"We Used To Make It Once A Month. Now I Can't Find It Anywhere": Boomers Are Revealing The "Extinct" Food Trends That Gen Z'ers Have Literally No Idea Ever Existed, And Oh WOW, I'm Actually Speechless

I'm a monolithic foodie. Like, I earnestly deduce truthful overmuch joyousness from eating my fave meals. And erstwhile there's a caller benignant of nutrient everyone is raving about, you champion judge I'm gonna effort it. But arsenic it turns out, determination are a TON of erstwhile nutrient trends from 30+ years agone that person faded out, and cipher seems to retrieve anymore.

So I asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock the "forgotten" nutrient trends that would confuse the heck retired of younger radical today...and here's what they said:

1. "My ma utilized to marque this upside-down pineapple cake, and present it’s obscurity to beryllium seen...and this aluminum tin barroom utilizing condensed milk. I seldom find immoderate recipes contiguous asking for condensed milk. I miss the aged days and the simpler nutrient habits backmost then!"

—Anonymous, 35, India

2. "Potato skins. I person a immense fondness for immoderate crockery involving potatoes and melted cheese, truthful it's been bittersweet for maine to dilatory ticker what utilized to beryllium a staple of chain-restaurant appetizer sections dilatory vanish disconnected menus. Even the frozen ones you find successful the market store are getting harder to find."

—Anonymous, 36, California

3. "Rice pudding with raisins. It was truthful bully warm, but conscionable arsenic bully erstwhile it was cold. Also, buttered ovum noodles. Or Farmer's Chop Suey — each the crockery vegetables you could adhd to a bowl: lettuce, cucumber, radishes, tomatoes, legume sprouts, carrots, celery...and sour cream, each mixed up together. Maybe it was a conflict meal, but I loved whenever my ma would marque it."

—Anonymous, 63, Southern California

4. "Cherry food sandwiches. You utilized to spot them astatine funerals and assemblage gatherings. I inactive marque them occasionally, and the kids telephone them 'funeral sandwiches.' They're made of maraschino cherries chopped successful quarters, a spot of the foodstuff to marque them pink, pick cheese, and mayo, each whipped unneurotic similar a delight, served connected achromatic breadstuff without the crust. If they were fancy, they would beryllium chopped with a flower-shaped cooky cutter. Yummy!"

—Anonymous, 50, Nova Scotia, Canada

5. "Baked oven pork chops with mushroom soup. There were full cookbooks dedicated to cooking with Campbell's soup. And this was by acold my favourite happening made with mushroom soup. This and baked canned greenish drawstring beans and mushroom crockery with slivered almonds! Delish!"

—Anonymous, 39, Canada

6. "A crockery called 'sh*t connected a shingle.' I person ne'er seen it myself. It's thing my begetter utilized to gag astir being our adjacent meal, but with nary mentation of what it was. It sounded similar we were going to beryllium eating sh*t. It was beauteous funny, but it sounded similar determination was immoderate repast that had that sanction without being literal."

—troper

"It's creamed chipped beef. It utilized to beryllium served implicit toast, and the texture is an acquired taste, hence the name. It really utilized to beryllium truly communal to agelong nutrient that way: by serving it successful a achromatic sauce, and past implicit a inexpensive carb similar potatoes, toast, oregon saltines. My household ate a batch of those kinds of meals."

–lobster_lemon_lime

7. "Fried bologna. It was decidedly a poorness meal, but truthful tasty that it was a treat, arsenic they say. Very salty and unhealthy, though."

—adrianw440bbeae3

8. "Liver. It's conscionable gross to me, and it tastes metallic. Fortunately, my ma hates it, too, truthful she ne'er made it erstwhile I was a kid. Her ma did, though, each week, including erstwhile once she forgot it was my mom's birthday."

—sassytraveler46

9. "Boston pick pastry (especially the 1 made from the Duncan Hines barroom mix). Yes, I cognize you tin marque it from scratch, but the premix is truthful good. My household utilized to marque it erstwhile a period erstwhile I was a child. Now, I can't find it anywhere, not adjacent online, not adjacent (really) connected the Duncan Hines website."

—talinn

10. "In the '80s and '90s, erstwhile determination was a potluck, idiosyncratic would ever marque a effect and/or veggie pizza. You took crescent rotation dough, flattened it connected a cooky sheet, and baked it for conscionable a fewer minutes. For the effect pizza, you enactment connected pick food (usually with immoderate brownish sugar) and past layered a clump of antithetic cut-up fruits. For the veggie one, you enactment pick food connected it and a clump of veggies: peppers, broccoli, carrots, etc. They were good."

—elizabethg20

11. "Saltine crackers successful a vessel of milk. I retrieve my grandpa loved to devour them erstwhile I was younger and I'd devour it with him. Now helium doesn't devour it, oregon whitethorn not adjacent retrieve it, and I ne'er perceive anyone speech astir it!"

—Anonymous, 30 Southern Illinois

12. "This 1 is not truthful overmuch forgotten arsenic 'cancelled': immoderate soups made of pick (e.g. pick of XYZ soups). It seems similar radical decided to hatred connected it. But they marque immoderate of the champion comfortableness foods!"

—Anonymous, 39, California

13. "I loved ambrosia crockery arsenic a kid successful the '70s. I astir apt inactive would, adjacent though I'm not into weird salads. I conscionable emotion thing with pineapple and coconut. For those who don't know, ambrosia crockery is conscionable canned pineapple, shredded sweetened coconut, those lil' canned mandarin orangish slices, mini marshmallows, maraschino cherries (which I prime out), and either sour cream, whipped cream, oregon both. It's benignant of tropical, I guess."

–pikakats

14. "Pickled herring. We inactive person it for Christmas and Thanksgiving each year, but you ne'er spot it anymore."

—Anonymous, 19, Indiana

15. "Aspic. It's a savoury jelly molded with nutrient wrong of it, similar nutrient and veggies. They made large centerpieces for the array astatine dinners."

—Anonymous, Michigan

16. "My cousin's grandma makes an astonishing German cocoa barroom that she and her hubby utilized to service to the ranch hands connected their dude ranch backmost successful the mid-'70s. She precocious passed the look down to each the kids successful the family, and since she's inactive around, she has been giving everyone her tips and tricks erstwhile they person questions."

—torbielillies

17. "Twice-baked potatoes are truly hard to find pre-made, and they're ne'er disposable astatine restaurants anymore. It ever bums maine retired 😢."

—simplysarahish

18. "My girl is joined with children, and she conscionable said to maine the different time that she misses scalloped potatoes."

—Anonymous, 61, Oklahoma

19. "Tuna dishes person dilatory started to slice out. Two examples are creamed tuna connected toast, and tuna patties with creamed peas."

—Anonymous, 79, South Carolina

20. "Some peculiar grilled sandwiches with a savoury, donut-like bread. It was amazing!"

—Anonymous, 35, Greece

21. And past but not least: "Swedish meatballs, meatloaf, and cookware roast."

—Anonymous, 30, Florida

Now, archer me: What's a nutrient inclination from your puerility that has since gone wholly extinct? Tell maine successful this anonymous form, oregon successful the comments below!

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Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.