Classic 80s/90s meals

[Anonymous]

I was just singing the "Chicken Tonight" song to my daughter today - before reading this thread! - because she said she felt like fried chicken tonight.

80s-90s says anything with sundried tomatoes/pine nuts/pesto. That's when all of those things hit the mainstream.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ellio's pizza, Kid Cuisine, Lunchables, Knorr pasta sides, Clearly Canadian, Snackwell's,

Oh yes, Clearly Canadian was SO good. My mom would fill up the gas tank and I would go inside of Super America and get a Clearly Canadian and a pack of baseball cards. I also loved NY Seltzer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Steakums

Yes! My dad used to doctor them up on sub rolls with provolone and sauteed onions and peppers. Yummy.

For anyone who misses these, I saute deli roast beef (cut into strips) until it browns - then pile the meat onto a buttered sub roll and pop in oven with a slice of provolone cheese until the cheese melts. Very close to the "classic" .

[Anonymous]

Mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce.
Crystal Pepsi

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce.
Crystal Pepsi

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[Anonymous]

Quiche. With the "real men don't eat quiche" backlash.

[Anonymous]

Tuna noodle casserole!
Kraft dinner with sliced hot dogs.
Rice a roni, Pasta roni, Knorr's pasta sides.
Campbell's tomato soup (I know this still exists, I just never seem to buy it.)

As a kid, I used to love bologna sandwiches, either fried or cold. Deli spiced ham sandwiches with yellow mustard, and grilled cheese and peanut butter sandwiches.

Yes, you read that right. Grilled cheese and peanut butter. In the same sandwich.

And pudding pops! I really loved pudding pops.

Clearly, I once had a mad love of salt and parents who hated cooking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vienetta for dessert!

OH wow. My BFF in middle school and I would always laugh about the ads for those where the knife cut through it and it made this delicious-sounding "ssshhhlik!" Sound. I miss those!

That sound! I wanted to eat that sound!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PUDDING POPS!!

We mostly had homemade food (not packaged foods or "helpers") but we did sometimes have some Lean Cuisines on hand for easy meals. I remember the TV dinners too - with foil. I think we had the turkey & stuffing.

My extended family made a lot with Ritz crackers crackers though.

Pudding pops were so good! Did you know giant grocery stores sell them now under their store brand??

No way!!!

You are my favorite poster tonight!

[Anonymous]

Yes. Fried balogna. It made those cute little hats when you fried them.

Flip them upside down and fille them with deli cole slaw and top with a slice of plastic cheese. Yum!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But...but...but...WAIT!

According to all those other food threads we ate soooo much more healthier as kids in the 70s-80s-90s!?!

Have you read "The Dorito Effect"? The food we ate - even the processed junk - was healthier. Fewer additives, less processed, the soil was less depleted, our food was more mature (literally - livestock was older, for just one example)... They were a lot better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These might be more 70s-80s, but my parents used to make: Shake n Bake pork chops, pork chops and apples, beef stroganoff, sloppy joe's, scratch mac n cheese, and roast beef & yorkshire pudding. I think all of those have left the building. But I have such nostalgia for that comfort food!

I make everything on your list other than shake and bake but I do make panko breaded pork chops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But...but...but...WAIT!

According to all those other food threads we ate soooo much more healthier as kids in the 70s-80s-90s!?!

Have you read "The Dorito Effect"? The food we ate - even the processed junk - was healthier. Fewer additives, less processed, the soil was less depleted, our food was more mature (literally - livestock was older, for just one example)... They were a lot better.

Hahaha.

[Anonymous]

Definitely Shake and Bake pork chops
My moms chicken divan was chicken, broccoli and mayonnaise covered in bread crumbs. Blech.

I feel like we ate Beanie Weenies a lot!

I remember Chicken Tonight being not good which was saying a lot back then. But it really wasn't. Good jingle though.

I still miss the BK Broiler chicken sandwich at Burger King.

[Anonymous]

Oh and MANWICH!!