I was born in 1954, I remember grape nuts, alphabits, and life savers candy. My Mom didn't buy anything in the video. We had bacon, eggs and toast in the mornings. Sandwiches for lunch, and home cooked meals consisting of a protein, a carb, and vegetables. She baked, so we had kuchen (German) for dessert. The commercials are entertaining! Oh, and we used real butter and cane sugar, no fake stuff.
I lucked out and my parents never fell for the margarine scam, so we never used plastic, either. And now it turns out that butter is FAR better for you than margarine.
I was similarly lucky...local fresh butter, eggs and milk plus all meats from local farms. We had garden vegetables (which tasted FAR better then) and were never allowed to eat processed foods. Mom and GMa cooked 3 meals/day. I will say, our diet was high in sugar w/GMa's daily baked pies and cakes! We lived so far from restaurants that fast food was never an option...talk about lucky! Avoided McDs by choice as an adult! I remember neighbors making boxed foods & being jealous, as I assumed anything "new" meant "better"...but it turns out my Mom truly did know the meaning of "better". I followed her example, sugar and all, and passed along cooking skills to my Millennial daughter. I sometimes wonder how much it may have boosted our health...my folks are alive in their 90s and look 60 y.o.! GMa lived to 94, as well...
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 you guys are like vegans, you just can't help it. I guess it is a good thing the rest of us mostly put a stop to y'all using violence to spread your "good word".
I’m 65, raised on a farm and ranch. We cooked from scratch, 3 meals a day! We were poor, hard working, but we ate out of garden, fished, hunted. We rarely ate our own beef, got more for selling him. Had a milk cow,kicked like hell, but we had milk and butter, skim milk and hard corn to piggies, that we ate. The only cereal I got was when I spend a week with my cousins.
Our Dad would not eat anything out fo a can, and our mother would only make fresh home cooking, and we always ate the Dinner table so we could talk about what happened during the day. I REALY MISS THOSE TIMES, WE WERE A FAMILY. THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE THE BEST OF TIMES.
my mother was tired as heck...my father was grouchy and my brother would throw a fit at the table....guess i was just lucky. My sister would hide behind the cereal boxes at breakfast. i....would...just...be quiet and watch it all...
@@Jendromeda Your family sounds like the opening lines of Syncronicity 2 by the Police: Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we know all her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take
Almost everything we ate was fried in Crisco, which was hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Probably what kept us alive is we were ALWAYS in motion. Riding bicycles, playing basketball, hiking in the fields etc. All day. We didn't sit inside playing video games, texting people or surfing the web. I still hit the gym & I'm older than dirt.
I turn 60 this year . Growing up my mom was a stay at home mom . We ate breakfast,lunch and dinner as a family . No tv and all at the table . Everything my mom made was from scratch. A treat for us was a weekly soda pop or a candy bar from the woolworths store . At night we watched all the tv shows as a family and went to bed promptly at 9. All this and it was absolutely the best childhood I could have ever imagined.
@@tekman196 I think maybe you just caught the end of homemade meals that your mom made. I was born in 46 and experienced the same as you did growing up. I blame our government for the destruction of the family. As time passed the taxes got so high that it took two incomes to make a living. This caused latchkey kids and meals of “convenience” and well, you know the rest. I’m so thankful that I grew up when I did…. I don’t know how the younger generations are going to fair.
@@tekman196 we had tv :( 📺 at dinner . A little color tv and my dad watched the news and all it was the Vietnam war . So my Kids had NO tv at Meals cuz of my tv dinner trauma
Women's lib was created to get the women out of the homes and then be able to tax both parents instead of just 1 person, which led to the end of the "family" as we knew it, Dad's were most likely out of the picture soon after, and the state would raise the children, total control through manipulation
Born is 1961, we never had this kind of food. Mom cooked all of our food from scratch, we never had cereal. We had biscuits, eggs, bacon or sausages and tomatoes in season. Ice tea for every meal. No convenience foods at all, she lived to 90 (covid in the hospital killed her), she was still driving and living alone. Dad died from a fall at 89...
I am 66 yrs old now, and I can guarantee that our childhood had plenty of "junk food" snacks; however, we didn't sit all day texting our friends, we jumped on our bikes and rode 3 neighborhoods over to play. Children were more physically active, and the human body is designed to be active.
@@TheRealTrididosI think that’s an ignorant thing to say. I’m 74 and grew up with that shit. Now at least we can make an educated choice, the info is there it’s up to the individual to change!
I'm nearly your age. My Mom would shoo me outdoors in the morning, telling me to play until lunch. In the afternoon, same deal - stay out til dinner. We kids were very active regardless of the season. I think rain was about the only thing that kept us housebound. Of course there were simply more children then. Playmates were everywhere. (Shame! You know what I meant by playmates.)
I still have the LOUD bell my mother would ring to call us in. We were playing outside ALL the time. I feel sorry for the way things have changed. How did it happen?
Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We did eat sweetened cereals for breakfast sometimes, but we also took wholesome lunches to school in our lunchboxes, and sat down to eat dinner as a family every night. We spent a lot of time outside running around, skating, or riding bikes and made our own indoor entertainment by playing games, doing arts and crafts from things we found around the house, using our imaginations to put on puppet shows with puppets me made and plays we wrote ourselves, with costumes we made or scrounged from the “dress up box” and our closets. We were only allowed to watch tv for a limited time on days we were allowed to watch it at all, and we weren’t overweight because junk food was a special treat, we didn’t eat fast food, and we were physically active - unlike the mostly sedentary, video-game addicted kids of today!
You just described my childhood! I tell my grandchildren that I was free roaming child! I ate breakfast at the table, without a television blaring! On weekends and summertime, breakfast came first, chores second, and by noon, after eating a 'real lunch' it was playtime! I went outside and didnt have to come home until dusk, but I better be home for dinner before the street lights came on! They look at me like a tree full of owls! 😂 The idea of using their imaginations for fun is foreign to them! They live off of junk food and wear headsets that allows them to enter an imaginary 3D world in the house, that has fake sunshine and fake darkness. I have to wonder how any of them are going to cope in the future! It's sad really! Because my grandchildrens parents werent raised this way. They had the same childhood I did. But they are allowing this! 🙄
I couldn't help but think, ok so back then they said the "sugar sparkled" cereal was healthy. Now baby boomers like my mom have diabetes. Now my generation is here, and there's all these "sugar alternatives" that are supposedly better(cause cancer). Thanks government.
It’s easy to scoff and be self righteous, but throughout the 60’s, to the 2000’s the life expectancy of the average American went UP and rates of heart disease went DOWN. The obesity epidemic didn’t start until the 2000’s, well beyond the widespread adoption of processed foods.
Fun and interesting to read your comments. I was born in 1951 in Wisconsin and there was no TV until 1959. We never ate processed food. We did not go to restaurants. My Dad hunted and fished. My Mom baked, cooked and canned. We had fruit trees and a garden. Gosh, I was lucky to eat the healthy and tasty food my parents served. My Grandma gave me a couple Lifesavers to shut me up at church every Sunday. Every year we went to the Wisconsin State Fair. We had corn on the cob, cream puffs, ice cream, corn dog, apples, and the best milk ever. Good old days. Thanks for sharing.
Gee, you have a pretty name. I don't think my Mom had a cookbook. The food was always delicious and I make many of their dishes. One of my favorites was coming home from school to warm butter horns. She baked bread every week. Dad was the stew man. Boiled dinner was my favorite. We were really healthy kids. I miss them. When I met my future husband he took me to a very fancy restaurant. I was shocked. Take care!@@ArmandaV-s4b
No nets on trampolines unlike today. 1970s my parents had 4 kids and we had homemade meals. We hardly ate out nor did we go to the grocery store. So we had no idea what was in the store. That was on purpose. We had treats once in awhile, but most families went out for custard ice cream or we made our own ice cream and had pudding and jello. Candy 🍬 once in a while, or a candy bar here and there from our corner store. My Dad bought us cracker jacks often. I recall my Dad saying, "candy bars are a quarter now? They were 5 cents when I was a boy." We did have Kool Aid with tap water. I recall have mint jelly & peanut butter sandwiches for months as my Mom made duck one time and I guess you serve mint jelly with it. I would trade my sandwich with my friend at school. Here my Mom thought I liked it as I didn't complain. 😅 They sold us on sugar cereals with hidden toys inside. 🤦♀️ We didn't watch much tv until cable in '85. We were always busy at school functions, church functions, with friends or sports.
The candy bars (about twice the size of what are now KING SIZED) were 5 cents each in the 1960's... the price tripled early in the 1970's, and since my parents did not believe anyone aged 13 or older should go trick or treating, (I was strongly discouraged at age 12), they decided to give 5 pennies to each child. The younger children LOVED them, the teens (who would show up 3-4 times a night if they liked your candy) quit showing up after the first year. In the later 1970's they started selling the minatures that were originally for christmas & easter candy all year round.
High living for us kids back in the day was going camping and the folks bought a variety snack pack of cereal, the little foil lined boxes of cereal that you opened down the middle and put your milk in 😋 camping and picnics were the only time we ever got junk food, we thought we were deprived 😅
In the dayz of pudding pops and when we were not aware that Bill Cosby was a violent, degenerate, RAP-ST. Before men dressed like fruit-pies and ran bud light campaigns.. I miss the American days.
I Know what we ate 60 years ago, and it Tasted a lot better than it does now. And it also recharged the mind & body. When I was done eating, I was ready to play the guitar for another 6 hours, and anything else I wanted to do. Not now. I never feel recharged after eating our Frankenfood. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Women stopped cooking in the 80s because it was a man oppression feed children nothing but fast food or microwave the reason there is so much obisidity unhealthy people
Commercials and shows like Leave it to Beaver always showed the breakfast and dinner tables groaning with bowls and platters of food. They show kids at breakfast with cereal, toast, orange juice, milk, or plates of eggs and sausage, toast, a butter dish, jelly, and what not. That is not how most of us ate. Every morning was egg on toast or French toast. Maybe eggs and bacon. Or cereal. We didn't eat five or six different things. We drank water, milk or juice. Dinner was maybe chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans and milk. Mostly no dessert. Food was simple. Even mixtures like chipped beef on toast was simple, served with maybe peas. You didn't have to guess what chemicals were in the food. Bread molded if not refrigerated. Cookies did, too. Recipes were simple, with maybe four or five ingredients. When meals were over, we didn't expect to eat until the next meal, nor did we. If I came home from school hungry, I was given a carrot or a pickle to eat. Today that just sounds weird. Not all kids ate like that. The neighbor boy drank Kool-Aid all the time. There was bad food around, but we didn't snack all the time. Today if a kid comes home from school hungry a lot of times they eat pizza rolls, chips, cookies or some other junk food. We didn't have a lot of the foods that are around today, and what was around was saved for parties or gatherings. A lot of people didn't have a ton of money, either. They had one car, and one bread winner (Dad). Living styles were modest. I could go on, but it would be a composition.
We had a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Bacon, Sausage, maybe some Country Ham or a piece of Hog Jawl. Homemade biscuits, eggs, dads was fried mine were scrambled. Mom made Sausage gravy for them and chocolate gravy for me. It wasn't like chocolate, it was different. The rest of the week I ate a bowl of cereal and half a grapefruit with milk. We seldom drank a Coke. Usually Saturday night when mom made some Jiffy Pop popcorn we got a glass of coke while we watched Hee Haw. We ate a big supper, exactly at 6, and all together. We had 9 acres of garden and Mom canned a lot.
We didn't eat all that trash. I'm 67, just regular home cooked food. My mother never bought sweetened cereal. We ate supper at 5 pm and didn't eat again til breakfast, usually bacon, eggs, and toast.
Yes indeed but every big food company has A fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders to make the biggest profits possible and in turn that is done from selling the cheapest low cost mass-produced even if nutrition free food to the masses regardless of impact on their health. Then invest in a big pharmaceutical complex at the same time to treat the illnesses that will be more prevalent in a undernourished society-- full of sugar Laden cereals and soft drinks... It is very obvious today that the rates of diabetes are continuing to rise and it's no coincidence That these deficiencies and diseases are literally exploding the revenues and profits of big food and big pharma🤑🤑🤑
We had a huge bag of puffed wheat beside the fridge and that was the cereal we had every morning until winter, then it was cream of wheat. What a wonderful life ❤
Does anyone remember those straws you put in milk that had chocolate, and strawberry flavor. The straw had a felt pad of some kind inside that was flavored. I think they were called flavor straws. I would remove the felt pad after finishing my milk, and chew the rest of the flavor out of it. I should be dead by now. I'm 74.
At Aunties house, breakfast was almost always biscuits and pork gravy. Not so healthy, but it sure stuck to your ribs, filled you up until lunch, kept you warm walking to school in winter. Nobody got fat because you burned it off.
You mean Grape ROCKS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you could break teeth eating Grape Nuts. Also, notice all the canned food, processed food, etc. I didn't eat fresh vegetables until I was grown and buying my own food. Also, 50’s child here💪
I have never eaten any of these. I have never even heard of most of them. My mom made everything from scratch. When I moved away on my own is when my diet took a nose dive. 😝 And now I'm cooking from scratch, no processed foods, like my mom did. Amazing😊
I know it helped that we ate meals at the dinner table together and my mom made sure we ate our veggies. She made Cream of Wheat and oatmeal and hot cereal more than the cold sweet cereal. My dad cooked delicious toast, eggs or omelettes and potatoes or grits on Sundays, gave my mom a break. Thanks for the memories..
Grape nuts is like a mouthful of grit. Lol. I remember a couple of these. Toastems were actually better than pop tarts. Mom and Dad both liked to cook so this stuff was used like a now and then treat. We only got ice cream in the summer. I was born in 1950, but never had most of this stuff. Or even heard of it. We didn't watch a lot of tv either. Sunday night was Disney Sat night was Gunsmoke. Cartoons early morning or just Sat morning. I was 6 before we had a tv. Kids were busy playing then. More interested in riding bike than tv.
My grandfather always picked Grape nut cereal. When My mother would go Grocery shopping she would ask him what one he wanted and he would say in his thick German accent GRAPENUT . Lord I miss my grandfather
That was interesting. I'm almost 72 and I don't remember any of those commercials. Some of commercials were for products I never heard of before. But, it was fun to watch. We didn't eat a lot of cold cereal growing up, but I remember cereal with freeze dried strawberries in it.
Ooohhh YEAH...We ate all types of stuff then..I'm 62....However..we were always outside discovering and playing games....with our friends..not sitting on our assessments twittering our thumbs...with diabetes at 12 years old ..we walked, ran, jumped rope rode bikes,..we were active.....We did our chores early on the weekend...then the rest of the day was ours ..we weren't disrespectful.,tear down people's prpperty..raised hell....These young ones today act as if they're entitled to whatever . A 5 year old haves a fit if he or she doesn't get their way...Parents can't and won't discipline them..That's why we have what we have.....yet it's always someone else's fault... KEEP IT SIMPLE-IS LONG GONE..THANK YOU for allowing me to vent..LOL..😅😅
keep sniffing wood glue fuddster. Back in the day you were clueless to what was in the food chain. DDT & countless chemicals and heavy metals in what you ate & water . Lead & asbestos so yummy !
It used to be that "sugar" was used prominently in the names of cereals. Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes. The sugar coatings are what sold the cereal. Now, they dare not mention sugar. The sugar is still there, you just don't mention it. How times have changed.
I'm old enough to remember those born in the 1800's, and they would say, "you can sell a sh*t sandwich to the people if you have enough bread to cover the stench." And the advertisers still are.
I never ate any of these things .Home made food was our fare, and so good.even now I crave some of the meals we had. Example fresh green beans in a big pot with carrots ,potatoes and lots of onions. It was a FEAST.YUM,,
I remember most of that junk because my mom rarely cooked. I remember trying to Scotch tape the waxed paper around my PB&J sandwich for lunch. Guess I had to fend for myself from an early age.
Growing up in that era, with parents who had lived through the Great Depression, we saw these ads but our Mom's Signature Dish was what she called "ShupUpAndEatIt" and if we got some of these popular treats they were - - a treat - - but thankfully they were rare.
Amusing, nostalgic and helps us recognize when the food industry started programming all of us consumers to eat their products. Here we are 60-70 years later and the majority of our population is overweight with multiple diseases that probably come from eating processed (and now genetically modified) "food".
I don't see many food ads anymore. Almost everything is pills for the heart, the brain, poop pills or pills for memory loss. And of course the adult diappers.
What kid didn't love the cheesey toy in your cereal box. You used to get a juice glass in oatmeal and a bath towel in laundry soap. Whatever happened to free stuff? lol
I have a set of glasses I got at the gas station for filling up my car. Each fill up you got one glass. The ones everyone wanted were the ones that had the local sports team logos on them. This was in the 1980's.
My mom bought me and my older brother 1- 8 pack bottle of pepsi, a package of 6 Hersey choc bars and a lgr bag of potato chips each friday when she went grocery store shopping. That was our treats for the week like after school. She would say on friday when she got home.... u can eat it all today or u can make it last till next friday but there wont be anymore till then...lol me and my brother became the best rationers and still are today...lol that was like around 1969 1970. My mom had $25 a week for groceries back then. That will get u a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread now days...lol My mom always put out a veggie garden in the backyard and a milkman that brought milk, eggs, cream, butter, all that stuff and they billed u monthly. Dont see that today...lol
My mom ate Grape Nuts. Lived to 86 and she was in perfect health until 86 when a genetic lung disease got her. Now we know and have been tested, one of us inherited it. Hot shots cracks me up it's like the sour gummies now. My students used to give them to me to try and I would indulge them making all kinds of faces. We had some good laughs.
This isn't necessarily what we all were eating back then. This is when the onslaught of all these processed foods really began and they were marketing it to all of us.
Who remembers having a sugar bowl on the kitchen table because the only cereal your mom bought was Cheerios & Corn Flakes? LOL!! 🥣 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
I remember the 1st time mom bought Captain Crunch cereal at the supermarket in 1963. However, every dinner was home cooked. No fast food. Once in a blue moon mexican TV dinner.
They were treats for us on the farm, I couldn't resist candy cigarettes when we went to town to the candy store, 10 cents would fill a small paper bag full of sweets....those were the days, and don't forget the licorice cigars and pipes!!
Wax lips, mustache, and teeth. A two foot tall pixie stix. Bubble gum in big bricks. Nickel Heresy bars. Double bubble. Wax bottle with sugar water in them. 10 cent popsicles. Penny candy. Kool-aid or an ice cube of Kool-aid wrapped in a paper towel on a hot summer day.
I was born just before the 1950’s. I remember some of these commercials, but what I remember eating is oatmeal, Kix, Puffed wheat and rice, Wheaties, and generic corn flakes. We never had frozen dinners. But we had lots of frozen veggies. I don’t think these commercials represent the way most people ate back then. I still don’t eat all that processed stuff.
My childhood diet was beans, corn bread, rice, sometimes Kool aide to drink lunch was dry bologna sandwich, water, breakfast was oatmeal, or corn flakes and that was it everyday, everyday,and everyday until I was old enough to work and buy what I wanted to eat ❤
I wish I had a nickel for every pinto bean I ate growing up. It was a treat to get some smothered potatoes with our beans and cornbread. I'm grateful I had what I had though.
We didn't have any fast food then. Imagine that. I don't ever remember eating anything after dinner but I do remember playing outside till dark-- in any kind of weather. I loved the package of little boxes of cereal. Miss.
What a blast from the past. I remember I loved Elise the cow from Borden's. My mother would cut her out of the milk carton and I would wear Elsie and her flower on whatever I was wearing. Wow, I haven't thought of that in over 5 decades. I remember a lot of the other things also, but I adored Borden's because of Elsie the Cow.
1950 Oh boy! “Chocolate Pudding cups that stay good for two whole weeks… in the fridge.” 2024 Chocolate pudding cups can sit on a shelf for years, no refrigeration. We have no idea what’s actually in those cups. Something brown
Grape Nuts cereal is still being made the same way, whole wheat and barley with no sugar. Consumer Report rates it as the healthiest breakfast cereal that is widely available!
Hello from Finland. It was 1959 and my dad had just bought a TV. I was seven. I was saunter outside and somebody gave everybody a tiny box of Kellogg’s Rice Crispies. I was wondering what it was and then I saw a TV commercial about them. Too bad I didn’t keep the box. It could be worh something today. Anyway, it was perhaps a best campaign ever.
We had cooked meals every night. We weren’t allowed to drink coke, help ourselves to the pantry and snacks were fruit, bananas etc. The cereal we got was never fun ones, non Frosted Flakes, plain cheerios, oat meal, toast and orange juice, milk every morning. I had to walk a mile to and from school, had PE every day and lunches were balanced but was so cafeteria…..they didn’t sell coke, candy etc at school. I had to set the table at night, us kids cleared and rinsed dishes. We had a dishwasher. Every Saturday night we got popcorn and ONE glass coke. Sunday dinner was always special, after church and some special dessert…..peach or blackberry cobbler. My Mom wouldn’t buy those post toastie things, hell, she even made her own donuts, crepes, and waffles.
The builder of Mar-a-Lago salutes your tribute to General Foods from beyond the grave. RIP Marjorie Merriweather Post, incredible businesswoman before her time, and my former neighbor in the 60s and early 70s.
We had Toastems before having Pop-Tarts and they were great as I recall! Gotta love that Leo G. Carroll speach style actors and narrators used back in the day! Teyoob (tube), teyoon (tune), steyoo (stew)! Haha!
Sixty years ago I think junk food was just starting to become a really big thing. Grocery stores were not much bigger than the size of a convenience store today. I was 17 then and I never ate most of that stuff. I never even heard of most of those products and some I heard of but my mother wouldn't allow it in the house. She was a working mom but still cooked dinner from scratch most nights. Because of her example I grew up and did the same thing and so do my daughters. We're a very healthy family.
That was when Americans were starting to get sold the fallacy about calories, and processed food began. People ate whole foods before this. Someone wants us to believe this is how they kept slim, but people were not eating this trash then. It was only the beginning sold as convenient.
I’m 66 and I miss those days. No Ragu only homemade, our ice cream especially Dairy Queen soft serve was so much better. If you didn’t live then it might sound primitive but I’ll never forget
I'm 54; born 1970. I grew up eating part farm fresh and processed foods. I miss the freshness of food; when tomatoes and warermelons had real flavor. Meats don't even smell like meat anymore.
"TV dinners" in those metal trays with sections were a rare treat. And what about Tang, Kool-Aid, Nestle's Quik, Ovaltine, Bosco, and Carnation Instant Breakfast to stir into water or milk to drink?
I grew up in 50's 60's and my mother had a garden & cooked our food ,we didn't have all that box cereal & fast food junk . don't know many that did that's why everyone was slim & they didn't sit on games & computers all day
This is my era I grew up in and when I was 14 in 1981 I got Crohns Disease. I wonder is all this crap food caused my illness. I think this food sure helped.
Do you remember the old boxed ceral came in foil lined paper instead of the plastic bags they use now? I used to very carefully open it so I could fold it down to keep the ceral fresh.
I like Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat, or, Sand and Gravel and Brillo Pads, as my Dad used to call them! Alphabits, Maypo, and all forms of Captain Crunch are pretty good. The Captain Crunch I eat for a snack or dessert, not breakfast.
The Post cornflakes with strawberries, peaches or blueberries were delicious. Freeze dried fruit and cereal. My mom bought them, and we loved them. Too bad they were discontinued---though Spial K has their own strawberry version today.
Funny reading the comments from all the Gen X'ers saying how bad all this stuff was and that you never used any of it. That's because your parents were fed it and knew how bad it was! Thank a Boomer for seeing to it you got better food. (And recognize "The Greatest Generation" might have made a mistake or two, but were loved by their kids anyway.)
I remember some of these. Toaster pastries (which was a special treat) were so much better than the ones today. They actually had decent amount of filling in them and tasted better than the ones today.
Yeah- “I like the manufactured fake ideal of those years. Everyone in clean, pressed clothing with perfect hair. No signs of actual culture or society when portrayed by perfectly groomed actors.” Meanwhile, outside, people dressed in overalls, ragged clothes, and cultural signs of youth (slicked back hair, mini-skirts, men with long hair, leather jackets,) and all of that actually existing off screen…
The blonde girl in alpha bits commercial is my grandmother. Velma Eaton.
So wonderful
🙀amazing
so cool!
Wow, she looks so young!
Cute
I was born in 1954, I remember grape nuts, alphabits, and life savers candy. My Mom didn't buy anything in the video. We had bacon, eggs and toast in the mornings. Sandwiches for lunch, and home cooked meals consisting of a protein, a carb, and vegetables. She baked, so we had kuchen (German) for dessert. The commercials are entertaining! Oh, and we used real butter and cane sugar, no fake stuff.
I lucked out and my parents never fell for the margarine scam, so we never used plastic, either. And now it turns out that butter is FAR better for you than margarine.
I was similarly lucky...local fresh butter, eggs and milk plus all meats from local farms. We had garden vegetables (which tasted FAR better then) and were never allowed to eat processed foods. Mom and GMa cooked 3 meals/day. I will say, our diet was high in sugar w/GMa's daily baked pies and cakes! We lived so far from restaurants that fast food was never an option...talk about lucky! Avoided McDs by choice as an adult! I remember neighbors making boxed foods & being jealous, as I assumed anything "new" meant "better"...but it turns out my Mom truly did know the meaning of "better". I followed her example, sugar and all, and passed along cooking skills to my Millennial daughter. I sometimes wonder how much it may have boosted our health...my folks are alive in their 90s and look 60 y.o.! GMa lived to 94, as well...
I'll bet you are in good health to this day!
@@jamesprior2496 Well, I am not, but my diet isn't the cause.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 you guys are like vegans, you just can't help it. I guess it is a good thing the rest of us mostly put a stop to y'all using violence to spread your "good word".
I’m 65, raised on a farm and ranch. We cooked from scratch, 3 meals a day! We were poor, hard working, but we ate out of garden, fished, hunted. We rarely ate our own beef, got more for selling him. Had a milk cow,kicked like hell, but we had milk and butter, skim milk and hard corn to piggies, that we ate. The only cereal I got was when I spend a week with my cousins.
You must have been very healthy growing up with so much good food to eat.
Our Dad would not eat anything out fo a can, and our mother would only make fresh home cooking, and we always ate the Dinner table so we could talk about what happened during the day. I REALY MISS THOSE TIMES, WE WERE A FAMILY. THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE THE BEST OF TIMES.
I do, too, and agree they were the best!
my mother was tired as heck...my father was grouchy and my brother would throw a fit at the table....guess i was just lucky. My sister would hide behind the cereal boxes at breakfast. i....would...just...be quiet and watch it all...
Jeff, the best of times and the best of music....""""" I know it's only rock and roll.. but I like it"""
I raised my kids that way in the 90s, so what's your point?
@@Jendromeda Your family sounds like the opening lines of Syncronicity 2 by the Police:
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
Almost everything we ate was fried in Crisco, which was hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Probably what kept us alive is we were ALWAYS in motion. Riding bicycles, playing basketball, hiking in the fields etc. All day. We didn't sit inside playing video games, texting people or surfing the web. I still hit the gym & I'm older than dirt.
😅 me n hubby too. No garbage food and yes exercising at the gym daily. Doctors will starve with ppl like us.
I did all of those things. I still workout, and I’m 68. Also, no kids in my neighborhood were overweight.
I turn 60 this year . Growing up my mom was a stay at home mom . We ate breakfast,lunch and dinner as a family . No tv and all at the table . Everything my mom made was from scratch. A treat for us was a weekly soda pop or a candy bar from the woolworths store . At night we watched all the tv shows as a family and went to bed promptly at 9. All this and it was absolutely the best childhood I could have ever imagined.
@@tekman196 I think maybe you just caught the end of homemade meals that your mom made. I was born in 46 and experienced the same as you did growing up. I blame our government for the destruction of the family. As time passed the taxes got so high that it took two incomes to make a living. This caused latchkey kids and meals of “convenience” and well, you know the rest. I’m so thankful that I grew up when I did…. I don’t know how the younger generations are going to fair.
Those were the days we thought would never end.
@@tekman196 we had tv :( 📺 at dinner . A little color tv and my dad watched the news and all it was the Vietnam war . So my
Kids had NO tv at
Meals cuz of my tv dinner trauma
I pitty my mom. My grandmother was apparently a terrible cook, & her first husband committed suicide.
Women's lib was created to get the women out of the homes and then be able to tax both parents instead of just 1 person, which led to the end of the "family" as we knew it, Dad's were most likely out of the picture soon after, and the state would raise the children, total control through manipulation
Born is 1961, we never had this kind of food. Mom cooked all of our food from scratch, we never had cereal. We had biscuits, eggs, bacon or sausages and tomatoes in season. Ice tea for every meal. No convenience foods at all, she lived to 90 (covid in the hospital killed her), she was still driving and living alone. Dad died from a fall at 89...
I am 66 yrs old now, and I can guarantee that our childhood had plenty of "junk food" snacks; however, we didn't sit all day texting our friends, we jumped on our bikes and rode 3 neighborhoods over to play. Children were more physically active, and the human body is designed to be active.
Too bad the older generations introduced all of these sedentary activities.
@@TheRealTrididosI think that’s an ignorant thing to say. I’m 74 and grew up with that shit. Now at least we can make an educated choice, the info is there it’s up to the individual to change!
I'm nearly your age. My Mom would shoo me outdoors in the morning, telling me to play until lunch. In the afternoon, same deal - stay out til dinner. We kids were very active regardless of the season. I think rain was about the only thing that kept us housebound. Of course there were simply more children then. Playmates were everywhere. (Shame! You know what I meant by playmates.)
I still have the LOUD bell my mother would ring to call us in. We were playing outside ALL the time. I feel sorry for the way things have changed. How did it happen?
There's more junk food now than ever before.
Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We did eat sweetened cereals for breakfast sometimes, but we also took wholesome lunches to school in our lunchboxes, and sat down to eat dinner as a family every night. We spent a lot of time outside running around, skating, or riding bikes and made our own indoor entertainment by playing games, doing arts and crafts from things we found around the house, using our imaginations to put on puppet shows with puppets me made and plays we wrote ourselves, with costumes we made or scrounged from the “dress up box” and our closets. We were only allowed to watch tv for a limited time on days we were allowed to watch it at all, and we weren’t overweight because junk food was a special treat, we didn’t eat fast food, and we were physically active - unlike the mostly sedentary, video-game addicted kids of today!
You just described my childhood! I tell my grandchildren that I was free roaming child! I ate breakfast at the table, without a television blaring! On weekends and summertime, breakfast came first, chores second, and by noon, after eating a 'real lunch' it was playtime! I went outside and didnt have to come home until dusk, but I better be home for dinner before the street lights came on! They look at me like a tree full of owls! 😂 The idea of using their imaginations for fun is foreign to them! They live off of junk food and wear headsets that allows them to enter an imaginary 3D world in the house, that has fake sunshine and fake darkness. I have to wonder how any of them are going to cope in the future! It's sad really! Because my grandchildrens parents werent raised this way. They had the same childhood I did. But they are allowing this! 🙄
Well Said!
This is when the American diet changed from homemade to processed packaged foods that was sold to the public as "healthy."
I remember my Dad would give us corn flakes cereal with a lot of sugar! You could see it at the bottom the cereal bowl!
I couldn't help but think, ok so back then they said the "sugar sparkled" cereal was healthy. Now baby boomers like my mom have diabetes. Now my generation is here, and there's all these "sugar alternatives" that are supposedly better(cause cancer). Thanks government.
Add that to everyone became a couch potato and watched TV all the time and you have the reason many got fat!
Yup. Now I know why half of America has health problems.
It’s easy to scoff and be self righteous, but throughout the 60’s, to the 2000’s the life expectancy of the average American went UP and rates of heart disease went DOWN. The obesity epidemic didn’t start until the 2000’s, well beyond the widespread adoption of processed foods.
Fun and interesting to read your comments. I was born in 1951 in Wisconsin and there was no TV until 1959. We never ate processed food. We did not go to restaurants. My Dad hunted and fished. My Mom baked, cooked and canned. We had fruit trees and a garden. Gosh, I was lucky to eat the healthy and tasty food my parents served. My Grandma gave me a couple Lifesavers to shut me up at church every Sunday. Every year we went to the Wisconsin State Fair. We had corn on the cob, cream puffs, ice cream, corn dog, apples, and the best milk ever. Good old days. Thanks for sharing.
than k you! This video is so misleading. Until I was ten in 1949 this is what we ate too we moved away from my home town.
Gee, you have a pretty name. I don't think my Mom had a cookbook. The food was always delicious and I make many of their dishes. One of my favorites was coming home from school to warm butter horns. She baked bread every week. Dad was the stew man. Boiled dinner was my favorite. We were really healthy kids. I miss them. When I met my future husband he took me to a very fancy restaurant. I was shocked.
Take care!@@ArmandaV-s4b
I'm getting hungry.
1951? Wow, and I thought being born in 69 was getting up there. God Bless Ya.
No nets on trampolines unlike today.
1970s my parents had 4 kids and we had homemade meals. We hardly ate out nor did we go to the grocery store. So we had no idea what was in the store. That was on purpose.
We had treats once in awhile, but most families went out for custard ice cream or we made our own ice cream and had pudding and jello. Candy 🍬 once in a while, or a candy bar here and there from our corner store. My Dad bought us cracker jacks often. I recall my Dad saying, "candy bars are a quarter now? They were 5 cents when I was a boy." We did have Kool Aid with tap water.
I recall have mint jelly & peanut butter sandwiches for months as my Mom made duck one time and I guess you serve mint jelly with it. I would trade my sandwich with my friend at school. Here my Mom thought I liked it as I didn't complain. 😅
They sold us on sugar cereals with hidden toys inside. 🤦♀️
We didn't watch much tv until cable in '85. We were always busy at school functions, church functions, with friends or sports.
The candy bars (about twice the size of what are now KING SIZED) were 5 cents each in the 1960's... the price tripled early in the 1970's, and since my parents did not believe anyone aged 13 or older should go trick or treating, (I was strongly discouraged at age 12), they decided to give 5 pennies to each child. The younger children LOVED them, the teens (who would show up 3-4 times a night if they liked your candy) quit showing up after the first year. In the later 1970's they started selling the minatures that were originally for christmas & easter candy all year round.
Ooh mint jelly
@@1BeautifullyBlessed With peanut butter?...akkk...
Mint jelly is traditionally served with lamb. Never heard of having it with duck.
High living for us kids back in the day was going camping and the folks bought a variety snack pack of cereal, the little foil lined boxes of cereal that you opened down the middle and put your milk in 😋 camping and picnics were the only time we ever got junk food, we thought we were deprived 😅
We used to go camping, fishing and just driving around in the country a lot. (And we were a pretty dysfunctional family, too... )
In the dayz of pudding pops and when we were not aware that Bill Cosby was a violent, degenerate, RAP-ST. Before men dressed like fruit-pies and ran bud light campaigns.. I miss the American days.
I Know what we ate 60 years ago, and it Tasted a lot better than it does now. And it also recharged the mind & body. When I was done eating, I was ready to play the guitar for another 6 hours, and anything else I wanted to do. Not now. I never feel recharged after eating our Frankenfood.
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@williamhiles7404 - You may well be right but you were 60 years younger, too. That might have a little something to do with it.
Women stopped cooking in the 80s because it was a man oppression feed children nothing but fast food or microwave the reason there is so much obisidity unhealthy people
I remember those commercials! That is cool that is your Grandma!
Commercials and shows like Leave it to Beaver always showed the breakfast and dinner tables groaning with bowls and platters of food. They show kids at breakfast with cereal, toast, orange juice, milk, or plates of eggs and sausage, toast, a butter dish, jelly, and what not. That is not how most of us ate. Every morning was egg on toast or French toast. Maybe eggs and bacon. Or cereal. We didn't eat five or six different things. We drank water, milk or juice. Dinner was maybe chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans and milk. Mostly no dessert. Food was simple. Even mixtures like chipped beef on toast was simple, served with maybe peas.
You didn't have to guess what chemicals were in the food. Bread molded if not refrigerated. Cookies did, too. Recipes were simple, with maybe four or five ingredients. When meals were over, we didn't expect to eat until the next meal, nor did we. If I came home from school hungry, I was given a carrot or a pickle to eat. Today that just sounds weird. Not all kids ate like that. The neighbor boy drank Kool-Aid all the time. There was bad food around, but we didn't snack all the time.
Today if a kid comes home from school hungry a lot of times they eat pizza rolls, chips, cookies or some other junk food. We didn't have a lot of the foods that are around today, and what was around was saved for parties or gatherings.
A lot of people didn't have a ton of money, either. They had one car, and one bread winner (Dad). Living styles were modest. I could go on, but it would be a composition.
@@comfeefort I didn't know that. How interesting.
We had a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Bacon, Sausage, maybe some Country Ham or a piece of Hog Jawl. Homemade biscuits, eggs, dads was fried mine were scrambled. Mom made Sausage gravy for them and chocolate gravy for me. It wasn't like chocolate, it was different. The rest of the week I ate a bowl of cereal and half a grapefruit with milk. We seldom drank a Coke. Usually Saturday night when mom made some Jiffy Pop popcorn we got a glass of coke while we watched Hee Haw. We ate a big supper, exactly at 6, and all together. We had 9 acres of garden and Mom canned a lot.
We didn't eat all that trash. I'm 67, just regular home cooked food. My mother never bought sweetened cereal. We ate supper at 5 pm and didn't eat again til breakfast, usually bacon, eggs, and toast.
Yes indeed but every big food company has A fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders to make the biggest profits possible and in turn that is done from selling the cheapest low cost mass-produced even if nutrition free food to the masses regardless of impact on their health. Then invest in a big pharmaceutical complex at the same time to treat the illnesses that will be more prevalent in a undernourished society-- full of sugar Laden cereals and soft drinks... It is very obvious today that the rates of diabetes are continuing to rise and it's no coincidence That these deficiencies and diseases are literally exploding the revenues and profits of big food and big pharma🤑🤑🤑
We had a huge bag of puffed wheat beside the fridge and that was the cereal we had every morning until winter, then it was cream of wheat. What a wonderful life ❤
How boring . We had good food but we also had fun foods like count chocula..and cakes n candy.
We had and ate all that crap and I’m 67 also. You were lucky it was everywhere where I grew up.
Just like a baby 😢 boomer to whine. Your generation ruined the world so who cares how ate.
Does anyone remember those straws you put in milk that had chocolate, and strawberry flavor. The straw had a felt pad of some kind inside that was flavored. I think they were called flavor straws. I would remove the felt pad after finishing my milk, and chew the rest of the flavor out of it.
I should be dead by now. I'm 74.
They were good
Yeah I remember those. They tasted weird, but my siblings and I loved them.
😅my husband is your age so I just asked him and yes he remembers.
At Aunties house, breakfast was almost always biscuits and pork gravy. Not so healthy, but it sure stuck to your ribs, filled you up until lunch, kept you warm walking to school in winter. Nobody got fat because you burned it off.
Sounds like farmers. You ate that way in the morning because you were about to start your day and you would burn massive amounts of calories...
You mean Grape ROCKS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you could break teeth eating Grape Nuts.
Also, notice all the canned food, processed food, etc. I didn't eat fresh vegetables until I was grown and buying my own food. Also, 50’s child here💪
I have never eaten any of these. I have never even heard of most of them. My mom made everything from scratch. When I moved away on my own is when my diet took a nose dive. 😝 And now I'm cooking from scratch, no processed foods, like my mom did. Amazing😊
I know it helped that we ate meals at the dinner table together and my mom made sure we ate our veggies. She made Cream of Wheat and oatmeal and hot cereal more than the cold sweet cereal. My dad cooked delicious toast, eggs or omelettes and potatoes or grits on Sundays, gave my mom a break. Thanks for the memories..
“Sugar-sparkled for quick energy” 😂
Wow, just wow!
Grape nuts is like a mouthful of grit. Lol. I remember a couple of these. Toastems were actually better than pop tarts. Mom and Dad both liked to cook so this stuff was used like a now and then treat. We only got ice cream in the summer. I was born in 1950, but never had most of this stuff. Or even heard of it. We didn't watch a lot of tv either. Sunday night was Disney Sat night was Gunsmoke. Cartoons early morning or just Sat morning. I was 6 before we had a tv. Kids were busy playing then. More interested in riding bike than tv.
I actually used to like it
My grandfather always picked Grape nut cereal. When My mother would go Grocery shopping she would ask him what one he wanted and he would say in his thick German accent GRAPENUT . Lord I miss my grandfather
That was interesting. I'm almost 72 and I don't remember any of those commercials. Some of commercials were for products I never heard of before. But, it was fun to watch. We didn't eat a lot of cold cereal growing up, but I remember cereal with freeze dried strawberries in it.
Same here. Post Toasties and a few of the products, yes, but not those commercials.
Me either and I am 73.
Those black & white minimalistic simple commercials without background music are just really good, peaceful, satisfying, relaxing, worth watching.
My grandma would put cinnamon in a bowl of pure sugar and sprinkle it on bread and butter. Yummy.
Cinnamon toast! My mom made it for us as a treat.
I was born in 1956 but l don't remember half of the products in those commercials. Doughnut Squares?
I was born in 63 and have only heard of grapenuts!!
@user-lz5xf4hc5k I watched a lot of TV. My parents never cared what l watched or how much.
TOASTER DOUGHNUTS?! Yes please!!!
My mom made everything homemade when we were kids… EVERYTHING.., we were very lucky to have fruit loops on occasion
Ooohhh YEAH...We ate all types of stuff then..I'm 62....However..we were always outside discovering and playing games....with our friends..not sitting on our assessments twittering our thumbs...with diabetes at 12 years old ..we walked, ran, jumped rope rode bikes,..we were active.....We did our chores early on the weekend...then the rest of the day was ours ..we weren't disrespectful.,tear down people's prpperty..raised hell....These young ones today act as if they're entitled to whatever . A 5 year old haves a fit if he or she doesn't get their way...Parents can't and won't discipline them..That's why we have what we have.....yet it's always someone else's fault... KEEP IT SIMPLE-IS LONG GONE..THANK YOU for allowing me to vent..LOL..😅😅
There are quite a few foods shown here that I not only didn't eat, but I don't even remember them.
But, I agree with the rest of your post.
I'm 70.
Love grape nuts and alphabits. 65 yo
I hear you. Things sure have changed. Not for the better imo😊
I don’t remember DOUGHNUT SQUARE’S and I’m 66 I’ve never heard of Diet Beef Stew either there’s a few of these I don’t remember ‼️
Back in the days when you didn’t have to spend the first 25 seconds guessing wtf was being advertised.
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Truth!
keep sniffing wood glue fuddster. Back in the day you were clueless to what was in the food chain. DDT & countless chemicals and heavy metals in what you ate & water . Lead & asbestos so yummy !
@fluffy1931 today you have to watch for crickets in your food
I was alive then and never heard of toaster donuts.
me either, haven't heard of that pudding, or the Post hearts either
Me neither 🤷♀️
Me either but it doesn't sound like something my mom would buy us kids. No pop tarts either.
They sound tasty though.
Me either.
It used to be that "sugar" was used prominently in the names of cereals. Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes. The sugar coatings are what sold the cereal. Now, they dare not mention sugar. The sugar is still there, you just don't mention it. How times have changed.
And they’ve replaced the sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup which is even worse for our health.
In our house, we eat sugar, lard, butter, etc.. Don't buy the propaganda, its good for ya!
I'm old enough to remember those born in the 1800's, and they would say, "you can sell a sh*t sandwich to the people if you have enough bread to cover the stench." And the advertisers still are.
Ahhhh! I remember the Good ol guys from back then. They were old timers in the 1970s. Now days we’re proud boys, 🇺🇸
Trump 2024 🤠
Lmao!!!
Kelly, you must be a fossil by now
I never ate any of these things .Home made food was our fare, and so good.even now I crave some of the meals we had. Example fresh green beans in a big pot with carrots ,potatoes and lots of onions. It was a FEAST.YUM,,
You probably salivate when somebody mows the lawn 😂😂😂
I remember most of that junk because my mom rarely cooked. I remember trying to Scotch tape the waxed paper around my PB&J sandwich for lunch. Guess I had to fend for myself from an early age.
Fancy fruit lifesavers rocked my world way back then. Wish they still made them
Me too. I loved those things.
I had to eat what Mom cooked. We went to a fancy restaurant only once in a gr8 while. I raised my children the same way. 😊
Thank you! It is so fun to see tv commercials that you last saw many years ago when you were a child!!! ☮️💟
And how the jiggles stayed with us.
Growing up in that era, with parents who had lived through the Great Depression, we saw these ads but our Mom's Signature Dish was what she called "ShupUpAndEatIt" and if we got some of these popular treats they were - - a treat - - but thankfully they were rare.
Amusing, nostalgic and helps us recognize when the food industry started programming all of us consumers to eat their products. Here we are 60-70 years later and the majority of our population is overweight with multiple diseases that probably come from eating processed (and now genetically modified) "food".
not to mention all the clot shots the masses have been told that its good for us by injecting mercury and aluminum into our bodies..
I don't remember some of this stuff on these commercials. They bring back good memories though!! I love to watch old commercials!!!
I don't see many food ads anymore. Almost everything is pills for the heart, the brain, poop pills or pills for memory loss. And of course the adult diappers.
Civilized countries all outlaw drug advertising. The USA is owned by billionaires, so no morals in our country.
@@randomgrinnI have news for you, the world is owned by billionaires.
What kid didn't love the cheesey toy in your cereal box. You used to get a juice glass in oatmeal and a bath towel in laundry soap. Whatever happened to free stuff? lol
😂😂😂 couldn't wait to open that new box of cereal🎉
I have a set of glasses I got at the gas station for filling up my car. Each fill up you got one glass. The ones everyone wanted were the ones that had the local sports team logos on them. This was in the 1980's.
I don’t remember most of these ads. But we watched very little TV. We were always outside playing.
We weren’t allowed to eat that way at home. Mom was a real stickler about fresh foods. Also She thought it was too expensive . I’m so glad.
My mom bought me and my older brother 1- 8 pack bottle of pepsi, a package of 6 Hersey choc bars and a lgr bag of potato chips each friday when she went grocery store shopping. That was our treats for the week like after school. She would say on friday when she got home.... u can eat it all today or u can make it last till next friday but there wont be anymore till then...lol me and my brother became the best rationers and still are today...lol that was like around 1969 1970. My mom had $25 a week for groceries back then. That will get u a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread now days...lol My mom always put out a veggie garden in the backyard and a milkman that brought milk, eggs, cream, butter, all that stuff and they billed u monthly. Dont see that today...lol
@@sewforlife586 your mom was a wise women, practical too. You don’t see that either anymore these days.
When I saw the Borden ice cream commercial with Peter Graves and the boy I kept waiting to hear him ask “Joey, do you like gladiator movies”…😳
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@@hankberumen3804 Surely, you can't be serious.
My mom ate Grape Nuts. Lived to 86 and she was in perfect health until 86 when a genetic lung disease got her. Now we know and have been tested, one of us inherited it. Hot shots cracks me up it's like the sour gummies now. My students used to give them to me to try and I would indulge them making all kinds of faces. We had some good laughs.
This isn't necessarily what we all were eating back then. This is when the onslaught of all these processed foods really began and they were marketing it to all of us.
You're right. This was the push for kids to start demanding bad food.
We seldom had processed food.
The dawn of the age of Big Corporate realizing that TV could brainwash people.
Now we have the Internet So the dream goes on
@@lisamac8503 Times a million.
😎 why do you think they call it programs
Or was tell a vision programs invented for that purpose?
I don't know about the other dinners, but the Bird's Eye roasted Turkey and gravy frozen pouch was amazing !! I loved them. ❤
Who remembers having a sugar bowl on the kitchen table because the only cereal your mom bought was Cheerios & Corn Flakes? LOL!! 🥣 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
It was regular sugar too, not HFCS or gmo beet sugar like today's sugar.
It’s funny. My kid likes plain cheerios or rice squares.
I do.
I was born 1960 and was raised on TANG, POP TARTS and SLIM JIMS. I'm surprised my head hasn't fallen off.
Don't forget Bologna sandwiches and TV dinners
My arteries remember !!@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb
It might in the future though.
@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zbTV dinners while listening to the radio.
@@glennso47 I was born in 64, lol. Both my parents were great cooks so I only got junk food at other peoples houses.
I remember the 1st time mom bought Captain Crunch cereal at the supermarket in 1963. However, every dinner was home cooked. No fast food. Once in a blue moon mexican TV dinner.
I sent in my Captain Crunch box tops and got a plastic treasure chest bank with the Captain's logo on it. It was very cheaply made but pretty cool.
They were treats for us on the farm, I couldn't resist candy cigarettes when we went to town to the candy store, 10 cents would fill a small paper bag full of sweets....those were the days, and don't forget the licorice cigars and pipes!!
Wax lips, mustache, and teeth. A two foot tall pixie stix. Bubble gum in big bricks. Nickel Heresy bars. Double bubble. Wax bottle with sugar water in them. 10 cent popsicles. Penny candy. Kool-aid or an ice cube of Kool-aid wrapped in a paper towel on a hot summer day.
I was born just before the 1950’s. I remember some of these commercials, but what I remember eating is oatmeal, Kix, Puffed wheat and rice, Wheaties, and generic corn flakes. We never had frozen dinners. But we had lots of frozen veggies. I don’t think these commercials represent the way most people ate back then. I still don’t eat all that processed stuff.
My childhood diet was beans, corn bread, rice, sometimes Kool aide to drink lunch was dry bologna sandwich, water, breakfast was oatmeal, or corn flakes and that was it everyday, everyday,and everyday until I was old enough to work and buy what I wanted to eat ❤
I wish I had a nickel for every pinto bean I ate growing up. It was a treat to get some smothered potatoes with our beans and cornbread. I'm grateful I had what I had though.
That fridge is probably still ticking.
I’ve never heard most of these. My Mom cooked and we had no tv.
We didn't have any fast food then. Imagine that. I don't ever remember eating anything after dinner but I do remember playing outside till dark-- in any kind of weather. I loved the package of little boxes of cereal. Miss.
Plenty of fast food in the 1960s near Chicago.
@MyButtercup Who knew? I didn't but am sure you did.
Grape-Nuts are good for dieting because it takes you the whole mealtime just to chew a spoonful.
😂😂😂😂!
What a blast from the past. I remember I loved Elise the cow from Borden's. My mother would cut her out of the milk carton and I would wear Elsie and her flower on whatever I was wearing. Wow, I haven't thought of that in over 5 decades. I remember a lot of the other things also, but I adored Borden's because of Elsie the Cow.
I also loved Elsie the cow so much! My mom was partial to Borden's products.... And I still buy them myself!
I’m 63 , enjoying these
1950 Oh boy! “Chocolate Pudding cups that stay good for two whole weeks… in the fridge.”
2024 Chocolate pudding cups can sit on a shelf for years, no refrigeration. We have no idea what’s actually in those cups. Something brown
LOL
Grape Nuts cereal is still being made the same way, whole wheat and barley with no sugar. Consumer Report rates it as the healthiest breakfast cereal that is widely available!
I just ordered 8 more 4lb boxes of GrapeNuts from Amazon. Yummm.
@@tenossosbut remember that they are neither grape nor nuts.
Hello from Finland. It was 1959 and my dad had just bought a TV. I was seven. I was saunter outside and somebody gave everybody a tiny box of Kellogg’s Rice Crispies. I was wondering what it was and then I saw a TV commercial about them. Too bad I didn’t keep the box. It could be worh something today. Anyway, it was perhaps a best campaign ever.
My parents and grandparents ate beef, pork, chicken, eggs, butter and milk.
Kelloggs Grape Nuts, a spoonful of crunchy gravel in every bite! Yummo!🤢
@b3j8 - God I hated those. Only tried them once and you're so right.
A bowl of pebbles. Never understood the appeal
Loved them with rasins. Born in 1943
" What? I can't hear you, this cereal is too loud"
@@jwells3315 😄😄😄
We had cooked meals every night. We weren’t allowed to drink coke, help ourselves to the pantry and snacks were fruit, bananas etc. The cereal we got was never fun ones, non Frosted Flakes, plain cheerios, oat meal, toast and orange juice, milk every morning. I had to walk a mile to and from school, had PE every day and lunches were balanced but was so cafeteria…..they didn’t sell coke, candy etc at school. I had to set the table at night, us kids cleared and rinsed dishes. We had a dishwasher. Every Saturday night we got popcorn and ONE glass coke. Sunday dinner was always special, after church and some special dessert…..peach or blackberry cobbler. My Mom wouldn’t buy those post toastie things, hell, she even made her own donuts, crepes, and waffles.
Right!!? The only cereal Mother ever bought was plain Cheerios or plain puffed wheat. If we were hungry between meals, she'd say, "Eat a carrot." 😅
Similar to my family!
And I still like Grape Nuts.
Man, I'm old.
USED to LOVE THEM
Still the same as back then, no changes!
Hang on. I was there. How did I miss Donut Squares (which so help me I never heard of until now)?
Maybe the precursor to Pop Tarts?
Yeah, I never heard of donut squares,either
The builder of Mar-a-Lago salutes your tribute to General Foods from beyond the grave. RIP Marjorie Merriweather Post, incredible businesswoman before her time, and my former neighbor in the 60s and early 70s.
We’re ate three squares, minimal snacks, desserts on special occasions,and whole fruits 🍎. I was not fat
I loved my Alphabet cereal and Grapenuts. Grapenuts kept you full for hours. Is it still around?
Grape nuts is still around.
Yep! And it's pretty good when heated in the microwave!
We had Toastems before having Pop-Tarts and they were great as I recall! Gotta love that Leo G. Carroll speach style actors and narrators used back in the day! Teyoob (tube), teyoon (tune), steyoo (stew)! Haha!
Sixty years ago I think junk food was just starting to become a really big thing. Grocery stores were not much bigger than the size of a convenience store today. I was 17 then and I never ate most of that stuff. I never even heard of most of those products and some I heard of but my mother wouldn't allow it in the house. She was a working mom but still cooked dinner from scratch most nights. Because of her example I grew up and did the same thing and so do my daughters. We're a very healthy family.
That’s an awesome mom ❤
Did anybody other than me notice that the alpha-bit cereal spelled the word BAD? I remember all these cereals
❤Yes!😂 subliminal?
Borden’s ice cream came in the large half gallon size. Enough to last a 60’s family a week, or a 2025 college dorm girl an evening.
My mom was 68. She died February 1st so I'm thinking how young she was when these commercials aired.
So sorry for your loss, Charles.😢
Sorry to hear about your loss. 😢 Most of them seemed to be from the earlier 50's so she may not have even been born yet.
That was when Americans were starting to get sold the fallacy about calories, and processed food began. People ate whole foods before this. Someone wants us to believe this is how they kept slim, but people were not eating this trash then. It was only the beginning sold as convenient.
And many women were running away from their husbands all day so they wouldn't get beat.
I remember the TV dinners ,chicken mashed potatoes and veg with a little dessert too .this is when our health problems started !
Peter Graves shilling for Borden's Ice cream back when you got in a 1/2 Gallon! 😀
Peter Graves also skilled for The American Chiropractic Association. Just goes to show he had absolutly no ethics!
I’m 66 and I miss those days. No Ragu only homemade, our ice cream especially Dairy Queen soft serve was so much better. If you didn’t live then it might sound primitive but I’ll never forget
I'm 54; born 1970. I grew up eating part farm fresh and processed foods. I miss the freshness of food; when tomatoes and warermelons had real flavor. Meats don't even smell like meat anymore.
"TV dinners" in those metal trays with sections were a rare treat. And what about Tang, Kool-Aid, Nestle's Quik, Ovaltine, Bosco, and Carnation Instant Breakfast to stir into water or milk to drink?
We grew up on TV Dinners. Remember having to tear off that tiny bit of foil for the desert?
My mother was not a cook and was a single mom and was going to school, Swanson tv dinners were my staple
I grew up in 50's 60's and my mother had a garden & cooked our food ,we didn't have all that box cereal & fast food junk . don't know many that did that's why everyone was slim & they didn't sit on games & computers all day
Same with me
The beginning of all modern chronic illnesses.
This is my era I grew up in and when I was 14 in 1981 I got Crohns Disease. I wonder is all this crap food caused my illness. I think this food sure helped.
Do you remember the old boxed ceral came in foil lined paper instead of the plastic bags they use now?
I used to very carefully open it so I could fold it down to keep the ceral fresh.
Yes! On those sugar bear cereals
I "skip" the UA-cam commercials only to watch a video full of commercials 🤦🏽♂️
It is bonkers, same here. Very few tubbies in the 60's now look around you.
I like Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat, or, Sand and Gravel and Brillo Pads, as my Dad used to call them! Alphabits, Maypo, and all forms of Captain Crunch are pretty good. The Captain Crunch I eat for a snack or dessert, not breakfast.
Just buy a bag of raw sugar its cheaper that way
I hated most cereals but I loved shredded wheat and Kelloggs Special K.
Captain Crunch always gave me sores in my mouth. That stuff is rough. I imagine it caused plenty of dental issues too.
The Post cornflakes with strawberries, peaches or blueberries were delicious. Freeze dried fruit and cereal. My mom bought them, and we loved them. Too bad they were discontinued---though Spial K has their own strawberry version today.
Mum was a cooker and baker.But i do remember shredded wheat. Not the little one. The big ones that mum had i brake into little shreds m
Funny reading the comments from all the Gen X'ers saying how bad all this stuff was and that you never used any of it. That's because your parents were fed it and knew how bad it was! Thank a Boomer for seeing to it you got better food. (And recognize "The Greatest Generation" might have made a mistake or two, but were loved by their kids anyway.)
So true most of that food was awful and rejected by most boomers.
Now it's all GMO, clones, and pesticides.
I remember some of these. Toaster pastries (which was a special treat) were so much better than the ones today. They actually had decent amount of filling in them and tasted better than the ones today.
I bet the filling was the actual fruit also. Not just some concocted paste!
We only ate out of our gardens. Tv was a no go waste of time and polluted the brain 😂
Have you gotten your medal yet?
Only the " Priveledged " kids in our neighborhood got those instant foods, we ate eggs or oatmeal and all home made meals
Yes, and many have heart problems these days.
At age 75 I remember the food companies wanted to get kids addicted to sugar to sell their junk products.
I’m 71, don’t ask me why but I remember that first commercial by Post Nuts. Guess it was those slim ladies.
People looked so much nicer back then. Not the circus we have now
No green hair, metal face and nose studs or tattoos.
All the piercings and tatoos and Kool-Aid colored hair
Ahh, my chuckle for the day-Thank you.
Their complexion was lighter, that is for sure.
Yeah- “I like the manufactured fake ideal of those years. Everyone in clean, pressed clothing with perfect hair. No signs of actual culture or society when portrayed by perfectly groomed actors.” Meanwhile, outside, people dressed in overalls, ragged clothes, and cultural signs of youth (slicked back hair, mini-skirts, men with long hair, leather jackets,) and all of that actually existing off screen…