20 Forgotten Dinners From The 1980s, We Want Back!

[@PDXLibertarian]

This looks more like what we watched getting cooked on PBS rather than what we actually ate.

[@duncreg]

Thank you. These are the kind of dishes you find in ancient New Orleans restaurants, not American '80s family tables. I was born in '72 and outside of meatloaf I've never had one of these dinners in my life.

[@mellio9077]

lol. You stated that perfectly. Whoever put that video up there was out of touch with what we ate. I thought I’d see some thing like liver bacon and onions on there. What was your favorite 1980s food?

[@maenad1231]

@@duncreg Yeah I grew up in the 00s & 10s. My mom made that Cornish hen thing on holidays but not every year and I only had pork belly when I went down south to visit my uncles farm

[@Well_This_Guy_Says]

I don't remember seeing any of these dinners from the 80's, must have been in the wrong demographic

[@dqreps]

Yeah I don't think these are really American dishes. Unless you had a cook named Mr belvedere.

[@Well_This_Guy_Says]

@@dqreps I watched that show

[@dqreps]

@@Well_This_Guy_Says yeah back when family shows were actually about family and they always have a good message at the end. Better times my man. Better times.

[@annerohrbacker6097]

Same, Brother!

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

These dishes are classics from earlier times. I would say since the 40s onwards, maybe even earlier. Some sound like Julia Child's material, but most are first-class restaurant dishes, not homemade.

[@avondalemama470]

The dishes here were more commonly found in restaurants or for a special occasion at home. These are not common 80’s weekday meals .

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

These dishes are classics from earlier times. I would say since the 40s onwards, maybe even earlier. Some sound like Julia Child's material, but most are first-class restaurant dishes, not homemade.

[@Sherry-h8m]

I don't know where you were eating at but we never had any of these meals at our house or anyone else's house that I know of in the 80s. I have heard of all these dinners but only at nice restaurants. This was hardly dinner for the middle class family.

[@PAM-fg1cj]

I agree totally. I grew up in middle-class Midwest and the only one I knew so far was turkey tetrazini. Turkey not chicken.

[@bobologic6849]

Having lived through the 1980's, these are definitely NOT typical American household dishes, WAY TOO many eurotrash uppercrust crap...

[@enigma9971]

1980s France maybe 🤣

[@panicfever1277]

People were more interested on being skinny and making money in the 80's. And this is precisely why the young people today can't cook: they've had no one to teach them. I was preparing most the dishes shown in this video by the time I was 16 (in the 80's). These are just basic cooking skills rearranged as needed per recipe.

[@nancymuller3291]

@@enigma9971 Never been to France. Sorry to disappoint your fantasy.

[@mellio9077]

well said 😂 This video is not in touch with reality. What were your favorite 1980s dishes that are no longer popular? I personally miss liver with bacon and onions

[@peggysuejones4285]

Food like this was too pretentious in my neck of the woods. It also seems like it was from the 50s and 60s, definitely not the 80s.

[@vr6410]

In our house hold we didn't eat any of that in the 80s

[@miriamzajfman4305]

These are restaurants dishes !

[@brendaclark6485]

I've heard of these dishes but only saw them on TV like cooking with Julia Child. Never actually had them or cooked them.

[@dan797]

I remember Cornish game hens served at every dinner party I ever went to in New York in the early 80s- along with the brown rice and asparagus- with a delicious wine and wilted spinach, salad with bacon and crumbled hard boiled eggs

[@laurie5098]

The only food that came close to what I ate in the 80s and even now is the meatloaf but with a ketchup, mustard, brown sugar glaze. The rest of the dishes I never had. This was not the 1980 dinners I remember in the southern united states.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

We did not eat that at home , but in high class restaurants 😋

[@nancymuller3291]

Keyword here is Southern States. We had them in the Midatlantic States. You, folks, cannot pronounce tetrazzini. My mother and I were great cooks.

[@beths999]

As a young mom in the 80’s the only dishes of these I made were meatloaf, cornish game hens and the ch. tetrazzini

[@tsnamm]

Unfortunately a frozen duck is about $45... So unlikely to be making a "comeback"

[@robertcrabtree2728]

I was a teenager through the 80’s and my mother cooked dinner almost every single day of the year. Outside of the meatloaf with ketchup (not aspic) was only thing we had on this list.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

These are restaurants dishes !

[@WNYXeb777]

The time frame is illusionary.

[@patmuscarella8279]

Iam 81 from mid west and have made many of these dishes. Rabbit cooked in white wine was a holiday meal. I loved to cook so these recipes were a challenge. I still have Cornish hens with orange sauce and wild rice occasionally .

[@MarkSmith-vy3tq]

Never had any of these dishes as a kid of the 80s. Never even heard of them from fellow friends of the 80s (not even from well-to-do friends). These almost seem like dishes you'd order from a high-end restaurant.

[@Angel-96]

What country u from? I didn't eat any of that and meat loaf is a 50s dinner the only thing i ate in the 80s

[@drw4ever57]

as someone who was born in the 80's and only hearing about most of these MANY years later i want some back and some can stay away but seriously some of these started in the 40's, 50's and 60's and probably the 70'

[@xtricky1419]

Dude Cornish hens are still popular i get them

[@ReyOfLight]

And now I need to go heat up a (store bought) quiche I have in the freezer, don't care that it's 10pm!

[@robertfrederick8590]

As one of the founding fathers of the Park Slope Culinary and Pigout Society (now long gone) I can say that we prepared most of these dishes for our club get togethers. Being a club, no expense was spared and some of us had no problem spending an entire day or more in the kitchen for the love of cooking. May your mire pois always be just right. Saint Julia would say Bon Appetit!!!!

[@marigolds49]

Mirepoix

[@sheeriedyerdyer1427]

Nope!

[@rogertemple7193]

More food memories from the 1980's and i have eaten many of them at one time or another and i still eat some of them from time to time and thanks for the memories.🍞🥩🧀🍅🇺🇲

[@DataPilot370]

I was born in the 60s and took cooking lessons in the 80s, so I should recognize some of these dishes. I’ve had a couple of these dishes at restaurants, but not in the 80s. I’m going to guess these are from the 50s and limited to fancy occasions.

[@xmtryanx]

You can say "maillard" but not "paprika?" Damn, have a run through.

[@DavidSquires-iy4uv]

Back in the 1980's, and I used to cook with Wine 🍷. These meals in the video looks, like Martha Stewart would be cooking with Wine 🍷. Since, Martha Stewart cooks,with Wine 🍷, and Martha Stewart had a 📺 Titled Cooking with Martha Stewart back in the 1980's. 8:14

[@margueritarotcas9539]

Hi, can any of these recipes be made without wine?

[@csymindspring]

I have eaten many a meatloaf in my life. I was also an adult in the 80s and, that said, I have never once in my life even heard of anyone putting meatloaf into an aspic. Ever.

[@heatherklick3667]

Still make chicken tetrazzini, beef Burgundy, Co Au Vin, for daily meals. We are in our late 60’s and love cooking these meals. Leftovers are marvelous!

[@TopazKnight87]

I'm jealous...

[@heatherklick3667]

To the lady who said they used roosters not chickens. Well, no rooster was mentioned in my cookbook. Chicken worked just fine. Cooked it in my crockpot all day. Yummy to us. Still is today as well! 😋

[@Hildebryn]

Most of these dishes were great representations of the 80s (I learned to make Duck À L’Orange from my mom!) but it’s a swing and a miss with Aspic Glazed Meatloaf. That’s a dish from the early 70s and by the 80s, Gen-X wouldn’t touch aspic with a 10-foot pole. A better choice would’ve been Blackened Fish. Chef Paul Prudhomme popularized Cajun cuisine across the US and the most popular example was Blackened Fish.

[@MissBabalu102]

A few of these look horrible, but I'll take the Oysters Rockefeller. It must be the old TV shows? I don't remember cooking shows in the 80s, other than Julia Child. I forgot when HGTV and Food Channel started?

[@Sacto1654]

The only one I think will make a major is Boeuf Burbingnon. Mostly because multiple cooks on KZbin have shown their own recipes for this dish.

[@augustasimone9323]

We were all much thinner back then cooking at home !

[@rbname7318]

Those opening visuals were 70s not 80s😆None of these dishes were everyday dinners. They’re were all considered higher end meals even back then. Special occasions and restaurants meals.

[@Just-Nikki]

I was raised in the 80’s and I only ever had about half of these and I still make those now. Some of these weren’t popular in American homes, maybe they were popular in certain restaurants but not in the average household.

[@darlenelipuma7769]

Maybe if you were a Rockefeller, not the average blue collar household. I was a housewife in the 80's and never made or ate any of those dishes. Silly video.

[@dollhouseq1530]

Must be what the wealthy ate lol We had Spaghetti with corn on cob Homemade hamburger helper Manwich Tuna Noodle Casserole Pot Roast with carrots and potatoes Fried Chicken with pinto beans Homemade hamburgers Meatloaf with mashed potatoes and peas Beef Stew Breakfast for dinner Fried Mackerel patties with onion fried potatoes

[@christinafidance340]

Your list is more what I was expecting to see on here!

[@dollhouseq1530]

@@christinafidance340 Grew up poor in the South, but we stayed full lol

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

Anyone remember the old microwave commercial? Mom serves Duck a l’orange she whipped up in her fancy new microwave. Kid says, What ever happened to hamburger au ketchup? 😒

[@wehosrmthink7510]

I’m gonna have another gout attack after watching all these rich red meat dishes.

[@davidcheater4239]

Since we kept kosher (lite) we avoided some of these and made adjustments to others. (No pork, no shellfish, no mammals with dairy but poultry with dairy was somehow OK.) But as a teen in the 80s, I made: Duck a l'orange, Turkey tetrazinni, Boeuf Bourguignon, Sole Meuniere, Coq au vin (blanc), Cornish game hen, Chicken Marengo, Lamb shanks, Roast lamb with mint jelly, and meatloaf.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Nota bene. Coq au vin is meant to be made with a rooster, not a chicken. A young, soft bird will not taste the same nor have the same resistance to prolonged cooking than the adult, feisty male of the species Gallus gallus domesticus.

[@heatherklick3667]

Not good? Well, we don’t have roosters here at our house, so chickens will do for us. My recipe book never said anything about roosters. 🐔

[@nancymuller3291]

Wow. Had no idea and never tried to make Coq au vin. I don't like alcohol in food because, to me, it makes the food taste spoiled.

[@cathyburrows8162]

I remember that some these recipes were in navy recipe cards, have made a lot of chicken or turkey tetrazzini. An version of co an vin, beef burgundy, sole meuniere with tomato or lemon juice used in place of alcohol since it was not allowed in cooking since they thought it would cause alcoholics to relapse. Only remember making duck a lozenge once or twice.

[@ajaxhero2004]

I grew up in the 1980’s and we didn’t have any of those plates. I think you are confusing restaurant food with domestic cooking.

[@Michaelcj-m2d]

Or country club as well 😂

[@esthersalyers7472]

I still make Coq u vin. My family loves it!❤

[@KJ-xx6xr]

Well folks, I'm an ancient millennial(1981) and grew up in Wyoming. I had crown roast but it was from beef or pork. Cornish game hens, yeah, plenty of those, i called them "baby chickens". I think most of this was stuff from PBS, I remember watching those cooking shows, my fav was Yan Can Cook and the death by chocolate guy...Yan can Cook was after Bob Ross. Meatloaf, featured but that was ketchup glazed(and I wouldn't eat it, didn't like meatloaf). Also featured was beef pepper steak stirfry, "alpo helper"(hamburger helper my dad said it resembled alpo dog food) baked chicken, beef pot roasts, green goddess salads, and the gross to me "milk, macaroni and tomato" which was elbo mac boiled in milk then a can of stewed tomato halves added in when the macaroni was done. I hate tomatos, also avoided that. Meatballs in the weird grape and chili sauce, and of course chili in winter with a cinnamon roll.

[@nancymuller3291]

Chili with a cinnamon roll??? Why.

[@KJ-xx6xr]

@@nancymuller3291 because its amazing. Basic staple school lunch in Wyoming. Bowl of chilli, 2 carrot sticks, a lil pack of saltine crackers, cinnamon roll and a little carton of milk. Good stuff.

[@loanicastillo3327]

This food mut be for th lions at th zoo.

[@ZVT946mtr36]

It all looks delicious to me.

[@nursegege5151]

It seems like the 80s theme was French culinary

[@choossuck7653]

Can you do a video like this for america

[@rosagoglia4649]

Yum, yum:)

[@shavinmccrotch9435]

Good god. Did they eat ANYTHING that wasn’t some sort of carcass smothered in fungus? 🍄‍🟫 🦴🐑🍄‍🟫 🦴🐄🍄‍🟫 🐇 🍄‍🟫 🦴🦆🍄‍🟫🐿️🦴🍄‍🟫🧟‍♂️

[@gregbenwell6173]

IN the 1980s, I don't recall eating ANY OF THESE DISHES!!! Of course I left home in 1984 having graduated in 1983, BUT STILL my mother worked two jobs and my father worked three jobs, so when my family DID DO "home cooked meals" none of these were on the menu!! Typically my mother would do fresh meals for dinner, but breakfast and lunch were generally cold cereal (breakfast), and canned soup and sandwiches for lunch! But when my mother DID cook a meal it was things like boiled ham dinner, spaghetti and meatballs, or some type of chicken or beef dishes with vegetable sides like corn, peas, potatoes, Harvard Beets, and others!! Often we also ate a lot of BBQ burgers, pizza, hot dogs and other foods that other than the pizza (which was take out) was easy to cook and fast to prepare! And then on Sundays my grandmother always had a large dinner at her home, that the whole family would show up for!! BUT even then, it was often baked ham or turkey dinners and she too would offer a bunch of tasty side dishes, including pies and cakes!!

[@fireborn]

The pork belly, rabbit stew and peach chicken are on my rotation, usually every few months. The meatloaf sounded bad. The rest, don’t remember ANY of them…

[@Roc753]

Nope, chicken and rice, mostly rice, made with lipton soup mix. Our Meatloaf was mostly loaf. And a lot of hotdogs...y'all missed the mark on most of it.

[@mattl9070]

Thanks for the heads up..!! I'm Gonna try to recreate some of these classics if I can.... Best wishes to the girl in the thumbnails, she's gorgeous :*

[@pamvarner8044]

Ah, who doesn’t miss the heady days of the 80’s when Mom would serve Beef Bourguiigon while you sat on the living room floor watching the latest episode of Alf.

[@clarsach29]

I had never heard of Peach Chicken before....Apricot Chicken, on the other hand, has been a staple of Australian dinner tables for years and in Australia you can even buy jars of Apricot Chicken "Chicken Tonight" sauce. Apricots are a bit less sweet and a bit more tangy than peaches so Apricot Chicken has a nice sweet/sour flavour to it....and it's definitely a family midweek mealtime kind of dish rather than a dinner party one.

[@jasminesaez4878]

Why do I still cook 👩‍🍳 and crave all of this 😂❤ my grandma always had cookbooks and Julia child alll day ❤

[@pjesf]

Ew x 20 🤢 I can assuredly say that I would never travel by time machine to the 80s

[@cocoandpika]

what are you talking about? oysters rockefeller, lamb shanks, beef bourguignon, sole meunière, coq au vin, and cornish hen can all be found in restaurants today!

[@judykahlan9724]

I grew up in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania. I only know of people eating the Cornish hens. Nothing else ran a bell from the 80's.... maybe an earlier time period perhaps ?

[@54cal54]

Same here. Now if we can get Lemon Blennd back.

[@miriamzajfman4305]

You could get them in " good " restaurants

[@nancymuller3291]

@@miriamzajfman4305 And you would go to a "bad" restaurant because?

[@miriamzajfman4305]

@@nancymuller3291 I meant Expensive 🤑

[@mikeh2520]

Many dishes here that have been around for at least a century and in this little video the dishes are from the 1980's. WTF?

[@VladislavBabbitt]

Some of these are fancier than others. I have prepared a few of them. They are, however, not necessarily from the 1980s. I see the same ones today.

[@kevinbokesch6665]

I never ate these dishes growing up at all.. in fact, a couple that I have now had I was well into my adult life, not my youth!!

[@emilspegel9677]

Lol many of these are not forgotten, timeless dishes but few are common outside of restaurants...

[@john15008]

Good old “larduns” in many dishes. Either pronounce it properly or translate it!

[@IamtheRealLizardQueen]

I *_actually_* made Duck à L'Orange last Christmas.

[@Joyce-bg1jh]

Never had any of these fancy meals at our house.These are fancy restaurant meals.💯

[@ggray1213]

This is white people dinners…do one for the people that grew up in the projects like me.

[@pewing99]

This is more a list of clasic upscale meals. I think I have had almost all of them in the last year on cruises.

[@kimjung-un8204]

Here to see the people saying these aren't forgotten because they have all of them weekly at home or in their restaurant

[@PAM-fg1cj]

If this is the way the rich eat, I'm glad I grew up middle-class.

[@ReignRoyale80]

Who in the heck was eating this stuff? I only recognize two things.

[@MillieBlackRose]

I think these are more special occasion meals not everyday meals

[@georgianacrooks9926]

We ate slot of chicken and hamburger

[@TopazKnight87]

Aww man! I wish can try these with low fodmap alternatives!

[@thedrunkgriller1874]

Amazing!!! When America was America!!!

[@nathalieforest8497]

Most of those dishes are of french cuisine origin

[@semigoth299]

Not in the southern part of the United States

[@ashleynicole9423]

Many upscale restaurants still serve these dishes

[@btetschner]

A+ video! The meals look great!

[@bradsmith2937]

Who has ever had ANY of these meals ?

[@judithstevens4323]

I love oysters Rockefeller.

[@Michaelcj-m2d]

Its a country club menu 😂

[@Michaelcj-m2d]

I only remember sloppy joes😂

[@cherielilly2582]

My Rockefeller back😊

[@janfitzgerald3615]

I

[@lizhumphries9100]

How about the UK dinner parties food

[@kimberlystankiewicz7961]

I hate any food that has alcohol in it. It's nasty.🤢🤮🤢🤮

[@squishykrishy_]

First!

[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

😃

[@PAM-fg1cj]

Where I came from we didn't have booze in all our meals. No wonder there's so many alcoholics in America.

[@mari_e2676]

We didn't have any of these fancy meals. We had pork chops, casserole, and Jell-O. Lol

[@roninbudo]

I AM FROM NJ AND I WAS 10 IN 1980 ''NORTH JERSEY'' ,I KNOW ANY ONE WHO ATE THIS,THIS IS 100% RICH PEOPLE FOOD NEVER HEARD ANY OF THIS FOOD..... EVERYTHING IN THE 80S THAT I EAT I STILL EAT TODAY.....

[@charlesblack2523]

Sooooo many mispronounced words very many you need a new text to speech application