People Are Sharing The Food Trends That Were Once Literally Everywhere, Until They "Mysteriously Vanished" From Society

As a certified foodie AND past nerd, I emotion learning astir the nutrient trends of the past. But unfortunately, that taxable is seldom covered successful past class, leaving galore outdated nutrient fads to beryllium wholly forgotten. Until now, that is!

1. "Sun-dried tomatoes. So good! They were ubiquitous astatine slightest a decennary ago...you could find them astatine truthful galore restaurants connected pizzas, successful pasta, successful salads, and different dishes. I adjacent retrieve Elliot Gould successful Friends waxing happily connected sun-dried tomatoes successful the show: 'Five years ago, if somebody'd said to me, 'Here's a herb that looks similar a prune,' I'd person said, 'Get retired of my office!'' Then POOF...they conscionable disappeared. And now, arsenic I constitute this, I'm sad."

—gmancan

2. "Spumoni ice cream! A delectable operation of chocolate, cherry, and pistachio crystal cream. It utilized to beryllium a staple flavor, and present I ne'er spot it, adjacent astatine Italian restaurants. I person to bargain each 3 flavors separately to marque it."

—Anonymous, 54, Virginia

3. "Pickled eggs. Hard-boiled eggs; canned beets with the liquid; vinegar; and I don't cognize what else. My parent and mother-in-law some made them, and I truly miss them. Neither 1 had a look to manus down. I loved those purple eggs!"

—Anonymous, 71, Virginia

4. "Bread vessel salads! In precocious schoolhouse and college, I lived connected them. We had a 24-hour edifice successful my town, and I discovered you could really conscionable get the breadstuff vessel determination (no salad) for similar $2. For a mediocre assemblage student, that was a afloat repast I could afford! (Not ace healthy, of course, but much filling than ramen)."

—winterwednesday9

5. "ICEBOX CAKE! Vanilla and cocoa pudding, layered betwixt graham crackers, I deliberation the sanction derived from forming it successful a quadrate covered crockery from the 'icebox' earlier the refrigerator."

—Anonymous, 83, New Jersey

"My ma utilized to marque an 'icebox cake' with bladed cocoa wafers and whipped cream. At the time, it was considered to beryllium beauteous elegant."

—Anonymous, California

6. "Jell-O salad. I'm gladsome the wacky, savoury ones are gone. Some things shouldn't beryllium captured successful gelatin. My ma utilized to enactment caller effect successful Jell-O, and they utilized to service it successful our schoolhouse cafeteria arsenic well. It was a large mode to get kids to devour caller fruit."

—Anonymous

7. "Monte Cristo sandwiches. You utilized to spot them connected menus each the time. They were double-decker sandwiches with ham, turkey and cheese, battered and deep-fried. Then, they were sprinkled with powdered sugar, and served with a broadside of raspberry jam. Delicious."

—Anonymous, 50, Virginia

8. And similarly: "Jell-O with fruit, acceptable successful molds, layered with a bottommost crust of chewy, saccharine oatmeal crust. Totally satisfying connected blistery summertime days!"

—Anonymous, 70, California

9. "I emotion creamed onions. My mother-in-law made them, but we can't look to duplicate her recipe. Birds Eye had ace yummy frozen creamed onions. But they discontinued making them. I miss them!"

—heroicbutterfly804

10. "Whisky sours. My parents ever had a container of sour premix successful the liquor furniture (powdered, successful packets). I deliberation this was the modular go-to portion of the 1970s housewife!"

—Anonymous, 54, New Jersey

11. "When I was a kid, I loved cube steak (it was the nutrient successful Salisbury/Swiss steak), which was beef pounded ace bladed and astir ground, but not. I ne'er spot that successful the nutrient lawsuit anymore."

—shelleye

12. "Toaster strudels! We each ate them arsenic kids, and present that I person my ain kid, I can't find them anyplace anymore."

—Anonymous, Canada

13. "Round, airy rye breadstuff loaves, hollowed retired and filled with dill dip. Then, you'd usage the hollowed-out breadstuff portion to dip retired the dill dip. It showed up to each enactment successful the '80s–'90s."

—Anonymous

14. "Zucchini sticks. My god, I miss those. Every pub and edifice had them; present they are nary more."

—Anonymous

15. "When I was a kid, determination was this frozen dainty called 'thick and frosty.' You would scoop it retired into a glass, determination beverage over, and disturbance it up, and it makes a benignant of delicious milkshake. I don’t judge it survived the '70s. Sometimes I inactive crave it."

—barbaragodin

16. "Lobster Newberg has wholly disappeared. It was a creamy pinkish condiment implicit lobster tails. It was fantastic."

—Anonymous

17. "Root brew and vanilla popsicles (separate flavors) made by the POPSICLE brand. They utilized to outgo betwixt 5 and 10 cents each. They were the champion happening connected a blistery summertime day, oregon truly immoderate different time of the year."

—Anonymous, 72, Virginia

18. "I retrieve quiche being precise fashionable successful the precocious '70s, aboriginal '80s. It was thought of arsenic sophisticated, due to the fact that it's French. I seldom spot it connected menus successful restaurants anymore."

—Anonymous, 63, Tennessee

19. "I miss the meal cereals that person near us: Buckwheats, Product 19, Quisp, Quake…. I besides enjoyed Pillsbury Space Food Sticks. Loved those things successful kindergarten."

—heroicshark374

20. "I retrieve I utilized to spot seven-layer dip successful each market store, from Costco to Safeway. Now I consciousness similar it's nary longer communal anymore."

—Anonymous

21. "Campbell's alphabet soup. My ma ever made it erstwhile I came location from schoolhouse for lunch, on with a fried bologna sandwich."

—Anonymous

22. "There are truthful galore foods that I don't spot connected menus anymore. Blooming onions are 1 of them. They were benignant of awesome, but support a cardiologist handy."

—Anonymous, 70, Pennsylvania

23. "BBQ sandwiches made with crushed beef, chili powder, ketchup, mayo, and mustard, each mixed together. My ma made a crockpot of this for my basement parties erstwhile I was successful precocious school...delicious!"

—Anonymous

24. "One of my favourite foods increasing up successful the 1950-60s was flake hominy, which was hominy smashed into flakes and dried. It was cooked and eaten for meal with beverage and sugar. It has wholly disappeared. I can't find it anywhere, including the internet."

—Anonymous

25. "Leftover pastry crust, rolled retired and covered with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, past baked. My ma had to marque other pastry crust truthful we wouldn't combat implicit it."

—Anonymous

26. "Chocolate pudding pops. Basically frozen cocoa pudding connected a stick. Yes, they were marketed by Bill Cosby, and he's awful, but those pudding pops were amazing."

—Anonymous

27. "As a child, I retrieve radical eating fried ovum sandwiches, galore times with baloney. I can't retrieve the past clip I saw one; it's been ages. I'm definite radical inactive do, but the thought of eating baloney present makes my tummy turn."

—Anonymous, 47

28. "Viennetta crystal pick cakes. I ever wanted to bargain them erstwhile I got older, since we seldom had it successful the location increasing up. It seemed similar a fancy, grown-up thing, and present it's gone 😭."

—Anonymous, 40, New Jersey

29. "Pepperidge Farms utilized to marque microwave croissant pizzas. They were AMAZING! I wanted to outcry erstwhile they were discontinued."

—Anonymous, 54

30. "City chicken! Cubes of pork oregon veal that were breaded connected woody skewers. They were precise fashionable astir the Great Lakes country erstwhile I was little."

—radiantlegend976

31. "Hydrox sandwich cookies. They predate Oreos by a fewer years, but you ne'er spot them anymore."

—Anonymous, 55, Georgia

32. "Breaded veal patties. My ma would get them successful the nutrient section, oregon sometimes frozen. She'd them up successful a small oil, and adhd mozzarella food and immoderate pasta sauce. Delicious!"

—Anonymous, 48, Pennsylvania

33. "Creamed spinach. I deliberation Ruth's Chris Steak House inactive serves it, but I can't find it successful the freezer conception anymore."

—Anonymous, 80, Washington State

34. "Chicken a la King — pieces of chickenhearted and a pick condiment with greenish peppers, achromatic olives, and onions (maybe mushrooms) connected rice."

—Anonymous, 56, Ohio

35. "My in-laws' 'side pork.' It was pork abdominous breaded and fried, served with a broadside of mustard. Most bland-tasting happening ever."

—Anonymous, 58, Washington State

36. "Frozen, syrupy strawberries. A existent delicacy implicit crystal pick successful the 1960s."

—Anonymous, 70, New York

38. "S'mores mix, wherever you'd harvester Golden Grahams cereal, mini marshmallows, and cocoa chunks."

—Anonymous, 33, Maine

39. "Custard pudding you could marque from a mix. It's not disposable anywhere."

—Anonymous

40. "A hole-in-one: a portion of toast with an ovum successful the middle, fried successful a pan."

—Anonymous

41. And finally, for each my chap Canadians: "Crispy Crunch cocoa bars! They inactive exist, but are progressively rare. I broke down and ordered immoderate from Amazon. Cherry Blossoms person been discontinued entirely."

—bluegreen123

Now, radical implicit 40, archer me: What's a "forgotten" nutrient inclination from your puerility that you privation inactive existed? Share your effect successful this speedy form, oregon successful the comments below!

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