What is the ultimate White Suburban Dinner?

[Anonymous]

Our city friends are leaving DC to come have dinner with us. I promise not to serve anything you mention, but what is the ultimate 1970s/80s White Folks dinner?

Meatloaf and jello salad?

[Anonymous]

I think this is very dependent on region.

[Anonymous]

You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

Takeaway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our city friends are leaving DC to come have dinner with us. I promise not to serve anything you mention, but what is the ultimate 1970s/80s White Folks dinner?

Meatloaf and jello salad?

Jello salad is from an earlier time period. It had fallen out of style by the 1970s and 1980s, in favor of lettuce based salads.
https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-jell-o-salad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is very dependent on region.

Agree, hugely dependent on region and where in Europe the "white folks" immigrated from.

[Anonymous]

Meatloaf with ketchup on top, mashed potatoes, green beans. Dinner rolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

Takeaway?

dying…. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

Takeaway?

dying…. 😂

Shhh that poster needs to use the word 'takeaway" to emphasize that she's not like those people whose food she's talking about...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meatloaf with ketchup on top, mashed potatoes, green beans. Dinner rolls.

This is basically what popped to my mind. Green beans should be canned. Mashed Potatoes should come from a box.

[Anonymous]

Tuna casserole. Or any casserole with cream of mushroom soup. Add tater tots on top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is very dependent on region.

Agree, hugely dependent on region and where in Europe the "white folks" immigrated from.

Agree. Suburban white food can be delicious. At this time of year, on Fridays, you can find Fish Frys with fresh fish from the great lakes in the Upper Midwest.

On Sundays, if you're Italian American, especially in the NY/Boston suburbs, your sauce/gravy is simmering on the stove.

If you're from a region that makes great barbecue, maybe you have the smoker out in the backyard.

[Anonymous]

Chicken cordon bleu.

Also: I would eat (almost) everything in this thread. No shame!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meatloaf with ketchup on top, mashed potatoes, green beans. Dinner rolls.

This is basically what popped to my mind. Green beans should be canned. Mashed Potatoes should come from a box.

are we talking 1970's? Do white suburban people not make mashed potatoes not out of a box?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

Takeaway?

dying…. 😂

Shhh that poster needs to use the word 'takeaway" to emphasize that she's not like those people whose food she's talking about...

what other word would you use? or are you saying just use “fried chicken” without the qualifier? genuinely confused (and am a NP)