70s Foods That Are Weirdly Making A Comeback

Mashed ^ | 6/17/21 | Mashed

[DallasBiff]

I remember back in the 1960s when TANG was sold in large decorative glass jars. I still have several I purchased back in 1968!

My Mother served that Tang sh!t for a year, and I spoke up and said "can we have real orange juice"".

[Sacajaweau]

I buy a dozen tins of SPAM for my son in law for hunting season.......and Campbells beans.

[daku]

Yep, we ate then with saltine crackers

[IYAS9YAS]

He replied, "In summer it's nice. It's like Kool-Aid!"

I can get drunk on Bud faster than just about anything because it's so easy to drink it fast. Like cold water with some flavor in it.

[KevinB]

I went to a reunion at my college in Atlanta (Emory) a couple of weeks ago. I hadn't been back to Atlanta since 42 years ago when I graduated. We had Sunday free and I told my wife we needed to stop by the old college haunt, Moe's and Joe's, if it still existed. Imagine how thrilled I was to see that it was not only still there, but to learn that Sunday is $5 PBR pitcher day. Life was good.

[markoman]

How funny is it that I’ve gone from orange Tang to
orange Metamucil.

Marko

[Trillian]

When I was a kid, they used to sell nutella in glass mugs.

I use old marie’s dressing jars and nestea jars to store baking supplies, pasta and beans.

[IYAS9YAS]

We loved Sloppy Joe (Manwich) when we were kids; but when I try it now, the canned stuff is too salty.

My wife makes homemade Sloppy Joes. A pound of ground beef (your choice on the fat content), finely chopped green pepper and onion (again, to your tastes), ketchup and mustard and some brown sugar.

[butlerweave]

They want to put Ham in these Spam shaped cans

[Jamestown1630]

We tried from scratch once, and it didn’t turn out real well. Will have to try again.

[Jamestown1630]

There was a Virginia jam-jelly company that sold it’s jellies in these beautiful tumblers with historic Virginia scenes on them. I think we used to get them from my Aunt, but eventually all the glasses broke. I’ve tried finding them on Etsy; the only name that comes to my mind that might fit is ‘Old Dominion’, but that doesn’t come up as a preserves company.

[combat_boots]

My mom was fascinated with little, decorated jelly and cream cheese jars.

[FLNittany]

I remember those! Turkey and gravy boiled in the bag and poured on two pieces of white bread, and I was fed.

[Larry Lucido]

Yeah, I’ve missed peanut butter ever since the peanut allergy pandemic killed off half the world and peanuts were made illegal. This here soy butter just ain’t cutting it.

[Clutch Martin]

Peanut butter and tang sandwiches.... trust me. They were quite good.

PB & sugar was okay too.

[atc23]

It Hasta be Shasta!

[jurroppi1]

Add some crushed red pepper to it and a bit of cumin if you like that sort of thing.

My Mom used to make what she called “barbecues” - sloppy joes essentially. It was ground beef, ketchup, mustard, finely ground carrots, salt and pepper if I recall correctly. I’d add onions and some garlic to it if it were me.

[combat_boots]

I also loved Concentrate, a protein based cereal. Had an entire sequence of how to eat it.

[Mmogamer]

My mother had those and I never couldn’t understand why she freaked out when she caught me eating them

[Bigg Red]

Thank you.