Camping was the only time we got to have the Kellogg's multi packs. You cut the little box in the middle and it turned into a bowl, sort of. I loved those.
My parents packed up eggs, potatoes, milk, bread, breakfast sausages or bacon. Sandwich meat, peanut butter, crackers and a 30 inch skillet. We ate well, and usually near lakes with trout. The tent was large and we had 3 ice chests, sleeping bags and blankets. This was our family way in the 1960's and 1970's in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
wow what a great video with nostalgic foods and video snippets! The first camping food I remember from my childhood in Germany was canned ravioli in tomato sauce, a ready to eat meal made by Maggi. One could heat it in the can itself over an Esbit stove, and that's exactly my first memory of cooking outdoors in the early 60s during a bicycle trip. Iconic was also the Bialetti Moka pot which was used by every camper to prepare coffee ... Else we didn't have so many ready meals as shown here. I remember a lot of pasta dishes, rice dishes, and also potato meals, everything prepared in small aluminium or stainless steel pots but else cooked more or less normally like at home, means starting from fresh and not using any ready made options. As fridges came up widely only during the 60s, people knew still very well to manage with ingredients which didn't need refridgeration nor being kept in cans like lentils or beans and stuff like smoked sausages, black forest ham or salami etc., and also using sour dough bread which kept for a couple of days, usually combined with jam or peanut butter or hard cheese like gouda or emmentaler or salami, was totally standard. Also having a couple of apples in the luggage was very common during bicycle trips, hiking and camping, and if possible also a trail mix of nuts and dried fruits like raisins or figs was on board. And at least for the first day, everybody had some hard boiled eggs ready. Cooking and eating outdoors created quite some wonderful memories which are never forgotten ...
Our RV is currently stocked with every one of these foods. I realized that our RV which we use with our grandkids to go camping every year is actually stocked with every one of the food mentioned in this video. Mostly beause of my husbands requests for some of the specific foods but also because of the convenience of some of the other foods. We have potted meat, vienna sausages, spam, & corned beef, instant oatmeal, freeze dried eggs and chili which we freeze dried this year with our own freeze drier. Our version of campers stew which we call stone soup from the childrens story with similar name is made by just adding whatever canned foods sound good with whatever fresh foods we have available. We have a hamburger helper version of beef strogonoff and pancake mix, just without the squeese bottle. The ONLY item we dont have in our RV is Tang, but we do have an orange flavored drink mix and lemonade mix instead. We keep pop tarts as treats for grandkids, but mostly for my husband who still loves them. We still have smores with Rolos chocolate covered caramel candy and sometimes with bananas. We also keep 2 or 3 cans of canned cheese and crackers or celery sticks to eat them on, my husband still loves easy cheese. We made fruit cocktail with whipped cream, for more than 20 people at our last family camp and this is still a frequent camping favorite. Our RV always has a couple cans of stew and clam chowder or other canned soups and we keep instant rice in our RV for its fast and easy preparation. The Jiffy pop finally got replaced in our RV about 5 years ago, but it was replaced with a new popcorn popping pan so only our older grandkids will know the fun of watching a jiffy pop pan expand. This is the only item we no longer use, and it is mostly because of its more expensive cost per serving. We still make our own custom trail mix for our grandkids every year and they take it on their 5 mile hike to the high mountain lake or eat it as they play by the river next to our campsite. Thank for pointing out how bad our diet still is. Even with so many better and healthier options available, for some reason, (my husbands eating preferences) we continue to eat and keep foods in our RV to enjoy when we go camping, that most people gave up eating 20 or more years ago. We continue to eat and enjoy all of these foods, we even make our own freeze dried camping foods like eggs, chili and even canned fruit cocktail to make it easier and lighter to store in thr RV. Thanks again.
I still snack on Vienna sausages ❤ Still eat corned beef hash ❤ Love a triscuit with aerosol cheese and smoked oysters ❤ I occasionally eat me some Dinty Moore stew and still use instant rice or parboiled rice ❤ Jiffy Pop is still fun to pop and tastes way better than microwave popcorn ❤
Never went camping until the 90's when I took my own children. Many of the meals you mention were and still are used by farmers then and now. As a teen, I had freeze dried eggs at church camp and they are delicious! I always loved fried Spam, but it gags my sister, lol. I usually planned all meals for camping trips, and cooked mostly from that plan other than hot dogs or S'mores. Of course, I didn't make fresh pasta or bread camping, I used dried or bagged. Yes, used squeeze bottle pancake mix too. I still drink Tang, but never used it while camping. Of course there was a pkg of cookies and water and soda, as I live in a very hot climate. Also used a few Zatarain's boxes, with cut up sausage or even hot dogs. Of course there was always Jiffy Pop! We always burned the bottom, but we ate it anyway, lol. Small bags of smoked almonds or salted peanuts were often used, as well as plenty of jerky, sunflower seeds, and red licorice...basic road trip snacks. Thanks for the sweet memories!
My buddy's mother was a survivalist. When we used to go camping in the 60's and 70's, we would go with a purpose and eating wasn't it. We had a maple syrup camp we did every year, or went on hunting trips and scouting excursions. We took the staples only and foraged and hunted our food. We always had some emergency food in case we weren't successful but usually would just save those provisions for the last day as a reward. This crap looks more like glamping than camping.
My dad would make 'slum gullien.' Akin to camp stew, it usually was burger, baked beans, onions, and maybe taters. Loved it! I thought the name was cool. Until, I grew up and learned gullien just meant stew.
I am now 64 and I can tell you that I still keep all of these products in my RV, along with some others!! With the exception of the eggs, gotta have fresh eggs!!
Back packing in the 80s our first night was a tin foil dinner that we froze and it thawed as we hiked, hamburger potato’s carrots corn. Breakfast was rice pudding, lunch was granola bars and dinner was ramen noodles and our dessert powdered milk with pudding mix in a zip lock bag add cold water and mix place in a stream with a rock to hold it down to set it. Every thing was compact and light weight, garbage was minimal being we had to carry it in and out. He had hot chocolate but the favorite one was tang, we had to boil water so we would fill our canteen in the morning so we started with it warm and cooled as we hiked. All of our heating was done over a fire, tin foil dinner in the coals, and an old yeast can to boil water. Everything was eat out of the package it came in or our mess kit.
Pork and Beans.... Always take a can of pork and beans with you when you go out into the woods incade you get hungry.... In memory og Mr Jefthro my scout leader ....
You could have corned beef hash for dinner. And camping supply stores still sell freeze dried meals, including beef stroganoff. Not all kids liked fruit cocktail, this former kid never cared for it. I just loved canned peaches, pears, & apricots
💚I guess I'm a gourmet food camper then. Every thing I've made is more substantial and homemade with fresh ingredients. I get it, but all that canned food makes me sad. Cooking is half the joy of camping. I'm the early riser who wakes up before everyone else, teasing the entire campground with the scents of coffee, sausage, bacon, potatoes and French toast. The quiet morning turns into hearing everyone's tent zippers opening to see who's cooking! One or two scowls from jealous cg neighbors who have yet to start their breakfasts too! Although I'm glad the meals have improved, however it's achieved, family, happiness and memories are what ultimately matters! 🌲🏕
Foil pouch dinners, anything in a cast iron dutch oven, potato chips in a box, 2 bags side by side, 1 sideways on top, salted peanuts, 60 years still camp with fresh eggs, spam, pancakes from an empty Gatorade bottle & a hot pot of coffee on the campfire
Spam, Pop Tarts and instant oatmeal are thru hiker staples and are extremely common on long trails. The heavier canned foods are still seen in more developed car camping sites. I carry Mountain House, Backpackers Pantry, Packit Gourmet, Wild Zora or Peak Refuel freeze-dried meals even on day hikes and have cases of MREs that I'll pick from occasionally. And I'm not above taking a can of Dinty Moore with some PBR now and then. Edited to add Pop Tarts.
We used to camp a lot in the 60s & 70s. Every other weekend. The only thing we did in a can was spam. We did real oatmeal. Real eggs. The only freeze dried thing we had was carnation instant milk. We cooked meat, fish, potatoes, and veggies. Dad never liked the “fake” food in cans.
never went camping in the 70s (I wasnt born yet) but I love deviled ham, spam, tang, and gorp. other stuff I cant stand and prefer to make myself, from scratch.
Most of the one with high salt offer a low salt alternative. We may not have tang but we had tea or coffee for older one. Mix a half cup of powdered milk then add a hlf can of evaperated milk. Very pleasant to drink, use on cereal as well as cooking. Plenty of cans of chunky soup made meals. If there was access to power even a slow cooker made a great meal. A lot of vareity.
I still eat much of that stuff camping. i have a DRY COOLER THAT i ALWAYS KEEP STOCKED WITH instant oatmeal packets, cans of corned beef hash, SPAM, peanut butter and other stuff to just grab and go. Corned beef hash is always in my trailer too.
No one i knew took veina sausage camping . Not corn beef hash, either. In oregon in the seventies moms all knew how to cook. It wasnt about canned food. Everyone had ice chest . And one of the main camp foods was fresh caught trout. Fryed chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers. Eggs and sausage for breakfast. Freeze dryed meals were for backpacking. Not for just camping. Cup of noodles and instant oatmeal was new and cheaper than freeze dryed meals. And cup of soup was a backpacker thing. I cant even keep watching this video. Who ever put it together probably never went camping.
IDK anyone who took Vienna sausage camping or bought them for that matter. I had them once as a youngster and they were okay. Today they're disgusting mushy things that only resemble their former selves. Hash, absolutely and still eat it to this day. Potted meat, never had it. Spam has made a comeback in our home. Never liked instant oatmeal yuck only the real deal for me. Instant soup was a super treat when ice fishing, cream of chicken was and still is my fav. Just scramble your eggs and put them in a Ziploc bag for transport. No power eggs. Never had freeze dried anything in the 70s. Never had cup o noodles camping either. We ate hotdogs and hamburgers, corn on the cob, potatoes roasted in the coals, eggs and bacon or hash for breakfast and lunch meat sandwiches and chips for lunch. No one I knew wasted money on most the things mentioned in this video.
With the rise of coolers? You can't be serious. Most every camping photo you've shown from the 60s, 70s, & 80s, also showed a cooler. We had coolers and ice. Much of your video seems to be using the word 'camping' to blanket both camping and backpacking. There's a difference. It might help if you had some nostalgic memories actually based on American activities. AI won't get you there.
You keep referring to new healthy gourmet camping fare..... most of these are $10 per meal...... I'll take the old school list here any day,! Too salty for spam etc. ? Soak a while in water and that removes much of it. One skillet stuf like the corned beef hash & eggs..... these new "campers" come in a $150k motor home with a fridge , stove, and microwave..... that's not camping.......
Was discharged from the Army in March '72. By April I was on a ten year wilderness trek by backpack. Not once could anyone find any kind of can in my ruck, other than the home made cooking utensils. The only people who ate food in cans were car campers and travel trailers. If Jiffy pop was carried, it was because we needed a frying pan. I've had a Vienna sausages once and spit it out-- I wouldn't feed that crap to my house mice. Love Spam-- at home, where it belongs, not in my backpack.I did carry a one pound can of Folgers coffee grounds once-- that can turned into my pantry cleaning container. If we needed meat, we caught it fresh. Most the stuff on this video is nothing like what was actually carried by anyone. A microwave on a camping trip? An air popper? What planet does this guy live on?
Anyone that think powdered eggs taste like fresh never ate powdered eggs from the 70's or 80's....or even the 90's. They've only eaten powdered eggs from more modern era.....
I still drive to Minnesota to spam and buy 2 cases at a time.they sell different flavors that you can't find in stores. I can eggs. I still order freez dried meals as well.if you make pancake mix the night before you pancakes get fluffier...lol jiffy pop. Also double as a fire alarm.. 😂
Maybe this is a regional thing. I went camping all the time in the 70's and never had any of this stuff. Cup o' Noodles was for school lunch, not camping. The only thing I ever had, and it was only once, that was at all close was fake ground beef made from soy that we used in spaghetti. Freeze-dried foods were very expensive then and none of us wanted to pack cans around.
I camped every month from 1972 til 1978. I never had any of the stuff in this video. If fact, each year we camped taking NO food except butter. We foraged for mushrooms, wild onions, water cress, and fished.
So funny he keeps saying people now are more health conscious and these foods have fallen by the way side. Everybody is fat now. Everyone back then and in this video were skinny. Kinda weird.
What kind of American Nostalgia involves Vienna Sausage over a camp fire? Vienna Sausage turns to mush when heated. I tend to believe you're not actually American and have a very different mental picture when you hear, "Roasting wieners."
AI CONTENT!!!! Stop supporting these AI channels. THIS IS ANTI HUMAN CONTENT CREATED BY COMPUTERS. RISE UP AND BOYCOTT THIS AI CONTENT FOR THE SAKE OF HUMAN KIND!
I'm sorry. Most of what you showed was way more 80's than 70's. But. I work as a flagger, and ive taken notes on ways to cut down on just how much i need to pack for a storm call-out where i have no clue how long I'm going to be working or where i can find food....
Tang did not start with camping it started with the moon landing. They had to have milk, toast, and juice with their trix cereal, Or there would have been 0 nutrition at all!
Camping was the only time we got to have the Kellogg's multi packs. You cut the little box in the middle and it turned into a bowl, sort of. I loved those.
Yes! I loved those as a kid.
Still around. It works better if you open the top. The best part is the variety. Except for Apple Jacks...
Here, here !
Absolutely!
Me too. My sisters and I would always try to get the frosted flakes first. First one up ate flakes. Last one got raisin bran.
My parents packed up eggs, potatoes, milk, bread, breakfast sausages or bacon. Sandwich meat, peanut butter, crackers and a 30 inch skillet. We ate well, and usually near lakes with trout. The tent was large and we had 3 ice chests, sleeping bags and blankets. This was our family way in the 1960's and 1970's in Alaska and the Yukon Territory.
And in east Tennessee…
My favorite camping meal was sliced potatoes and onions cooked in a cast iron skillet. They smelled so good while they were cooking!
wow what a great video with nostalgic foods and video snippets!
The first camping food I remember from my childhood in Germany was canned ravioli in tomato sauce, a ready to eat meal made by Maggi. One could heat it in the can itself over an Esbit stove, and that's exactly my first memory of cooking outdoors in the early 60s during a bicycle trip.
Iconic was also the Bialetti Moka pot which was used by every camper to prepare coffee ...
Else we didn't have so many ready meals as shown here. I remember a lot of pasta dishes, rice dishes, and also potato meals, everything prepared in small aluminium or stainless steel pots but else cooked more or less normally like at home, means starting from fresh and not using any ready made options.
As fridges came up widely only during the 60s, people knew still very well to manage with ingredients which didn't need refridgeration nor being kept in cans like lentils or beans and stuff like smoked sausages, black forest ham or salami etc., and also using sour dough bread which kept for a couple of days, usually combined with jam or peanut butter or hard cheese like gouda or emmentaler or salami, was totally standard. Also having a couple of apples in the luggage was very common during bicycle trips, hiking and camping, and if possible also a trail mix of nuts and dried fruits like raisins or figs was on board. And at least for the first day, everybody had some hard boiled eggs ready.
Cooking and eating outdoors created quite some wonderful memories which are never forgotten ...
My earliest memory of camping food was in the 1970s camping in West Germany as a kid, Mom made me Cup of noodles soup. First time I have ever had it.
Our RV is currently stocked with every one of these foods. I realized that our RV which we use with our grandkids to go camping every year is actually stocked with every one of the food mentioned in this video. Mostly beause of my husbands requests for some of the specific foods but also because of the convenience of some of the other foods. We have potted meat, vienna sausages, spam, & corned beef, instant oatmeal, freeze dried eggs and chili which we freeze dried this year with our own freeze drier. Our version of campers stew which we call stone soup from the childrens story with similar name is made by just adding whatever canned foods sound good with whatever fresh foods we have available. We have a hamburger helper version of beef strogonoff and pancake mix, just without the squeese bottle. The ONLY item we dont have in our RV is Tang, but we do have an orange flavored drink mix and lemonade mix instead. We keep pop tarts as treats for grandkids, but mostly for my husband who still loves them. We still have smores with Rolos chocolate covered caramel candy and sometimes with bananas. We also keep 2 or 3 cans of canned cheese and crackers or celery sticks to eat them on, my husband still loves easy cheese. We made fruit cocktail with whipped cream, for more than 20 people at our last family camp and this is still a frequent camping favorite. Our RV always has a couple cans of stew and clam chowder or other canned soups and we keep instant rice in our RV for its fast and easy preparation. The Jiffy pop finally got replaced in our RV about 5 years ago, but it was replaced with a new popcorn popping pan so only our older grandkids will know the fun of watching a jiffy pop pan expand. This is the only item we no longer use, and it is mostly because of its more expensive cost per serving. We still make our own custom trail mix for our grandkids every year and they take it on their 5 mile hike to the high mountain lake or eat it as they play by the river next to our campsite.
Thank for pointing out how bad our diet still is. Even with so many better and healthier options available, for some reason, (my husbands eating preferences) we continue to eat and keep foods in our RV to enjoy when we go camping, that most people gave up eating 20 or more years ago. We continue to eat and enjoy all of these foods, we even make our own freeze dried camping foods like eggs, chili and even canned fruit cocktail to make it easier and lighter to store in thr RV.
Thanks again.
I still snack on Vienna sausages ❤
Still eat corned beef hash ❤
Love a triscuit with aerosol cheese and smoked oysters ❤
I occasionally eat me some Dinty Moore stew and still use instant rice or parboiled rice ❤
Jiffy Pop is still fun to pop and tastes way better than microwave popcorn ❤
Never went camping until the 90's when I took my own children. Many of the meals you mention were and still are used by farmers then and now. As a teen, I had freeze dried eggs at church camp and they are delicious! I always loved fried Spam, but it gags my sister, lol. I usually planned all meals for camping trips, and cooked mostly from that plan other than hot dogs or S'mores. Of course, I didn't make fresh pasta or bread camping, I used dried or bagged. Yes, used squeeze bottle pancake mix too. I still drink Tang, but never used it while camping. Of course there was a pkg of cookies and water and soda, as I live in a very hot climate. Also used a few Zatarain's boxes, with cut up sausage or even hot dogs. Of course there was always Jiffy Pop! We always burned the bottom, but we ate it anyway, lol. Small bags of smoked almonds or salted peanuts were often used, as well as plenty of jerky, sunflower seeds, and red licorice...basic road trip snacks. Thanks for the sweet memories!
Zatarain's ? Louisiana ? Me too
@@frankartieta4887 no, I'm in Texas. But who doesn't love Zatarain's?
I. Camped for almost 50 years…never once ate a Vienna sausage!
I eat them all the time. Just never when camping
I'm sorry. You still have time. Not much though, probably.
I'm sorry, but you still have time. Just not much, probably.
I tasted one once. I swear I could taste the broom they swept the ingredients up with....
You’re not missing anything. Vienna sausages are hideous. I tried one bite, and can’t believe that anyone actually likes them.
I always took Spam to the field when I was in the Army in the 80's,, yes I am old,,
My buddy's mother was a survivalist. When we used to go camping in the 60's and 70's, we would go with a purpose and eating wasn't it. We had a maple syrup camp we did every year, or went on hunting trips and scouting excursions. We took the staples only and foraged and hunted our food. We always had some emergency food in case we weren't successful but usually would just save those provisions for the last day as a reward. This crap looks more like glamping than camping.
My dad would make 'slum gullien.' Akin to camp stew, it usually was burger, baked beans, onions, and maybe taters. Loved it! I thought the name was cool. Until, I grew up and learned gullien just meant stew.
Loved Dinty Moor when camping, but it was really blah at home 😂
Everything always tasted so much better camping!
I am now 64 and I can tell you that I still keep all of these products in my RV, along with some others!! With the exception of the eggs, gotta have fresh eggs!!
Back packing in the 80s our first night was a tin foil dinner that we froze and it thawed as we hiked, hamburger potato’s carrots corn. Breakfast was rice pudding, lunch was granola bars and dinner was ramen noodles and our dessert powdered milk with pudding mix in a zip lock bag add cold water and mix place in a stream with a rock to hold it down to set it. Every thing was compact and light weight, garbage was minimal being we had to carry it in and out.
He had hot chocolate but the favorite one was tang, we had to boil water so we would fill our canteen in the morning so we started with it warm and cooled as we hiked.
All of our heating was done over a fire, tin foil dinner in the coals, and an old yeast can to boil water. Everything was eat out of the package it came in or our mess kit.
Pork and Beans.... Always take a can of pork and beans with you when you go out into the woods incade you get hungry.... In memory og Mr Jefthro my scout leader ....
I miss those days!😊
I literally eat all these foods on the regular lol
You forgot Pork and Beans!!!
I've camped since the 60's. My memories include biscuits cooked in cast iron over a fire. Cornbread too!
I still take that camping. He kept mentioning it had been replaced by "gourmet camping" , not sure what that is and I'm glad i don't
I still eat spam and Vienna sausages.
This guy is reading my frigging grocery list…
You could have corned beef hash for dinner. And camping supply stores still sell freeze dried meals, including beef stroganoff. Not all kids liked fruit cocktail, this former kid never cared for it. I just loved canned peaches, pears, & apricots
💚I guess I'm a gourmet food camper then. Every thing I've made is more substantial and homemade with fresh ingredients. I get it, but all that canned food makes me sad. Cooking is half the joy of camping. I'm the early riser who wakes up before everyone else, teasing the entire campground with the scents of coffee, sausage, bacon, potatoes and French toast. The quiet morning turns into hearing everyone's tent zippers opening to see who's cooking! One or two scowls from jealous cg neighbors who have yet to start their breakfasts too! Although I'm glad the meals have improved, however it's achieved, family, happiness and memories are what ultimately matters! 🌲🏕
Foil pouch dinners, anything in a cast iron dutch oven, potato chips in a box, 2 bags side by side, 1 sideways on top, salted peanuts, 60 years still camp with fresh eggs, spam, pancakes from an empty Gatorade bottle & a hot pot of coffee on the campfire
Spam, Pop Tarts and instant oatmeal are thru hiker staples and are extremely common on long trails. The heavier canned foods are still seen in more developed car camping sites. I carry Mountain House, Backpackers Pantry, Packit Gourmet, Wild Zora or Peak Refuel freeze-dried meals even on day hikes and have cases of MREs that I'll pick from occasionally. And I'm not above taking a can of Dinty Moore with some PBR now and then. Edited to add Pop Tarts.
Dry salami, apples, cheese, and sourdough - and wonderful vistas
A trail side feast
Powdered eggs AND bacon bits. Now you’re ready for a hike!
Franco American, with fresh caught trout cooked in butter with lots of salt and pepper, perfect meal
We used to camp a lot in the 60s & 70s. Every other weekend. The only thing we did in a can was spam. We did real oatmeal. Real eggs. The only freeze dried thing we had was carnation instant milk. We cooked meat, fish, potatoes, and veggies. Dad never liked the “fake” food in cans.
never went camping in the 70s (I wasnt born yet) but I love deviled ham, spam, tang, and gorp. other stuff I cant stand and prefer to make myself, from scratch.
Most of the one with high salt offer a low salt alternative. We may not have tang but we had tea or coffee for older one. Mix a half cup of powdered milk then add a hlf can of evaperated milk. Very pleasant to drink, use on cereal as well as cooking. Plenty of cans of chunky soup made meals. If there was access to power even a slow cooker made a great meal. A lot of vareity.
I still eat much of that stuff camping. i have a DRY COOLER THAT i ALWAYS KEEP STOCKED WITH instant oatmeal packets, cans of corned beef hash, SPAM, peanut butter and other stuff to just grab and go. Corned beef hash is always in my trailer too.
I still eat all those foods while car camping.
I still eat spam..... And I've been a Chef for 27 years
I still rock the instant oatmeal. Scrounge up some wild strawberries or blueberries and you got some good eats!
No one i knew took veina sausage camping . Not corn beef hash, either. In oregon in the seventies moms all knew how to cook. It wasnt about canned food. Everyone had ice chest . And one of the main camp foods was fresh caught trout. Fryed chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers. Eggs and sausage for breakfast. Freeze dryed meals were for backpacking. Not for just camping. Cup of noodles and instant oatmeal was new and cheaper than freeze dryed meals. And cup of soup was a backpacker thing. I cant even keep watching this video. Who ever put it together probably never went camping.
When I was a kid my mom made spam for supper. It was called spam sandwiches.
GORP was Granola, oats, raisins and peanuts. - Granola was nuts, fruits, and flakes.
I still carry a can of corned beef hash in my pickup, just in case. Some of these are things I still enjoy though.
IDK anyone who took Vienna sausage camping or bought them for that matter. I had them once as a youngster and they were okay. Today they're disgusting mushy things that only resemble their former selves. Hash, absolutely and still eat it to this day. Potted meat, never had it. Spam has made a comeback in our home. Never liked instant oatmeal yuck only the real deal for me. Instant soup was a super treat when ice fishing, cream of chicken was and still is my fav. Just scramble your eggs and put them in a Ziploc bag for transport. No power eggs. Never had freeze dried anything in the 70s. Never had cup o noodles camping either. We ate hotdogs and hamburgers, corn on the cob, potatoes roasted in the coals, eggs and bacon or hash for breakfast and lunch meat sandwiches and chips for lunch. No one I knew wasted money on most the things mentioned in this video.
With the rise of coolers? You can't be serious. Most every camping photo you've shown from the 60s, 70s, & 80s, also showed a cooler. We had coolers and ice. Much of your video seems to be using the word 'camping' to blanket both camping and backpacking. There's a difference. It might help if you had some nostalgic memories actually based on American activities. AI won't get you there.
ice wasn't invented until the late 80's
@@DavidParadis-x6d ... and it was invented by an African American.
This guy needs to get out more...
I agree!
You keep referring to new healthy gourmet camping fare..... most of these are $10 per meal...... I'll take the old school list here any day,! Too salty for spam etc. ? Soak a while in water and that removes much of it. One skillet stuf like the corned beef hash & eggs..... these new "campers" come in a $150k motor home with a fridge , stove, and microwave..... that's not camping.......
Was discharged from the Army in March '72. By April I was on a ten year wilderness trek by backpack. Not once could anyone find any kind of can in my ruck, other than the home made cooking utensils. The only people who ate food in cans were car campers and travel trailers. If Jiffy pop was carried, it was because we needed a frying pan. I've had a Vienna sausages once and spit it out-- I wouldn't feed that crap to my house mice. Love Spam-- at home, where it belongs, not in my backpack.I did carry a one pound can of Folgers coffee grounds once-- that can turned into my pantry cleaning container. If we needed meat, we caught it fresh. Most the stuff on this video is nothing like what was actually carried by anyone. A microwave on a camping trip? An air popper? What planet does this guy live on?
I still eat most of these foods just not while camping. Far from faded into history.
Anyone that think powdered eggs taste like fresh never ate powdered eggs from the 70's or 80's....or even the 90's. They've only eaten powdered eggs from more modern era.....
I still drive to Minnesota to spam and buy 2 cases at a time.they sell different flavors that you can't find in stores. I can eggs. I still order freez dried meals as well.if you make pancake mix the night before you pancakes get fluffier...lol jiffy pop. Also double as a fire alarm.. 😂
Camp food is just a way for people to feel like they are sacrificing. Like eating fish on Friday during lent.
Maybe this is a regional thing. I went camping all the time in the 70's and never had any of this stuff. Cup o' Noodles was for school lunch, not camping. The only thing I ever had, and it was only once, that was at all close was fake ground beef made from soy that we used in spaghetti. Freeze-dried foods were very expensive then and none of us wanted to pack cans around.
I camped every month from 1972 til 1978. I never had any of the stuff in this video. If fact, each year we camped taking NO food except butter. We foraged for mushrooms, wild onions, water cress, and fished.
Now Im hungery! All of it made me hungery
So funny he keeps saying people now are more health conscious and these foods have fallen by the way side. Everybody is fat now. Everyone back then and in this video were skinny. Kinda weird.
I still take Spam camping
He says freeze dried, but i think we're talking about dehydrated?
Who had a microwave when camping in a tent? It's a bit tough to make microwave popcorn w/o a microwave.
We ate Viennas, but only when the 1st Trout Fishing day started on April 1st, in Va.
What about carnation instant breakfast bars.
Pudgy pies?
You missed canned bacon mostly from Poland
And I still don’t know what corned beef hash is…
What kind of American Nostalgia involves Vienna Sausage over a camp fire? Vienna Sausage turns to mush when heated. I tend to believe you're not actually American and have a very different mental picture when you hear, "Roasting wieners."
I Still to this day Have all this in my pantry, on jiffy pop , only because I can’t find this. Remember Your past ,,
Was that OJ Simpson in the Vienna sausage commercial? (Speaking of things that have fallen out of fashion.)
AI CONTENT!!!! Stop supporting these AI channels. THIS IS ANTI HUMAN CONTENT CREATED BY COMPUTERS. RISE UP AND BOYCOTT THIS AI CONTENT FOR THE SAKE OF HUMAN KIND!
I'm sorry. Most of what you showed was way more 80's than 70's. But. I work as a flagger, and ive taken notes on ways to cut down on just how much i need to pack for a storm call-out where i have no clue how long I'm going to be working or where i can find food....
Tang did not start with camping it started with the moon landing. They had to have milk, toast, and juice with their trix cereal, Or there would have been 0 nutrition at all!
I ATE ANIMALS
This video just does not hit with me !
I must still be in the 70s or 80s !
If you are going to show video of something make shore that what you are showing is WHAT YOU are talking about
Good video.But you keep repeating the same stuff over and over and over