20 Famous Food Traditions That Have FADED Into History!
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- 20 Famous Food Traditions That Have FADED Into History!
Curious which beloved food traditions have faded into the pages of history? Today, we're taking a look back at 20 food traditions that once brought Americans together. These memories remind us of a world that was slower, warmer, and more connected. Let's jump in!
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Chapters:
Introduction
TV Dinners
Soda Fountains
Milkman Deliveries
Tupperware Parties
Victory Gardens
Salad Bars in Restaurants
Instant Coffee
Ice Cream Socials
Baking Contests
Automat Restaurants
Fondue Parties
Drive-In Theaters with Snack Bars
Supper Clubs
Pig Pickins
Clam Bakes
Jell-O Molds
Casserole Dinners
Cocktail Party
Potluck Suppers
Microwave Cooking
Frozen dinners saved my life! Some years ago I broke both of my wrists and I could not cook anything more complicated than boiling water. But, I would use the microwave and for about 8 weeks about 90% of my meals were frozen dinners. I have not had one since, but at the time they were a life saver.
When I broke an arm, it was pre-microwave. Much too difficult to pull most things out of an oven, and I lost about 10 pounds before I could use my one arm more. One thing I ate a lot of were apples.
TV dinners were so much better when they came in aluminium trays and you cooked them in the oven. The food was crispier and made to a much higher standard than the slime they sell in cardboard containers now. It doesn’t sound like a big difference, but it was.
The fried chicken was actually good.
My favorite was Swanson's chicken
I absolutely agree!!
I loved the fried chicken and the little desserts. My adoptive mother was a horrible cook so when we had TV dinners it was an AWESOME day.
I hate using a microwave. I try to avoid using it, and prefer the oven or airfryer. Microwaves just ruin the taste and texture of food, apart from baked potatoes.
I miss Drive-in movies
Every teenage boy ever, should miss drive in movies.
Yup, first make out place.
@@sigsin1 Not just make out. Many couples learned the facts of life at drive in theaters.
Salad bars existed before 1971. I remember going to restaurants with salad bars in the early 1960's. I also worked at a restaurant that had a salad bar while I was in high school. (I graduated in 1971)
I remember when the " milk man" came to our house in the 60's. At the time, people just didn't run to the stores on a whim and also a lot of women who were mostly stay at home mothers and housewives didn't drive. The milkman came to our house in the early morning when my mother was in the kitchen in her nightie No one outside the family would see her in that nightie other than the milkman. Eventually, there were metal milk boxes used by dairies. Unfortunately, it was easy to forget to check for the delivery and we often ended up with a couple gallons of sour milk.
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I am an 80's kid, and we had mlkmen. I'm from Scotland, and in winter, the milk would freeze on the doorstep. It would look like a frozen fountain, with the cap on top lol.
There have been salad bars for a long time. What was big in the 70s and 80s were the HUGE ones. In most places, you could pay for just salad bar and it had everything - cold cuts, salads, desserts, sushi etc.
Instant coffee is still very much popular
And so are microwave ovens 😉
You didn't mention crocks pots! I still use mine and have my original recipe book that came with it.
I think those are pretty popular with younger millennial and gen z
Automats were the precursor to fast-food; My mother once took me to the last automat in NYC before it closed its doors. This was in the late 1960's. She told me they were very popular in the 1940's because they offered food fast (fast food?) for working people who 'only' had an hour for lunch. LOL!
If you ask me, I think Tupperware died out because so many manufacturers began putting their products in the same plastic, sealed containers that people stopped buying Tupperware and just saved butter and Cool-Whip tubs instead. BTW, that Jell-O mold used at 12:20 was made by Tupperware. I had one of those-- my mother gave it to me.
True. Also ,Tupperware started to be sold in stores.
While salad bars are not AS common, they can still be found in some restaurants and diners. Also, many supermarkets now offer a salad bar, hoping to attract the working lunch crowd.
I can remember when the milk froze when the milk man left it on the steps in the winter.
At church pot luck meals we kids knew which dishes tasted the best because we often ate dinner at our friends houses. And we knew which ones to avoid. I loved them and miss them. Born in 1949
Drive in theaters. Calgary, Ab. had a three theaters in one site in one location untill1998.
You're lucky... mine closed down in 83
There were also "Amphitheaters," modern versions of such of ancient Greece and Rome. These could be either movies or stage productions. Like the drive in theatres, showings or performances began at sunset. Washington, D.C. had the Carter Barren Amphitheater. Stage plays, musicals, operas, and concerts or their film versions would be presented.
I'm in Edmonton - I was at the very last drive-in show (Millwoods I think) and it was seeing the brand new "Apollo 13". So it was pretty cool watching it under the stars.
Tv dinners use to be so great, I miss the cinnamon apple desserts
i remember the milkman!
- i still do casseeroles, love them
- i also do crab pots with my hubby. if anyone please to join, all they have to do is pitch a few bucks in! crabs, shrimp, smoked sausage, potatoes, corn minis.
- i miss drive ins!
The Drive-ins were great. They were even better when you got your snacks, etc., somewhere before getting to the drive-in. Usually less expensive that way and much tastier.
Victory Gardens originated in England during World War I not WWII. They were also in America, Canada and Australia.
I miss soda fountains. Cherry phosphates!
I loved automats. They were my fav place to eat, even after fast food became available.
I loved ice cream socials as a kid. We still have one a year in my hometown.
I was always told the milkman was my dad because I was the only blonde in the family.
Hmm. Not sure microwaves (@ 15:40) belong here. I microwave more now than ever.
Our soda fountain still operates. I have enjoyed going there since I was a child in the 1960s but my children don’t like the taste of the sodas there. They do like their milkshakes.
The last Soda Fountain I remember was in the Revco drug store, it was by the front window, then in 85 they took it out and to tease us put up a mural of a soda fountain where it was, and a year or so later, it was shelves for Bottled Sodas.and candy.
I was at a salad bar last month. What I miss is a roadhouse, contemporary self service of small portioned plastic tasting food is not my idea of good eating.
I still have a gallon and half gallon Tupperware pitchers. Can't find replacements.
V gardens even allowed for some farmers to grow weed plants legally. Heck evenngot a tax break.
At the time I didn't think much of Tubber Ware. What surprised me was that my sister has some that I know is at least fifty years old. Who'd thought it would have held up that well.
Milk delivery didn’t start in America it would’ve been England for sure
The Progression dinners-- each course served at a different neighbors. home.
drive-in movies made a brief resurgence during the pandemic...
They don't do that anymore because you can actually go to your nearest department store and buy it there.
Many a teenaged couple learned the facts of life at drive-in theaters. LOL.
1972-1973-ish. Mom would go shopping at Pantry-Pride. I was 5-6 years old & she'd give me a WHOPPING $1 dollar bill. REXOLL Drug store had a bar & I could get a root beer float for $.20 cents.,and pretend I was all grown up. I would have change & go get some bubblegum.
Good times.
Mt. Dora, Central Florida.Nothing but orange groves for miles. Being a Florida boy, growing up without air conditioning, I would FREEZE inside a grocery store.
Those orange groves froze in 1986 & they had perfected Central Air Conditioning. Been crowded ever since. Thank God for Ron Desantis.
Love Ron DeSantis
15:42 min, I'm a " Microwave Chef ".
I don't know what part of the world your from but your not from my part of America
Jell-O molds have always been...and still are....absolutely disgusting.