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

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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

I LOVED those things.

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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.

Are you me?

As kids we got to choose dinner on our birthdays. One year, I picked "Chicken Chow Mein" in the can. It was actually TWO cans taped together if you recall. One with the salty noodle mess and one with the crunchy topping.

I have a feeling if I tried it today (if it still exists) I would not want it on my birthday.

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Hogies and grinders
Hogies and grinders
Navy beans, navy beans
Meatball sandwich...

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We call "sloppy joes" just BBQ sammies, and the one I make is amazing.
Beanies and weenies is another hit here

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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.

Are you me?

As kids we got to choose dinner on our birthdays. One year, I picked "Chicken Chow Mein" in the can. It was actually TWO cans taped together if you recall. One with the salty noodle mess and one with the crunchy topping.

I have a feeling if I tried it today (if it still exists) I would not want it on my birthday.

I made SOS yesterday!! (chipped beef on toast), making sausage gravy this weekend

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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

Thanks! I'll just buy the whole thing and sell it (after I make my grilled cheese) out of the back of my car to the people who with the same crazy nostalgia. There are dozens of us!

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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.

Are you me?

As kids we got to choose dinner on our birthdays. One year, I picked "Chicken Chow Mein" in the can. It was actually TWO cans taped together if you recall. One with the salty noodle mess and one with the crunchy topping.

I have a feeling if I tried it today (if it still exists) I would not want it on my birthday.

I made SOS yesterday!! (chipped beef on toast), making sausage gravy this weekend

That's so funny. I was actually looking up recipes for this so that my DCs could try it. I made creamed tuna and they were big fans. But I think I'm going to make it with real beef cuts and not chipped beef. It will probably end up more like stroganoff.

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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.

How does cheese go with tuna? I thought cheese + fish was verboten.

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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.

How are deviled eggs, hummus and guacamole (the last two dips I served) and potato salad made from scratch "nasty ultra processed American foods"?

Agree. All things in moderation. We have home made deviled eggs at Easter and there’s nothing wrong with a good homemade potato salad in the summer. There’s nothing wrong with well-made, healthy dips. Please tell us what you serve at your parties.

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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.

How does cheese go with tuna? I thought cheese + fish was verboten.

It occasionally works. I've even had it at very fancy restaurants--not tuna melt, but cheese + fish. If you think about those melty lobster/crab type dishes too--that's all onion, cheese, butter and seafood, sherry

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Anonymous wrote:Fondue. The kits with the cheese/wine stuff to heat and little forks for the bread cubes. Height of elegance when I was a kid

Springerle cookies..anise flavored in press molds with designs. Christmas time. Rum balls rolled in cocoa.

I love fondue! We make it about twice a winter. But we buy our own cheeses so we can mix what we like.

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My kids love when I bust out the sloppy joes recipe. My family comes from Pittsburgh and we ate a dish called "ham bbq", which was not unique to our family.

Put a couple pounds of Isaly's chipped ham (look it up!) in a large stew pot with a couple bottles of Kraft BBQ sauce, some Worcestershire sauce, onion powder and garlic powder. Let it cook for an hour or two, then serve it up on some fluffy white Town Talk buns.

For a side, cut up some hot dogs into chunks and fry them in a pan with Worcestershire sauce, then stir them into a pot of baked beans.
Genuine BBQ! Just had it couple weeks ago when I was back visiting family. All of nitrates for the year in one meal.

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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?

What did the fraction say to pi? Be rational.

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There's a cookbook called Baking Yesteryear (and a YouTube Channel (Dylan Hollis) where a guy digs up these mostly 20th century recipes and makes them. Some work, some are completely disgusting. I grabbed the book from the library and it was really fun to look through. If you find this stuff interesting, I'd recommend borrowing the book.

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Anonymous wrote:Spaghetti-Os!!!! I was trying to explain it to my 16yo just the other day and she kept thinking I meant tomato soup with circular-shaped pasta in it. I was like, “No, no! Not a soup! Like a pasta dish in a can.” lol

Oh my. Now you need to buy them and have a taste test with her.
I have let my teens try tang, ovaltine, twinkies. They mostly hate everything. It's possible that my cooking is so much better but also that these things don't taste as good as I remember! 😂😂😂

Twinkies are not the same.

Is it the Twinkies that changed? I used to love Ho-hos, but I bought some a few years back, and nope. Not delicious.

I made sloppy joes yesterday, before I saw this. I have a kid who loves them. Add a little fish sauce to bump up the umami.