Why Nobody Uses These Ingredients Anymore 

Do you still buy any of these ingredients?

Margarine is so incredibly common in my country, people often say butter when they're actually talking about margarine. I have to clarify "cream butter" or "real butter" when I want the good stuff.

MIRACLE WHIP is not mayo.

As this is a U.S. channel, I’m surprised they didn’t explain the reason gooseberries( and currants) are not more popular is because for many years they were actively eradicated and banned due to white pine blister rust(still banned in a few states). The lumber industry was bigger than any fruit grower. Problem is that they never could eradicate native ribes species, which also carry the disease. I grow many rust resistant gooseberries and love them. As most Americans cultivars are naturally mildew resistant, I’ve never even heard of it! You show pictures of both gooseberries(Species Ribes, family Grossulariaceae) as well as various species of husk berries( golden berry, cape goooseberry, Peruvian gooseberry, ground cherry), all in the Solanaceae family.

Few Englishmen are aware that their beloved "marmelade" was originally quince jam ("marmelo" is the Portuguese term for quince, and "marmelade" literally means "quince jam", which was originally imported from there). At some point, English producers began using orange instead of quince, but the name remained.

I buy Iceberg lettuce for burritos, It is crunchy unlike the leafy lettuce and that crunch is provided to my burritos along with a good way to hold the hot sauce.

Gooseberries, turnips and quinces are still popular in Germany. Quinces as a marmalade or jam, gooseberries as a cake or yoghurt and turnips in salads, mashed or as Kraut as well as just cooked with a sauce. Iceberg lettuce is very popular as well.

Quinces are wonderful! They don't require a lot of prep: Just cut into bite-size pieces and poach in a little water with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves or other spices, and eat warm or cold -- delicious! Also quince jelly is great with everything!

My dad still likes his iceberg lettuce salads, us "kids" preferred what he called "weeds". This was always a battle in our house because after a certain age we refused to eat salads that were literally JUST iceberg lettuce and dressing and mom eventually gave in. Now as adults we'd rather just have fresh spinach but dad still wants his crunchy water with dressing.

I love turnips! I still buy them regularly. I mash them together with potatoes. It makes the potatoes taste better. My Mum made 'kraut', shredding and fermenting them. It was delicious with sausage gravy.

Crisco works great for certain doughs and frying. We like turnips,really good roasted,kinda like beets. Love iceberg lettuce, really good for sandwiches

If you are person who suffers from mouth ulcers, try eating some fresh gooseberries. You'll be surprised how they help to rid those ulcers away. It worked for me. I always used to get them when I was younger, but I don't get them anymore. Because of adding fresh gooseberries to my diet.

Iceberg is a clean slate making it versatile and has a better crunch.

Margerine is largely used here in Brazil... it is more cost effective than butter... and tastes almost the same

I used to love Miracle Whip until I tried Japanese mayo. Absolute game-changer.

Love me some gooseberries. Wife grows them every year. I make jelly and jam from them or dry them to eat like raisins.

Iceberg on a taco or with breaded chicken adds that watery snap that balances out spice or grease. Otherwise I prefer romaine. This makes me want to look for turnip and quince recipes now haha

Isn't all the vegan "butter" just matgarine?

I still buy iceberg lettuce. You add salad dressing and, to me, it tastes like a salad and it's cheaper than romaine.

most margarines in the US contain buttermilk and the market is mostly divided by people who don't want synthetics and people who are lactose intollerant... "I Can't Believe Its Not Butter" is *LITERALLY* over 30% butter milk.

The problem with acorns is that you needed to pour water over them repeatedly (good to make a hole in sand near a freshwater shore and place the acorns there, for simplicity's sake, or use a loosely woven basket) to leach out the bitterness before you ground them up into acorn flour, otherwise your taste buds were in for a nasty surprise. I love Miracle Whip. My whole family can't stand regular mayo for sandwiches. It is fine for stuff like tuna salads, though.

Still buy Crisco, prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise 😊 always buy iceberg lettuce, love radish’s. Most think what you grew up having and just continue to enjoy. There nothing better than tomato sandwich two slices white bread with miracle whip little salt and fresh tomato out the garden 😋

Some items may not be as popular, but Crisco is still very popular and I would not eat a sandwich without Miracle Whip, never liked real mayo. Iceberg lettuce also very popular.

On the subject of iceberg lettuce, in tex mex cuisine, lettuce is often served on all foods, flautas,tacos, quesadilla, enchilada plate as a small salad, and more. So it will remain here in Texas, especially south Texas

Quince is very very popular in southern South America , Spain and Italy, it comes in yellow and red skin, quince jelly, jam and paste pair incredible well with cheese like Asiago.

Lards safer than crisco much safer

I bought a grafted Asian pear tree several years ago and the rootstock keep it down in size. After a couple of bad freezing winters, all I had left of supposedly 5 different varieties, including a Bartlet pear, was the round Asian pear, a branch of the Bartlet pears, and an unidentified branch that had gone unnoticed, growing up about 3 feet from the rootstock. I didn't know what it was, so I let it grow. The second year after that it flowered and produced these fuzzy green lemon shaped fruits. 🍋🍋🍋 Then I knew had a Quince. I never let it grow out enough to get enough of them to make a quince jelly. But maybe in the future.

Miracle Whip can be tangy and good on a sandwich but is not a mayonnaise substitute in other dishes

As an Argentinian, quinces are an staple fruit in many desserts, we just can´t live without them

In Germany, quinces are eaten quite often as jam/jelly, turnips are having a comeback as a "healthier alternative" to eating lots of potatoes and iceberg lettuce is one of the most common kinds of salad, available in every supermarket. :D So interesting to see these differences!

Quince grow well in our part of Oregon, but rarely found in markets. Mostly in backyards.

I have two gooseberry bushes, however they don't come even close to the yields of the black- and red currant bushes in the same row in my garden. Still, I keep them. Variety is the spice of life ;)

Margarine, Gooseberry and Quince are very common in my country. Most people confuse margarine with butter, even use those words interchangeably.

My mom bought a couple purple turnips every week!!! I have never bought any!

I like nice crunchy iceberg lettuce! Keeps well in the fridge too. 🙂

Quince is the one I miss the most. That, and fresh figs.

Out of all of these iceberg lettuce is my favourite, i really like it. Margarine is very much present, but i am not ver y fond of it because it causes heartburn in my stomach. Quince is ok when prepared, but apples are better. Goose berry i have not had in ages and i have really forgot their taste, they are very rare in my country too. Turnips have been somewhat popular during the war here in 1990's and a couple of years later. Other products have never been used here.

I always have Miracle Whip in my fridge for sandwich spreads.

Never had a QUINCE ...

I love Miracle Whip, but only on sandwiches. For anything else like tuna, potato, or egg salad, I use Mayo.

I buy purple turnips, no crisco, or miracle whip. I love turnips! Quince is hard to find. Never seen acorn flour. Iceberg lettuce is mainly water.Romaine is tastier.

My Mother used Miracle Whip from the 1930's and on till the 1990's but I preferred mayonnaise.

Quince jam is very popular in my country, and we often eat it raw with a pinch of salt during fall season. I was eating one just now 😅

I still use Crisco, not very often, but I’ve got some in my pantry. I hate Jello, but I have a strawberry cake recipe that my son loves, so I buy this once a year. I use real butter, period! No to gooseberries, they are sour! No to turnips, they’re bitter and mushy. Never had a quince. Acorns are squirrel food. Love my Miracle Whip, and it is salad dressing! I like butter lettuce myself.

Turnip are my favorit root veggie: I either slice them thin for a salat or light pickling, or add them to mashed potatoes for a lighter texture.

Margarine is more widely used in my country than butter. Butter is pretty pricey for whatever reason, and the cheapest brands still don't come close to the quantity nor price of margarine (most cheaper brands aren't even fully butter to begin with, but a "butter-based mix"). I never really noticed any difference cooking-wise, most baked goods came out the same regardless of what I used, though I guess people are more picky for spreads.

I love turnips. They are super low in carbs, too, especially for a root vegetable. I grow them and can them. They only take 60 days to grow. And the greens are delicious. Miracle Whip is nothing like mayo. It is salad dressing. It says so right on the jar. And it has a low sodium option now with cleaner ingredients. I will always prefer iceberg lettuce. It tastes better. The center of romaine is bitter. There are better lettuces, like bibb and butter lettuce. Even leaf lettuce is better than romaine for flavor. But people would actually have to wash and cut those up themselves. Gooseberries are good, but hard to find in the stores. I have been thinking about planting some in the garden.

Kiwis were once called Chinese gooseberries when the first was first introduced. It might be part of the reason why actual gooseberries are dying out, given their alleged similar tastes

Margarine has gone out of fashion because it's gross. Unless you are allergic to dairy there's no reason to use it.

I loved iceberg lettuce. It did not upset my digestion as much as some of the darker greens. I could safely eat a wedge while everyone else ate their spicy, over-dressed versions of salad. I miss the diversity.

Miracle whip! Yummy!

I still use Crisco, especially for frying. Still use iceberg lettuce. It has a ice crunch to it. No margarine. Only butter.

I like crisco. Its greag for browning. Wouldnt use it all the time but for a flavorless fat its goid and its cheap. If i had to pick margarine or crisco ill take Crisco. Also there are some places in the world that still make jello salads. I think its russia that has one that is made of ham and hard boiled eggs and aome other stuff. Its aerved around holidays.

My family and I eat a lot of quince yearly...and we eat them raw. They're quite starchy and hard to swallow, but omg do they taste amazing

For margarine, there was also that myth going around in the US that "Margarine is only one molecules away from plastic!" that was going around. It's a meaningless statement, but I've met people who genuinely believed that was why it was "bad" for you. Like, even if true, water (H2O) is one molecule away from hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), yet they are totally different in how they behave.

Always use Crisco for seasoning my cast iron

I wonder if part of the success for crisco in Jewish households is because if you keep kosher you cant have dairy with meat in the same meal so replacing butter with crisco would change a lot of recipe accessibilities etc

and to say that Margarine used to be made from beef Tallow and not vegetal oils, and as a Beef Tallow version is far more healthy that any of the shortenings that exist. Thank you Napoleon Bonaparte

I use crisco when making pie dough.

I will always be team miracle whip! I don’t dislike regular mayonnaise, but that’s what I grew up with. Fortunately, my partner doesn’t mind Miracle Whip, but my ex-husband despised it.

My wife is making a gooseberry pie today.

I replaced all vegetable based oils and shortening. now I only use tallow, lard, butter, ghee, and cold first press olive oil

As a German I find this video funny. Many of these products are very common here.

Miracle Whip is still my favorite

Gooseberries are seasonally popular here in Quebec. Though I’ll never understand why, they’re unpleasant!

Hm, strange. I'm from Germany and we still use some of the ingredients. Gelatin is still in use (but not so common anymore because it's not vegan and it's made of pork), gooseberries are still offered in grocery stores, also turnips. Quince are a bit rare but those people who know how to cook and bake still use them. Even iceberg lettuce is still in use.

Crisco will always be in my cabinets, usually i get the butter flavored.

I had no idea you can’t eat quince raw. I’d eat them straight off the tree in my parents backyard as a kid!

I love 💕 ASPIC!!!

Gooseberry and Iceberg lettuce are staples in europe on the other hand Jelly/jello is almost extinct in europe. I love jelly and it is extremely hard to find here. Miracle Whip doesn't even exist in central and northern europe, or at the very least is not in the public eye. Margarin kind of stays around because we mostly consume salted butter and salted margarin is fine I guess. Again crisco or shortening is basically none existent, I imagine there might be some odd brand or something, but in general butter or margarin in used or oil when cooking. Quince is a staple in middle east, jams and stuff are made with it.

We still use Crisco, we buy iceberg lettuce once a week. We buy margarine for baking and Miracle Whip has been our bread spread for life. And we always have turnips and turnip greens in the summer and at holiday meals.

Romaine Lettuce is a super food because of nutrients.

Quince is very popular in Argentina

With my IBS i eat iceberg lettuce every day to help my digestion and have no problem finding it. Miracle Whip will never go away as long as there is a South.

I have a rutabaga!:)

Turnups are for anyone who likes their carrots but wants them a bit sweeter. If they weren't linked with 'poverty,' they'd be trendy. They're an interesting measure of grocery store markups - it take about ten calories of food to equal one calorie of dead cow, as they burn off most of what they eat during their lifetime. Compare the price of 20,000 calories of turnups to 2,000 calories of beef and you'll get an idea of how much the produce aisle rips us all off.

I like turnips and iceberg lettuce has its place. I never see gooseberries available, or quince. We’ll even have some Jello occasionally.

So typical us. Quinces, gooseberries, tunrips, iceberg salad are still popular in Europe. Miracle Whip and Gelatin desserts and sayory gelatine dishes are still arround.

I use Crisco shortening to season my cast iron frying pan

It wasn't an alternative to shmaltz, which could be perfectly kosher (if it came from kosher chickens.) Crisco was an alternative to LARD, so cooks who kept kosher could use the same recipes. The kosher community also still uses vegan margarine because we can't use butter (or any other milk product) with meat meals.

I'm pretty sure gelatin is making a comeback

I hate gooseberries. Some ten years ago I made a terrible mistake by planting a living fence of gooseberries at my country estate. They grew out of all proportions, it now looks like a wild cactus ranch. A decent deterrent, they don't propagate as quickly as raspberries, they bring a few buckets of tasty berries each summer... but they just look bad and neighbours complain about prickly seedlings popping out on their land. I wish I had planted useless but benign hawthorne instead. p.s. Pine rust issue, explained in another thread below, is nonexistent in my country, so please don't crucify me about it.

I use light mayonnaise and it tastes just like Miracle whip.

My ex used to say that Miracle Whip is just old mayonnaise. I'm inclined to believe him on that.

Gelatine is still used, just that gelatine salad isn't popular anymore

I grew up with only Miracle Whip and detested mayo, as it came across as extremely lemony. I mostly use mayo for most things now, but Miracle Whip is still best for whaite bread and cheap turkey slice sandwiches.

Never head od acorn flour!

The iceberg lettuce segment is totally wrong. What happened was e. coli contaminated bagged lettuce and lettuce heads. Then the crop was devastated due to weather. The price of iceberg lettuce then tripled and became more expensive than other lettuces so when e. Coli was a problem, people switched to leafy lettuces and continued buying them because they cost less than iceberg. Leafy lettuces are flatter and therefore better for sandwiches too. They taste and look more appealing than iceberg lettuce too so iceberg lettuce got sidelined. But iceberg lettuce has a much longer shelf life which is probably why it was so popular to begin with.

Iceberg is still the most available lettuce here in Texas and used in practically every restaurant, so, really, don't overexaggerate like you did when saying what restaurants were going to close and yet they are still doing well today🙄

Gooseberries are delicious

Wait, the Quince is unpopular? Do people not know the glory of Quince marmalade? Especially the “Quince with Rum” variant, that stuff is godly!

Miracle Whip, is the WORST mayo out there. I agree 100%! MW is NOT mayo! I have 3 jars of each. They, outside of being "white-ish" are NOT the same! A sandwich from Togo's, or a BLT, do NOT use mayo! steve

Iceberg lettuce is mostly for texture, and crunch. Can't have tacos without iceberg lettuce.

In Romania we eat a lot of quinces and we mostly eat them raw

Unilever did get rid of its spread division.

I stopped using ICBINB when it became all oil and lost its flavor! So sad! I called them to complain and they said test groups preferred the new taste! Really, what taste?

12 $ für einen einzigen Kopf Eisbergsalat? Sind die wahnsinnig?

No marg. None Only pure butter

Photos of husked goldenberries are pictured when talking about gooseberries.

Turnips are very much still used in the southern United States