Posted on 05/12/2022 12:55:43 PM PDT by DallasBiff
When it comes to food, not every hot new trend ends up being a good idea — just crack open some old cookbooks and see how many savory Jell-O molds and mayonnaise salads you'd want to dine on today
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Oatmeal? Canned soup? Pudding? None of that ever went away. Worst clickbait ever.
I think quiche started being popular in the US in the 1950s; but really picked up in the 70s and through the 80s. I like quiche.
Astronaut ice cream was better.
The video has a link to a story on Mashed. Here’s the list so you don’t have to do the same thing I did.
1. Cheese Fondue
2. Casseroles
3. Microwave food (?)
4. Boxed cake mix (Never went away)
5. Poke cake (cake with grooved poked down into it filled with something)
6. Pop rocks
7. Pudding
8. Sloppy Joes
9. Peanut Butter
10. Condensed soup
11. Oatmeal
12. Boxed mac and cheese
Wow! I forgot about those. I used to sort of maybe like them.
American beer was popular. Now I only drink it in a bar to save a buck.
Shake-A-Pudding
lol! Don’t recall that!
Wake me up when Tang is on the shelf.
Wake me up when Tang is on the shelf.
That is funny Ayds was like every other commercial, in the late 70’s, and early 80’s.
I can't remember if I actually liked them or ate them because "the astronauts did".
I liked it! You could get it at the Goddard gift shop and at the Air and Space museum. It seems like eating very crispy styrofoam when you bite into it, but it tastes remarkably like ice cream.
It was developed for the Apollo mission, but I don’t think it was ever used in flight. You can still buy it:
Pop rocks were fun. My girlfriend in high school liked to load a bunch of them in her mouth then kiss me.
Interesting experience.
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