You know the Baby Boomers in your life love nothing more than to tell you what you’re doing wrong. But the fact is, Boomers (and you and everyone else) need to ditch these dishes immediately. Don’t eat like an old person!
Liver & Onions
Baby Boomers love to tell us how they lived through the hardest of times. Proof positive may be a skillet filled with liver and onions. If you were served this dish as a kid, you were definitely at an older relative’s house. And it went from slimy to shoe leather in less than two minutes flat.
Canned Soup
Do not grab a can filled with salt, preservatives, and the distinctive flavor of metal for dinner. To be fair, Boomers didn’t have food processors, Instant Pots, and Crock Pots back in the day. But WE do! Opt for fresh ingredients with no nasty additives to warm you the healthy way.
Lard
Boomers cooked and fried everything in this animal fat. It’s solid at room temperature, which gives you an idea of what it’s going to look like on your stomach and thighs. Need another reason to hate lard? It’s chock full of cholesterol, saturated and trans fats. Show your heart some love and skip this greasy mess.
Canned Fruit Cocktail
This stuff is made from the leftovers of fruit or cut from pieces so damaged the only other way to get rid of them would be the trash. So, we cannot understand why grandma thinks these bits and pieces floating in sugar water would ever count as a serving of fruit.
Cheese Products
If it’s not simply “cheese,” then you shouldn’t eat it. Baby Boomers had to rely on stuff they could store in the pantry. But there is no reason in modern times to eat a cheese product (meaning highly processed) that’s then wrapped in foil, flimsy pieces of plastic, or cardboard.
Aspic
Specifically meat jelly with stuff captured inside it. Take a peek in Grandma’s cookbook, and you’ll see a bunch of aspic recipes. Aspic is gelatin with some kind of meat broth. Then, you put some solid meat or veggie pieces in and cool it until the solids are suspended inside the mold. You are likely to still find aspic on menus at fancy French restaurants, but frankly, there’s no need to export that stuff to America. Ever.
Frozen TV Dinners
To start with, it’s really freaky that that thin plastic film covering the frozen food does not melt. That’s something that has no place in the natural world. Then, what’s underneath makes us scratch our heads. We are so confused about why sweet Aunt Pearl would smile while serving us mystery meat with a side of processed carbs.
Cream of Wheat
Come on into the 21st century, would ya Boomers?! Yes, Cram of Wheat has a lot of iron, and it’s a hot start to the morning. But we can have steel-cut oatmeal served sweet or savory every day of the week and never eat it the same way twice! It’s called variety. And there’s no need to ever eat that drippy white stuff again.
Vienna Sausage
Okay, there’s one place where Vienna Sausages are appropriate to eat alongside a Twinkie, and that’s in the event of a zombie apocalypse. If that’s not going down, just say no to weirdly pink meat that comes in cans (we’re looking at you, too, Spam!)
Miracle Whip
First of all, Miracle Whip is a salad dressing, not a condiment for sandwiches. Secondly, it’s whipped up using high-fructose corn syrup, modified corn starch, and soybean oil. The science fair list of ingredients is bad enough, but the stuff also tastes nasty.
Black Licorice
If it didn’t taste so bad, black licorice would not have claimed a spot on this list. It’s pretty good for easing a cough or sore throat, which probably explains why it tastes like medicine—so much cringe.
Cottage Cheese
There’s a pretty sizable chunk of the population who have never tried cottage cheese. We’re talking about younger generations. Boomers love the stuff. It was basically the original low-fat food decades ago. Your mom isn’t giving up on it anytime soon.
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