Once Popular Foods That We All Stopped Eating 

Which of these treats do you want to make a comeback?

Comments: 95% *Cottage Cheese* 5% Other

I don't know where you got your information from but people still eat cottage cheese.

Wrong. Cottage Cheese is EVERYWHERE!

My grandmother always made ambrosia every Christmas. She used real whipped cream on it. Sometimes it would curdle from all the citrus juice, but it still tastes like Christmas to me!

No one told my mom ambrosia salad was cancelled

The people who researched for this video obviously just shop at Trader Joe's or Whole Foods. They have a whole entire shelf dedicated to cottage cheese at five different grocery stores in my area.

I got prescribed sunny d by my doctor when I was a kid in the early 2000’s

Cottage cheese with cling peaches is one of my favorite snacks! And ambrosia salad is pretty tasty too!

Im Mexican and you still see Ambrosia Salad at every party,quince,boda,baptism etc 😄

I guess I’m the only one keeping the microwave meal industry open then 😂

"Once popular foods that we all stopped eating" _Ambrosia salad_ How long has it been since you've been to a potluck?

I've seen people buy TV dinners in bulk. The only reason I stopped buying them as much is the price has went way up and the quantity/quality way down. For the price, it's just as expensive to eat out or cook yourself.

The only reason TV dinners have lost popularity is because they have been replaced with microwave dinners which is really a TV dinner cooked in the microwave instead of the oven. Microwave dinners are HUGELY popular. Just check out how many different brands they have of these now. So, really, TV dinners have gotten more popular if you count microwave dinners as TV dinners.

I do think it's possible to talk about how tastes have changed without always saying that things were weird or nasty. Back when some of those foods first became available, they represented huge strides forward in expanding and improving diets. As for the tomato aspic you showed -- before we had vegetables flown in from other countries, we didn't have fresh salads all winter, and putting things in gelatin made it possible to have a salad course without having any fresh salad ingredients. Plus it's important to remember that, like white bread, gelatin was a huge status item for hundreds of years -- because you had to be rich to have it. And gelatin was not a status symbol just because of refrigeration (because they didn't have it back when gelatin first got popular(, but because it usually meant you had a cook who could spend two days boiling down the bones to make the gelatin -- and then straining it to clarify it. That is why there were so many classic French dishes finished "en gelée" -- it was a big deal. So go ahead and report that tastes have changed (though probably not as much as you think, if you look closely at food history), but don't make it "weird" or "icky" -- because that cuts us off from people who ate -- or still eat -- these foods. They're just different, not bad.

Haha, people gave up the convenience of TV dinners, for the convenience of the drive through 🤦🏼‍♂️

Ambrosia salad is delicious. Especially with coconut. I'm Southern so it is eaten every once in a while at family functions and it is a very unique dessert. Also, I love cottage cheese. Especially with pineapple or fruit. Or smeared over toast or a bagel.

Cottage cheese is STILL very popular, research dept needs a makeover

"we all stopped eating?" Hardly. That's a stupid statement.

Yo i remember those sunny d commercials looking crispy asf back in my day. Crazy how far technologies come

Cottage cheese is NOT unpopular in the U.S.

Cottage cheese is an incredible source of protein (with very little fat) better than Greek yogurt. It’s always been in my fridge, since birth (I’m 34). I think it’s still popular.

I think your dead wrong about the jello salads, I've seen a resurgence of ambrosia and layered Aspic of late and everyone seems to love them, I know I do.

I still eat cottage cheese. I'll use it in homemade calzones and lasagna mixed with ricotta. Also ambrosia is still good as well as the jello mold salads. Tv dinners yep. Not as much but sometimes still good for something quick.

Cottage cheese? That is a regular normal food in our family.

I work in a dairy department at a grocery store, we sell a shit ton sunnyd (like a pallet every other week) and cottage cheese? Literally everyone still eats that

I love cottage cheese. It's great for a light lunch or as part of a dessert when mixed with Jello and whipped topping.

I wish click bait that bashes regional foods would go away with the dodo

"Once Popular Foods That We All Stopped Eating" *Starts with a drink.*

00:21 “I want some of that purple stuff” -Dave Chappelle

I still looove cottage cheese and Ambrosia salad. :P

Somehow I find myself getting nostalgic for those uniform turkey slices covered in thin-like gravy....

Anyone else just eat cottage cheese plain

Leave the bay area once in a while.

I had no idea that we ALL stopped eating these foods.

i love cottage cheese and have a carton and a spare in my fridge as we speak. mmmm cottage cheese

tide pods

Back when I was in college I considered a Swanson roast beef TV dinner to be a rare treat to break the monotony of Kraft Mac & Cheese.

1:31 I love cottage cheese. I could eat that stuff at every meal and for snacks too.

But my Fridge has cottage cheese... Edit: umm my mom made dinner with cottage cheese

Cottage cheese gang RISE UP

Ambrosia salad is still good, since its nothing more than a fruit salad

Well, that was stupid. And I do think there‘s a market for Jello and cottage cheese. You coukd do worse than these 2.

Sunny d..... I used to put that on my floor when I worked retail. It cleans so well that it will eat up all the grime that had built up from the forklifts. 🧐 Then I'll use soap n stuff

Pasta primavera was popular in the early 80’s. You could find it on menus in restaurants everywhere. Now, you can’t find it anywhere

I still love tv dinners, especially stouffers. And I love cottage cheese with fruit.

I don’t eat microwave dinners because most of the ones I have eaten taste like crap. My sister loves sunny-D and cottage cheese, and my family makes ambrosia salad every thanksgiving and Christmas. I didn’t realize this video was made in 2067 when we only eat canned foods and iguana bits

Ambrosia salad is actually very good when it is done well. There is a balance to the sweet/sour/fatty/acidic notes with a creamy/soft/crisp texture combination that really works well together. The trick is getting the balance right.

I agree with everything except cottage cheese and TV dinners. Both of those are still very popular, like what? Idk where you guys get your info from but it's kinda making me want to unsubscribe from you..

I love cottage cheese.

I can't even look at cottage cheese on a salad bar without throwing up a little in my mouth.

In the 70's and 80's, all we wanted was good taste and to cover the basic 4 food groups... Microwaveable meal = 1 serving of veggies, 1 serving of starch, 1 serving of meat/protein Sunny D = 2 servings of "fruit" Ambrosia Salad = one serving of fruit/veggies Celery and carrot sticks with peanut butter = 1 serving of veggies, 1/2 serving of protein Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich = 1 serving of starch, 1/2 serving of protein A bowl of cold cereal with milk = 1 serving of starch, 1 serving of dairy Cottage Cheese = 1 serving of dairy Tall Glass of 2% Milk = 1 serving of dairy 1 Baked Potato at Dinner = 1 serving of starch 1 Apple or Orange = 1 serving of fruits/veggies An egg for breakfast = 1 serving of protein Side Salad with Dinner (iceberg and romaine lettuce, chopped tomato, chopped cucumber) = 2 servings of veggies A few glasses of water Daily summary: 8 servings of fruits/veggies, roughly equal amounts for each 4 servings of starch/grains 3 servings of dairy 3 servings of meat/protein I bet a fair number of us ate like this back then...

I feel as if there's a certain irony in me sitting here eating a bowl of cottage cheese while watching a video about how no one eats cottage cheese anymore. Hang on, let me grab a can of Vienna Sausages before you continue.

Literally like 75% of the people at the office eat TV dinners for lunch every day.

I put cottage cheese in my lasagna. Everyone loves it. Its good with peaches too.

I remember it called 5 cup salad or Tahitian salad. I didn't hear the reference to Ambrosia salad to the early 1990's. Cottage cheese is still popular with seniors. it's because they would have a scoop with canned peaches or pears or pineapple on a lettuce leaf. Another option was stuffed fresh tomato with cottage cheese next to stuffed cucumber with tuna salad. You still see it available at diners or cafeteria lines. It was always a big campaign with the dairy council. Especially pregnant women, senior ladies with osteoporosis and little kids.

I still eat tv dinners when I have a lot of homework.

1:50 are they sexualizing a container full of sour milk curds

Thanks for sharing . I personally love cottage cheese , Jell-O and ambrosia salad . LOL

I’m sorry but the fact that some girl over dosed on Sunny D is just hilarious

BRING BACK CLEARLY CANADIAN!!! In high school I was addicted to those sparkling refreshing drinks

I was expecting stuff like pease pudding and suet pudding and bread soaked in alcohol and Apple Brown Betty (all once VERY popular foods) but it’s all just modern stuff that’s still pretty popular...though to be fair I live in Northern California and this sounds like some snooty Central Valley or SoCal person

DUDE NO JOKE THAT TV DINNER WITH THE PUDDING AND MAC N CHEESE, COTTAGE CHEESE, SUNNY D, AND ABROSIA SALAD WERE MY LIFE LIKE 5 YEARS AGO

Cottage cheese is very easy to make consistant. The key is insuring that the milk comes from cows all on the same diet. If a dairy processor gets milk from farmers who have their herds on different diets, then the product, whether fluid milk, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, or ice cream, will vary in taste, and possibly texture, from batch to batch.

Then why in the hell are there several hundreds of TV dinners stacked top to bottom, 30 feet wide in supermarket freezers? For decoration ?

Who isn’t eating cottage cheese? Freaks

I guess no one told Von’s/ Safeway. They sell an entire big aisle of at least 40-50 different types of TV dinners, and cottage cheese, and maybe Sunny D. 99 Cent store has an entire shelf of Sunny D at some locations. And there are loads of gelatinous fruit salad videos on RU-vid

Cottage cheese and diced up home-grown tomatoes...delish!!!! Also love it with pineapple chunks too.

Cottage cheese is like on EVERY salad bar. Statistics fail.

Cottage cheese and tomatoes you can't change my mind

I freaking LOVE cottage cheese, man! Didn't think I did, but then I actually tried it and can't get enough of it now!

One of the things about moving to Canada was there is no small curd cottage cheese. Love the stuff though . Still eat it, still eat TV Dinners. I could go the rest of my life without eating jello. 51 years and I’ve never tasted ambrosia, they still have it the deli in Ontario .

I like cottage cheese. I eat it straight or with pepper. I use it in place or mixed with ricotta to make some recipes less rich.

Ambrosia does not involve gelatin. At least not here. And I eat cottage cheese almost every day. Where do you get your information from because a lot of your videos seem really wrong.

I’m literally drinking Sunny D while watching this video lol

I tried cottage cheese for the first time last year and I was actually surprised that it was not bad. I prefer yogurt still but cottage cheese is not bad.

I still eat cottage cheese

I can't be the only one who hated Sunny D.

Still buy Sunny D, buy cottage cheese, occasionally buy yogurt, buy lots of frozen dinners since I'm single, make the jello salads occasionally, make the ambrosia salads around Christmas. Didn't find anything on their list that friends and family stopped eating.

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without ambrosia...heavenly!

I still eat jello, cottage cheese, and Ambrosia salad! Jerks...

I can remember the taste of Sunny D vividly right this moment. Sunny D was the shit. It was the best fake orange juice that ever existed and ever will exist. Fight me.

Agreed with all except one. Ambrosia (not ambrosia salad) if made with fresh pineapple, bananas, fresh strawberries, mandarin. Add shaved coconut to half yogurt and whip cream.....cherries and kiwi optional.....you got yourself a hell of a delicious dessert that beats any store bought cake or uppity desert. You can even soak the fruit in brandy prior to mixing . ;)

Here’s a good thing. Instead of sour cream for ranch dip, use cottage cheese. Just put it in a blender to make it smooth and believe me-no one will know. I’ve done it a 100 times and not a single person has ever questioned it. It’s always gone when people leave, so I assumed they liked it.

"Gimme some of that Purple Stuff" - Dave Chappelle!!!

i want some of that purple drank

I apparently turned orange as a kid too. Not from drinking too much sunny-d but from eating too much carrots. I apparently went bananas for carrots and ate them when ever they were given and often asked for more and as snacks throughout the day. When I turned orange, my parents thought I had a weird sickness and didn't learn the real reason till the doctor told them to just give me less carrots. It's a little embarrassing but also pretty funny.

I grew up in the "jello salads" era. I liked the dessert-y ones with fruit, but never liked the savory jello salads. I thought they were disgusting. One of my favorites is made with lime jello, cream cheese, and pineapples.

New title: click baiting people with foods the channel doesn't eat. I don't care how gross jello is, but fruit in jello is good. Also there was a trend not to long ago instead of jello salads people where using a similar method to make highly delicate looking decorated 'cakes.'

Who stopped eating cottage cheese?

Buy equal quantities of cottage cheese, double cream and a garlic bulb. Beat the cream to soft peaks. Peel and finely chop the garlic, salt generously, sprinkle over whipped cream.. Fold the cottage cheese into the whipped cream. Cover with tinfoil and leave in the fridge, for a few hours. Best eaten with breadsticks and white Pinot Grigio.

I know you don't know, but cottage cheese snacks called Túró Rudi are still immensely popular in Hungary, the small East European country I'm from. And cottage cheese dumplings with sour cream are still on the menu to most kids' delight. Or noodles with cottage cheese and sour cream. Or pancakes with cottage cheese filling, although a lot of kids prefer (bleh!) Nutella.

since when is jello going away. ive never heard of ambrosia salad being bad. its great

wtf, ya'll ain't eating cottage cheese?

ambrosia salad should have never been cancelled that stuff is so good

If you go back to the 1940s, Lobster Newburg and Chili Con Carne were the trendiest foods. I have a cookbook from of old railroad dining car recipes, and most of the railroads include Lobster Newburg. You have probably never heard of Lobster Newburg, and "Chili Con Carne" is probably the least prestigious meal you can imagine.

I think cottage cheese was unfairly slighted in this video.

Cottage cheese is still around...everywhere I've been...

ambrosia salad is still very popular where I live. When I worked in the local grocery stores deli it was our third most popular salad, behind potato salad and greek salad. I made a new bowl of ambrosia almost every day.

Jello desserts. In the 70's and 80's everyone brought a jello to the pot luck or picnic with the family. I haven't seen one in ages. Next pot luck at work I'm bringing a jello in a bundt cake mold, with fruit floating in it, just to see if anyone will even touch it.