A lot of this stuff was around in the sixties and seventies too, because I remember people eating it then. Classic flyover American food.

When I think of the eighties and nineties, I think of how ubiquitous quiche, all things balsamic, pesto, goat cheese, and flourless chocolate cake became.

Anonymous wrote:I fed my kids fish sticks, tater tots, and corn for the first time last week and they thought they died and went to heaven.

We ate anything that could be made in a casserole dish: chop suey, turkey tetrazenni, mac and cheese, chicken divan.

My grandparents loved the electric skillet for frying bologna, frying chicken, making burgers...

It is truly amazing the amount of casseroles we ate. Chicken pot pie with canned biscuits on top, Shepherd's Pie, Mexican chicken casserole, Mexican lasagna, regular lasagna, chicken divan, some sort of pork chop bake with noodles and cream of celery...

I fed my kids fish sticks, tater tots, and corn for the first time last week and they thought they died and went to heaven.

We ate anything that could be made in a casserole dish: chop suey, turkey tetrazenni, mac and cheese, chicken divan.

My grandparents loved the electric skillet for frying bologna, frying chicken, making burgers...

I think there's a Checkers on Rhode Island too.

Cracker Jack
Fake candy ciggs
Lunchables
Rock candy
Chef boyardee
Shake and bake
Cicis pizza buffet
Cookie crisp cereal
Keebler elves cookies
Entenmens

Bobali pizza

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Anonymous wrote:I would pay a not small amount of money for a rally burger and spicy curly fries from Rally's... Which ironically enough, we ate because we were so poor.

They still have Rally's out west somewhere.

It is called Checkers here. There is one on Rte 1 in Alexandria.

On on NY Ave going into DC from MD and one in Crofton, MD. I don't like their burgers, just trying to help a brother out!

Anonymous wrote:Anyone remember steak ums'?

That got mentioned a few times, you can still buy those.

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Anonymous wrote:I would pay a not small amount of money for a rally burger and spicy curly fries from Rally's... Which ironically enough, we ate because we were so poor.

They still have Rally's out west somewhere.

It is called Checkers here. There is one on Rte 1 in Alexandria.

Anonymous wrote:Since we're all singing it...
http://youtu.be/mJ9M7bsx10I
You're welcome!

There is one guy that looks like Jim Vance.

Anonymous wrote:I would pay a not small amount of money for a rally burger and spicy curly fries from Rally's... Which ironically enough, we ate because we were so poor.

They still have Rally's out west somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 46, but my years of off campus college living was late 80/early 90s. I made gallons of Crystal Light and recall it coming not in single serve pac but a small, mini tube with powder and a scoop. I'd make a pitcher and share with my housemates.

Also, Slim Fast! Shake for breakfast, shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner. My housemates and I all "did" SlimFast to save money on food AND to lose weight, which was difficult considering we drank like fish on weekends.

Bartles and James wine coolers!

Holy cow, my parents drank Bartles and James wine coolers all the time in the 80s. Totally forgot about those. My mom would give them to my teen cousins as a treat, and she'd give my sister and I (elementary school age!) sips too.

I remember chicken divan too! A staple at our house. I loved it. Our other favorite dinner was "ham and egg bake" - cubes of ham in a cream soup with peas and sliced hard-boiled eggs, topped with biscuits and baked. Loved that as a kid.

I also remember eating a lot of fried bologna, soft cooked eggs on toast, tuna with ritz crackers, cheese balls, egg salad sandwiches, chef boyardee (with a few slices of buttered white bread, of course), peanut butter and banana sandwiches, peanut butter and butter sandwiches (yup), hamburger helper. One grandma made a lot of goulash, which I hated as a kid.

Hardee's Roast Beef sandwiches. Why don't they sell those anymore???

Anonymous wrote:I'm 46, but my years of off campus college living was late 80/early 90s. I made gallons of Crystal Light and recall it coming not in single serve pac but a small, mini tube with powder and a scoop. I'd make a pitcher and share with my housemates.

Also, Slim Fast! Shake for breakfast, shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner. My housemates and I all "did" SlimFast to save money on food AND to lose weight, which was difficult considering we drank like fish on weekends.

Bartles and James wine coolers!

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps older than some of you, but I spent a lot of time in the late 80s-mid 90s at TGI Fridays eating loaded potato skins and drinking Mudslides at happy hour.

LOL. No Harvey Wallbangers or Sex on the Beach? Or a good ol' Long Island Iced Tea?

Heck no, just the boozy milkshakes. Except I was lactose intolerant and got violently ill on the way home, so had to stop going.