Old-School Comfort Foods That Aren't Popular Anymore

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  • Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
  • Does reptile meat mixed with fortified wine sound appetizing to you? If not, then you'll absolutely understand why these old-school comfort foods aren't very popular anymore.
    #ComfortFood #OldSchool #Popular
    Tuna noodle casserole | 0:00
    Chicken a la King | 1:13
    Milk toast | 2:01
    Sloppy Joes | 2:47
    Cheese fondue | 3:46
    Chipped beef on toast | 4:55
    TV dinners | 5:46
    Egg cream | 6:52
    Beans n' franks | 7:57
    Turtle soup | 8:53
    Salisbury steak | 9:59
    Jell-O salad | 10:52
    Watergate salad | 11:49
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  • @MashedFood
    @MashedFood  Рік тому +21

    Which of these foods still find their way to your table?

    • @boohere2
      @boohere2 Рік тому +9

      Cheese Fondue and sloppy joe.

    • @The80sand90sOverlooked
      @The80sand90sOverlooked Рік тому +9

      Salisbury steak is delicious!

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +9

      Sloppy Joes! They're too easy to make at home, you already have everything you need at home, no need for Manwich! Skip that! Also, you can make Tidy Joes, mix a slurry of 1 tablespoon of water to 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, add to 1 lb of ground beef, and let set for 1 hour. It breaks down the connective tissue of the beef, letting everything to hold together really well!

    • @Draconicstarz88
      @Draconicstarz88 Рік тому +1

      Everything except tuna casserole and Chicken ala King. Milk toast looks like a down grade of French toast, and Chipped beef a down grade of Corned beef and gravy. Also note that sloppy Joe is another name for MANWITCH.

    • @vickithoma751
      @vickithoma751 Рік тому

      All of them.

  • @MidnightHozz
    @MidnightHozz Рік тому +288

    Sloppy Joes and Salisbury steak are both 100% awesome. Fire whoever edited this.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +8

      Love Salisbury steak on toast but loath sloppy Joes entirely. There's a list of foods that will never be made at our house and most of these are on it. My wife hates tv dinners since that's all her mother made. My mother was just as bad and the only thing she made regularly was soup, toasted cheese, and sloppy Joes. I still make a more spicy version of SOS with hot Hungarian paprika, cayenne pepper, and thin sliced deli meat

    • @karenminckler4198
      @karenminckler4198 Рік тому +11

      I make my own Salisbury steak.

    • @luiul1
      @luiul1 Рік тому +3

      LOL agree 100%

    • @gloriamontgomery6900
      @gloriamontgomery6900 Рік тому +1

      I agree!

    • @firstname__lastname
      @firstname__lastname Рік тому +2

      I can say I've never had it

  • @macmanmpls
    @macmanmpls Рік тому +91

    I LOVE tuna casserole, sloppy joes, fondue, beans and franks, and salisbury steak. Still eat them to this day.

    • @jaengen
      @jaengen 11 місяців тому +6

      Ditto!! They are staples in my house.

    • @MarkCexplorer
      @MarkCexplorer 10 місяців тому +4

      Yessss

    • @ginnamin
      @ginnamin 6 місяців тому +1

      Me too 🎉

    • @ObsydianShade
      @ObsydianShade 5 місяців тому +1

      I eat tuna noodle casserole, sloppy joes, and salisbury steak regularly. I had the latter just a few days ago.

  • @kmoecub
    @kmoecub Рік тому +66

    Tuna casserole was not just comfort food, it was struggle food. It's one of the cheapest ways to feed a family when you have almost nothing to spend.

    • @claudiamiller7730
      @claudiamiller7730 Рік тому +11

      Probably will be coming back…real soon, too!!

    • @jaengen
      @jaengen 11 місяців тому

      We eat water in my hovel.

    • @birdlover6842
      @birdlover6842 6 місяців тому +2

      People can't afford to be too picky because food prices are crazy. These old fashioned foods are tasty and healthy enough.

    • @johnwalters1341
      @johnwalters1341 6 місяців тому

      I grew up with a version using canned tuna, canned cream of chicken soup, and potato chips. Don't remember the exact year (early 1970s?), but the price of tuna, potato chips, and canned soup all went through the roof almost simultaneously. End of tuna casserole...

    • @Val_Emrys
      @Val_Emrys 6 місяців тому

      I liked the boxed version made by the same company as Hamburger Helper. I shudder to think how unhealthy it must have been.

  • @logankerr8090
    @logankerr8090 Рік тому +59

    Sloppy Joes are a MUST! always make sure to have it a few times a year

    • @BionicPig95
      @BionicPig95 Рік тому +1

      Replace “year” with “day”

  • @Raydawggie
    @Raydawggie Рік тому +67

    I think Sloppy Joes are still a pretty common easy home meal for families, although the standardization and shift to reheated/heat lamp food in cafeterias reduced their prominence. There's actually a Sloppy Joe special right now at White Castle for December. Fondue is probably the only other one of these that's still common, mostly due to The Melting Pot spreading fast as a chain.

    • @TheMinnie1468
      @TheMinnie1468 10 місяців тому +1

      If you live in the South, most of these are still popular

  • @MrDan708
    @MrDan708 Рік тому +116

    Sloppy Joe's certainly haven't gone away here in PA. One local fast-food place sells lots of them.
    I have a soft spot for chipped beef & toast since my late mother made it back in the day when she wanted to do something different.

    • @cephasmartin8593
      @cephasmartin8593 Рік тому +5

      Or in Kansas, either.

    • @kararay8962
      @kararay8962 Рік тому +5

      I still make them too. I sometimes use manwich bbq flavor, sometimes original.

    • @susanbeckham7236
      @susanbeckham7236 Рік тому +7

      Food never goes out of style if you ask me

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +5

      I make SOS but use deli beef instead of the dried stuff. I don't care what people say I WILL NOT touch a sloppy Joe ever again. It was one of the few things my mother could make so she drove it into the ground. We finally started eating better when I took over the cooking at the age of 11

    • @karenminckler4198
      @karenminckler4198 Рік тому +4

      Here in Gloversville, NY too.

  • @MrTonyBones
    @MrTonyBones Рік тому +39

    Maaan, you’re crazy @Mashed Just made Salisbury Steaks the other day. The original "steak sauce’ my Mom used is no longer around but thankfully I found a good substitute off Amazon, with a side of mashed potatoes? Still a hearty, good, relatively cheap meal. Same thing with Sloppy Joes.

    • @BranniganCarter
      @BranniganCarter 6 місяців тому +1

      I routinely make Salisbury steak at home with mashed potatoes and gravy. One of my favorites. You can even get chop steak at Texas Roadhouse which is the same thing

  • @ginny9577
    @ginny9577 Рік тому +74

    some of us still love sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole. i also loved something my grandmother used to make called shrimp wiggle (shrimp, onions, peas in a bechamel over toast or rice)

    • @joantrezza
      @joantrezza Рік тому +1

      @ginny9577,your grandmother's shrimp wiggle sounds so delicious! I'll have to try it.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +1

      None of those would be allowed in my house. I however make a meatball version of Salisbury steak from scratch.
      My mother was a horrible cook and if it was easy and nearly impossible to screw up she made it for supper. She was a damned good baker but couldn't cook for sh!t. I learned to cook and took over when I was 11. I make all sorts of classic family recipes but they're 100 years or more old including a fruitcake that my family requests

    • @Patricia-om3vo
      @Patricia-om3vo Рік тому +1

      Ginger I still love sloppy joes also they are one of my comfort foods.

    • @susanmolnar9606
      @susanmolnar9606 Рік тому +1

      Ginny my mother would make salmon wiggle the same way but she used canned salmon. I still make it to this day.

    • @mamadeb1963
      @mamadeb1963 Рік тому +1

      I don't eat shrimp, but I make salmon wiggle, which I prefer to serve over noodles. I got it from a 1930s children's cookbook called "PattyPans."

  • @cephasmartin8593
    @cephasmartin8593 Рік тому +55

    If a hotdog shaves 36 minutes off your live, I should have died 40+ years ago. And Grandma cooked up a skillet full of beanie weenies last week.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +9

      I would rather die with a hotdog in my hand then to eat kale like a rabbit. I prefer quality over quantity when it comes to life

    • @arightscepter
      @arightscepter Рік тому +1

      @@hellhound1389 Hehe - die with a hot dog in my hand.
      I was walking toward the kitchen the other day with a single hot dog in my hand while a room mate was following. I told him I have a wiener and I'm not afraid to use it. He stayed back a safe distance, maybe he know about the minutes.

    • @jln55
      @jln55 11 місяців тому +2

      If a hotdog can shave 36 minutes off of your life, I would have been dead before my conception!

    • @AurenGlytterkat
      @AurenGlytterkat 6 днів тому

      Yeah fr here I am chain scarfing hot dogs and waiting …. No WAY it takes that much off your life lmaooo

  • @kararay8962
    @kararay8962 Рік тому +55

    When my family ate tuna casserole, we did not have peas or cheese in it. Just noodles, cream of mushroom soup, tuna and buttered bread crumbs.
    My Mom ate "milk toast" which was buttered bread, heated milk, salt and pepper. When she wasn't feeling well this was her comfort food.
    Chipped beef on toast, and creamed hamburger on toast.(S.O.S.) were favorites too. I still like S.O.S.
    Mom loved egg creams too.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Рік тому +1

      I just heard about Milk Toast on another channel. Except theirs had sugar & cinnamon, not S&P. Said the dad made it for them. Didn’t know how to cook.

    • @sidneyvandykeii3169
      @sidneyvandykeii3169 Рік тому +3

      I love me some S.O.S. Cheap and delicious.

    • @pambrown6260
      @pambrown6260 Рік тому +1

      Milk toast also called graveyard stew

    • @kararay8962
      @kararay8962 Рік тому

      @@pambrown6260 I had never heard that. That's interesting.

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому

      I'm going to be making some tuna casserole soon. My go-to topping is crushed Cheez-its, I've got a crab cake recipe with them too, fantastic.

  • @lauramiller751
    @lauramiller751 Рік тому +27

    I still make chicken a la king all the time, but I put peas and carrots in mine instead of mushrooms and peppers. My mom used to make it when I was a kid, so it's still a comfort food for me.

    • @erinobrien8793
      @erinobrien8793 Рік тому +3

      The best chicken a la king I ever had was at a French bistro served in a puff pastry. They made everything from scratch with fresh ingredients. Amazing.

    • @jgw5491
      @jgw5491 9 місяців тому +2

      A variation using turkey was my favorite holiday leftovers dish.

  • @IWasAPepper
    @IWasAPepper Рік тому +46

    We had Watergate salad at Thanksgiving. It was pretty good.

    • @bunkyman8097
      @bunkyman8097 Рік тому +3

      Still love Watergate salad.

    • @Dfoto679
      @Dfoto679 6 місяців тому

      We have just about every holiday and it’s a mixed fruit salad. I never even heard it called Watergate salad.

  • @cynthiamickle1521
    @cynthiamickle1521 6 місяців тому +4

    We still LOVE Sloppy Joes! When i was a child, this was something we looked forward to every year at our local fair. Fondu? We do this as a family for events like Christmas or Birthdays! And everyone eats Salisbury Steak. And omg! I just had the Watergate salad for the first time this summer! It was the best! Totally the first thing gone!!!

  • @TheMrLebaron
    @TheMrLebaron Рік тому +55

    Call me old fashioned but sloppy joes with a side of hot bake is the best thing ever, and I would know as my wife is French that Fondue is still huge in France

    • @selysebaratheonsmustache973
      @selysebaratheonsmustache973 Рік тому +2

      What’s hot bake

    • @TheMrLebaron
      @TheMrLebaron Рік тому +9

      @@selysebaratheonsmustache973 Cheese cassorol, very big in the midwest, Potatoes, Cheese, Cream of Mushroom, Bacon Bits, two sticks of butter, sour cream, all mixed together and covered in Breadcrumbs and baked for an hour.

    • @stormchaser5650
      @stormchaser5650 Рік тому +1

      What is hot bake?!

    • @susanbeckham7236
      @susanbeckham7236 Рік тому +1

      What is hot bake?

    • @gabithemagyar
      @gabithemagyar Рік тому +2

      @@TheMrLebaron That hot bake sounds delicious !!

  • @Glostahdude
    @Glostahdude Рік тому +4

    My parents had Fondue Parties when I was kid circa 77-80! Melted Cheese’s, breads, sausages etc! Chocolate Fondue with all kinds of fruits and pastry! I remember going with Mom and Dad when he was home, to the Cracker Barrel store at the mall! I was about 5-6yo! They were so much fun! My parents friends would bring their kids and was a big family get together!

  • @shelcancook6731
    @shelcancook6731 Рік тому +16

    Watergate salad is still eaten here in OK, and I love it now just as much as when I was a kid. Also, I think some of the jello salads get a bad rap, some are really good. My grandmother made one with carrots and orange jello with pineapple. It was the only way my Dad would eat carrots.

    • @bunkyman8097
      @bunkyman8097 Рік тому

      My mom used to make my dad a Jello salad when I was a kid: lime Jello with shredded cabbage! He'd eat it with miracle whip on top. To me it felt like you were eating something that has already been chewed. I couldn't stand it, gross!

    • @user-yz9yg4yx1k
      @user-yz9yg4yx1k 6 місяців тому

      Ambrosia and watergate salad are completely different. And both are very good. I ohio creamed chicken was and still is popular similar to chicken a la king. Served on toast, buns,bread,or mashed potatoes. Just like the a la kimg chik. I just made salisbury steak last week and strawberry jello with sliced bananas is a great snack or desert. I think you missed it Mashed.

  • @bluejem1315
    @bluejem1315 Рік тому +5

    I still eat sloppy Joes , I never had milk toast but it sounds good. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year.

  • @snipermafia3609
    @snipermafia3609 Рік тому +14

    I still like Sloppy Joes, my dad used to make them for me and I make for kids sometimes. I pass on one favorite food to another.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому

      I can't stand sloppy Joes, my mother (a horrible cook) made them quite often and it's something I just won't even go near. I learned to cook as a kid so I wouldn't have to eat her cooking ever again

    • @slavetomasterjim
      @slavetomasterjim Рік тому

      I loved sloppy joes as a kid and as an adult make them about once a month. A nice change that brings back memories. (And as a kid I like Manwhich but it is so easy to do from scratch).

  • @melissadunton3534
    @melissadunton3534 Рік тому +6

    I’ll be 50yrs old in April, so… I’m a GenX’er and I grew up with most of these meals, as did my son and I still make them for myself on occasion. You can’t help what gives you that nostalgia and that warmth of remembering your mom calling everyone down to dinner for a yummy Tuna noodle casserole!!!
    I still make tuna noodle casserole, sloppy Joe’s, SOS (aka creamed chipped beef), I also buy frozen dinners - love the Healthy Choice steamers.
    One of my favorite dishes to make when I have ppl over is spinach, chicken à la king w/parsley, butter biscuits.
    I still crave franks and beans on occasion and will make it for an easy meal.
    I’ve had turtle soup, but it was made with snapper and it was not pleasant.
    Still love Salisbury steak. I don’t eat it often, but about once a year I will buy a frozen Salisbury steak dinner. As for Jello salads: there are about a million different types. Some are good, some should be killed with fire!!! I only like the dessert salads….like Watergate salad and ambrosia….so yummy!

  • @cletedavis5849
    @cletedavis5849 Рік тому +14

    You can't beat a good tuna noodle casserole! Especially with the buttered bread crumbs on top!

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому +1

      I do crushed Cheez-its on top of mine.

  • @marylist1236
    @marylist1236 Рік тому +8

    Of these dishes, I "ate" tuna casserole on many a Friday night as a child, I was raised Catholic, and just before Vatican II days, Fridays were for fish. I didn't like it because of the peas & the cream of mushroom soup. I love sloppy joes, I had recently last month when my brother & I were staying with my youngest sister & brother-in-law, I lived for Wednesdays at my OG Catholic school, because that was sloppy joe day. There are kinds of milk toast, the sweet one with cinnamon sugar, & the savory one with salt & pepper. My mom would put a poached on top of hers, both are comforting when you're feeling poorly. I love all the iterations of the jello pretzel salad, & the fluff salad which is the category Watergate salad falls under. Dishes you forgot, what I grew up calling goulash, which was ground beef, elbow pasta, tomato products, green peppers, & onions, & seasonings. In New England this is referred to as American Chop Suey. If swap rice for the elbow pasta, you have what I grew up calling Spanish Rice

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston Рік тому +3

    10:00 Salisbury steak is basically just individual meat loaves.
    I make it often. With duchess potatoes and fresh-picked garden beans, it elevates the more plebian hamburger to an appetizing family meal.
    and yes, I do grow green beans and wax beans in my garden.

  • @LadyCin611
    @LadyCin611 Рік тому +6

    I made the tuna noodle casserole for my kids a few years ago, and you would have thought they were eating gourmet! I laughed my butt off. They STILL love it!

  • @suzettebavier4412
    @suzettebavier4412 Рік тому +10

    I just ate Chicken a la King yesterday. I eat it quite often, but always without the bread/toast

    • @roxcyn
      @roxcyn Рік тому +1

      It's good over rice or noodles like they showed in the video.

  • @buttonsbebe
    @buttonsbebe Рік тому +19

    Don’t be coming for sloppy Joe’s. We eat them regularly at our home.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому

      I hate sloppy Joes and haven't eaten one in almost 40 years

  • @montilue
    @montilue Рік тому +28

    I always liked tuna noodle casserole. Never had chicken a la king or milk toast. I have had toast with powdered sugar and cinnamon though. Sloppy joes are super yummy I still sometimes eat sloppy Joes. I used to love fondue but I don't make it at home we used to have a restaurant but it was very expensive so couldn't go often. Especially the chocolate dessert fondue.

    • @shirleybalinski4535
      @shirleybalinski4535 Рік тому

      Milk toast was my Mom's answer for sickness( well one of her answers).

    • @seanhunter4297
      @seanhunter4297 Рік тому

      Montilue I like your version of tuna noodle casserole better, it's much simpler & I can do without the peas.

    • @MeowingKittyCat
      @MeowingKittyCat Рік тому +1

      I've only ever had fondue once; it was cheese fondue, at a restaurant. I went there with a friend, and the chef put so much wine in that fondue, it was a miracle we both didn't get plastered!

    • @frankjoseph4273
      @frankjoseph4273 6 місяців тому +1

      Try the chicken aka king with home grown tomatoes and NM green Chile on the side.

  • @1974geary
    @1974geary Рік тому +10

    I love chipped beef on toast

    • @jaengen
      @jaengen 11 місяців тому +1

      We call it S*&T on a shingle and we luvvvv it in my hovel!

  • @markcollins2666
    @markcollins2666 Рік тому +13

    Growing up in the 60's in New England, had tuna casserole every Friday night, and baled beans and hot dogs every Saturday night. Not only at our house, but all over the neighborhood. Hated the first, loved the second, but you always knew what you'd be having, on those two nights.

    • @optionout
      @optionout Рік тому +1

      Why so consistent?

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +3

      @@optionout, old habits die hard, I guess. I lived in a largely Catholic neighborhood, where, until 1964, Catholics were forbidden to eat meat on Fridays, the day Jesus Christ died, supposedly on a Friday the Thirteenth, which is why it's considered a bad luck, even evil day. Canned tuna was cheap, only two cans needed to feed a family, so I guess that's why that persisted. Hot dogs and beans, on Saturday night. I have no idea why, but that was almost universal in our neighborhood.

    • @MrTopcat3333
      @MrTopcat3333 Рік тому +2

      @@markcollins2666 Also grew up in a predominately Catholic city (Albany, NY). Friday was codfish cakes and Saturday was franks and beans.

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +3

      @@MrTopcat3333, In the Boston area, codcakes and baked beans were a favorite combination!

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +2

      I worked in a Jewish deli in Boston, the Essex Delicatessen, on the corner of Washington Street and Essex, and we sold that by the ton, every day!

  • @jenewok
    @jenewok Рік тому +8

    In my family, we still make sloppy joes and "Watergate" salad (though we call it pistachio salad) quite often! We don't put any extra nuts in it though.

  • @annelynn8708
    @annelynn8708 Рік тому +13

    Fondue is pretty delicious. I mean, how can you go wrong with cheese and bread?!

  • @michaelcoffey7362
    @michaelcoffey7362 Рік тому +18

    I like Salisbury steak 🥰

  • @TheSerpentsEye
    @TheSerpentsEye Рік тому +20

    I still cook sloppy Joe's for my family and I ate them often, growing up.

  • @jonsidds6963
    @jonsidds6963 Рік тому +19

    I make sloppy Joe's, tuna casserole a cream chipped beef at least once a week, chipped beef I'll eat before work probably more than three times a week. Just saying.

    • @bunkyman8097
      @bunkyman8097 Рік тому

      As a kid I couldn't stand chipped beef on toast. I love it now! Go figure...

  • @lant7123
    @lant7123 Рік тому +11

    Make Sloppy Joes all the time. Still do tuna casserole, but without the noodles. Beans and franks is not going anywhere, either.

  • @Redwhiteblue-gr5em
    @Redwhiteblue-gr5em Рік тому +2

    I still like to have tuna helper once in a while. Reminds me of tuna casserole that my school cafeteria use to serve in the 1960s.

  • @BrokebackBob
    @BrokebackBob Рік тому +63

    What the heck is wrong with Mashed? They're really going off the rails recently. Every single item on this list is still enjoyed by a large number of people all over the world. No, none of them are trendy which is all Mashed seems to be interested in, but each and every one is still enjoyed today. Vert der Ferk?

    • @optionout
      @optionout Рік тому

      Elite snobs write for them.

    • @sandy-pf9bb
      @sandy-pf9bb Рік тому +13

      They are coming across as condescending and rather rude. I love Salisbury steak and I don't consider it a pulverized meat product. This doesn't feel like a documentary, more like a put down.

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому +1

      OK, Swedish Chef 🤣

    • @NoNameToYou
      @NoNameToYou 6 місяців тому +1

      What about “aren’t popular” anymore confused you? Yes some in some areas eat them but for most people in large cities they wouldn’t go near any of those meals.

    • @anonymousvapes8026
      @anonymousvapes8026 6 місяців тому

      Hey Mashed wtfu pay attention to WHO ACTUALLY watches your videos.

  • @MsBackstager
    @MsBackstager Рік тому +4

    With Swanson's TV dinners, I always loved the sliced apples and cranberry sauce.

  • @AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer
    @AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer Рік тому +16

    half of these are still popular in my
    opinion

    • @Avrysatos
      @Avrysatos Рік тому

      Whoever wrote this needs to leave their home city more often.

  • @OldLugnutz
    @OldLugnutz Рік тому +7

    My mom grew up in an army family, and she learned to make great cream chip beef on toast. It was a regular meal for a mid-week night meal every two weeks or so when I was a kid. I miss that meal, and mom.

  • @lauriemathews7974
    @lauriemathews7974 Рік тому +7

    My family LOVES Watergate Salad but we called it Gorilla Snot Salad, (named so by my older sister), when my young son asked his Aunt what she had made, she told him it was Gorilla Snot Salad (with the mini marshmallows being the gorilla boogers. LOL!!) He loved it!!

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому +1

      Sounds like a Calvin & Hobbes strip I once read.

  • @johnfronczek2658
    @johnfronczek2658 11 місяців тому +1

    I love Tuna Casserole with elbow macaroni and peas. It’s one of my favorite cold weather dishes.

  • @edkeaton
    @edkeaton Рік тому +9

    Of the foods of this list, I probably would consume tuna noodle casserole, sloppy joes, and Salisbury steak. These are the foods that I have grown up with and still find tasty to this day, in my humble opinion, not to mention also creamed beef on toast (s.o.s.) which my late Father had enjoyed while he had served in the military. He had preferred it over steak and eggs any day and twice on Sunday.

  • @es330td
    @es330td 7 місяців тому +2

    I lived on dinners consisting of a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese with a can of tuna and a can of peas mixed into the noodles in college. I will still eat this in a pinch. Growing up we knew "Watergate Salad" as "Green Slime" and it was served at every family holiday gathering. Because of this video I will make it again this Thanksgiving. I genuinely miss cheese enchilada TV dinners. I've made sloppy joes but they are really just a less liquid Italian ragu served on a bun. I recently cut up a hot dog and mixed it into my pork & beans. My kids looked at me like I had grown another head. I had to show them it exists on the canned goods aisle at the grocery store.

  • @Telcomvic
    @Telcomvic Рік тому +15

    We make sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole every 2-3 months just to change things up a bit. Hubby isn't a fan of either--but will eat them if I don't make them too often.

    • @seanhunter4297
      @seanhunter4297 Рік тому

      Telconvic suggestion, alter tuna noodle casserole to Montilue's version above w cream of mushroom soup, omit the peas & sprinkle Italian bread crumb on top.

  • @sazerchu
    @sazerchu Рік тому +19

    I was born in 1984 and I love "Watergate Salad". We would have it every year at Christmas and thanksgiving when my aunt made it for the table. She didn't call it "watergate salad" (for obviously political reasons and argued even when i showed her the recipe) but it was basically the same thing that I found out when I looked it up online for proportions. She didn't add the nuts though.
    She is gone now as cancer took her a few years ago, but I still make it for myself once in a while. It brings me fond memories.
    I guess depending on the ingredients and flavours you could do a "gelatine" desert salad 'right' but some of the combos from past times were awful. Considering that things like Pineapple --and many other fruit have enzymes that break collagen down many are impossible to do.
    Tuna casserole lives on for us in "KD" with tuna and peas (It beats ketchup and Franks) and I love canned baked beans on rice (just without the "Franks"). Salisbury steak however is good (but hard to make home made which is what likely killed it too) and fondue is a bit exotic for people who have "Dairy issues". Likewise with "SOS"/ Chipped beef.
    I've never eaten "Turtle" either... Every species of turtle in my local area is protected now and they are ALL considered threatened or endangered (Southwestern Ontario). Eating one here would be horrible.

    • @toughbutsweet1
      @toughbutsweet1 Рік тому +1

      Plus turtles are so cute.

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому

      @@toughbutsweet1 A box turtle, sure. But have you ever seen a big snapper? 🤨

  • @RedBeard1620
    @RedBeard1620 Рік тому +4

    Born in '90, I've had literally every single one of these dishes growing up and liked them all except the watergate salad (not a huge mayo guy) and some of the tv dinners arent great but still edible. Still make sloppy joes a lot too, theyre awesome if you add in your own extras to it. I've even used basic sloppy joe ingredients for the base of some good chilis too

    • @LeahNewmanWrites
      @LeahNewmanWrites Рік тому +2

      There’s no mayo in Watergate salad. It’s a dessert. Cool Whip or other whipped cream is the base.

    • @RedBeard1620
      @RedBeard1620 Рік тому

      @@LeahNewmanWrites I'll have to tell the person who made it at the family gathering I was at lol. This was a long time ago, and I've had some head injuries as well so I could be wrong. Thanks for the info tho, and good fortune to you and yours.

  • @nikikeya939
    @nikikeya939 Рік тому +3

    The sheer vitriol towards Salisbury Stakes tho XDDD Up here in Northern Maine its still a very popular dish. As are TV Dinners and Tuna Casseroles, or Hungry Man Sloppy Joes. Though I've always said that in both culture, trends, and language Maine is about 20 years behind the rest of the country. And in this case I'm glad we are.

  • @barbtowner8086
    @barbtowner8086 Рік тому +4

    I love cheese fondue. I buy it at alis all the time. I keep a few always on hand in the freezer

  • @jgw5491
    @jgw5491 9 місяців тому +1

    I eat a LOT of tv dinners. Basically any meal you can buy in frozen foods and now they include foods like tikka masala, quiches, and bowls that are combos of various ingredients from different parts of the world. Also I still like getting together with a friend who has an old fondue set from which we eat bread, veggies and apple chunks dipped in delicious, hot wine cheese. Yum!😋

  • @markasdievovaikas
    @markasdievovaikas Рік тому +22

    This is one of your videos (as a few others) that just makes my shake my head over your opinions and pronouncements that these foods hold no popularity and are 'best left in the past'. Obviously, your staff must be Gen-X or Gen-Z to believe this. Tuna Noodle, Chicken A La King, Sloppy Joes, Chipped Beef, Lean Cuisine, Banquet dinners, some Jello salads, and ESPECIALLY Watergate Salad... I still love them all! Albertson's deli still sells Watergate salad although it's not as good as homemade.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +1

      Gen-xer here and grew up on this food and because my mother was a horrible cook these bring up bad memories that make me gag. However I still to this day make SOS, Salisbury steak, and beans and franks. I make a more refined version of all of these from scratch but I still make them. But you'll never get me to touch another sloppy Joe in my life. My wife feels the same way about tv dinners. When these subpar foods were forced on you your entire childhood you'll never have them again

    • @AnastaciaInCleveland
      @AnastaciaInCleveland Рік тому

      Maybe by Gen-Xers you mean Millenials? As a Gen-Xer I ate many of these foods. ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

  • @minervamclitchie3667
    @minervamclitchie3667 Рік тому +4

    I make sloppy Joe's here in The Bronx. When I was a vegetarian I used textured soy protein. Now I use chopped meat. I make chicken a la king, and tuna casserole.
    Egg creams, I'm a Jew, franks and beans, and Salisbury steak.

  • @scottmcwave9479
    @scottmcwave9479 Рік тому +13

    I’m still chowing down on a lot of these but I’ve never had turtle! 😃

    • @cletedavis5849
      @cletedavis5849 Рік тому +1

      Scott, the best turtle meat comes from the snapping turtle, and there are several folks along the Mississippi River who sell the meat. The son of one of my close friends was know as "the turtle man", because he made a good dollar catching, processing, and selling it. There are several turtle soup recipes that are quite good.

    • @claudiamiller7730
      @claudiamiller7730 Рік тому

      Had turtle stew in the Cayman Islands…before I knew better. Greasy!! So…a no go for me.

    • @awalton9024
      @awalton9024 Рік тому

      @@claudiamiller7730 Yes, and it also tastes like liver which is not something I go in for.🤢 But you have to try things once.

  • @kylechristy2155
    @kylechristy2155 Рік тому +2

    Love tuna noodle still! But I make it with just cream of mushroom and tuna. Never had chicken Ala king but it sounds good. Never had milk toast. Sloppy joes can be good. Mostly depends on the sauce. Never seen cheese fondue but sounds good. Chipped beef gravy… mmm very good. Frozen dinners can be good. Never had egg crème. Beans and franks… childhood memories. Never had turtle soup. Salisbury… good stuff. Remember mom did a few fruit jello molds. Think ive had watergate not sure. Had ambrosia. I’m a 90’s kid by the way.

  • @chrisdooley1184
    @chrisdooley1184 Рік тому +4

    I used to LOVE Chicken Devine as a young lad. The sauce the broccoli the special jasmine rice my mum used to get downtown at the Asian market once a year (the only time she’d go in there which I never understood but hell she was Swedish so who knows lol) it brings back very nice memories especially at Christmas time. Happy holidays everyone🎄

  • @patriciaaturner289
    @patriciaaturner289 Рік тому +1

    After my mom got married in 1945 she began a collection of recipes. One of her favorite dishes for holiday celebrations was a Jell-O salad which included lime Jell-O, crushed pineapple, chopped nuts, sliced canned cherries or grapes, and marshmallows. I still make this recipe every year for Christmas and sometimes Thanksgiving. As far as I know, this recipe has been in our family since the late 40s or early 50s.

  • @kararay8962
    @kararay8962 Рік тому +9

    I liked and still do like some kinds of jello salads. I like Watergate salad too. I'm weird.

    • @hellhound1389
      @hellhound1389 Рік тому +1

      You're not weird until you're favorite comfort food is chili on Johnny cakes

    • @AnastaciaInCleveland
      @AnastaciaInCleveland Рік тому

      @Hellhound 13 - That is how I like my chili too! I add cheese on top. I call it "chili Anastacia's way" as every other person I know doesn't eat it this way. My partner has come to like his chili served like this. ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

    • @kararay8962
      @kararay8962 Рік тому

      @@hellhound1389 that sounds good.

  • @Deadgyrl
    @Deadgyrl 7 місяців тому +2

    Many of these foods were awesome, and still find there way to my table

  • @sharonsmalls6846
    @sharonsmalls6846 6 місяців тому +1

    I believe that this video is old comfort food that people still love.

  • @yeahhoo86
    @yeahhoo86 Рік тому +3

    I make Salisbury Steaks from Angus ground beef, it is one of the best comfort foods in my book.

  • @marioStortuga
    @marioStortuga Рік тому +10

    Guess I'm dead cause we eat hot dogs since I was a kid

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 Рік тому +1

      My hubby & I did. Growing up in NY/NJ it was Sabretts or Nathan’s. We moved to PA & no luck with either. Luckily we found Boars Head beef natural casing.

  • @kathrinsides2838
    @kathrinsides2838 5 місяців тому

    I asked my husband to develop a recipe for SOS (chipped beef), and he knocked it out of the park. It’s one of my favorite recipes of his. My uncle who served in the military introduced us to it when he made it for breakfast when I was a kid, & I’ve always loved it, along with bacon, soft scrambled eggs, & hash browns with onions and American cheese on top.

  • @laurie5098
    @laurie5098 Рік тому +2

    Some of these may not be popular anymore, but they still exist. Just in the last week, my family has had chicken a la king, sloppy joes and watergate salad! All still delicious!

  • @zackamanda9799
    @zackamanda9799 9 місяців тому +2

    Sloppy Joe's is still around here in NJ. I've been eating them for years. There even found on diner menus or even coffee trucks here in NJ. I've been making my own sloppy joe's for year and years. Just cook up some ground beef in a pan and add Manwich sauce and put it on Martins potatoe rolls and add some potatoe chips on the side.

  • @angelasieg5099
    @angelasieg5099 Рік тому +1

    I make everything from scratch even the cream soup base due to allergies but nearby all of them we still eat. Chipped Beef on toast with dried beef is a favorite. Tuna noodle hot dish just once or twice a year.

  • @apara2005
    @apara2005 Рік тому +4

    Sloppy Joe's are awesome!!! I make them at home (the store bought, canned sauce is too sweet). I start making Tuna with noodles last week (i ran out of chicken and had a pouch of tuna and said, why not), and it was so yummy. Never had it casserole style, but now I'm curious.

  • @rondini2
    @rondini2 Рік тому +2

    Have Sloppy Joes frequently in this house. Haven’t had a jello salad in a while cuz I’m the only one who would eat it. Lime jello with raw coleslaw set in it, is great. There’s a jello salad in The Joy of Cooking that uses pineapple juice but you have to heat the juice up with a bit of salt to deactivate the bromelain enzyme

  • @jerrera45
    @jerrera45 Рік тому +1

    I just made Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes in my Crockpot tonight, and yes, it was very comforting.

  • @BatCaveOz
    @BatCaveOz 7 місяців тому +2

    I have 20+ fondue sets.
    Fondue is not just melted cheese... there is the Chinois style (with meat and vegetables cooked in beef/chicken/vegetable stock).
    Also chocolate fondue, with slices of pear or apple, or strawberries dipped in melted chocolate is a banger of a desert.
    Hit up your local thrift shops... they can be bought or 5 or 10 dollars.

    • @mescko
      @mescko 6 місяців тому

      Don't need to tell me, I've got 2, both electric. No more messing with Sterno. One's a big Oster, non-stick stainless-steel bowl, it was NIB and like 10 bucks. I've got a killer cheese that I do, came up with the recipe myself, complete with secret ingredient that no one's ever correctly guessed. I also have a creamy, cheesy chipped-beef fondue recipe that a childhood family friend used to make that is seriously addictive.

  • @Val_Emrys
    @Val_Emrys 6 місяців тому +1

    I loved Salsbury Steak TV dinners when I was young. I recently discovered that Chef John of Food Wishes has a recipe for them. Long story short, I followed his instructions and they were delicious!

  • @5610winston
    @5610winston Рік тому +1

    4:58 Creamed chipped beef on toast deserves more respect than its unofficial nickname affords it.
    The white gravy also serves as the basis for another southern-style comfort food, sausage gravy, which is usually served over that other southern delicacy, home-made buttermilk biscuits.
    $#!+-on-a-shingle, indeed!

  • @AaronLakes-ge9su
    @AaronLakes-ge9su 10 місяців тому +1

    I still eat nearly all of them to this very day especially sloppy joes and beans and franks plus i put Spanish rice in with it it's awesome ❤

  • @user-xj9du3kx7u
    @user-xj9du3kx7u 11 місяців тому +1

    I had terrapin soup at the Eager House in Baltimore. It was thick, brown, rich, and meaty. So delicious and still legal in the 1960s.

  • @hylacinerea970
    @hylacinerea970 Рік тому +5

    man, my grandma craves red jello when she's sick. I won't say anything to her because recovering from flu when your body isn't normal sucks but she's probably not getting enough calories due to that

  • @jcrow236
    @jcrow236 Рік тому +2

    We still have sloppy joes 1-2x a month. Growing up my neighbors always made turtle soup out of snappers. I would see the big shells drying on a tree branch in the yard.

  • @realamerican5969
    @realamerican5969 Рік тому +2

    Tuna Noodle Casserole is fabulous, dears.

  • @katherineeckrich2039
    @katherineeckrich2039 Рік тому +2

    I don't think any of these food have disappeared from the table. I do think that the generations coming up simply don't cook. They seem to eat out or rely on prepared food whether it's boxed
    Or frozen. With the cost of food people are going back to these old recipes and learning to cook again. You can fill up a family with a casserole. You can make a casserole out of the leftovers in your refrigerator, add or subtract ingredients that you like. Over 80, have relied on these casserole all my life.

    • @barblibrarian
      @barblibrarian Рік тому

      You made me wonder something. Many grocery stores in our area have premade meals in their deli section. I wonder how many of these dishes are available there and aren’t counted in this popularity contest. And, are eaten by the younger generation that doesn’t call it what we did.

  • @corinneskitchen
    @corinneskitchen Рік тому +3

    You should also mention that turtle soup is originally a Lenape dish and there are restaurants in Philadelphia that sometimes serve it.

  • @garygreen7552
    @garygreen7552 Рік тому +3

    TV dinners have morphed into a broad variety of frozen foods sold in plastic containers that can be micro waved or heat in the oven. The form is different and the brands have changed but they are still here. By the way, what happened to Swanson's? Sloppy joe's and creamed chipped beef on bread {SOS} is still around as a quick meal. I had never heard of the Watergate salad.

  • @necrogenesis1981
    @necrogenesis1981 Рік тому +8

    Not popular? Nonsense, I love most of these. Who wrote this garbage?

  • @luiul1
    @luiul1 Рік тому +2

    @8:50 that 36 minute number per hot dog. i've been dead for 10 years.

  • @Redwhiteblue-gr5em
    @Redwhiteblue-gr5em Рік тому

    My school cafeteria in the 1960s regularly served Chicken Ala King over white rice. I loved it.

  • @mescko
    @mescko 6 місяців тому

    PNW here. I would bet the magazine referenced at 0:30 was Sunset Magazine. My late Mom used a lot of recipes from it when I was growing up, we were never disappointed. I've always loved tuna casserole, I'll be making a big batch soon, after I make some chicken casserole. i make a damn good fondue too.

  • @adiuntesserande6893
    @adiuntesserande6893 6 місяців тому

    Tuna noodle casserole, or rather the salmon version, basically kept me alive in university. And fondue is a family tradition for Christmas Eve dinner. Oh, and you can always make me happy with a Salsbury steak. (I'm probably the only person alive outside New York who still loves egg creams, too....)

  • @lindavolp2534
    @lindavolp2534 Рік тому

    My dad served in the army in WW2. When he came home he brought with him some of the delicacies that were served in the army mess. As a result, growing up I got used to seeing "Sh*t on a Shingle" (creamed chipped beef on toast) and spam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner ( but not all at one time)

  • @r.a.dalton8807
    @r.a.dalton8807 Рік тому +10

    I am not sure about your Tuna Noodle Casserole being included in this. My wife and I have it several times a year and it is one of our favorite comfort foods!

  • @mayloo2137
    @mayloo2137 6 місяців тому

    I'm Chinese. Born in Hong Kong. Grew up in Canada, and I still remember spreading sweetened condensed milk on plain bread. Didn't use butter though. 😊
    My favorite fondue from the 70s: chocolate fondue with toasted cake cubes and cut-up fruit to dip.

  • @bloqk16
    @bloqk16 Рік тому

    I recall my brother loathed tuna casserole from his US Army service in Vietnam in the late 1960s.
    The irony of that was years later after he was married and still lived locally, he'd make impromptu visits to our parents house on Sundays and was warmly welcomed to stay for dinner, which was the day that mom generally served tuna casserole. xD

  • @KageNoTora74
    @KageNoTora74 Рік тому +1

    Chipped beef was still a staple when I was in the Navy in the early nineties.

  • @MartinIbert
    @MartinIbert Рік тому +2

    Wait, WHAT? Some mistery cut of meat minced beyond recognition and somehow fried not a comfort food? That's basically the DEFINITION of comfort food. What's wrong with you people?

  • @bassiclymike
    @bassiclymike 7 місяців тому

    Snapper (turtle) soup can still be found in many areas, especially Philly and Baltimore. Rich, peppery and delicious.
    Tuna casserole done right will always be a favorite.

  • @robbrie
    @robbrie Рік тому +7

    Soaring frozen pizza sales have offset frozen dinners. DiGiorno invented the freezer-to-oven self-rising crust that changed the market forever (1995).

  • @noyfub
    @noyfub Рік тому +5

    We were eating sloppy Joes alot in the 60's/

  • @yolandamyers8978
    @yolandamyers8978 Рік тому +6

    The man wich in the can is still popular as sloppy Joe

    • @markcollins2666
      @markcollins2666 Рік тому +1

      You can do much better, making it yourself, with everything you probably have at home, skipping all the preservatives, and fake flavorings and colorings. And it's not much more work, you just have to put it all together.. Forget Manwich! That's for lazy bachelors. But you owe a family you're feeding, better.

  • @optionout
    @optionout Рік тому +1

    I still love sloppy Joe's, and Salisbury steak and chipped beef and toast 2-3 times a year.

  • @bonnitaclaus2286
    @bonnitaclaus2286 Рік тому +1

    My parents traveled a lot when I was a kid. A benefit of having your own business you can take your kids with you. when we traveled and went to different restaurants, my parents wouldn’t let me order Kiddy food. I had to try things different that I’ve never had before or they were my pre-prepared differently. Consequently I did have turtle soup. I found it revolting. I was too young, and the sherry that was in it burned. My dad tried it and said that it was made correctly and it was good. They told me that I should try it again in about 10 years as my taste buds will change and mature. Well, I never did try it again. Primarily because of the shortage of turtles for the soup. I did not want to contribute to extinction of the species. But at the time when I tried it it was not something that was publicized and ecology was not something that people thought about. ( 1952 to 1959 ) with my dance company grew, and we got older I was the only one that wanted to go on these trips, and my dad had to spend more time in the office instead of away on business. With increasing air travel Business trips was only two or three days. But the damage was done. I learn to love food, and the adventure of trying something new. my pallet was expanded having been introduced to all types of foods. In the following years, I would ask questions, quite often within a few minutes the chef would be at my table to answer my questions. Thrilled that I noticed, and that I wanted to know. One chef told me, most people don’t even notice the Shuffle differences in Lamb and where are they were raised. They can only tell the difference between New Zealand lame and American Lamb by the talloweness. I could taste spices, and I would ask if I tasted correctly. Chefs are very vain, and feel that they’re underappreciated, wasting their art on people that can’t tell the difference. But when someone knows the difference and Soso, it makes him feel so good. And I end up learning so much about cooking not going to Chef school.

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 6 місяців тому

    I love Tuna casserole...My Grandma made it many times in the 70's...

  • @grahamhannah2108
    @grahamhannah2108 Рік тому +1

    Still eat Sloppy Joes, Tuna casserole, and baked beans….still eat chipped beef SOS (not as frequently though) although not on the list and essentially the same thing sausage gravy and biscuits.
    They will never go out of style.

  • @a1700zz
    @a1700zz Рік тому +1

    Chicken ala king, Tuna noodle casserole, Sloppy joes are still popular. I still buy these items and my girlfriend makes a good casserole. And I like Chipped beef.

  • @Noctaire
    @Noctaire Рік тому +1

    Sloppy Joes? Salisbury Steak? Tuna Noodle Casserole? These are all still very common comfort foods and both easily made and popular among home cooks. Those of us who grew up on chipped beef and chicken a la king will always consider both comfort foods as well. Mashed has really been missing the mark a lot lately….