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

20 Forgotten Lunches From The 1980s, We Want Back!
#lunch #1980s #forgotten
Curious which forgotten 1980s lunches we think deserve a second round? Come along as we taste test 20 diverse lunches that made our lunch breaks something to look forward to. Time to see if these forgotten lunches are truly worth the culinary comeback tour! Let’s go!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:15 Tater Tot Casserole
1:08 Ham and Cheese Quiche
2:07 Taco Salad
3:02 Bacon Cheddar Potato Skins
4:01 Lunchables
5:10 Cheeseburger French Fry Casserole
5:49 So-Tender Swiss Steak
6:39 Cheesy Ham and Broccoli Casserole
7:41 Mexican Lasagna
8:29 Cabbage Rolls
9:22 Sweet & Savory Pineapple Cheese Ball
10:16 Crab Louie Salad
11:10 Cowboy Stew
11:57 Corn Soufflé
12:48 Cornbread
13:44 Pineapple-Ginger Chicken Stir
14:32 Layered Mediterranean Dip with Pita Chips
15:20 Zucchini Panzanella Salad
16:12 Lentil Soup
16:57 Herbed Rice Pilaf
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[@IceManLikeGervin]

I don't know about anyone else but I have been eating Taco Salads, Cabbage Rolls, Cornbread w/ Cabbage Rolls, and Lentil Soup, consistently since the 1980s at least once a month currently in 2024.

[@edfry3531]

Most everything you show is still on my every day life. Still cook most. Young people are so busy that they can't afford or take time to make any of them. Thanks Joe!

[@Helaw0lf]

Still eating quiche for breakfast, brunch or lunch.

[@maxpowers9129]

My family treats quiche like a holiday food for some reason. I have never understood why they think its weird to eat it as a normal meal.

[@Helaw0lf]

@@maxpowers9129 Odd! Maybe they need to broaden their scope of life.

[@semigoth299]

Somebody has bad research on these items, because they’re eaten all the time 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄

[@brendahilton768]

Yes many of these foods are still on our dinner tables today. AND it bugs me when they can not say some of the words they are reading to us. There were 2 words that he said wrong. Makes me wonder if this was a computer TALKING to us. Or just a man who is not from USA.

[@dlcalbaugh]

@@brendahilton768 I was going to comment that he is mispronouncing many of the words and names of things. You beat me to it. Good catch.

[@JudithSanchez-ht6jn]

Yes still in the marketplace maybe I others state no New Jersey

[@AxelQC]

I had taco salad last week for lunch.

[@mikepalmer2219]

Video titles are always hyperbolic and annoying.

[@kimjung-un8204]

Here for the people who say "wdym I eat all these foods weekly "

[@marshaharris4268]

What does wdym mean?

[@kimjung-un8204]

@@marshaharris4268 it means "what do you mean"

[@WLM596]

Just spell it out then... Good Lord!​@@kimjung-un8204

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

I don't. These foods are disgusting.

[@winstonelston5743]

Tater Tot Casserole looks like an Americanized shepherd's pie.

[@maxpowers9129]

As an American I hate how accurate that description is.😂

[@janeandrews1790]

Cottage Pie.

[@mesalily-TeHWoRld]

​@@maxpowers9129 Same😂😂😂

[@crystalweible152]

My mother made both. The name is interchangeable

[@shadiankeeper]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

Tatter Tot Casserole lives everywhere. Had it a few months ago. We used cream of onion soup.

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

As i know taco salad is still very popular in the USA.

[@peekaboots01]

I eat taco salad all the time.

[@Jake-ij9gy]

I literally eat taco salads every Tues 🎉😅

[@sabacat]

@@Jake-ij9gy Taco Salad Tuesday! 🎉 Yum!!!

[@odenviking]

I am living in Sweden and like rhe texmex food i use the spices in my grundmeat for every day cooking. Here in sweden we got shelves in the stores that are texmex only. I have made the cowboy stew but only with saugese and what i have in the freezer and in pantry. thanks for a intresting video with many ideas . 🇸🇪🇸🇪👍👍👍👍🇸🇪🇸🇪👍

[@s.r.9320]

Cool, thank you for the insight into Sweden's taste for Tex-Mex!

[@odenviking]

@@s.r.9320 You are welcome.

[@sabacat]

Some form of tatertot casserole always shows up at breakfast/brunch potlucks, and taco salads never went out of style.

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

I've never seen nor eaten a tater tot casserole. Don't think I ever will.

[@sabacat]

@@cordeliabuffy6419 too bad, they(and hashbrown casseroles) are delicious! You should look them up! 😊

[@johnsax1445]

I eat Taco Salads and potato skins frequently

[@marshaharris4268]

Thank you for these recipes. Forgot about some of them.

[@noads1035]

HERB-ed rice. I sure wish a human would read the text. Plus, too many words overall. But, nice reminders of good food. Oh, the pictures often have nothing to do with the text. Sigh…

[@TimelessCraze]

❤

[@marylist1236]

Broccoli Cheese Casserole never had ham, it was a side dish, not a main dish

[@mommy2libras]

Ours had chicken and was served as a main dish. I still make it all the time as it's one of my kid's favorite meals.

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

I still make Quiche and have a few variations on Tater-tot casserole.😋

[@robink620]

Two to three times a year cabbage rolls are a requirement in my house as my father’s family is from Eastern Europe so that recipe will never stop being made.

[@giraffesinc.2193]

My Dad loooves my cabbage rolls (but two of the cabbage roll dishes shown in this video were clearly Asian)! The ones that are baked in the oven with a delicious tomato sauce are the best!

[@bobbygermain9635]

Let's gooooo!!!!

[@DeathByFashion1]

I just had tater tot casserole a few weeks ago

[@emmyriordan2465]

I love tater tot casserole, taco salad, Potato skins,

[@marylist1236]

We had Swiss Steak hamburgers

[@michaelbarrow4007]

I'm 42 and still eating taco salads

[@coderspy]

We call "corn souffle" scalloped corn in Wisconsin.

[@lisaspikes4291]

I make that for thanksgiving every year!

[@lisaspikes4291]

Oh please! Practically every restaurant around here has taco salad on the menu! Even Wendy’s has a taco salad!

[@Tomatohater64]

We ate cabbage rolls all the time growing up in the 60s and 70s. But I prefer a brown gravy sauce over the yucky tomato sauce, which I always scraped off the yummy cabbage. 🤣🤣

[@winstonelston5743]

I had golabki from a Polish deli in Blue Rdge, GA last Thursday. Tomato sauce is traditional, and hard to beat, but there was an alternative mushroom sauce that's pretty good, too.

[@Tomatohater64]

@@winstonelston5743 Oh ya, the mushroom sauce is fantastic - much better than crappy tomato sauce.

[@otmargreb6110]

I am partial to a combination of tomato paste, diced tomatoes, and a hardy beef sauce. It's great when married up with Shredded Beef Stuffed Cabbage Rolls. The dish is a labor of love, well worth the effort! Garlic, Crushed Red Peppercorn, Marjoram, Tomato Paste, and boiled rice is mixed with the Shredded Beef. Herbed Rice Pilaf is great with this dish. I also add a half cup of Fideo or Orzo with the Herbed Rice Pilaf. Fabulous!

[@kathyparkhurst7005]

i never got the concept of 3 meals a day, growing up poor in odessa tx, we were lucky to get one meal, i will be nakin my damn tamales july 11th, lol, thats one of the last things my little mexican mom said to me, make your own "damn" tamales, so thats wat they are called

[@13BGunBunny]

I didn't see Hamburger Casserole or an easy Apple Crisp.

[@ricoltmetric8156]

Some are still at bars and restaurants..... Swiss Steak is a family fave always. Quiche is offered all over, Cabbage Rolls at Polish eateries. And I just made Broccoli Raisin salad that is an oldie.

[@wylie6719]

Cooking and eating real food has become a vintage thing…🙄

[@TimelessCraze]

hmm

[@mikepalmer2219]

Lol

[@AnitaSingh-lp5wz]

I just had egg and ham quiche last week.

[@keyweststarr]

I just made tater tots casserole last week

[@jeffbartlett9315]

Rice pilaf isn't vegetarian, traditionally.

[@mikepalmer2219]

Damn…now I am really hungry. Lol.

[@melasn9836]

Cabbage rolls remind me of the Polish-Catholic church when I was a kid, which would serve these & homemade pierogies during their spring carnivals.

[@mikesstuff5307]

"Existing meat products in a novel way," you mean their lowest grade meat and meat byproduct re: lunchables.

[@TheHardins1017]

❤❤❤

[@janeandrews1790]

Lunchables are ultra-processed good in bento boxes.

[@janeandrews1790]

*food*. Definitely not “good “.

[@clarsach29]

Lentil soup is a winter staple where I live, but here we tend to use split red lentils rather than green or brown ones.....red lentils disintegrate when cooked and thicken the soup and we usually combine them with just potatoes, carrots, onion and stock in the soup (sometimes some ham or bacon too)

[@peekaboots01]

Where do you live?

[@lisawillis8227]

That sounds good. Need to try those next time

[@clarsach29]

@@peekaboots01 Scotland. of course you can buy brown or green lentils here, but it's the red ones that are used much more

[@janeandrews1790]

Lentil soup is a fall and winter staple.

[@mommy2libras]

I use half lentils and half split peas. And throw in the bone from the last ham I made, with plenty of leftover bits of meat stuck to it. I try to make enough to have extra to freeze but it always just gets eaten right away.

[@tsmart9560]

So far all of these recipes have me gagging 😮

[@MartinIbert]

"RIce pilav"? That is a "nashi pear" right there. "Pilav" means "rice", just as "nashi" means "pear".

[@usernameisusername]

Um. Baloney sandwich be easier

[@TimelessCraze]

yeah

[@janeandrews1790]

Nostalgic but nasty.

[@karlynn7719]

11:10 - _"Traditionally associated with the outdoor cooking of American cattle herders"_ I know this is called Cowboy stew, but that's just not cool... Wasn't that job hard enough without the threat of becoming someone's meal? 🤢

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

Cabbage rolls,aka, halupki is an old coal patch food,typically made by "patch hunkies". It's a nasty food that brings back horrible memories of going to school in an old patch town and the hunkies would be making halupki for dinner. Gross.

[@gerardflynn7382]

Some of these meals are new to me but there is too much cheese and cream.

[@robertsteele474]

There is not such thing as too much cheese.😉

[@kristinb5121]

Most of these aren't lunches.

[@veronicaBolanos-mc4fc]

Taco salads Mexican. 😂😂😂 hardly. Thats an American thing not Mexican. Mexican food in America is an imposter to authentic Mexican

[@kristinscotbarryjames]

Ugh quiche! Not then, not now, not EVER!!

[@stephaniekerr]

Real men don’t eat quiche…

[@cherylcouch-thomas8250]

Sorry. I had to pause video to vomit.

[@user-sz3zu3dm3y]

Good for you. You live in a first world country where you can vomit up any food you choose.

[@robink620]

Two to three times a year cabbage rolls are a requirement in my house as my father’s family is from Eastern Europe so that recipe will never stop being made.

[@johnsax1445]

I eat Taco Salads and potato skins frequently