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

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody seems to eat water chestnuts anymore. I want to bring them back!

I add them to all my stir fry meals and to homemade baked egg rolls and egg roll bowls. I add them to dips. I love water chestnuts and bamboo shoots. I'm addicted to the crunch. You can also make that fake scallop app that calls for water chestnuts wrapped with a piece of bacon then covered with some kind of sweetened ketchup sauce.

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Alfalfa sprouts. In the 70’s (at least in California) it seemed like you couldn’t order a sandwich without an inch layer of the damn things. I ate so many growing up that I avoid them now.

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Chicken salad. 😂

DH makes the kids sloppy joes sometimes - he cooks maybe 3 things and I don’t argue. My mom used to make them using a jar of Ragú as the base of the sauce.

We ate a lot of fish sticks growing up.

We ate a lot of chicken that was basically one jarred sauce poured over chicken pieces and baked in the oven (covered) in a 9x13 Pyrex. Bbq sauce or Italian dressing or duck sauce. No additional ingredients, no browning the chicken.

Snackwells cookies. The vanilla cream sandwich ones.

Biscuits from a pop open type can.

During Covid I went on a kick of trying some of the packaged foods we liked as a kid - like the biscuits, canned soups, little Debbie. They were all pretty awful.

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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.

+2 I have always hated sloppy joes, tuna casserole and meatloaf with a passion.

Homemade meatloaf is delicious and I make it regularly. I also love American Goulash, which is basically just elbow noodles with meat sauce. I didn't grow up eating boxed meal kids like Hamburger Helper but we did eat plenty of casseroles, lasagnas, eggplant and chicken parm, etc. What's wrong with that? We are all healthy and a good weight.

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Meatloaf can be amazing. It's basically a giant meatball.

+1 but instead of sauce you have permission- nay you are encouraged! to add bbq sauce or ketchup.

I saw a cooking show where they put hardboiled eggs in the meatloaf and then wrapped it in bacon

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Things like sloppy Joe's, meatloaf, casseroles really only apply to the lower SES whitebread Americans.

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Anonymous wrote:Things like sloppy Joe's, meatloaf, casseroles really only apply to the lower SES whitebread Americans.

Lol, your pretension makes you look like a total try-hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Slandering deviled eggs as "processed" is diabolical behavior

Deviled eggs are processed trash unless you always make mayo from scratch. Let's be honest, 99.999% of you don't, you buy shelf stable mayo. Anything on the shelf like that, especially that contains eggs, has tons of preservatives.

Highly processed foods are killing Americans, per all the latest data.

Pssst: mayo is sold shelf stable in Europe too.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh man I had some Spaghetti-Os for the first time in probably 25 years (I'm 38) because my DS was curious about what kind of foods I would eat as a kid. They are so gross, nothing like how I remember! DS looked at me like I was crazy for eating that as a kid.

I also used to LOVE me some Chefboyardee (that cannot be the right spelling, can it???) As a kid, Spaghetti-Os; as a starving college kid, those single serving beef-a-roni (god, typing these names out makes me feel like a real idiot!) When I tried these as an adult, I was shocked at how disgusting they were! Really squishy pasta and a sauce closer to ketchup than tomato sauce.

As a young adult, I also used to eat a lot of Lean Cuisines frozen meals. In retrospect, they were really awful.

We also ate a lot of Kraft mac & cheese and Totinos party pizzas. And Little Debbies!

The funny thing is that my mom was a really good cook and super health conscious. But all I can remember now is the junk food.

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What is shake & bake? I don't remember this growing up, but isn't it basically like seasoned bread crumbs? What's so bad about that?

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Anonymous wrote:What is shake & bake? I don't remember this growing up, but isn't it basically like seasoned bread crumbs? What's so bad about that?

I’ve made it myself. It’s not bad, just bland and a little boring. It was a long time ago, but I think I remember the breading being a gloopy mess and a little soggy on the bottom. Maybe it was just my technique (or lack thereof). I decided that when I wanted easy chicken, I’d rather pour a bottle of BBQ sauce on top and bake. It was easier and better, so I never looked back. With rotisserie chicken available in all the supermarkets and fried chicken being relatively affordable, there just didn’t seem to be a need for Shake ‘n Bake.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Shake-N-Bake-Original-Chicken-Seasoned-Coating-Mix-4-5-oz-Box-2-ct-Packets/32195202?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&wl13=5968&gclsrc=aw.ds&adid=2222222227832195202_161193766053_21214199653&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=697173827980&wl4=pla-2348450966064&wl5=9007781&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=local&wl12=32195202&veh=sem_LIA&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADmfBIqvCbkVFc8XzkJXF_ac0ucvz&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsLj508DNiAMV-WFHAR0Z1QviEAQYAyABEgINFfD_BwE

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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.

Awww get lost troll

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Anonymous wrote:Oh man I had some Spaghetti-Os for the first time in probably 25 years (I'm 38) because my DS was curious about what kind of foods I would eat as a kid. They are so gross, nothing like how I remember! DS looked at me like I was crazy for eating that as a kid.

I also used to LOVE me some Chefboyardee (that cannot be the right spelling, can it???) As a kid, Spaghetti-Os; as a starving college kid, those single serving beef-a-roni (god, typing these names out makes me feel like a real idiot!) When I tried these as an adult, I was shocked at how disgusting they were! Really squishy pasta and a sauce closer to ketchup than tomato sauce.

As a young adult, I also used to eat a lot of Lean Cuisines frozen meals. In retrospect, they were really awful.

We also ate a lot of Kraft mac & cheese and Totinos party pizzas. And Little Debbies!

The funny thing is that my mom was a really good cook and super health conscious. But all I can remember now is the junk food.

(musically)

Uh! Oh! Spaghettioes!

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Anonymous wrote:What is shake & bake? I don't remember this growing up, but isn't it basically like seasoned bread crumbs? What's so bad about that?

It just never tasted good, it was always soggy and not crisp. If I am breading chicken I'll just go ahead and fry it. If I bake chicken I'll do garlic butter all over it.

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Anonymous wrote:Alfalfa sprouts. In the 70’s (at least in California) it seemed like you couldn’t order a sandwich without an inch layer of the damn things. I ate so many growing up that I avoid them now.

What ever DID happen to alfalfa sprouts?! I used to love them.

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Anonymous wrote:Alfalfa sprouts. In the 70’s (at least in California) it seemed like you couldn’t order a sandwich without an inch layer of the damn things. I ate so many growing up that I avoid them now.

What ever DID happen to alfalfa sprouts?! I used to love them.

I just googled and answered my own question. Apparently outbreaks E. coli and the like were too common so stores stopped selling them.