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Foods we fell in love with when we grew up

Childhood favorites from the 1950s to now
1950s: Betty Crocker cake mix
1950s: cheese slices
1950s: Frosted Flakes
1950s: frozen pizza
1950s: Bananas Foster
1950s: Spam
1950s: Tropicana
1950s: Coca-Cola
1950s: diet soda
1950s: fast food
1950s: tinned and processed food
1950s: peanut M&M's
1950s: ranch dressing
1950s: Slice 'N Bake cookie dough
1950s: Swanson TV dinners
1960s: Big Mac
1960s: Diet Pepsi
1960s: chocolate fondue
1960s: Buffalo wings
1960s: Gatorade
1960s: Pop Tarts
1960s: Coffee-Mate
1960s: Cool Whip
1960s: Doritos
1960s: surf and turf
1960s: French food
1960s: slushy soft drinks
1960s: Froot Loops
1960s: Lucky Charms
1960s: Pringles
1960s: Tex-Mex
1960s: Domino's
1970s: Hamburger Helper
1970s: Cup Noodles
1970s: Black Forest gâteau
1970s: Hawaiian cuisine
1970s: Perrier water
1970s: California rolls
1970s: Egg McMuffin
1970s: fajitas
1970s: cheese fondue
1970s: General Tso’s chicken
1970s: Happy Meals
1970s: Jelly Belly jelly beans
1970s: Mississippi mud pie
1970s: pasta primavera
1970s: Pop Rocks
1970s: salad bars
1970s: Snapple
1970s: spaghetti bolognese
1970s: Watergate salad
1980s: Hot Pockets
1980s: Fruit Roll-Ups
1980s: Squeezit
1980s: sun-dried tomatoes
1980s: Hubba Bubba
1980s: Newman’s Own salad dressing
1980s: Seattle-style hot dog
1980s: Red Bull
1980s: portobello mushrooms
1980s: tricolore pasta salad
1980s: pesto
1980s: Jell-O Pudding Pops
1980s: Diet Coke
1980s: frozen yogurt
1980s: Yukon Gold potatoes
1990s: Funfetti cake
1990s: Dunkaroos
1990s: Caesar salad
1990s: Domino's breadsticks
1990s: Warheads
1990s: Totino's Pizza Rolls
1990s: McFlurry
1990s: Rice Krispies Treats
1990s: stuffed crust pizza
1990s: tuna mac 'n' cheese
1990s: Viennetta
1990s: red velvet cupcakes
1990s: French Toast Crunch
1990s: Yoplait Go-Gurt
1990s: KFC Original Recipe Sandwich
2000s: Baby Bottle Pops
2000s: Trix Yogurt
2000s: Ritz Handi-Snacks
2000s: açaí bowl
2000s: Spongebob Squarepants Popsicle
2000s: ramen
2000s: Shrek Twinkies
2000s: Hershey's Kissables
2000s: avocado toast
2000s: Cake pops
2000s: bacon
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1950s: ranch dressing

Made from buttermilk, herbs, spices, garlic and onion, this famous dressing was invented by husband-and-wife-team Steve and Gayle Henson in the early 1950s while they were working on ranches, first in Alaska, then California. Now the most popular salad dressing in the US, it's spotted accompanying everything from pizza and fries to chicken wings.

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Dominique Ayling

20 May 2024

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