Here's What Rich People Ate During The 1970s

[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

What’s a dish your grandparents made in the 70s that you’ll never forget?

[@Skyebooo]

Grandparents lived on a farm, so we ate well. Beef, beef tongue, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, shrimp macaroni salad, veggies from the garden. Lots of gravy.

[@Gratefulman1965]

My Grandma faith’s Lasagna. It was so good.

[@anniereddj]

Toasted English "pizzas", banana sandwiches

[@jsfueston1]

@@Skyebooo Love, love, love that gravy!

[@robbiet8583]

Chipped Beef on Toast… Jello Salads were over the top with color and vegetables served with a salad dressing… Banana Bread recipe of my Grandmother’s…coconuts my Grandfather would open and we would have the milk and the meat… Sherbet.

[@nikkil764]

All of these foods are normal in our French culture of south Louisiana. We never knew we were all rich until y’all told us.

[@cheflynne1359]

😂😂😂😂

[@feleciaclemons5074]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AxelQC]

It's consumé, not "consum".

[@dougmedia1]

I noticed that too, it sounded like he was saying “possum” lol

[@charlesbaldo]

There were a lot of foods that were mispronounced. Makes you wonder if it was a bot

[@figmo397]

Thank you!!!

[@noneofyourbusiness2997]

@@charlesbaldo Yes, these are bots; cheap and easy to monetize but the kind of pablum I enjoy on occasion 😀.

[@charlesbaldo]

@@noneofyourbusiness2997 no problem, I write bots for a living, so I am cool with it. Just pointing it out

[@timkeith2919]

I worked at Spinnaker’s Seafood and Steaks at the Lincoln Hotel 1983 / 84 and served most of the dishes shown and I loved them all , was the best job I ever had and loved being a waiter of a restaurant that served impeccable food Menü ❤❤❤

[@NancyD...]

My grandma made fresh fried catfish, hushpuppies coleslaw, sliced onion's dill pickles, white bread and sweet tea, we were definitely rich! Notice how much people in the 60's and 70's were thinner now people are way over weight, to much convince food & fast food!

[@chiarac3833]

Mmmmm... hush puppies omg.

[@flawedexistence]

I freaking LOVED snails in the 1980's. My favorite bar always served escargot on holidays. Damn. I was a college student who straight up enjoyed being open to everything new and different to me.

[@robbiet8583]

Once discovered, never forgotten!❤

[@chiarac3833]

My husband loves escargot.

[@GenderSkins]

Hate to tell this guy that many of these dishes, were commonly served at all you can eat buffets and still are. And Lobster was seen as poor people’s food, before the rich folks started eating like the Clampets. As for escargot, yep that was and still is a poor man’s meal as the French make picking giant snails a family outing and often find them in their garden.

[@charlesbaldo]

It's a bot. So many words mispronounced.

[@carolwilliams8281]

We ate beans and cornbread. Once a week, if daddy could afford it, we'd have meat. Yum.

[@Chris-d2s2q]

My parents were really poor but somehow my mom was able to feed us three kids by being creative. No fast food ever and we ate good stuff. AND no food stamps.

[@mickeymch876]

My wife's father used to carry a large ball peen hammer in the car in case he came across some road kill that was still kicking. Those were the days!

[@flawedexistence]

I love all kinds of food. But nothing replaces well cooked dried beans and cornpone or cold water cornbread. Tabasco Sauce is my choice for added flavor. Your choice may vary.

[@samurai1833]

It was beans and rice for us.

[@robbiet8583]

@@flawedexistenceWe don’t have an oven right now, so I miss cornbread. Maybe I can make pan fried corn cakes.

[@pattonmoore]

I'm only familiar with what "poor people ate" during the 1970s. Potted meat, bologna, canned spaghetti, and generic cereal were considered top shelf...

[@philboudreaux9888]

Have you checked the price of bologna lately? Its expensive

[@joltjolt5060]

That was party food!

[@janfitzgerald3615]

“Con-sum”? That’s “con-sah-may”, a French word.

[@Sparkina]

I think this is an artificial intelligence

[@arturitostarwars8160]

Cuando tu idioma no se escribe como suena pasan estas cosas.

[@SusannahDyro-gd1nx]

We were just glad to have food to eat 😊

[@margarettickle9659]

Awwwwww sorry

[@DWilliam1]

Foie gras is made from duck or goose liver only. Grew up eating most of these dishes. Love it.

[@ankhpom9296]

But the fat…cholesterol.

[@DWilliam1]

@@ankhpom9296 Of course you can’t eat like that everyday(like chocolate or ice cream) but when I do I enjoy it.

[@mz.superior3014]

Right ..I was wondering why he was referring to chicken liver as well

[@BeliaLastes]

Goose liver Pate is my favourite 😊❤

[@judithkcolbert8483]

I love escargot 🐌 all that buttery garlicky sauce. Yum

[@chiarac3833]

I recently had dinner at Frenchy's Table in Ft Lauderdale and their escargot was like none other that I've had and absolutely the best I've ever tasted!

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

Oh well ; I will just settle for a chicken salad sandwich.

[@cynthiaweston767]

That's what I just made with the leftover chicken. 😋 so good.

[@eb0526]

@@cynthiaweston767 Same, I was taught make chicken salad from leftover chicken breast & thigh 😋

[@rg1whiteywins598]

My folks had money but we ate Italian food, fish shrimp and steak and other regular foods, like German style chicken soup with spaetzel, pork chops etc.. And lots of fruit and vegetables. Neither of my parents even thought about eating the other things in this video.

[@figmo397]

Same here, although mine DID eat (and make) some of those foods. We used to laugh at the snails in the grocery store!

[@yourfavoritefrog]

If you cook it yourself, it's not as expensive as you think.

[@MicheleMaliano-t9c]

I used to make those foods from 1973 to about 1980. After that I left the restaurant industry.

[@fireborn]

Dungeness crab was one of the most commonly caught crabs all through the 20th century. Campbell’s had a consommé soup and a can since about 1954 the making it every man food. Almondine is just outting slivered almonds on top.

[@SeattleTodd241]

I love 🦀 crab salad crab Louie. I understand that crab is ultra expensive but save your money and make crab salad 🥗 1000 island dressing hard cooked eggs plus salad extras and croutons. Thow some shrimp also

[@tamedshrew235]

Baked stuffed shrimp, broiled loin lamb chops, grilled swordfish in lemon butter, oysters rockefeller and clams casino...not rich but mom insisted on fine dining once a month to tame her savage little monsters.❤😂

[@chiarac3833]

My mom loved those loin lamb chops for dinner and we learned to love them too.

[@Vichyfarm]

Clams casino, oh yummy…haven’t had since the 70’s

[@tamedshrew235]

@@Vichyfarm in Connecticut, my home state, you can get a clams casino pizza!

[@Vichyfarm]

@@tamedshrew235 Oh my goodness, a clam casino pizza sounds outrageously good!…as kids on the Jersey coast, we would go clam digging and our reward was clams casino, dessert, yummy

[@ArgaAnders]

´Veal Oscar´ was invented by a french chef working at ´Grand Hotel´ in Stockholm-Sweden as a dish to honour King Oscar II for the Great Fair of 1897. It was made out of sauteed veal tenderloin medallions served on a mirror of Choron sauce, and decorated with black truffles, blanched white asparagus and the meat from two lobster claws arranged in a way to look like King Oscar´s Royal Monogram.

[@robbiet8583]

Thanks!

[@rogertemple7193]

I'm not rich so I wouldn't know but still Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲☕🇺🇲

[@VintageLifestyleUSA]

Being rich in memories, love, and laughter is the greatest wealth of all. Thanks for watching! ❤️

[@kellistorie7917]

My family moved to California from Texas in 1970, and my daddy ensured that we ate most all these things. I tell you what, thanks to him opening my eyes, and palate, to new (to us) foods, I still have an adventurous palate. He was far from perfect, but, I am grateful for this gift.

[@lisabudd5979]

The tasty dishs have real produce and fresh ingredients, cooking ftom scratch. You can not beat ,no processed chemical foods can beat .

[@mjpspit]

Rich? Many of these were reserved for special occasions, nobody eats foie gras daily. Even in France.

[@figmo397]

I had to watch this. I lived in the second wealthiest neighborhood in my county in the mid to late 70s, so whatever I ate was "rich people food." A lot of these dishes were only sold in French restaurants. The wealthy people in that neighborhood ate just like the middle class folks I lived around before that and my lower class grandparents. The only difference was that our house had way more variety than everyone else's because my mother liked to cook (and eventually became a chef). I ate a lot of this stuff at home. Back then you had to be friends with the butcher to get the filet mignon cut (Mom knew him through her hairdresser). The Crab Louis sauce is nothing more than Russian/Thousand Island dressing (ketchup, mayo, and relish mixed together). You didn't have to reserve way in advance for Coquilles St. Jacques, btw; it was always on the menu because it's so easy to make. They sold escargot in the supermarket, and my grandpop would always crack me up when he'd look at them and go, "Yum. Snails!" Lobster Thermidor is a lot of work because you have to careful extract the meat from the tail and claws. Foie gras was more popular in the 80s than in the 70s. Listing "Stuffed Quail" had me in stitches. A close relative, "Cornish Game Hen," was what we always ordered when I was in college in the 70s and we went to this one restaurant with an all-you-can-eat salad bar (with you-peel shrimp, which we'd load our plates with) because it was the cheapest thing on the menu. There's one major dish you forgot from that era: Beef Wellington. It's basically a beef filet en croute. My mother used to like to make that a lot for company.

[@raysalter2270]

The poor people eat highly processed food wafers Soylent Green.

[@chiarac3833]

​@@raysalter2270even as a humble college student, I knew to eat real food. I couldn't afford filet mignon but I also never ate fast food either. Even then I knew that crap would kill you.

[@jeto-gu5ni]

I think in the U.S South the french came from french Canada were also called Cajuns .

[@raysalter2270]

I make potato chip sandwich spread the mayonnaise generously across the bread. Pile the potato chips on to one of the slices as high as you can then top it with the other slice and mash down until all the potato chip are crushed. Wash it down with a Pepsi , it’s some good!

[@nelsonvalencia7889]

I love Crab 🦀 Salad Louie. I understand that Crab is ultra Expensive, but save your money and make Crab Salad 🥗. 1,000 Island dressing hard cooked egg's plus salad extras and croutons. Thow some Shrimp 🍤 also. 😍🇵🇭

[@rebeccaharrishunt1181]

Foie gras is one of the most cruelly produced foods available. Poultry are artificially fattened so much that they suffer terribly from abdominal pain and inability to even get around. No kudos are due this food. Ever.

[@kathleenwade7826]

well said

[@jsfueston1]

Well said, Rebeccah!

[@cheflynne1359]

I’ve been a chef in classic top notch French restaurants in the 80’s …I love all these dishes! I’ve cooked all of these and miss those days of haut cuisine 🍷 We still practice the art of the table with friends with all the utensils!

[@meloralovesdarkness2495]

"It is Not Meat, but made before we were Born" Is Priceless!

[@Vladimir-hq1ne]

LOLd at "demiglasses".

[@nelsonvalencia7889]

All of these food's are normal in our French Culture of South Louisiana. We never knew we were all rich until y'all told us. 😍🇵🇭

[@robbieross6646]

Most of your black and white photos were prior to the 1970’s.

[@lynnleipold2617]

Yes!

[@ConstantCompanion]

I don't think for the most part this is rich people food. Was a teenager in the 70s and we had better things than most of what's on this list.

[@DaleHubbard]

Excellent as usual!

[@Alan-lv9rw]

My family was upper middle class in Connecticut in the 1970’s. We never had any of those meals.

[@sugarplum5824]

My grandfather enjoyed hunting quail and my grandmother made a fabulous stuffed quail. It was so tender and delicious. That being said, we all enjoyed cornbread, black eyed peas and stewed tomatoes, also. When I moved to coastal Virginia, I began experimenting with different seafoods and mastered a wonderful Seafood Newburg, along with marinated grilled shrimp, broiled fish and sauteed scallops. These dishes weren't prepared on a weekly basis but were well received when offered. In my home ec class in the mid-70s, we made Baked Alaska once. I remembered my teacher being impressed that we wanted to give it a try. It turned out nicely but I personally am not a fan of meringue. We got an "A" for our success.

[@charlesbaldo]

Cherries are at their peak in early summer.

[@AliageTaqi]

Grandma, on some special occasions from when I was small in the 70s until the 90s, would make lamb shanks with mint sauce or cornish hens instead of a regular baked chicken or turkey.

[@AxelQC]

Raclette is one of my favorite meals.

[@lynnmartin906]

Yea my parents were not rich but middle class but we had escargot and duck lobster steak au provre or René etc

[@teacherdude]

Why footage from 1980s UK when talking about how beef was the dominant meat in the US in the 70's?

[@deamado8947]

We loved a lot of these foods and cooked all of these at home too; still do. We also splurged at restaurants for these items, it was a treat. We were middle class but, my family enjoyed all types of food and were involved in the restaurant and hotel industries. Even if you don't cook or know a little around the kitchen, you basically can purchase any of these items online and prepare them at home or reheat! Cheaper than going to a fancy dining establishment and better quality too! I would be careful dressing to the nines and driving your fancy car to a nice place to eat, you could be a target. Be careful about your deliveries too! Hams don't always make it to the doorstep!

[@user-ln4zr4pz4f]

If I never cook anything with walnuts or almonds ever again = I will die happy.

[@Sparkina]

Raclette is a popular dish for apres-ski

[@dg2545]

Dude showed crab sticks when talking about crab meat 😂

[@Arlene-e2g]

I don't know if these are considered only "rich peoples food" but instead, this kind of food was not available from the local grocery stores. If you wanted something special (by most peoples standards), you went to a restaurant where it was served. If I remember correctly, going to a high end restaurant in the 70's was a special occasion, one to be celebrated.

[@bargdaffy1535]

Our neighbor's Grandma had access to Foix Gras, we ate it and Rabbit and Squirrel and Pheasant and Deer and all kind of Fish fairly frequently. My Family growing up was pretty Old School and they were hunters and gatherers.....lol.

[@AidanCaDrago]

Are we not going to talk about veal? We can talk about the concern with foie gras but not veal?

[@sman8491]

Yeah it's baby cow. Then again so is all the beef you buy. Beef cattle are usually slaughtered before they are a year old

[@BeliaLastes]

I would have to be watching this at 5 AM and thinking 🤔 of whipping up a Colby cheddar jack cheese 🧀 omelette with a side of toasted crusted country white bread two slices with sliced Ski Queen brown cheese that has a sweet caramel taste and a big cup of coffee ☕ 😋

[@lenaadams786]

😂 I remember this...😂it was yuk then and now, I'll take the drippy burger, lazagna, cornedbeef as a rich meal any day over these. Also Strawberries, ice cream and watermelon. The 70s.... tomatoes sandwich, pbj, grilled cheese, spaghetti, ham pot pie.

[@Goddot]

Thermidor is one of the months of the revolutionary calendary the revolutionary government tried to popularize. Most of the meals presented here are from the 19th century France, and were created to be as extravagant and expensive as possible: the old royal cooks had lost their customers and were looking for new ones...

[@ceasarandrepont1243]

All these foods came from poor immigrants. Then some chefs and cooks took all these old school cuisines, and put an expensive price tags on them making them fancy culinary dishes.

[@chiarac3833]

Exactly. Thinking of $30 plates of polenta lol.

[@sandiewilliams238]

"Con-Sum" sounds like an obscure porn film....

[@laurabailey1054]

It is actually consume

[@MoonFairy11]

We weren’t rich but we ate all these foods. Lobster Thermador was my favorite.

[@sandralouth3103]

Hamburger gravy, and how much meat depended on what day of the month. Spanish rice, mac and cheese. "Tube steak" when the parents ate real steak. Venison and fish were common on the table as they hunted.

[@NattyRose]

I have eaten all this dishes and they are delish!!!! This made my mouth water!!!

[@judsoncarroll5902]

I need some tornadoes with love-chicken..... geesh!

[@mariannemaalouf9730]

I like sole meuniere with skinned fish and preferably something other than sole. Maybe flounder or even cod.

[@billdaddario8800]

Cherries at their peak first few days of autumn??? I always thought they were May through July!

[@robinsonstegard538]

Mom would stretch a pound of hamburger to feed 8 in spaghetti, chili, and goulash. Pasta and beans with a little protein. And it was tasty.

[@carolinecarter6874]

It's obviously time to eat rich people.....LOL!

[@Valecto]

Today I've learned that I live in the 1970s... and I wasn't even born then !

[@winstonelston5743]

Where is _Pompano en Papillote_ ?

[@paulvoelker3801]

It is pronounced Con-sue-may.

[@user-zi8ux6fy2n]

I was introduced to Southern cousine when I was stationed in Norfolk VA. I wanted to try 'posum soup like I heard in the Dukes of Hazzard... I was served 'posum STEW instead 😋... gotta go back to Tennessee 🤙😎

[@ThunderPrincess2500]

How the mighty have fallen. We served Coquilles St-Jacques at a subsidized retirement apartment dining room I worked at by the 90s.

[@ostertag100]

Con-Soo-MAY please note the accent mark

[@MrKevinCarioca]

Salmon in Puff Pastry is served at Buckingham Palace under its origin Russian name Kubliack

[@brendadrew834]

Sorry, but this is so off base! I lived in the 1970s was in my 20s and ate a lot of these dishes at restaurants and some at home and we weren't rich or "the elite"! We were middle class! The prices in the 1970s were way cheaper than they are today and eating out was way more affordable also the middle class in the 1950s and 60s could afford to live like the rich, not today! A cocktail in NYC where I lived, worked and studied at a university was $3 dollars, today it's $23 dollars for a cocktail! Rent for a one bedroom/one bathroom apt with living room/eat in kitchen on the posh upper East Side was 90 dollars a month, rent controlled, those apts today go for $3300 a month! Subway tokens were 35 cents a ride 70 cents a day! Today, subway fare is 3 dollars one way, six dollars a day....30 dollars a week! Groceries were ten dollars a week, 40 dollars a month, today it's 400 dollars a month! And we thought inflation was bad in the 1970s? HA! Inflation = GREED! The only difference between the rich, the "Elite" in the one percent oligarchy and the 19 percent "Dreamhoarders", while leaving the rest of us in the dust" per Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institute is that they've always had more in the way of material wealth! Naturally those who are in poverty are not going to be able to afford these foods these days nor the shrinking middle class who are lucky to have a roof over their head, food on the table and a pot to piss in! Reality bites....hard!

[@BrianKarson-mo9cx]

This is pretty funny when I grew up we ate maybe some meet once a week it could be steak or lamb or chicken but we had beanies and weenies and casseroles and very cheap stuff but my girlfriend grew up rich she had salmon Crab Louie a lot of expensive things she didn't even eat hot dogs or corned beef hash or spam her mom thought those things were for poor people and I am one I love those dishes from the 70s😅😊

[@chrism1102]

Everyone ate these foods in the 70s at least on special occasions. And we were thin! Go figure...

[@throow]

Little lack in pronouncing French words, but a nice video. Meuniere means millers, the fish is just covered in flour and friend i butter, always without skin. Bouillabaisse origins from Marseilles in France and was made by sailors with the cheapest fish and seafood, minimum 3 kinds and Saffron and Cheyenne pepper. Fish shouldn't never be cooked more than 10 minutes.

[@samurai1833]

The black and white photos of the '70s' stung a little.

[@JasonJohnson-kq2eq]

I grew up a farmer and we ate like this, but I had a mother, and she could read.

[@anthonyshaw4083]

It's spelled "Crab Louis," not Louie.

[@ElRosco187]

Do what Rich people ate in the 1980s.

[@MrKevinCarioca]

No Lobster American with Cheese Soufflé?

[@Sparkina]

It’s pronounced CON-SOM-MAY

[@jasonkrynicky3170]

LOL for the final item the bot says "get ready to pronounce this one" after mispronouncing too many common terms. It might be what rich people ate in the 70's but these dishes have not vanished. did an English speaking person review this video before publishing?

[@bethtyree6346]

Yummy dishes

[@charlesbaldo]

13:58 this is what two gay guys eating dinner together in 1935 looked like. Not that here is anything wrong with it.

[@MygirlsGJPB]

Alot of these meals are high fat low carb....hmm.

[@SingleFileCooks]

In the recipe shown those are chicken livers in the pan!😂😂😂😂

[@Gratefulman1965]

In the 70’s I ate a lot of powdered eggs and drank a lot of powdered milk (absolutely disgusting by the way) embarrassingly poor. rarely went out to eat. I did not begin to eat like “Rich folks” until I started my own adult life.

[@anthonycopian1298]

What about Duck L'orange or Dover sole?

[@marylist1236]

Your Bubbie & your Ma made chopped chicken liver. There was butter, garlic, & parsley on the snails. You BAKE baked Alaska, not torch it

[@Sparkina]

Except for the desserts and the cheese thing, all these dishes were meat. What dishes and delicacies did wealthy VEGETARIANS feast on? Just curious

[@rtshaw3621]

WHERE'S THE BEEF??? We aren't allowed to eat it anymore.

[@helentepper3513]

Consom 😂😂😂

[@helentepper3513]

Rata-tou-ile 😂😂😂

[@betsyross1621]

Guess we were rich

[@_Meng_Lan]

The first one is completely animal abuse. And no im not green. Just not ignorant.

[@admiralgran8920]

I do wish humans actually were the voices. It takes me a bit to figure out what comsom is, and octOpi LOL

[@anthonyshaw4083]

It is not pronounvced "Con - some." The final "m-e" is articulated.

[@Tyrysly]

Consume is pronounced "con-sue-may" not "con-some" 😞

[@lynnleipold2617]

Sorry, it’s consommé.

[@betsyross1621]

Upper middle class are not elite

[@BobGeogeo]

Video not recommended for vegetarians.

[@winstonelston5743]

8:19 It's pronounced CON-suh-MAY

[@michaela.5363]

I was born in the wrong era