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Toggles:

"What other essentials of "real Americana" have I missed out on?"

Lemme see here:

- Kraft macaroni & cheese
- Chef Boy-Ar-Dee everything, particularly their canned ravioli and their packaged spaghetti dinner kit
- Mrs. Paul's fish sticks
- Swanson's TV dinners
- La Choy canned chow mein
- Hormel chilli (with Fritos)
- Underwood devilled ham spread
- Swanson's canned chicken à la king
- Pillsbury refrigerated crescent rolls
- Moon Pies
- Nabisco Favorite Assortment Cookies
- Libby's corned beef hash
- Green Giant Mexicorn
- Imperial Margarine
- Duncan Hines cake mixes
- Sealtest dairy products
- Toast'em Pop-Ups
- Royal Pudding
- Heinz vegetarian beans
- Jello
- Mrs. Kinser's sandwich spreads
- Good Seasons salad dressing mixes
- Jeno's frozen pizza
- Libby's canned corned beef
- Read canned three-bean salad
- Sunbeam white bread
- Campbell's cream of tomato soup
- Lipton's chicken noodle soup mix
- California Dip - made with Lipton's onion soup mix and sour cream, served with Lay's Ruffles potato chips
- Beenie Weenie
- Beefaroni
- Banquet frozen pot pies
- Oscar Mayer olive loaf
- French's mustard
- Hamburger Helper - do try the Stroganoff, won't you?
- Log Cabin pancake syrup over Aunt Jemima pancake-mix pancakes

These are things that almost every American has eaten at one time or another - and most of them are things that many Americans won't admit to liking, even though they do.
 
Sandy!

Here are a couple you omitted:

Kool-Aid (genuine),

Country Time Lemonade (preferably canned),

Crystal Light,

and Laughing Cow cheese wedges.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Toggles,

Two words to add to your list: "Pork Rinds".

I ~only~ eat them if I'm on a long road trip which fortunately (for my health) isn't very often! Preferably the spicy/BBQ kind, btw.
 
I Must Admit:

Every time I read the words "Hamburger Helper," I'm reminded of Fran Lebowitz's immortal wisecrack:

"Hamburger gets a helper, and I have to do my own laundry. Somebody's priorities are screwed."
 
Hey, Leave off Pork Rinds!

*LOL*

Aunt Jemima and to an extent Bisquick were the only way some households would have ever had pancakes, waffles, biscuts and the like. Some housewives/mothers just couldn't get it together to master those weekend morning breakfast staples.

IIRC Hamburger Helper was big during the 1970's or so when inflation,unemployment and the recession had many households strapped for cash. Both HH and Tuna Helper allowed housewives to stretch a grocery budget to put a hot meal with some meat on the table each night. Of course some just resorted to the time honoured method for stretching ground beef, mixing eggs and bread crumbs into one pound of meat to STRETCH it out.

TV Dinners and the like came about mainly as a result of more and more women entering the workforce. Again it allowed a hot meal to be served each night, no matter how pressed for time someone was. It also allowed those who either could not or would not cook to have a "hot" and decent meal. The 1960's and so had a real explosion of young persons simply moving out and living on their own for long periods of time. This applied to both young men and women. Not everyone knew how to cook, and eating out everynight can be expensive. If mother is too far away for one to go home a few nights a week for dinner....
 
Launderess:

"You forgot the biggest one of them all, Wonder Bread!"

I grew up in the South, where Wonder Bread is all but unavailable in many places. The Southern equivalent - and biggest seller in that region - is Sunbeam, which I did mention.

Noo Yawk ain't the world, y'know.
 
Spam, Wham

As a teen i hauled baled hay in the summers to save for a car. When you are truly off in the boonies, a can or two of spam and 1 loaf of bread you could feed a whole crew, and be thankful to get it. In the movie "Mr. Blanding's build's his dream house" while he was going through the trials of building a house he was an ad man trying to name a canned meat product for his firm. something like "if it ain't WHAM, it ain't ham. It was the perfect product placement opportunity that would not be missed today. alr2903
 
Noo Yawk ain't the world, y'know.

Met a woman in Bucks County , PA in New Hope.

She recognized my "accent" and said "oooh a New Yorker!" I said "Yes, I'm from Queens" [That's a part of NYC; not my parentage!]

She said "I'm originally from Manhattan". So I asked if she liked living in PA. She said simply. "My father always said once you leave Manhattan you are camping.

We had such a good laugh!

If I had not been to California, Nebraska and Iowa the question New Yorkers have of "Is there really life west of the Hudson (River)" would have remained unanswered.

*LOL*
 
Thanks all. I now have a mission.
To do the whole list!

Since so many lovely foods in this country are loaded with salt and preservatives, maybe by eating those things my body won't futher decay and I can maintain my youth and vitality (LOLROFLMAO) by eating more crap.

*LOL*

My mother only cooked fresh (or frozen)- not ready-made or canned. And we only really had pizza and Chinese food for lunch / dinner out, and that was RARELY. So to this day I relish a good fast-food fix here and there!

Fat, grease, cholesterol, preservatives, artifical chemicals - bad for the heart and arteries; good for the soul!
 
~So when you go in a fancy French restaurant and they have Pate on the menu it might be Spam LOL

I was attending to a quadriplegic some years back for extra money. I volunteered (off the clock) to help him and his girlfriend go out to a fancy dinner. [She was vising NY from Texas]. They wanted to go to a certain Italian restaurant that was reputed to be "connected".

How shocked was I to see a waiter carrying cans of canned Ronzoni soup up to the kithcen. I though to myself: Dayum, you need to throw a cloth napkin over that or you may end up swimming in concrete shoes with the fishes!
 
Would you believe!!!

I made homemade mac and cheese for my partner and he DID NOT LIKE IT...he likes Kraft instead,and I think mine is good too,heres the recipe
1 8 oz box macaroni cooked in salted water
1 8 oz carton sour cream
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
2 beaten eggs
1 cup whole milk
1tsp paprika
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
mix all well,place in well buttered 2 quart dish,top with 3/4 cup buttered bread crumbs bake 30 min at 350
 
SPAM is salty but...

...if you do not put salt in ANYTHING else it is usually fine. Example: I like spam, fried with crushed pineapple and rice.

Bacon spam makes killer BLTs.

If you read the packet, it IS high in fat, but other than that it is not bad when you don't add salt to it or the thing you are cooking with it.

Considering some of the weird things put into some 'health foods' perhaps SPAM is a better choice.

Hunter
 
Such a reaction!

I have found that you either love Spam or you hate it. There are many questionable processed foods (Velveeta anyone?) but Spam is actually pretty tame. I think it's good to cook with because you don't have to salt anything. In comparing Spam with Bacon to Spam Lite, I am amazed at how much less grease cooks out of Spam Lite.

Today I had a grilled Spam with Bacon and cheese sandwich (real American cheese from Cincinnati's Findlay Market, not Kraft Singles!).

Keep the debate alive and preserved, no need to keep this thread in its can!
Dave
 
AWRIGHT, KIDS!!

How on earth did every one of you forget Tang? Gritty, astronaut-approved breakfast drink to go with your SPAM hash and eggs? OY!
 
i have yet to see this one...

I don't recall seeing a twice removed cousin from the SPAM family: Potted Meat Food Product.
I believe it is also made by Hormel. Quite possibly a bi-product leftover from SPAM production?
Then again there is another company out there that makes & sells a canned whole chicken. Yumm-diddly-ummy!

On the bright side of things, I just found a recipe that sounds extremely yummy: A bacon wrapped turkey with pear cider gravy. I just may try this one this year.

http://www.chow.com/recipes/11130?tag=sidebar;related_stories_small
 
Tim - Polka Nut

Try it again, with a couple of changes:

Use a cheese grater and simply grate SPAM onto the buns. Chop some onion and sprinkle that. Then grate some cheese of your preference on top. Pop them in the broiler to melt cheese and brown buns. MMMmmmmmmmm.
 

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