Cube steak! Sometimes called Salisbury steak.

We also ate a decent amount of Stouffer's frozen Chicken cordon bleu with tater tots!

DH misses Shake & Bake.

Lunchables are a lot less common than when I was a kid. They still exist but it felt like they were HUGE in the 90s.

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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.

I bet you’re SO fun at parties!…

…if by chance you ever get invited to any.

No one wants to go to your parties with garbage American foods like pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, potato salad, and any variant of a dip. You might as well be holding a conagra or campells stock holder convention because all you have at your parties are nasty ultra processed American foods.

Deviled eggs are devoured in the first 10 minutes of my parties.

I mean what do you expect? You have Americans at your parties. Americans eat dumpy foods. So really not surprising here....

I regularly take deviled eggs to parties as my contribution. I have 30 layer hens so it is easy for me.

I make my own mayo and grow parsley. To be fair, I don’t grow my own mustard, source local pepper or dry ocean water into salt…but what part of a deviled egg do you think is ultra processed?

Give it a rest. We all know the standard suburban mommy is using helmans or some other jarred mayo that's been sitting on the shelf for weeks in a store. It's highly processed food.

The word you are looking for is pasteurized. That's not highly processed. It's called cooking.

Ha! No.

Ingredients in suburban mommy Mayo:

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (USED TO PROTECT QUALITY), NATURAL FLAVORS.

It's called soybean oil, EDTA, and 'natural flavors'. You are a good lapdog for the processed food industry. Enjoy your disgusting deviled eggs.

And what exactly is wrong with soybean oil?

A lot. And this is easily Googled.

You have the burden of proof, PP. Nobody has to Google because you say jump.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved those as a kid. There were commercials and everything for sloppy Joe. Same with Hamburger Helper. Loved it! Shake and Bake, I could not get enough! Sometimes I do still buy it but I miss the hype of knowing other people who also had it for dinner recently. No one I seem to run into still eats these “classics” - yes, they are classics to me.

The foods you are describing as "classic" is something only a 60+ year old American would think "classic" for your cohort. I never eat those foods and my children are growing up with a completely different set of recipes than whst their great-grandparents and grandparents consumed.

Did you not read the title of the thread here? This whole thing is about food people no longer seem to eat ... that would, by very definition, be stuff that people like you "never eat."

Just couldn't help but pop in here with your ageism?

It’s like she thinks she will never be old!

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Beefaroni
Fruit Roll-ups

Yes, the stuff on the stove!

Shake, shake, shake that pan!

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Anonymous wrote:There was some kind of spinach dip people made and brought to parties. Never ate it. What was in that?

Spinach, sour cream and water chestnuts, lol. Never understood the water chestnuts in there. Well, I mean, I do -- they are there for texture, for the crunch. But it doesn't work.

Yes for the crunch. When PF Chang's was new and actually good and had good lettuce wraps, that what was in the mixture to give them the crunch too. I made some decent copycat ones at home. Really think water chestnuts should be easier to find. I sift through the tins and make sure none of them are from China.

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Anonymous wrote:We no longer eat government cheese. Man I loved a grilled cheese with government cheese. I just googled if there's anything similar. It was not as soft as velveeta and not as hard as American. Somewhere in between those. Do you think I can get american cheese unsliced at the deli (the cheapest one) and it would be close?

I know what you mean. When we visited my grandparents we would always have grilled cheeses made with government cheese and government butter (as opposed to the Kraft slices and margarine we had at home), cooked in Grandma’s cast iron skillet and in summer, they would be topped with slices of fresh tomato from Grandad’s garden. They were amazing.

Wow, government cheese. My super cheap parents would get that.
Yes to stuffed peppers, "Hawaiian meatballs" , TANG, wonder bread, Spam and Durkee sauce, meat loaf...
I just asked Mom and dad to send me a cocktail party recipe ..it was like a broiled onion and mayo toast. Delish. And they served Glug a lot.

I still buy this when I see it! It makes perfect tuna salad.

Anonymous wrote:I make a lentil sloppy Joe. I tried making hamburger helper like 15 years ago out of nostalgia and was grossed out.

Lentil SJ's are amazing.

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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.

I bet you’re SO fun at parties!…

…if by chance you ever get invited to any.

No one wants to go to your parties with garbage American foods like pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, potato salad, and any variant of a dip. You might as well be holding a conagra or campells stock holder convention because all you have at your parties are nasty ultra processed American foods.

Deviled eggs are devoured in the first 10 minutes of my parties.

I mean what do you expect? You have Americans at your parties. Americans eat dumpy foods. So really not surprising here....

I regularly take deviled eggs to parties as my contribution. I have 30 layer hens so it is easy for me.

I make my own mayo and grow parsley. To be fair, I don’t grow my own mustard, source local pepper or dry ocean water into salt…but what part of a deviled egg do you think is ultra processed?

Give it a rest. We all know the standard suburban mommy is using helmans or some other jarred mayo that's been sitting on the shelf for weeks in a store. It's highly processed food.

The word you are looking for is pasteurized. That's not highly processed. It's called cooking.

Ha! No.

Ingredients in suburban mommy Mayo:

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (USED TO PROTECT QUALITY), NATURAL FLAVORS.

It's called soybean oil, EDTA, and 'natural flavors'. You are a good lapdog for the processed food industry. Enjoy your disgusting deviled eggs.

And what exactly is wrong with soybean oil?

Enjoy your processed junk.

Is there any way that we could all get together to ban this poster from DCUM? No reason, except she is really, really irritating.

No.

She is really, really correct here.

Anonymous wrote:There was some kind of spinach dip people made and brought to parties. Never ate it. What was in that?

Spinach, sour cream and water chestnuts, lol. Never understood the water chestnuts in there. Well, I mean, I do -- they are there for texture, for the crunch. But it doesn't work.

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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.

I bet you’re SO fun at parties!…

…if by chance you ever get invited to any.

No one wants to go to your parties with garbage American foods like pigs in a blanket, deviled eggs, potato salad, and any variant of a dip. You might as well be holding a conagra or campells stock holder convention because all you have at your parties are nasty ultra processed American foods.

Deviled eggs are devoured in the first 10 minutes of my parties.

I mean what do you expect? You have Americans at your parties. Americans eat dumpy foods. So really not surprising here....

I regularly take deviled eggs to parties as my contribution. I have 30 layer hens so it is easy for me.

I make my own mayo and grow parsley. To be fair, I don’t grow my own mustard, source local pepper or dry ocean water into salt…but what part of a deviled egg do you think is ultra processed?

Give it a rest. We all know the standard suburban mommy is using helmans or some other jarred mayo that's been sitting on the shelf for weeks in a store. It's highly processed food.

The word you are looking for is pasteurized. That's not highly processed. It's called cooking.

Ha! No.

Ingredients in suburban mommy Mayo:

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, WHOLE EGGS, DISTILLED VINEGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, SUGAR, LEMON JUICE CONCENTRATE, CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (USED TO PROTECT QUALITY), NATURAL FLAVORS.

It's called soybean oil, EDTA, and 'natural flavors'. You are a good lapdog for the processed food industry. Enjoy your disgusting deviled eggs.

And what exactly is wrong with soybean oil?

A lot. And this is easily Googled.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved those as a kid. There were commercials and everything for sloppy Joe. Same with Hamburger Helper. Loved it! Shake and Bake, I could not get enough! Sometimes I do still buy it but I miss the hype of knowing other people who also had it for dinner recently. No one I seem to run into still eats these “classics” - yes, they are classics to me.

The foods you are describing as "classic" is something only a 60+ year old American would think "classic" for your cohort. I never eat those foods and my children are growing up with a completely different set of recipes than whst their great-grandparents and grandparents consumed.

Did you not read the title of the thread here? This whole thing is about food people no longer seem to eat ... that would, by very definition, be stuff that people like you "never eat."

Just couldn't help but pop in here with your ageism?

Anonymous wrote:Jiffy Pop popcorn
Beefaroni
Fruit Roll-ups

Yes, the stuff on the stove!

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Anonymous wrote:There was some kind of spinach dip people made and brought to parties. Never ate it. What was in that?

Knorr Spinach Dip

https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/knorr-spinach-dip-recipe.html/68467

Yum! I still see it a lot at parties.

It has those water chestnuts in it that a PP was missing!

Get ready for the anti-mayo chick to faint from the vapors!

I make that at least once a year. I could eat it by the spoonful. It might be my very favorite thing ever.

Who knew a sloppy joe could be so polarizing? It's made with beef, onion, green pepper, ketchup, brown sugar and some spices. I don't really see how it's any more offensive than a hamburger.

Jello is one I grew up with that we never eat, but recently I made a jello cake for my grandma's birthday. She always made them for us growing up. I bought more jello than I needed so I made a box for my kids and they thought it was the best thing ever!