The Most Ridiculous Food Trend The Year You Were Born

Food trends come and go, but some live forever in infamy. If you were born anywhere from 1960 and 2022, stick around to learn which questionable culinary fad was most popular during the year you were born.

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1960-1961: Jell-O salad | 0:00
1962-1963: Tang | 0:55
1964: Grape jelly meatballs | 1:28
1965: Canned pasta | 1:59
1966: Drinking Man's Diet | 2:39
1967: Easy Cheese | 3:13
1968-1969: Freeze-dried food | 3:40
1970-1971: Fondue | 4:10
1972: Cheese balls | 4:46
1973: Ham and banana hollandaise | 5:14
1974: Smash instant mashed potatoes | 5:41
1975: Blue Nun wine | 6:16
1976: Watergate salad | 6:48
1977-1978: Cheese and pineapple hedgehogs | 7:15
1979-1980: Salad bars | 7:43
1981: Holiday sandwich loaves | 8:18
1982: Hot buttered Cheerios | 8:47
1983-1984: Bran muffins | 9:17
1985: New Coke | 9:42
1986: Cooking with Crisco | 10:14
1987: Wine coolers | 10:44
1988: Jolt Cola | 11:10
1989: Lunchables | 11:44
1990: Warheads | 12:10
1991: Easy-Bake Oven | 12:36
1992: Fruit Gushers | 13:06
1993: Pesto | 13:32
1994: Strawberry-kiwi flavor | 14:12
1995-1996: Flavored martinis | 14:38
1997: Chocolate lava cake | 15:13
1998: Go-Gurt | 15:38
1999: Foam | 16:08
2000: Colorful ketchup | 16:35
2001: Energy drinks | 17:04
2002: Low-carb diets | 17:44
2003: Bacon | 18:14
2004: Pumpkin spice | 18:46
2005: Cupcakes | 19:29
2006-2007: Green Smoothies | 20:03
2008: Starbucks and Pike Place Roast | 20:33
2009: Elaborate cakes | 21:03
2010: Kale | 21:30
2011: Cake pops | 22:08
2012-2014: Frozen yogurt | 22:39
2015: Matcha | 23:16
2016: Avocado toast | 23:49
2017: Activated charcoal | 24:23
2018: Unicorn food | 24:58
2019: Freakshakes | 25:29
2020: Dalgona whipped coffee | 26:09
2021: Charcuterie board everything | 26:36
2022: Pink Sauce | 27:17

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[MashedFood]

Which of these food trends do you remember fondly?

[HasinaDrip]

1:53 now the infamous “baby shower meatballs” recipe is grape jelly, a bottle of bbq sauce, some frozen meat balls and a slow cooker… best meatballs ever LOL had no idea that was an old school recipe that just evolved. 😂

[RizzyGyatt]

Seeing those 90s commercials makes my heart sing with joy. I miss those days

[TheJrcattle]

Salad bar is really nice for Memorial service reception. 80’s got that right!

[jgw]

A friend and I enjoy fondue in her mother's old fondue set. She brings chewy bread and the cheese mixture, and I bring veggie and apple chunks and a bottle of red. 😋

[alfredhitchcockinafez]

2022, for the toddler nostaglic for their childhood.

[taraoakes]

My brother is in his late 50s, and still requests Watergate cake for his birthday every year. Growing up in the Upper Midwest, jello was everywhere, and jello salads with fruit were included as side dishes. Luckily for me none of my relatives did anything savory, or weird with it. I do remember my parents doing a big multi course fondue dinner once a year. People brought their fondue pots for my parents to use, both electric, and flame based. I remembered loving every dish, especially the dessert which was ice cream filled tiny cream puffs that were dipped in a chocolate fondue. Yummy!

[sorchamccarrey]

surprised not to see the pandemic sourdough trend, that was everywhere for a while! def marked that time more than charcuterie or the pink sauce for me, and so emblematic of the haphazard attempts at connection while socially distanced

edit: also matcha lol, coincidentally that was the same year i first tried it but not bc of the fad—the professor for a Japanese art and culture class i took brought us the real stuff and we all got to try it on the last day :D

[tiffaniegreen]

Anyone else notice that at 17:48 they pick the knife up and use it upside down? 🤣😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂

[AKayfabe]

I love freeze dried ice cream. I don’t really mind if it wasn’t actually eaten in space I still buy it sometimes. Freeze dried texture is great. I also like the freeze dried skittles being sold in stores now.

[capitancoolo]

Watergate salad isn't named after the Watergate scandal. It's named after the Watergate hotel were the chef who invented it worked.

[jax]

Crazy that you said that about Watergate salad lol. People are so ignorant of history. We're cooked.

[cindybubbles]

Meatballs and grape jelly have nothing over meatballs and lingonberry sauce!

[SilverThunder]

My great-grandmother makes an unbelievable Watergate Salad. She doesn't call it that, preferring it to be called "Lime Salad, " but it's the same thing. Also I fondly remember Starbucks cake pops, they were the snack of my childhood. And now I'm hooked on matcha thanks to Starbucks too. And don't even get me started on charcuterie boards, they're freakin' EPIC when done right

[Nwalters]

I have to ask one question: Where is SRIRACHA?! It was a phenomenon similar to bacon.

[gypsy]

I believe in the Victorian era Aspic (gelatin) was a trend. They put all kinds of stuff in it. It was revived in the 60s

[cmike]

Watergate Salad is named after the Watergate Hotel (where the scandal happened), not the scandal itself.

[KingfisherTalkingPictures]

Never heard of ham & bananas. I challenge anyone one to remember it.

[LoFiAsteroux]

As a 90s kid, that was quite a nostalgic trip.

I do wonder why Banana Bread isn't included in the 2020~ year, considering almost everyone kept baking them almost every day during the lockdown.

[Dee-jqob]

Yeah, my Easy Bake would burn you and the house down 😂 gotta love the 60’s