Foods/Meals people no longer seem to eat. Ex: Do people no longer eat sloppy joes?

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Anonymous wrote:Cube steak! Sometimes called Salisbury steak.

We also ate a decent amount of Stouffer's frozen Chicken cordon bleu with tater tots!

DH misses Shake & Bake.

I hated cube steak. What is it, anyway? It was so tough and chewy. My mother would coat it in flour and fry it in a pan.

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Anonymous wrote:We no longer eat government cheese. Man I loved a grilled cheese with government cheese. I just googled if there's anything similar. It was not as soft as velveeta and not as hard as American. Somewhere in between those. Do you think I can get american cheese unsliced at the deli (the cheapest one) and it would be close?

I’ve seen reviews suggesting that this is similar. Perhaps you can check to see if it’s possible to buy it in smaller quantities.


https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lakes-Golden-Velvet-Yellow/dp/B00B04AFDM/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2CW36SOV7C9HK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.BJx6uw_xcK-RsdlXQ1tlN9urJhdjYMeF-k7sW0yly8fUsgtpOgD0kvjQokxRyLX8u_XFcGC0zOp2O3sNpWO3yJrV188u-HOMOyc69njSbmH8Yo7EL7Tw45FnKzFWZg9mzp0lSKRagiQHYodikcXArUvvCd1jeGe3o6aMv6Inoi65tzwX3FwI_phxEWqpvqQ7T0ChIvJ6Jf4TcmS2WuzXxAFCAJ81ZMNzEriHXd-zS8unl-3cDlixHO78tQUbA7zu6gcQJN1NYQjn2H0jz5eroZ0bmFyUD6-ddURdfPSooQQ.sxV2pOaTaKenUg5hv7WrBuCwd63FUVpERiHru8Z58Mg&dib_tag=se&keywords=government+cheese&qid=1724453280&sprefix=Governm%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-5

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Anonymous wrote:Swanson dinners. MY GO TO CHOICE WHEN PARENTS WENT OUT TO DINNER AND LEFT ME HOME.

Frozen pot pies. YUM. CHICKEN OR TURKEY

Beefaroni and Raviolios. AND BOY R DEE SPAGHETTI. CHEAP. ATE IT UNTIL I GOT FIRST WORK PAYCHECK

Corned beef hash LIKED BUT RARELY HAD


Different kinds of fish, like porgys, spot, mackerel, and croakers. MACKEREL IS GREAT


Egg Nog. YES. ALWAYS AND NOW THERE IS LACTAID


Fruit cake. YES BUT SOOOO HARD TO FIND


Hostess Sno Balls. NOOOO
Canned Frosting Fudge. NOOOO
Popcorn balls YES

I had a neighbor who used to make popcorn balls every Christmas. Yum!

This is the fruitcake that we used to buy when I was a kid. They still make it, and use Christmas-themed tins near the holidays. (I still have a few vintage tins filled with picture hangers and screws and stuff like that.)


https://collinstreet.com/products/deluxe-fruitcake

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Anonymous wrote:Swanson dinners.
Frozen pot pies.
Beefaroni and Raviolios. (Canned pasta. I think that’s what they were called.)
Corned beef hash
Different kinds of fish, like porgys, spot, mackerel, and croakers.
Egg Nog
Fruit cake
Hostess Sno Balls
Canned Frosting Fudge
Popcorn balls

I had a neighbor who used to make popcorn balls every Christmas. Yum!

I had corned beef hash a few weeks ago in a diner.

Good to know it’s still available on some menus. Baltimore has a few great diners, so I’ll look for it the next time I’m there.

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Breaded veal cutlets. I’ve been really wanting to taste these again for some time. I haven’t seen them in grocery stores in years.

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Anonymous wrote:It's garbage American food. Literally dumpster food invented by food manufacturers to coerce Americans into using their ultra processed food products. This is why 'american food' is such a joke.. sloppy joes are the grossest trash ever invented. A poor cow had to die to create that monstrosity of a dish.

I bet you’re SO fun at parties!…

…if by chance you ever get invited to any.

No one wants to go to your parties with garbage American foods like pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, potato salad, and any variant of a dip. You might as well be holding a conagra or campells stock holder convention because all you have at your parties are nasty ultra processed American foods.

Deviled eggs are devoured in the first 10 minutes of my parties.

I mean what do you expect? You have Americans at your parties. Americans eat dumpy foods. So really not surprising here....

I regularly take deviled eggs to parties as my contribution. I have 30 layer hens so it is easy for me.

I make my own mayo and grow parsley. To be fair, I don’t grow my own mustard, source local pepper or dry ocean water into salt…but what part of a deviled egg do you think is ultra processed?

Give it a rest. We all know the standard suburban mommy is using helmans or some other jarred mayo that's been sitting on the shelf for weeks in a store. It's highly processed food.

The word you are looking for is pasteurized. That's not highly processed. It's called cooking.

Ha! No.

Ingredients in suburban mommy Mayo:

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (USED TO PROTECT QUALITY), NATURAL FLAVORS.

It's called soybean oil, EDTA, and 'natural flavors'. You are a good lapdog for the processed food industry. Enjoy your disgusting deviled eggs.

And what exactly is wrong with soybean oil?

A lot. And this is easily Googled.

You have the burden of proof, PP. Nobody has to Google because you say jump.

And nobody needs to explain 1+1 = 2, either, but here we are.

You can explain it--abelian groups.

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Anonymous wrote:Swanson dinners.
Frozen pot pies.
Beefaroni and Raviolios. (Canned pasta. I think that’s what they were called.)
Corned beef hash
Different kinds of fish, like porgys, spot, mackerel, and croakers.
Egg Nog
Fruit cake
Hostess Sno Balls
Canned Frosting Fudge
Popcorn balls

I had a neighbor who used to make popcorn balls every Christmas. Yum!

I had corned beef hash a few weeks ago in a diner.

Good to know it’s still available on some menus. Baltimore has a few great diners, so I’ll look for it the next time I’m there.

Sorry, I was in a dangerful red state, South Carolina.

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I bought meatloaf at Whole Foods. It was good. The kids loved it.

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Anonymous wrote:It's garbage American food. Literally dumpster food invented by food manufacturers to coerce Americans into using their ultra processed food products. This is why 'american food' is such a joke.. sloppy joes are the grossest trash ever invented. A poor cow had to die to create that monstrosity of a dish.

I bet you’re SO fun at parties!…

…if by chance you ever get invited to any.

No one wants to go to your parties with garbage American foods like pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, potato salad, and any variant of a dip. You might as well be holding a conagra or campells stock holder convention because all you have at your parties are nasty ultra processed American foods.

Deviled eggs are devoured in the first 10 minutes of my parties.

I mean what do you expect? You have Americans at your parties. Americans eat dumpy foods. So really not surprising here....

I regularly take deviled eggs to parties as my contribution. I have 30 layer hens so it is easy for me.

I make my own mayo and grow parsley. To be fair, I don’t grow my own mustard, source local pepper or dry ocean water into salt…but what part of a deviled egg do you think is ultra processed?

Give it a rest. We all know the standard suburban mommy is using helmans or some other jarred mayo that's been sitting on the shelf for weeks in a store. It's highly processed food.

The word you are looking for is pasteurized. That's not highly processed. It's called cooking.

Ha! No.

Ingredients in suburban mommy Mayo:

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (USED TO PROTECT QUALITY), NATURAL FLAVORS.

It's called soybean oil, EDTA, and 'natural flavors'. You are a good lapdog for the processed food industry. Enjoy your disgusting deviled eggs.

And what exactly is wrong with soybean oil?

A lot. And this is easily Googled.

You have the burden of proof, PP. Nobody has to Google because you say jump.

And nobody needs to explain 1+1 = 2, either, but here we are.

You can explain it--abelian groups.

What's purple and commutes?

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Anonymous wrote:Remember that "chicken chow mein" kit you could buy from a company called La Choy? It was virtually tasteless even though full of soy sauce and msg -- I'm not even sure how that is possible.

Also -- chicken ala king, chipped beef on toast, french bread pizza, kool-aid, Tab, welsh rarebit, chicken kiev (they had frozen ones at the grocery store), turkey divan (it used up some of the leftover Thanksgiving turkey), Pepperidge Farm pound cake (they still have it in the store though). Do people buy raisin bread anymore?

But yeah, sloppy joes would be on my list too -- we had them (the "Manwich" canned stuff with ground beef) and I never liked them. They make the bread soggy -- yuck.

What about that delicious Pepperidge Farm Ice cream cake? It was like a log with flaky chocolate and vanilla? So good!

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Anonymous wrote:Things we ate as a child in the 70s/80s but no longer eat:

Sloppy Joes
Meatloaf
Salisbury steak
Chicken Romanov
Tuna Casserole
A bread bowl hollowed out and filled with cream cheese/ deviled ham mixture and crackers
Bologna sandwiches, olive loaf if being fancy
Stuffed green peppers
Water chestnuts wrapped in bacon
Casseroles
Tuna melts
Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches

I can’t say that I miss any of it!

OMG I made a tuna melt over the weekend on fresh bakery bread, using spanish tuna and adding chopped up marinated hearts of artichoke, top with shredded fontina cheese, so good!

Yeah no our tuna melts had neither fontina nor artichoke. Chicken of the sea canned tuna, mixed with miracle whip mayo, a teaspoon of mustard, placed on toasted wonder bread with a slice of American cheese, the ones that were each individually wrapped.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember that "chicken chow mein" kit you could buy from a company called La Choy? It was virtually tasteless even though full of soy sauce and msg -- I'm not even sure how that is possible.

Also -- chicken ala king, chipped beef on toast, french bread pizza, kool-aid, Tab, welsh rarebit, chicken kiev (they had frozen ones at the grocery store), turkey divan (it used up some of the leftover Thanksgiving turkey), Pepperidge Farm pound cake (they still have it in the store though). Do people buy raisin bread anymore?

But yeah, sloppy joes would be on my list too -- we had them (the "Manwich" canned stuff with ground beef) and I never liked them. They make the bread soggy -- yuck.

What about that delicious Pepperidge Farm Ice cream cake? It was like a log with flaky chocolate and vanilla? So good!

My bad ^. Were they 'Viennettas" from Good Humor? We had those for all small family celebrations. https://www.goodhumor.com/us/en/p/vanilla-viennetta-frozen-dairy-dessert-cake.html/00041000008610

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I remember Jello being a big deal. Fruit suspended in it for parties. A neighbor brought jello once that was firmer, ratio of mix to water was higher. It was an epiphany for the neighborhood. Jello could be made in a way, it could be cut into squares and eaten with your hands!

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Does anyone remember Mug o Lunches?

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Do people still eat fish sticks? We ate them once a week in the 1970s.