8 Popular Foods We Don't Eat Anymore, Here's Why

What foods do you buy daily? How about SunnyD? Or maybe congealed salad is the thing you can't live without? Yup, these foods are so unpopular now! However, just 20–40 years ago they were flying off the grocery store shelves!

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TIMESTAMPS:
TV Dinners 0:35
Congealed Salads 2:05
SunnyD 3:46
Hi-C 5:22
Bubble Tape 6:33
Ambrosia Salad 7:16
Crisco 8:29
Cottage Cheese 9:30

SUMMARY:
- TV dinners first stepped onto the scene in the 1950s when Swanson was looking for a way to sell their Thanksgiving food leftovers. They came up with the idea of serving ready-made food frozen on a convenient tray.
- If you ever ate dinner at your grandma’s house as a kid, you probably tasted the stuff once or twice. Gelatin was first used in dishes back in medieval Europe and was partly made from the collagen in animal bones.
- Back in 1968, many kids could be seen sipping on a cold bottle of SunnyD as a part of a well-balanced breakfast — and it was anything but. SunnyD tasted super sweet because it was primarily made of corn syrup and contained less than 5% juice.
- One Hi-C Wild Cherry juice box contained a whopping 27 g of sugar, which is more than the American Heart Association recommends grown women ingest in a day — and these were intended for kids!
- Back in the late ’80s and ‘90s, Bubble Tape was a fan fave! But ever, since sugar-free gum became more popular and oral health, became more of a priority, this sugary sweet gum just wasn’t as desirable anymore.
- Ambrosia salad was usually found at family gatherings back when you or your parents were younger. This sweet salad actually came onto the scene back in the 1800s and usually featured special sweet treats that only appeared on special occasions.
- Once people realized how bad trans fats were for them during the ‘90s, Crisco stopped being used as often.
- It wasn’t until the 1950s that cottage cheese became incredibly popular. It’s very mild in flavor and isn’t super high in fat, which was appealing to people from the ‘50s into the ‘70s.

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[BRIGHTSIDEOFFICIAL]

Hey guys, would you try that ambrosia salad? Or do you know any other weird foods from the past?

[thetillerwiller]

SunnyD was like someone tried to make orange juice without oranges 😂😂

[CherifCharf]

Cottage cheese still healthy and good to buy. Full of Protein as well. I still buy it.

[christopherbutler]

I work in frozen foods. Frozen dinners are in no way dying out!!! Hi-c is still carried in the juice box aisle. Bubble tape is still found in major grocers. Delis have ambrosia salad as a mainstay in their selections. And cottage cheese?! Still popular?

Where is this guy shopping?!

[bryanmerel]

Ambrosia salad, is still served and made in the Philippines. We call it Fruit Salad though. It is treated as a dessert, made from heavy cream, condensed milk, Canned Fruit Cocktail, Canned Pineapples, freah fruit, and soft coconut meat(usually fresh ones).

[cynthiawilliams]

There is a healthier way to make ambrosia salads, using fresh cut up fruits, and fresh homemade whipped cream, and walnuts.

[TotoBaggypants]

This is pretty inaccurate, guys. I don't know where you're from but must be located under a rock. None of this stuff is gone.

[wtf]

Why is no one talking about the weird scary starting of the video??

[jpbaley]

The only thing here not used anymore is the word “congealed”.

[CCaliforniaG]

Cottage cheese is actually high in protein and low in carbs (sugars). Many yogurts are high in sugar making them less healthy.

[mary-ruthflores]

May be not “classic” TV dinners, but I guess this program writers hasn’t walked down the freezer isle!

[tarteauxframboises]

Cottage cheese is keto gold. It should not be on this list of outdated foods. Not to mention, cottage cheese is very popular in Eastern Europe.

[Pamela.Schultz]

Hi-C is literally in every grocery store and has never left.

[charlesbaldo]

Half of these foods do not need to come back because the never left.

[HannaFate]

I stopped at 38 seconds in. "TV dinners" We eat more of those than ever. They come in bowls now, instead of partitioned aluminum trays, and we cook them in the microwave. If you think that's "unpopular" I'm not interested in whatever else you have on your list.

[community]

Hard pressed to find TV dinners - are you kidding.  I went to Kroger's the other day and I bought 6 of them and there were loads and loads of others taking them out of the freezers and putting them into shopping carts.  A lot of people buy them all of the time.

[kaysmyth]

Cottage cheese is still a favorite place in our house. You can add any fresh fruit. You can bake it in Italian dishes. Add tomato and you have a salad. People are missing out.

[lilmissbloodbath]

"You've had jello before, right?"

Shows a box of pudding

[joshlugert]

Again I work in a grocery store and we sell almost everything on this list.

[billm]

And yet obesity is higher than ever before. We’ve just shifted our sugar and calorie consumption to higher end “healthy” brands and casual restaurants. Places like Starbucks serve nothing but caffeine laden sugar drinks (and sugar foods and cakes), shake shack and five guys burgers (healthy high quality fats and milk shake), Chipotle (hip calories), Cheesecake Factory (tasty and great ambiance 2, 000 calorie dishes), etc. We’d probably be better off eating a Swanson TV Dinner at this point.