Pro Chefs Debate Popular Food Trends (1950's-2010's) | Test Kitchen Talks | Bon Appétit

Join Chrissy Tracey, Melissa Miranda, Brad Leone, Rachel Gurjar, Kendra Vaculin and Chris Morocco in the Bon Appétit test kitchen as they debate the merits of popular food trends from the 1950's to today. From gelatinous tomato aspic to Hamburger Helper™ and avocado toast, see if you agree with the pros on which trends still deserve a spot in the limelight and which should fade away into history.
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[@schizotypeseraph]

"It's safe to say, I was around, I was sentient, like, I was technically there, but I've already forgotten everything that happened." 🤣🤣🤣

[@TashJansson]

me to what happened this morning

[@maryle126]

The Brad and Melissa pairing was so great! Love the laughs they had!

[@hefudgedafrog]

Nothing against Melissa but it seems impossible to not have chemistry with Brad

[@NotMister]

@@hefudgedafrog i agree

[@albuseisenhorn3385]

@@hefudgedafrog exactly its like he's MSG made human lol goes with everything

[@vincentalvarado7058]

@@albuseisenhorn3385 People always describe him as the human embodiment of a Golden Retriever.

[@maggieragaisis8282]

Hamburger Helper was actually REALLY popular in the 70s because inflation was out of control and things were REALLY expensive and this was a way of stretching a relatively inexpensive meat into a meal for the whole family. It was promoted as being economical.

[@wastaman]

Avocados have existed in the americas for than tens of thousands of years. They were spread through the americas by the giant sloths before the last ice age. When there was no longer giant herbivores big enough to "spread" the large seeds, avocados were almost lost until human cultivation started thousands of years ago.

[@magicmurlo]

And as far as Avocado toast, it was a huge push by, (wait for it) the California Avocado Board. (import.....who imports avocados?)

[@wastaman]

Mexico...?

[@fabe61]

@@wastaman Mexico exports avocados, it isn’t a net importer. What’re you on?

[@DangerSquiggles]

I think she was trying to say that avocados were introduced to the US and are not native to the area like they are in Mexico, for example. Even California has only been growin them since the 19th century.

[@eatwithchrissy]

I meant Northern US, like in CT where I live and everything is imported 😭♥️

[@ML-xx9kc]

Brad: Scrapes some mold off the wall of a dilapidated basement, mixes it up with fermented goat afterbirth. "Delicious!" Also Brad: Pukes at the sight of a lunchable.

[@kindablue1959]

He'd rather eat something that people have happily been eating for thousands of years instead of something concocted and assembled last week in a lab.

[@ML-xx9kc]

@@kindablue1959 Imagine being so out of touch that you think lunchables are some newfangled concoction straight out of a science lab. Go touch grass you dork.

[@lapis_lazuli578]

WHAT IS FERMENTED GOAT AFTERBIRTH OMG

[@AUserName-fv8zj]

@@ML-xx9kc pretty sure it's just an exaggerated way to say brad doesn't like highly processed food, which is fine.

[@antonrupert1377]

@@AUserName-fv8zj Pickling and fermentation are processed foods - would say he is a fan 😂

[@richardengelhardt582]

In the 1950s in the midwest, my mother used tomato aspic (homemade not Jello) cut out into shapes as a garnish for a vegetable salad. She was of Scandivarian origin, but made a dessert we would recognize as tiramsu. Fancy frosted cupcakes were our go-to birthday party cakes. We also had avacado toast quite frequently for breakfast or lunch. 1950s.

[@mattsnyder4754]

I will not tolerate this hamburger helper elitism. That stuff is fantastic for what it is - cheap, fast, low effort. Edit: OR this lunchable elitism.

[@EMHopeW]

Look. I love these people dearly. I enjoy their videos. But elitism is kind of the baseline for any BA content. They're "It's a banana, how much can it cost, $10?" people of food.

[@chelsearuiz6601]

Lunchables were for the rich kids 😹 - we had peanut butter and jelly that we’d make in the morning. As a kid, I always envied the Lunchables kids and always wanted to try Hamburger Helper. It’s funny to look back on now.

[@moysauce788]

Yo Hamburger helper is delicious if it's the right flavor

[@derickwiebe]

+1 to Kendra actually willing to try the jello

[@romy7408]

i think Chrissy mostly didnt try it bcz shes vegan and it has hella gelatin in it

[@eatwithchrissy]

@@romy7408 that part 🥲

[@Eltener123]

In the UK pigs in blankets are mini sausages wrapped in bacon. Those look like mini sausage rolls.

[@cerysjames24]

Exactly. Pigs in blankets especially on a Christmas dinner

[@celinal9525]

In Germany a classic 70s party food is, frighteningly, a mett hedgehog. Mett is seasoned raw pork and you shape it into a hedgehog and stick onion slices or pretzel sticks into it as spikes. Then you smear it on a bread roll. It’s kinda disgusting but it would definitely eat it.

[@Papklo]

Mett with a little bit of small diced onion and paprika ( smoked if ya like it) on a piece of dark bread is as close to heaven as you will get while alive .

[@Amoncaco]

Junge why are you hating on mett honestly fake german

[@La_sagne]

its still really really popular though

[@erichamilton3373]

In the US, in "classier circles" steak tartar which is basically like German mett was popular in the past--without the pretzel sticks though.

[@2011songlover]

I really wanna try mett but I don’t think it’s available in the us

[@Operation3Sixty]

I remember Hamburger Helper being one of my favorite meals as a kid. Tried it as an adult and it tasted like cardboard 😅

[@firstjohn3123]

And Rice - A - Roni...

[@webbs18]

Joe's. got it in college but forgot to buy meat for it...... it definitely needs the hamburger to be something.

[@vandalg282]

You probably never had it as much as you thought. I loved it and still do. Its like street vendor hot dogs, classic "bad" taste.

[@Samurai78420]

I literally love every Chef on here. As a Chef myself, these guys calm me down. What an amazing job

[@gregperez-greene7408]

I had no idea Bon Appetit has been around since the 50s! Thats some real credibility

[@AlexandriAce]

That would explain why they weren't paying their non white employees. Sticking to their roots.

[@nikchhetri2686]

@@AlexandriAce lmaoooo

[@PetitChouPumpkin]

Chris’s high expectations of the Hamburger Helper are truly shocking lol

[@cassnick2709]

This 😂

[@SavageGreywolf]

"avocados are not native to America" I feel like maybe Bon Appetit should do a 'where is this food cultivated' episode lol I could feel the Californian avocado farmers getting that vein bulging in their forehead

[@hypernature]

That line triggered me to no end. But then I thought: "They are americans, perhaps they refer to the country, not the continent."

[@charlesmills6621]

Native and cultivated are not the same. Avocados are native to Mexico and Central America; however, they are cultivated all over the world.

[@ScruffyNerfhurder]

@@charlesmills6621 She was saying that the reason it's so expensive is because they are not native and we have to import the Avocados. Tons of Avocados are grown in California and do not need to be imported. Saying they are not native may be correct but the correlation with having to import them is not.

[@Tykeronia]

@@charlesmills6621 "Not native to America" "native to Mexico and Central America" hmmmmm

[@madelinehoerner2993]

When Americans say “America” they usually mean the country and not the continent

[@Globalfoodbook1]

Those are really lovely dishes. Thanks for sharing

[@MMetalRain]

This was fun, thanks!

[@joshwilliams8863]

As an Australian this made me chuckle at the reaction to Avo on Toast.

[@alexkh8774]

I feel like salads with baby spinach and mandarin oranges and almond slivers was a thing

[@evoandy]

Those are unfortunately still a thing. *barf*

[@jayleno2192]

Beet and goat cheese salad was also a huge trend for a while.

[@rosiecheekies517]

Omg you unlocked a memory i forgot i had

[@ZoeBateman]

As a brit, the US version of pigs in a blanket are just confusing, our version is somehow more american than the american thing. we wrap the sausage in bacon instead of dough or whatever it is. also here we call them pigs in blankets, which feels easier and more natural to say

[@lloydtxw]

How is sausage with bread confusing? It’s just a mini hotdog in a bun.

[@ZoeBateman]

@@lloydtxw not confusing as in “I don’t understand it” but confusing as in “it could be better why haven’t they changed it”

[@danceresort]

@@lloydtxw Yeah, we have Sausage Rolls (sausage meat in pastry), Good Old Greggs!

[@hojdog]

If it’s just a mini hotdog why didn’t you just call them mini hotdogs

[@TheTomster21]

Was thinking the exact same thing haha! That's not pigs in blankets...

[@CocktailsConsoles]

"I'd like to see aquafaba become a thing" You're in luck! It's becoming quite popular in the bartending scene as a vegan replacement for egg whites for making foamy cocktails. ... we just don't tell people it's bean water. Y'know, unless they ask :)

[@wowTasteThis]

Corn water and barley water are quite popular. Doesn't seem that weird.

[@CocktailsConsoles]

@@wowTasteThis It can be for some who aren't expecting it in a cocktail 😊

[@eatwithchrissy]

Love it!

[@La_sagne]

all the aquafaber ive ever had had such a strong chickpea taste and smell that it would never have worked in a cocktail

[@stevensong6909]

Bon Appetit is back! Wohoo. The dynamics are fun.

[@curtk8715]

Quiche is one- still love a good quiche. We did hamburger helper when we went camping in a camper on the back of a pickup truck. how about Fondu- you would find those pots all over garage sales and thrift stores. Frozen yogurt seemed trendy in the eighties. Those little sandwiches were had two pcs of white bread and a filling - you would place one pc in the mold cup- then the filling - then the 2nd pc of bread, and you would close the mold and then toast it on a burner or over a fire. made like little pocket sandwiches circles because the crust would be shopped off and the edges pressed together.

[@beejereeno2]

We called those pie irons, and the food within, "pudgy pies"!

[@aliddlebird136]

"Disposable bento boxes" is a serious stretch.

[@expeditionmidwest6926]

Back in the kitchen, warming my heart.

[@sammolaw314]

It's so good to see Chris taking his tiny little bites again!

[@janmelantu7490]

“Don’t make [pigs in a blanket] for a date” challenge accepted

[@hannahcollins1816]

I would be ECSTATIC if a date made these 😂

[@dio52]

I learned something new. The "pigs in a blanket" I knew as a kid was a breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake. If you've never had breakfast sausage wrapped in a pancake, you have not lived.

[@MJorgy5]

"Avocados aren't grown in America" Mexico: ¿Que?

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

Hamburger Helper is one of those things where plain just on it's own, yeah it's basic, but depending on the recipe if you add a diced onion or some minced garlic or a can of tomatoes or fresh herbs, it can bump it up a bit.

[@charlesmills6621]

Avocados have been grown and consumed in Florida since the early 50s, that I know of.

[@kindablue1959]

They've been grown in California since the late 1800s. But they are non-native - they originated in south-central Mexico.

[@MBustos828]

I always envisioned Brad as my goofy uncle and discovering he was born the same year as me is….jarring.

[@JJ-cf7nb]

You guys missed it big time. The 70s were the fondue years. And the 90s were all about sushi.

[@sarahope7318]

I finally understood the reference in Friends when Monica and her soulmate say the restaurant puts too much sundried tomatoes

[@ellaella5537]

Aspic is good as a condiment, you have that with meat pie or meat during the holidays especially. It’s actually not bad at all, it’s super refreshing when you’re having a super heavy meal. Super easy to make. I don’t think Americans eat meat pies, it’s basically ground beef with some spices in a pie. Instead of the mini puff disgusting hot dogs, I know one big thing here is mini sausages rapped in bacon. It’s so greasy, toxic, but very good once a year:-)

[@a697ag]

I love an aspic. Bring back the aspic!!

[@FabulousKilljoy917]

If you asked me what I ate as a kid: pizza/hot dog lunchables & HI-C/Capri-Sun, hamburger helper. Like yeah that’s not good food but it’s nostalgic, I’d never buy it now though but it’s that quick “cooking” that helped get me into cooking and wanting to make better and better food myself🙂

[@dizzizzi12]

omg I remember demanding we get cupcakes when my dad took me to NYC for the first time as a teen hahaha

[@jayhuang3962]

Chris talking about the 80s would make a great video!

[@masonthibodeaux4060]

Don't be hating on the lunchables!! Those are a staple of my childhood.

[@mattsnyder4754]

Pigs in a blanket are a great food option if you use sausages instead of hot dogs. Breakfast sausage links and crescent roll dough? 👌🏻

[@50ShadesOfEndo]

Sundried tomatoes are great, how could you hate them?!

[@DesertNavy]

Avocado's are totally native to North America.

[@sobepam]

I have 2 different kinds avocado trees in my backyard in South Fl but they are not year round and we don't always get them but when we do they are delicious and both have different tastes to them.

[@jamisonallen8710]

Hamburger helper stroganoff with corn is a every couple a week meal for me. How dare they! Haha

[@doro626]

6:20 Nice!

[@erikadowdy686]

I enjoyed this video immensely Cuz i was born in the 70s Great video idea

[@TheEctocooler]

the cheese pizza lunchable is top tier

[@murphymcbride6863]

Lunchables were a huge treat for my kids. The younger one still buys them now and then for a treat. He's 34.

[@rachjade8785]

In the UK, pigs in blankets are sausages or chipolatas wrapped in bacon. They are a Christmas staple.

[@peterflom6878]

I had the Betty Crocker kids cookbook!

[@rawkeeto6508]

I thought I wasn't big on many of the new people coming in, but just being in the test kitchen with other people does wonders.

[@magicsp3lls]

Seeing these chefs turn their nose up at all of my childhood staples really makes me feel low class 😂

[@celitacantrill10]

Brad, Chris and company. Great news..

[@tzisorey]

"Australian-style all-day cafes" Wait.. we invented that in Australia?

[@Orthus100]

Aspics are great, but for savory ones you need to go towards the old Escoffier era stuff, rather than the 50's housewife style (though some of that stuff is still great, just more the sweet ones).

[@evoandy]

Wait. I’m two years OLDER than Brad?!

[@JacobCanote]

I hope clam juice becomes a trend. Kidding. Love your faces. Best of luck!

[@mossymargiela]

I feel like this was someone’s excuse to make aspic

[@garricksantos]

I look forward to Brad's It's Alive: Tiramisu Edition

[@sallieannwestbrook9769]

Oh, I love tomato aspic. Yum

[@joshuamaddocks1407]

The lunchable just isnt the same without the little mustard packet.

[@DeltaDemon1]

I literally tried avocado toast 5 minutes ago for the first time. Never knew it was a thing. My mom discovered avocados in the 70s but she got sick on it and never used it again in anything since ~1978.

[@teabittner4506]

I’ll be waiting for the moment someone asks me to describe Chris in one sentence and it will be “he thought hamburger helper would have had more razzle dazzle than it did .. so”

[@chadhamel8707]

Brad. Don’t shame me for my love of lunchables. It’s a great snack.

[@pinguaina]

I love the jello, aspic is one if my favourite dishes.

[@pinguaina]

I hate that everyone is just hating on foods. Maybe be more open.

[@TherealDanielleNelson]

I'm much more of a fruit jello mold person then a vegetable jello mold person if that makes sense, but I'd definitely try a vegetable jello. Especially if it was to accompany something like a ham salad sandwich or something like that.

[@jaymedixon6347]

2020's Salted Caramel EVERYTHING!

[@tahliawright172]

You guys always get me!! Soon as I see Brad I will watch the entire video. If no Brad then swipey swipey! 🤣🤣

[@emmavandam279]

Will never forget the amount of cupcake shows there were on tv in the 2010's. Now all of those places like Georgetown Cupcakes or even shows like Cupcake Wars are not relevant at all. One of the few that kind of hung on is Sprinkles with their cupcake ATM machines.

[@katferments]

tiramisu made it's way to cookbooks in the 80s, but it's been around before that already in the 60s-70s.

[@Sim.Crawford]

Thanks Chris, when was brunch not a thing? hungover after a big night on holiday with mates it's the best. Have a coffee, and a bloody mary.

[@MrBrightSide784]

That Indian girl is so cute

[@sweetkarma1345]

I thought cake pops would pop up for 2010s!

[@falovepa]

Today I learned I'm old enough to be Brad's mother.

[@charliecat5686]

Avocados are native to the Americas...

[@karenb1430]

Tomato aspic and green jello salad are still part of our Christmas dinner! I hate tomatoes so don’t eat it but LOVE the green jello salad (green jello, pecans, cream cheese, and pineapple). Everyone is always nervous of the jello salad but most people end up loving it

[@twigblack22]

My mom’s family is polish and she said they were have aspic with carrots and beets growing up and she hated it so much

[@nathvlogz]

brad should make a coffee kombucha tiramisu - greatest thing ive ever eaten for desert

[@bobbler42]

Coming soon, It's Alive! Tiramisu, with homemade mascarpone, sourdough lady fingers and washed coffee.

[@CharleyCarey]

I still love hamburger helper. I always add a bunch of veggies to it

[@socks876]

They did something to Hamburger Helper recipe. They have no flavor now and some of them come out a different color than back in the day.

[@aubreylittle6446]

my mum used to make a box of hamburger helper and a box of velveeta shells and mix them together with a fuckton of cajun seasoning. maybe i'm blinded by nostalgia but I remember that being one of my favorite dinners as a kid

[@kimphifer9882]

I’m very surprised brad has never had hamburger helper. He knows all foods I swear.

[@rubyaskin3311]

what?! in the uk a pig in a blanket is a cocktail sausage wrapped in bacon, i just googled it and apparently that’s correct but i’ve never seen them done with pastry before

[@Embracedempathy]

I missed the crew together glad it's back

[@bentaylor4170]

Sausage in pastry = sausage roll Sausages wrapped in bacon = pigs in blankets

[@jamesf9088]

I love the beef stroganoff hamburger helper 😢

[@melissao.219]

My mom can’t really cook. If it wasn’t for Hamburger/tuna Helper, we would have ate sandwiches every night for dinner. I thought it was delicious, prob not so much now. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃

[@metalcorezilla]

We use lil smokey sausages and Pillsbury croissants, unravel the croissants add a little butter and garlic powder, roll the lil smokey up in the croissant then bake them off and your welcome

[@mich8468]

Rachel is so tiny next to Chris🥺

[@myakkaoutdoors6266]

Glad to know my birth decades food trend was cupcakes

[@debrasouza4342]

I think the 90s should have been a chocolate lava cake, and 2020s should be baked feta pasta😁

[@plantita3183]

Idk if pigs in a blanket is something different in America, but they are so good!

[@0jazian0]

Let's make it a trend

[@ShootingStarfromTheMoreYouKnow]

But... Avacados are native to America.

[@glennzanotti3346]

The Bon Appetit crew comes across as food snobs in some parts of this. Some of these foods were not really "trends," but things you ate to make ends meet when the bills came due. Hamburger Helper is a good example -- how to turn a pound of ground beef into dinner and leftovers when you make just enough to pay rent and keep the lights on. I lived on stuff like that in college (before Brad was born).

[@melodywritessongs]

It was product placement. That’s the disconnect.

[@kindablue1959]

It was a trend in the 70s because it was invented in 1971 and heavily marketed. Yes, it was an 'economical' food, but there have always been a need for cheap and easy meals in every decade - there can still be identifiable trends.

[@annedavidson1726]

Videos just are not as organic/natural as they used to be.

[@Bill_Brasky]

Once you got to the 2000s I realized you people live on a different planet than me

[@laurenl.3735]

Here we are 2023 and people be goin harder on avo toast more then ever

[@kiro9291]

8:38 chris my beloved

[@shelbysummerville7848]

Alls I sell is cupcakes -Brad Leone