33 Of The Most Widely Sought-After Dishes Of The Past That Have Virtually Disappeared From Menus
Interview With ExpertFood is something you can get creative with while also getting ample nourishment from. Although it’s such a magical creation, different dishes still go in and out of style for a variety of reasons. Even if they’re not made or ordered as much anymore, we bet they’re just as tasty as always.
So, we decided to explore the most popular meals of the past. Who better to recall them than older folks who witnessed these trends come and go? Get ready to lick your lips as you explore dishes that used to be all the rage but aren’t now.
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French onion soup with a big piece of toast and melted cheese on top. ‘70s.
Yes! A photograph that matches the description! - - - -I make 'French-ish Onion Soup'. It's only 'ish' because I use vegetable stock rather than beef.
In culinary school my French(Lyon) chef instructor taught us how to make French onion soup..no beef stock just cooking the onions in butter and adding and reducing water for a long d@mn time over and over until a nice brown onion stock was achieved
Load More Replies...I live in a US county that borders Quebec, the French-speaking province of Canada. ALL of our restaurants have French onion soup on the menu, as do the places we have dinner at just over the border. Along with frog's legs, escargot and poutine. It's actually a little tiresome.
My husband and I had this for dinner on Tuesday - He makes the BEST French Onion Soup! Once fall hits, we have it once a month at least.
Potato skins were pretty big in the 80s.
They appear to be loaded with cheese and bacon to me?!
Load More Replies...They’re not still now? I can thing of at 10 places right now I can get them,
I make these at home on occasion; add green onion and ranch, if you want, for dipping.
Never been a thing in Germany AFAIK, still aren't. German culinary tradition has us boil them, or pan fry them, and excepr for "imported" recipes (like potato wedges) we generally don't eat the peel.
The photo looks like the lame frozen package of "potato skins" put out by a rather popular restaurant one might visit at the end of the work week.
Love them - still very common in uk pubs and restaurants. Also available fresh or frozen in supermarkets.
Chocolate mousse in a stem goblet. It was my favorite thing about eating out as a kid in the 80's . 🥲
Then at some point it was all crappy frozen chocolate cake.
I still love chocolate mousse, it is all about good ingredients, and so easy to make.
Its been too long, I think we might have to have that on Saturday...
Load More Replies...Once i ordered chocolate mousse in the 80s and the dish it was served in was edible chocolate. Must've been mid 80s when i was super young but i 💯 remember that.
It never went out of fashion in my favorite restaurant. It's my Friday lunchtime treat.
Very common in Aussie pub bistros still. When I was a teenager, I didn't eat much at all you can eat buffets but I did usually have at least two bowls of mousse
Restaurant menus change and keep updating based on the meals that are popular among their customers. In earlier times, word of mouth played a big role in establishing certain food fads. Now, meals can go in and out of fashion depending on social media trends. It’s also become popular to post aesthetically pleasing photos of cuisine online.
As you watch different food crazes come and go, it’s easy to understand why so many dishes fell out of fashion in the past and why so many remain classics to this day.
Fondue.
I wonder where the people that made this list is from, fondue is still very a thing.
No one "made" the list, they're just things people added to a Reddit thread.
Load More Replies...Cheese fondue on bread and pretzels, hot garlic oil fondue for cooking bits of beef or chicken, and chocolate fondue for bananas, strawberries and pound cake. And a bottle of chianti in the ratafia wrapper.
We still have the Melting Pot resturant in the US where you can spend $35+ for a vat melted cheese and meat or melted chocolate, fruit and marshmallows.
Nobody serves beef stroganoff anymore.
I also did it right today. And I'm a chef. Okay, it's not on the menü, I made it for the personal.
Load More Replies...It's technically not beef stroganoff, but I made the Hamburger Helper version just last week. I added some onion soup mix to the hamburger and some extra sour cream to the whole thing when it was done. Delicious.
Funny, I do the exact same. And if I don't have any onion soup laying around, I use a dab of better than bouillon beef.
Load More Replies...You used to eat beef stroganoff so that you would have an excuse to have wine in the cupboard. Now, nobody cares.
We do, but it doesn't look like the above photo. Guessing there are several different versions. :)
Real beef stroganoff looks nothing like the picture. It's not just ground beef over noodles. Get a good Russian cookbook and make the original; I do.
Crepes as an entree were popular in the 70s, filled with chicken or crabmeat in a sauce.
In Brighton there used to be a restaurant called Cripes. Savoury for main meal with a choice of so many different combinations of your choice. Then sweet for dessert, bloody lovely. I did a breakfast one once, sausage, bacon, egg and beans..... yes I'd had a couple of drinks!
There was something similar in the 80s in Newcastle. I went on maternity leave, went back with the baby and it’d closed down; it was not my fault!!!
Load More Replies...I have worked to re-create the spinach soufflé and the chantilly. 💘
Load More Replies...We have a local crepe food truck that is at the local farmers market every saturday. AMAZING!!
Some interesting food items have been completely removed from restaurant menus. It’s almost baffling to imagine why they were taken off, considering how delicious they are. To understand this phenomenon better, Bored Panda contacted Jack Higgott, a passionate chef from Australia who created Chef Life to show the world how hard cooks and kitchen staff work.
We asked him for examples of popular or trendy dishes from the past that no longer seem to be on menus. Chef Jack told us that one such dish is quiche Lorraine. He said: “once a popular brunch item, this savory tart filled with eggs and cream has been overshadowed by more modern breakfast options.”
He also gave two more examples. One was about “Prawn cocktails, which have been replaced by more adventurous appetizers that align with contemporary tastes and global cuisines.” The other dish was “Lobster Newberg, replaced by the rise of more casual seafood dishes. A shift towards lighter, healthier options has made it less popular.”
Quiche, In the late 70s and the 80s. Every fern bar restaurant like TGI Fridays featured quiche, and people were cooking quiche. The popularity of quiche even inspired the title of the book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche. That book inspired the humorous meme of “Real Men Don’t (fill in the blank)”
Salad bars. In the 80s every restaurant had one, even some fast food burger places like Wendy’s.
Is this list foods that are no longer popular in the US? Serving quiche & eating at crêperies is still a thing in Canada afaik 🤷♀️
Quiche is available in pretty much all bakeries/hot bread shops in NZ.
Load More Replies...The salad bars started disappearing when folks decided eating healthy wasn't where it was "at". They left entirely during covid, along with a lot of other buffet options.
Quiche, mostly homemade but sometimes storebought, is still on the menu over here... (Belgium)
I love Quiche Lorraine and I still make it. Many salad bars are gone because too many people stick their hands in it. The cafeteria in my hospital has a salad bar, but the items are served by a person from the kitchen staff.
Bananas Foster and the whole tableside performance flambé craze I remember from the 70s. Maybe some places still offer that? I've not seen it on a menu in forever.
Cherries Jubilee was a favorite of mine when I was a kid (back in the sixties and seventies), and the family got dressed up and went to a nice restaurant for dinner. Didn’t happen often, but I made sure to have Cherries Jubilee for dessert if they had it.
That is a banana split. You can get it a every ice cream parlor in Germany.
You are correct. This is a banana split. allrecipes.com says "Bananas foster is made by cooking sliced bananas and walnuts in a buttery rum sauce and serving it over vanilla ice cream."
Load More Replies...i used to be a server in a private club atop a tall building back in the mid- to late '80s. we used to have to make this all the time. it was VERY popular, along with cherries jubilee.
Around 1980, seems like every restaurant had fried zucchini and fried mozzarella sticks as appetizers.
Fried mozzarella, yes. Fried zucchini, not so much.
Load More Replies...I remember jalepanos poppers. Jalepanos stuffed with cream cheese or cheddar cheese. A local restaraunt back in the 80s called the armadillo eggs.
A friend from my hometown had a restaurant when I was in college. Every time I went home to visit, we would pick the jalapeños from his garden and prepare them. I got paid in beer.😅
Load More Replies...The fried mozzarella made with the good cheese that stretched for miles and miles when you took a bite.
Apart from the items mentioned on this list, there are some dishes that never seem to go out of fashion. We asked Jack Higgot for a few examples of items like that. He said “as for classic meals, I think it all comes down to tradition! If you keep it simple and execute everything perfectly most people are so happy with comfort food.”
Some examples he gave include:
- “Apple Pie: known as a symbol of American culture, apple pie features a flaky crust filled with spiced apples. It’s often served warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream, embodying the idea of home-cooked comfort food.
- Spaghetti Bolognese: originating from Italy, this dish features a sauce made with ground meat (often beef), tomatoes, onions, garlic, and herbs. It's typically served over spaghetti and topped with grated Parmesan. The rich, savory flavors make it a favorite for family dinners and gatherings.
- Chicken Curry: with numerous regional variations, chicken curry can range from mild to spicy. Common ingredients include chicken, onions, garlic, ginger, and a blend of spices like cumin, coriander, and turmeric. Served with rice or bread, it's a favorite for its bold flavors and aromatic spices.”
Prawn cocktail.
It's got prawns, it's a cocktail, what more do you want? 😆 At a guess, whoever picked the photos for this one hasn't heard of at least half these dishes. Prawn cocktail is not especially intuitively named...
Load More Replies...I remember when that was the height of sophistication!
Load More Replies...I unfortunately developed a seafood allergy as an adult after being able to eat it when I was younger. No more lobster,crab, shrimp, or fish of any sort unless I want to have hives and get really sick. Not sure what happened to cause it. One day out of the blue it happened. Thought it was just bad food. Then it happened with another kind of seafood. Go figure. Do I miss it? Depends. How does it happen? Weird.
Ooo, I feel for you. My mom and my next oldest sister and both allergic to shellfish but I have no issues. (my mom keeps thinking I should have issues with shellfish because I'm very allergic to iodine dye injected into my body and shellfish has iodine in it, go figure).
Load More Replies...Dunk the shrimp and then drink the red gunk? Have you ever seen a shrimp (prawn) cocktail. This ain't it.
Las Vegas was built on 99-cent shrimp cocktails. I remember them well, but gone for a long time. That, and the giant desert carousel at the entrance to restaurants. -sigh-
Beef Wellington, at pricier restaurants. Hard to find now, but not too hard to make at home for the right occasion.
In the UK, Beef Wellington is often an alternative to a goose or turkey at Christmas.
I want to do that now. I've always wanted to have a "Dickens dinner" for Christmas with a goose, but geese get to be quite expensive in the US. So, I reluctantly do turkey, even though it always feels like a repeat of American Thanksgiving.
Load More Replies...This HAS to be a US-centric list - Wellingtons are still pretty popular elsewhere. As a Canadian - we have it at Christmas.
I have never had beef wellington (hope to someday) but I made an amazing salmon wellington a while ago.
Hardly a hot pocket! Have you ever had a proper Beef Wellington before Rowan? Time and prep intensive and has to be baked just right to get the filet perfectly pink.
Load More Replies...My friend made this a couple Christmases ago, for a big family get together (I got invited too--yum! 😋)
When you have to make 60 to 100 a day it's very labor Intensive. Been there, done it.
Please travel back in time with me, to the SIXTIES, and let’s talk about baked potato “fixins” being brought to your table in that thing with connected metal bowl. Sour cream? Coming up! And it was spun around to that bowl so the server could spoon it into your potato. Ditto cheese and bacon bits.
And ditto salad dressings, served the same way, including the rarely-seen (but then popular) Thousand Island and Roquefort dressings.
I have never seen this in Australia. We did go from only having sour cream and cheese on jacket potatoes at home, to trying creamed corn, baked beans, bacon, tuna etc
I wish the picture was accurate so I could see what it looked like!
Maybe some of the items on this list have attracted your fancy either for their elegance, taste, or aesthetic. To learn about even more tasty food items from the past, we also reached out to Billy Parisi, a classically trained culinary school graduate from Scottsdale Culinary Institute with over 15 years of experience in the restaurant industry.
He focuses on creating homemade recipes from scratch while showcasing classical French and Italian cooking techniques. He shared some examples of popular or trendy dishes that no longer seem to be on menus, like “patty melt, bouillabaisse, cioppino, osso buco, rice pudding, Chateaubriand, and steak au poivre.”
Tiramisu was the go-to fancy dessert at every possible restaurant for a while.
🤔 Tiramisù is still the go-to dessert at every Italian restaurant I have ever been to.
And that’s not a tiramisu! I had a very nice one at an Italian café this afternoon
Load More Replies...Tiramisu is the single-recipe most common dessert *in the world*. It is only second to Cream Brulee if you aggregate all the different similar recipes under the different names (Catalan, Brulee, Burnt cream, Trinity etc), and eventually mochi if you consider them as a single type of dessert despite the different fillings.
I hsd the pleasure of having tiramisu made by Carminantonio Iannaccone from his shop in Baltimore. If he didnt invent it ( its contested ) , he sure perfected it. No way i could make that.
Load More Replies...The name comes from the fact(oid) that it was a common homemade treat served in brothels, and was used to reinvigorate the tired customers. The recipe has been formalized only in the 1970s, but it was documented over a century before.
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I can’t think of a specific dish but there was a period in the 90s when pesto was EVERYWHERE and so were roasted red peppers. 🤷🏻♀️.
Prime rib was huge back in the day.
'Back in the day' as in yesterday. Prime rib is served weekly here. Expensive though.
Prime rib remains huge in Canada. One of my favourite restaurant chains is “The Keg”, I almost always go for the prime rib.
It’s not now? I was at a restaurant the other day that had amazing prime rib.
8oz prime rib with a salad and side for $6.99 on Sunday & Monday nights at O'Charley's. $8.99 for the 10 oz. So good! Late 1980s & early 90s.
Place here has it advertised for Saturday night. Price is 24.99
Load More Replies...Still huge in San Francisco. Best place is the House of Prime Rib. Great date place.
Although many of these items may have disappeared from menus, there’s always a chance they may be brought back. Chef Billy said: “there are so many dishes that are always delicious or on trend, but in the current restaurant culture of what's next these classical dishes tend to fall away.”
“Many restaurants like to try and keep things fresh and constantly keep changing things. However, there's a reason they call them the classics, because they're always in style. Dishes people always love include pasta carbonara, chicken Kiev, chicken piccata, croque monsieur, and chopped steak,” he added.
No one has mentioned bread being served before meals, always. Or a basket of crackers at family restaurants.
Salad bars were all the craze. Nice restaurants to Wendy’s. Salad bars everywhere!
all the steakhouse and italian chains in 'murica still serve warm bread with butter (steakhouse) or olive oil and herbs provence (italian places like carrabba).
Some places still serve bread before and during meals . I know that senior citizens have an unhealthy obsession with bread. At certain places they would keep asking for more and more bread. The owner got angry and started charging them after a while because they were abusing the privilege. It wasn't an all you can eat bread deal. The customer threw a tantrum about it too. Sorry it is what it is. ( I witnessed another incident like that. I heard this story)
Bread is absolutely still alive and kicking in the normal restaurants they would be found.
In the late 80's Taco Bell even had a taco/salad bar. Could get the buffet and a drink for just over $5.00.
Salad bars are/were great! Unfortunately, they are very maintenance intensive, and people are hygienically ambivalent around them. Combine people touching, coughing and sneezing on the food, and the very real prospect of proper food safety measures make them a possible health hazard (really more due to the other patrons than to most restaurants). The thought of a food borne or people borne illness takes the luster off what used to be an enjoyable thing. And please don't get me started on buffets....
Many places still have free bread before meals. I am glad most don't get set at every place before you sit down now, because I wouldn't eat them due to my small appetite and not wanting to spoil meal and now I'm coeliac meaning my serve was wasted.
Oysters Rockefeller. Cherries Jubilee. Meatloaf. Chicken Cordon Bleu.
You can walk into just about any restaurant in the southern part of the US and find meatloaf, mashed potatoes, gravy, and some sort of "chicken fried" meat on the menu. I am truly surprised I didn't find a McMeatloaf, it is that serious lol
And you can always get oysters, especially if you're on the coast.
Load More Replies...Meatloaf? I made meatloaf 3 days ago. You haven't lived until you've had a fried meatloaf sammich.
are these like US main staples? I couldn't even guess what any of these are other that meatloaf, which I will never try because it sounds nauseating. I don't go to restaurants often but I've never seen these on the menu around Melbourne in Aus
They used to be. Oysters Rockefeller is baked oysters with a bread and herb topping. Cherries Jubilee is rum soak cherries, flambéed and served with ice cream. Chicken Cordon Bleu is chicken breast rollatini stuffed with ham and Swiss. I don't know what about meatloaf sounds nauseating to you. It's the same basic idea as meatballs except shaped into a loaf to be sliced instead of individual balls.
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Monte Cristo Sandwiches? Reuben Sandwiches? Are they still a big deal?
I miss Monte Cristo Sandwiches. I asked my husband if he'd ever had one, I think I married the wrong man, he didn't even know what it was!
Had my first (delicious!) Reuben at Mr. Dunderbach's. And that place is no more either.
We hope you’re salivating after checking out this list! Maybe it will also jog your memory and lead you to remember amazing older dishes that should definitely be brought back for folks to enjoy.
Don’t forget to tell us which item on this list is your favorite and which one you feel should be left in the past.
I will submit Swedish meatballs, which I actually just got done making for dinner. Idk if it died out, but I never see it on the menu anywhere.
Ikea cafe in Beijing still offers these or did last time I was there.
Stouffer's (here in the US) offers Swedish meatballs in sauce in a family sized box. No noodles, but to die for. They're expensive, so I'm limited to one box a month. I've tried making my own over and over, but mine have never been as good as theirs.
I’m guessing it’s mainly US. Couldn't really do an international list like this though. Quiche was mentioned earlier and I’m pretty sure every French restaurant in the world does it.
Load More Replies...I only ever saw this advertised at Ikea cafes, I don't know if it was ever mainstream in Australia. I did make them for myself a lot in the past though.
Baked Alaska.
At last, something that truly is no longer ubiquitous. Dead easy to make, but actually not that great
Made this so often when my teenage children had friends around which was most of the time.
For a while, there was a massive advertising effort for Bacon. People started talking about their love of bacon like it was a unique personality trait. Restaurants were serving everything with bacon, chicken wrapped in bacon, bacon ice cream, bacon doughnuts, bbb— bacon bacon and bacon sandwich.
At a business dinner, someone would order something with bacon, and everyone would just go on about bacon.
It was strange to me because I’ve always thought bacon was pretty good, but not something I really needed to share with others. Like many foods- ice cream, hamburgers… bacon has always seemed to be an American staple that most people enjoyed. I didn’t understand why people were suddenly acting like it was a new product.
Bacon has now seemed to move back to where it had been.
Bacon is meat candy. Don't believe me? Ask Rick Bayless, the Chicago maven of Mexican food.
A local brewery here has one of its patrons being in chocolate chip-bacon cookies. Needless to say they sell out in a couple of days! :-D
I’d have to search for stats but, apparently, bacon has been the downfall of many a vegetarian and vegan. Just remembered, I have the makings for a BLT. In another comment I said I’m 99% vegetarian… bacon pretty much fills in that 1%.
No idea about stat but whenever a vegetarian does the sandwich run , bacon pops into the conversation with an air of regret on the veggies part. I’ve been to.d that vegetarian bacon is ok but a poor substitute.
Load More Replies...Bacon became incredibly popular quickly because 1) pork belly was basically a leftover from the production of other more sought after cuts used for production of hams and 2) synthetic bacon flavors became easily available and super cheap, allowing to make bacon-flavored anything for far cheaper than any other natural flavoring agent. 3) This all achieved meme state, in some part from media ops by pork manufacturing associations, and went on to became a fad.
Much like cheese, bacon has become ubiquitous because of cheap pork belly prices due to overproduction. Cheese production ramped up to provide a product when dairy production outpaced demand. The same thing happened with bacon...and as it became a staple of EVERYTHING, rising pork belly prices have been a contributing factor to rising menu prices everywhere.
Another thing still huge in Australia. We don't usually cook it for as long as Americans though. I don't like mine being able to stand up on it's own!
Steak Diane
Particularly, made the correct old school way, flambéed tableside.
True, it's deeply unfashionable now, but I have seen it as just steak with sauce Diane
I haven't seen flambée anywhere for a while (but I have to admit that I do not go to eat outside that much anymore). I guess it is seen as a liability?
Orange Roughy the fish……It turned out that the fish were incredibly old-up to 200 years old-and they are almost fished to extinction.
[A great Reddit link to it…](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskCulinary/s/xK7ddCHgff).
This just sounds like eco-awareness more than "it's gone out of fashion"
Guessing the editors typed "Orange fish" into a search box. pssst... those are koi lol
This is Bored Panda; they once used a beaver instead of a rat; just be grateful they didn’t use a tangerine 🙄
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This is an ice cream flavor but man I miss a good Rocky Road Ice Cream. 🍦.
Every store sells rocky road ice cream. I don't know about other countries, but, according to 2023 survey, it's the 11th most popular flavor in the U.S.. Spumoni ice cream, on the other hand... VERY hard to find in the U.S.
Ooh! I just saw Spumoni ice cream the other day in LeMars Iowa at the Blue Bunny ice cream/Wells store!! You're right, I haven't seen that in a long time (but they do have 40 flavors of hard ice cream) you can do a "flight" of ice creams there! :)
Load More Replies...haagen daus (sp?) rum raisin was my S**T back in the day, but i don't see it anymore.
Breyers used to have a flavor called Heavenly Hash, a different take on Rocky Road. I still miss it.
This looks like a brown snowman that fell over backwards and started praying for help
Blackened everything. It seemed like chefs were working overtime to figure out what they could make in a Cajun blackened version.
"Blackened" must mean something different if some know it as "burnt" - I know it as a mix of seasonings usually in the southeastern US. I love my chicken sandwiches "blackened"!
Blackened isn't burned, it is spicy. I understand your confusion as many burn as opposed to blacken. It is a common mistake. I did it as well when I didn't know how to cook.😅
Load More Replies...That died out when research showed that there were carcinogens in the burnt areas. * Acrylamide A chemical that forms when food is cooked at high temperatures, such as in toasters, ovens, and grills. While acrylamide is a potential carcinogen in industrial settings, studies in humans have not found a consistent link between dietary acrylamide and cancer. *
Not even REMOTELY true about why it's STILL extremely popular in specific regions; the only reason your post is even partially true is because of how needlessly, pathetically paranoid people in California are, who would give air a damn warning label about being "carcinogenic," if they could find a way to make people stop breathing and still stay alive.
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Chateau Briand.
I must not go to fancy enough restaurants, as I've never in my 60 years on this planet seen it on a menu. Perhaps I need to find a good French restaurant & give this dish a try (if they have it).
Load More Replies...Châteaubriand is a cut of beef sold by the butcher and we often eat it.
Liver and onions.
Change the " like " to LOVE and we're on the same page!!
Load More Replies...This is one I will never miss. My mother loved it, and consistently tried to get me to eat it, and I could not abide the stuff. Neither did my father, so he ended up being my advocate when it came to food (,I can still hear him, very exasperated, saying it. “Damn it, Katherine [5 kids giggling at the swear word]. She doesn’t like liver. I don’t like liver. The boys don’t like liver. The cat doesn’t like liver. Even the dog doesn’t like liver, and he eats cat poop out of the litter box! The only one in the entire household who likes it is YOU. Fix it for yourself, but give the rest of us food that doesn’t look like…like…[he was trying not to say barf in front of us kids]…like…THAT!”).
To this day, when I visit my mom, she'll make up a big batch of fried chicken liver. I loved it even as a kid. That, and spinach. I must have been a weird kid! lol
Load More Replies...Sometimes it is on the menu as Foie de veau à la lyonnaise (Foie de Veau Lyonnaise) or Foie de veau aux pommes caramélisées but it's still around.
In Hungary is a very popular dish, made at home and also served in restaurants.
Load More Replies...Offal doesn’t seem to be at all popular in North America. Years ago I organized purchase of half and full beef from a local ranch that produces grass fed, grass finished beef. On a side note: when cattle are fed what they are supposed to eat… GRASS AND HAY, the meat has the same omega balance as salmon; red meat doesn’t have to be bad for you if the animals are fed what they are supposed to eat, not fed corn and injected with steroids and hormones. Back on topic: my Canadian friends weren’t at all interested in the liver, kidneys, tongue or soup bones. So, I calculated pricing based on the cuts of meat wanted and ‘charged’ per pound based on the roasts, steaks and stewing meat they wanted. Meanwhile, I got all the other bits essentially for free. Before you get mad at me for “cheating” my friends, they still paid less per lb for the beef they bought compared to prices for lower quality beef in a grocery store and I was absolutely upfront about how I planned on splitting costs. I asked them every year if they wanted me to include accounting for the parts they didn’t want; every year they said, “Ewww, yuck! You can have that as recognition for organizing the whole thing.” I would still be organizing the yearly purchase if I hadn’t done something stupid around year four. The ranch held an open day, I went and met the cattle who were that year’s crop. I just couldn’t do it anymore. Never meet the creatures who are going to be food. I’m 99% vegetarian now, seriously considering vegan. When your prospective food is alive and kinda snuggling up to you it’s really fücking hard to reconcile that in 3 months’ time I might be chewing on a roast from your butt.
I still make liver with fried onions or fried apples occasionally. With some lingonberry jam on the side.
I've enjoyed a lot of these comments and I will add one more: the ubiquitous spiced apple ring on a kale leaf garnish on nearly every plate at SO many restaurants.
Never heard of that. Was it literally dried apple like the pic, or a ring of apple battered and fried?
It was canned apple rings, colored red. The spice wasn't cinnamon, maybe it was cloves? I never ate it or any of those decorative greens put on plates with food at restaurants. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned how parsley, chopped fine, adds a nice flavor to soup or sauce.
Load More Replies...Me too! Although now made with beet for the beautiful color
Load More Replies... Duck a l'orange, in the 1970s.
Parsley as a garnish. 1970s and well into the 1980s.
Do these people just list things they no longer eat themselves? Parsley is widely used as garnish every where I go.
And has been since at least the Adventure of the Six Napoleaons
Load More Replies...Particularly the fake day-glo "orange" sauce that came in a packet. The homemade from scratch sauce is rare to get.
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A hot open faced roast beef sandwich also known as a beef hot shot.
Still served at diners everywhere, here in the northeastern United States
Mother's in New Orleans serves these every day. Make sure you ask for debris.
Mmmm, NOLA food. I LOVE IT. Gordon Ramsey apparently does as well.
Load More Replies...Up north in Minnesota I'm pretty sure we call that a hot beef commercial if served with gravy
The description reminds me of goulash served in a bowl made from bread that I once had - I ate the bread bowl too, which was delicious as the inside was all soaked in the juices. It's a shame I've never seen it on a menu again.
Trout Amandine. I miss it. I'm a terrible cook, so can't make it myself.
It doesn't sound like a hard recipe. Fry trout on butter, fry almonds, pour it over the trout.
Turkey Tetrazzini.
Stouffer's has a frozen entree of this. Some Walmarts in the Bay Area of California carry it. If you have Instacart, you could type it in the search bar to see if local Walmarts or other stores have it.
was my ex's favorite meal made by his mother after Thanksgiving. The most awful thing I ever ate/
I absolutely detested this dish as a kid. It was bad enough that when told "you either eat it or go hungry!". I was cool, I'm going to be in my bedroom reading! Let me know when it's gone!
Diet plate that had a hamburger patty, a lump of cottage cheese, and canned peaches.
I can totally understand why this dish would disappear! It does not sound at all good.
I can't imagine that it was ever really popular - sounds like a fad-diet. 🤢🤢🤢
i have a vintage cookbook around here somewhere with a picture of a half a canned peach, cut side up, with a scoop of cottage cheese where the pit used to be. so gross
Looks like and sounds like the kind of thing my parents had to eat on one of their many trips to weight loss programs.The kind where you were a client / patient. I was never there as a patient myself but being a minor and not liking sleep away camp, I got picked up and my parents had a place for the summer near the program. I saw the dining room and what they ate. Wasn't a pretty sight. I kinda brought my own goodies with me because I was not on a diet.
Maybe it's a cultural thing, but I struggle to think of anyone who would recommend canned peaches (vitamins mostly gone due to heat, and whatever nutricious value was left got eliminated by adding tons of sugar) as a main ingredient on a diet when trying to improve health.
Back in the day sugar wasn't considered as bad for you as it is now. Fat free was all the rage
Load More Replies...This post is a mess. A ton of these foods can still be found at restaurants. I'm in the Midwest US and I could think of places to get most of these.
As a non-American some of these were not just unfamiliar but sounded bizarre. What on earth is a spiced apple ring served on kale? Was this really ubiquitous??
Load More Replies...I know this is still around in the odd restaurant or 2 but it used to be a staple at every pub or hotel restaurant and I miss it so much....chicken Kiev. Sure I can get it from the supermarket but I am terrible at stopping the garlic butter from vacating the chicken breast before it's done and eating it when out just saved me that hassle.
The few places that do have it charge almost as much as a steak now too.
Load More Replies...This list was stupid, most of these foods are widely available, but maybe it is only pertinent to the USA.
Most of the foods on this list are still widely available throughout the US. Poorly researched article.
Load More Replies...Libstak nailed the point of the article. The point is not that you can’t find these foods anywhere anymore at all. It’s that back in the day they were on the menu of just about EVERY restaurant during whatever period they were the latest and most popular thing to serve. Dining out is kind of like fashion, in that trends change all the time. Certain dishes get done to death when they’re popular and trendy, and new restaurants featuring them pop up all over the place. Then they fall out of favor when the next newer, cooler dishes to order come along, and those restaurants either retool their menus to feature that new dish, or they go out of business because the trend has become passe (this is the most likely scenario). Finding most of the dishes mentioned in the article nowadays takes a bit of effort and research, and a ton of calls to restaurants to see if they serve them. If you go someplace that’s been there forever, and where the chef has decades of experience and probably made a ton of that dish back in the day, they might be able to resurrect the recipe and whip up the dish by special request, if you ask (and pay) enough in advance.
Many of the pictures don't match the dishes named. Bored Panda staff obviously are not familiar with them. Some of the pictures have since been changed.
Classic cuisine is being pushed out by celebrity chefs that are constantly trying to re-invent the wheel for ratings. Cherish the old cookbooks. You can always make a healthier version if necessary
I live in rural North Dakota and I can find 31 out of 33 these food items at a local restaurant. No orange roughy around here and I've never encountered the 'diet plate' of plain burger, cottage cheese, and peaches in a restaurant before. Do we know what the word "disappear" means?
A lot of this stuff you could probably get recipes for online, make it yourself!
This post is a mess. A ton of these foods can still be found at restaurants. I'm in the Midwest US and I could think of places to get most of these.
As a non-American some of these were not just unfamiliar but sounded bizarre. What on earth is a spiced apple ring served on kale? Was this really ubiquitous??
Load More Replies...I know this is still around in the odd restaurant or 2 but it used to be a staple at every pub or hotel restaurant and I miss it so much....chicken Kiev. Sure I can get it from the supermarket but I am terrible at stopping the garlic butter from vacating the chicken breast before it's done and eating it when out just saved me that hassle.
The few places that do have it charge almost as much as a steak now too.
Load More Replies...This list was stupid, most of these foods are widely available, but maybe it is only pertinent to the USA.
Most of the foods on this list are still widely available throughout the US. Poorly researched article.
Load More Replies...Libstak nailed the point of the article. The point is not that you can’t find these foods anywhere anymore at all. It’s that back in the day they were on the menu of just about EVERY restaurant during whatever period they were the latest and most popular thing to serve. Dining out is kind of like fashion, in that trends change all the time. Certain dishes get done to death when they’re popular and trendy, and new restaurants featuring them pop up all over the place. Then they fall out of favor when the next newer, cooler dishes to order come along, and those restaurants either retool their menus to feature that new dish, or they go out of business because the trend has become passe (this is the most likely scenario). Finding most of the dishes mentioned in the article nowadays takes a bit of effort and research, and a ton of calls to restaurants to see if they serve them. If you go someplace that’s been there forever, and where the chef has decades of experience and probably made a ton of that dish back in the day, they might be able to resurrect the recipe and whip up the dish by special request, if you ask (and pay) enough in advance.
Many of the pictures don't match the dishes named. Bored Panda staff obviously are not familiar with them. Some of the pictures have since been changed.
Classic cuisine is being pushed out by celebrity chefs that are constantly trying to re-invent the wheel for ratings. Cherish the old cookbooks. You can always make a healthier version if necessary
I live in rural North Dakota and I can find 31 out of 33 these food items at a local restaurant. No orange roughy around here and I've never encountered the 'diet plate' of plain burger, cottage cheese, and peaches in a restaurant before. Do we know what the word "disappear" means?
A lot of this stuff you could probably get recipes for online, make it yourself!
