What is the ultimate White Suburban Dinner?

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Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

Takeaway?

dying…. 😂

Shhh that poster needs to use the word 'takeaway" to emphasize that she's not like those people whose food she's talking about...

what other word would you use? or are you saying just use “fried chicken” without the qualifier? genuinely confused (and am a NP)

NP. Takeout.

Why is it funny to say takeaway but not takeout or carryout as another poster suggested? They all mean the same to me, I assumed it was just a regional affectation (like hero versus submarine sandwich).

“Takeaway” tends to be a foreign phrase. It’s like when Americans affect the British “u” in favourite. Just stop.

+1 My friends who call it that spent ten years in the Netherlands.

Guys, some of us are bicultural. The code switching struggle is real. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to eat some pain au chocolate, followed up by some ritz crackers lightly spritzed with a dollop of cheez whiz

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FYI - Nobody invites friends over for meatloaf. Not in the 70s, 80s, or today.

In the 80s, when guests came, we would have nice dinners like chicken caccitore, prime rib, MD crabs, turkey, lamb.

+1. Dad would grill steaks, mom would saute mushrooms, bake russet potatoes in foil, toss a salad with a pie or cake for dessert. Company gets roast beef, lamb, crab, or turkey. Never meatloaf or spaghetti.

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Things like chicken Ala-king, tacos, spaghetti, Shake and bake chicken and hamburgers. Dad would bbq pork chops or chicken sometimes, we rarely had steak. The one constant was the tossed green salad with iceberg lettuce, celery, tomatoes cucumbers and thousand island dressing. Always served out of the same 3qt. white plastic Tupperware bowl from the 60s.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI - Nobody invites friends over for meatloaf. Not in the 70s, 80s, or today.

In the 80s, when guests came, we would have nice dinners like chicken caccitore, prime rib, MD crabs, turkey, lamb.

+1. Dad would grill steaks, mom would saute mushrooms, bake russet potatoes in foil, toss a salad with a pie or cake for dessert. Company gets roast beef, lamb, crab, or turkey. Never meatloaf or spaghetti.

+2. Steak, salmon, scallops, lobster tails, prime rib were company dinners. We’d always get a nice bakery dessert. Company dinners were nice.

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My typical Italian suburban dinner was nothing like my Cajun DH’s suburban dinner. Night and day differences.

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Take some hot dogs, slice them lengthwise and insert a folded Kraft single, wrap with bacon, secure with toothpick, broil.

Serve with microwaved frozen broccoli, wonder bread, margarine and some jello if you cleaned your plate.

Kids drink milk. Mom drinks powdered ice tea and there is a Manhattan in the freezer waiting for Dad when he gets home from work

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Anonymous wrote:My typical Italian suburban dinner was nothing like my Cajun DH’s suburban dinner. Night and day differences.

Have you tried crayfish and how are they? Did you have to go fishing for them? Is Popeyes authentically Cajun or is it the Taco Bell of Acadiana? Did any of your Italian food choices surprise your husbands family? I would love to know more about your Cajun-Italian melting pot of a family.

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I still don’t get OP. Are the friends Black or something and you want to make fun of the idea of suburbia as a Whiter destination? Is it meant to be like the epicurean version of a costume dinner, a funny put on?

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Anonymous wrote:I still don’t get OP. Are the friends Black or something and you want to make fun of the idea of suburbia as a Whiter destination? Is it meant to be like the epicurean version of a costume dinner, a funny put on?

I know she’s white and a hipster friends wanna make fun of people who move to the suburbs

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Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of options!

Hamburger Helper, served with some kind of vegetable like canned corn, those take-and-bake rolls, giant glasses of milk for the kids, jug of wine for adults.

If it's tuesday, you can do taco tuesday. Buy the taco shell kit from old el paso but don't add the spices to your ground beef. Put out some mild salsa, daisy sour cream, shredded lettuce, black olives, and chopped tomatoes for topping.

I also think a giant bucket of takeaway fried chicken along with the sides (mashed potatoes, red beans and rice, corn) might work, too.

This 😂

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Anonymous wrote:Anything my MIL makes for dinner? She's an absolute gem of a human being, but man, the culinary range is so limited. Vegetables are served steamed until they can barely retain their form, tossed with margarine. White bread. Salt is the only seasoning, and even that is used sparingly. It pains me.

Your MIL’s cooking could be worse. My MIL used to microwave frozen broccoli until it was mushy, let it cool off, then serve it room temperature, completely plain — no salt, butter, anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Our city friends are leaving DC to come have dinner with us. I promise not to serve anything you mention, but what is the ultimate 1970s/80s White Folks dinner?

Meatloaf and jello salad?

OP, you should serve this first and see what happens.

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Anonymous wrote:I still don’t get OP. Are the friends Black or something and you want to make fun of the idea of suburbia as a Whiter destination? Is it meant to be like the epicurean version of a costume dinner, a funny put on?

I know she’s white and a hipster friends wanna make fun of people who move to the suburbs

She said she's not going to actually make it.
Lighten up. It's a funny thread.

And if it makes you feel better, white surburbia to me is a greek lamb roast spitted in the back yard, homemade baklava, rice pudding and lentil salad (not sure why lentil salad but it's good)

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Anonymous wrote:My typical Italian suburban dinner was nothing like my Cajun DH’s suburban dinner. Night and day differences.

No we talking whiter than that - think Nebraska, five generations.

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Anonymous wrote:Hamburgers, hotdogs, ribs, pulled pork, tacos, salads with oodles of noodles, charcuterie, platters, that are actually cheese platters, sausage and onions, quiche, pork chops, kebabs, coleslaw, corn on the cob, barbecue, chicken, grilled salmon, potato salad, fried chicken, lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, takeout Chinese, cucumber salad,

Wow, we led very different lifestyles! We only had burgers and hot dogs a couple of times in the summer, corn on the cob maybe twice a year, we'd have some sort of baked pasta dish once a month, spaghetti and meat sauce (but not meat balls) pretty regularly, and yes, Chinese food once or twice a month.

Vegetarianism really started to become trendy in the 1980s and my parents did many strictly vegetarian meals and nights. We lived in California in the 1980s though, so maybe we were ahead of the trend on Vegetarianism.

Yes we were eating a lot of vegetarian in the 1980s. But all of it was very high carb!! Certainly wasn’t an improvement in our diet