What the Poor Ate for Lunch vs the Rich in the 1970s!

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  • @dmcjewagner
    @dmcjewagner 6 днів тому +16

    I remember standing in food lines at the local county courthouse with my mom. Student hairdressers and dentist on hand to buzz heads or pull teeth. Ill never forget a real bad time with only a homemade biscuit with some natural peanut butter on it one three times a day. We grew up learning that you ate what was in front of you without question or comment. I still remember going with my brothers to have a talk with mom about getting some variety in meals. Than feeling bad after she started crying telling us if we wanted something else we better ask God because her and dad were doing everything they could. Dad worked full time. The three of us went and prayed thanking God for peanut butter biscuits but asking for something else. Getting ready for supper that night, yah we still ate them at the table with the family, there was a knock on the door. Somebody had picked up on three boys at school each day with a peanut butter biscuit. By the time people stopped going in and out the counters, table, chairs, and parts of the floor had food. We ate so much stuff for the first time I still remember my first Oreo. I had an amazing childhood in spite of challenges. My parents, looking back, sacrificed a lot to give us special moments.

    • @Maeglin7936
      @Maeglin7936 5 днів тому +6

      God is amazing and is so generous to us, his children.

  • @rogertemple7193
    @rogertemple7193 6 днів тому +16

    During the 70's when I was a kid my family got commodity foods
    and cheap generic foods they weren't good at all but it was what
    they could afford back then in the 1970's but still thanks for the
    awesome memories of the past.🇺🇲🍎🥕🥪🍕🇺🇲

  • @vlrissolo
    @vlrissolo 6 днів тому +16

    We ate GREAT in the 70s. My mother knew how to cook. We weren't wealthy. We never had canned or boxed mac n cheese, only real and ONLY a side dish.

    • @joaquimrodriguez8961
      @joaquimrodriguez8961 5 днів тому +1

      Mom and dad use to drive to Denny's for they're coffee, us kids stayed at home drinking Tang or Kool aid. (powder packets).

    • @avienda771
      @avienda771 5 днів тому

      Same! Never even tasted SPAM until I was an adult and only then because my sons wanted to try it and my husband bought it for them.

    • @kathrynfowler9887
      @kathrynfowler9887 5 днів тому

      What an exaggeration. Lots of home cooking with meat and vegetables. I was a young adult going to grad school and my husband was in school, too. We ate really good food, in part because food prices were pretty low compared to today. Don't think much of this video

  • @LoveMyCoffee10
    @LoveMyCoffee10 6 днів тому +8

    My mom is Italian, we never ate Spam, macaroni & cheese or tuna casserole, etc. in the 70’s. Lunch was tuna fish sandwiches or ham. After school (frozen TV dinner) as a snack. When dad came home, we had supper.
    As Italians, we did not eat pasta everyday.

    • @lindacosta5688
      @lindacosta5688 2 дні тому

      My mom was Italian, too. Never had tuna casserole or spam, but her meatloaf was interesting and delicious:)

  • @vlrissolo
    @vlrissolo 6 днів тому +48

    Why does he keep referring to the 70s as if it were the Great Depression? People were not poor in the 70s they were doing a lot better than they're doing now you could buy a house for $50,000 are much less and it was much bigger than the homes now

    • @TaxusBaccata-c4n
      @TaxusBaccata-c4n 6 днів тому +11

      I agree with you. Back in the seventies I had an apartment, car and was able to save for a trip to Europe. Now I live in an inherited house that still has a mortgage. Thankfully, the mortgage is small.

    • @HerrBrutal-bl2fk
      @HerrBrutal-bl2fk 6 днів тому +2

      There has always been poor as well as rich people in America. During the 70s, low income earners of course fared way better than the impoverished masses during the Great Depression, but the economy slowed down due to the Oil Crisis and other factors. Plenty of households struggled.

    • @JenniOlsen-t1r
      @JenniOlsen-t1r 6 днів тому +4

      Inflation was high in the 70’s and there was an oil embargo things, etc. I understand though that today’s inflation is worse than the Great Depression. I suppose it’s all a matter if perspective and of course class. Of course most people gardened more then and in the 70s….

    • @donadavis1178
      @donadavis1178 6 днів тому +7

      I grew up in the 70s I ate most of this and was skinny we ate good in my book he needs to get over himself honestly

    • @Edna-w3q
      @Edna-w3q 6 днів тому +1

      HELL I WAS N STILL AM😂😂

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +11

    Pork fat, also known as lard, adds great flavor to anything you can cook. Sure better for you than seed oils.

    • @Elizabeth-f7f
      @Elizabeth-f7f 5 днів тому

      It is. I'm a size 2-4 and I use butter or lard. It's carbs that are bad

    • @MsM-t5n
      @MsM-t5n 5 днів тому

      My mother had a metal canister with a built in strainer that preserved bacon grease which she used for seasoning. Before that she used salt pork; just remove the salt, slice thin and you have bacon.

    • @Elizabeth-f7f
      @Elizabeth-f7f 4 дні тому

      @@MsM-t5n it was
      The best. My grandmother has one and she lived to almost’100

  • @lynsincetheeggs5174
    @lynsincetheeggs5174 5 днів тому +3

    My mom's Goulash is made with Kidney Beans, diced potatoes, crushed tomatoes, 90% lean beef, she didn't use noodles. We still eat Kraft Mac n Cheese, Scrapple, Scrambled Eggs with Scrapple, Peanut Butter n Jelly Sandwhiches, Oatmeal, and Ramden Noodles.

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +8

    Homemade soup, stew, casserole dishes.

  • @TEXAN42
    @TEXAN42 6 днів тому +8

    Cornbread mixed with chili beans and meat

  • @davidcarbone3385
    @davidcarbone3385 6 днів тому +6

    Watered down Maxwell House meant I didn't drink coffee until later in life. But yes, PB & J sandwiches, bologna sandwiches, AND banana sandwiches for lunch. Also, bread filled meatloaf, chuck steak tomato cassorole with potatoes, eggless pancakes without syrup, spaghetti 2x a week but with home cooked gravy and meatballs, and a lot of chicken.

  • @angeronalove5799
    @angeronalove5799 6 днів тому +3

    Many of these were average meals commonly in rotation in many middle-class households.

  • @kamicrum4408
    @kamicrum4408 5 днів тому +4

    We ate cream if wheat in stead of oatmeal, we liked it better, yes low income1970s household😊.

    • @OursonAaron302
      @OursonAaron302 4 дні тому

      I miss cream of wheat. The price of it now is crazy.

  • @janetscruising
    @janetscruising 6 днів тому +6

    Not all of what you’re saying is true I was a teenager in the 70s. We ate peanut butter and jelly because we liked peanut butter and jelly or peanut butter and honey. If we ate mac & cheese it’s because we liked it and spam that has been fried taste good it is not horrid as you are trying to insinuate. It’s not that bad and fried bologna which you didn’t talk about if you’ve got the right kind of bologna taste goodI’ve never had Ramen noodles. I don’t even know if they had it in my area back then, but that was not something that I would’ve liked nothing to do with cheap or expensive wealthy or poor is what we liked

  • @avondalemama470
    @avondalemama470 5 днів тому +2

    PB&J are fine for a😊 lite lunch or snack for kids, add carrot and celery sticks on the side with a glass of milk.

  • @DebiG1057
    @DebiG1057 5 днів тому +2

    There's nothing wrong with tuna caserole, which I still make. I also love spam.

  • @idaknott3310
    @idaknott3310 6 днів тому +4

    There were 5 kids' mouths that had to be fed, which was the norm for families back then. We ate what got put down in front of us, otherwise go hungry! Some things that we were fed: buttered toast (sprinkled w/sugar and cinnamon if we had any) $hit on a shingle, tuna casserole, cream of wheat, and my mom's excellent Stuffed Peppers! She just passed away at the age of 84 ❤.

  • @WileyCat101
    @WileyCat101 6 днів тому +4

    We grew up in the country of NC. We grew and raised our own food. What we didn’t raise we hunted. Spam and canned tuna never touched these lips. Folks may have considered us “poor”, but we ate better than the “rich”.

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +4

    Spaghetti night, with meat and veggies.
    At least a thousand ways to prepare it. 🍲 🍛 🍜 🥣

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +5

    Potato salad, or macaroni salad. Very versatile. 😊❤

  • @debdubois3636
    @debdubois3636 5 днів тому +2

    I was in high school in the 70’s. I’ve never eaten spam or ramen. We had steak, chicken, pork chops, etc, a vegetable or salad, and potatoes, rice or pasta for carbs every night. And Nescafé wasn’t made with milk. It was made with boiling water. No, we weren’t rich. Dad was a teacher and mom worked for the IRS.

  • @rubybell9901
    @rubybell9901 6 днів тому +3

    I was raising my children back then.
    Not rich for sure..we were poor. But, for lunches we had, lunch meat and chips. BLt s Tomatoes soup and grilled cheese. Leftovers from the night before.

    • @MsM-t5n
      @MsM-t5n 5 днів тому

      IMHO leftovers are delicious from the day before.

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +4

    Oatmeal for dinner with a side of fresh fruit salad.😊

  • @heidimisfeldt5685
    @heidimisfeldt5685 6 днів тому +4

    Rice, beans, and a vegetable. Or a garden salad. 🥗

  • @deniseeppard2169
    @deniseeppard2169 5 днів тому +1

    I remember a summer where every day it was burnt bologna sandwiches for lunch. Sometimes with a slice of cheese.

    • @MsM-t5n
      @MsM-t5n 5 днів тому

      During the summer for lunch, our mother started buying the thick, long sticks of luncheon meat she sliced or we could slice ourselves. So, we could make sandwiches with or without cheese.

  • @DebiG1057
    @DebiG1057 5 днів тому +1

    My mom was a great cook. We were fed well, and it tasted great. Working class parents with five kids. I don't pine for wealth.

  • @CHCLA6779
    @CHCLA6779 6 днів тому +2

    In the 50s, my mother made us her goulash as a casserole for dinner. I hated her goulash and never ate anything like it once I learned to cook and then I moved out on my own. Also as I was growing up - we had some Spam dinners and there was even some casserole recipes in the 60s that included pineapple bits and a 'crust' of cornbread. Bless her, the woman tried. But it was so gross!!!!!!! Oh. and when staying in a flat in Bordeaux in the early 70s, I drank a lot of Nescafe; it was one of the first phrases my roommates taught me so I could go to the grocery store. Also in the 70s while they lived in Belgium, my parents had some of those Nescafe mugs. They may even still be knocking around in one of my sibling's kitchen cupboards.

  • @senorwhiskers2010
    @senorwhiskers2010 5 днів тому +4

    WTF? The 70s were not the Great Depression 😂😂😂

  • @joaopedrobaggio4475
    @joaopedrobaggio4475 6 днів тому +4

    I always wanted to try foie gras, but never had the opportunity.

    • @MystyTwilight
      @MystyTwilight 5 днів тому

      I tried it because we were eating at a friends house, it was delicious, I wouldn’t buy it myself though.

  • @Tricob1974
    @Tricob1974 5 днів тому +1

    Ah, you're forgetting Hamburger Helper, Beef Stroganoff, and canned soup. These were all very popular in the 1970s. BTW, maybe it's just a culture thing, but where I lived, it was pronounced "goo-losh". Lastly, wasn't Filet Mignon a popular rich food back in the 1970s?

  • @vlrissolo
    @vlrissolo 6 днів тому +7

    No I can't watch any more of this nonsense is crazy. It doesn't make any sense fatback is used to season greens and such

  • @relicturtle7373
    @relicturtle7373 6 днів тому +5

    3:22 spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam !! Spamity SPAM!!!!

    • @loripeters3133
      @loripeters3133 5 днів тому +2

      Hahahaha 🤣 . Spam and everything! 😁

  • @kathycarlson2933
    @kathycarlson2933 5 днів тому +3

    This guy has no idea what he’s talking about! I was there, not even close to what it was like😂

  • @Maeglin7936
    @Maeglin7936 5 днів тому +2

    Need to be careful eating ramen, spam, canned corned beef due to all the sodium. Moderation is key with those foods. 😊

  • @genevieve730
    @genevieve730 5 днів тому +1

    I ate plenty of spam, and thought it was nasty unless fried, but the few times we had scrapple…yuk!

  • @angel196989
    @angel196989 3 дні тому

    we never had Ramen noodles or tuna casserole in my house. My grandmother would make tuna casserole when we would spend the night there though. My dad was a great cook. He made homemade sloppy Joe's, chop suey, what you call goulash. My dad made it with ground beef, onions, stewed tomatoes and macaroni. It's still a favorite meal in my home. My mom made homemade bread, rolls, biscuits and donuts along with homemade baked beans. My mom would buy tuna for us kids along with peanut butter and jelly. I still eat PB & J for lunch once in a while. We also ate bologna sandwiches, grilled cheese and tomato soup. We didn't just eat these foods for lunch either, sometimes it would be dinner. We ate a lot of pasta with my dad making a homemade sauce for the pasta, which would then be used to make lasagna and chili. Very rarely did food get wasted

  • @SnowWhite717_
    @SnowWhite717_ 5 днів тому +2

    😂 we didn’t have fast food, junk food, xl drinks etc just because we didn’t. I grew up in the 70s. We were middle class and we ate well. We went on vacations (plural) every year, my parents owned our home with a 3 acre plot and a pool, we had two cars. The 70s wasn’t like the great depression 😂 this is HILARIOUS! How old is the creator?? 20? Anyone over 50 knows better and this guy is full of it. 🙆🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️😂😅

    • @MsM-t5n
      @MsM-t5n 5 днів тому

      My family was also middle class. We ate well and lived well. We knew our neighbors and everyone respected each other.

    • @MystyTwilight
      @MystyTwilight 5 днів тому

      Us too, and some of the so called ‘rich’ foods were available at chain restaurants in the UK.

  • @patriciaburgess4434
    @patriciaburgess4434 5 днів тому

    I grew up poor and was poor in the 70's. Oatmeal, Spam and eggs, and biscuits and gravy were breakfast foods, not lunch items. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were not for breakfast...they were for lunch, dinner, or snack, although I often had peanut butter on toast for breakfast, no jelly though. Mac & cheese, goulash, meatloaf, and tuna noodle casserole were dinner items and only eaten for lunch if there were leftovers from the night before. Cornbread was often the bread served at dinner, along with beans and fried potatoes. Fatback was used in the beans for extra flavoring or was fried nice and crispy to go with eggs for breakfast because it was far cheaper than bacon. I don't know how the rich ate in the 70s but none of the foods said to be lunch menu items actually were, except for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also ate bologna sandwiches, peanut butter and banana sandwiches, grilled cheese sandwiches with canned tomato soup, and used canned tuna to make tuna salad for sandwiches. Poor people didn't drink Nescafe instant coffee because it was too expensive.

  • @user-px9nx9pc7k
    @user-px9nx9pc7k 6 днів тому +8

    This video is nonsense. Back in the 70s, you could have a house, a car, kids and a dog. Now, in the last 4 years, you can barely afford a dog with vet bills. In the 50s, only one parent had to work to afford it all. In the 70s, possessions cost less and were of a quaility that lasted years longer and could even be passed down. Ikea crap won't outlast its original owner. It will be landfill. I have wood furnitue from the 1800s that is solid and looks mint.

    • @relicturtle7373
      @relicturtle7373 6 днів тому +2

      All plebs get something and it's not always tangible, congrats on ur soild wood furniture 😅

    • @user-px9nx9pc7k
      @user-px9nx9pc7k 6 днів тому +1

      @@relicturtle7373 I laugh when I tell moving people that I have heavy old furniture and to plan accordingly. They ignore me and say, "Ya, we are used to moving heavy pieces," blah, blah, blah. Yet, every time, they huff and buff and say, "Man, this is way heavier than it looks." They are not happy campers. 1860s stuff has outlasted 2016 stuff. Besides, isn't that the way to reuse and repurpose to save the planet and resources? Or is the extent of your commitment to the earth just about straws? So, much mining, abuse of land and people, for ever-changing technology that is crap and built NOT to last. KISS.

    • @relicturtle7373
      @relicturtle7373 6 днів тому +1

      @@user-px9nx9pc7k
      ? I mean to say not everyone is afforded nineties, accouterments, and lasting property.
      I am saddened by all unnecessary waste and destruction. No one's saying to hold a match to your antique furniture, I was saying the ones allowing us to buy nice things are the ones in control.
      The oldest thing I own man made is old currency but does it say hold its value. At least the furniture can be used 😅 my value comes from my wisdom, ingenuity, and creativity. Lol I'm not able to sit on any of it. salutations 👋

  • @SusannahDyro-gd1nx
    @SusannahDyro-gd1nx 5 днів тому

    I am eating oatmeal at this very moment 😅😂😂😂😂

  • @yvettegarza7956
    @yvettegarza7956 4 дні тому

    To this day, we eat fried Spam. At least once a month, with eggs or pancakes, or waffles. Or a fried spam sandwich :) :) Still make Mac-n-Cheese with fried hotdogs (chopped), mix together. My girl favorite dish is my Goulash. Bottom line, we still eat a lot of these dishes. I didn't see oxtail soup. The meat used to be cheap. Not anymore.

  • @chrissttiiee
    @chrissttiiee 5 днів тому

    I just made a meatloaf the other night. Yummy w/mash & gravy, peas and corn. Oh my!

  • @Edna-w3q
    @Edna-w3q 6 днів тому +1

    BACK THAN N NOW😂❤

  • @Babu-kr3cr
    @Babu-kr3cr 5 днів тому

    People had way simpler tastes in the seventies and basic foods were cheap. They didn't load shopping carts to the brim but left with maybe a couple of paper sacks full of food for a family. A lot depends on the cook. If someone knows how to cook, you can eat good food for cheap. If someone knows how to shop, you can buy good food for cheap. Mac & cheese I remember being made with a brick of Velveta, Kraft cheddar bricks, elbows and milk. Not expensive to make at all. Then some 4C breadcrumbs on the top. Not saying I liked it, but it was cheap.

  • @LadyEnyalus
    @LadyEnyalus 4 дні тому +1

    I love scrapple and fatback.

  • @maribethschlosser6785
    @maribethschlosser6785 5 днів тому

    I was born in 1961. Why don't I remember the 70s like this video is saying?

  • @MystyTwilight
    @MystyTwilight 5 днів тому

    Does no one eat cauliflower cheese in the US? Just add some pasta to bulk it out, oh and make the cheese sauce from scratch. Healthy and nutritious.

  • @keenahockey9682
    @keenahockey9682 4 дні тому

    It's so not fair
    We all cant be clever and earn good money

  • @agent7796
    @agent7796 6 днів тому

    I'd rather eat Spam & Eggs everyday, than anything the well off ate.

  • @earlinejackson8151
    @earlinejackson8151 5 днів тому

    If fat back puts you off, what about chicharones? Those are deep fried pig skins. Very tasty and crispy and keto friendly, but quite fatty.

  • @avondalemama470
    @avondalemama470 5 днів тому

    Oatmeal can be healthy for breakfast with fresh cut fruit and milk added. Never had it for lunch or dinner. 😮😮😮. Never ate “fatback”. Yuk!!!

  • @MrSpringheel
    @MrSpringheel 5 днів тому

    Add lobster Newburgh.

  • @splitinfinitygemini9830
    @splitinfinitygemini9830 5 днів тому +1

    Scrapple is so disgusting 🤢🤮

  • @JChow-e1c
    @JChow-e1c 4 дні тому

    The 1970s were not as bad as he makes it sound.
    I lived in a small lower income midwest farming town - no lne there HAD to eat PBJ or spam…..

  • @splitinfinitygemini9830
    @splitinfinitygemini9830 5 днів тому

    Poor ate eay better than the rich

  • @inthrutheoutdoor5849
    @inthrutheoutdoor5849 День тому

    This video was made to get commercials in front of you. I grew up in the '70's and never had mac n cheese once in my house. My dad was a "meat and potatoes" kind of guy. I didn't have mac n cheese until I went into the military in 1984. It was strange food to me. Mushy noodles and salty cheese . I still don't like it to this day. I won't buy it or make it. 🤮

  • @sandravalani359
    @sandravalani359 5 днів тому

    ❤❤❤Dearest Awesome NaRRatoR...I appreciated thiS enchantinG video as somedayS...I absolutely ReBel against beinG a Frugal Cook and want somethinG a lil more PricY!👍ThaaaaaaNkz deeply foR ShaRinG what you don't like as I hate TonGue and LiVer/OnionS!👍Plz keep youR videos to about 30 minutes aS anythinG oVer iS a lil Redundant!👍ShinE on Fellow FooDie!❤I appreciate your Nostalgic Videos as I sooOoo greatly appreciate the cooks of yesteryear who left our Generation with so many wonderful and sumptuous meal ideas!✌😍🙏😇🌹🌞🌹☕🍵☕🍻🍷

  • @omegahtv6779
    @omegahtv6779 2 дні тому

    Great video 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

  • @sorciere...
    @sorciere... 6 днів тому +1

    Tuna casserole is horrifically disgusting!. Goulash is also gtoss, and hate milk in oatmeal I still like spam. And peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches.
    You forget hogs head sandwich meat, tripe , tongue and brains. All stuff you could buy in the grocery store. And was disgusting.
    I grew up on a farm we had steaks 3 times a week(yuk) and veggies a plenty. And how sad lobster use to be a poor man's food

  • @raye5071
    @raye5071 5 днів тому

    Why is PBJ sad? This is stupid

  • @MamaDeb62
    @MamaDeb62 5 днів тому +1

    It’s pronounced goo·luhsh. Don’t use the words the computer voice can’t pronounce correctly.