70's kid here. Never had half of these. A picnic for me was typical pb&j or bologna and cheese,fresh fruit and veggies with dip,lemonade or kool-aid, and chips.
We would have day trips and always bring our own food. We brought a cooler that went in the back seat between me and my sister. In it, my dad had mostly sandwich makings: maybe a couple of different kinds of cold cuts, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onions, cheese, and we were/are definitely a Miracle Whip family. The always white bread would be in a bag along with the non-perishables. My mom did make homemade potato salad and coleslaw. Other than that, I would agree with the fresh fruit, chips, and Kool-Aid .
Before there was a Watergate apartment/office complex there was a Water Gate restaurant on the site which is where the building got its name so the salad probably got it from there too.
You're so right about todays food lacking presentation and color. This generation thinks if you layer ANYTHING, you're a real chef. And dear god cheese and bacon HAS to go in EVERYTHING and don't forget the RANCH. So layer up some softpoop, cover with ranch then bacon, some shredded cheese from a bag, and repeat but a real chef will repeat twice. So dumbed down. Oh yeah, spray pan with aerosol oil first.
I’m making some snacks now! I found what I was looking for!! Today everyone buys the picnic stuff! No homemade stuff. But TODAY IT EXPENSIVE but WORTH IT! Okay let’s eat a little Samitch 🌮😎
Loved cucumber salad. Cold, refreshing, creamy, and very tasty. Give me a fork and some black pepper and I can make a meal out of it! 🥲😋😛 How about ham barbecue?
I had you g adult students tell me it was gross to put fruit in Jello. I thought buffets were just being lazy with plain Jello. Apparently it's what you grow up with.
"Lil Smokies" were actually a variety of cocktail sausage - NOT another name for them. The Lil Smokies were a heavily-smoked & nitrated sausage. Our family had them every year at Christmas when we were kids & teens. We'd all eat a ton of them as they were super tasty. But most of us didn't feel all that well the following day [those nitrite chemicals do a number on ya]. These days we all prefer UNCURED sausages. No nitrite hangovers any more. 😉😉😉🌭🌭🌭
I buy them at Christmas time. I make a batch of dough and divide it so each sausage is covered except for one end then bake them. It’s a copycat of the discontinued Sister Schubert sausage rolls.
I am too much a child of the 70s. Even as recent as 2 years ago, I won "awards" and "you have to bring" deviled eggs, mini quiches. The memory that warms my heart is of asking my mother the recipe for the weenie and her elaborately saying get pencil and paper because it was very complicated (Scury scury)..get a pack of little smokies, a can of Manwich and several glubs of bourbon. Thankfully, it was over the phone, so she did not see the look on my face.
If you "want it back" just make it. This food hasn't gone anywhere. But you can keep all that stuff that has cucumbers, can't stand that watery, tasteless, "vegetable".
Had to comment. Your post is spot on. I CAN’T STAND cucumber. Don’t want any cucumber anywhere NEAR my other salad veggies. I don’t want to see it, or smell it. Hahaha. (I do like pickles, the sweet kind). Better to not focus on what they are made from 🙄
I was born in 1954 and the 70s was my eara of licniks galore. Never saw a ham and cheese roll up at a picnic. Never saw a cucumber sandwich. Ritz Mock aople pue was a one time try but never saw one at a picnic. It wasn't popular. Cocktail weiners or baby sausages are still popular at picnics. Waldorf salad isnt gone from pot luck picnics yet. I still see stuffed celery dtick to this day. Usually with soft processed cheddar like Velveeta. Never used cream cheese for stuffing celery. Are you kidding? What makes you think Deviled eggs are missing from today's picnics? I go to them 2 to three times a year and they are always there to eat! This cideo is pointless. Never heard of oea salad until 2000.
I make special deviled eggs. I add mayo, balsamic reduction, garlic salt, a dash of sugar and some white pepper to my yolk filling. I then top them with a sliver of cappocollo and a sprig of fresh chive...
There are so many of those dishes that I hated back then. Haven't had them since, and do not miss them. To this day, any salad that has grapes and nuts mixed with anything or crushed pineapple makes me cringe. Separately, they are delicious, mix them, and 🤮
These recipes havent gone anywhere, they have just been replaced by lunchable convenience. Poverty food is now trendy because only the affluent can afford real food.
Watergate salad isn’t a mystery, it’s not named after the government scandal, but the Watergate Hotel silly goose 🪿 I’m REALLY disappointed that you use clips from several RU-vid channels without tagging them, or crediting them like Food Wishes, Paula Deen, and others I recognized like Emeril. That’s the LEAST one RU-vidr can do for another. Just putting their channel name on the clip would have been so classy, but you willingly skipped it.
