Old-School Comfort Foods That Aren't Popular Anymore

[@MashedFood]

Which of these foods still find their way to your table?

[@boohere2]

Cheese Fondue and sloppy joe.

[@The80sand90sOverlooked]

Salisbury steak is delicious!

[@markcollins2666]

Sloppy Joes! They're too easy to make at home, you already have everything you need at home, no need for Manwich! Skip that! Also, you can make Tidy Joes, mix a slurry of 1 tablespoon of water to 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, add to 1 lb of ground beef, and let set for 1 hour. It breaks down the connective tissue of the beef, letting everything to hold together really well!

[@Draconicstarz88]

Everything except tuna casserole and Chicken ala King. Milk toast looks like a down grade of French toast, and Chipped beef a down grade of Corned beef and gravy. Also note that sloppy Joe is another name for MANWITCH.

[@vickithoma751]

All of them.

[@macmanmpls]

I LOVE tuna casserole, sloppy joes, fondue, beans and franks, and salisbury steak. Still eat them to this day.

[@jaengen]

Ditto!! They are staples in my house.

[@MarkCexplorer]

Yessss

[@ginnamin]

Me too 🎉

[@ObsydianShade]

I eat tuna noodle casserole, sloppy joes, and salisbury steak regularly. I had the latter just a few days ago.

[@Raydawggie]

I think Sloppy Joes are still a pretty common easy home meal for families, although the standardization and shift to reheated/heat lamp food in cafeterias reduced their prominence. There's actually a Sloppy Joe special right now at White Castle for December. Fondue is probably the only other one of these that's still common, mostly due to The Melting Pot spreading fast as a chain.

[@TheMinnie1468]

If you live in the South, most of these are still popular

[@MrDan708]

Sloppy Joe's certainly haven't gone away here in PA. One local fast-food place sells lots of them. I have a soft spot for chipped beef & toast since my late mother made it back in the day when she wanted to do something different.

[@cephasmartin8593]

Or in Kansas, either.

[@kararay8962]

I still make them too. I sometimes use manwich bbq flavor, sometimes original.

[@susanbeckham7236]

Food never goes out of style if you ask me

[@hellhound1389]

I make SOS but use deli beef instead of the dried stuff. I don't care what people say I WILL NOT touch a sloppy Joe ever again. It was one of the few things my mother could make so she drove it into the ground. We finally started eating better when I took over the cooking at the age of 11

[@karenminckler4198]

Here in Gloversville, NY too.

[@logankerr8090]

Sloppy Joes are a MUST! always make sure to have it a few times a year

[@BionicPig95]

Replace “year” with “day”

[@kmoecub]

Tuna casserole was not just comfort food, it was struggle food. It's one of the cheapest ways to feed a family when you have almost nothing to spend.

[@claudiamiller7730]

Probably will be coming back…real soon, too!!

[@jaengen]

We eat water in my hovel.

[@birdlover6842]

People can't afford to be too picky because food prices are crazy. These old fashioned foods are tasty and healthy enough.

[@johnwalters1341]

I grew up with a version using canned tuna, canned cream of chicken soup, and potato chips. Don't remember the exact year (early 1970s?), but the price of tuna, potato chips, and canned soup all went through the roof almost simultaneously. End of tuna casserole...

[@Val_Emrys]

I liked the boxed version made by the same company as Hamburger Helper. I shudder to think how unhealthy it must have been.

[@kararay8962]

When my family ate tuna casserole, we did not have peas or cheese in it. Just noodles, cream of mushroom soup, tuna and buttered bread crumbs. My Mom ate "milk toast" which was buttered bread, heated milk, salt and pepper. When she wasn't feeling well this was her comfort food. Chipped beef on toast, and creamed hamburger on toast.(S.O.S.) were favorites too. I still like S.O.S. Mom loved egg creams too.

[@samanthab1923]

I just heard about Milk Toast on another channel. Except theirs had sugar & cinnamon, not S&P. Said the dad made it for them. Didn’t know how to cook.

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

I love me some S.O.S. Cheap and delicious.

[@pambrown6260]

Milk toast also called graveyard stew

[@kararay8962]

@@pambrown6260 I had never heard that. That's interesting.

[@mescko]

I'm going to be making some tuna casserole soon. My go-to topping is crushed Cheez-its, I've got a crab cake recipe with them too, fantastic.

[@ginny9577]

some of us still love sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole. i also loved something my grandmother used to make called shrimp wiggle (shrimp, onions, peas in a bechamel over toast or rice)

[@joantrezza]

@ginny9577,your grandmother's shrimp wiggle sounds so delicious! I'll have to try it.

[@hellhound1389]

None of those would be allowed in my house. I however make a meatball version of Salisbury steak from scratch. My mother was a horrible cook and if it was easy and nearly impossible to screw up she made it for supper. She was a damned good baker but couldn't cook for sh!t. I learned to cook and took over when I was 11. I make all sorts of classic family recipes but they're 100 years or more old including a fruitcake that my family requests

[@Patricia-om3vo]

Ginger I still love sloppy joes also they are one of my comfort foods.

[@susanmolnar9606]

Ginny my mother would make salmon wiggle the same way but she used canned salmon. I still make it to this day.

[@mamadeb1963]

I don't eat shrimp, but I make salmon wiggle, which I prefer to serve over noodles. I got it from a 1930s children's cookbook called "PattyPans."

[@MidnightHozz]

Sloppy Joes and Salisbury steak are both 100% awesome. Fire whoever edited this.

[@hellhound1389]

Love Salisbury steak on toast but loath sloppy Joes entirely. There's a list of foods that will never be made at our house and most of these are on it. My wife hates tv dinners since that's all her mother made. My mother was just as bad and the only thing she made regularly was soup, toasted cheese, and sloppy Joes. I still make a more spicy version of SOS with hot Hungarian paprika, cayenne pepper, and thin sliced deli meat

[@karenminckler4198]

I make my own Salisbury steak.

[@luiul1]

LOL agree 100%

[@gloriamontgomery6900]

I agree!

[@firstname__lastname]

I can say I've never had it

[@MrTonyBones]

Maaan, you’re crazy @Mashed Just made Salisbury Steaks the other day. The original "steak sauce’ my Mom used is no longer around but thankfully I found a good substitute off Amazon, with a side of mashed potatoes? Still a hearty, good, relatively cheap meal. Same thing with Sloppy Joes.

[@BranniganCarter]

I routinely make Salisbury steak at home with mashed potatoes and gravy. One of my favorites. You can even get chop steak at Texas Roadhouse which is the same thing

[@lauramiller751]

I still make chicken a la king all the time, but I put peas and carrots in mine instead of mushrooms and peppers. My mom used to make it when I was a kid, so it's still a comfort food for me.

[@erinobrien8793]

The best chicken a la king I ever had was at a French bistro served in a puff pastry. They made everything from scratch with fresh ingredients. Amazing.

[@jgw5491]

A variation using turkey was my favorite holiday leftovers dish.

[@cynthiamickle1521]

We still LOVE Sloppy Joes! When i was a child, this was something we looked forward to every year at our local fair. Fondu? We do this as a family for events like Christmas or Birthdays! And everyone eats Salisbury Steak. And omg! I just had the Watergate salad for the first time this summer! It was the best! Totally the first thing gone!!!

[@TheMrLebaron]

Call me old fashioned but sloppy joes with a side of hot bake is the best thing ever, and I would know as my wife is French that Fondue is still huge in France

[@selysebaratheonsmustache973]

What’s hot bake

[@TheMrLebaron]

@@selysebaratheonsmustache973 Cheese cassorol, very big in the midwest, Potatoes, Cheese, Cream of Mushroom, Bacon Bits, two sticks of butter, sour cream, all mixed together and covered in Breadcrumbs and baked for an hour.

[@stormchaser5650]

What is hot bake?!

[@susanbeckham7236]

What is hot bake?

[@gabithemagyar]

@@TheMrLebaron That hot bake sounds delicious !!

[@cephasmartin8593]

If a hotdog shaves 36 minutes off your live, I should have died 40+ years ago. And Grandma cooked up a skillet full of beanie weenies last week.

[@hellhound1389]

I would rather die with a hotdog in my hand then to eat kale like a rabbit. I prefer quality over quantity when it comes to life

[@arightscepter]

@@hellhound1389 Hehe - die with a hot dog in my hand. I was walking toward the kitchen the other day with a single hot dog in my hand while a room mate was following. I told him I have a wiener and I'm not afraid to use it. He stayed back a safe distance, maybe he know about the minutes.

[@jln55]

If a hotdog can shave 36 minutes off of your life, I would have been dead before my conception!

[@AurenGlytterkat]

Yeah fr here I am chain scarfing hot dogs and waiting …. No WAY it takes that much off your life lmaooo

[@frankb4517]

@@jln55retroactive abortion? Gonna get big Pharma thinking

[@IWasAPepper]

We had Watergate salad at Thanksgiving. It was pretty good.

[@bunkyman8097]

Still love Watergate salad.

[@Dfoto679]

We have just about every holiday and it’s a mixed fruit salad. I never even heard it called Watergate salad.

[@Glostahdude]

My parents had Fondue Parties when I was kid circa 77-80! Melted Cheese’s, breads, sausages etc! Chocolate Fondue with all kinds of fruits and pastry! I remember going with Mom and Dad when he was home, to the Cracker Barrel store at the mall! I was about 5-6yo! They were so much fun! My parents friends would bring their kids and was a big family get together!

[@shelcancook6731]

Watergate salad is still eaten here in OK, and I love it now just as much as when I was a kid. Also, I think some of the jello salads get a bad rap, some are really good. My grandmother made one with carrots and orange jello with pineapple. It was the only way my Dad would eat carrots.

[@bunkyman8097]

My mom used to make my dad a Jello salad when I was a kid: lime Jello with shredded cabbage! He'd eat it with miracle whip on top. To me it felt like you were eating something that has already been chewed. I couldn't stand it, gross!

[@Rebecca-n7n]

Ambrosia and watergate salad are completely different. And both are very good. I ohio creamed chicken was and still is popular similar to chicken a la king. Served on toast, buns,bread,or mashed potatoes. Just like the a la kimg chik. I just made salisbury steak last week and strawberry jello with sliced bananas is a great snack or desert. I think you missed it Mashed.

[@melissadunton3534]

I’ll be 50yrs old in April, so… I’m a GenX’er and I grew up with most of these meals, as did my son and I still make them for myself on occasion. You can’t help what gives you that nostalgia and that warmth of remembering your mom calling everyone down to dinner for a yummy Tuna noodle casserole!!! I still make tuna noodle casserole, sloppy Joe’s, SOS (aka creamed chipped beef), I also buy frozen dinners - love the Healthy Choice steamers. One of my favorite dishes to make when I have ppl over is spinach, chicken à la king w/parsley, butter biscuits. I still crave franks and beans on occasion and will make it for an easy meal. I’ve had turtle soup, but it was made with snapper and it was not pleasant. Still love Salisbury steak. I don’t eat it often, but about once a year I will buy a frozen Salisbury steak dinner. As for Jello salads: there are about a million different types. Some are good, some should be killed with fire!!! I only like the dessert salads….like Watergate salad and ambrosia….so yummy!

[@Deadgyrl]

Many of these foods were awesome, and still find there way to my table

[@snipermafia3609]

I still like Sloppy Joes, my dad used to make them for me and I make for kids sometimes. I pass on one favorite food to another.

[@hellhound1389]

I can't stand sloppy Joes, my mother (a horrible cook) made them quite often and it's something I just won't even go near. I learned to cook as a kid so I wouldn't have to eat her cooking ever again

[@slavetomasterjim]

I loved sloppy joes as a kid and as an adult make them about once a month. A nice change that brings back memories. (And as a kid I like Manwhich but it is so easy to do from scratch).

[@bluejem1315]

I still eat sloppy Joes , I never had milk toast but it sounds good. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year.

[@markcollins2666]

Growing up in the 60's in New England, had tuna casserole every Friday night, and baled beans and hot dogs every Saturday night. Not only at our house, but all over the neighborhood. Hated the first, loved the second, but you always knew what you'd be having, on those two nights.

[@optionout]

Why so consistent?

[@markcollins2666]

@@optionout, old habits die hard, I guess. I lived in a largely Catholic neighborhood, where, until 1964, Catholics were forbidden to eat meat on Fridays, the day Jesus Christ died, supposedly on a Friday the Thirteenth, which is why it's considered a bad luck, even evil day. Canned tuna was cheap, only two cans needed to feed a family, so I guess that's why that persisted. Hot dogs and beans, on Saturday night. I have no idea why, but that was almost universal in our neighborhood.

[@MrTopcat3333]

@@markcollins2666 Also grew up in a predominately Catholic city (Albany, NY). Friday was codfish cakes and Saturday was franks and beans.

[@markcollins2666]

@@MrTopcat3333, In the Boston area, codcakes and baked beans were a favorite combination!

[@markcollins2666]

I worked in a Jewish deli in Boston, the Essex Delicatessen, on the corner of Washington Street and Essex, and we sold that by the ton, every day!

[@LadyCin611]

I made the tuna noodle casserole for my kids a few years ago, and you would have thought they were eating gourmet! I laughed my butt off. They STILL love it!

[@cletedavis5849]

You can't beat a good tuna noodle casserole! Especially with the buttered bread crumbs on top!

[@mescko]

I do crushed Cheez-its on top of mine.

[@5610winston]

10:00 Salisbury steak is basically just individual meat loaves. I make it often. With duchess potatoes and fresh-picked garden beans, it elevates the more plebian hamburger to an appetizing family meal. and yes, I do grow green beans and wax beans in my garden.

[@suzettebavier4412]

I just ate Chicken a la King yesterday. I eat it quite often, but always without the bread/toast

[@roxcyn]

It's good over rice or noodles like they showed in the video.

[@marylist1236]

Of these dishes, I "ate" tuna casserole on many a Friday night as a child, I was raised Catholic, and just before Vatican II days, Fridays were for fish. I didn't like it because of the peas & the cream of mushroom soup. I love sloppy joes, I had recently last month when my brother & I were staying with my youngest sister & brother-in-law, I lived for Wednesdays at my OG Catholic school, because that was sloppy joe day. There are kinds of milk toast, the sweet one with cinnamon sugar, & the savory one with salt & pepper. My mom would put a poached on top of hers, both are comforting when you're feeling poorly. I love all the iterations of the jello pretzel salad, & the fluff salad which is the category Watergate salad falls under. Dishes you forgot, what I grew up calling goulash, which was ground beef, elbow pasta, tomato products, green peppers, & onions, & seasonings. In New England this is referred to as American Chop Suey. If swap rice for the elbow pasta, you have what I grew up calling Spanish Rice

[@johnfronczek2658]

I love Tuna Casserole with elbow macaroni and peas. It’s one of my favorite cold weather dishes.

[@zackamanda9799]

Sloppy Joe's is still around here in NJ. I've been eating them for years. There even found on diner menus or even coffee trucks here in NJ. I've been making my own sloppy joe's for year and years. Just cook up some ground beef in a pan and add Manwich sauce and put it on Martins potatoe rolls and add some potatoe chips on the side.

[@montilue]

I always liked tuna noodle casserole. Never had chicken a la king or milk toast. I have had toast with powdered sugar and cinnamon though. Sloppy joes are super yummy I still sometimes eat sloppy Joes. I used to love fondue but I don't make it at home we used to have a restaurant but it was very expensive so couldn't go often. Especially the chocolate dessert fondue.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

Milk toast was my Mom's answer for sickness( well one of her answers).

[@seanhunter4297]

Montilue I like your version of tuna noodle casserole better, it's much simpler & I can do without the peas.

[@MeowingKittyCat]

I've only ever had fondue once; it was cheese fondue, at a restaurant. I went there with a friend, and the chef put so much wine in that fondue, it was a miracle we both didn't get plastered!

[@frankjoseph4273]

Try the chicken aka king with home grown tomatoes and NM green Chile on the side.

[@BrokebackBob]

What the heck is wrong with Mashed? They're really going off the rails recently. Every single item on this list is still enjoyed by a large number of people all over the world. No, none of them are trendy which is all Mashed seems to be interested in, but each and every one is still enjoyed today. Vert der Ferk?

[@optionout]

Elite snobs write for them.

[@sandy-pf9bb]

They are coming across as condescending and rather rude. I love Salisbury steak and I don't consider it a pulverized meat product. This doesn't feel like a documentary, more like a put down.

[@mescko]

OK, Swedish Chef 🤣

[@NoNameToYou]

What about “aren’t popular” anymore confused you? Yes some in some areas eat them but for most people in large cities they wouldn’t go near any of those meals.

[@anonymousvapes8026]

Hey Mashed wtfu pay attention to WHO ACTUALLY watches your videos.

[@jenewok]

In my family, we still make sloppy joes and "Watergate" salad (though we call it pistachio salad) quite often! We don't put any extra nuts in it though.

[@Val_Emrys]

I loved Salsbury Steak TV dinners when I was young. I recently discovered that Chef John of Food Wishes has a recipe for them. Long story short, I followed his instructions and they were delicious!

[@buttonsbebe]

Don’t be coming for sloppy Joe’s. We eat them regularly at our home.

[@hellhound1389]

I hate sloppy Joes and haven't eaten one in almost 40 years

[@OldLugnutz]

My mom grew up in an army family, and she learned to make great cream chip beef on toast. It was a regular meal for a mid-week night meal every two weeks or so when I was a kid. I miss that meal, and mom.

[@jonsidds6963]

I make sloppy Joe's, tuna casserole a cream chipped beef at least once a week, chipped beef I'll eat before work probably more than three times a week. Just saying.

[@bunkyman8097]

As a kid I couldn't stand chipped beef on toast. I love it now! Go figure...

[@markasdievovaikas]

This is one of your videos (as a few others) that just makes my shake my head over your opinions and pronouncements that these foods hold no popularity and are 'best left in the past'. Obviously, your staff must be Gen-X or Gen-Z to believe this. Tuna Noodle, Chicken A La King, Sloppy Joes, Chipped Beef, Lean Cuisine, Banquet dinners, some Jello salads, and ESPECIALLY Watergate Salad... I still love them all! Albertson's deli still sells Watergate salad although it's not as good as homemade.

[@hellhound1389]

Gen-xer here and grew up on this food and because my mother was a horrible cook these bring up bad memories that make me gag. However I still to this day make SOS, Salisbury steak, and beans and franks. I make a more refined version of all of these from scratch but I still make them. But you'll never get me to touch another sloppy Joe in my life. My wife feels the same way about tv dinners. When these subpar foods were forced on you your entire childhood you'll never have them again

[@AnastaciaInCleveland]

Maybe by Gen-Xers you mean Millenials? As a Gen-Xer I ate many of these foods. ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

[@johnmckenzie4639]

I've never heard of Watergate Salad, but my mom used to make something identical that she called pistachio salad. It was delicious but we treated it as a dessert. I still make it from time to time if I can find pistachio pudding mix.

[@BatCaveOz]

I have 20+ fondue sets. Fondue is not just melted cheese... there is the Chinois style (with meat and vegetables cooked in beef/chicken/vegetable stock). Also chocolate fondue, with slices of pear or apple, or strawberries dipped in melted chocolate is a banger of a desert. Hit up your local thrift shops... they can be bought or 5 or 10 dollars.

[@mescko]

Don't need to tell me, I've got 2, both electric. No more messing with Sterno. One's a big Oster, non-stick stainless-steel bowl, it was NIB and like 10 bucks. I've got a killer cheese that I do, came up with the recipe myself, complete with secret ingredient that no one's ever correctly guessed. I also have a creamy, cheesy chipped-beef fondue recipe that a childhood family friend used to make that is seriously addictive.

[@MsBackstager]

With Swanson's TV dinners, I always loved the sliced apples and cranberry sauce.

[@lauriemathews7974]

My family LOVES Watergate Salad but we called it Gorilla Snot Salad, (named so by my older sister), when my young son asked his Aunt what she had made, she told him it was Gorilla Snot Salad (with the mini marshmallows being the gorilla boogers. LOL!!) He loved it!!

[@mescko]

Sounds like a Calvin & Hobbes strip I once read.

[@Telcomvic]

We make sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole every 2-3 months just to change things up a bit. Hubby isn't a fan of either--but will eat them if I don't make them too often.

[@seanhunter4297]

Telconvic suggestion, alter tuna noodle casserole to Montilue's version above w cream of mushroom soup, omit the peas & sprinkle Italian bread crumb on top.

[@edkeaton]

Of the foods of this list, I probably would consume tuna noodle casserole, sloppy joes, and Salisbury steak. These are the foods that I have grown up with and still find tasty to this day, in my humble opinion, not to mention also creamed beef on toast (s.o.s.) which my late Father had enjoyed while he had served in the military. He had preferred it over steak and eggs any day and twice on Sunday.

[@Redwhiteblue-gr5em]

I still like to have tuna helper once in a while. Reminds me of tuna casserole that my school cafeteria use to serve in the 1960s.

[@annelynn8708]

Fondue is pretty delicious. I mean, how can you go wrong with cheese and bread?!

[@michaelcoffey7362]

I like Salisbury steak 🥰

[@AidanTheLoverBoyOhDwyer]

half of these are still popular in my opinion

[@Avrysatos]

Whoever wrote this needs to leave their home city more often.

[@chrisdooley1184]

I used to LOVE Chicken Devine as a young lad. The sauce the broccoli the special jasmine rice my mum used to get downtown at the Asian market once a year (the only time she’d go in there which I never understood but hell she was Swedish so who knows lol) it brings back very nice memories especially at Christmas time. Happy holidays everyone🎄

[@AnastaciaInCleveland]

It's also known as chicken divan, and I still love it! ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

[@AnastaciaInCleveland]

And Happy Holidays to you too!

[@lant7123]

Make Sloppy Joes all the time. Still do tuna casserole, but without the noodles. Beans and franks is not going anywhere, either.

[@LydiAtheistLady]

Yooooo I love love love creamed chipped beef on toast. I have some on my freezer right now lol. That and corned beef hash!!! Yummmy!!!!

[@sharonsmalls6846]

I believe that this video is old comfort food that people still love.

[@es330td]

I lived on dinners consisting of a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese with a can of tuna and a can of peas mixed into the noodles in college. I will still eat this in a pinch. Growing up we knew "Watergate Salad" as "Green Slime" and it was served at every family holiday gathering. Because of this video I will make it again this Thanksgiving. I genuinely miss cheese enchilada TV dinners. I've made sloppy joes but they are really just a less liquid Italian ragu served on a bun. I recently cut up a hot dog and mixed it into my pork & beans. My kids looked at me like I had grown another head. I had to show them it exists on the canned goods aisle at the grocery store.

[@RedBeard1620]

Born in '90, I've had literally every single one of these dishes growing up and liked them all except the watergate salad (not a huge mayo guy) and some of the tv dinners arent great but still edible. Still make sloppy joes a lot too, theyre awesome if you add in your own extras to it. I've even used basic sloppy joe ingredients for the base of some good chilis too

[@LeahNewmanWrites]

There’s no mayo in Watergate salad. It’s a dessert. Cool Whip or other whipped cream is the base.

[@RedBeard1620]

@@LeahNewmanWrites I'll have to tell the person who made it at the family gathering I was at lol. This was a long time ago, and I've had some head injuries as well so I could be wrong. Thanks for the info tho, and good fortune to you and yours.

[@sazerchu]

I was born in 1984 and I love "Watergate Salad". We would have it every year at Christmas and thanksgiving when my aunt made it for the table. She didn't call it "watergate salad" (for obviously political reasons and argued even when i showed her the recipe) but it was basically the same thing that I found out when I looked it up online for proportions. She didn't add the nuts though. She is gone now as cancer took her a few years ago, but I still make it for myself once in a while. It brings me fond memories. I guess depending on the ingredients and flavours you could do a "gelatine" desert salad 'right' but some of the combos from past times were awful. Considering that things like Pineapple --and many other fruit have enzymes that break collagen down many are impossible to do. Tuna casserole lives on for us in "KD" with tuna and peas (It beats ketchup and Franks) and I love canned baked beans on rice (just without the "Franks"). Salisbury steak however is good (but hard to make home made which is what likely killed it too) and fondue is a bit exotic for people who have "Dairy issues". Likewise with "SOS"/ Chipped beef. I've never eaten "Turtle" either... Every species of turtle in my local area is protected now and they are ALL considered threatened or endangered (Southwestern Ontario). Eating one here would be horrible.

[@toughbutsweet1]

Plus turtles are so cute.

[@mescko]

@@toughbutsweet1 A box turtle, sure. But have you ever seen a big snapper? 🤨

[@TheSerpentsEye]

I still cook sloppy Joe's for my family and I ate them often, growing up.

[@1974geary]

I love chipped beef on toast

[@jaengen]

We call it S*&T on a shingle and we luvvvv it in my hovel!

[@frankb4517]

@@jaengenhovel😂

[@barbtowner8086]

I love cheese fondue. I buy it at alis all the time. I keep a few always on hand in the freezer

[@jgw5491]

I eat a LOT of tv dinners. Basically any meal you can buy in frozen foods and now they include foods like tikka masala, quiches, and bowls that are combos of various ingredients from different parts of the world. Also I still like getting together with a friend who has an old fondue set from which we eat bread, veggies and apple chunks dipped in delicious, hot wine cheese. Yum!😋

[@laurie5098]

Some of these may not be popular anymore, but they still exist. Just in the last week, my family has had chicken a la king, sloppy joes and watergate salad! All still delicious!

[@minervamclitchie3667]

I make sloppy Joe's here in The Bronx. When I was a vegetarian I used textured soy protein. Now I use chopped meat. I make chicken a la king, and tuna casserole. Egg creams, I'm a Jew, franks and beans, and Salisbury steak.

[@kathrinsides2838]

I asked my husband to develop a recipe for SOS (chipped beef), and he knocked it out of the park. It’s one of my favorite recipes of his. My uncle who served in the military introduced us to it when he made it for breakfast when I was a kid, & I’ve always loved it, along with bacon, soft scrambled eggs, & hash browns with onions and American cheese on top.

[@nikikeya939]

The sheer vitriol towards Salisbury Stakes tho XDDD Up here in Northern Maine its still a very popular dish. As are TV Dinners and Tuna Casseroles, or Hungry Man Sloppy Joes. Though I've always said that in both culture, trends, and language Maine is about 20 years behind the rest of the country. And in this case I'm glad we are.

[@LindaHaghgoo]

I had terrapin soup at the Eager House in Baltimore. It was thick, brown, rich, and meaty. So delicious and still legal in the 1960s.

[@patriciaaturner289]

After my mom got married in 1945 she began a collection of recipes. One of her favorite dishes for holiday celebrations was a Jell-O salad which included lime Jell-O, crushed pineapple, chopped nuts, sliced canned cherries or grapes, and marshmallows. I still make this recipe every year for Christmas and sometimes Thanksgiving. As far as I know, this recipe has been in our family since the late 40s or early 50s.

[@yeahhoo86]

I make Salisbury Steaks from Angus ground beef, it is one of the best comfort foods in my book.

[@lolacampbell8451]

Haha chopped beef on toast S.o.s still one of my favorites

[@5610winston]

4:58 Creamed chipped beef on toast deserves more respect than its unofficial nickname affords it. The white gravy also serves as the basis for another southern-style comfort food, sausage gravy, which is usually served over that other southern delicacy, home-made buttermilk biscuits. $#!+-on-a-shingle, indeed!

[@jerrera45]

I just made Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes in my Crockpot tonight, and yes, it was very comforting.

[@apara2005]

Sloppy Joe's are awesome!!! I make them at home (the store bought, canned sauce is too sweet). I start making Tuna with noodles last week (i ran out of chicken and had a pouch of tuna and said, why not), and it was so yummy. Never had it casserole style, but now I'm curious.

[@rondini2]

Have Sloppy Joes frequently in this house. Haven’t had a jello salad in a while cuz I’m the only one who would eat it. Lime jello with raw coleslaw set in it, is great. There’s a jello salad in The Joy of Cooking that uses pineapple juice but you have to heat the juice up with a bit of salt to deactivate the bromelain enzyme

[@angelasieg5099]

I make everything from scratch even the cream soup base due to allergies but nearby all of them we still eat. Chipped Beef on toast with dried beef is a favorite. Tuna noodle hot dish just once or twice a year.

[@kylechristy2155]

Love tuna noodle still! But I make it with just cream of mushroom and tuna. Never had chicken Ala king but it sounds good. Never had milk toast. Sloppy joes can be good. Mostly depends on the sauce. Never seen cheese fondue but sounds good. Chipped beef gravy… mmm very good. Frozen dinners can be good. Never had egg crème. Beans and franks… childhood memories. Never had turtle soup. Salisbury… good stuff. Remember mom did a few fruit jello molds. Think ive had watergate not sure. Had ambrosia. I’m a 90’s kid by the way.

[@scottmcwave9479]

I’m still chowing down on a lot of these but I’ve never had turtle! 😃

[@cletedavis5849]

Scott, the best turtle meat comes from the snapping turtle, and there are several folks along the Mississippi River who sell the meat. The son of one of my close friends was know as "the turtle man", because he made a good dollar catching, processing, and selling it. There are several turtle soup recipes that are quite good.

[@claudiamiller7730]

Had turtle stew in the Cayman Islands…before I knew better. Greasy!! So…a no go for me.

[@awalton9024]

@@claudiamiller7730 Yes, and it also tastes like liver which is not something I go in for.🤢 But you have to try things once.

[@luiul1]

@8:50 that 36 minute number per hot dog. i've been dead for 10 years.

[@kararay8962]

I liked and still do like some kinds of jello salads. I like Watergate salad too. I'm weird.

[@hellhound1389]

You're not weird until you're favorite comfort food is chili on Johnny cakes

[@AnastaciaInCleveland]

@Hellhound 13 - That is how I like my chili too! I add cheese on top. I call it "chili Anastacia's way" as every other person I know doesn't eat it this way. My partner has come to like his chili served like this. ~ Anastacia in Cleveland

[@kararay8962]

@@hellhound1389 that sounds good.

[@AaronLakes-ge9su]

I still eat nearly all of them to this very day especially sloppy joes and beans and franks plus i put Spanish rice in with it it's awesome ❤

[@realamerican5969]

Tuna Noodle Casserole is fabulous, dears.

[@Redwhiteblue-gr5em]

My school cafeteria in the 1960s regularly served Chicken Ala King over white rice. I loved it.

[@KageNoTora74]

Chipped beef was still a staple when I was in the Navy in the early nineties.

[@bhn028]

❤❤❤, thank you and happy Holidays!

[@Hillers62]

I love Tuna casserole...My Grandma made it many times in the 70's...

[@bluesky7838]

Egg creams are coming back! Yay!

[@katherineeckrich2039]

I don't think any of these food have disappeared from the table. I do think that the generations coming up simply don't cook. They seem to eat out or rely on prepared food whether it's boxed Or frozen. With the cost of food people are going back to these old recipes and learning to cook again. You can fill up a family with a casserole. You can make a casserole out of the leftovers in your refrigerator, add or subtract ingredients that you like. Over 80, have relied on these casserole all my life.

[@barblibrarian]

You made me wonder something. Many grocery stores in our area have premade meals in their deli section. I wonder how many of these dishes are available there and aren’t counted in this popularity contest. And, are eaten by the younger generation that doesn’t call it what we did.

[@mescko]

PNW here. I would bet the magazine referenced at 0:30 was Sunset Magazine. My late Mom used a lot of recipes from it when I was growing up, we were never disappointed. I've always loved tuna casserole, I'll be making a big batch soon, after I make some chicken casserole. i make a damn good fondue too.

[@corinneskitchen]

You should also mention that turtle soup is originally a Lenape dish and there are restaurants in Philadelphia that sometimes serve it.

[@bluesky7838]

Interesting!!

[@a1700zz]

Chicken ala king, Tuna noodle casserole, Sloppy joes are still popular. I still buy these items and my girlfriend makes a good casserole. And I like Chipped beef.

[@hylacinerea970]

man, my grandma craves red jello when she's sick. I won't say anything to her because recovering from flu when your body isn't normal sucks but she's probably not getting enough calories due to that

[@garygreen7552]

TV dinners have morphed into a broad variety of frozen foods sold in plastic containers that can be micro waved or heat in the oven. The form is different and the brands have changed but they are still here. By the way, what happened to Swanson's? Sloppy joe's and creamed chipped beef on bread {SOS} is still around as a quick meal. I had never heard of the Watergate salad.

[@StarTrekLivz]

But my friends and I still make many of these! In fact I was thinking of making tuna noodle casserole for dinner tomorrow night!

[@bassiclymike]

Snapper (turtle) soup can still be found in many areas, especially Philly and Baltimore. Rich, peppery and delicious. Tuna casserole done right will always be a favorite.

[@mayloo2137]

I'm Chinese. Born in Hong Kong. Grew up in Canada, and I still remember spreading sweetened condensed milk on plain bread. Didn't use butter though. 😊 My favorite fondue from the 70s: chocolate fondue with toasted cake cubes and cut-up fruit to dip.

[@darlenebradley6756]

I was hospitalized when I was 17 years old to have all of my wisdom teeth surgically extracted. I was on a soft diet after that and I remember the nurse telling me she took the liberty of ordering my breakfast since I had been sleeping so soundly -- she had ordered milk toast. I had never even heard of it but I was so surprised at how good it was! I still fix it to this day!

[@bloqk16]

I recall my brother loathed tuna casserole from his US Army service in Vietnam in the late 1960s. The irony of that was years later after he was married and still lived locally, he'd make impromptu visits to our parents house on Sundays and was warmly welcomed to stay for dinner, which was the day that mom generally served tuna casserole. xD

[@r.a.dalton8807]

I am not sure about your Tuna Noodle Casserole being included in this. My wife and I have it several times a year and it is one of our favorite comfort foods!

[@marioStortuga]

Guess I'm dead cause we eat hot dogs since I was a kid

[@samanthab1923]

My hubby & I did. Growing up in NY/NJ it was Sabretts or Nathan’s. We moved to PA & no luck with either. Luckily we found Boars Head beef natural casing.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

Tuna noodle casserole, or rather the salmon version, basically kept me alive in university. And fondue is a family tradition for Christmas Eve dinner. Oh, and you can always make me happy with a Salsbury steak. (I'm probably the only person alive outside New York who still loves egg creams, too....)

[@Sacto1654]

I think both chicken a la king and chipped beef on toast may make a comeback in the next few years.

[@Masterk1988]

I love me some chipped beef on toast 🤤 also to add I still have Watergate salad in my fridge from x mas lol yummy

[@PhantomLover007]

Grew up eating chipped beef (aka shit on shingles) and snapping turtle soup. Every time my grandfather went fishing, he’d come back with a snapping turtle and we either had soup or fried turtle nuggets.

[@joanmayer304]

I make and love Sloppy Joes! I use Manwich and they are so yummy and comforting. I want one right now! ‘MY MANWICH’. I hope the cartoon lovers get my reference, mon.