Old-School Comfort Foods That Aren't Popular Anymore 

Which of these foods still find their way to your table?

Sloppy Joes and Salisbury steak are both 100% awesome. Fire whoever edited this.

Tuna casserole was not just comfort food, it was struggle food. It's one of the cheapest ways to feed a family when you have almost nothing to spend.

Sloppy Joes are a MUST! always make sure to have it a few times a year

Sloppy Joe's certainly haven't gone away here in PA. One local fast-food place sells lots of them. I have a soft spot for chipped beef & toast since my late mother made it back in the day when she wanted to do something different.

I think Sloppy Joes are still a pretty common easy home meal for families, although the standardization and shift to reheated/heat lamp food in cafeterias reduced their prominence. There's actually a Sloppy Joe special right now at White Castle for December. Fondue is probably the only other one of these that's still common, mostly due to The Melting Pot spreading fast as a chain.

I LOVE tuna casserole, sloppy joes, fondue, beans and franks, and salisbury steak. Still eat them to this day.

Maaan, you’re crazy @Mashed Just made Salisbury Steaks the other day. The original "steak sauce’ my Mom used is no longer around but thankfully I found a good substitute off Amazon, with a side of mashed potatoes? Still a hearty, good, relatively cheap meal. Same thing with Sloppy Joes.

If a hotdog shaves 36 minutes off your live, I should have died 40+ years ago. And Grandma cooked up a skillet full of beanie weenies last week.

some of us still love sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole. i also loved something my grandmother used to make called shrimp wiggle (shrimp, onions, peas in a bechamel over toast or rice)

When my family ate tuna casserole, we did not have peas or cheese in it. Just noodles, cream of mushroom soup, tuna and buttered bread crumbs. My Mom ate "milk toast" which was buttered bread, heated milk, salt and pepper. When she wasn't feeling well this was her comfort food. Chipped beef on toast, and creamed hamburger on toast.(S.O.S.) were favorites too. I still like S.O.S. Mom loved egg creams too.

I still make chicken a la king all the time, but I put peas and carrots in mine instead of mushrooms and peppers. My mom used to make it when I was a kid, so it's still a comfort food for me.

Call me old fashioned but sloppy joes with a side of hot bake is the best thing ever, and I would know as my wife is French that Fondue is still huge in France

We had Watergate salad at Thanksgiving. It was pretty good.

Watergate salad is still eaten here in OK, and I love it now just as much as when I was a kid. Also, I think some of the jello salads get a bad rap, some are really good. My grandmother made one with carrots and orange jello with pineapple. It was the only way my Dad would eat carrots.

I still like Sloppy Joes, my dad used to make them for me and I make for kids sometimes. I pass on one favorite food to another.

You can't beat a good tuna noodle casserole! Especially with the buttered bread crumbs on top!

We still LOVE Sloppy Joes! When i was a child, this was something we looked forward to every year at our local fair. Fondu? We do this as a family for events like Christmas or Birthdays! And everyone eats Salisbury Steak. And omg! I just had the Watergate salad for the first time this summer! It was the best! Totally the first thing gone!!!

I love chipped beef on toast

Don’t be coming for sloppy Joe’s. We eat them regularly at our home.

I’ll be 50yrs old in April, so… I’m a GenX’er and I grew up with most of these meals, as did my son and I still make them for myself on occasion. You can’t help what gives you that nostalgia and that warmth of remembering your mom calling everyone down to dinner for a yummy Tuna noodle casserole!!! I still make tuna noodle casserole, sloppy Joe’s, SOS (aka creamed chipped beef), I also buy frozen dinners - love the Healthy Choice steamers. One of my favorite dishes to make when I have ppl over is spinach, chicken à la king w/parsley, butter biscuits. I still crave franks and beans on occasion and will make it for an easy meal. I’ve had turtle soup, but it was made with snapper and it was not pleasant. Still love Salisbury steak. I don’t eat it often, but about once a year I will buy a frozen Salisbury steak dinner. As for Jello salads: there are about a million different types. Some are good, some should be killed with fire!!! I only like the dessert salads….like Watergate salad and ambrosia….so yummy!

I still eat sloppy Joes , I never had milk toast but it sounds good. I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year.

Growing up in the 60's in New England, had tuna casserole every Friday night, and baled beans and hot dogs every Saturday night. Not only at our house, but all over the neighborhood. Hated the first, loved the second, but you always knew what you'd be having, on those two nights.

My parents had Fondue Parties when I was kid circa 77-80! Melted Cheese’s, breads, sausages etc! Chocolate Fondue with all kinds of fruits and pastry! I remember going with Mom and Dad when he was home, to the Cracker Barrel store at the mall! I was about 5-6yo! They were so much fun! My parents friends would bring their kids and was a big family get together!

I always liked tuna noodle casserole. Never had chicken a la king or milk toast. I have had toast with powdered sugar and cinnamon though. Sloppy joes are super yummy I still sometimes eat sloppy Joes. I used to love fondue but I don't make it at home we used to have a restaurant but it was very expensive so couldn't go often. Especially the chocolate dessert fondue.

I just ate Chicken a la King yesterday. I eat it quite often, but always without the bread/toast

I made the tuna noodle casserole for my kids a few years ago, and you would have thought they were eating gourmet! I laughed my butt off. They STILL love it!

Of these dishes, I "ate" tuna casserole on many a Friday night as a child, I was raised Catholic, and just before Vatican II days, Fridays were for fish. I didn't like it because of the peas & the cream of mushroom soup. I love sloppy joes, I had recently last month when my brother & I were staying with my youngest sister & brother-in-law, I lived for Wednesdays at my OG Catholic school, because that was sloppy joe day. There are kinds of milk toast, the sweet one with cinnamon sugar, & the savory one with salt & pepper. My mom would put a poached on top of hers, both are comforting when you're feeling poorly. I love all the iterations of the jello pretzel salad, & the fluff salad which is the category Watergate salad falls under. Dishes you forgot, what I grew up calling goulash, which was ground beef, elbow pasta, tomato products, green peppers, & onions, & seasonings. In New England this is referred to as American Chop Suey. If swap rice for the elbow pasta, you have what I grew up calling Spanish Rice

Fondue is pretty delicious. I mean, how can you go wrong with cheese and bread?!

I like Salisbury steak 🥰

half of these are still popular in my opinion

I make sloppy Joe's, tuna casserole a cream chipped beef at least once a week, chipped beef I'll eat before work probably more than three times a week. Just saying.

My family LOVES Watergate Salad but we called it Gorilla Snot Salad, (named so by my older sister), when my young son asked his Aunt what she had made, she told him it was Gorilla Snot Salad (with the mini marshmallows being the gorilla boogers. LOL!!) He loved it!!

10:00 Salisbury steak is basically just individual meat loaves. I make it often. With duchess potatoes and fresh-picked garden beans, it elevates the more plebian hamburger to an appetizing family meal. and yes, I do grow green beans and wax beans in my garden.

In my family, we still make sloppy joes and "Watergate" salad (though we call it pistachio salad) quite often! We don't put any extra nuts in it though.

I still cook sloppy Joe's for my family and I ate them often, growing up.

Make Sloppy Joes all the time. Still do tuna casserole, but without the noodles. Beans and franks is not going anywhere, either.

What the heck is wrong with Mashed? They're really going off the rails recently. Every single item on this list is still enjoyed by a large number of people all over the world. No, none of them are trendy which is all Mashed seems to be interested in, but each and every one is still enjoyed today. Vert der Ferk?

We make sloppy joes and tuna noodle casserole every 2-3 months just to change things up a bit. Hubby isn't a fan of either--but will eat them if I don't make them too often.

I’m still chowing down on a lot of these but I’ve never had turtle! 😃

My mom grew up in an army family, and she learned to make great cream chip beef on toast. It was a regular meal for a mid-week night meal every two weeks or so when I was a kid. I miss that meal, and mom.

I was born in 1984 and I love "Watergate Salad". We would have it every year at Christmas and thanksgiving when my aunt made it for the table. She didn't call it "watergate salad" (for obviously political reasons and argued even when i showed her the recipe) but it was basically the same thing that I found out when I looked it up online for proportions. She didn't add the nuts though. She is gone now as cancer took her a few years ago, but I still make it for myself once in a while. It brings me fond memories. I guess depending on the ingredients and flavours you could do a "gelatine" desert salad 'right' but some of the combos from past times were awful. Considering that things like Pineapple --and many other fruit have enzymes that break collagen down many are impossible to do. Tuna casserole lives on for us in "KD" with tuna and peas (It beats ketchup and Franks) and I love canned baked beans on rice (just without the "Franks"). Salisbury steak however is good (but hard to make home made which is what likely killed it too) and fondue is a bit exotic for people who have "Dairy issues". Likewise with "SOS"/ Chipped beef. I've never eaten "Turtle" either... Every species of turtle in my local area is protected now and they are ALL considered threatened or endangered (Southwestern Ontario). Eating one here would be horrible.

With Swanson's TV dinners, I always loved the sliced apples and cranberry sauce.

I lived on dinners consisting of a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese with a can of tuna and a can of peas mixed into the noodles in college. I will still eat this in a pinch. Growing up we knew "Watergate Salad" as "Green Slime" and it was served at every family holiday gathering. Because of this video I will make it again this Thanksgiving. I genuinely miss cheese enchilada TV dinners. I've made sloppy joes but they are really just a less liquid Italian ragu served on a bun. I recently cut up a hot dog and mixed it into my pork & beans. My kids looked at me like I had grown another head. I had to show them it exists on the canned goods aisle at the grocery store.

Born in '90, I've had literally every single one of these dishes growing up and liked them all except the watergate salad (not a huge mayo guy) and some of the tv dinners arent great but still edible. Still make sloppy joes a lot too, theyre awesome if you add in your own extras to it. I've even used basic sloppy joe ingredients for the base of some good chilis too

I still like to have tuna helper once in a while. Reminds me of tuna casserole that my school cafeteria use to serve in the 1960s.

I liked and still do like some kinds of jello salads. I like Watergate salad too. I'm weird.

Of the foods of this list, I probably would consume tuna noodle casserole, sloppy joes, and Salisbury steak. These are the foods that I have grown up with and still find tasty to this day, in my humble opinion, not to mention also creamed beef on toast (s.o.s.) which my late Father had enjoyed while he had served in the military. He had preferred it over steak and eggs any day and twice on Sunday.

I make sloppy Joe's here in The Bronx. When I was a vegetarian I used textured soy protein. Now I use chopped meat. I make chicken a la king, and tuna casserole. Egg creams, I'm a Jew, franks and beans, and Salisbury steak.

Guess I'm dead cause we eat hot dogs since I was a kid

I love Tuna Casserole with elbow macaroni and peas. It’s one of my favorite cold weather dishes.

I used to LOVE Chicken Devine as a young lad. The sauce the broccoli the special jasmine rice my mum used to get downtown at the Asian market once a year (the only time she’d go in there which I never understood but hell she was Swedish so who knows lol) it brings back very nice memories especially at Christmas time. Happy holidays everyone🎄

The sheer vitriol towards Salisbury Stakes tho XDDD Up here in Northern Maine its still a very popular dish. As are TV Dinners and Tuna Casseroles, or Hungry Man Sloppy Joes. Though I've always said that in both culture, trends, and language Maine is about 20 years behind the rest of the country. And in this case I'm glad we are.

This is one of your videos (as a few others) that just makes my shake my head over your opinions and pronouncements that these foods hold no popularity and are 'best left in the past'. Obviously, your staff must be Gen-X or Gen-Z to believe this. Tuna Noodle, Chicken A La King, Sloppy Joes, Chipped Beef, Lean Cuisine, Banquet dinners, some Jello salads, and ESPECIALLY Watergate Salad... I still love them all! Albertson's deli still sells Watergate salad although it's not as good as homemade.

Love tuna noodle still! But I make it with just cream of mushroom and tuna. Never had chicken Ala king but it sounds good. Never had milk toast. Sloppy joes can be good. Mostly depends on the sauce. Never seen cheese fondue but sounds good. Chipped beef gravy… mmm very good. Frozen dinners can be good. Never had egg crème. Beans and franks… childhood memories. Never had turtle soup. Salisbury… good stuff. Remember mom did a few fruit jello molds. Think ive had watergate not sure. Had ambrosia. I’m a 90’s kid by the way.

I love cheese fondue. I buy it at alis all the time. I keep a few always on hand in the freezer

After my mom got married in 1945 she began a collection of recipes. One of her favorite dishes for holiday celebrations was a Jell-O salad which included lime Jell-O, crushed pineapple, chopped nuts, sliced canned cherries or grapes, and marshmallows. I still make this recipe every year for Christmas and sometimes Thanksgiving. As far as I know, this recipe has been in our family since the late 40s or early 50s.

Many of these foods were awesome, and still find there way to my table

I eat a LOT of tv dinners. Basically any meal you can buy in frozen foods and now they include foods like tikka masala, quiches, and bowls that are combos of various ingredients from different parts of the world. Also I still like getting together with a friend who has an old fondue set from which we eat bread, veggies and apple chunks dipped in delicious, hot wine cheese. Yum!😋

man, my grandma craves red jello when she's sick. I won't say anything to her because recovering from flu when your body isn't normal sucks but she's probably not getting enough calories due to that

I believe that this video is old comfort food that people still love.

I make Salisbury Steaks from Angus ground beef, it is one of the best comfort foods in my book.

Sloppy Joe's are awesome!!! I make them at home (the store bought, canned sauce is too sweet). I start making Tuna with noodles last week (i ran out of chicken and had a pouch of tuna and said, why not), and it was so yummy. Never had it casserole style, but now I'm curious.

Some of these may not be popular anymore, but they still exist. Just in the last week, my family has had chicken a la king, sloppy joes and watergate salad! All still delicious!

I have 20+ fondue sets. Fondue is not just melted cheese... there is the Chinois style (with meat and vegetables cooked in beef/chicken/vegetable stock). Also chocolate fondue, with slices of pear or apple, or strawberries dipped in melted chocolate is a banger of a desert. Hit up your local thrift shops... they can be bought or 5 or 10 dollars.

I asked my husband to develop a recipe for SOS (chipped beef), and he knocked it out of the park. It’s one of my favorite recipes of his. My uncle who served in the military introduced us to it when he made it for breakfast when I was a kid, & I’ve always loved it, along with bacon, soft scrambled eggs, & hash browns with onions and American cheese on top.

Sloppy Joe's is still around here in NJ. I've been eating them for years. There even found on diner menus or even coffee trucks here in NJ. I've been making my own sloppy joe's for year and years. Just cook up some ground beef in a pan and add Manwich sauce and put it on Martins potatoe rolls and add some potatoe chips on the side.

I don't think any of these food have disappeared from the table. I do think that the generations coming up simply don't cook. They seem to eat out or rely on prepared food whether it's boxed Or frozen. With the cost of food people are going back to these old recipes and learning to cook again. You can fill up a family with a casserole. You can make a casserole out of the leftovers in your refrigerator, add or subtract ingredients that you like. Over 80, have relied on these casserole all my life.

I make everything from scratch even the cream soup base due to allergies but nearby all of them we still eat. Chipped Beef on toast with dried beef is a favorite. Tuna noodle hot dish just once or twice a year.

We still have sloppy joes 1-2x a month. Growing up my neighbors always made turtle soup out of snappers. I would see the big shells drying on a tree branch in the yard.

Have Sloppy Joes frequently in this house. Haven’t had a jello salad in a while cuz I’m the only one who would eat it. Lime jello with raw coleslaw set in it, is great. There’s a jello salad in The Joy of Cooking that uses pineapple juice but you have to heat the juice up with a bit of salt to deactivate the bromelain enzyme

I just made Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes in my Crockpot tonight, and yes, it was very comforting.

Not popular? Nonsense, I love most of these. Who wrote this garbage?

TV dinners have morphed into a broad variety of frozen foods sold in plastic containers that can be micro waved or heat in the oven. The form is different and the brands have changed but they are still here. By the way, what happened to Swanson's? Sloppy joe's and creamed chipped beef on bread {SOS} is still around as a quick meal. I had never heard of the Watergate salad.

You should also mention that turtle soup is originally a Lenape dish and there are restaurants in Philadelphia that sometimes serve it.

I am not sure about your Tuna Noodle Casserole being included in this. My wife and I have it several times a year and it is one of our favorite comfort foods!

I loved Salsbury Steak TV dinners when I was young. I recently discovered that Chef John of Food Wishes has a recipe for them. Long story short, I followed his instructions and they were delicious!

@8:50 that 36 minute number per hot dog. i've been dead for 10 years.

4:58 Creamed chipped beef on toast deserves more respect than its unofficial nickname affords it. The white gravy also serves as the basis for another southern-style comfort food, sausage gravy, which is usually served over that other southern delicacy, home-made buttermilk biscuits. $#!+-on-a-shingle, indeed!

I still eat nearly all of them to this very day especially sloppy joes and beans and franks plus i put Spanish rice in with it it's awesome ❤

I had terrapin soup at the Eager House in Baltimore. It was thick, brown, rich, and meaty. So delicious and still legal in the 1960s.

Wait, WHAT? Some mistery cut of meat minced beyond recognition and somehow fried not a comfort food? That's basically the DEFINITION of comfort food. What's wrong with you people?

The man wich in the can is still popular as sloppy Joe

Chicken ala king, Tuna noodle casserole, Sloppy joes are still popular. I still buy these items and my girlfriend makes a good casserole. And I like Chipped beef.

I'm Chinese. Born in Hong Kong. Grew up in Canada, and I still remember spreading sweetened condensed milk on plain bread. Didn't use butter though. 😊 My favorite fondue from the 70s: chocolate fondue with toasted cake cubes and cut-up fruit to dip.

My dad served in the army in WW2. When he came home he brought with him some of the delicacies that were served in the army mess. As a result, growing up I got used to seeing "Sh*t on a Shingle" (creamed chipped beef on toast) and spam for breakfast, lunch, and dinner ( but not all at one time)

❤❤❤, thank you and happy Holidays!

Tuna Noodle Casserole is fabulous, dears.

My parents traveled a lot when I was a kid. A benefit of having your own business you can take your kids with you. when we traveled and went to different restaurants, my parents wouldn’t let me order Kiddy food. I had to try things different that I’ve never had before or they were my pre-prepared differently. Consequently I did have turtle soup. I found it revolting. I was too young, and the sherry that was in it burned. My dad tried it and said that it was made correctly and it was good. They told me that I should try it again in about 10 years as my taste buds will change and mature. Well, I never did try it again. Primarily because of the shortage of turtles for the soup. I did not want to contribute to extinction of the species. But at the time when I tried it it was not something that was publicized and ecology was not something that people thought about. ( 1952 to 1959 ) with my dance company grew, and we got older I was the only one that wanted to go on these trips, and my dad had to spend more time in the office instead of away on business. With increasing air travel Business trips was only two or three days. But the damage was done. I learn to love food, and the adventure of trying something new. my pallet was expanded having been introduced to all types of foods. In the following years, I would ask questions, quite often within a few minutes the chef would be at my table to answer my questions. Thrilled that I noticed, and that I wanted to know. One chef told me, most people don’t even notice the Shuffle differences in Lamb and where are they were raised. They can only tell the difference between New Zealand lame and American Lamb by the talloweness. I could taste spices, and I would ask if I tasted correctly. Chefs are very vain, and feel that they’re underappreciated, wasting their art on people that can’t tell the difference. But when someone knows the difference and Soso, it makes him feel so good. And I end up learning so much about cooking not going to Chef school.

Sloppy Joes? Salisbury Steak? Tuna Noodle Casserole? These are all still very common comfort foods and both easily made and popular among home cooks. Those of us who grew up on chipped beef and chicken a la king will always consider both comfort foods as well. Mashed has really been missing the mark a lot lately….

Grew up eating chipped beef (aka shit on shingles) and snapping turtle soup. Every time my grandfather went fishing, he’d come back with a snapping turtle and we either had soup or fried turtle nuggets.

Soaring frozen pizza sales have offset frozen dinners. DiGiorno invented the freezer-to-oven self-rising crust that changed the market forever (1995).

I think both chicken a la king and chipped beef on toast may make a comeback in the next few years.

Still eat Sloppy Joes, Tuna casserole, and baked beans….still eat chipped beef SOS (not as frequently though) although not on the list and essentially the same thing sausage gravy and biscuits. They will never go out of style.

Interestingly the "chicken a la king" is practically identical to the german "chicken fricassée" (except that the german version uses carrots instead of bell peppers) Not to mention that Salisbury steak is what people in Germany call "Meatloaf", so I highly doubt him being the "inventor". It's also a German houshold stable/classic dish to this day.

I still love sloppy Joe's, and Salisbury steak and chipped beef and toast 2-3 times a year.

We were eating sloppy Joes alot in the 60's/

Chipped beef was still a staple when I was in the Navy in the early nineties.

I was hospitalized when I was 17 years old to have all of my wisdom teeth surgically extracted. I was on a soft diet after that and I remember the nurse telling me she took the liberty of ordering my breakfast since I had been sleeping so soundly -- she had ordered milk toast. I had never even heard of it but I was so surprised at how good it was! I still fix it to this day!

Tuna noodle casserole, or rather the salmon version, basically kept me alive in university. And fondue is a family tradition for Christmas Eve dinner. Oh, and you can always make me happy with a Salsbury steak. (I'm probably the only person alive outside New York who still loves egg creams, too....)