You are so freak’n funny! I think you are already an american, you’d fit right in. I have two sons around your age and they both have your sense of humor!
I just wish this video had included the infamous Ayds (pronounced “aids”) appetite suppressant candy, that unfortunately in and by the mid-1980’s would end up finding out the similar name to an infamous and unfortunately still with us 40 some years illness. Ayds candy was manufactured in Chicago, & they dated back to the late-1940’s. Would love to see you react to a video regarding the infamous Ayds candy.😉
@@PureLuv-of9fu Yeah, I was thinking the Marathon bar here in the states similar candy bar in the UK was the Curly Wurly. Interestingly the Curly Wurly was sold in much of the Northeast U.S. from the 1950’s to the early 1970’s (especially popular in New York & New Jersey). A matter-of-fact the Curly Wurly candy bar would end up called out in the Bruce Springsteen 1973 written (later better remembered covered 3 years later by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band) composition, “Blinded By The Light”.
@@jimonthecoast3234 then eriophid mite a plant parasite could easily end up in anything containing plant material. That mite is an arachnid. So yeah there are totally some spider legs in pretty much you name it.
In the 70s when Pop Rocks were new our entire grade school class took a mouthful of them. When the teacher looked away we all opened our mouths so you could hear the crackling - it was LOUD! 🤣 When she turned to look for the sound, we all closed our mouths so you couldn't hear them. Repeated several times before she figured it out 😂
Yes, exactly, and used in other smoked meats like salami, pepperoni, summer sausage, etc which are meats that hickory farms sells packaged for gifting.
Hickory Farms is a brand. It's HQ'ed in VA and is currently a subsidary of Smithville. Excellent gifts, or a great addition to chaurcuetirie platters (aka, "eating cheese, sausage, and crackers in my underwear.")
Hickory has also been a long time favorite for wooden handles for cutlery, and some makers of cast iron skillets. Some cane makers also preferred, with some still using hickory over ash.
I am 59 years old and was born in 1964 the last year of the Baby Boomers. I ate the Ding dongs and ate the Swanson TV Dinners. My younger brother and I played outside while the TV Dinners were cooking, The TV dinners were great!
Ding Dongs were my favorite. I could eat the entire box and feel no guilt...lol I also remember the Swanson TV Dinners. Whatever had the chocolate pudding or chocolate cake was the one I went for.
Yeah, the only people you ever hear trash talking spray cheese are people who have never had it. I mean, I don’t eat it very much, but when I do I sure as hell enjoy it
Frozen TV dinners took longer because you used a regular oven to thaw and heat them up. They had to change the tray from aluminum to paper or plastic so you could put them is a microwave.
I loved the rare treat of getting a TV dinner as a kid. For some reason, I thought getting the food in the alunium tray was fun, lol. My mother was a great cook and made great dinners, Roast beef, lasagna, or swedish meatballs or some other amazing meal...yet I liked the silly TV dinner in the tray. It was probably because it was something different because my mother's cooking was amazing. She made homemade spaghetti sauce from scratch that made the whole house smell like sauce all day, so good.
TV dinners were awesome in the 70s. We loved the fried chicken one. Our mom made them and we'd sit in front of the TV watching Little House on the Prairie in our long nightgowns, and eating on our TV trays.
My mom switched us kids from fresh OJ to Tang because it was the school nurse told her it was better for us. It lasted for 2 months in our house. We refused to drink it and Mom got tired of pouring all the glasses at the table except hers down the sink drain after breakfast each day and switched back to the OJ again. Hated that astronaut sponsored nasty crap.
Wheaties cereal has always been advertised as "The Breakfast of Champions". Since 1934, hundreds of famous athletes have been featured on Wheaties boxes.
Marathon bars were a favorite. Soft caramel that stretched out a mile when you took a bite. The actor that played “Marathon John” in the commercials was John Wayne’s son.
I remember Food Sticks very well and Marathon Bars. Ding Dongs were a favorite snack any time, and when I moved into my first apartment I'd get TV dinners just to have something to eat when I was too tired from work to do any cooking. You had to peel back the foil over the apple crisp desert to brown the top of the pastry when it was in the oven. Great memories.
When I was age 12 I was dropped off at the grocery store with a blank check and was picked up an hour later. I had to prepare home cooked meals twice a week for a family of 7 while mom worked late.
In the late 80s my parents went out of state for a few weeks while they were doing a fast renovation on a house to rent it. They left me (17) & my sister (13) to fend for ourselves for about a month. I paid for grocieries & school lunches off my job at a restaurant as a busboy. my sister would catch a ride to/from school from a family friend, while i would ride my bike. The bills were all paid, but we just did what we were told. Parents called to check on us & the friends kept checking too. We did fine, we weren't popular kids, into the party scene or getting into trouble.
OMG Bumble Bee Tuna. I had a little Brother who was alergic to bee stings. He ran in the house one day and was crying saying he was stung by a bee. "It was a Bumble Bee Tuna Bee". We couldn't help but laugh. Had to take him to the hospital though.
My mother was a great cook, so we didn’t have frozen meals very often. She’d get some Swanson pot pies or frozen meals for me occasionally because I liked them. They took forever because you had to preheat the oven and then cook them for 35-45 minutes. I enjoyed them more than microwaveable meals today, probably because they were kind of novel for me.
@@lauriloo38c I like those and the ones with ham and potatoes. There's a company called Blake's who makes the yummiest pot pies (my favorite is turkey). They're not cheap, but they're my absolute favorite.
@@33MarciS I see the Marie Callender’s ones next to Banquet. Significantly higher price. Afraid I’ll like them better and lose my super cheap dinner option 😂
I'm in Canada and grew up in the 70's. Thing's I remember - Buried treasure. An ice cream on a plastic stick, With a creamy white ice cream and a tangy orange ice cream twirled together. When you were done the middle was a molded character in the end of the plastic stick. A elephant, horse etc. - Dracula Ice cream - On a popsicle stick a chocolate dipped white ice cream with a dark strawberry filling in the middle. - Bubble gum cigars - A 2 inch stick of gum about the thickness of your finger wrapped in wax paper. It was covered in powder sugar and you could blow from one end to make the powder shoot out like smoke
I remember the first “ Taco Bell” came to our town in California about 1972. They just had tacos, burritos, and beans. And they ALL cost 25 cents each! Love Grandma Debbie
Yeah and that was way before their tacos and burritos gave you the screaming memes and sent you running for the nearest bathroom as well. I actually used to grab those burritos after work in the evenings on my way home because every body was asleep already and there was no food that was not cold in the fridge already. It actually tasted good then.
Back in the 70's and 80's we had the bubble gum wars from companies making soft non-stick bubble gum. The big 3 were....BUBBLE-YUM, HUBBA-BUBBA AND BUBBLICIOUS.
Hubba Bubba *IS* American. It cracks me up when I hear Brits say things like "Do you have Heinz in America" LOL, Heinz *IS* American! "Why have I heard of crazy cow?" - maybe you mean 'Mad Cow' as in Mad Cow Disease? "You guys like your bright colours" - No, actually we don't lol. We don't have a say in the matter. We're forced to take what they offer us! 😆 Marathon-like candy - I know what you're talking about, I remember them too, they came in chocolate and strawberry (and maybe a vanilla flavoured one) that was really chewy and took a long time to finish. It was called Charleston Chew.
Exactly...they don't understand, their favorite "Beans On Toast" and Favorite BEANS are OURS! TEA BAGS were invented in America! But A1 Steak Sauce is English. POTATO CHIPS WERE INVENTED IN AMERICA! Walkers Chips are Lay's!! They're not British either!
My best one was having breakfast in a British hotel. Apparently, it's customary to share tables in small dining rooms. A British gentleman asked me if we had Kellogg's Corn Flakes in the US.
I came here to say exactly this. I see it quite often from British and Irish reactors. They’ll have no idea that something they’ve enjoyed since childhood is from the states. 😂
He left out "Screaming Yellow Zonkers". They were at every pot party. The box was covered in cartoon or comic strip that only made sense if you were smoking pot or on acid.
Swanson TV Dinners were great if your mother didn't have the time or energy to make dinner. My mom had to work, clean house, and go back to college to become a teacher. Our choice of dinners as a kid half the time were Swansons TV Dinners, Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, or Bologna Sandwiches. Swanson's Turkey and Fried Chicken TV Dinners were gourmet!!!! We were working class, and McDonalds were a special treat.
Same here. Me mom, a single mom was becoming a nurse, so sometimes I got Swanson’s until I learned to cook. And McDonalds or any other fast food was only for weekends. A tradition I kept for my daughter. Girls night on Fridays meant she got to pick a fast food place. Eat nice and healthy all week. Ironically she watched Super-size me and has refused to eat McDonalds since she was 15. She’s now 21…junk food is Panera now for her, rofl.
I grew up in the 1960's-1970's. I have never heard of many of these products. My Mom kept us on corn flakes and other basic foods. Not much junk food allowed. And my kids weren't given much junk food, either. They are adults now and pretty much only eat healthy food.
We were poor when I was growing up, and TV dinners were a treat. Usually only my dad got one (because he worked long hours and needed a “good” dinner) and the six of us kids ate our usual boxed mac-n-cheese with the cheapest hot dogs (I hate to think about what was in them) or frozen fish sticks. Often just one of those things. When I’d visit my grandparents, sometimes they would let me have a TV dinner too, if that’s what they were having. We may know now that these things were garbage, but being young and poor, I thought I had the world when I got my own TV dinner. They even came with a dessert! 😋
I was born in 1964....I'm familiar with ALL these items. Sir Grapefellow is one of THE greatest cereals ever made, along with KABOOM.....and Quisp was nothing to sneeze at, either. 😀
Omygosh, I remember Food Sticks. I loved them, they were one of the things my mom only bought for our cross country road trips. Dried beef that came in a jar was another such item.
Most cereals with marshmallow are gone now except Lucky Charms which lives on as the marshmallows it contains are a variety of flavors. I lived on toastettes for breakfast as it was quick before having to run to get on the bus. I graduated in 77.
That "Cowboy Guy" with the Marathon Bar, is John Wayne's son, Patrick. Trivia Fact : Pat Wayne is the last surviving male cast member of the 1955 blockbuster movie "Mister Roberts". Is the UK version the Curly Wurly ?
Yeah, the TV dinners had no taste. We ate them (without complaint) because that is what we were served. They tasted like cardboard but the dessert of a brownie or chocolate pudding was the saving grace for a kid! LOL!
Count Chocula cereal was the best!!! Swanson Frozen tv dinners were great! I rarely was allowed so they were a treat! Ding dongs and funny bones were the best snack treats! If I had a box of funny bones they'd be gone tonight, lol! Born in 1963. They still make the things I mentioned above. The ones that were discontinued just do not sound very familiar. Also, Hostess handheld Apple pies! Yum! I just don't allow myself to have any of this stuff in my house. My waistline can't take it.
I think they were better quality in the 70's. And I like now fast using the microwave is, but I do feel a bit nastalgic about the aluminum trays and making it in the oven. Always loved when we had TV dinners or Pot Pies when I was a kid.
There's something about the TV dinners in the aluminum tray that more of a treat - especially if there was a picture etched into the tray that you had to eat everything to see. The trays today just make it feel like eating more unhealthy junk food. It's probably no healthier today than it was back then but presentation is everything.
The popping candy we had were called pop rocks, I don’t remember Crazy Cow cereal but, I remember Crazy Cow Sticks, it looked like a straw but, it had flavored powder in it (maybe cool aid).
Pop Rocks were little crystals, but Cosmic Candy was a powder "space dust". Pop Rocks came out first but both were same mans invention.Do you remember Fizz Whiz and Lotsa Fizz too? 😊
Those pizza spins were so good ! I got them at my grandmas and I think about them still every time I go to the chip aisle . They were like a Funyun but tangy . Also , those Razzies , are a raspberry Zinger they aren’t shaped the same but I’d know that cake anywhere , my son’s favorite and I must confess they’re delicious .
I was a teenager in the seventies, and honestly, I've never even heard of 70% of the products listed. The other 30% I only saw in commercials or in the grocery stores. I never saw them at my or any of my friend's houses. The only product they showed that I often saw was the easy cheese, and it did not "spray", it had compressed air in it and it squeezed out a line of cheese. And yes you could squeeze it directly into your mouth and it wasn't gross. Before you make faces and think something gross, you should probably try the product.
TV dinners weren't too bad tasting. We had chicken parmasian, beef stroganoff, and the fried chicken mostly. Thank you for sharing this video. Very nostalgic for me.
Canned cheese was great; Hickory Farms is still around. They set up in the malls at Christmas and sell cheese, beef sticks, etc.; in her 90’s my grandmother ate Swanson’s turkey dinner almost every day. My mom would buy out the store for her. She lived to 102 so I guess it didn’t hurt her.
13:02 I think yours is a Curly Werley, The marathon bar was just chocolate covered caramel, the advertisements would have it things like a guy that's in prison and they're going to put him to death, a guard asks him what he wants for his last meal and he say A Marathon bar! Then he is shown eating the marathon bar (holding it very awkwardly) just chewing until all of the guards fall asleep, then he'd sneak out past them. the commercial announcer delivers the tagline The Marathon Bar "it goes on and on, it will lasts as long as you chew!" I think the Curley Werley is still available, I have gotten them at an international market here in Las Vegas
We tried them for a year. You could pop them into the toaster to heat them but we usually just put them on the pizza pan and popped em in the oven for a few minutes instead, They were delicious as a quick snack before running to catch the bus in the morning before school.
I was a kid in the 70's and I don't remember most of these. I swear I saw Toastettes in the store recently 🤔 I think that Marathon bar became Charleston Chew. They have chocolate flavor and the elusive strawberry flavor 😊 We have something like Hickory Farms products but it's called Swiss Colony in Wisconsin. They have all kinds of meat, cheese, and dessert boxes they sell especially at holiday times. Yep, having a TV dinner in the 70's was a treat lol Now let's see 70's food from Britain 😊
I remember banana flips they were amazing especially with chocolate milk. The UK's Marathon bar was a Snickers, but the name was labeled as the Marathon until 1990. I believe the Snickers name was already in use at the time in the UK.
Fluff (marshmallow fluff) and peanut butter sandwiches (Fluffernutters) were the best sandwiches. My mom always made fudge from the recipe on the back of the Fluff container at Christmastime and that would be the only time we usually got those sandwiches. With the leftover Fluff. Because I think 🤔 she only use about 2/3 of the container 🫙. There were 4 of us, so it didn't last long.
Our mom's went to work, and we became "latch-key kids". Easy to make meals were all the rage, because everyone in the house left early and came back late. Pancakes with sausage (microwave) and Salsbury steak (oven) were my favorites.
Man....... Screaming Yellow Zonkers were my all time favorite!! They were berrer than Crackerjacks, Fiddle Faddel, crunch & munch, or any other caramelized popcorn!! I was crushed when the company went belly up!😢😢
Hunt's Snack Packs, Swanson TV dinners (usually turkey), Ding Dongs, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Reggie candy bar, Marathon candy bar (John Wayne's son in the commercial), Tuna Twist. I don't remember the others mentioned in the video.
They bring back Count Chocula, Boo Berry and Frankenberry every Halloween. It's not too late to try some. Sometimes Frute Brute too but not as regularly.
Wow! Pizza Spins is the name... I have asked many people if they remember the wagon wheel shaped spaghetti flavored chips, and nobody remembers. It's not spaghetti, it was pizza! This just answered a question I've had for decades. Thank you. Great episode, brother.
The pizza on the Pizza Spins box "looks like that" because "that" was the traditional way pizza was made, with the sauce on top. The modern style that we are accustomed to is more photogenic.
As a kid and then teen in the 1970’s I fondly remember Koogle Peanut Butter. It was really great tasting & one of the best Peanut Butters to spread on several different breakfast foods such as pancakes, waffles, and toast. The jars were also one of the best jars to clean out when done & use as storage of various items.
Those metal tv dinner trays were great. Dad would buy Five tv dinners that were not very tasty but we reused the trays. Mom would cook a huge meal refill the trays with her meals and label and freeze them. Days later if she had to work late then dad just heated them up in the stove. The trays lasted forever. Also used them for other crafts. Dad made metal model cars. Good to hold small parts or paint.
Do u remember when Ritz crackers came in the same box that they do 2day but not in sleeves? U would open the box & they were just tossed in the box! Lol They didn't even have a waxed bag inside the box! 😅
The funniest part of the cereal war, is that they're both made by the same company, so they got rich no matter which cereal you bought. Also- I love Easy Cheese. I know it sounds off-putting to a lot of people, but I swear it's good.
I was definitely around in the 70's and except for a few items mentioned, I've never heard of most of these. However, in the States ,Louis, sometimes what you find on the East coast, where I am you never hear of on the West coast, and vice versa.
Hickory Farms are still in malls, but I only see them in kiosks during the Christmas season. You can get summer sausages, Special flavored cheeses, gift boxes, crackers, etc. Day after Christmas everything goes on wicked sale and we usually load up. Lol.
HICKORY is actually a type of tree whose wood is used to add a delicious smoky flavor to foods that are eaten smoked. HICKORY is one of many types of wood you can use like this but it's extremely popular especially in dried beef and sausage sorta like applewood is popular for pork
I loved the tv dinners. When my Mom and I went to the grocery store every Saturday we would get one for lunch. Took a while to cook in the oven but I thought they were delicious lol.
Anybody remember the cereal "Team Flakes" ? I loved that. And whatever happened to "Product 19" cereal? Another fave of mine. And yes, I do remember "Concentration" cereal...I think it was the early predecessor of "Grape-Nuts"
I do not remember Concentration, but Grape-Nuts were around since the early 20th century. It was also used in various recipes including the pudding served on my elementary and junior high schools. Tried various online recipes but none equal the school recipe
The food sticks were originally made for astronauts to consume while in space. Pillsbury was under contract with NASA to provide these for astronaut’s balanced nutrition. Once they became available to the consumer market, they became ver popular for about 5 years. I had them as a kid and they weren’t bad at all!
17:58 Hickory Farms, One of their most popular products was the summer sausage. One of your packages that you opened last week had summer sausage in it, it's the same thing as what people would buy at Hickory Farms, or you just go in to get samples because they were a little bit expensive but they gave samples of just about everything. Hickory is a type of tree, and it's a popular wood to use when smoking meat.
I have so much fun watching your videos's as I was in elementary school in the 70's and I had forgotten alot of this kind of stuff until I found your channel and it is so fun reliving those times and seeing your reactions is so funny. Thanks for the videos', they are so funny.
Gosh I loved the Tidbits! They were my grandmothers favorite snack and everytime we visited my grandparents I raided them,lol and the Marathon Bar was my favorite candy bar and I hated when they stopped selling them also my brother and me were the ones spraying the cheese in our mouths,lol, and the tv dinners were awesome,,my favorite was always the Fried Chicken,Mashed Potatoes,Corn and definitely my favorite part the Brownie..did have to wait but worth it to me and had a better flavor than the nuked version of today .Love watching these videos! Great Reaction!
We had two cans of spray cheese ONCE when I was growing up... my brother and I had a heck of a "battle" chasing each other around shooting strings of fake cheese at each other .lol
"Marshmallows" in cereal are very different than the squishy, chewy marshmallows sold in packages. These are like you took those and dehydrated them, somehow. If you get one out of the box, they're just crunchy and sweet. (Not bad, but certainly not the same!)
I remember a lot of these items because I ate a lot of them. TV dinners, and basically anything pre-made was what I had in 70s. Mostly because my mom was a single mom till my brother came along. And she worked everyday, it was much easier. I enjoyed her days off because that was the time she had time to actually cook for me. I'd rather have her homecooking than the pre-made stuff, but it was hard for her to do after pulling a 10 or 12 hour shift at work.
I've had almost all of the stuff on this list. The space sticks and pizza wheels were some of my favorites. You are completely right about the spray cheese. All of my friends loved it but I thought it tasted like cheese mixed with chemicals. The Swanson meals that you thought looked disgusting was actually a treat in my house. It was a great day in my house when we got to have "tv dinners" which was sad to think about now because my mom was an amazing cook. She must have hated that my sister and I would rather have a frozen dinner on a tray!
The chedder cheese in a can . . . my mother in law would get cherry-tomatoes, gut them and fill them with this canned cheese. It was the BEST snack EVER. My wife continued after we were married!! Can’t find the stuff anymore. This narrator apparently wasn’t around back then because in the 1970’s many American households had microwave ovens in the house.
The frozen dinners (aka TV Dinners) were in aluminium trays which were thin because the microwave was not a popular appliance until the end of the 70's or early 80's. Everything before that was cooked in the oven, on the stove, in a slow cooker, or on an outdoor grill. The TV Dinners were pretty good except the peas.
When I was a kid in the 70s-80s we only got to eat the sugary cereals on Saturday mornings when we watched our cartoons. That was a treat for us and something we looked forward to every week. I’m so grateful we didn’t eat it all the time because they were loaded with unhealthy preservatives and colors. I remember the Reggie bar. They were so good! I also loved Bubble Yum, Hubba Bubba and Big League Chew. Like the sugary cereals we were given one candy for the week and we could decide what day we ate it. There are many foods in this video I remember and most of them are not surprising to me that they discontinued. 🤣
Tuna Twist was a tuna salad flavoring, the flavoring was in the box, not the sandwich. I love Tuna Salad sandwiches. I have spray cheese now, it is great.
My grandad used to keep Crazy Cow on hand for us kids. My sister and cousins would eat the chocolate while I had strawberry. Hickory Farms used to make a cheese called chutter. I don’t know what was in it, but it was so good! Mom would buy a couple blocks for big family gatherings. TV dinners were so much better when I was younger. The 45 minutes was worth the wait for fried chicken or fish with chips. The aluminum tray made everything crisp up better.
I grew up at this time, but I never saw many of these. Mom bought Farina, Wheatina, oatmeal or Cheerios for breakfast. I remember government cheese in a box and government peanut butter in a large can. There wasn’t always milk because it was too expensive. Eat the oatmeal because apple juice from concentrate didn’t go well in cereal.
