20 Famous Dinners Every Baby Boomer LOVED Growing Up! 

Kids think a Baby Boomer is anyone born before 2000 😂

Growing up in the 80´s was for GenX, Boomers grew up in the 60´s

Porcupine Meatballs! Oh my, I had forgotten all about those from so long ago!. Hum, now I'll need to look for a recipe for them.

My mom used to serve salmon patties with ketchup. Bless her 1950s heart. If it didn’t come out of a can, she didn’t know what to do with it. 🤣

We never had tv dinners,no pineapple casserole, no city chicken, no chicken divane!!

My grandma made the cabbage meal I use like it .

I never heard of some of this food.

We called a cabbage roll "Pig-in-Blanket". I still love them 40 yrs later.

Boomers 1946-1964..... Culinary Nirvana !!😊😊

In the 80s my mom cooked everything fried chicken home made mash potatoes chili spaghetti home made pizza Tuna Casserole sloppy joes also on sundays mom had Roast and Potatos corn mac & cheese. Also in the 80s gree up eating Bologna sandwiches and Cheese Toast

I still make every one of these dishes

I’ve recently rediscovered goulash. It’s SOOO good! I expected it to be like spaghetti, but the peppers, bay leaves, Worcestershire, & cheddar really change everything! 😋

Thanks for your old school content i love it🙏🏻🙏🏻

A lot of these dishes "on every table" weren't on my parents' table. They weren't in the school cafeteria, either.

You nailed it on the first two, but I grew up in the 60s and never had any of the last 18 dishes you represented. Sundays were spent having Italian food in the late afternoon.

I am part Polish. Galumpki was a meal that often we had for funerals. Once it was made, you could have it whenever. My Aunt Dot made the best galumpki.

Wow! I loved City Chicken. Probably haven't had that since the mid '70s. Swiss Steak, Sloppy Joe sandwiches, barbequed ham sandwiches, pot roast, and beef stroganoff were all staples in our home.

For the most part, these dishes have one thing in common - they required preparation, involving time families don't always have any more.

i'm a baby boomer and the only thing my mom made on this list was salmon patties. i still love them and make them to this day.

When I worked at Exxon, they cooked all kinds of ethnic dishes in the cafeteria that I wouldn't have experienced otherwise. I loved Hungarian Goulash, Knockwurst and Sauerkraut, Sauerbraten, Quiche, Pesto Pasta, Schnitzel and many others.

I make Chicken A La King a couple of times a year. It’s good!

FAMILIES BETTER MAKE TIME FOR EACH OTHER BEFORE ITS TO LATE

Night before last I had golumpki. Got them from our local church.

My mom is a babyboomer, I remember her making us chicken creole, and salsbury steak, both were very good.

We never had casseroles . My dad didn’t like them. We did have Swiss steak and goulash once in a while. Our meals were basically meat, starch , vegetable, bread.

I want to try every plate. Especially Gulumpi and the seafood dishes. My boomer parents didn't make these dishes but I am familiar with my Filipino culture's meals.

Love these ❤

Especially in pre-Vatican II times Catholic homes. My Mom made Swiss steak hamburgers. Mock chicken legs are the same as City Chicken

Well I am a boomer and I didn't eat any of these save two and under protest. Golubskis or what the Russians called Halubkis were offered every November at the Russian Orthodox Church supper where my family and i went once a year but my mother never served it at home. Because we were Catholic Fridays became a revolving trifecta of salmon patties, fish sticks, and that God awful tuna, mushroom soup, noodle, pea and potato yuck I called tuna deja vu because i belched it up all night. Yes I do remember the fragrance of salmon patties cooking on the stove because it made me think of Jonah inside a whales stomach every time the house reeked of it. The rest was never served in my house and TV dinners were expressly forbidden. As an Italian family we had spaghetti, lasagna, and penne, either Bolognese or Marinara style, stuffed peppers, ham and beans, fried chicken with mashed potatoes and cream gravy, beef pot roast, meat loaf, vegetable soup, chicken and barley soup with veggies, Italian garlic sausage, pulled pork barbeque, and baked chicken with dressing. In the summer we caught bluegill and catfish and ate watermelon and vegetables from our garden But my favorite food was steak and how we had it often is a story in itself My dad was a country doctor and like all of them in a rural area, payment if there was any, was sometimes in things other than money. There was a farmer that was a patient and when he wasn't out in the field planting corn, he was on the boudoir making hay. Well he brought his wife in and Dad said she was pregnant and the farmer asked if he could count on dad being there to deliver the child. My dad reminded him that he still owed for the last three. The farmer didn't say anything but a few days later he called my dad and asked him how thick he liked his steaks. Dad said " Oh an inch or so, Why? The farmer said nothing and hung up leaving my father puzzled as to why he called. A few days later the meat locker plant called and said that the farmer left 800 pounds of beef cuts in two lockers for us. And as these children grew and he had more, he did the same thing at least twice for us. Then shortly before my dad was going to retire he notified all of his patients that he would like if they would settle up their bills. The farmers wife, now a widow and empty nester called to find out her bill and came to the office to see my dad personally to pay him. thank him, and say goodbye because she had put the farm up for sale and was going to live with one of her children. She gave dad check for the balance of her bill and when my dad had a look of disappointment on his face she asked if the amount was too little. He said no, but he wished she still had another cow or two to butcher.

I still make Tamale Pie once a month

Still make most of these

I grew up in the 50s and 60s and never had any of that stuff. So not EVERY boomer had the same food.

Gulash is macaroni noodles & chili then taste and add an extra can of diced tomatoes in the chili and then season to taste, we never put cheese in ours, but put chili powder in it, just texting this comment gave me a craving for it, serve it with bread & real butter or maragine suit your own taste ❤😊

I still.make stuffed cabbage with tomato paste and instant rice onion red peppers, garlic powder & salt and cook it in V8 tomato juice in the oven, its wonderful with sweet coleslaw and raisins int it's yummy, i had to make my own v8 juice to cook it in adding tomatoes juice or u can use 3-4 cand of diced tomatoes for the juice ,diced carrots, onion, red pepper, celery, parsley & season to taste 😊

Baby boomers born the years of 1944 -1964 ❤

Many of these are ethnic foods. I've never eaten a Golumki, but I know many people who have and do, most of Polish descent. I see Chicken Ala King on this channel a lot, I don't often eat Chicken Ala King, but I have Turkey Ala King after every Thanksgiving, same thing. I generally enjoy this channel, but sometime I think they're taking about regional foods or ethic foods that are either still eaten, or were only found in certain circles.

These are not baby boomer dishes. Hell, I still make these now!

Why do use the Polish term for stuffed cabbage - just because Martha Stewart did? Every country in central/eastern Europe had their own name for the same dish. My grandparents were Czech and Slovak, so my Mom used the term halupki. We always had it on New Year's Day because it was supposed to bring good luck. Also, we never had succotash at home, but that was the side dish that every restaurant in the 50s served with any dinner. I would pick out all the corn kernels and eat those, and leave the rest in a pile on the plate. (I detested lima beans, still do.)

Oh my goodness who lived like that 😂

When was veal or pork ever cheaper than chicken? I'm a Gen xer and I don't remember that.

Those salmon patties were NOT canned salmon

Halupkies in my area

Not so much on the west coast….

As a Hungarian this "Goulash" just make me cringe so bad every time you mention it :D Also it spelled: Gulyás. This have nothing to do with the Hungarian one. Its like calling a hamburger a pizza :D

Tomato THERES NO A IN THE WORD YOU DUNCE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

i was born in 1964, dont speak for me, on what i ate, you know Nothing about me

My mom used tuna, i don't think she liked salmon, it has a stronger taste, then tuna

I am a Baby Boomer and I disagree when you say all Baby Boomers ate these dishes. 1) no TV DINNERS in my house. Too expensive. My mother made and froze pot pies with left over meat and vegetables from previous meals. 2) stuffed cabbage was cheap and filling, so we ate that. 3) Goulash was cheap and filling.

Okay why do you have a thumbnail of a young woman when baby boomers are much older?!

People still eat this stuff. I’m going to unsubscribe

AMERICAN boomers

This is not true IMO