Do you remember when the cabbage soup diet was all the rage? Or when molten chocolate cake was the cool new dessert? Here we take a nostalgic trip, from the 1940s through to the 1990s, revisiting the food fads of years gone by that were popular in the US and Canada. Find out whether the craze from the year you were born lasted or whether it flopped like a 1950s Jell-O salad.

Click or scroll through our gallery to discover the weird and wonderful food fads from years gone by.