20 Weirdest Restaurant Meals NOBODY Serves Anymore!

20 Weirdest Restaurant Meals NOBODY Serves Anymore!
Discover the culinary oddities of the past in "20 Weirdest Restaurant Meals NOBODY Serves Anymore!" This video explores 20 bizarre and unusual restaurant dishes from the 1970s that have vanished from today's menus. Relive the novelty and weirdness of these forgotten meals. Keywords: weirdest restaurant meals, unusual dishes, 1970s cuisine, retro food, forgotten restaurant dishes, bizarre meals.

[@ShaunRiceNYC]

Some of these should be on the list. But why are you pretending that chicken and waffles, deep dish pizza, and sweet potato casserole aren’t eaten anymore and have been forgotten since the 70s?

[@maxpowers9129]

Maybe they added those popular dishes so people will comment about them, to add to the algorithm? Otherwise their decision to add them makes no sense to me.

[@shelfraawoods1785]

Right. Add the nachos in a bag

[@PureGreatness334-hi4mt]

Sweet potato casserole yes.. depends who makes it or just fancy yams..still good

[@SchofieldAJ]

Also Ambrosia Salad is still Eaten places as well as alot of the other stuff as this site just don't know what is being served as they come of as a clueless fool unlike the ppl in the comments.

[@Sassyjass2012]

I can easily get chicken and waffles when at a few restaurants or delivered to my home, right now in Queens, NY.

[@ultraredd]

That Banana Candle Salad looks like it should be served at "adults only" parties. 😂😂😂

[@andreaexceedsrubies]

And then it is said "the children will love it"😯

[@ultraredd]

@@andreaexceedsrubies 😳🤯

[@chrissykana6164]

This one made me giggle a bit, so dirty

[@1Avatar]

I silently died inside when I saw this

[@cauldronmoon]

The main desert at a Key party 😂

[@drsandy842]

We still make sweet potatoes casserole every year for thanksgiving and Christmas without the pecans!

[@williammccoy9854]

The French dip is a staple at almost every sandwich place I've been to aside from large chains

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I bang it out at home all the time. You can still get it in a lot of places.

[@vickiesims643]

Chicken and Waffles will never go out of season.

[@Cindilc]

Excuse me!! Sweet potato casserole IS thanksgiving!

[@ZombieHunter37]

I don' think this channel knows what "NOBODY serves anymore" actually means.

[@gj8683]

It's a careless overgeneralization, the kind that "NOBODY" will ever be able to escape.

[@grote51]

Chicken Fried Steak is, was, and forever shall be a favorite in Texas.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I can find it everywhere. Both chicken fried and country fried.

[@tmapes1989]

Chicken fried steak is served all across the USA!!!

[@chrissykana6164]

CFS is one of our most popular menu items at our Cafe! Where does this channel fact check?

[@shelfraawoods1785]

There’s a lot of the dishes on here that are still being sold and made

[@realong2506]

Chicken and waffles, Ambrosia salad, french dip sandwiches, deep dish pizza, frog legs, and chicken fried steak are all still on the menu at a lot of restaraunts.

[@Nerval-kg9sm]

Chicken and Waffles has been massively popular in cities for the last 15 years at least. You guys didn't do your research.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

When did chicken and waffles disappear? Still very much around here.

[@HughTauerner]

Jellied eels are a traditional English dish. It dates back a long way before the 1970s

[@argonwheatbelly637]

It's still around.

[@jimplosay8352]

Poor research. Chicken Fried Steak is a staple that lives on in many restaurants.

[@MarshaPrice-ss7vt]

Guess they should give up their day jobs and research rodent dishes

[@irayoung2653]

Chicken and Waffles actually has its roots in the 1600s and was more closely associated with the American South, although a MA restaurant served a variation (broiled chicken) as early as the 1840s. While Roscoe’s made it popular on the West Coast, it had been a Harlem restaurant staple for decades and actually was served in LA as early as 1931. The restaurant that severed the dish was The Maryland. If you read James Cain’s “Mildred Pierce”, when the main character opens her first restaurant, she is serving broiled chicken with waffles. A little more research before you claim this dish is from the 1970s please.

[@ryanleatigaga7596]

Wasn't that dish made for jazz musicians who came into restaurants early in the morning? That's a story I heard about the dish.

[@irayoung2653]

@@ryanleatigaga7596. I thought that too, but a little research showed that the dish existed long before that time period. Still its a great story.

[@heidioverton2165]

In Pennsylvania we take shredded chicken and put it in chicken gravy and serve it over waffles. That’s what I grew up with and known as chicken and waffles. I had no idea that especially in the south that they did fried chicken and honey with waffles until I moved to Tennessee.

[@marybarr8084]

In the South we eat Chicken and Waffles with honey or maple syrup it is too good

[@marybarr8084]

Oh and by the way I don't think they were invented in 1975 the chicken and waffles we was eating them in the south in the 60s

[@LovingShadow-e3k]

Actually the Hot Beef Sundae is a great idea for parents of picky children.

[@BobMedley62]

Just a different presentation of a yummy dish.

[@VladamireD]

A local BBQ here does one. I mean, it's just mashed potatoes with meat and gravy (with a cherry tomato on top), what's not to love?

[@FlowerGemsGirl]

Our Dickey’s BBQ and Bandana BBQ serve this too, not sure if the rest of the chains do our just our locations.

[@debrasedgwick4386]

I was thinking about doing this on April 1st. It would be fun.

[@dichromaticb3c]

I was a picky child. I wouldn't have touched it.

[@hazcatsophia]

Not NOBODY. They still serve chicken fried steak at Cracker Barrel. As far as I know, Roscoe’s still exists. Deep dish pizza obviously, famously still exists.

[@FlowerGemsGirl]

Texas Roadhouse and several steakhouses like Outback still sell it too.

[@WayneShulson]

Tacos in a bag are still sold at Concession Stands in Saskatchewan. Chicken and Waffles and Chicken fried Steak and Onion Dip (Beef Dip) are on the Menu in several Restaurants in Saskatchewan. If you want to step back in time in several Ways (eye roll) visit Sask. What Man invented the Candle Salad 😅. If Sask finds out it will be on the Menu for every Bachlorette Party😅

[@shelfraawoods1785]

Chicken and waffles are sold almost everywhere

[@chrissykana6164]

Portable Taco is called Frito Pie in Texas, still common. Fact check

[@jstowell5]

Saw walking tacos offered at a Florida flea market concession stand literally three days ago.

[@marylist1236]

But it got its start in Harlem in the thirties, as musicians weren't sure whether they wanted dinner or breakfast

[@nickgov66]

NOT "Eel in Jelly" , "Jellied Eels", still available in London's East End if you know where to look.

[@stevewatt4819]

liver mush and it's cousin scrapple wasn't experimental foods but the "Use it up" style from way back. Folks used to use as much of their pig, or any livestock as they could. I was raised on scrapple and the occaisonal liver mush, but then, I'm old.

[@davebooth5608]

Frog legs rules! We’d go out to strip mine ponds and “gig” them. But we also ate the backs too! Deep fried in beer batter along with turtle that we also hunted for! Skip the restaurants, we do it ourselves!!

[@MarshaPrice-ss7vt]

Yum, why not snails and slugs and salamanders and all other sorts of slimey slithery swampy things??? And a little pond scam for greens.....

[@michaelweigand8643]

I love peanut butter on a burger. I have no problem getting one. One of the restaurants near me puts jelly on them as well.

[@suzygarrison2110]

Sweet potato casserole is still served especially at Thanksgiving. I would add crushed pineapple as well as pecans and marshmallows.

[@kenwaid8239]

Who the hell made this list deep dish pizza chicken and waffles chicken fried steak are you kidding me they’re restaurants all around me that serve these dishes I mean why don’t you list cheeseburgers while you’re at it SMH

[@jasonmillion1769]

It's not a walking taco it's Frito pie get it right and also they were invented New Mexico not California to hell with California lol

[@gamerjaqi7873]

Frito pie is different, that’s chili not taco stuff.

[@jasonmillion1769]

@@gamerjaqi7873 okay whatever you say we'll go with that 😂

[@xyztia12]

My husband ate chicken fried steak this morning at a restaurant

[@Blitzkrieg1976]

I think they still make walking tacos in some places, and banana candle salad definitely does NOT look like a candle😂😂😂

[@AbdeelMarketing]

You can find Chicken and Waffles several places around here in the Dallas area.

[@joereedmusic9853]

I am 76 years old and I've have my share of fried frog legs as a young child. Groing up in Texas this was as food we ate when no chickens were available to harvest and considered at diner treat with mashed potatoes and vegetables.

[@mexicanbanditopatron7994]

that banana candle salad does not resemble a lit candle!😮 i think we know what it resembles!

[@cjthedj9994]

Several of these items are still in vogue. Ergo, your title is misleading

[@rogertemple7193]

A lot of great food here that I remember but i have only eaten a few of them especially if they were popular here in my state of Oklahoma and maybe in some nearby Texas towns, now I have eaten sweet potato casserole before and it was really very good, i have eaten chicken fried steak many times and i still eat it occasionally from time to time especially for breakfast, Thanks for the Memories.😋🍞🥩🍔🥞😋

[@MsJessie1963]

Liver mash is actually scrapple!

[@PeterBerghold]

Chickn and Waffles hasn't gone anywhere neither has Frito pies AKA walking tacos

[@genehasenbuhler2594]

The Walking Taco is basically a take off from the traditional Frito Pie idea just outa the bag instead of in a bowl!

[@johnnymcneal5914]

Are? You kidding me Chicken Fried sticks? I just couldn't get enough of them. I was sorry to see it go.

[@judsoncarroll5902]

You do know that Cracker Barrel and like 100,000 other restaurants serve chicken fried steak daily, right... ditto chicken and waffles and several other dishes mentioned. I LOVE frog legs!

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Chicken and Waffles is not strange and there are places that serve that even this decade.

[@research903]

We had the "walking taco" (which we called a Frito Pie, at fairs and football games back in the early 1960s.

[@ttintagel]

There was a Schoolhouse Rock type cartoon in the 1970s teaching kids how to make the banana candle salad, but they called it a Saturdae.

[@nyneeveanya8861]

Never heard of the hot beef sundae but I eat hot beef and mashed potatoes or rice still. Mom always put pineapple rings on bottom then mashed sweet potatoes, chopped pecans and almonds then marshmallows on top. Gooey, sweet, crunchy, and slight sour. It was the best.

[@jarjarbinks3360]

Places definitely still serve Chicken and Waffles...that should not be on this list...

[@joes3036]

Jellied eels are still popular here in London

[@lindamccarthy8887]

Chicken Fried Steak is still around. I just had some at IHOP last week. It's, also, a staple in Texas, you can get it anywhere.

[@lrajic8281]

We can never have a turkey dinner without sweet potatoes. We decided no more marshmrllo s and brown sugar, though. Just baked in their jackets and de-suit them, slice them, butter them. Delicious! We must have green bean casserole with cream of mushroom soup gravy and French fried onions on top. Must have it in T Day! And we like sliced beef sandwiches either au jus. But must have the sour cream and horse radish sauce offered as well!

[@johnnymcneal5914]

This Uno's deep dish pizza is 100. Most satisfy, calling it a meal is. Correct, they really hit it out of the park with this one a little pricey, but well worth the trip. Just. 2 slices is a meal in itself.

[@mssandybeach1]

We still have sweet potato casserole. Love it.. 😊

[@gregbolls7815]

Due to loving sweet potatoes, I make sweet potatoes casserole often

[@Selena-gz9ts]

I make chicken fried steak all the time

[@blinkowarner3117]

Most of these are still served in restaurants, besides the weird obvious ones like the banana candle...thing. And I would argue that chicken and waffles is more popular NOW than at any other time in history. Also, peanut butter on a burger is not weird. Its a normal topping and its delicious.

[@Hideaway904]

Okay, I'll preface this post with a couple of facts. I am a Southern, adventurous eater. Borderline "foodie". If I don't mention a listed dish, it is because I regularly eat said unlisted "dish." #1 Never had a "Hot Beef Sunday" I dig it, and I'd eat one right now. #2 Never had "eel in jelly" and I won't because I don't like eel... period. #3 Koolickles... again, I'm from the south, and I've never heard of this in my life. Nor would I want to try it. (I don't know why. It just seems wrong) # 4 Walking tacos. I've had frito pie, I love texmex so I'm "all in." #5 banana candle salad. Never had it, but I would as long as they knock the banana onto it side. Again, I'm a Southerner 😂 #6 perfection salad. Never had it, and I'd give it a shot. # 7 Spam festia cup. Definitely. I love spam, and I love peaches. #8 liver mush. Definitely (again, I'm southern) #9 mock turtle soup. Nope, not happening. I am from Florida, we take our turtles seriously. 😂 # 10 Moneray souffle salad. Never had it. Never will.

[@Missmarple007]

Ambrosiosalad was said tone the food of the Gods

[@mpetersen6]

In the 90s there was a cooking show on PBS called Wild Game and Country Cooking. The host would go boar, deer, turkey, pheasant or other game species hunting and then prepare a dish from the game. One show had a salad/dessert named Betty's Famous Pink Salad. Kool Whip, Marichino Cherries and possibly marshmallows. My wife makes one with Crushed Pineapple, Mandarin Oranges, Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream, Chopped Walnuts and Kool Whip. Better than it sounds.

[@gregbolls7815]

You left out a fave. Local tampa restaurant sold peanut butter, banana and mayo sandwiches.

[@michaeldesmondwoods3193]

I’m, sorry dude, we still enjoy several of these wonderful dishes in restaurants across the South.

[@Grogers70426]

I'm a fan of sweet potato casserole. Also there's still places that sell chicken and waffles, at least here in the South

[@jonathaninglis3830]

Still have jellied eels on a semi regular basis , basicaly every time I trundle over to south london and to Manzies for pie , mash

[@deadmanvoting]

I would love the mashed potato sundae if it was made with whole potatoes instead of potato flakes

[@SchofieldAJ]

Well not even Sundaes are made w/ Real Ice Cream as nobody makes real Ice Cream as it's all more so now called a Frozen Dairy Treat cause of the percentage of Milk/Cream in stuff these days!

[@mpetersen6]

​@@SchofieldAJ You can get real ice cream sundaes if you bother to go to real ice cream shops. If you go to soft serve places. Well, you get what you deserve. Or if you are in the Milwaukee area stop at Leon's, Cobbs or one of the other custard drive-ins. An "ice cream" sundae made with frozen custard is a treat. Culver's has it but it's not quite the same.

[@gj8683]

9:42 Probably the most Freudian image ever

[@marylist1236]

Most of these things weren't served in restaurants. Livermush is the North Carolinian cousin of scrapple & goetta

[@oldhaglady62]

Oh, ok. I actually thought it was scrapple they were talking about. It looks just like scrapple.

[@research903]

Love sweet potato casserole!

[@elizabethcox5911]

I only heard of chicken and waffles in the last 10 or so years.

[@rob57ert]

The Chicago Deep Dish is wrong, The dough is not bread dough nor is it flat New York pizza dough. What it is, is real flaky 'pie dough'. Detroit style pizza IS made with a yeast bread dough. Lastly, French Dip Sandwich, came out about the same time as Arby's, from the Roy Rodgers franchise. interesting list, thank you.

[@petehoover6616]

The author has done a good job with what he had to work with, but his research is skimpy. California and Upper Midwest. Southern food might as well be Thai food to him, it's so unfamiliar.

[@RobertTheTexan2]

Dude!!!!!! Sweet Tater Casserole is STILL A VERY REAL THING in the south!! Shoot man I still remember my Grannies recipe was ammmmmaaaaazing!! Chicken n’ Waffles?? I think we down in the south or in the Republic or Texas still enjoy these fine dishes. Now chit’lins - I’ve had my share my ex-wife cooked - was never about it being pig intestines or the taste to me, it’s because the stink to high heaven when she was washing them and washing them and then cooking them. Whew!!! I could throw down with some homemade cornbread and greens (yes I’m a white man) was a fine fine meal. Lastly am I the only one who thought that banana salad was about as phallic as you could get?? Geez Louise I think I can come up with a more accurate name than “banana salad”. But I will refrain so I don’t cause anyone to keel over. 😂😂😂

[@antilogism]

I'd try the eel. Emmymade spoted at 5:45! I haven't had chitlins in at least 20 years. No idea deep dish wasn't still a thing. Seriously? Frog legs never went away, as far as I know. Wifie wont touch'm so more for me! Usualy at Cajun places. Chicked fried steak is in like every diner in California and is often what I order---though the gravy is hit or miss. Ambrosia salid was great! Seems like every grandma in So. Cal. had a different take on it. I've had the French Dip at Philippe's a few times: Excellent! Seems like there was some sort of contraversy about the origin though.

[@BobMedley62]

Eel jello just sounds nasty 🤢

[@DerrickWhittle-mm7jz]

Nice but you missed the fact that it was officer French LA police in a rush.

[@Pinkflamingo77]

The eels in jelly was so gross 🤢

[@Grungy1]

I will eat the jellyed eel before I eat a Kool aid pickles. And I dislike chicken and waffles.

[@Missmarple007]

Eel and jelly looks positively gross

[@charlottehernandez8803]

A lit candle… sure, that's what I saw.

[@co1950]

There is a restaurant in West Lafayette , IN called triple XXX that serves a Previs burger that has peanut butter. It's a tasty treat

[@MarshaPrice-ss7vt]

Pelvis-burger

[@fredstopper9906]

Check out the Scrapple in PA

[@inkey2]

they left out Vaseline on pork rinds

[@dizeimage]

THAT DOES NOT look like a melted candle.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

You don't dip it in "AH zhu" It's just jus (juice), and you serve food that uses it, "au jus". (oh ZHU)

[@bridgetmcarthur155]

That does NOT look like a candle.

[@clutchfrog262]

Chicken Fried Steak is alive and well in the United States and is no where near being weird. It's damn good and it can be ordered at just about any decent diner. Come America Before, do your homework before putting these videos out.

[@sistahspeaks9816]

7:15 still eat this

[@Missmarple007]

I can not believe people actually ate these things

[@annchristina1188]

11:56

[@sistahspeaks9816]

4:31 we-still eat this

[@AlanRitchie-wr1uz]

I grew up in the 1970's? Never heard of this stuff. But some menu's listed here? Sound down right gross! I've eaten nasty food during the 70's? But this is nasty gross! If it ever existed! Don't know where they get these recipes from? Never heard of them in the 1970's.

[@matthewmcdaid7962]

Banana Candle Salad... The recipe is simple, beginning "Find a straight banana..."

[@mpetersen6]

Like the gypsy recipe for chicken. "First steal one chicken.....

[@rayselby3487]

Sue here: I was gagging through most of the video.

[@yolandaf1122]

Some of these are still being made some like chicken and waffles have their own recipes and restaurants better research next time also the hot beef sundoe is still a thing just not named a sundae

[@RT-wq8bd]

Their info is way off.

[@baref1959]

thank you for the horrifying yet memorable walk through my childhood.

[@sistahspeaks9816]

6:04 still eat these

[@cadillacdeville5828]

😮😮

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

If you enjoy eating it who cares if it's wierd!

[@marylist1236]

It was never served in restaurants

[@Missmarple007]

Omg

[@Julie44Inlouisiana]

🍌 candel ? Mmmmno

[@sharendonnelly7770]

You lost me at eel... 🤮

[@jhizall6420]

Whyyyyyyyyytt

[@Missmarple007]

We, ew, ew!

[@Missmarple007]

🤢