I couldn't help but think, ok so back then they said the "sugar sparkled" cereal was healthy. Now baby boomers like my mom have diabetes. Now my generation is here, and there's all these "sugar alternatives" that are supposedly better(cause cancer). Thanks government.
It’s easy to scoff and be self righteous, but throughout the 60’s, to the 2000’s the life expectancy of the average American went UP and rates of heart disease went DOWN. The obesity epidemic didn’t start until the 2000’s, well beyond the widespread adoption of processed foods.
I am 66 yrs old now, and I can guarantee that our childhood had plenty of "junk food" snacks; however, we didn't sit all day texting our friends, we jumped on our bikes and rode 3 neighborhoods over to play. Children were more physically active, and the human body is designed to be active.
@@TheRealTrididosI think that’s an ignorant thing to say. I’m 74 and grew up with that shit. Now at least we can make an educated choice, the info is there it’s up to the individual to change!
I'm nearly your age. My Mom would shoo me outdoors in the morning, telling me to play until lunch. In the afternoon, same deal - stay out til dinner. We kids were very active regardless of the season. I think rain was about the only thing that kept us housebound. Of course there were simply more children then. Playmates were everywhere. (Shame! You know what I meant by playmates.)
I still have the LOUD bell my mother would ring to call us in. We were playing outside ALL the time. I feel sorry for the way things have changed. How did it happen?
I’m 65, raised on a farm and ranch. We cooked from scratch, 3 meals a day! We were poor, hard working, but we ate out of garden, fished, hunted. We rarely ate our own beef, got more for selling him. Had a milk cow,kicked like hell, but we had milk and butter, skim milk and hard corn to piggies, that we ate. The only cereal I got was when I spend a week with my cousins.
Almost everything we ate was fried in Crisco, which was hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Probably what kept us alive is we were ALWAYS in motion. Riding bicycles, playing basketball, hiking in the fields etc. All day. We didn't sit inside playing video games, texting people or surfing the web. I still hit the gym & I'm older than dirt.
I turn 60 this year . Growing up my mom was a stay at home mom . We ate breakfast,lunch and dinner as a family . No tv and all at the table . Everything my mom made was from scratch. A treat for us was a weekly soda pop or a candy bar from the woolworths store . At night we watched all the tv shows as a family and went to bed promptly at 9. All this and it was absolutely the best childhood I could have ever imagined.
@@tekman196 I think maybe you just caught the end of homemade meals that your mom made. I was born in 46 and experienced the same as you did growing up. I blame our government for the destruction of the family. As time passed the taxes got so high that it took two incomes to make a living. This caused latchkey kids and meals of “convenience” and well, you know the rest. I’m so thankful that I grew up when I did…. I don’t know how the younger generations are going to fair.
@@tekman196 we had tv :( 📺 at dinner . A little color tv and my dad watched the news and all it was the Vietnam war . So my Kids had NO tv at Meals cuz of my tv dinner trauma
Our Dad would not eat anything out fo a can, and our mother would only make fresh home cooking, and we always ate the Dinner table so we could talk about what happened during the day. I REALY MISS THOSE TIMES, WE WERE A FAMILY. THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE THE BEST OF TIMES.
my mother was tired as heck...my father was grouchy and my brother would throw a fit at the table....guess i was just lucky. My sister would hide behind the cereal boxes at breakfast. i....would...just...be quiet and watch it all...
@@Jendromeda Your family sounds like the opening lines of Syncronicity 2 by the Police: Another suburban family morning Grandmother screaming at the wall We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies We can't hear anything at all Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration But we know all her suicides are fake Daddy only stares into the distance There's only so much more that he can take
I was born in 1954, I remember grape nuts, alphabits, and life savers candy. My Mom didn't buy anything in the video. We had bacon, eggs and toast in the mornings. Sandwiches for lunch, and home cooked meals consisting of a protein, a carb, and vegetables. She baked, so we had kuchen (German) for dessert. The commercials are entertaining! Oh, and we used real butter and cane sugar, no fake stuff.
I lucked out and my parents never fell for the margarine scam, so we never used plastic, either. And now it turns out that butter is FAR better for you than margarine.
I was similarly lucky...local fresh butter, eggs and milk plus all meats from local farms. We had garden vegetables (which tasted FAR better then) and were never allowed to eat processed foods. Mom and GMa cooked 3 meals/day. I will say, our diet was high in sugar w/GMa's daily baked pies and cakes! We lived so far from restaurants that fast food was never an option...talk about lucky! Avoided McDs by choice as an adult! I remember neighbors making boxed foods & being jealous, as I assumed anything "new" meant "better"...but it turns out my Mom truly did know the meaning of "better". I followed her example, sugar and all, and passed along cooking skills to my Millennial daughter. I sometimes wonder how much it may have boosted our health...my folks are alive in their 90s and look 60 y.o.! GMa lived to 94, as well...
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 you guys are like vegans, you just can't help it. I guess it is a good thing the rest of us mostly put a stop to y'all using violence to spread your "good word".
Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We did eat sweetened cereals for breakfast sometimes, but we also took wholesome lunches to school in our lunchboxes, and sat down to eat dinner as a family every night. We spent a lot of time outside running around, skating, or riding bikes and made our own indoor entertainment by playing games, doing arts and crafts from things we found around the house, using our imaginations to put on puppet shows with puppets me made and plays we wrote ourselves, with costumes we made or scrounged from the “dress up box” and our closets. We were only allowed to watch tv for a limited time on days we were allowed to watch it at all, and we weren’t overweight because junk food was a special treat, we didn’t eat fast food, and we were physically active - unlike the mostly sedentary, video-game addicted kids of today!
You just described my childhood! I tell my grandchildren that I was free roaming child! I ate breakfast at the table, without a television blaring! On weekends and summertime, breakfast came first, chores second, and by noon, after eating a 'real lunch' it was playtime! I went outside and didnt have to come home until dusk, but I better be home for dinner before the street lights came on! They look at me like a tree full of owls! 😂 The idea of using their imaginations for fun is foreign to them! They live off of junk food and wear headsets that allows them to enter an imaginary 3D world in the house, that has fake sunshine and fake darkness. I have to wonder how any of them are going to cope in the future! It's sad really! Because my grandchildrens parents werent raised this way. They had the same childhood I did. But they are allowing this! 🙄
We didn't eat all that trash. I'm 67, just regular home cooked food. My mother never bought sweetened cereal. We ate supper at 5 pm and didn't eat again til breakfast, usually bacon, eggs, and toast.
Yes indeed but every big food company has A fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders to make the biggest profits possible and in turn that is done from selling the cheapest low cost mass-produced even if nutrition free food to the masses regardless of impact on their health. Then invest in a big pharmaceutical complex at the same time to treat the illnesses that will be more prevalent in a undernourished society-- full of sugar Laden cereals and soft drinks... It is very obvious today that the rates of diabetes are continuing to rise and it's no coincidence That these deficiencies and diseases are literally exploding the revenues and profits of big food and big pharma🤑🤑🤑
We had a huge bag of puffed wheat beside the fridge and that was the cereal we had every morning until winter, then it was cream of wheat. What a wonderful life ❤
High living for us kids back in the day was going camping and the folks bought a variety snack pack of cereal, the little foil lined boxes of cereal that you opened down the middle and put your milk in 😋 camping and picnics were the only time we ever got junk food, we thought we were deprived 😅
In the dayz of pudding pops and when we were not aware that Bill Cosby was a violent, degenerate, RAP-ST. Before men dressed like fruit-pies and ran bud light campaigns.. I miss the American days.
Fun and interesting to read your comments. I was born in 1951 in Wisconsin and there was no TV until 1959. We never ate processed food. We did not go to restaurants. My Dad hunted and fished. My Mom baked, cooked and canned. We had fruit trees and a garden. Gosh, I was lucky to eat the healthy and tasty food my parents served. My Grandma gave me a couple Lifesavers to shut me up at church every Sunday. Every year we went to the Wisconsin State Fair. We had corn on the cob, cream puffs, ice cream, corn dog, apples, and the best milk ever. Good old days. Thanks for sharing.
Gee, you have a pretty name. I don't think my Mom had a cookbook. The food was always delicious and I make many of their dishes. One of my favorites was coming home from school to warm butter horns. She baked bread every week. Dad was the stew man. Boiled dinner was my favorite. We were really healthy kids. I miss them. When I met my future husband he took me to a very fancy restaurant. I was shocked. Take care!@@ArmandaV-s4b
I Know what we ate 60 years ago, and it Tasted a lot better than it does now. And it also recharged the mind & body. When I was done eating, I was ready to play the guitar for another 6 hours, and anything else I wanted to do. Not now. I never feel recharged after eating our Frankenfood. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Women stopped cooking in the 80s because it was a man oppression feed children nothing but fast food or microwave the reason there is so much obisidity unhealthy people
Ooohhh YEAH...We ate all types of stuff then..I'm 62....However..we were always outside discovering and playing games....with our friends..not sitting on our assessments twittering our thumbs...with diabetes at 12 years old ..we walked, ran, jumped rope rode bikes,..we were active.....We did our chores early on the weekend...then the rest of the day was ours ..we weren't disrespectful.,tear down people's prpperty..raised hell....These young ones today act as if they're entitled to whatever . A 5 year old haves a fit if he or she doesn't get their way...Parents can't and won't discipline them..That's why we have what we have.....yet it's always someone else's fault... KEEP IT SIMPLE-IS LONG GONE..THANK YOU for allowing me to vent..LOL..😅😅
No nets on trampolines unlike today. 1970s my parents had 4 kids and we had homemade meals. We hardly ate out nor did we go to the grocery store. So we had no idea what was in the store. That was on purpose. We had treats once in awhile, but most families went out for custard ice cream or we made our own ice cream and had pudding and jello. Candy 🍬 once in a while, or a candy bar here and there from our corner store. My Dad bought us cracker jacks often. I recall my Dad saying, "candy bars are a quarter now? They were 5 cents when I was a boy." We did have Kool Aid with tap water. I recall have mint jelly & peanut butter sandwiches for months as my Mom made duck one time and I guess you serve mint jelly with it. I would trade my sandwich with my friend at school. Here my Mom thought I liked it as I didn't complain. 😅 They sold us on sugar cereals with hidden toys inside. 🤦♀️ We didn't watch much tv until cable in '85. We were always busy at school functions, church functions, with friends or sports.
The candy bars (about twice the size of what are now KING SIZED) were 5 cents each in the 1960's... the price tripled early in the 1970's, and since my parents did not believe anyone aged 13 or older should go trick or treating, (I was strongly discouraged at age 12), they decided to give 5 pennies to each child. The younger children LOVED them, the teens (who would show up 3-4 times a night if they liked your candy) quit showing up after the first year. In the later 1970's they started selling the minatures that were originally for christmas & easter candy all year round.
My grandfather always picked Grape nut cereal. When My mother would go Grocery shopping she would ask him what one he wanted and he would say in his thick German accent GRAPENUT . Lord I miss my grandfather
You mean Grape ROCKS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you could break teeth eating Grape Nuts. Also, notice all the canned food, processed food, etc. I didn't eat fresh vegetables until I was grown and buying my own food. Also, 50’s child here💪
Yeah- “I like the manufactured fake ideal of those years. Everyone in clean, pressed clothing with perfect hair. No signs of actual culture or society when portrayed by perfectly groomed actors.” Meanwhile, outside, people dressed in overalls, ragged clothes, and cultural signs of youth (slicked back hair, mini-skirts, men with long hair, leather jackets,) and all of that actually existing off screen…
I have never eaten any of these. I have never even heard of most of them. My mom made everything from scratch. When I moved away on my own is when my diet took a nose dive. 😝 And now I'm cooking from scratch, no processed foods, like my mom did. Amazing😊
Grape nuts is like a mouthful of grit. Lol. I remember a couple of these. Toastems were actually better than pop tarts. Mom and Dad both liked to cook so this stuff was used like a now and then treat. We only got ice cream in the summer. I was born in 1950, but never had most of this stuff. Or even heard of it. We didn't watch a lot of tv either. Sunday night was Disney Sat night was Gunsmoke. Cartoons early morning or just Sat morning. I was 6 before we had a tv. Kids were busy playing then. More interested in riding bike than tv.
keep sniffing wood glue fuddster. Back in the day you were clueless to what was in the food chain. DDT & countless chemicals and heavy metals in what you ate & water . Lead & asbestos so yummy !
Does anyone remember those straws you put in milk that had chocolate, and strawberry flavor. The straw had a felt pad of some kind inside that was flavored. I think they were called flavor straws. I would remove the felt pad after finishing my milk, and chew the rest of the flavor out of it. I should be dead by now. I'm 74.
Born is 1961, we never had this kind of food. Mom cooked all of our food from scratch, we never had cereal. We had biscuits, eggs, bacon or sausages and tomatoes in season. Ice tea for every meal. No convenience foods at all, she lived to 90 (covid in the hospital killed her), she was still driving and living alone. Dad died from a fall at 89...
It used to be that "sugar" was used prominently in the names of cereals. Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes. The sugar coatings are what sold the cereal. Now, they dare not mention sugar. The sugar is still there, you just don't mention it. How times have changed.
What kid didn't love the cheesey toy in your cereal box. You used to get a juice glass in oatmeal and a bath towel in laundry soap. Whatever happened to free stuff? lol
I have a set of glasses I got at the gas station for filling up my car. Each fill up you got one glass. The ones everyone wanted were the ones that had the local sports team logos on them. This was in the 1980's.
That was interesting. I'm almost 72 and I don't remember any of those commercials. Some of commercials were for products I never heard of before. But, it was fun to watch. We didn't eat a lot of cold cereal growing up, but I remember cereal with freeze dried strawberries in it.
1950 Oh boy! “Chocolate Pudding cups that stay good for two whole weeks… in the fridge.” 2024 Chocolate pudding cups can sit on a shelf for years, no refrigeration. We have no idea what’s actually in those cups. Something brown
I'm old enough to remember those born in the 1800's, and they would say, "you can sell a sh*t sandwich to the people if you have enough bread to cover the stench." And the advertisers still are.
That was when Americans were starting to get sold the fallacy about calories, and processed food began. People ate whole foods before this. Someone wants us to believe this is how they kept slim, but people were not eating this trash then. It was only the beginning sold as convenient.
I know it helped that we ate meals at the dinner table together and my mom made sure we ate our veggies. She made Cream of Wheat and oatmeal and hot cereal more than the cold sweet cereal. My dad cooked delicious toast, eggs or omelettes and potatoes or grits on Sundays, gave my mom a break. Thanks for the memories..
Who remembers having a sugar bowl on the kitchen table because the only cereal your mom bought was Cheerios & Corn Flakes? LOL!! 🥣 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
I don't see many food ads anymore. Almost everything is pills for the heart, the brain, poop pills or pills for memory loss. And of course the adult diappers.
I’m 62 and remember a lot of these. My mom, like other moms, was so grateful for any time savers she took advantage of all the new packaged foods. You have to understand that homemade was all we had before these products and that was all day, every day. Of course our folks welcomed the new products!
My mom bought me and my older brother 1- 8 pack bottle of pepsi, a package of 6 Hersey choc bars and a lgr bag of potato chips each friday when she went grocery store shopping. That was our treats for the week like after school. She would say on friday when she got home.... u can eat it all today or u can make it last till next friday but there wont be anymore till then...lol me and my brother became the best rationers and still are today...lol that was like around 1969 1970. My mom had $25 a week for groceries back then. That will get u a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread now days...lol My mom always put out a veggie garden in the backyard and a milkman that brought milk, eggs, cream, butter, all that stuff and they billed u monthly. Dont see that today...lol
I never ate any of these things .Home made food was our fare, and so good.even now I crave some of the meals we had. Example fresh green beans in a big pot with carrots ,potatoes and lots of onions. It was a FEAST.YUM,,
Growing up in that era, with parents who had lived through the Great Depression, we saw these ads but our Mom's Signature Dish was what she called "ShupUpAndEatIt" and if we got some of these popular treats they were - - a treat - - but thankfully they were rare.
Amusing, nostalgic and helps us recognize when the food industry started programming all of us consumers to eat their products. Here we are 60-70 years later and the majority of our population is overweight with multiple diseases that probably come from eating processed (and now genetically modified) "food".
Commercials and shows like Leave it to Beaver always showed the breakfast and dinner tables groaning with bowls and platters of food. They show kids at breakfast with cereal, toast, orange juice, milk, or plates of eggs and sausage, toast, a butter dish, jelly, and what not. That is not how most of us ate. Every morning was egg on toast or French toast. Maybe eggs and bacon. Or cereal. We didn't eat five or six different things. We drank water, milk or juice. Dinner was maybe chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans and milk. Mostly no dessert. Food was simple. Even mixtures like chipped beef on toast was simple, served with maybe peas. You didn't have to guess what chemicals were in the food. Bread molded if not refrigerated. Cookies did, too. Recipes were simple, with maybe four or five ingredients. When meals were over, we didn't expect to eat until the next meal, nor did we. If I came home from school hungry, I was given a carrot or a pickle to eat. Today that just sounds weird. Not all kids ate like that. The neighbor boy drank Kool-Aid all the time. There was bad food around, but we didn't snack all the time. Today if a kid comes home from school hungry a lot of times they eat pizza rolls, chips, cookies or some other junk food. We didn't have a lot of the foods that are around today, and what was around was saved for parties or gatherings. A lot of people didn't have a ton of money, either. They had one car, and one bread winner (Dad). Living styles were modest. I could go on, but it would be a composition.
We had a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Bacon, Sausage, maybe some Country Ham or a piece of Hog Jawl. Homemade biscuits, eggs, dads was fried mine were scrambled. Mom made Sausage gravy for them and chocolate gravy for me. It wasn't like chocolate, it was different. The rest of the week I ate a bowl of cereal and half a grapefruit with milk. We seldom drank a Coke. Usually Saturday night when mom made some Jiffy Pop popcorn we got a glass of coke while we watched Hee Haw. We ate a big supper, exactly at 6, and all together. We had 9 acres of garden and Mom canned a lot.
I like Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat, or, Sand and Gravel and Brillo Pads, as my Dad used to call them! Alphabits, Maypo, and all forms of Captain Crunch are pretty good. The Captain Crunch I eat for a snack or dessert, not breakfast.
I’m 66 and I miss those days. No Ragu only homemade, our ice cream especially Dairy Queen soft serve was so much better. If you didn’t live then it might sound primitive but I’ll never forget
I'm 54; born 1970. I grew up eating part farm fresh and processed foods. I miss the freshness of food; when tomatoes and warermelons had real flavor. Meats don't even smell like meat anymore.
This is my era I grew up in and when I was 14 in 1981 I got Crohns Disease. I wonder is all this crap food caused my illness. I think this food sure helped.
A lot of prepackaged crap they (food corporations) were pushing back then. All that propaganda about how that nutritious sugar is good for the kids is pure bs. In the 1980's, I would grab a bowl of sugar what ever and a slice of sugar spun white bread toast with a chunk of that margarine crap on it and run off to high school by 7 am. We were so hungry by lunch time that we cleaned our cafeteria tray. Mom cooked a nice, nutritious dinner for the whole family around 5 pm, but she was too tired from running a busy household and working part-time to get up early and cook a nutritious breakfast. I guess it is no wonder most of us are pre-diabetic or diabetic in our middle age now. My grandparents growing up with out that stuff seemed skinnier to me, even in old age.
I remember the 1st time mom bought Captain Crunch cereal at the supermarket in 1963. However, every dinner was home cooked. No fast food. Once in a blue moon mexican TV dinner.
The builder of Mar-a-Lago salutes your tribute to General Foods from beyond the grave. RIP Marjorie Merriweather Post, incredible businesswoman before her time, and my former neighbor in the 60s and early 70s.
We rarely got store bought bread. Mom made all our bread, store bought was gross and as my Dad called it, “bagged air”. To this day, the only store bought bread I can eat are the ones with whole grains and seeds, never white bread.
Funny reading the comments from all the Gen X'ers saying how bad all this stuff was and that you never used any of it. That's because your parents were fed it and knew how bad it was! Thank a Boomer for seeing to it you got better food. (And recognize "The Greatest Generation" might have made a mistake or two, but were loved by their kids anyway.)
Sixty years ago I think junk food was just starting to become a really big thing. Grocery stores were not much bigger than the size of a convenience store today. I was 17 then and I never ate most of that stuff. I never even heard of most of those products and some I heard of but my mother wouldn't allow it in the house. She was a working mom but still cooked dinner from scratch most nights. Because of her example I grew up and did the same thing and so do my daughters. We're a very healthy family.
I can do you one better I'm 86 and I remember Grape-Nuts it was awful like eating hard little rocks or kitty litter remember dinty Moore Stew in a can. I think Kellogg's supposed to preferred corn flakes. Yes be sure to get the half gallon I don't remember cool and creamy pudding where was I?
The food back then was WAY different from the way it is today - This food today is crap, all of it. Food back then was more natural and so delicious - The food we have now they have shot it up with so many chemicals we don't know what we are eating.
The blonde girl in alpha bits commercial is my grandmother. Velma Eaton.
So wonderful
🙀amazing
so cool!
Wow, she looks so young!
Cute
This is when the American diet changed from homemade to processed packaged foods that was sold to the public as "healthy."
I remember my Dad would give us corn flakes cereal with a lot of sugar! You could see it at the bottom the cereal bowl!
I couldn't help but think, ok so back then they said the "sugar sparkled" cereal was healthy. Now baby boomers like my mom have diabetes. Now my generation is here, and there's all these "sugar alternatives" that are supposedly better(cause cancer). Thanks government.
Add that to everyone became a couch potato and watched TV all the time and you have the reason many got fat!
Yup. Now I know why half of America has health problems.
It’s easy to scoff and be self righteous, but throughout the 60’s, to the 2000’s the life expectancy of the average American went UP and rates of heart disease went DOWN. The obesity epidemic didn’t start until the 2000’s, well beyond the widespread adoption of processed foods.
I am 66 yrs old now, and I can guarantee that our childhood had plenty of "junk food" snacks; however, we didn't sit all day texting our friends, we jumped on our bikes and rode 3 neighborhoods over to play. Children were more physically active, and the human body is designed to be active.
Too bad the older generations introduced all of these sedentary activities.
@@TheRealTrididosI think that’s an ignorant thing to say. I’m 74 and grew up with that shit. Now at least we can make an educated choice, the info is there it’s up to the individual to change!
I'm nearly your age. My Mom would shoo me outdoors in the morning, telling me to play until lunch. In the afternoon, same deal - stay out til dinner. We kids were very active regardless of the season. I think rain was about the only thing that kept us housebound. Of course there were simply more children then. Playmates were everywhere. (Shame! You know what I meant by playmates.)
I still have the LOUD bell my mother would ring to call us in. We were playing outside ALL the time. I feel sorry for the way things have changed. How did it happen?
There's more junk food now than ever before.
I’m 65, raised on a farm and ranch. We cooked from scratch, 3 meals a day! We were poor, hard working, but we ate out of garden, fished, hunted. We rarely ate our own beef, got more for selling him. Had a milk cow,kicked like hell, but we had milk and butter, skim milk and hard corn to piggies, that we ate. The only cereal I got was when I spend a week with my cousins.
You must have been very healthy growing up with so much good food to eat.
Almost everything we ate was fried in Crisco, which was hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Probably what kept us alive is we were ALWAYS in motion. Riding bicycles, playing basketball, hiking in the fields etc. All day. We didn't sit inside playing video games, texting people or surfing the web. I still hit the gym & I'm older than dirt.
😅 me n hubby too. No garbage food and yes exercising at the gym daily. Doctors will starve with ppl like us.
I did all of those things. I still workout, and I’m 68. Also, no kids in my neighborhood were overweight.
I turn 60 this year . Growing up my mom was a stay at home mom . We ate breakfast,lunch and dinner as a family . No tv and all at the table . Everything my mom made was from scratch. A treat for us was a weekly soda pop or a candy bar from the woolworths store . At night we watched all the tv shows as a family and went to bed promptly at 9. All this and it was absolutely the best childhood I could have ever imagined.
@@tekman196 I think maybe you just caught the end of homemade meals that your mom made. I was born in 46 and experienced the same as you did growing up. I blame our government for the destruction of the family. As time passed the taxes got so high that it took two incomes to make a living. This caused latchkey kids and meals of “convenience” and well, you know the rest. I’m so thankful that I grew up when I did…. I don’t know how the younger generations are going to fair.
Those were the days we thought would never end.
@@tekman196 we had tv :( 📺 at dinner . A little color tv and my dad watched the news and all it was the Vietnam war . So my
Kids had NO tv at
Meals cuz of my tv dinner trauma
I pitty my mom. My grandmother was apparently a terrible cook, & her first husband committed suicide.
Our Dad would not eat anything out fo a can, and our mother would only make fresh home cooking, and we always ate the Dinner table so we could talk about what happened during the day. I REALY MISS THOSE TIMES, WE WERE A FAMILY. THE 60'S AND 70'S WERE THE BEST OF TIMES.
I do, too, and agree they were the best!
my mother was tired as heck...my father was grouchy and my brother would throw a fit at the table....guess i was just lucky. My sister would hide behind the cereal boxes at breakfast. i....would...just...be quiet and watch it all...
Jeff, the best of times and the best of music....""""" I know it's only rock and roll.. but I like it"""
I raised my kids that way in the 90s, so what's your point?
@@Jendromeda Your family sounds like the opening lines of Syncronicity 2 by the Police:
Another suburban family morning
Grandmother screaming at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration
But we know all her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the distance
There's only so much more that he can take
I was born in 1954, I remember grape nuts, alphabits, and life savers candy. My Mom didn't buy anything in the video. We had bacon, eggs and toast in the mornings. Sandwiches for lunch, and home cooked meals consisting of a protein, a carb, and vegetables. She baked, so we had kuchen (German) for dessert. The commercials are entertaining! Oh, and we used real butter and cane sugar, no fake stuff.
I lucked out and my parents never fell for the margarine scam, so we never used plastic, either. And now it turns out that butter is FAR better for you than margarine.
I was similarly lucky...local fresh butter, eggs and milk plus all meats from local farms. We had garden vegetables (which tasted FAR better then) and were never allowed to eat processed foods. Mom and GMa cooked 3 meals/day. I will say, our diet was high in sugar w/GMa's daily baked pies and cakes! We lived so far from restaurants that fast food was never an option...talk about lucky! Avoided McDs by choice as an adult! I remember neighbors making boxed foods & being jealous, as I assumed anything "new" meant "better"...but it turns out my Mom truly did know the meaning of "better". I followed her example, sugar and all, and passed along cooking skills to my Millennial daughter. I sometimes wonder how much it may have boosted our health...my folks are alive in their 90s and look 60 y.o.! GMa lived to 94, as well...
I'll bet you are in good health to this day!
@@jamesprior2496 Well, I am not, but my diet isn't the cause.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 you guys are like vegans, you just can't help it. I guess it is a good thing the rest of us mostly put a stop to y'all using violence to spread your "good word".
Grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. We did eat sweetened cereals for breakfast sometimes, but we also took wholesome lunches to school in our lunchboxes, and sat down to eat dinner as a family every night. We spent a lot of time outside running around, skating, or riding bikes and made our own indoor entertainment by playing games, doing arts and crafts from things we found around the house, using our imaginations to put on puppet shows with puppets me made and plays we wrote ourselves, with costumes we made or scrounged from the “dress up box” and our closets. We were only allowed to watch tv for a limited time on days we were allowed to watch it at all, and we weren’t overweight because junk food was a special treat, we didn’t eat fast food, and we were physically active - unlike the mostly sedentary, video-game addicted kids of today!
You just described my childhood! I tell my grandchildren that I was free roaming child! I ate breakfast at the table, without a television blaring! On weekends and summertime, breakfast came first, chores second, and by noon, after eating a 'real lunch' it was playtime! I went outside and didnt have to come home until dusk, but I better be home for dinner before the street lights came on! They look at me like a tree full of owls! 😂 The idea of using their imaginations for fun is foreign to them! They live off of junk food and wear headsets that allows them to enter an imaginary 3D world in the house, that has fake sunshine and fake darkness. I have to wonder how any of them are going to cope in the future! It's sad really! Because my grandchildrens parents werent raised this way. They had the same childhood I did. But they are allowing this! 🙄
Well Said!
We didn't eat all that trash. I'm 67, just regular home cooked food. My mother never bought sweetened cereal. We ate supper at 5 pm and didn't eat again til breakfast, usually bacon, eggs, and toast.
Yes indeed but every big food company has A fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders to make the biggest profits possible and in turn that is done from selling the cheapest low cost mass-produced even if nutrition free food to the masses regardless of impact on their health. Then invest in a big pharmaceutical complex at the same time to treat the illnesses that will be more prevalent in a undernourished society-- full of sugar Laden cereals and soft drinks... It is very obvious today that the rates of diabetes are continuing to rise and it's no coincidence That these deficiencies and diseases are literally exploding the revenues and profits of big food and big pharma🤑🤑🤑
We had a huge bag of puffed wheat beside the fridge and that was the cereal we had every morning until winter, then it was cream of wheat. What a wonderful life ❤
How boring . We had good food but we also had fun foods like count chocula..and cakes n candy.
We had and ate all that crap and I’m 67 also. You were lucky it was everywhere where I grew up.
Just like a baby 😢 boomer to whine. Your generation ruined the world so who cares how ate.
High living for us kids back in the day was going camping and the folks bought a variety snack pack of cereal, the little foil lined boxes of cereal that you opened down the middle and put your milk in 😋 camping and picnics were the only time we ever got junk food, we thought we were deprived 😅
We used to go camping, fishing and just driving around in the country a lot. (And we were a pretty dysfunctional family, too... )
In the dayz of pudding pops and when we were not aware that Bill Cosby was a violent, degenerate, RAP-ST. Before men dressed like fruit-pies and ran bud light campaigns.. I miss the American days.
Fun and interesting to read your comments. I was born in 1951 in Wisconsin and there was no TV until 1959. We never ate processed food. We did not go to restaurants. My Dad hunted and fished. My Mom baked, cooked and canned. We had fruit trees and a garden. Gosh, I was lucky to eat the healthy and tasty food my parents served. My Grandma gave me a couple Lifesavers to shut me up at church every Sunday. Every year we went to the Wisconsin State Fair. We had corn on the cob, cream puffs, ice cream, corn dog, apples, and the best milk ever. Good old days. Thanks for sharing.
than k you! This video is so misleading. Until I was ten in 1949 this is what we ate too we moved away from my home town.
Gee, you have a pretty name. I don't think my Mom had a cookbook. The food was always delicious and I make many of their dishes. One of my favorites was coming home from school to warm butter horns. She baked bread every week. Dad was the stew man. Boiled dinner was my favorite. We were really healthy kids. I miss them. When I met my future husband he took me to a very fancy restaurant. I was shocked.
Take care!@@ArmandaV-s4b
I'm getting hungry.
1951? Wow, and I thought being born in 69 was getting up there. God Bless Ya.
I Know what we ate 60 years ago, and it Tasted a lot better than it does now. And it also recharged the mind & body. When I was done eating, I was ready to play the guitar for another 6 hours, and anything else I wanted to do. Not now. I never feel recharged after eating our Frankenfood.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
@williamhiles7404 - You may well be right but you were 60 years younger, too. That might have a little something to do with it.
Women stopped cooking in the 80s because it was a man oppression feed children nothing but fast food or microwave the reason there is so much obisidity unhealthy people
Ooohhh YEAH...We ate all types of stuff then..I'm 62....However..we were always outside discovering and playing games....with our friends..not sitting on our assessments twittering our thumbs...with diabetes at 12 years old ..we walked, ran, jumped rope rode bikes,..we were active.....We did our chores early on the weekend...then the rest of the day was ours ..we weren't disrespectful.,tear down people's prpperty..raised hell....These young ones today act as if they're entitled to whatever . A 5 year old haves a fit if he or she doesn't get their way...Parents can't and won't discipline them..That's why we have what we have.....yet it's always someone else's fault... KEEP IT SIMPLE-IS LONG GONE..THANK YOU for allowing me to vent..LOL..😅😅
There are quite a few foods shown here that I not only didn't eat, but I don't even remember them.
But, I agree with the rest of your post.
I'm 70.
Love grape nuts and alphabits. 65 yo
I hear you. Things sure have changed. Not for the better imo😊
No nets on trampolines unlike today.
1970s my parents had 4 kids and we had homemade meals. We hardly ate out nor did we go to the grocery store. So we had no idea what was in the store. That was on purpose.
We had treats once in awhile, but most families went out for custard ice cream or we made our own ice cream and had pudding and jello. Candy 🍬 once in a while, or a candy bar here and there from our corner store. My Dad bought us cracker jacks often. I recall my Dad saying, "candy bars are a quarter now? They were 5 cents when I was a boy." We did have Kool Aid with tap water.
I recall have mint jelly & peanut butter sandwiches for months as my Mom made duck one time and I guess you serve mint jelly with it. I would trade my sandwich with my friend at school. Here my Mom thought I liked it as I didn't complain. 😅
They sold us on sugar cereals with hidden toys inside. 🤦♀️
We didn't watch much tv until cable in '85. We were always busy at school functions, church functions, with friends or sports.
The candy bars (about twice the size of what are now KING SIZED) were 5 cents each in the 1960's... the price tripled early in the 1970's, and since my parents did not believe anyone aged 13 or older should go trick or treating, (I was strongly discouraged at age 12), they decided to give 5 pennies to each child. The younger children LOVED them, the teens (who would show up 3-4 times a night if they liked your candy) quit showing up after the first year. In the later 1970's they started selling the minatures that were originally for christmas & easter candy all year round.
Ooh mint jelly
@@1BeautifullyBlessed With peanut butter?...akkk...
Mint jelly is traditionally served with lamb. Never heard of having it with duck.
I don’t remember DOUGHNUT SQUARE’S and I’m 66 I’ve never heard of Diet Beef Stew either there’s a few of these I don’t remember ‼️
That fridge is probably still ticking.
My grandfather always picked Grape nut cereal. When My mother would go Grocery shopping she would ask him what one he wanted and he would say in his thick German accent GRAPENUT . Lord I miss my grandfather
“Sugar-sparkled for quick energy” 😂
Wow, just wow!
You mean Grape ROCKS 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, you could break teeth eating Grape Nuts.
Also, notice all the canned food, processed food, etc. I didn't eat fresh vegetables until I was grown and buying my own food. Also, 50’s child here💪
People looked so much nicer back then. Not the circus we have now
No green hair, metal face and nose studs or tattoos.
All the piercings and tatoos and Kool-Aid colored hair
Ahh, my chuckle for the day-Thank you.
Their complexion was lighter, that is for sure.
Yeah- “I like the manufactured fake ideal of those years. Everyone in clean, pressed clothing with perfect hair. No signs of actual culture or society when portrayed by perfectly groomed actors.” Meanwhile, outside, people dressed in overalls, ragged clothes, and cultural signs of youth (slicked back hair, mini-skirts, men with long hair, leather jackets,) and all of that actually existing off screen…
I have never eaten any of these. I have never even heard of most of them. My mom made everything from scratch. When I moved away on my own is when my diet took a nose dive. 😝 And now I'm cooking from scratch, no processed foods, like my mom did. Amazing😊
TOASTER DOUGHNUTS?! Yes please!!!
My mom made everything homemade when we were kids… EVERYTHING.., we were very lucky to have fruit loops on occasion
Grape nuts is like a mouthful of grit. Lol. I remember a couple of these. Toastems were actually better than pop tarts. Mom and Dad both liked to cook so this stuff was used like a now and then treat. We only got ice cream in the summer. I was born in 1950, but never had most of this stuff. Or even heard of it. We didn't watch a lot of tv either. Sunday night was Disney Sat night was Gunsmoke. Cartoons early morning or just Sat morning. I was 6 before we had a tv. Kids were busy playing then. More interested in riding bike than tv.
I actually used to like it
Back in the days when you didn’t have to spend the first 25 seconds guessing wtf was being advertised.
🤣🤣🤣
Truth!
keep sniffing wood glue fuddster. Back in the day you were clueless to what was in the food chain. DDT & countless chemicals and heavy metals in what you ate & water . Lead & asbestos so yummy !
@fluffy1931 today you have to watch for crickets in your food
My grandma would put cinnamon in a bowl of pure sugar and sprinkle it on bread and butter. Yummy.
Does anyone remember those straws you put in milk that had chocolate, and strawberry flavor. The straw had a felt pad of some kind inside that was flavored. I think they were called flavor straws. I would remove the felt pad after finishing my milk, and chew the rest of the flavor out of it.
I should be dead by now. I'm 74.
They were good
Yeah I remember those. They tasted weird, but my siblings and I loved them.
😅my husband is your age so I just asked him and yes he remembers.
I’ve never heard most of these. My Mom cooked and we had no tv.
Born is 1961, we never had this kind of food. Mom cooked all of our food from scratch, we never had cereal. We had biscuits, eggs, bacon or sausages and tomatoes in season. Ice tea for every meal. No convenience foods at all, she lived to 90 (covid in the hospital killed her), she was still driving and living alone. Dad died from a fall at 89...
It used to be that "sugar" was used prominently in the names of cereals. Sugar Pops, Sugar Smacks, Sugar Frosted Flakes. The sugar coatings are what sold the cereal. Now, they dare not mention sugar. The sugar is still there, you just don't mention it. How times have changed.
And they’ve replaced the sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup which is even worse for our health.
In our house, we eat sugar, lard, butter, etc.. Don't buy the propaganda, its good for ya!
The dawn of the age of Big Corporate realizing that TV could brainwash people.
Now we have the Internet So the dream goes on
@@lisamac8503 Times a million.
😎 why do you think they call it programs
Or was tell a vision programs invented for that purpose?
What kid didn't love the cheesey toy in your cereal box. You used to get a juice glass in oatmeal and a bath towel in laundry soap. Whatever happened to free stuff? lol
😂😂😂 couldn't wait to open that new box of cereal🎉
I have a set of glasses I got at the gas station for filling up my car. Each fill up you got one glass. The ones everyone wanted were the ones that had the local sports team logos on them. This was in the 1980's.
That was interesting. I'm almost 72 and I don't remember any of those commercials. Some of commercials were for products I never heard of before. But, it was fun to watch. We didn't eat a lot of cold cereal growing up, but I remember cereal with freeze dried strawberries in it.
Same here. Post Toasties and a few of the products, yes, but not those commercials.
Me either and I am 73.
1950 Oh boy! “Chocolate Pudding cups that stay good for two whole weeks… in the fridge.”
2024 Chocolate pudding cups can sit on a shelf for years, no refrigeration. We have no idea what’s actually in those cups. Something brown
LOL
Those black & white minimalistic simple commercials without background music are just really good, peaceful, satisfying, relaxing, worth watching.
Only the " Priveledged " kids in our neighborhood got those instant foods, we ate eggs or oatmeal and all home made meals
Yes, and many have heart problems these days.
Fancy fruit lifesavers rocked my world way back then. Wish they still made them
Me too. I loved those things.
I'm old enough to remember those born in the 1800's, and they would say, "you can sell a sh*t sandwich to the people if you have enough bread to cover the stench." And the advertisers still are.
Ahhhh! I remember the Good ol guys from back then. They were old timers in the 1970s. Now days we’re proud boys, 🇺🇸
Trump 2024 🤠
Lmao!!!
Kelly, you must be a fossil by now
When I saw the Borden ice cream commercial with Peter Graves and the boy I kept waiting to hear him ask “Joey, do you like gladiator movies”…😳
🤣🤣🤣
@@hankberumen3804 Surely, you can't be serious.
That was when Americans were starting to get sold the fallacy about calories, and processed food began. People ate whole foods before this. Someone wants us to believe this is how they kept slim, but people were not eating this trash then. It was only the beginning sold as convenient.
And many women were running away from their husbands all day so they wouldn't get beat.
I was alive then and never heard of toaster donuts.
me either, haven't heard of that pudding, or the Post hearts either
Me neither 🤷♀️
I know it helped that we ate meals at the dinner table together and my mom made sure we ate our veggies. She made Cream of Wheat and oatmeal and hot cereal more than the cold sweet cereal. My dad cooked delicious toast, eggs or omelettes and potatoes or grits on Sundays, gave my mom a break. Thanks for the memories..
Who remembers having a sugar bowl on the kitchen table because the only cereal your mom bought was Cheerios & Corn Flakes? LOL!! 🥣 Sacramento, California USA 🇺🇸
It was regular sugar too, not HFCS or gmo beet sugar like today's sugar.
It’s funny. My kid likes plain cheerios or rice squares.
I do.
I was born in 1956 but l don't remember half of the products in those commercials. Doughnut Squares?
I was born in 63 and have only heard of grapenuts!!
@user-lz5xf4hc5k I watched a lot of TV. My parents never cared what l watched or how much.
Grape-Nuts are good for dieting because it takes you the whole mealtime just to chew a spoonful.
😂😂😂😂!
I don't see many food ads anymore. Almost everything is pills for the heart, the brain, poop pills or pills for memory loss. And of course the adult diappers.
Civilized countries all outlaw drug advertising. The USA is owned by billionaires, so no morals in our country.
@@randomgrinnI have news for you, the world is owned by billionaires.
More lies in these commercials than Congress.
I’m 62 and remember a lot of these.
My mom, like other moms, was so grateful for any time savers she took advantage of all the new packaged foods. You have to understand that homemade was all we had before these products and that was all day, every day. Of course our folks welcomed the new products!
We’re ate three squares, minimal snacks, desserts on special occasions,and whole fruits 🍎. I was not fat
We weren’t allowed to eat that way at home. Mom was a real stickler about fresh foods. Also She thought it was too expensive . I’m so glad.
My mom bought me and my older brother 1- 8 pack bottle of pepsi, a package of 6 Hersey choc bars and a lgr bag of potato chips each friday when she went grocery store shopping. That was our treats for the week like after school. She would say on friday when she got home.... u can eat it all today or u can make it last till next friday but there wont be anymore till then...lol me and my brother became the best rationers and still are today...lol that was like around 1969 1970. My mom had $25 a week for groceries back then. That will get u a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread now days...lol My mom always put out a veggie garden in the backyard and a milkman that brought milk, eggs, cream, butter, all that stuff and they billed u monthly. Dont see that today...lol
@@sewforlife586 your mom was a wise women, practical too. You don’t see that either anymore these days.
I hardly remember any of these foods and I was born in 1953. I think it is because my mother made everything from scratch.
I remember Grape Nuts. They were awful. Like trying to eat little rocks. Yuck.
Apparently youre supposed to soak them overnight. Sounds like too much work for cereak to me haha
I never ate any of these things .Home made food was our fare, and so good.even now I crave some of the meals we had. Example fresh green beans in a big pot with carrots ,potatoes and lots of onions. It was a FEAST.YUM,,
You probably salivate when somebody mows the lawn 😂😂😂
Growing up in that era, with parents who had lived through the Great Depression, we saw these ads but our Mom's Signature Dish was what she called "ShupUpAndEatIt" and if we got some of these popular treats they were - - a treat - - but thankfully they were rare.
We ate oatmeal for breakfast and not the instant kind.
Or we can just enjoy the charm of commercials from the 60's.
I don’t remember those donut squares.
Nope. Me neither
Amusing, nostalgic and helps us recognize when the food industry started programming all of us consumers to eat their products. Here we are 60-70 years later and the majority of our population is overweight with multiple diseases that probably come from eating processed (and now genetically modified) "food".
not to mention all the clot shots the masses have been told that its good for us by injecting mercury and aluminum into our bodies..
Commercials and shows like Leave it to Beaver always showed the breakfast and dinner tables groaning with bowls and platters of food. They show kids at breakfast with cereal, toast, orange juice, milk, or plates of eggs and sausage, toast, a butter dish, jelly, and what not. That is not how most of us ate. Every morning was egg on toast or French toast. Maybe eggs and bacon. Or cereal. We didn't eat five or six different things. We drank water, milk or juice. Dinner was maybe chicken, mashed potatoes and green beans and milk. Mostly no dessert. Food was simple. Even mixtures like chipped beef on toast was simple, served with maybe peas.
You didn't have to guess what chemicals were in the food. Bread molded if not refrigerated. Cookies did, too. Recipes were simple, with maybe four or five ingredients. When meals were over, we didn't expect to eat until the next meal, nor did we. If I came home from school hungry, I was given a carrot or a pickle to eat. Today that just sounds weird. Not all kids ate like that. The neighbor boy drank Kool-Aid all the time. There was bad food around, but we didn't snack all the time.
Today if a kid comes home from school hungry a lot of times they eat pizza rolls, chips, cookies or some other junk food. We didn't have a lot of the foods that are around today, and what was around was saved for parties or gatherings.
A lot of people didn't have a ton of money, either. They had one car, and one bread winner (Dad). Living styles were modest. I could go on, but it would be a composition.
My Grandmother would toast half the loaf of bread, so, it wouldn't mold. That's actually why a bread toaster was invented, it removes the moisture.
@@comfeefort I didn't know that. How interesting.
We had a big breakfast on Sunday morning. Bacon, Sausage, maybe some Country Ham or a piece of Hog Jawl. Homemade biscuits, eggs, dads was fried mine were scrambled. Mom made Sausage gravy for them and chocolate gravy for me. It wasn't like chocolate, it was different. The rest of the week I ate a bowl of cereal and half a grapefruit with milk. We seldom drank a Coke. Usually Saturday night when mom made some Jiffy Pop popcorn we got a glass of coke while we watched Hee Haw. We ate a big supper, exactly at 6, and all together. We had 9 acres of garden and Mom canned a lot.
I like Grape Nuts and Shredded Wheat, or, Sand and Gravel and Brillo Pads, as my Dad used to call them! Alphabits, Maypo, and all forms of Captain Crunch are pretty good. The Captain Crunch I eat for a snack or dessert, not breakfast.
I’m 66 and I miss those days. No Ragu only homemade, our ice cream especially Dairy Queen soft serve was so much better. If you didn’t live then it might sound primitive but I’ll never forget
I'm 54; born 1970. I grew up eating part farm fresh and processed foods. I miss the freshness of food; when tomatoes and warermelons had real flavor. Meats don't even smell like meat anymore.
The beginning of all modern chronic illnesses.
This is my era I grew up in and when I was 14 in 1981 I got Crohns Disease. I wonder is all this crap food caused my illness. I think this food sure helped.
All that food is absolute processed rubbish and huge amounts of sugar, no wonder the health of the nation went downhill so fast.
At age 75 I remember the food companies wanted to get kids addicted to sugar to sell their junk products.
A lot of prepackaged crap they (food corporations) were pushing back then. All that propaganda about how that nutritious sugar is good for the kids is pure bs. In the 1980's, I would grab a bowl of sugar what ever and a slice of sugar spun white bread toast with a chunk of that margarine crap on it and run off to high school by 7 am. We were so hungry by lunch time that we cleaned our cafeteria tray. Mom cooked a nice, nutritious dinner for the whole family around 5 pm, but she was too tired from running a busy household and working part-time to get up early and cook a nutritious breakfast. I guess it is no wonder most of us are pre-diabetic or diabetic in our middle age now. My grandparents growing up with out that stuff seemed skinnier to me, even in old age.
Hang on. I was there. How did I miss Donut Squares (which so help me I never heard of until now)?
Maybe the precursor to Pop Tarts?
Yeah, I never heard of donut squares,either
Say no to margarine! Butter is best!
It wasn’t the Grape Nuts. It was the trampoline.
right around the time, FDA decided eggs were bad for us. lmao
Hardly, that was the 8os.
Just read the title "what we ate 60 years ago" and realized i know some of these commercials. Fuck I'm old.
I’m 63 , enjoying these
Did anybody other than me notice that the alpha-bit cereal spelled the word BAD? I remember all these cereals
❤Yes!😂 subliminal?
I was born 1960 and was raised on TANG, POP TARTS and SLIM JIMS. I'm surprised my head hasn't fallen off.
Don't forget Bologna sandwiches and TV dinners
My arteries remember !!@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zb
It might in the future though.
@@BeverleyMcCaffrey-rb4zbTV dinners while listening to the radio.
@@glennso47 I was born in 64, lol. Both my parents were great cooks so I only got junk food at other peoples houses.
I don't know about the other dinners, but the Bird's Eye roasted Turkey and gravy frozen pouch was amazing !! I loved them. ❤
I remember the 1st time mom bought Captain Crunch cereal at the supermarket in 1963. However, every dinner was home cooked. No fast food. Once in a blue moon mexican TV dinner.
I sent in my Captain Crunch box tops and got a plastic treasure chest bank with the Captain's logo on it. It was very cheaply made but pretty cool.
On the first commercial I'm pretty sure it's the trampoline keeping the mom of 5 fit 😂🎉
The builder of Mar-a-Lago salutes your tribute to General Foods from beyond the grave. RIP Marjorie Merriweather Post, incredible businesswoman before her time, and my former neighbor in the 60s and early 70s.
The only thing missing is a free pack of cigarettes in every box of Post Sugar Cereal
My mom and Grandmother never allowed this stuff in our house no matter how much I begged😂
They believed strictly in home cooked food. I remember my mom and grandmothers doing all peeling dicing and slicing by hand also.
Wise women
@@jenisemcintyre3839 absolutely right. I peeled alot of carrots Lol
Moms didn’t serve this stuff. We had beef a vegetable and a slice cornbread. Everything homemade.
Same here
My mom wasn’t a very good cook.
We rarely got store bought bread. Mom made all our bread, store bought was gross and as my Dad called it, “bagged air”. To this day, the only store bought bread I can eat are the ones with whole grains and seeds, never white bread.
I wish my mom was still alive so i could tell her thank you for never feedimg me any of this junk
IKR? I hated Pop Tarts.
We got a few but just occasionally. I still hate Pop Tarts. Give me Buckwheat pancakes any day.
Corn flakes are awesome....
1:42 The announcer says it's good for you, as the girl pours the milk on the letters BAD.😂
Lol I'm so happy someone else saw that too
My mom was 68. She died February 1st so I'm thinking how young she was when these commercials aired.
So sorry for your loss, Charles.😢
Sorry to hear about your loss. 😢 Most of them seemed to be from the earlier 50's so she may not have even been born yet.
Did you notice at 1:43 when the little girl is pouring milk into her Alphabits cereal. The only visible word you can see in the entire bowl is "BAD"
Peter Graves shilling for Borden's Ice cream back when you got in a 1/2 Gallon! 😀
Peter Graves also skilled for The American Chiropractic Association. Just goes to show he had absolutly no ethics!
My parents and grandparents ate beef, pork, chicken, eggs, butter and milk.
never heard of the donut squares. thats crazy man!
We only ate out of our gardens. Tv was a no go waste of time and polluted the brain 😂
Have you gotten your medal yet?
Funny reading the comments from all the Gen X'ers saying how bad all this stuff was and that you never used any of it. That's because your parents were fed it and knew how bad it was! Thank a Boomer for seeing to it you got better food. (And recognize "The Greatest Generation" might have made a mistake or two, but were loved by their kids anyway.)
So true most of that food was awful and rejected by most boomers.
Now it's all GMO, clones, and pesticides.
There is something so sinister about these ads.
Yes this food was full of sugar, but now it’s full of chemicals. AND sugar 👿
All the junk food I was given in the early 60s and I survived. Today, I don't eat any junk food or processed foods. I was born in 1961.
CORN SYRUP 👻💩🙈
Remember 'Mr. Freeze' popsicles that came in a blue box of ten popsicles with different flavours?
I loved my Alphabet cereal and Grapenuts. Grapenuts kept you full for hours. Is it still around?
Grape nuts is still around.
Yep! And it's pretty good when heated in the microwave!
The dawn of ultra processed food….
I’m 71, don’t ask me why but I remember that first commercial by Post Nuts. Guess it was those slim ladies.
Sixty years ago I think junk food was just starting to become a really big thing. Grocery stores were not much bigger than the size of a convenience store today. I was 17 then and I never ate most of that stuff. I never even heard of most of those products and some I heard of but my mother wouldn't allow it in the house. She was a working mom but still cooked dinner from scratch most nights. Because of her example I grew up and did the same thing and so do my daughters. We're a very healthy family.
That’s an awesome mom ❤
I'm 66 so I can remember that time. The food was not all that different than today. Commercials/marketing is obviously different.
I can do you one better I'm 86 and I remember Grape-Nuts it was awful like eating hard little rocks or kitty litter remember dinty Moore Stew in a can. I think Kellogg's supposed to preferred corn flakes. Yes be sure to get the half gallon I don't remember cool and creamy pudding where was I?
The food back then was WAY different from the way it is today - This food today is crap, all of it. Food back then was more natural and so delicious - The food we have now they have shot it up with so many chemicals we don't know what we are eating.
When i see these vintage commercials I always imagine Don Draper and Peggy Olson pitching this to the company.
How about 1950's/60's TV dinners? No microwaves back then, you cooked them in the oven
I've never seen doughnut squares.
me either and just about none of those commercials.