foods we no longer eat

[Anonymous]

My mom's classic lunch for kids:

Boil potatoes (skin on). Place one potato on each plate. Eat and enjoy. (no it wasn't the Depression, no we weren't poor)

[Anonymous]

Hotdogs split down the middle, with a folded slice of "cheese food" in the center and bacon wrapped around the outside. Spear with a couple of toothpicks and stick it under the broiler.

Serve with a nice cucumber jello salad (aka the vegetable), some sliced wonderbread with margarine, and a big glass of Kool aid.

My mother would argue that this was a healthy meal because she didn't add any salt, and she used margarine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicken a la king. I can't remember what it's made from, but I ate it a lot as a kid.

Gosh, I loved Swanson's Chicken a la king. They have it at the grocery store, but now I make it from scratch. I've found some recipes (from 1920) that are pretty good, with egg yolks and sherry. Yum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hotdogs split down the middle, with a folded slice of "cheese food" in the center and bacon wrapped around the outside. Spear with a couple of toothpicks and stick it under the broiler.

Serve with a nice cucumber jello salad (aka the vegetable), some sliced wonderbread with margarine, and a big glass of Kool aid.

My mother would argue that this was a healthy meal because she didn't add any salt, and she used margarine.

Love it!

For me:
Fruit juice (I make my own sometimes, but I don't drink regular fruit juice anymore- maybe once a month. Especially not the high fructose corn syrup laced crap. I had it all the time growing up. When I was an adult I told my parents I didn't want the v8 b/c it had HFCS, and they had no idea)
Cow's milk- similar to above
White bread
"regular" peanut butter with hydrogenated oils (the types without are pretty much the same price and don't taste any worse!)
Lima beans (....why? ever?)
Frozen veggies.... all the time
Chicken nuggets

[Anonymous]

I didn't check, but I'm pretty sure this hasn't come up on this thread yet.

Spam+ American Cheese through the meat grinder. Slather on white bread, under the broiler under brown and bubbly.

[Anonymous]

Two of my favorite meals growing up:

- sausage and sauerkraut cooked all day in the crockpot, to be served over mashed potatoes

- spam, potatoes, and green beans cooked all day in the crockpot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two of my favorite meals growing up:

- sausage and sauerkraut cooked all day in the crockpot, to be served over mashed potatoes

- spam, potatoes, and green beans cooked all day in the crockpot

Oh yeah, and one more:

- sloppy joes on buns, corn, and tater tots

[Anonymous]

Pigs in a blanket smothered with chili, diced onions, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

Homemade meatloaf with loaded baked potatoes

Fried chicken livers with mashed potatoes and gravy

BLTs and corn on the cob

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pigs in a blanket smothered with chili, diced onions, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

Homemade meatloaf with loaded baked potatoes

Fried chicken livers with mashed potatoes and gravy

BLTs and corn on the cob

I still eat meatloaf, mashed and gravy, corn and BLTs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll start:
Waldorf salads
Fluff
Spam

I didn't know that anybody ever did eat Waldorf salads. I thought they only existed in cookbooks.

We always have Waldorf Salad at Thanksgiving along with ambrosia (canned mandarin oranges, canned pineapple, miniature marshallows, maraschino cherries and blended with Cool Whip). We call both our official family vegetables. But then we are poor white trash with money.

Me too!! I love ambrosia! My husband thinks it is rank and bitches every thanksgiving, but it's my only contribution. Our recipe also includes shredded coconut, which really classes it up.

[Anonymous]

Alphagettis!!! and the little plastic garbage cans full of candy! Anyone remember those?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pigs in a blanket smothered with chili, diced onions, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

Homemade meatloaf with loaded baked potatoes

Fried chicken livers with mashed potatoes and gravy

BLTs and corn on the cob

I still eat meatloaf, mashed and gravy, corn and BLTs

Me too. What's wrong with corn on the cob? It's one of the great things about summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pigs in a blanket smothered with chili, diced onions, shredded cheese, and sour cream.

Homemade meatloaf with loaded baked potatoes

Fried chicken livers with mashed potatoes and gravy

BLTs and corn on the cob

I still eat meatloaf, mashed and gravy, corn and BLTs

Me too. What's wrong with corn on the cob? It's one of the great things about summer.

Oh, I am the PP that posted those yummy meals. I realize now that this thread kind of morphed into not just foods that we don't eat any more, but foods that we enjoyed growing up. Although I STILL enjoy all those meals, however politically incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Spaghetti-Os. My all time fav as a kid. I got to eat it every time we had a babysitter. Tried it once as an adult and almost vomited. Yuck!

Anyone remember Shasta? Only soda my mom would buy.

I too miss Carnation breakfast bars terribly but wonder if I would even like then now. I didn't even discover them until college though.

We were never allowed white bread or American cheese growing up. My mom was way ahead if her time on food awareness ( also no twinkles or hohos, no Mac n cheese, no Hawaiin Punch) . The problem is, as an adult I love some of those things, especially white bread and American cheese although not the Wonder type of white bread, the Pepperidge Farm kind.

Still served in hospitals! I love their ginger ale.

[Anonymous]

White flour and sugar