As you know us mid-westerners and south paws was raised by “ma” also. I was early 1982, my best buddies on the block were ‘75-80 and even though an 80’s kid. I was there. Plus Ma always made salmon patties with Ritz crackers, peas and creamed taters❤️. I love this video
Baby boomers are anyone who just has to do yard work and chores at the hottest part of the day. They also have to do things like now the lawn if any neighbors on the st do it even if it's not long. High chance they go to church and beat there wife and kids.
Wow! I loved City Chicken. Probably haven't had that since the mid '70s. Swiss Steak, Sloppy Joe sandwiches, barbequed ham sandwiches, pot roast, and beef stroganoff were all staples in our home.
Our family didn't eat a lot of the dishes in this video, but I loved the ones you mentioned, especially Swiss Steak (although my Mom's version was more like Salisbury Steak but with beef slices instead of ground beef) and Sloppy Joes. Instead of beef stroganoff, though, we had veal or chicken paprikash. We also had chipped beef on toast (both my parents were in the military in WWII). Unfortunately, we also had liver and onions (sauteed in bacon fat), which I did NOT like. We also had meatloaf, which I'm surprised was left out of the video, although more often we had the Czech version (Karbanátky), which were 3-4" round balls or patties.
I’ve recently rediscovered goulash. It’s SOOO good! I expected it to be like spaghetti, but the peppers, bay leaves, Worcestershire, & cheddar really change everything! 😋
I am part Polish. Galumpki was a meal that often we had for funerals. Once it was made, you could have it whenever. My Aunt Dot made the best galumpki.
When I worked at Exxon, they cooked all kinds of ethnic dishes in the cafeteria that I wouldn't have experienced otherwise. I loved Hungarian Goulash, Knockwurst and Sauerkraut, Sauerbraten, Quiche, Pesto Pasta, Schnitzel and many others.
In the 80s my mom cooked everything fried chicken home made mash potatoes chili spaghetti home made pizza Tuna Casserole sloppy joes also on sundays mom had Roast and Potatos corn mac & cheese. Also in the 80s gree up eating Bologna sandwiches and Cheese Toast
We never had casseroles . My dad didn’t like them. We did have Swiss steak and goulash once in a while. Our meals were basically meat, starch , vegetable, bread.
I want to try every plate. Especially Gulumpi and the seafood dishes. My boomer parents didn't make these dishes but I am familiar with my Filipino culture's meals.
Actually goulash was made at the end of the week. It was “cleaning the refrigerator night” every veggie you didn’t finish during the week went into the goulash pot. Green beans, corn, carrots, peas, diced potatoes etc. . .
FRIDAY!!!! Friday at grammar school alternated between grilled cheese w/ a choice of cream of tomato or vegetarian vegetable soup with Jello; and macaroni and cheese, green beans, fish sticks and what we now call snack cake. At home, I preferred pizza from a pizza place (cheese only, green pepper or olives because it was Friday), or waffles and eggs without breakfast meat. Homemade mac n cheese was excellent. The boxed Appian Way pizza Mom made herself was good, too. But her tuna-noodle casserole with peas, coated in cream of something, with crumbled potato chips on top- no. It just didn't work for me.
Gulash is macaroni noodles & chili then taste and add an extra can of diced tomatoes in the chili and then season to taste, we never put cheese in ours, but put chili powder in it, just texting this comment gave me a craving for it, serve it with bread & real butter or maragine suit your own taste ❤😊
I still.make stuffed cabbage with tomato paste and instant rice onion red peppers, garlic powder & salt and cook it in V8 tomato juice in the oven, its wonderful with sweet coleslaw and raisins int it's yummy, i had to make my own v8 juice to cook it in adding tomatoes juice or u can use 3-4 cand of diced tomatoes for the juice ,diced carrots, onion, red pepper, celery, parsley & season to taste 😊
Well I am a boomer and I didn't eat any of these save two and under protest. Golubskis or what the Russians called Halubkis were offered every November at the Russian Orthodox Church supper where my family and i went once a year but my mother never served it at home. Because we were Catholic Fridays became a revolving trifecta of salmon patties, fish sticks, and that God awful tuna, mushroom soup, noodle, pea and potato yuck I called tuna deja vu because i belched it up all night. Yes I do remember the fragrance of salmon patties cooking on the stove because it made me think of Jonah inside a whales stomach every time the house reeked of it. The rest was never served in my house and TV dinners were expressly forbidden. As an Italian family we had spaghetti, lasagna, and penne, either Bolognese or Marinara style, stuffed peppers, ham and beans, fried chicken with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, beef pot roast, meat loaf, vegetable soup, chicken and barley soup with veggies, Italian garlic sausage, pulled pork barbeque, and baked chicken with dressing. In the summer we caught bluegill and catfish and ate watermelon and vegetables from our garden But my favorite food was steak and how we had it often is a story in itself My dad was a country doctor and like all of them in a rural area, payment if there was any, was sometimes in things other than money. There was a farmer that was a patient and when he wasn't out in the field planting corn, he was on the boudoir making hay. Well he brought his wife in and Dad said she was pregnant and the farmer asked if he could count on dad being there to deliver the child. My dad reminded him that he still owed for the last three. The farmer didn't say anything but a few days later he called my dad and asked him how thick he liked his steaks. Dad said " Oh an inch or so, Why? The farmer said nothing and hung up leaving my father puzzled as to why he called. A few days later the meat locker plant called and said that the farmer left 800 pounds of beef cuts in two lockers for us. And as these children grew and he had more, he did the same thing at least twice for us. Then shortly before my dad was going to retire he notified all of his patients that he would like if they would settle up their bills. The farmers wife, now a widow and empty nester called to find out her bill and came to the office to see my dad personally to pay him. thank him, and say goodbye because she had put the farm up for sale and was going to live with one of her children. She gave dad check for the balance of her bill and when my dad had a look of disappointment on his face she asked if the amount was too little. He said no, but he wished she still had another cow or two to butcher.
That is a great story. Make sure you preserve it for posterity. You want the great-grands and the great-nieces and nephews telling this one! I remember our family doctor fondly. He saved all his "freebies" from phrama salesmen for us. Once he gave my brother a Ritalin pencil holder, in the shape of a Ritalin pill, with a face, posed to be dancing with a yellow straw hat in hand. We eventually named the object Hilarious Hugo, after the doctor.
@@loriloristuff Well unfortunately we will not have any grandchildren and our nephews nieces and grand nephews and grandnieces are spread out all over the United States from the Midwest to the Deep South and Pacific and Far North. We seldom see them. The older ones, now in their 60s were raised partially by my parents and me so they remember times thar their Dad and Grandpa, and I grilled a hald dozen or more t bones for a Sunday feast while theur mother and grandmother made potato salad or cucumber, tomato, and bell pepper salad with a watermelon sitting in a washtub of ice ready to provide a finishing touch to a great meal. That is why I post them here and I am glad that there are a lot of people like you that enjoy them. So for what they are worth I post them from time to time on food and other nostalgia sites, especially Judy Norton Taylors cite speaking about her time on The Waltons, a show that so much reminds me of my own life.
Many of these are ethnic foods. I've never eaten a Golumki, but I know many people who have and do, most of Polish descent. I see Chicken Ala King on this channel a lot, I don't often eat Chicken Ala King, but I have Turkey Ala King after every Thanksgiving, same thing. I generally enjoy this channel, but sometime I think they're taking about regional foods or ethic foods that are either still eaten, or were only found in certain circles.
My mom used to make cabbage rolls, but I still make them and have a better recipe. My husband loves American goulash, but I much prefer the Hungarian style I was brought up with. I still make Chicken Ala King. I don't remember my mom making Swiss steak, but I've made it for years. My mom used to make shrimp Creole, but she made it so hot that one couldn't taste anything else. I make a toned down version, and I always add okra.
Why do use the Polish term for stuffed cabbage - just because Martha Stewart did? Every country in central/eastern Europe had their own name for the same dish. My grandparents were Czech and Slovak, so my Mom used the term halupki. We always had it on New Year's Day because it was supposed to bring good luck. Also, we never had succotash at home, but that was the side dish that every restaurant in the 50s served with any dinner. I would pick out all the corn kernels and eat those, and leave the rest in a pile on the plate. (I detested lima beans, still do.)
I don't remember it either but I am also gen X. I do know chicken used to be more expensive before the current meat chicken breeds were developed. A long time ago rabbit was a lot more common, but when chicken dropped in price we stopped eating rabbit. So maybe things like pork were cheaper than chicken at some point.
I am a Baby Boomer and I disagree when you say all Baby Boomers ate these dishes. 1) no TV DINNERS in my house. Too expensive. My mother made and froze pot pies with left over meat and vegetables from previous meals. 2) stuffed cabbage was cheap and filling, so we ate that. 3) Goulash was cheap and filling.
Hadn't finished. 4) chicken Ala king was a treat, couldn't really afford it. 5) Salmon cakes, not too often because of the price of canned salmon and a brother who would steal food off your plate. 6) City chicken in my family was always veal. We had a friend who gave us veal, because we couldn't afford it. 7) Shrimp was too expensive, so didn't have it until I was an adult. 8) IF there was any him left, dad made it into a paste for HIS sandwiches on the night shift. 9) potato chip casserole is my worst nightmare! Ate it because there was nothing else to eat. Then went outside and ate raw rhubarb with sugar because I was still hungry. The other meals you mentioned, we couldn't afford! So saying that ALL BABY BOOMERS know these meals is wrong. Some of us didn't have what others had, and I survived, because we had family. Empty stomachs at times, but family.
My mother never bought TV dinners unless they qualified under her three shopping rules: 1. There was a coupon. 2. Either the coupon allowed multiple purchases, or we had scavanged enough coupons to buy one for everybody because YES children could do the shopping back then. 3. The TV dinners in question were also on sale. After we ate them, she had us wash the aluminum trays. She then refilled them with leftovers. We very seldom had them, under her rules.
As a Hungarian this "Goulash" just make me cringe so bad every time you mention it :D Also it spelled: Gulyás. This have nothing to do with the Hungarian one. Its like calling a hamburger a pizza :D
Porcupines and cabbage rolls and eeg fu young deviled hm as you call it ham salad are the only ones I ve even heard of my mom dident cook tv dinners or cassaroles she made everything from cratch for every meal so don't lie and say we all ate this stupid stuff that sounds awful nither did anyone else I knew.
Porcupine Meatballs! Oh my, I had forgotten all about those from so long ago!. Hum, now I'll need to look for a recipe for them.
My mom made these when I was a kid (she was boomers born in '49). Haven't had them in years.
Growing up in the 80´s was for GenX, Boomers grew up in the 60´s
The majority of us boomers were kids in the 50s and teens in the 60s.
As you know us mid-westerners and south paws was raised by “ma” also. I was early 1982, my best buddies on the block were ‘75-80 and even though an 80’s kid. I was there. Plus Ma always made salmon patties with Ritz crackers, peas and creamed taters❤️. I love this video
Kids think a Baby Boomer is anyone born before 2000 😂
Baby boomers are anyone who just has to do yard work and chores at the hottest part of the day. They also have to do things like now the lawn if any neighbors on the st do it even if it's not long. High chance they go to church and beat there wife and kids.
A baby boomer is someone born 1940s to 1970
1946 to 1963, to be exact.@@tinarosenberg5781
@@tinarosenberg5781no. 1945-1964.
@@loriloristuff i stand corrected i was close though
My mom used to serve salmon patties with ketchup. Bless her 1950s heart. If it didn’t come out of a can, she didn’t know what to do with it. 🤣
My grandma made the cabbage meal I use like it .
Thanks for your old school content i love it🙏🏻🙏🏻
I hate to tell you this but nobody lived like that back in the day
Boomers 1946-1964.....
Culinary Nirvana !!😊😊
Love these ❤
I never heard of some of this food.
i'm a baby boomer and the only thing my mom made on this list was salmon patties. i still love them and make them to this day.
Wow! I loved City Chicken. Probably haven't had that since the mid '70s. Swiss Steak, Sloppy Joe sandwiches, barbequed ham sandwiches, pot roast, and beef stroganoff were all staples in our home.
Our family didn't eat a lot of the dishes in this video, but I loved the ones you mentioned, especially Swiss Steak (although my Mom's version was more like Salisbury Steak but with beef slices instead of ground beef) and Sloppy Joes. Instead of beef stroganoff, though, we had veal or chicken paprikash. We also had chipped beef on toast (both my parents were in the military in WWII). Unfortunately, we also had liver and onions (sauteed in bacon fat), which I did NOT like. We also had meatloaf, which I'm surprised was left out of the video, although more often we had the Czech version (Karbanátky), which were 3-4" round balls or patties.
@@OriginalCaliKitty Veal or chicken paprikash is soooo good. You are correct; yummy.
We never had tv dinners,no pineapple casserole, no city chicken, no chicken divane!!
We called a cabbage roll "Pig-in-Blanket". I still love them 40 yrs later.
I’ve recently rediscovered goulash. It’s SOOO good! I expected it to be like spaghetti, but the peppers, bay leaves, Worcestershire, & cheddar really change everything! 😋
My mom is a babyboomer, I remember her making us chicken creole, and salsbury steak, both were very good.
I am part Polish. Galumpki was a meal that often we had for funerals. Once it was made, you could have it whenever. My Aunt Dot made the best galumpki.
I still make every one of these dishes
When I worked at Exxon, they cooked all kinds of ethnic dishes in the cafeteria that I wouldn't have experienced otherwise. I loved Hungarian Goulash, Knockwurst and Sauerkraut, Sauerbraten, Quiche, Pesto Pasta, Schnitzel and many others.
My mother, a babyboomer, made goulash also. And chicken creole
In the 80s my mom cooked everything fried chicken home made mash potatoes chili spaghetti home made pizza Tuna Casserole sloppy joes also on sundays mom had Roast and Potatos corn mac & cheese.
Also in the 80s gree up eating Bologna sandwiches and Cheese Toast
We never had casseroles . My dad didn’t like them. We did have Swiss steak and goulash once in a while. Our meals were basically meat, starch , vegetable, bread.
FAMILIES BETTER MAKE TIME FOR EACH OTHER BEFORE ITS TO LATE
I make Chicken A La King a couple of times a year. It’s good!
A lot of these dishes "on every table" weren't on my parents' table. They weren't in the school cafeteria, either.
Night before last I had golumpki. Got them from our local church.
I want to try every plate. Especially Gulumpi and the seafood dishes. My boomer parents didn't make these dishes but I am familiar with my Filipino culture's meals.
Golumpki is delicious!!!!!
Actually goulash was made at the end of the week. It was “cleaning the refrigerator night” every veggie you didn’t finish during the week went into the goulash pot. Green beans, corn, carrots, peas, diced potatoes etc. . .
For the most part, these dishes have one thing in common - they required preparation, involving time families don't always have any more.
I still make Tamale Pie once a month
Especially in pre-Vatican II times Catholic homes. My Mom made Swiss steak hamburgers. Mock chicken legs are the same as City Chicken
FRIDAY!!!! Friday at grammar school alternated between grilled cheese w/ a choice of cream of tomato or vegetarian vegetable soup with Jello; and macaroni and cheese, green beans, fish sticks and what we now call snack cake.
At home, I preferred pizza from a pizza place (cheese only, green pepper or olives because it was Friday), or waffles and eggs without breakfast meat. Homemade mac n cheese was excellent. The boxed Appian Way pizza Mom made herself was good, too. But her tuna-noodle casserole with peas, coated in cream of something, with crumbled potato chips on top- no. It just didn't work for me.
Gulash is macaroni noodles & chili then taste and add an extra can of diced tomatoes in the chili and then season to taste, we never put cheese in ours, but put chili powder in it, just texting this comment gave me a craving for it, serve it with bread & real butter or maragine suit your own taste ❤😊
I still.make stuffed cabbage with tomato paste and instant rice onion red peppers, garlic powder & salt and cook it in V8 tomato juice in the oven, its wonderful with sweet coleslaw and raisins int it's yummy, i had to make my own v8 juice to cook it in adding tomatoes juice or u can use 3-4 cand of diced tomatoes for the juice ,diced carrots, onion, red pepper, celery, parsley & season to taste 😊
Those salmon patties were NOT canned salmon
Well I am a boomer and I didn't eat any of these save two and under protest. Golubskis or what the Russians called Halubkis were offered every November at the Russian Orthodox Church supper where my family and i went once a year but my mother never served it at home. Because we were Catholic Fridays became a revolving trifecta of salmon patties, fish sticks, and that God awful tuna, mushroom soup, noodle, pea and potato yuck I called tuna deja vu because i belched it up all night. Yes I do remember the fragrance of salmon patties cooking on the stove because it made me think of Jonah inside a whales stomach every time the house reeked of it. The rest was never served in my house and TV dinners were expressly forbidden. As an Italian family we had spaghetti, lasagna, and penne, either Bolognese or Marinara style, stuffed peppers, ham and beans, fried chicken with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, beef pot roast, meat loaf, vegetable soup, chicken and barley soup with veggies, Italian garlic sausage, pulled pork barbeque, and baked chicken with dressing. In the summer we caught bluegill and catfish and ate watermelon and vegetables from our garden
But my favorite food was steak and how we had it often is a story in itself
My dad was a country doctor and like all of them in a rural area, payment if there was any, was sometimes in things other than money. There was a farmer that was a patient and when he wasn't out in the field planting corn, he was on the boudoir making hay. Well he brought his wife in and Dad said she was pregnant and the farmer asked if he could count on dad being there to deliver the child. My dad reminded him that he still owed for the last three. The farmer didn't say anything but a few days later he called my dad and asked him how thick he liked his steaks. Dad said " Oh an inch or so, Why? The farmer said nothing and hung up leaving my father puzzled as to why he called. A few days later the meat locker plant called and said that the farmer left 800 pounds of beef cuts in two lockers for us. And as these children grew and he had more, he did the same thing at least twice for us. Then shortly before my dad was going to retire he notified all of his patients that he would like if they would settle up their bills. The farmers wife, now a widow and empty nester called to find out her bill and came to the office to see my dad personally to pay him. thank him, and say goodbye because she had put the farm up for sale and was going to live with one of her children. She gave dad check for the balance of her bill and when my dad had a look of disappointment on his face she asked if the amount was too little. He said no, but he wished she still had another cow or two to butcher.
That is a great story. Make sure you preserve it for posterity. You want the great-grands and the great-nieces and nephews telling this one!
I remember our family doctor fondly. He saved all his "freebies" from phrama salesmen for us. Once he gave my brother a Ritalin pencil holder, in the shape of a Ritalin pill, with a face, posed to be dancing with a yellow straw hat in hand. We eventually named the object Hilarious Hugo, after the doctor.
@@loriloristuff Well unfortunately we will not have any grandchildren and our nephews nieces and grand nephews and grandnieces are spread out all over the United States from the Midwest to the Deep South and Pacific and Far North. We seldom see them. The older ones, now in their 60s were raised partially by my parents and me so they remember times thar their Dad and Grandpa, and I grilled a hald dozen or more t bones for a Sunday feast while theur mother and grandmother made potato salad or cucumber, tomato, and bell pepper salad with a watermelon sitting in a washtub of ice ready to provide a finishing touch to a great meal.
That is why I post them here and I am glad that there are a lot of people like you that enjoy them. So for what they are worth I post them from time to time on food and other nostalgia sites, especially Judy Norton Taylors cite speaking about her time on The Waltons, a show that so much reminds me of my own life.
Many of these are ethnic foods. I've never eaten a Golumki, but I know many people who have and do, most of Polish descent. I see Chicken Ala King on this channel a lot, I don't often eat Chicken Ala King, but I have Turkey Ala King after every Thanksgiving, same thing. I generally enjoy this channel, but sometime I think they're taking about regional foods or ethic foods that are either still eaten, or were only found in certain circles.
Baby boomers born the years of
1944 -1964 ❤
I grew up in the 50s and 60s and never had any of that stuff. So not EVERY boomer had the same food.
Still make most of these
My mom used to make cabbage rolls, but I still make them and have a better recipe. My husband loves American goulash, but I much prefer the Hungarian style I was brought up with. I still make Chicken Ala King. I don't remember my mom making Swiss steak, but I've made it for years. My mom used to make shrimp Creole, but she made it so hot that one couldn't taste anything else. I make a toned down version, and I always add okra.
MMMM PATTIES
These are not baby boomer dishes. Hell, I still make these now!
Why do use the Polish term for stuffed cabbage - just because Martha Stewart did? Every country in central/eastern Europe had their own name for the same dish. My grandparents were Czech and Slovak, so my Mom used the term halupki. We always had it on New Year's Day because it was supposed to bring good luck. Also, we never had succotash at home, but that was the side dish that every restaurant in the 50s served with any dinner. I would pick out all the corn kernels and eat those, and leave the rest in a pile on the plate. (I detested lima beans, still do.)
Oh my goodness who lived like that 😂
MMMMM FRIED PATTIES
HAD PINEAPPLES DESERTS
PINEAPPLE WITH OTHER FRUITS COOLWHIP
When was veal or pork ever cheaper than chicken? I'm a Gen xer and I don't remember that.
I don't remember it either but I am also gen X. I do know chicken used to be more expensive before the current meat chicken breeds were developed. A long time ago rabbit was a lot more common, but when chicken dropped in price we stopped eating rabbit. So maybe things like pork were cheaper than chicken at some point.
@@maxpowers9129 exactly. I actually remember eating a lot of sausage, hotdogs, and tuna from the can. I can't stand tuna casserole to this day. 😂
A lot of it depended where you lived.
Halupkies in my area
Not so much on the west coast….
i was born in 1964, dont speak for me, on what i ate, you know Nothing about me
Tomato THERES NO A IN THE WORD YOU DUNCE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This comment will haunt my dreams. May God have mercy on your soul.
I am a Baby Boomer and I disagree when you say all Baby Boomers ate these dishes.
1) no TV DINNERS in my house. Too expensive. My mother made and froze pot pies with left over meat and vegetables from previous meals.
2) stuffed cabbage was cheap and filling, so we ate that.
3) Goulash was cheap and filling.
Hadn't finished.
4) chicken Ala king was a treat, couldn't really afford it.
5) Salmon cakes, not too often because of the price of canned salmon and a brother who would steal food off your plate.
6) City chicken in my family was always veal. We had a friend who gave us veal, because we couldn't afford it.
7) Shrimp was too expensive, so didn't have it until I was an adult.
8) IF there was any him left, dad made it into a paste for HIS sandwiches on the night shift.
9) potato chip casserole is my worst nightmare! Ate it because there was nothing else to eat. Then went outside and ate raw rhubarb with sugar because I was still hungry.
The other meals you mentioned, we couldn't afford! So saying that ALL BABY BOOMERS know these meals is wrong.
Some of us didn't have what others had, and I survived, because we had family. Empty stomachs at times, but family.
My mother never bought TV dinners unless they qualified under her three shopping rules:
1. There was a coupon.
2. Either the coupon allowed multiple purchases, or we had scavanged enough coupons to buy one for everybody because YES children could do the shopping back then.
3. The TV dinners in question were also on sale.
After we ate them, she had us wash the aluminum trays. She then refilled them with leftovers.
We very seldom had them, under her rules.
My mom used tuna, i don't think she liked salmon, it has a stronger taste, then tuna
As a Hungarian this "Goulash" just make me cringe so bad every time you mention it :D Also it spelled: Gulyás. This have nothing to do with the Hungarian one. Its like calling a hamburger a pizza :D
You have no idea! I love Hungarian goulash but this bastardized spaghetti not so much!
Okay why do you have a thumbnail of a young woman when baby boomers are much older?!
People still eat this stuff. I’m going to unsubscribe
We'll miss you😅
AMERICAN boomers
Porcupines and cabbage rolls and eeg fu young deviled hm as you call it ham salad are the only ones I ve even heard of my mom dident cook tv dinners or cassaroles she made everything from cratch for every meal so don't lie and say we all ate this stupid stuff that sounds awful nither did anyone else I knew.
This is not true IMO