us that home cooking is definitely not the secret to a trim body. We're overweight because we eat too much and sit on our behinds, not because of what we eat. It started with restaurants competing with oversized portions of rich food, but they trained us to envision food as it looks in - for example - a Red Lobster ad - huge plates piled high in full color, coming at you on a big screen.
They had no preservatives and hormones girls have boobs at nine ugh😢
You can also thank pres. Regan (legalization of GMO's..... a continuous legal scientific experiment without final results).....
@@mooster47I would add huge portions and hormones in food as contributing to obesity today. Also snacking.
@@MarisaFrasure there has been a lot more studying of GMO's than the brief experiments with the COVID vax they're injecting in everyone.
I remember all these recipes. We ate at home and eating out was for special occasions and people were a whole lot thiner and you.talked about your day. This part of the 60s needs to come back❤
Highly processed foods heavy with sugar and artificial ingredients….TV dinners were made from the lowest food grades. What was “must have” in the 60s is what has ended up as obesity and diabetes.
True, I was always called skinny back then. Haven't heard that in years!
@@rashone2879😮 Baloney, in the 1980's agriculture in America changed. Our winter wheat was replaced by GMO wheat. It replaced the tall longer grain, with shorter, chubby grains meant to flatten up cattle & livestock. It's taken over all the US heirloom wheat now. And in the 80's & 90's is when obesity hit an outrageous number.
Yep. I agree.
I remember Family Reunions in Jackson Kentucky when about 25plus Southern cooks brought a covered Dish! So grateful to be a Baby Boomer 😊
Chop Suey in a can and Rice-a-roni in a box . . . .saw those commercials when Mom watched soap operas. . . . and "Shake and Bake chicken". . . and Jiffy Pop popcorn.
My mother used to serve Chef Boyardee spaghetti and meatballs *from a can.* Shockingly, they still make that 💩! I mean, really… it isn’t hard to brown some ground beef, boil some packaged pasta, and open a jar of marinara sauce. 🙄
I still love Rice-a-Roni. I steam broccoli with it and grate Asiago cheese over the top. It's a nice comfort food.
" It's Shake n Bake, and I helped""" that's a running joke w a friend of mine 😂 I make my own version of Rice a Roni for 30 plus yrs now, can't get enough. But how I used to gobble down Spaghetti O's is beyond me now! I grabbed a can a few yrs ago, and tossed 99 percent of it out, SO gross 😂😂😂. And a few yrs ago, I actually found a box of Quisp cereal w the Lil Martian guy 😂😂😂
The "Shake & Bake" commercial with the little Southern girl "and I helped" was too funny. That was a heavy accent.
Chop suey in a can always tasted awful.
My Dad's specialty was tuna casserole. He would open an extra can of tuna, which we would snack on while he was making the tuna casserole. Good old Dad. ❤
Beautiful memories, thanks for sharing 🥰
With potato chips crumbled on top??
@@blessedKSMom I wonder if Fritos would go well too 😅
Did he put peas in it?
@@PaulWhitcomb-ty6md of course!
My mom made a casserole called Chicken Glop, canned chicken, cream of mushroom or chicken soup, peas, mixed up with crushed potato chips and topped with more crushed potato chips. As a child in the 50s we thought it was wonderful.
I'm 76. It's kind of scary that I've eaten just about all of these, even know how to make most of them. I have Braunshweiger (liverwurst) in my fridge right now! I absolutely have to make pineapple upside-down cake sometime. It was a family faveorite.
74 and I have all of the makings for a pineapple upside down cake…. Plan on making one this week.
Then you,madam, remember that liver wurst came in beef. My father and I were mad when we couldn't the beef one in the mid 70s
I love a great d mustard and onion liverwurst sandwich.
Cherry
My favorite was boar's head with raw onion and mayonnaise which on its own, I really disliked but with liverwurst on an onion roll. OMG. I have been Vegan for over 30 years but yes, I did love the stuff. Go figure?😉
Pineapple upsidedown cake never faded into obscurity, nor did several of these other things you mentioned.
They're not as common, but they are still alive, if people want to take the time to cook. Pineapple upside down cake was delectable and almost everyone loved it. Come to think about it, I haven't made it in a long time. Time to dig out the recipe. I know it can be made with cake mix, but I really try to avoid chemical laden foods, which is probably why people back in the 60's weren't usually overweight. I'll make it from scratch the way my mother and grandmother did. It's not hard.
@@hatchling88Not for illegals.
@@BiblicalFE illegals?....
When was the last time anyone had a Jell-o mold with vegetables? 🤢
Hated Jello with vegetables. Especially the Cole slaw one.
When my mother made Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, she would put the pineapple rings in the pan, then a maraschino cherry in the middle of each ring. All remaining spaces were filled with pecans -- yummy! When I was in elementary school, Health Salad was sometimes on the menu -- chopped salad vegetables molded in Lemon Jell-O -- delicious! That was in the days when the lunch ladies prepared everything homemade -- microwave ovens were rare, huge, and extremely expensive.
Ah! Thank you for the info on the pecans! We may have had that as kids because I do remember there being an additional ingredient, and that might have been it or you've given me a great new idea!
@@iahelcathartesaura3887 I'm getting in the mood for pineapple upside down cake, myself. When I see one without pecans, it looks sort of naked to me!
My youngest daughter is actually head cook at a school and she does make a lot from scratch. And I have gotten on " leftovers" and for school food, most is pretty darn good. Better than what I remember from the '60's and '70's.
@@lisabishop6266 It's good to know there are still schools doing things the right way! 😊👍
We still make carrot jell-o all the time, orange jell-o, shredded carrots, and cruished pineapple,
I still make Upside-Down Pineapple Upside Down Cakes AND Jello Salads…..yum!
My Grandmother used to make PUDC for every Sunday dinner in the 60's when I was growing up!
Pineapple upside down cake is my favorite cake of all time! I want to go make one now! With some tuna casserole! That stuff was yummy!
I missed the part about SPAM, because I was remembering how wonderful Jello salads were.
Yours end up right-side-up.
Some TV dinners had chocolate pudding or cake in a little square in the top middle, which was the only dessert we got!
Swanson still makes TV dinners with cake or fruit cobbler in the middle.
Hungryman T.V. dinner with Saulsberry steak is served with a brownie. I like that dinner to. LOL
Hungry Man and others are still found in American supermarkets. I still indulge every once in a while.
The corn always drifted into mine 😢
Lime Jello... Crushed pineapple... Cottage cheese... Chopped walnuts...YUM!
Was it cream cheese ? I remember this one and the strawberry one. And you are very right, yum !
My grandmother used to make this same exact green jello salad for us and I always loved it! 💕
Lime Jello... Crushed pineapple... chopped celery... chopped walnuts...but Miracle Whip instead of cottage cheese. That's the version I grew up with and still love!
That's exactly how my grandmother made it. It was delicious. She got the recipe from her friend Babe, so it was always called "Babe's Salad".
Or sour cream instead of cottage cheese.
I remember back in the '70's, Mom would buy a big box of Jello and i would make it, pour into glasses, saving 1/2 to " froth" up w a handmixer, then pour that on top of the semi set Jello. By dinner time, it was all set nicely, add some fresh fruit and Cool Whip and myself and my brothers were very happy!
Hmmmm, I seem to remember a jello concoction that was called 3-2-1 or something, it came in a box. It had 3 different layers and I loved it.
The sixties were not without problems, yet America was a great nation. I fear we are losing our great country. Sad.
I use 2 cans of drained crushed pineapple for my upside down cake because I want pineapple in every bite. I use the juice in place of the liquid in the cake batter and apple sauce in place of the oil. Yum. When ever my mom made angel food cake there was alos a chiffon cake as one used the egg whites and other used the yolks. Nothing went to waste back then unlike today.
I still drag out the fondue pots occasionally - usually on New Year's Eve. We do one for cheese (bread cubes & veggies) and one for chocolate (with cake and fruit). Some people do an oil fondue for chicken or beef (but it's hard to keep these hot enough).
😂😂😂 back in the '70's , Mom was super into fondue etc. She invited her parents over for dinner and all night all we heard was Grandpa b*thing cause he had to cook his own food!!! What kind of hostess, especially his own daughter, would make him cook his own food!!!!
You can get an electric fondue pot (I have one by Cuisinart) for oil fondue. The ceramic pots with the alcohol burners don't get hot enough, you're right.
I absolutely loved all the Swanson TV dinners. My parent's both worked during the late 1960's and we frequently had these for dinner.
My father didn't cook very often but he made a really good tuna noodle casserole with the crushed potato chips on top as mentioned in this video.
Tuna Casserole, no noodles!!
@@catnip824 No noodles? What did you have in the casserole?
Just tuna by itself?
@@catnip824It's kind of hard to make tuna noodle casserole without noodles 😅
@suzannelawson9215 Just Tuna, cream of Mushroom or Celery soup, green peas, Potato chips on top. We just called it, "Tuna Casserole", and IDK why my mom didn't use noodles.
My mom was a professional cook, but in her day(1908 born)when women got married they could no longer work, but she cooked great meals at home. It was a treat to eat a TV dinner GO FIGURE or Chef Boy Ardee spaghetti and meatballs. I guess she was tired as she aged in doing all the housework.
I still make most of what is on your list of recipes. I was born in 1958, so may of these items are comfort food for me. My husband is not a fan of cake but he loves Pineapple Upside down Cake and I make that quite often. The recipes are very cost effective which help when you are on a fixed income so I will keep these recipes alive in our house. But not the weird Jello casseroles! I love jello and have it in my cupboard all the time but I only add fruit to it as I never liked the more odd combos!
I was also born in 1958. We ate everything on this list, and I still make many of them, too! Yummy! My mother is a very up to date groovy lady!
Me too. Also a 1958 baby.
That chiffon cake they show is actually an angel food cake
Angel food doesn't contain oil; chiffon does.
@@maryjackson1194Came here to point this out as well. The crumb looks similar but the texture is different.
It does look like one, but of course the oil. I've never had one and must look into it.
Mom always made chiffon cake which I disliked. I should try to make it now to see if I still dislike it.
I hated tomatoes as a kid and now I really like them.@@selectiveoutrage6617
tv tray + tv dinner + Mr MaGoo = Good Nite!
My brother and I couldn't wait for the wonderful world of Disney on Sunday nights. Bed time at 8 PM.
And Wild Kingdom w Marlin Perkins and Jack Hanna!!
I make my Waldorf salad with apples celery walnuts dried cranberries and I use lemon yogurt for the dressing it is delicious and people just love it very refreshing give it a try you'll love it
That sounds wonderful, with lemon yogurt! 🍋
@@MeowingKittyCat really lightens it up and it's perfect in the summer when it's hot
@@AnitaKraft-ux9qk I have to try it soon YUM
In Australia I make a smoked chicken Waldorf salad with apples, cucumber, celery, chopped pecans bound together with a small amount of mayonnaise. Great summer dinner straight from the fridge. 🇦🇺🦘🦘🇦🇺
@@mitzigaynor-rz5zn Bet you got inspired by an episode of Fawlty Towers. 😁
I make green bean casserole for Thanksgiving and Easter dinners. Every bit is eaten. My kids grew up on Vienna Sausages, a great low carb snack! My favorite jello salad is called ‘Watergate Salad’ which is made with pistachio jello, minced pistachios, marshmallows, Cool Whip, and a can of crushed pineapple. My family loves fried Spam for breakfast.
1-pineapple upside down cake
2-jello salad
3-spam
4-frozen dinners
5-Swedish meatballs
6-fruit cocktail cake
7-tuna casserole
8-chicken ala king
9-fondue
10-tang
11-space food sticks
12-ambrosia
13-liverwurst
14-chiffon cake
15-Hawaiian punch
16-creamed chipped beef
17-Waldorf salad
18-Vienna sausage
19-butter mint peas
20-green beans casserole
Not just Hawaiian Punch... BOOZY Hawaiian Punch. Can't forget the booze, lol
I lived through the 50s and 60s and ate, pretty much, all of these. In the mid-60s I was a wife and mother who cooked a lot of them. I used ground beef instead of dried beef to make SOS. I still make it occasionally.
How ya make beef gravy?
@@gsabo1000 Do you want to know how to make roast beef gravy or SOS gravy.
I used dried corned beef. The dried beef in the jar is not the same as the thin sliced dried beef in a bag. I'm in Chicago and have not seen dried beef. I depend on Stoffer's.
I was an Army cook/baker in the late 60’s early 70’s. I would make 17 pineapple upside down cakes for the day. 17 cakes would give 102 servings. Never did make creamed chipped beef, S.O.S. was for the Marines. Did make Waldorf on occasion.
Stan, did you make barbeque beef made with tumeric? My Grandmother got the recipe from a Marine cook. It is my favorite! Thanks for your service!
I ate ground beef milk and flour SOS every morning for eight weeks apr to Jun 1960 at Ft Benning Ga.
@@delallegood5799 So sorry to hear about the food torture you endured. I was stationed at a small missile base in RI, and as first cook I placed the ration order. We were 90 miles from Fort Devens and only 20 miles from Newport Naval Base. The Army figured it would be cheaper for us to buy our rations from the Navy, by doing so we didn’t follow the Army wide menu which was great news for our battery. Getting to the point, no one ever asked for SOS which means I never ordered the chipped beef. I do know there was a recipe using ground beef, flour, milk, salt, pepper and bay leaf.
You sir are my hero.
@@user-py4kh1ho4t No, among other ingredients I used cumin. The recipe I’ve developed works with every one who has tried it. Although the addition of turmeric may enhance the recipe I’m loath to try it. The most difficult thing to do with a recipe is to get the exact combination and exact measurements of the ingredients. If I was given the recipe in it’s entirety I would give it a try.
I made pineapple upside down cake last week. It was really good. I made it in a cast iron frying pan. My mom didn't buy "convenience foods" but when I stayed with my grandmother, she used to treat me to tv dinners, Twinkies and Jiffy Pop Popcorn (as fun to make as it is to eat)! I never had fruit cocktail cake --I feel like I missed out! Chicken a la King goes back at least to the 1930s, when it was considered "gourmet" fair. There's an old Bette Davis movie, she plays a pretentious Midwestern housewife who is about to serve it at a dinner party. Her maid says, "How am I supposed to serve this Chicken a la King goo?" To which Bette Davis answers, "Over toast, like the magazine says." 😊
In the eighties I made turkey a la king with our left over turkey from the holidays. My son, absolutely loved it served over toasted bread.
@@DLHH407 My mom did that too with Thanksgiving leftovers. It was good!
😅 That was my Grandmas Overnight menu. I loved making Jiffy Pop with her.
My Grams made a Really Good Fruit Cake. It's still is a Family Recipe among 17 grandkids. She would be 124 yrs old if a live today.
I haven't made one in a while but I really do like them so I've decided it's on the menu next week and I'll take it over to my son's to share. I don't think the grandkids have tasted one but I think they'll enjoy it. I know my son and daughter in law will.
the cast iron gives it a special caramelized 'sugar crust' on the edges that I've loved for decades.
My family made Ambrosia every Christmas but we didn't use only canned fruit. We added sliced bananas, chopped walnuts and apples. We used bananas because mama always had bananas. The apples and walnuts were for a crunchy surprise. I love Ambrosia. I don't make it much anymore because - well - I'm the last of us alive and it's a lot of preparation for a 1 person dessert. But, it sure made a pretty and colorful dish when put on the table. I miss those days.
AND COCONUT
OMG I loved that mustard roasted fish with fingerling potatoes, making that together with my dear husband is a very sweet memory
Pineapple upside down cake appears in my mom's 1950 Betty Crocker Cookbook. We had it often well before the 60's, and it was probably not new in 1950. I still make it now and then. Probably most of these items predate the 60's, other than Tang. Waldorf salad dates to 1893 and is still very popular.
i get that cake every year as my birthday cake...im 60
There are several of these I still enjoy today. I love pineapple upside down cake and make it a few times a year. I also like using peaches instead of pineapple for a different spin on it. I also like liverwurst (braunschweiger), spam, vienna sausages, waldorf salad, creamed chipped beef, and Swedish meatballs.
My uncle bought liverwurst in 3 ft long tubes, he died at 43😮
@@BELINDA_Lane I've only ever bought the 6 inch ones and I'm now 44. he should have learned about moderation.
@@boogiedaddy3434 Too late, plus 3 packs Pall Mall unfiltered a day,, he died mowing his yard
Braunswager on rye with red onions brown mustard and mayo
Orange sherbet and 7Up
I used to love TV dinners but .98 per dinner makes a $7 dinner for the family seem expensive given the income at that time.
Honestly I don’t know how my parents did it - all the while providing for us everything we needed. RIP Dad & Mom - I love you forever ❤
This sounds weird, but I liked the metallic taste of TV Dinner's aluminum tray and foil cover. My favorite was sliced turkey, peas, gravy, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce.
Every wedding in the 1970’s had at least one fondue pot on the gift table. Getting 2 was ok because you could have one with raw meat and another for sweet dessert.
Or for cheese fondue, which was delicious!
Loved mine back then.
the only thing i don't recall having is the mint peas. Everything else, my mom served us. She's 97 and still an excellent cook!
Me either. Never heard of them.
This guy is busy telling you how cheap everything was back then; but, he didn't tell you that minimum wage was $1.60 per hour. A house that cost $40,000 would now go for $400,000 and that just means it sells for exactly the same price; because, things are ten times more expensive now than they were back then. One difference is the tax rate. A man could afford to support his family and allow his wife to stay at home. Now BOTH have to work.
In 1964 our parents bought our 2900 sf house for $25,000. According to Zillow it is now worth $430,000. The county appraised it at 397,000 so I guess the actual value is somewhere in between. Either way we sold it many years ago for half that amount. What I just learned three minutes ago is that the county based its estimate on a 2500 sf house. I guess they never found out about the back porch conversation.
Also, women have been in the workforce since the the dawn of humanity. The Cleaver family was a myth cooked up by Hollywood and advertisers. Yes, there were families fortunate enough to have stay-at-home moms, but many were not, and supplementary income from women was necessary. It's fun to romanticize a past that never existed, but that doesn't make it true.
My dad made $100 a week in 1962. That year he bought a modest three bedroom house for $13,900, some new furniture and a new car. House payment was $95 a month. He had two kids. Money definitely went farther than it does today.
Exactly, in 1961 my parents bought and built our home for $21,000. Cdn. Due to dad’s work we had to sell the house in 1971 as he was offered a transfer with a promotion, which he accepted (a mistake he regretted. It was a plan out of a magazine and it is still the house I would love to build again if I had the funds and the land. Long before my parents passed away I told them I would love to rebuild that house and daddy said it would be too expensive now.
Women have always been a part of the workforce. Mythologizing the past might feel good, but that doesn't make it true.
I make green bean casserole for every big holiday dinner :)
I do as well but I make mine from scratch and it is YUMMY!
I love green bean casserole and make it every Thanksgiving. We all love it.
I have seen stores in my area sell out of mushroom soup and green beans between Thanksgiving and Christmas in my area.
My mom's tuna noodle casserole was to die for. So good!
We used to call Chiffon Cake - Angel Food Cake. It was my birthday cake request every year growing up. Mine had fresh strawberries or fresh cherries, blended with sugar either inside the cake or as a frosting/topping for the cake. It was magical - yum 😋!
Chiffon cake and angel food cake are completely different cakes. They were showing pictures of Angel food cake, which has no fat and no egg yolks, while talking about chiffon cake, which has oil and egg yolks.
Oh, the memories!
A time when canned or frozen weren't synonyms for cheap or artificial.
My mom got married in 1957, getting a GE electric skillet as a gift. It came with a recipe for pineapple upside down cake. I never had it in an iron skillet, I though it was only made in the GE. The best parts were the butter brown sugar mixture that cooked at the side of the skillet in chewy rivulets. Topped with a pineapple sauce concoction, this was my favorite birthday cake for many years.
I make a drizzle from the syrup from the can, poke holes in the cake with a skewer and then pour the syrup over it so it's absorbed into the cake. I don't know if other people do this but I imagine they do.
@@kezkezooie8595 awesome
@@kezkezooie8595 😋
My children are retirement age. I truly believe they are the last generation for whom “made from scratch” was the rule rather than the exception.
Yes. Born in 1962 to parents born in 1917 and 1920. Everything was homemade and since my father worked as a USDA meat and poultry inspector, we didn't have a lot of processed meat unless he had inspected the place it was made. The only time I remember eating potato chips as a child was when my mother made them from scratch once. I taught myself to bake from a 1949 Betty Crocker cookbook which was still full of from-scratch recipes. Bisquick was as "convenience-food" as the recipes got.
Who has time to cook from scratch today? Now I'm old and too exhausted. Give me a jar of Prego and some noodles and that's as good as it gets. If I cook up some hamburger to throw in the sauce be happy.
Swedish meatballs are very much NOT made with a lingonberry sauce (which is a deep purple red for goodness sake). Swedish meatballs are served with a beefstock/cream/flor/butter gravy, occasionally with a bit sour cream - and lots of pepper. Some of these dishes are really more 70's than 60's.
I agree, I said the same thing that these are really 1970s foods. And no American I ever knew made a "lingonberry sauce" or even knew what that was.
In Sweden it IS served with lingonberry sauce!
@@jelenedresslerIkea served them with lingonberry sauce!!
I do remember Lingonberry Sauce on the side. Love love love it still to do this day. Yum! "Isa"
I still make pineapple upside down cake. Making one tonight, as a matter of fact. Yum yum.
I still drink Tang. SOS, in various versions (hamburger, sausage) is still popular today. I eat it often.
Tang is great with tequila.
Metamucil tastes like Tang! LOL
I LOVE pineapple upside down cake. Those caramelized pineapples are SO good!
I still have my grandmothers chiffon cake recipe. Its delish. But hers calls for oil ad whole egs separated and the whited whipped to stiff peaks and fokded in. The yolks were mixed in with the other ingredients. Grandpa made $69 a week, but meat and staples were all we bought. We had a huge garden and we canned everything. If they bought a half a beef or a pig. Grandma would package some of the meat to take to the locker, which was where our berries went. We sugar cured and smoked our bacon, hams and some of the pork chops. Then she canned everything else. She would fry the sausage patties but not brown them. She then put them in a wide mouth canning jar along with the juices and the grease. Then if we had sauage for breakfast, she would dump them in the skillet and fry till well browned and the natural juices reabsorb. Us kids pulled weeds in the garden and flower beds, picked vegetables and snapped beans and shelled peas while grandma got her house work done, then shed sit outside with us and help.
TV dinners used to be a treat for us when my parents were going out to dinner. SPAM is still popular in Hawaii - probably the only place in the world where it is!
nope SPAM really popular in Japan
One of the restaurants at Disneyworld's Polynesian Village Resort has SPAM on the breakfast menu. My hubby had it.
Oh, here in NC my husband loves it.
Spam is popular in the Southwest
I love tuna casserole, liverwurst & pineapple upside down cake, but only have them occasionally, as carbs/salt/ultra processed foods weren’t a concern years ago. LOL! 😁
Yes!! I still do those, as well as the Waldorf salad, GB casserole and fondue.
The cost of medical care has become insane. The same with dental care. Back in the 60s you could see your doctor for $10 or less. Nowadays people can't afford to see a doctor. $200-$300 just to walk in the door. I distinctly remember having a tooth pulled for $11.00. Today it can easily cost $300.
Ain't that the truth!!! I recently had a root canal done - set me back $1,300. and I have to go back and get a crown on the tooth - there goes another $1,000. Where I live to pull a tooth is about $450.. Yep, had a tooth pulled last fall. I remember my dad needing a tooth pulled. I guess I was about 12 or 13 so it would have been around 1970 - 71. The tooth was badly decayed and loose. He tied a string around it to the door knob with the door open, backed up to make the string tight - then slammed the door. Problem solved. That was brave in my book OR maybe stupid, I never figured out which!
Try getting a dental discount card. My family doesn't have dental insurance but having the discount card saves us a bundle. It costs about 125 to buy one for a family for the year (cheaper for one person or a couple) and it gives you more than 50% off most procedures. A tooth pull for me was around $100 and a crown was $700.
$300 could also be on the cheap side, too.
Dentists have organized and make more than medical doctors.
In the 50's we all got free dental check-ups in public elementary school. I don't think we got dental work, but a report was sent home if you had cavities.
We can thank the GOP for the disappearance of so many services and much health care. Now they're foaming at the mouth to get rid of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. What they'd really like is for the middle class and poor people to drop dead
My parents had to feed 6 children on an elementary school teacher's salary. Creamed chipped beef on toast, Kraft macaroni and cheese, canned baked beans, Chef Boyardi spaghetti dinners. We ate it until it came out our eyes! I never understood the recent popularity of Mac 'n Cheese.
I ate a lot of boxed mac and cheese when I was in grad school (in the 1980's), but I couldn't afford the Kraft brand. I could get a box of the generic mac and cheese for 25 cents. I'd make it without adding the butter or whatever else it called for, just adding the powdered cheese stuff to the damp macaroni and stirring it up.
I sure miss Thomas' Date Nut Bread...very lightly toasted with a little cream cheese...Yum!
Space food 🚀 sticks crack me up 😂. When I was a kiddo I was convinced I was going to be the 1st female Shuttle Commander. So where does a Kiddo with aspirations like that go in the early 2000's? Space Camp 🌌🚀 in Huntsville Alabama. 👍🏼🫶
Two years of Space Camp and 2 years of Space Academy. The best part? Mock Shuttle missions, working in a giant dive tank to simulate weightless conditions, building and getting to launch enormous rockets, wearing the astronaut jumpsuit( comfy and super cool, freeze dried ice cream, fruit, and other interesting freeze dried meals used in space (sadly no meals in a tube 😅), and all the tang one could drink. I also freaked out one night on a walk back to the dorms as glowing orbs started to hover around the trees. Terrified and thinking there were 👻 ghosts I ran and found my counselor. He listened with a concerned look on his face until he eventually cracked a smile. He then grabbed a clear plastic cup, took me back outside, and explained that the glowing orbs were not ghosts. He taught me about the wonders of Fireflies, and gave me a tutorial on how to catch and release the creatures. 😅 To this day whenever I visit the Southern States and see fireflies the I get giddy. The first time I introduced my own kiddos to them their eyes lit up with childlike wonderment. I got to watch them smile and gleefully chase the magical little bugs through the forest. I apologize for the loquacious rambling comment. Nostalgia is a truly wonderful thing. Did I become the first female Shuttle Commander in my adult life? No. Instead I became an artist and a Social Worker who sent her kiddos to Space 🌌 Camp🚀 that still loves the cosmos, freeze dried meals/ snacks, nature, and a nice ice cold glass of Tang every now and then. 😊 Have a great week everyone. Don't forget to let your inner child come out and play every now and then.🫶
I never saw and indeed have never even heard of space food sticks and I graduated from college in 1963.
I hadn't heard of Space Food Sticks before watching this video. But I'm glad that it was mentioned because it led to you sharing your wonderful experiences! Thank you!
Wow, those sound like wonderful experiences with space camp and all that, thanks for sharing the memories 🥰
You gotta love having a jar of fireflies to use as a night light when camping!!!
I still love most of these foods lol....making chicken Ala king today
I just ate black cherry Jell-O ❤😊
I also regularly eat at least 75% of these items. They have not faded from the culinary scene at all.
And lime jello with pears and sour cream. YIKES
Nothing worse then Jello and Ambrosia salad. My aunt had it every Christmas and were expected to eat it. Finally convinced my Mom to leave it off my plate.
I love them but hate SOS, spam & liverwurst
My Aunt used to make Jell-O cake and it was awesome.
A friend just made a cake w jello in it a few weeks ago! I had totally forgotten about it. Nice memories!
I made SOS for supper 3 weeks ago. While others have forgotten a lot of these recipes, as a Military BRAT, we always had fast easy recipes from the 50's and 60's. Until my mother passed away 4 years ago, she always had to have green bean casserole for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Back in the late 50' early 60's my aunt always made some godawful Jello salad. Probably contributed to my distaste of veggies as a kid.
lol I wasn’t fond of that either
My mom used to make orange carrot pineapple jello salad. It was absolutely delicious, and was her method of getting me to eat my carrots. Finely shredded raw carrots, and crushed pineapple mixed into orange jello (made with half water, and half pineapple juice). Thinking about making it, because I'm suddenly craving it.
I still buy Spam every now and then. What I really miss is Grape Tang. And I still make jello salads. Just a little bit of nostalgia.
I remember when my parents immigrated to Canada in the sixties. I was a young teenager, my younger brother was 12 and I had an older brother. We were invited to neighbours for supper. They served a very nice meal (I can’t remember what) but I do remember they served a jello salad. My parents had no idea what to do with it. We had never heard of such a thing. Jelly (as we called it) was only for dessert. My younger brother was passed the salad and started to get the giggles, which started me off. My parents were mortified. The neighbors turned out to be nice people but I still don’t understand jello salads. 😂
My Edwardian nan used to make terrines in aspic which were delicious, with combinations of meat and vegetables, served cold in slices in summer. I think the jello salad thing was just a more modern, to me, less appealing reinvention of them. One of my favourites of hers was pressed ox tongue in aspic. Many younger people will be horrified by the idea of it but ox tongue is absolutely delicious when done as a cold lunch meat, or even in hot dishes.
Fruit punch still makes a party. Always add some tea to elevate the flavor away from kids' juice boxes.
Spam went from 30 cents a can to today's price of $2.62 a can ! O.O I have not eaten spam in years!
Yes, the dried beef tiny jar at Walmart is $3.86, but I would like to try SOS over toast though! 😂
Well yeah, they’re talking about the sixties, that’s 60 years ago! 😂
At my local Kroger, Spam is $4.50 for 12 ounces.
@@lorla85I haven't seen a jar of the dried beef in years. There is a diner near me that offers SOS, so I get it every once in a while.
I buy the lil individual packets of Spam, that way I don't waste a whole can. It's a rare treat just to bring back old times
Fried Spam, fried taters with lots of onions and Italian style green beans makes a great dinner. On a cold winter day/night it hits the spot!
I still have all the foods in this article but tang, those stick things, and peas with mint. As things get more expensive, these recipes are great!❤
I never knew "Butter Mint Peas" was from the 1960s --- I just encountered a recipe for it a few days ago -- sounded good, so I made a personal note to try it sometime!
I don't remember we remember peas with mint.
I still cook alot of these. Pineapple upside down cake, never gets old.
According to my veteran uncles, S. O. S. for the chipped beef on toast stood for S**t On a Shingle.
Pineapple upside down cake is still totally a thing. Never went anywhere!
I still love jello salads, ambrosia, the pineapple upside down cake, spam, chocolate fondue and tuna casserole. We eat all of that!
Check out Chef Jean-Pierre. He puts a modern twist on many recipes. “ We love butter” Chef Jean-Pierre”
I recall that TV dinners, the ones in aluminum that you had to bake, were great. The same meals today are inedible.
I really miss Patio Mexican frozen dinners. 99 cents and a good childhood memory
I just made a blueberry upside down cake.
That sounds delicious! Did you do everything the same and just swap blueberries 🫐 for pineapple 🍍?
@@ES-qu1jd p.s. It IS delish.
Thing is- for awhile, there was veg flavored Jello. It was actually...OK. It wasn't orange-pineapple-carrot Jello salad, but it wasn't horrible.
I still produce a pineapple upside-down cake every so often, in a cast iron skillet. And the correct order is butter, brown sugar, and a pinch of cinnamon, then the pineapple rings, then the cherries, then the batter.
I have several cans of Spam in the pantry "just in case" which could be natural disaster, or being too lazy or too flu-ish to go to the store. Spam usually goes to the food pantry before the best-buy date.
My mother never bought TV dinners unless she had coupons for them AND the meals were on sale. She washed and refilled the trays.
I cannot stand Swedish meatballs. Ditto tuna noodle casserole. Tritto fondue. Liver sausage- no thank you. Why bother with Vienna sausage? It's not Vienese, and tastes canned.
Chicken ala king and its brother, King Ranch casserole, are favorites. Every couple of years or do, I make SOS for old time's sake.
I've made a cake similar to fruit cocktail cake called dump cake. Instead of fruit cocktail, I used canned cherry pie filling or crushed pineapple. Still make ambrosia at Christmas. Chiffon cakes are easy to make. Waldorf salad is pretty tasty.
Tang made other flavors. Loved the grapefruit! My favorite boozy punch was lime sherbet punch, the punch served at many a wedding reception, with or without the booze.
You actually can buy unflavored sheets of jello and make it any flavor you like-beef, chicken, vegetable, seafood. Put that into a mold and stuff your *aspic* with deliciously prepared ingredients of your choice-meat, cheese, cooked eggs, well seasoned vegetables. It's actually pretty good.
The mistake wasn't using gelatin as a carrier for food, it was in not doing it properly.
For the most part I agree with you on these other foods.
What I dislike is acting like the recipes for these things are lost to history. They aren't. Most people just weren't raised to be responsible for themselves!
I enjoy a good tomato aspic.
Even my grandkids LOVE green bean casserole! Two years ago, at Christmas, someone said they'd bring it, but didn't use canned green beans, Campbell's soup, or French's Fried Onions....they used healthy ingredients. We all tried it, but it was gross! I love ambrosia salad, pineapple upside down cake, and frozen strawberries in strawberry Jello, topped with whipped cream. My mom made lime Jello with cottage cheese and pineapple, which I enjoy almost as much.
I was born in 1970. And my mother made pineapple upside down cake all the time. It was good. And T.V dinners were very popular when I was growing up as well. Long after the 1960's. In fact, they are still sold today. They just might not have the same level of popularity that they once did. Tuna noodle casserole was also something I grew up with. We made different variations of it. Sometimes with the chips mentioned and sometimes not. I also remember creamed chipped beef. Popularly referred to as Sh*t on a Shingle. Unlike the other foods mentioned, it wasn't one of my favorites.
Swedish meatballs are still extremely popular. Ever been to Ikea? Lol
I did, in the UK outside London when I lived there (I'm a Floridian). I then read that Ikea UK (I am not joking) was busted for using horsemeat in their Swedish Meatballs. So I had Trigger-balls. Never again will I eat at an Ikea.
@@eddihaskell I remember that. Thank goodness it didn’t happen in Canada! I would be right there with you! 😆
The video does mention IKEA.
I was a latch key kid and knew how to make a TV dinner when my foster parents were not at home. Nobody ever watches foster kids =(
I have plenty of friends who were latchkey kids and they weren’t foster children.
It is okay to be a latch key child. You’re probably independent, and know the difference between being lonely and alone.
My friends' latchkey kids are anxious and have serious attachment problems and anger toward their parents. "Latchkey kids will be resourceful and independent" was the lie adults in the 1970s told themselves to assuage their guilt over not being there for their kids, abandoning them to raise themselves or be raised by TV. Poor kids. We pitied them, those of us who had moms at home and they envied us and wanted to come to a home after school with us, not an empty house.
I still make pineapple upside down cake, just made one for Easter - and is still my fave of all time! 🥰🥰
In my sixties. Had Tang in the 1960s, pop-tarts when they first came out, pineapple upside cake, black forest cake, carrot cake, tuna casserole, Chef Boyardee pizza kit, jello salad, ambrosia, meatloaf, pigs in blankets, artificial ice milk, Cracker Jacks with real toys, and ox-tail soup.
I still love Jello! I was born in 1961 and sadly I "liked" all these foods. Now I can't eat the majority of them, full of sugar they are. I'm not diabetic and don't plan to become diabetic. =(
Nobody gets diabetes from eating sugar.😂
I remember the jello commercial jingle vividly. I however, cannot stand all things jello ….lol
Jello - just EW. Sweet jello was bad enough but those “savory” variations gave me dry heaves 🤢
@@pj-fx7gx agreed. lol 🤮
I grew up in the 1960's and this really rang a bell for me. I think I'll make a project of cooking the whole list. 😊
OMG I remember so many of these and many are still served today in our household.
I have liverwurst in my frig all the time to this day!!! STILL LOVE IT!!
My father used to buy liverwurst - it had to be Mother Goose liverwurst- make my brother and me school lunches, in the early '60s- on Wonder Bread with Hellman's of course!
Thank you💯😯👌👍!
I still make my mom’s pineapple upside down cake. It’s our favorite dessert. I grew up in the 60’s with all these foods in the this video.
I miss the elusive Bearded Clam. They were very tasty and could be found everywhere pre-1990.
I make an easy version of pineapple upside down cake ALL THE TIME!! At my church we have a ministry to help feed a homeless shelter... You should SEE how much their faces light up when they know that is for dessert!! SPAM is a BIG treat for me!! I make Spam and pineapple sandwiches for my husband and I on a regular basis, and SPAM and Eggs are DELICIOUS!!
I was hooked on chocolate space food sticks. While Tang never tasted like orange juice just orange water, but tang grapefruit tasted just like grapefruit juice. I wish they would bring it back.
Everybody loves pineapple upside-down cake! I make it in muffin pans. I grew up in the 1970s and hated jello salad and Spam.
Ambrosia (5 cup salad) is not forgotten in Memphis, TN. We have it every Thanksgiving and Christmas. I Love pineapple upside down cake, but my daughter is allergic to pineapple! No go there for us.