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Anonymous wrote:The firehall weddings were all: fried chicken, rigatoni with red sauce, and stuffed cabbages.

+1. And a band playing Proud Mary.

+1 and wrap up your slice of cake in a napkin to take home!

Anonymous wrote:The firehall weddings were all: fried chicken, rigatoni with red sauce, and stuffed cabbages.

+1. And a band playing Proud Mary.

The firehall weddings were all: fried chicken, rigatoni with red sauce, and stuffed cabbages.

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?

Pork chops, green beans, mashed potatoes
Ice cream sundae

Baked chicken thighs, mash potatoes, green beans.

Anonymous[b wrote:Take some hot dogs, slice them lengthwise and insert a folded Kraft single, wrap with bacon, secure with toothpick, broil.[/b]

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

We added a kosher pickle to the hot dog. They were called Texas Tommies, lol.

In the 1970’s, my mother used Julia Child’s cookbook quite a bit. She also learned some Chinese recipes from friends - beef and broccoli was a family favorite.

In addition, we had hamburgers, baked chicken, pork chops, fish -all on a rotating basis. Always, a green veggie and a starch to go with the meat. Fruit was “dessert”. Green veggies were broccoli, zucchini, green beans, Lima beans (my dads favorite), never asparagus ( Dad hated it). Green beans and broccoli were fresh if she could get it otherwise it was frozen. Starch was rice, potatoes or bread. We also had a pasta and tomatoes meat sauce casserole that we liked. We rarely had the dreaded tuna casserole. The fish was mostly white fish of some sort. We started having more salmon in the 80’s.

My mom hated leftovers, so there was always just enough for four servings.

What an odd question.

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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).

No idea, I say takeaway. I must have picked it up in the U.K.

I was raising kids in the suburbs in the 70s and 80s, here is what I made for dinner:

Meatloaf w/BBQ sauce and bacon on top
Lasagne
Baked chicken and dumplings
Shake and bake pork chops
Pot roast w/carrots and potatoes
Steak
Cheeseburgers
Tuna casserole

Sides:
Mashed potatoes
Baked potatoes
Au gratin potatoes
Rice
Noodles

Corn
Green beans
Peas
Asparagus
Brussel sprouts
Squash casserole
Salad
Watermelon and cantaloupe

When dad wasn't home for dinner:

Fish sticks and french fries or tater tots
Pizza
Chinese food
Grilled cheese sandwiches
Hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls
Meals with no meat in them

Lasagna

La Choy chicken chow mein
Minute Rice
Tang

TV dinners

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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?

I can't tell from your post if you're trying to make fun of yourself by providing a White Suburban dinner?

Is the idea that your worldly DC city friends will think its funny to come to the suburbs and eat an old-school suburban white-person dinner?

DP. I mean, you could tell -- you just didn't.

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?

I am white + have never lived in a suburb OP. I never thought city food was any different han suburban. Maybe in the movies-- white suburban dad would be grilling something; whereas, urban dad either did not have the space or his condo board did not allow grilling.