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

[@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!

[@NYChica23]

Same with the lentil soup part, because my mom regularly cooked it

[@littleme3597]

@@NYChica23 Making some tomorrow!

[@thesinglechronicleswitheli2337]

Same here. I still eat quiche too

[@carolgladney9890]

Lot of these go waaay back. I'm 77, been eating several of these dishes since I was a kid.

[@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.

[@LadyMcGinnis]

Yes Almost everything I still make and eat from ALL the videos

[@jtdavis598]

We like to have it for dinner with a salad on the side.

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

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

[@merricat3025]

That would be good. I use cream of celery

[@joaopedrobaggio4475]

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

[@peekaboots01]

I eat taco salad all the time.

[@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.

[@mikepalmer1971]

Video titles are always hyperbolic and annoying.

[@marshaharris4268]

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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@andypehrson9316]

that just means youre based af

[@Jake-ij9gy]

I literally eat taco salads every Tues 🎉😅

[@sabacat]

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

[@rjc7289]

I still see those bacon / cheddar potato skins around, especially in diners. Mom still makes homemade cornbread and lentil soup.

[@dixiewidow]

I was an 80's kid and I don't know anyone who ate these dishes for lunch in the 80's, maybe Lunchables in the 90's, but who was cooking these heavy casseroles for lunch?

[@LauraMacMillan-el2kc]

I’m 71 and I still like a lunchable for lunch once in a rare while.

[@shereemorgan1430]

I lived in Europe for many years and I loved visiting old castles and historical buildings.

[@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! 😊

[@libertywest5835]

@@cordeliabuffy6419same

[@lorilxn1597]

Most of these I still love

[@deputyruff7771]

On what planet does the author of this video reside? Most of these items are still available in 2024, either in restaurants or grocery stores. The home cooked items, like the tots casserole or Swiss Steak, survive regionally.

[@johnsax1445]

I eat Taco Salads and potato skins frequently

[@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!

[@sabacat]

People are still eating quiche, they've just started putting it in muffin pans or making it crustless and calling it frittatas.

[@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]

❤

[@lisaspikes4291]

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

[@denisedillinger1354]

I still make quiche for meal prep every week and Amish breakfast casserole ❤

[@faegrrrl]

I can remember in the mid 70's, being very small, eating potato skins and ordering them 2 months ago. So many of these have not been forgotten and still exsist.

[@jocelynharris-fx8ho]

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

[@sirdudeman6106]

I’m going to have to try out the Swiss steak recipe. Looked great

[@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.

[@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!

[@paulakpacente]

I've made and still make many of these dishes.

[@marydanielle7183]

Bait video filled with recipes everyone still eats today. 🤷‍♀️

[@elizabethperkins5555]

Potato skins launched potatoes? Really?

[@Katrina.for_art]

cheese balls!!! LOVE EM !!!! but i have got to try that lentil soup.

[@bobbygermain9635]

Let's gooooo!!!!

[@LauraMacMillan-el2kc]

I’ve never heard of Mexican lasagna, but I absolutely have to try some now!

[@minadoro]

I make tarts or quiche every week with leftover vegetables and ham, cheese or tuna and eggs in many combinations.

[@marylist1236]

We had Swiss Steak hamburgers

[@loriduffecy9205]

Taco salad is a must have... weekly.also swiss steak

[@mikesstuff5307]

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

[@lorilxn1597]

Swiss steak is my favorite 😊

[@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.

[@es1442]

I make most all of these for weeknight dinners

[@keyweststarr]

I just made tater tots casserole last week

[@emmyriordan2465]

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

[@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.

[@diegoterneus2250]

Well, I guess I'm still in the 1980s. I still eat most of these dishes.

[@melasnexperience]

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

[@LauraMacMillan-el2kc]

Still a great meal. Especially with a little sauerkraut on the side.

[@rejoanmdmia7203]

Nice recipe

[@AnitaSingh-lp5wz]

I just had egg and ham quiche last week.

[@leifnielson6849]

Yo that tator tot thing looked dope

[@shamimaakter5124]

Nice

[@jeffbartlett9315]

Rice pilaf isn't vegetarian, traditionally.

[@26ix-abhrigu2]

Tater tot casserole Ham and cheese Quiche Taco salad

[@mdhasan-t3x]

Love

[@coderspy]

We call "corn souffle" scalloped corn in Wisconsin.

[@lisaspikes4291]

I make that for thanksgiving every year!

[@Katrina.for_art]

@@lisaspikes4291 pls pardon me, I'm from Australia and this sounded disgusting BUT please tell me how it IS yummy. Corn seems so heavy and soufle is so light.

[@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

[@DylanBurton-r7q]

😋- Jennifer, Dylans' mom, Burton🎉

[@BilliePennyH]

I don’t consider these foods nostalgia because, they are still eaten today. They have never left! 🙂

[@michaelbarrow4007]

I'm 42 and still eating taco salads

[@littleme3597]

Does not seem that long ago! Still eating most of the items.

[@Seventeen_Syllables]

Most of these didn't go anywhere. They may not be as popular as before, but that's probably because most people try to avoid processed food for health reasons. No judgements though!

[@13BGunBunny]

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

[@willaimhiggins5428]

Before you make these, you have to talk to someone. The first four items are made daily in kitchens, Lunchables just got approved to be served a school-lunch paid for by the Federal Government, every grocery store has shelves filled with them Cabbage Rolls???, you can not get married in my city without serving them. Really need to do some research in the future. the tater tot dish is commonly called a hot dish and served all over the midwest. Quiche is till widely popular and served everywhere.

[@SisterrScrabbit]

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[@loristephens3016]

When you wrap a potato in foil (potato skins) your are not baking it! Potatoes contain a lot of water. You are steaming it. I make most of these dishes on a regular basis.

[@janeandrews1790]

Lunchables are ultra-processed good in bento boxes.

[@janeandrews1790]

*food*. Definitely not “good “.

[@ashleysoulard7397]

Oh I eat quiche still all the time

[@DeathByFashion1]

I just had tater tot casserole a few weeks ago

[@MATRIX1212able]

Damn you got some good meals in there brings back memories!! I miss my Moms cooking. The cabbage rolls are called Galunkies (gal lnuk ees) they are a Polish meal. If you add whole cranberries instead of marinara it becomes a Jewish meal called Prokas (prock us ) Thanx for posting. Good stuff

[@JAK0704]

… so my family the only one out here having all 80s lunches as dinners? We eat most of this stuff pretty often 😂😂

[@SreeGORANGO108-d7b]

ভালো ভিডিও 💐💐💐

[@queenie.lawyergirl.pittymom]

Why are you doing this? Now I'm hungry

[@davidhensley76]

Was this written by ChatGPT?

[@MartinIbert]

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

[@tsmart9560]

So far all of these recipes have me gagging 😮

[@mininova7]

I do enjoy these videos, however, 9x out of 10, they’re wrong. So many dishes in these videos are still regular made

[@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.😉

[@mikepalmer1971]

Damn…now I am really hungry. Lol.

[@watchwithjuniorr7021]

I wanted to comment something clever about the “Mexican” dishes, but I’m too tired to come up with anything. Basically.. all of those are American ideas of Hispanic/mexican foods and I can assure you.. we literally do not eat those meals. Some of the ingredients are household staples, but Taco Bell inspired meals are not real Mexican and it’s annoying and kinda offensive to see it labeled as such to this day. 😒😒🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@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

[@usernameisusername]

Um. Baloney sandwich be easier

[@TimelessCraze]

yeah

[@janeandrews1790]

Nostalgic but nasty.

[@kristinscotbarryjames]

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

[@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.

[@JorinT-u6y]

Lot of these dishes are so unhealthy for youso its a good thing that it died out.

[@merseltzer]

Once again, nonsense. I will no longer look at this channel.

[@stephaniekerr]

Real men don’t eat quiche…

[@cherylcouch-thomas8250]

Sorry. I had to pause video to vomit.

[@dustyreynolds-r6t]

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