Foods that will fade away with the Baby Boomer generation

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I’m a GenX. I can remember my mom making S.O.S when I was a kid. Does anyone eat that anymore??

You mean chipped beef in cream sauce on a slice of bread? Some people made it with hamburger instead.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Does anyone ever give a thought to what life would be like if we didn't eat animals. We would be up to our ears in manure and even if we could move there would be some animal in the way and also there are a group of animals that are perfectly happy to eat people, so that would be roll reversal. All of a sudden I have a craving for a cheeseburger.

We really don't have to encourage them to procreate. They were doing that for a very long time before we started to take a roll in breeding them. Maybe a ham sandwich and chicken fingers or a fish fillet. Bacon, that's the ticket! Yet, it is encouraged to consume the very plants that give us flowers, pleasant smells and oxygen. The latter being quite important.

There wouldn't be more cattle if we didn't eat them. There are so many because we eat them and breed them.

 

[RedAngie]

I am 32 and love water gate salad. I don't think cool whip will go anywhere either. I think a lot of it is reginal. I live in the Midwest home of casserols and meat and potatoes every night. It is how I was rasied and how I love to eat. When my family has a holiday meal there is cool whip in probably almost every desert and velVelve in most of the side dishes.

This is still available, but was way more popular before Cool Whip hit the market. My other made Dream Pie and used Dream Whip as an ingredient in other dessert recipes too.

 

[L&Lfan]

I used to love as a kid eating the Armour Dried Beef right from the jar. But I also loved beef jerky and Slim Jims. I didn't care for Underwood Deviled Ham but I liked the commercials with butt ugly Mason Reese.

 

[ronandannette]

In parts of the world they are. Nothing new under the sun. Do you know why they haven't taken over the world, it is because we kill off the excess.

Hardly. With the exception of wild game, all the meat consumed in North America (for example) is specifically bred and raised for food. They simply wouldn't exist otherwise.

This is still available, but was way more popular before Cool Whip hit the market. My other made Dream Pie and used Dream Whip as an ingredient in other dessert recipes too.

Other? Like in that sci-fi show Counterpart? That actually explains a lot. You haven't really seemed like yourself lately. Oh, and I still make coconut cream pie this way - my (m)other taught me. Since this "recipe" has faded from most people's memory, they find it amazing and of course I keep the ingredients my little secret.

 

[RedAngie]

Other? Like in that si-fi show Counterpart? That actually explains a lot. You haven't really seemed like yourself lately. Oh, and I still make coconut cream pie this way - my (m)other taught me. Since this "recipe" has faded from most people's memory, they find it amazing and of course I keep the ingredients my little secret.

Drats!!! My evil twin must be hacking my account again.

 

[kaytieeldr]

OMG! This is my story to a T! People say that I am crazy when I tell them, but I guess Im not the only one!

Wow. That's truly amazing that we both had the same experience. Thanks for sharing!

Maybe it was the same cow?

 

[chartle]

Instant mashed potatoes.

I would say they are more popular than back in the day but now sold in individual packages not just in a box. My family never used them but my wife's did and now we do.

Only time we make "Real" mashed potatoes is for Xmas or Thanksgiving.

 

[kimblebee]

Our friends from Holland used to put sugar coloured sprinkles on buttered bread. Sometimes chocolate sprinkles. We were awestruck.

YUM. In Australia, it’s known as fairy bread. As a rare treat, I’ll still eat a peanut butter and sprinkle sandwich..not the chocolate ones though

 

[disykat]

Now I have a craving for chipped beef on toast (my mom made it with the buddig sliced beef, not the canned saltier stuff.) I'm also adding green fluff jello salad (with lime jello, pears, cream cheese, and cool whip) to my Easter menu again! I did that a few years ago and my young adult kids loved it, but thought the "salad" name was hilarious.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Now I have a craving for chipped beef on toast (my mom made it with the buddig sliced beef, not the canned saltier stuff.) I'm also adding green fluff jello salad (with lime jello, pears, cream cheese, and cool whip) to my Easter menu again! I did that a few years ago and my young adult kids loved it, but thought the "salad" name was hilarious.

Uh oh. Looks like it may be time for one of those I fed it to my dog posts, for which I am now infamous.

 

[disykat]

Uh oh. Looks like it may be time for one of those I fed it to my dog posts, for which I am now infamous.

Hey, don't knock it until you try it! My green fluff is definitely dessert, not salad but it actually tastes good. All the 20 somethings present loved it. That said, there's no "must try everything rule" at my house, so no harm no foul!

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Ha! I think it was meeting a "beef" cow at a fair, face to face. The general public were allowed to pat her. She was branded and tagged. She looked deep into my eyes and I saw that she had a soul and didn't want to die for my love of hamburgers or steak. She was a being, no lesser than I. She haunted me for a few years before I finally bit the bullet and made the change.

Sorry but you asked!

I had a different reaction. Look dad. There's his filet mignon. Hey mom. There's his New York Strips. I had dreams of juicy steak.

 

[goofyernmost]

Speaking of overpopulation, do you know their are way too many humans on this planet? 7.5 billion. Should we kill off the excess?

What does that got to do with anything. I didn't advocate killing them I am merely stating the fact that this is what is happening. I don't control it. Don't let yourself think about that though because that is unpleasant and result of human ways of solving problems.

 

[goofyernmost]

There wouldn't be more cattle if we didn't eat them. There are so many because we eat them and breed them.

And they wouldn't think of breeding on their own right?

 

[goofyernmost]

I would say they are more popular than back in the day but now sold in individual packages not just in a box. My family never used them but my wife's did and now we do.

Only time we make "Real" mashed potatoes is for Xmas or Thanksgiving.

Having been a recipient of the "early" version of instant Mashed Potatoes today's are nothing like those. Unfortunately a lot of people have been influenced by early attitudes of their parents of themselves. They are good today so I tried once with my son in law who absolutely rejected instant and said he would never eat them. I had a dinner and I purposely used instant. He never noticed, had more then one helping and proved my point. He still doesn't know they were instant. The change over the years has been dramatic.

 

[arminnie]

The biggest food difference that I see from my baby boomer childhood to today is how the cost of hamburger has skyrocketed while chicken prices have plummeted.

I grew up eating meatloaf, sloppy joes, hamburgers, spaghetti with meat sauce, hamburger stroganoff, etc because hamburger was dirt cheap. Chicken was sold whole only and cost more than hamburger.

In today’s world hamburger can cost much more per pound than chicken.

 

[arminnie]

[QUOTE="goofyernmost, post: 58903163, member: 42766] A lot of people have been influenced by early attitudes of their parents or themselves. [/QUOTE]
I think you are right. I gag at the thought of eating frozen dinners. Logically I know that the good ones of today are nothing like those monstrosities from the 50s - yet I just cannot force myself to eat them.

I don’t fix instant potatoes - Not because of any lingering tastes from decades ago. But because I don’t find it that hard to make the real ones. I know that I am eating instant potatoes most of the time when I eat out.

 

[goofyernmost]

[QUOTE="goofyernmost, post: 58903163, member: 42766] A lot of people have been influenced by early attitudes of their parents or themselves.

I think you are right. I gag at the thought of eating frozen dinners. Logically I know that the good ones of today are nothing like those monstrosities from the 50s - yet I just cannot force myself to eat them.

I don’t fix instant potatoes - Not because of any lingering tastes from decades ago. But because I don’t find it that hard to make the real ones. I know that I am eating instant potatoes most of the time when I eat out.[/QUOTE]
Yea, but five minutes sitting in hot water trumps the heck out of peeling and cooking for 20 minutes. Being single I cannot use real ones fast enough before they sprout and/or rot. Instant last forever.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

What does that got to do with anything. I didn't advocate killing them I am merely stating the fact that this is what is happening. I don't control it. Don't let yourself think about that though because that is unpleasant and result of human ways of solving problems.

It has the same thing to do with what you wrote and quoted why I don't eat animals. I'm quite in tune to the world and circle of life though. I'm sure you know that methane emissions from cattle is a huge cause of climate change, even worse than the pollution of cars and airplanes.