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My mom used to make me add a can of mixed vegetables to my instant ramen until we agreed that I could eat them separately. So I would quickly force down the bland, mushy veggies then enjoy my ramen in its pure form.
I know its meant to represent 1987 but why canned?
I was born in '87 and I distinctly recall eating a lot of canned veggies growing up. I’m sure it’s what my mom grew up (in Newark, NJ) eating, and so it probably just passed on down when she was a young mother. I’m curious if canned veggies were just the rage at the time or if it was so because access to the fresh stuff wasn’t as available.
In Europe it would have been a thing because of Tschernobyl blowing radioactivity across the land for a while.
I grew up with frozen vegetables, my wife grew up with canned… Just one of our many incompatibilities…
Similar experience in rural Michigan, same time period. I’m sure that’s how my mom grew up as well. Fresh veggies were quite available out there, but we still got canned. My grandma wasn’t a great cook, and even though my mother has a ton of fantastic skills, cooking isn’t one of them.
Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, manoomin, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.
Meals like this are exactly why I don’t ever use condensed soup in anything I make. I’ve had a lot of meals like that growing up. My family, my grandparents, my friends families… My wife still will make stuff like this sometimes. It’s all just lazy mush to me. I can’t stand it. Even my mother-in-law, who makes her own soup stock and makes bread and has her own chickens will make condensed soup and canned green bean mush. I just do not understand.
Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:
Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.
The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.
You know that jello salad slaps though. You can just tell.
EDIT: upon further inspection, that’s ambrosia fruit salad. Probably no jello, but rather Coolwhip. Quite tasty still.
I was alive in 1987 and I was never served anything resembling this. What in hell is that?
Alive in 1987… but in Minnesota or the greater midwest, USA? Alive doesn’t cut it. Did you even live life if you didn’t eat this?
I risk I lived a better life by not having eaten it.
Again, what is that?
I have those exact plates…
How the fuck is that Jello
Jell-O makes pudding mixes too. You use Mandarin oranges, whipped cream, and (usually vanilla) Jello pudding to make the dessert.
Are you asking how is it as food or challenging the claim that it is even Jello?
I was in disbelief that it was Jello because it does not look like Jello
yeah, no, that’s ambrosia for sure. cool whip and mandarin oranges
Oddly enough, probably the only thing on that plate I’d eat a bite of
“French cut” green beans make me irrationally angry.
Please, explain
The anger is irrational and thus cannot be rationally explained.
Can I ask you to explain it crazy then?
Sure thing
I think I remember this one… Banned Wow account? Tv remote up butt?
ding ding ding
Perfect, thanks!
They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don’t understand how just the way they’re cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they’re also soaked in lye or something. Or maybe the exposed inner part of the beans absorbs metal from the can.
I’m guessing it’s more dependent on the brands you’re buying, but there shouldn’t be that significant of a flavor change. Also most cans have a liner inside them to protect the contents from chemically affecting the contents. I just checked a few sources for various products, and all of them were simply the beans in a water solution.
Some did include salt, which may be having a minor effect. The French cut, julienne, provides a higher surface area / volume ratio. This means the beans will “marinate” in the solution more effectively than larger cut beans. As in, the salt and water have better access to the inner parts of the beam, leaving them more tender and “marinated.”
I’m using that weird very loosely because I honestly can’t remember the right word.
It’s not the taste so much as the texture. The difference in a green bean casserole made with French cut green beans and whole, cut, green beans is night and day. And by that I mean only one is worth eating. The other is just mush.
So how many times was this eaten before?
TEETH ARE OPTIONAL IN THIS HOUSE
Calling dinner supper is super Minnesotan, too.
It’s kind of Bostonian too, but then it’s pronounced “suppah”.
Supper is eaten from 4-6 while dinner is eaten from 5-7 in my experience. Dinner is usually a heavier meal than supper, as well.
Wait, no one else calls it that?
Others do, it’s a Midwestern thing.
Where I’m from, it’s interchangeable.
Wait until you have family that say that daily meals are chronologically “breakfast, dinner, and supper.”
What do they call brunch, brinner?
WHERE THE FUCK IS LUNCH @_@
Are you telling me they call lunch “dinner”?!
Yup! Or more specifically, “noon dinner.”
It might be a Midwest farming thing where there are multiple snack times between chores outside. Two generations ago, my family had a quick 5 a.m. breakfast and lunch (or second breakfast) in the morning These weren’t full meals in the traditional sense. Dinner meant coming in and sitting at the table for a prepared meal. Otherwise it was just stopping in the house for a small bite and a drink.
In the afternoon, they had tea time at 3 p.m. (black tea with snack cakes or open-face sandwiches). By evening, there’d be a last big meal (supper) before going to bed.
It was super confusing for me being the first generation that didn’t grow up on the farm.
This got re-posted to [email protected], where we actually know what a hotdish is.
(It’s a casserole. /s)
A? Hotdish?!? Get him!
Dogfood on the right, catfood on the left, goat chow in the middle
This is why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of British food.
Not even comparable😂 Americans look back at this and laugh or cringe, Brits still eat their old-timey slop
1987 was nearly 40 years ago…
Hey most of us stopped eating that way.
And started eating way, way worse
Maybe “worse” in the sense of health, but certainly not taste.
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My man
Did she eat the ‘food’ herself before putting it on this plate?
Do as I say, not as I do
