What we ate 60 years ago / Rare commercials from the 50s and 60s

[@lestersabados1306]

The blonde girl in alpha bits commercial is my grandmother. Velma Eaton.

[@LucyLucky1-y9b]

So wonderful

[@krackerjack57]

🙀amazing

so cool!

[@williamschlosser77]

Wow, she looks so young!

[@emsdiy6857]

Cute

[@jimmyday9536]

I am 66 yrs old now, and I can guarantee that our childhood had plenty of "junk food" snacks; however, we didn't sit all day texting our friends, we jumped on our bikes and rode 3 neighborhoods over to play. Children were more physically active, and the human body is designed to be active.

[@TheRealTrididos]

Too bad the older generations introduced all of these sedentary activities.

[@THORMYN1]

⁠@@TheRealTrididosI think that’s an ignorant thing to say. I’m 74 and grew up with that shit. Now at least we can make an educated choice, the info is there it’s up to the individual to change!

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

I'm nearly your age. My Mom would shoo me outdoors in the morning, telling me to play until lunch. In the afternoon, same deal - stay out til dinner. We kids were very active regardless of the season. I think rain was about the only thing that kept us housebound. Of course there were simply more children then. Playmates were everywhere. (Shame! You know what I meant by playmates.)

[@onion6foot]

I still have the LOUD bell my mother would ring to call us in. We were playing outside ALL the time. I feel sorry for the way things have changed. How did it happen?

[@Enr227]

There's more junk food now than ever before.

[@judyreynolds305]

I’m 65, raised on a farm and ranch. We cooked from scratch, 3 meals a day! We were poor, hard working, but we ate out of garden, fished, hunted. We rarely ate our own beef, got more for selling him. Had a milk cow,kicked like hell, but we had milk and butter, skim milk and hard corn to piggies, that we ate. The only cereal I got was when I spend a week with my cousins.

[@happydays1336]

You must have been very healthy growing up with so much good food to eat.

[@lgwappo]

Almost everything we ate was fried in Crisco, which was hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Probably what kept us alive is we were ALWAYS in motion. Riding bicycles, playing basketball, hiking in the fields etc. All day. We didn't sit inside playing video games, texting people or surfing the web. I still hit the gym & I'm older than dirt.

[@dianetrue2396]

😅 me n hubby too. No garbage food and yes exercising at the gym daily. Doctors will starve with ppl like us.

[@scottgebow6539]

I did all of those things. I still workout, and I’m 68. Also, no kids in my neighborhood were overweight.

[@tekman196]

I turn 60 this year . Growing up my mom was a stay at home mom . We ate breakfast,lunch and dinner as a family . No tv and all at the table . Everything my mom made was from scratch. A treat for us was a weekly soda pop or a candy bar from the woolworths store . At night we watched all the tv shows as a family and went to bed promptly at 9. All this and it was absolutely the best childhood I could have ever imagined.

[@trackman174]

@@tekman196 I think maybe you just caught the end of homemade meals that your mom made. I was born in 46 and experienced the same as you did growing up. I blame our government for the destruction of the family. As time passed the taxes got so high that it took two incomes to make a living. This caused latchkey kids and meals of “convenience” and well, you know the rest. I’m so thankful that I grew up when I did…. I don’t know how the younger generations are going to fair.

[@ankhpom9296]

Those were the days we thought would never end.

[@shellysnodgrass9546]

@@tekman196 we had tv :( 📺 at dinner . A little color tv and my dad watched the news and all it was the Vietnam war . So my Kids had NO tv at Meals cuz of my tv dinner trauma

[@LikaLaruku]

I pitty my mom. My grandmother was apparently a terrible cook, & her first husband committed suicide.

[@jeffjohnsonACDC56]

Our Dad would not eat anything out fo a can, and our mother would only make fresh home cooking, and we always ate the Dinner table so we could talk about what happened during the day. I REALY MISS THOSE TIMES, WE WERE A FAMILY. THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE THE BEST OF TIMES.

[@truthseeker3031]

I do, too, and agree they were the best!

[@Jendromeda]

my mother was tired as heck...my father was grouchy and my brother would throw a fit at the table....guess i was just lucky. My sister would hide behind the cereal boxes at breakfast. i....would...just...be quiet and watch it all...

[@teresewecker]

Jeff, the best of times and the best of music....""""" I know it's only rock and roll.. but I like it"""

[@SavetheWorld74]

I raised my kids that way in the 90s, so what's your point?

[@garypesci746]

@@Jendromeda Your family sounds like the opening lines of Syncronicity 2 by the Police: Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we know all her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take

[@cherylsundin6253]

This is when the American diet changed from homemade to processed packaged foods that was sold to the public as "healthy."

[@JackieOgle]

I remember my Dad would give us corn flakes cereal with a lot of sugar! You could see it at the bottom the cereal bowl!

[@greyhatdone]

I couldn't help but think, ok so back then they said the "sugar sparkled" cereal was healthy. Now baby boomers like my mom have diabetes. Now my generation is here, and there's all these "sugar alternatives" that are supposedly better(cause cancer). Thanks government.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

Add that to everyone became a couch potato and watched TV all the time and you have the reason many got fat!

[@hamptom11]

Yup. Now I know why half of America has health problems.

[@jmelande4937]

It’s easy to scoff and be self righteous, but throughout the 60’s, to the 2000’s the life expectancy of the average American went UP and rates of heart disease went DOWN. The obesity epidemic didn’t start until the 2000’s, well beyond the widespread adoption of processed foods.

[@KateEileen]

Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We did eat sweetened cereals for breakfast sometimes, but we also took wholesome lunches to school in our lunchboxes, and sat down to eat dinner as a family every night. We spent a lot of time outside running around, skating, or riding bikes and made our own indoor entertainment by playing games, doing arts and crafts from things we found around the house, using our imaginations to put on puppet shows with puppets me made and plays we wrote ourselves, with costumes we made or scrounged from the “dress up box” and our closets. We were only allowed to watch tv for a limited time on days we were allowed to watch it at all, and we weren’t overweight because junk food was a special treat, we didn’t eat fast food, and we were physically active - unlike the mostly sedentary, video-game addicted kids of today!

[@11AriseAndShine11]

You just described my childhood! I tell my grandchildren that I was free roaming child! I ate breakfast at the table, without a television blaring! On weekends and summertime, breakfast came first, chores second, and by noon, after eating a 'real lunch' it was playtime! I went outside and didnt have to come home until dusk, but I better be home for dinner before the street lights came on! They look at me like a tree full of owls! 😂 The idea of using their imaginations for fun is foreign to them! They live off of junk food and wear headsets that allows them to enter an imaginary 3D world in the house, that has fake sunshine and fake darkness. I have to wonder how any of them are going to cope in the future! It's sad really! Because my grandchildrens parents werent raised this way. They had the same childhood I did. But they are allowing this! 🙄

[@karendiane9154]

Well Said!

[@GaryMeadowsMusic]

We didn't eat all that trash. I'm 67, just regular home cooked food. My mother never bought sweetened cereal. We ate supper at 5 pm and didn't eat again til breakfast, usually bacon, eggs, and toast.

[@rmondave]

Yes indeed but every big food company has A fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders to make the biggest profits possible and in turn that is done from selling the cheapest low cost mass-produced even if nutrition free food to the masses regardless of impact on their health. Then invest in a big pharmaceutical complex at the same time to treat the illnesses that will be more prevalent in a undernourished society-- full of sugar Laden cereals and soft drinks... It is very obvious today that the rates of diabetes are continuing to rise and it's no coincidence That these deficiencies and diseases are literally exploding the revenues and profits of big food and big pharma🤑🤑🤑

[@cherylscott2064]

We had a huge bag of puffed wheat beside the fridge and that was the cereal we had every morning until winter, then it was cream of wheat. What a wonderful life ❤

[@shaunasimpson7689]

How boring . We had good food but we also had fun foods like count chocula..and cakes n candy.

[@sharonpollock9543]

We had and ate all that crap and I’m 67 also. You were lucky it was everywhere where I grew up.

[@marknewton6012]

Just like a baby 😢 boomer to whine. Your generation ruined the world so who cares how ate.

[@Liesel925]

I was born in 1954, I remember grape nuts, alphabits, and life savers candy. My Mom didn't buy anything in the video. We had bacon, eggs and toast in the mornings. Sandwiches for lunch, and home cooked meals consisting of a protein, a carb, and vegetables. She baked, so we had kuchen (German) for dessert. The commercials are entertaining! Oh, and we used real butter and cane sugar, no fake stuff.

[@michaelgrantham1871]

I lucked out and my parents never fell for the margarine scam, so we never used plastic, either. And now it turns out that butter is FAR better for you than margarine.

[@missysmith378]

I was similarly lucky...local fresh butter, eggs and milk plus all meats from local farms. We had garden vegetables (which tasted FAR better then) and were never allowed to eat processed foods. Mom and GMa cooked 3 meals/day. I will say, our diet was high in sugar w/GMa's daily baked pies and cakes! We lived so far from restaurants that fast food was never an option...talk about lucky! Avoided McDs by choice as an adult! I remember neighbors making boxed foods & being jealous, as I assumed anything "new" meant "better"...but it turns out my Mom truly did know the meaning of "better". I followed her example, sugar and all, and passed along cooking skills to my Millennial daughter. I sometimes wonder how much it may have boosted our health...my folks are alive in their 90s and look 60 y.o.! GMa lived to 94, as well...

[@jamesprior2496]

I'll bet you are in good health to this day!

[@michaelgrantham1871]

@@jamesprior2496 Well, I am not, but my diet isn't the cause.

[@michaelgrantham1871]

@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 you guys are like vegans, you just can't help it. I guess it is a good thing the rest of us mostly put a stop to y'all using violence to spread your "good word".

[@PuffKitty]

High living for us kids back in the day was going camping and the folks bought a variety snack pack of cereal, the little foil lined boxes of cereal that you opened down the middle and put your milk in 😋 camping and picnics were the only time we ever got junk food, we thought we were deprived 😅

[@kateoneal4215]

We used to go camping, fishing and just driving around in the country a lot. (And we were a pretty dysfunctional family, too... )

[@ardevenuta37]

In the dayz of pudding pops and when we were not aware that Bill Cosby was a violent, degenerate, RAP-ST. Before men dressed like fruit-pies and ran bud light campaigns.. I miss the American days.

[@cherylmeri5143]

Born is 1961, we never had this kind of food. Mom cooked all of our food from scratch, we never had cereal. We had biscuits, eggs, bacon or sausages and tomatoes in season. Ice tea for every meal. No convenience foods at all, she lived to 90 (covid in the hospital killed her), she was still driving and living alone. Dad died from a fall at 89...

[@pattiecurtis6096]

Fun and interesting to read your comments. I was born in 1951 in Wisconsin and there was no TV until 1959. We never ate processed food. We did not go to restaurants. My Dad hunted and fished. My Mom baked, cooked and canned. We had fruit trees and a garden. Gosh, I was lucky to eat the healthy and tasty food my parents served. My Grandma gave me a couple Lifesavers to shut me up at church every Sunday. Every year we went to the Wisconsin State Fair. We had corn on the cob, cream puffs, ice cream, corn dog, apples, and the best milk ever. Good old days. Thanks for sharing.

[@ArmandaV-s4b]

than k you! This video is so misleading. Until I was ten in 1949 this is what we ate too we moved away from my home town.

[@pattiecurtis6096]

Gee, you have a pretty name. I don't think my Mom had a cookbook. The food was always delicious and I make many of their dishes. One of my favorites was coming home from school to warm butter horns. She baked bread every week. Dad was the stew man. Boiled dinner was my favorite. We were really healthy kids. I miss them. When I met my future husband he took me to a very fancy restaurant. I was shocked. Take care!@@ArmandaV-s4b

[@ColonelMarcellus]

I'm getting hungry.

[@ardevenuta37]

1951? Wow, and I thought being born in 69 was getting up there. God Bless Ya.

[@EagleArrow]

No nets on trampolines unlike today. 1970s my parents had 4 kids and we had homemade meals. We hardly ate out nor did we go to the grocery store. So we had no idea what was in the store. That was on purpose. We had treats once in awhile, but most families went out for custard ice cream or we made our own ice cream and had pudding and jello. Candy 🍬 once in a while, or a candy bar here and there from our corner store. My Dad bought us cracker jacks often. I recall my Dad saying, "candy bars are a quarter now? They were 5 cents when I was a boy." We did have Kool Aid with tap water. I recall have mint jelly & peanut butter sandwiches for months as my Mom made duck one time and I guess you serve mint jelly with it. I would trade my sandwich with my friend at school. Here my Mom thought I liked it as I didn't complain. 😅 They sold us on sugar cereals with hidden toys inside. 🤦‍♀️ We didn't watch much tv until cable in '85. We were always busy at school functions, church functions, with friends or sports.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

The candy bars (about twice the size of what are now KING SIZED) were 5 cents each in the 1960's... the price tripled early in the 1970's, and since my parents did not believe anyone aged 13 or older should go trick or treating, (I was strongly discouraged at age 12), they decided to give 5 pennies to each child. The younger children LOVED them, the teens (who would show up 3-4 times a night if they liked your candy) quit showing up after the first year. In the later 1970's they started selling the minatures that were originally for christmas & easter candy all year round.

[@1BeautifullyBlessed]

Ooh mint jelly

[@Ease54]

@@1BeautifullyBlessed With peanut butter?...akkk...

[@garypesci746]

Mint jelly is traditionally served with lamb. Never heard of having it with duck.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

I know it helped that we ate meals at the dinner table together and my mom made sure we ate our veggies. She made Cream of Wheat and oatmeal and hot cereal more than the cold sweet cereal. My dad cooked delicious toast, eggs or omelettes and potatoes or grits on Sundays, gave my mom a break. Thanks for the memories..

[@williamhiles7404]

I Know what we ate 60 years ago, and it Tasted a lot better than it does now. And it also recharged the mind & body. When I was done eating, I was ready to play the guitar for another 6 hours, and anything else I wanted to do. Not now. I never feel recharged after eating our Frankenfood. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

[@wickedcabinboy]

@williamhiles7404 - You may well be right but you were 60 years younger, too. That might have a little something to do with it.

[@raross6119]

Women stopped cooking in the 80s because it was a man oppression feed children nothing but fast food or microwave the reason there is so much obisidity unhealthy people

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

My grandfather always picked Grape nut cereal. When My mother would go Grocery shopping she would ask him what one he wanted and he would say in his thick German accent GRAPENUT . Lord I miss my grandfather

[@maddiem1030]

I have never eaten any of these. I have never even heard of most of them. My mom made everything from scratch. When I moved away on my own is when my diet took a nose dive. 😝 And now I'm cooking from scratch, no processed foods, like my mom did. Amazing😊

[@yellowbird5411]

Commercials and shows like Leave it to Beaver always showed the breakfast and dinner tables groaning with bowls and platters of food. They show kids at breakfast with cereal, toast, orange juice, milk, or plates of eggs and sausage, toast, a butter dish, jelly, and what not. That is not how most of us ate. Every morning was egg on toast or French toast. Maybe eggs and bacon. Or cereal. We didn't eat five or six different things. We drank water, milk or juice. Dinner was maybe chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans and milk. Mostly no dessert. Food was simple. Even mixtures like chipped beef on toast was simple, served with maybe peas. You didn't have to guess what chemicals were in the food. Bread molded if not refrigerated. Cookies did, too. Recipes were simple, with maybe four or five ingredients. When meals were over, we didn't expect to eat until the next meal, nor did we. If I came home from school hungry, I was given a carrot or a pickle to eat. Today that just sounds weird. Not all kids ate like that. The neighbor boy drank Kool-Aid all the time. There was bad food around, but we didn't snack all the time. Today if a kid comes home from school hungry a lot of times they eat pizza rolls, chips, cookies or some other junk food. We didn't have a lot of the foods that are around today, and what was around was saved for parties or gatherings. A lot of people didn't have a ton of money, either. They had one car, and one bread winner (Dad). Living styles were modest. I could go on, but it would be a composition.

[@comfeefort]

My Grandmother would toast half the loaf of bread, so, it wouldn't mold. That's actually why a bread toaster was invented, it removes the moisture.

[@yellowbird5411]

@@comfeefort I didn't know that. How interesting.

[@jeffcampbell2710]

We had a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Bacon, Sausage, maybe some Country Ham or a piece of Hog Jawl. Homemade biscuits, eggs, dads was fried mine were scrambled. Mom made Sausage gravy for them and chocolate gravy for me. It wasn't like chocolate, it was different. The rest of the week I ate a bowl of cereal and half a grapefruit with milk. We seldom drank a Coke. Usually Saturday night when mom made some Jiffy Pop popcorn we got a glass of coke while we watched Hee Haw. We ate a big supper, exactly at 6, and all together. We had 9 acres of garden and Mom canned a lot.

[@Rebecca-n7n]

Grape nuts is like a mouthful of grit. Lol. I remember a couple of these. Toastems were actually better than pop tarts. Mom and Dad both liked to cook so this stuff was used like a now and then treat. We only got ice cream in the summer. I was born in 1950, but never had most of this stuff. Or even heard of it. We didn't watch a lot of tv either. Sunday night was Disney Sat night was Gunsmoke. Cartoons early morning or just Sat morning. I was 6 before we had a tv. Kids were busy playing then. More interested in riding bike than tv.

[@ahlivetuhsidamaro150]

I actually used to like it

[@dianebryant4684]

You mean Grape ROCKS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you could break teeth eating Grape Nuts. Also, notice all the canned food, processed food, etc. I didn't eat fresh vegetables until I was grown and buying my own food. Also, 50’s child here💪

[@zanpsimer7685]

I’m 62 and remember a lot of these. My mom, like other moms, was so grateful for any time savers she took advantage of all the new packaged foods. You have to understand that homemade was all we had before these products and that was all day, every day. Of course our folks welcomed the new products!

[@kellyhoy3902]

My grandma would put cinnamon in a bowl of pure sugar and sprinkle it on bread and butter. Yummy.

[@ianbowden9496]

Back in the days when you didn’t have to spend the first 25 seconds guessing wtf was being advertised.

[@jamesprior2496]

🤣🤣🤣 Truth!

[@fluffy1931]

keep sniffing wood glue fuddster. Back in the day you were clueless to what was in the food chain. DDT & countless chemicals and heavy metals in what you ate & water . Lead & asbestos so yummy !

[@nancyross3964]

​@fluffy1931 today you have to watch for crickets in your food

[@libertylady1952]

That was interesting. I'm almost 72 and I don't remember any of those commercials. Some of commercials were for products I never heard of before. But, it was fun to watch. We didn't eat a lot of cold cereal growing up, but I remember cereal with freeze dried strawberries in it.

[@jimdep6542]

Same here. Post Toasties and a few of the products, yes, but not those commercials.

[@maggielandow2686]

Me either and I am 73.

[@mariekatherine5238]

I like Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat, or, Sand and Gravel and Brillo Pads, as my Dad used to call them! Alphabits, Maypo, and all forms of Captain Crunch are pretty good. The Captain Crunch I eat for a snack or dessert, not breakfast.

[@BarbaracBlevins]

I never ate any of these things .Home made food was our fare, and so good.even now I crave some of the meals we had. Example fresh green beans in a big pot with carrots ,potatoes and lots of onions. It was a FEAST.YUM,,

[@ChatGPT1111]

You probably salivate when somebody mows the lawn 😂😂😂

[@Lou-Lou8343]

1950 Oh boy! “Chocolate Pudding cups that stay good for two whole weeks… in the fridge.” 2024 Chocolate pudding cups can sit on a shelf for years, no refrigeration. We have no idea what’s actually in those cups. Something brown

[@nathanbates4276]

LOL

[@mariekatherine5238]

At Aunties house, breakfast was almost always biscuits and pork gravy. Not so healthy, but it sure stuck to your ribs, filled you up until lunch, kept you warm walking to school in winter. Nobody got fat because you burned it off.

[@MrTrda]

“Sugar-sparkled for quick energy” 😂 Wow, just wow!

[@deborahbaker4770]

I don’t remember DOUGHNUT SQUARE’S and I’m 66 I’ve never heard of Diet Beef Stew either there’s a few of these I don’t remember ‼️

[@SpacedOutDoonie]

Those black & white minimalistic simple commercials without background music are just really good, peaceful, satisfying, relaxing, worth watching.

[@craintree7621]

Amusing, nostalgic and helps us recognize when the food industry started programming all of us consumers to eat their products. Here we are 60-70 years later and the majority of our population is overweight with multiple diseases that probably come from eating processed (and now genetically modified) "food".

[@juliemnm8273]

not to mention all the clot shots the masses have been told that its good for us by injecting mercury and aluminum into our bodies..

[@hissyspit01]

Fancy fruit lifesavers rocked my world way back then. Wish they still made them

[@carolynhunt7333]

Me too. I loved those things.

[@Janjanbobaney]

TOASTER DOUGHNUTS?! Yes please!!! My mom made everything homemade when we were kids… EVERYTHING.., we were very lucky to have fruit loops on occasion

[@betsyr4724]

We’re ate three squares, minimal snacks, desserts on special occasions,and whole fruits 🍎. I was not fat

[@stevee9973]

Does anyone remember those straws you put in milk that had chocolate, and strawberry flavor. The straw had a felt pad of some kind inside that was flavored. I think they were called flavor straws. I would remove the felt pad after finishing my milk, and chew the rest of the flavor out of it. I should be dead by now. I'm 74.

[@vendettabannister6021]

They were good

[@carolynhunt7333]

Yeah I remember those. They tasted weird, but my siblings and I loved them.

[@dianetrue2396]

😅my husband is your age so I just asked him and yes he remembers.

[@jeandarnell1531]

That fridge is probably still ticking.

[@sandriagutierrez2605]

We weren’t allowed to eat that way at home. Mom was a real stickler about fresh foods. Also She thought it was too expensive . I’m so glad.

[@sewforlife586]

My mom bought me and my older brother 1- 8 pack bottle of pepsi, a package of 6 Hersey choc bars and a lgr bag of potato chips each friday when she went grocery store shopping. That was our treats for the week like after school. She would say on friday when she got home.... u can eat it all today or u can make it last till next friday but there wont be anymore till then...lol me and my brother became the best rationers and still are today...lol that was like around 1969 1970. My mom had $25 a week for groceries back then. That will get u a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread now days...lol My mom always put out a veggie garden in the backyard and a milkman that brought milk, eggs, cream, butter, all that stuff and they billed u monthly. Dont see that today...lol

[@sandriagutierrez2605]

@@sewforlife586 your mom was a wise women, practical too. You don’t see that either anymore these days.

[@stephenmitchell9024]

It used to be that "sugar" was used prominently in the names of cereals. Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes. The sugar coatings are what sold the cereal. Now, they dare not mention sugar. The sugar is still there, you just don't mention it. How times have changed.

[@Bethsabee_Sheba_Newrose]

And they’ve replaced the sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup which is even worse for our health.

[@nathanbates4276]

In our house, we eat sugar, lard, butter, etc.. Don't buy the propaganda, its good for ya!

[@413smr]

I was alive then and never heard of toaster donuts.

[@invisableobserver]

me either, haven't heard of that pudding, or the Post hearts either

[@mj9949]

Me neither 🤷‍♀️

[@ttintagel]

Grape-Nuts are good for dieting because it takes you the whole mealtime just to chew a spoonful.

[@earleneslay7977]

😂😂😂😂!

[@paulkeith5000]

Growing up in that era, with parents who had lived through the Great Depression, we saw these ads but our Mom's Signature Dish was what she called "ShupUpAndEatIt" and if we got some of these popular treats they were - - a treat - - but thankfully they were rare.

[@rangerannie5636]

Who remembers having a sugar bowl on the kitchen table because the only cereal your mom bought was Cheerios & Corn Flakes? LOL!! 🥣 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸

[@msheart2]

It was regular sugar too, not HFCS or gmo beet sugar like today's sugar.

[@That.Lady.withtheYarn]

It’s funny. My kid likes plain cheerios or rice squares.

[@allie1953]

I do.

[@elainedufresne7195]

I’ve never heard most of these. My Mom cooked and we had no tv.

[@johnsmithceochokecollarrecords]

Only the " Priveledged " kids in our neighborhood got those instant foods, we ate eggs or oatmeal and all home made meals

[@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb]

Yes, and many have heart problems these days.

[@carolw32]

I don't see many food ads anymore. Almost everything is pills for the heart, the brain, poop pills or pills for memory loss. And of course the adult diappers.

[@randomgrinn]

Civilized countries all outlaw drug advertising. The USA is owned by billionaires, so no morals in our country.

[@Sue-rg2tu]

@@randomgrinnI have news for you, the world is owned by billionaires.

[@susanboyd245]

I don't know about the other dinners, but the Bird's Eye roasted Turkey and gravy frozen pouch was amazing !! I loved them. ❤

[@johnbeller-bg1lb]

I’m 66 and I miss those days. No Ragu only homemade, our ice cream especially Dairy Queen soft serve was so much better. If you didn’t live then it might sound primitive but I’ll never forget

[@lisarogers6021]

I'm 54; born 1970. I grew up eating part farm fresh and processed foods. I miss the freshness of food; when tomatoes and warermelons had real flavor. Meats don't even smell like meat anymore.

[@paulmysliborski4832]

The dawn of the age of Big Corporate realizing that TV could brainwash people.

[@lisamac8503]

Now we have the Internet So the dream goes on

[@paulmysliborski4832]

@@lisamac8503 Times a million.

[@christinemus989]

😎 why do you think they call it programs

[@truthseeker3031]

Or was tell a vision programs invented for that purpose?

[@hankberumen3804]

When I saw the Borden ice cream commercial with Peter Graves and the boy I kept waiting to hear him ask “Joey, do you like gladiator movies”…😳

[@jmarcuc]

🤣🤣🤣

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

@@hankberumen3804 Surely, you can't be serious.

[@Exactly2525]

People looked so much nicer back then. Not the circus we have now

[@kellysouter4381]

No green hair, metal face and nose studs or tattoos.

[@michellehill1780]

All the piercings and tatoos and Kool-Aid colored hair

[@gracie2298]

Ahh, my chuckle for the day-Thank you.

[@ardevenuta37]

Their complexion was lighter, that is for sure.

[@stormyjlb]

Yeah- “I like the manufactured fake ideal of those years. Everyone in clean, pressed clothing with perfect hair. No signs of actual culture or society when portrayed by perfectly groomed actors.” Meanwhile, outside, people dressed in overalls, ragged clothes, and cultural signs of youth (slicked back hair, mini-skirts, men with long hair, leather jackets,) and all of that actually existing off screen…

[@allie1953]

I hardly remember any of these foods and I was born in 1953. I think it is because my mother made everything from scratch.

[@rosechambers4628]

My childhood diet was beans, corn bread, rice, sometimes Kool aide to drink lunch was dry bologna sandwich, water, breakfast was oatmeal, or corn flakes and that was it everyday, everyday,and everyday until I was old enough to work and buy what I wanted to eat ❤

[@deborahfenley5825]

I wish I had a nickel for every pinto bean I ate growing up. It was a treat to get some smothered potatoes with our beans and cornbread. I'm grateful I had what I had though.

[@kellypbr7742]

I'm old enough to remember those born in the 1800's, and they would say, "you can sell a sh*t sandwich to the people if you have enough bread to cover the stench." And the advertisers still are.

[@deanbell4070]

Ahhhh! I remember the Good ol guys from back then. They were old timers in the 1970s. Now days we’re proud boys, 🇺🇸 Trump 2024 🤠

[@emenyiris121]

Lmao!!!

[@ardevenuta37]

Kelly, you must be a fossil by now

[@Nigelrathbone1]

I remember the 1st time mom bought Captain Crunch cereal at the supermarket in 1963. However, every dinner was home cooked. No fast food. Once in a blue moon mexican TV dinner.

[@jimdep6542]

I sent in my Captain Crunch box tops and got a plastic treasure chest bank with the Captain's logo on it. It was very cheaply made but pretty cool.

[@deborahfenley5825]

What kid didn't love the cheesey toy in your cereal box. You used to get a juice glass in oatmeal and a bath towel in laundry soap. Whatever happened to free stuff? lol

[@PenSteel-ih8qr]

😂😂😂 couldn't wait to open that new box of cereal🎉

[@txlady1049]

I have a set of glasses I got at the gas station for filling up my car. Each fill up you got one glass. The ones everyone wanted were the ones that had the local sports team logos on them. This was in the 1980's.

[@RoxanneM-]

That was when Americans were starting to get sold the fallacy about calories, and processed food began. People ate whole foods before this. Someone wants us to believe this is how they kept slim, but people were not eating this trash then. It was only the beginning sold as convenient.

[@SavetheWorld74]

And many women were running away from their husbands all day so they wouldn't get beat.

[@MacMcElwee-wl3my]

The beginning of all modern chronic illnesses.

[@dphotos007]

This is my era I grew up in and when I was 14 in 1981 I got Crohns Disease. I wonder is all this crap food caused my illness. I think this food sure helped.

[@nashrust]

The builder of Mar-a-Lago salutes your tribute to General Foods from beyond the grave. RIP Marjorie Merriweather Post, incredible businesswoman before her time, and my former neighbor in the 60s and early 70s.

[@magpie772]

I grew up in 50's 60's and my mother had a garden & cooked our food ,we didn't have all that box cereal & fast food junk . don't know many that did that's why everyone was slim & they didn't sit on games & computers all day

[@TheYellowrose21]

Same with me

[@skai500]

Sixty years ago I think junk food was just starting to become a really big thing. Grocery stores were not much bigger than the size of a convenience store today. I was 17 then and I never ate most of that stuff. I never even heard of most of those products and some I heard of but my mother wouldn't allow it in the house. She was a working mom but still cooked dinner from scratch most nights. Because of her example I grew up and did the same thing and so do my daughters. We're a very healthy family.

[@hitomihonda7573]

That’s an awesome mom ❤

[@marshascott3498]

Ooohhh YEAH...We ate all types of stuff then..I'm 62....However..we were always outside discovering and playing games....with our friends..not sitting on our assessments twittering our thumbs...with diabetes at 12 years old ..we walked, ran, jumped rope rode bikes,..we were active.....We did our chores early on the weekend...then the rest of the day was ours ..we weren't disrespectful.,tear down people's prpperty..raised hell....These young ones today act as if they're entitled to whatever . A 5 year old haves a fit if he or she doesn't get their way...Parents can't and won't discipline them..That's why we have what we have.....yet it's always someone else's fault... KEEP IT SIMPLE-IS LONG GONE..THANK YOU for allowing me to vent..LOL..😅😅

[@Vector_Ze]

There are quite a few foods shown here that I not only didn't eat, but I don't even remember them. But, I agree with the rest of your post. I'm 70.

[@karenblohm3279]

Love grape nuts and alphabits. 65 yo

[@dianetrue2396]

I hear you. Things sure have changed. Not for the better imo😊

[@minerran]

I'm 66 so I can remember that time. The food was not all that different than today. Commercials/marketing is obviously different.

[@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci]

I can do you one better I'm 86 and I remember Grape-Nuts it was awful like eating hard little rocks or kitty litter remember dinty Moore Stew in a can. I think Kellogg's supposed to preferred corn flakes. Yes be sure to get the half gallon I don't remember cool and creamy pudding where was I?

[@virtualwhispers]

The food back then was WAY different from the way it is today - This food today is crap, all of it. Food back then was more natural and so delicious - The food we have now they have shot it up with so many chemicals we don't know what we are eating.

[@Lisabug2659]

We had cooked meals every night. We weren’t allowed to drink coke, help ourselves to the pantry and snacks were fruit, bananas etc. The cereal we got was never fun ones, non Frosted Flakes, plain cheerios, oat meal, toast and orange juice, milk every morning. I had to walk a mile to and from school, had PE every day and lunches were balanced but was so cafeteria…..they didn’t sell coke, candy etc at school. I had to set the table at night, us kids cleared and rinsed dishes. We had a dishwasher. Every Saturday night we got popcorn and ONE glass coke. Sunday dinner was always special, after church and some special dessert…..peach or blackberry cobbler. My Mom wouldn’t buy those post toastie things, hell, she even made her own donuts, crepes, and waffles.

[@GypsySoulSister]

Right!!? The only cereal Mother ever bought was plain Cheerios or plain puffed wheat. If we were hungry between meals, she'd say, "Eat a carrot." 😅

[@sheiladineen9483]

Similar to my family!

[@pogmothoin2558]

What a blast from the past. I remember I loved Elise the cow from Borden's. My mother would cut her out of the milk carton and I would wear Elsie and her flower on whatever I was wearing. Wow, I haven't thought of that in over 5 decades. I remember a lot of the other things also, but I adored Borden's because of Elsie the Cow.

[@kaybroughton9004]

I also loved Elsie the cow so much! My mom was partial to Borden's products.... And I still buy them myself!

[@lonwolf8245]

I was born 1960 and was raised on TANG, POP TARTS and SLIM JIMS. I'm surprised my head hasn't fallen off.

[@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb]

Don't forget Bologna sandwiches and TV dinners

[@lonwolf8245]

My arteries remember !!@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb

[@glennso47]

It might in the future though.

[@glennso47]

@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zbTV dinners while listening to the radio.

[@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb]

@@glennso47 I was born in 64, lol. Both my parents were great cooks so I only got junk food at other peoples houses.

[@markc-ru4qz]

When America was so beautiful and decent and normal

[@emaarredondo-librarian]

And segregated, and unequal, and oblivious.

[@markc-ru4qz]

@@emaarredondo-librarianOh I'm sorry. I don't speak Cuntanese.

[@THORMYN1]

@@emaarredondo-librarianWell that’s history that we cannot change but only learn from it and should be approached as such, a learning experience not hate for everything past!

[@debbiemalina]

I remember the TV dinners ,chicken mashed potatoes and veg with a little dessert too .this is when our health problems started !

[@twistedparent]

We ate oatmeal for breakfast and not the instant kind.

[@bryanspindle4455]

I was born in 1956 but l don't remember half of the products in those commercials. Doughnut Squares?

[@rhondastover6697]

I was born in 63 and have only heard of grapenuts!!

[@bryanspindle4455]

@user-lz5xf4hc5k I watched a lot of TV. My parents never cared what l watched or how much.

[@karyannfontaine8757]

When I was a child, I loved Frosted Flakes. My mother served salad, main course, potato and sometimes desert. I loved carrot sticks as a snack. A cheese sandwich was lovely for lunch. My mother went to work as an executive secretary when I was 14. The first one home from work would make dinner. My father was a wonderful cook. I was born in 1950. I never went to school with anyone fat and few adults were fat. We were always outside bike riding, roller skating, ice skating and I used to catch turtles, frogs and to my parents horror; snakes. Still a snake keeper.

[@b3j8]

Kelloggs Grape Nuts, a spoonful of crunchy gravel in every bite! Yummo!🤢

[@wickedcabinboy]

@b3j8 - God I hated those. Only tried them once and you're so right.

[@pauletteyoung112]

A bowl of pebbles. Never understood the appeal

[@imwatching2320]

Loved them with rasins. Born in 1943

[@jwells3315]

" What? I can't hear you, this cereal is too loud"

[@b3j8]

@@jwells3315 😄😄😄

[@90223KR]

We only ate out of our gardens. Tv was a no go waste of time and polluted the brain 😂

[@SavetheWorld74]

Have you gotten your medal yet?

[@turpasauna]

Finnish households used to use a lot of butter and whole milk. Sure there were grains, bread and sugars- but the amounts were fairly small. My grandma's coffee cups were teeny tiny! They would fit around 1,2dl (or half a cup) liquid. So even if you had your coffee with cream and sugar (and had two cups or more), you were okay. The tv used to advertise the benefits and vitamins in, say, butter. The candies were in small bags, similar to the ones Japan makes today. Finns were slim!

[@RobertHowe-zv7gs]

At age 75 I remember the food companies wanted to get kids addicted to sugar to sell their junk products.

[@MikePuorro]

There is something so sinister about these ads.

[@tonycollazorappo]

Nothing like putting a ton of honey and sugar in a child's cereal, lol. I grew up in the 60s and enjoyed that cereal. I don't eat stuff like that anymore, lol.

[@annetteacciaio8111]

Mum was a cooker and baker.But i do remember shredded wheat. Not the little one. The big ones that mum had i brake into little shreds m

[@margaretwade]

Or we can just enjoy the charm of commercials from the 60's.

[@paulam.foreman4413]

I’m so glad we didn’t have cell phones and internet when I wss growing up. We had no much fun with neighborhood kids and kids from school. Outside all day, ate better things, also slept like a baby. Everything has changed. 😢

[@reneeg4817]

Amen. Me too we weren't ever in the house unless it was raining or snowing. Even snowing we played in the snow

[@virginiabarton1056]

I was just reminiscing with a friend…remembering that we got our drinks of water from an outside spigot so we wouldn’t have to go inside. Great times

[@michaelg7456]

1:42 The announcer says it's good for you, as the girl pours the milk on the letters BAD.😂

[@kolonarulez5222]

Lol I'm so happy someone else saw that too

[@jons.6216]

We had Toastems before having Pop-Tarts and they were great as I recall! Gotta love that Leo G. Carroll speach style actors and narrators used back in the day! Teyoob (tube), teyoon (tune), steyoo (stew)! Haha!

[@ITcanB]

Anyone remember jello's 123 parfait? It miraculously would settled into 3 different different layers. One was a clear jello at the bottom, a creamy layer in the middle, and then a frothy foamy top. You would just add water, if i remember correctly, mix it all up, and then let it set in the refrigerator into this beautiful 3 layered parfait dessert. They were delicious. 😊

[@sueh6287]

On occasion we ate that, and also Junket. Both were pretty good.

[@carylgibbs6094]

I loved those!

[@LindaB651]

Oh yes- I wish they still made that, the lime flavor was wonderful, and it looked beautiful!

[@ziggersz4899]

Oh, 1, 2. 3!!! We loved that. Fun!

[@JaneNewAuthor]

I'm 70 and Australian. My parents were English. My father grew all our fruit and vegetables, we had chickens, Mum made our jams and cakes. Food like this was considered rubbish and rarely eaten.

[@s1234pro]

I remember that first commercial well. Very impressive for the time. I also remember my college marketing professor telling us that all TV commercials were based on a first grade intelligence level. He was right.

[@waterwitch8902]

My mom and Grandmother never allowed this stuff in our house no matter how much I begged😂

[@jenisemcintyre3839]

They believed strictly in home cooked food. I remember my mom and grandmothers doing all peeling dicing and slicing by hand also.

[@michellelogreco3351]

Wise women

[@waterwitch8902]

@@jenisemcintyre3839 absolutely right. I peeled alot of carrots Lol

[@cf-kw5qo]

I’m 63 , enjoying these

[@michaelwoehl8822]

These commercials are at the beginning of the American food apocalypse, this is where it started. The modern revolution, more like a glycemic nightmare that has gotten worse and worse.

[@zoshamckinney3271]

I work in pest control so I'm constantly in peoples' kitchens. It's disturbing how literally everything is processed carbs. I used to be fat until I went keto/paleo. Or just real food.... what a concept!

[@dianetrue2396]

Exactly. Just look at ppls grocery cart or the belt of the person in front of you at check out. Hardly any real food in most cases just junk convenience foods. All about I'm so busy...

[@SavetheWorld74]

@@zoshamckinney3271 You want a medal?

[@Sigma44X]

My mom was 68. She died February 1st so I'm thinking how young she was when these commercials aired.

[@ninaabernathy2493]

So sorry for your loss, Charles.😢

[@truthseeker3031]

Sorry to hear about your loss. 😢 Most of them seemed to be from the earlier 50's so she may not have even been born yet.

[@ellisandrews440]

My treat once a week when we bought groceries was a box of Sugar Corn Pops (Sugar Pops are Tops) I think they were 37 cents a box. This would be 1954-1957. I remember the advertising song and am singing it as I write.

[@marktwain368]

The commercial jingles really hooked you. I will never forget Ipana toothpaste where a beaver sang: "Brusha brusha brusha! With the new Ipana!" God help us all.

[@sunshinem3958]

I don’t remember any of this , i guess cause as kid we weren’t sitting in front of the TV , we were outside playing, on Sunday we got to see disney,

[@lseeber01]

This isn't necessarily what we all were eating back then. This is when the onslaught of all these processed foods really began and they were marketing it to all of us.

[@yellowbird5411]

You're right. This was the push for kids to start demanding bad food.

[@jeffcampbell2710]

We seldom had processed food.

[@kenowens9021]

Every Thursday night, after shopping at the commissary, our mom would make hot dogs and chili for dinner. Simple but very tasty.

[@SandraKelly-g4c]

Did you notice at 1:43 when the little girl is pouring milk into her Alphabits cereal. The only visible word you can see in the entire bowl is "BAD"

[@ellasmommy9278]

Did anybody other than me notice that the alpha-bit cereal spelled the word BAD? I remember all these cereals

[@crazycats535]

❤Yes!😂 subliminal?

[@sonnyburnett8725]

I’m 71, don’t ask me why but I remember that first commercial by Post Nuts. Guess it was those slim ladies.

[@Texg1rl_]

Moms didn’t serve this stuff. We had beef a vegetable and a slice cornbread. Everything homemade.

[@kathyelliott6051]

Same here

[@cherylschantz9893]

My mom wasn’t a very good cook.

[@gsmith6026]

We rarely got store bought bread. Mom made all our bread, store bought was gross and as my Dad called it, “bagged air”. To this day, the only store bought bread I can eat are the ones with whole grains and seeds, never white bread.

[@xlaurenstephens8937]

never heard of the donut squares. thats crazy man!

[@dawnalawrence6584]

That's actually what I started eating last month! I never liked cereal but I LOVE Grape Nuts!

[@m42037]

Try Müseli with unsweetened almond milk, put sliced organic strawberries and wild blueberries in it! Fiber city very healthy and low sugar

[@RJ-kr4bs]

​@@m42037 I like almonds, have eaten countless thousands and have examined quite a few. Not one milk gland to be found. What sort of Frankenfood are YOU buying?

[@m42037]

@@RJ-kr4bs Do you know how to Google or ??? So now we know you're a close minded American of course. Some people in this country do eat Müseli or it wouldn't be on all the shelves in American supermarkets. So Müseli is a Swiss cereal where you can actually Google lol what it is and the health benefits, its in the top best breakfast to eat. Btw I'm 58 and in my BMI.