What we ate 60 years ago / Rare commercials from the 50s and 60s
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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🤑🤑🤑
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?
Yep, I was using Google Maps to look at my childhood summer vacation bike routes in the 60s. Easily 20 miles a day, lots of hills 😃
We also walked to school. Not five miles through driving snow and uphill both ways 🤣 but just under half mile each way on suburban sidewalks with a couple of shortcuts. Every day. It adds up.
To be fair, most parents would rightly be worried about a seven year old making that trek today, but those were such innocent times.
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.
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".
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’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.
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?
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.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 You're doing too much, bro.
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
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😊
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…
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!@@user-df6mf9mb2l
I'm getting hungry.
1951? Wow, and I thought being born in 69 was getting up there. God Bless 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?
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
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.
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
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 ‼️
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
@@CreatedByGod777 With peanut butter?...akkk...
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!
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.
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
We’re ate three squares, minimal snacks, desserts on special occasions,and whole fruits 🍎. I was not fat
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
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 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.
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
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”…😳
🤣🤣🤣
“Sugar-sparkled for quick energy” 😂
Wow, just wow!
64 YEARS OLD NOW...60'S 70'S GREAT TIMES
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.
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.
Grapenuts. They're not grapes and they're not nuts. Tasted like gravel to us,
and we four brothers refused to eat it.
How do you know what gravel tastes like? Did you chew any?
My mother LOVED Grape Nuts, so I ate them, too. I wonder, were they cooked grape SEEDS left over from winemaking? After adding milk, they were too hard at first, OK for a minute or two, then too soggy after soaking up all the milk. Needed LOTS of sugar to be palatable, IMO.
@@StarShine-Ranch I wondered that too and you are right. Gotta have tons of sugar!
same consistency
That fridge is probably still ticking.
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’ve never heard most of these. My Mom cooked and we had no tv.
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
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💪
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..
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😊
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
Grape-Nuts are good for dieting because it takes you the whole mealtime just to chew a spoonful.
😂😂😂😂!
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.
I was born in 1960... and do not remember most of these commercials... So they were late 1950's very early 1960's.
I don't remember them either.
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.
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.
One thing I noticed was how many families were together in the commercials traditional parents etc sad we don't have more of that these days..😌
Traditional meaning white and heterosexual?
@@Bethsabee_Sheba_Newrose These people are not subtle.
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.
Bacon, eggs, cornmeal mush(polenta), with butter and homemade syrup. Taters fried in lard. Fried chicken in lard. Fried okra in lard. Sometimes fried fish or taters in Crisco. Lard. So, moral of this story is that my wife and I still use lard, real butter, real sugar, and we're early 70's feeling great 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸👍
My grandpa was a sharecropper during the Great Depression and WWII. He couldn't afford to buy much but clothes for the family so they only ate what they could grow or raise, which was actually the "old fashioned farm breakfast" that most would kill for nowadays. For sweetener, grandma would juice and boil down sugarcane sap for molasses but Dad didn't really like it so he didn't eat it. Mom couldn't be bothered to cook anything so she just fed us kids cereal for breakfast. Dad didn't like cereal so he just ate a piece of fruit, toast, and coffee. He didn't have a single cavity until he was in his 80s.
Fancy fruit lifesavers rocked my world way back then. Wish they still made them
Me too. I loved those things.
These commercials are at the beginning of the American food apocalypse, this is where it started. The modern revolution, more like a glycemic nightmare that has gotten worse and worse.
I work in pest control so I'm constantly in peoples' kitchens. It's disturbing how literally everything is processed carbs. I used to be fat until I went keto/paleo. Or just real food.... what a concept!
Exactly. Just look at ppls grocery cart or the belt of the person in front of you at check out. Hardly any real food in most cases just junk convenience foods. All about I'm so busy...
@@zoshamckinney3271 You want a medal?
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 😂😂😂
Kelloggs Grape Nuts, a spoonful of crunchy gravel in every bite! Yummo!🤢
@b3j8 - God I hated those. Only tried them once and you're so right.
A bowl of pebbles. Never understood the appeal
Loved them with rasins. Born in 1943
" What? I can't hear you, this cereal is too loud"
@@jwells3315 😄😄😄
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 anybody other than me notice that the alpha-bit cereal spelled the word BAD? I remember all these cereals
❤Yes!😂 subliminal?
There is something so sinister about these ads.
I grew up in 50's 60's and my mother had a garden & cooked our food ,we didn't have all that box cereal & fast food junk . don't know many that did that's why everyone was slim & they didn't sit on games & computers all day
Same with me
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.
More lies in these commercials than Congress.
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?
Crappy food existed in my youth and few were overweight or rarely obese. Difference was we moved our bodies, not our fingers only😂
Also, people didn't live on this stuff. It was occasionally, not the norm.
Inactive lifestyle is the reason. A body in motion...😊
FACTS, FACTS, FACTS.
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’m amazed I’m still alive75 years later
😂
The body is so resilent.
I’m so glad we didn’t have cell phones and internet when I wss growing up. We had no much fun with neighborhood kids and kids from school. Outside all day, ate better things, also slept like a baby. Everything has changed. 😢
Amen. Me too we weren't ever in the house unless it was raining or snowing. Even snowing we played in the snow
I was just reminiscing with a friend…remembering that we got our drinks of water from an outside spigot so we wouldn’t have to go inside. Great times
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
I want to see the ingredients in the products back then. Probably not as bad as the products these days
These post cereals are what set of America on its first generation of diabetics.
I really think it was corn syrup, but you have a point.
They're sugar-sparkled for quick and lasting energy.
And let's not forget. the champion of them all Pop Tarts.
How about the people who chose to eat that junk? Victims?😂
@@pacmanc8103 ignorant. The lack of nutrition education in the 1940s was dreadful.
I'd live to compare rhe ingredients from then and now
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"
Women started working outside of the house. Vegetables in garden faded out
So did etiquette, manners, norms, traditions, morals, and customs
@@ChatGPT1111 White male?
My dad grew our garden & both people worked, so you are wrong.
Physical work or walk around desk
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.
TOASTER DOUGHNUTS?! Yes please!!!
My mom made everything homemade when we were kids… EVERYTHING.., we were very lucky to have fruit loops on occasion
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
We ate oatmeal for breakfast and not the instant kind.
It's easy to watch old TV and think you are seeing how people lived decades ago, but you are not. You are just taking the easy way out. In the fifties my mother cooked us healthy meals with vegetables, salad, and meat. Sunday featured a roast - beef, ham or pork. Her pork chops and fried chicken were delicious.
When I was about 8 years old (mid 60's) we moved to Arkansas about 2 blocks from my grandparents. They lived on and maintained a cotton farm. They grew or raised almost everything we ate. Mamaw canned everything you can think of, she even made her own ketchup. Once a month Papaw went to town and bought flour, cornmeal and lard. On the weekend we'd sit on the porch and shell peas or shuck corn and churn buttermilk and sweet cream butter. Everything was fresh, pesticide free and nothing was processed. Best years of my childhood. Then we moved back to Texas and ate a lot of beans and cornbread lol
Mothers were not buying that crap for their husbands and kids. Maybe one or two of those items, very occasionally
Anyone remember jello's 123 parfait? It miraculously would settled into 3 different different layers. One was a clear jello at the bottom, a creamy layer in the middle, and then a frothy foamy top. You would just add water, if i remember correctly, mix it all up, and then let it set in the refrigerator into this beautiful 3 layered parfait dessert. They were delicious. 😊
On occasion we ate that, and also Junket. Both were pretty good.
I loved those!
Oh yes- I wish they still made that, the lime flavor was wonderful, and it looked beautiful!
Oh, 1, 2. 3!!! We loved that. Fun!
My childhood diet was beans, corn bread, rice, sometimes Kool aide to drink lunch was dry bologna sandwich, water, breakfast was oatmeal, or corn flakes and that was it everyday, everyday,and everyday until I was old enough to work and buy what I wanted to eat ❤
I wish I had a nickel for every pinto bean I ate growing up. It was a treat to get some smothered potatoes with our beans and cornbread. I'm grateful I had what I had though.
We had cooked meals every night. We weren’t allowed to drink coke, help ourselves to the pantry and snacks were fruit, bananas etc. The cereal we got was never fun ones, non Frosted Flakes, plain cheerios, oat meal, toast and orange juice, milk every morning. I had to walk a mile to and from school, had PE every day and lunches were balanced but was so cafeteria…..they didn’t sell coke, candy etc at school. I had to set the table at night, us kids cleared and rinsed dishes. We had a dishwasher. Every Saturday night we got popcorn and ONE glass coke. Sunday dinner was always special, after church and some special dessert…..peach or blackberry cobbler. My Mom wouldn’t buy those post toastie things, hell, she even made her own donuts, crepes, and waffles.
Right!!? The only cereal Mother ever bought was plain Cheerios or plain puffed wheat. If we were hungry between meals, she'd say, "Eat a carrot." 😅
Similar to my family!
When America was so beautiful and decent and normal
And segregated, and unequal, and oblivious.
@@emaarredondo-librarianOh I'm sorry. I don't speak Cuntanese.
@@emaarredondo-librarianWell that’s history that we cannot change but only learn from it and should be approached as such, a learning experience not hate for everything past!
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!
Those black & white minimalistic simple commercials without background music are just really good, peaceful, satisfying, relaxing, worth watching.
Start of junk food. I was a child then. They made sure we got addicted to poison sugar. It hasn't gotten better. It's gotten a lot worse.
Sugar addiction goes back centuries. Brazil was colonized to establish massive sugar plantations.
Judging by their figures, whatever they ate 60 years ago was better than what you're eating today.
Most meals were home cooked, most of the time. Most people, particularly children, were far more active. The food was more wholesome, cleaner, less processed, less additives, etc. Yes, there was less obesity then.
Wow Peter Graves!
So sad that everyone in these commercials have passed away it’s heartbreaking, knowing I watch these as a young kid, knowing that I am a old man. Wow.
While I’m sure some of the kids are still alive, I definitely understand your perspective. It’s very sobering.
Mum was a cooker and baker.But i do remember shredded wheat. Not the little one. The big ones that mum had i brake into little shreds m
"hey Joey ever been to a Turkish bath?" 😂😂 RIP Peter Graves ✈️✝️
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.
Or we can just enjoy the charm of commercials from the 60's.
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 ❤
In the Bordens commercial, I was half expecting Peter Graves to ask if Joey liked gladiator movies.
Elsie the Cow!
All that food is absolute processed rubbish and huge amounts of sugar, no wonder the health of the nation went downhill so fast.
73% of food in most grocery stores these days is “ultra-processed “
Wow, the Post Heart of Oats commercial did all seeing eye symbolism twice, with the triangle shaped cereal held in front of the mom and dad’s eyes, and the mom called cooking a “nuisance”.
Crazy programming.
Commercials were so much better in the old days. No endless car commercials, no pushing prescription drugs and lousy acting by commercial people.
Oh yeah, there's not one bit of lousy acting in these commercials. 😁
@@mdipeace yup! That was in the good old days.
Ads with family values
No, just overly sugared and fat laden food.
@@dbentleyto95 overly sugared and fat laden food no one forces you to buy. 🤨
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.
Today there is a ton of additives in American food. Compare with same items sold in Europe including the UK. They dont allow GMO and all our "fortified" additives.
if there was more then 10 greedy corporations that manufactured all of our food we might have the kind of quality as our European friends
They eat much smaller portions in Europe.
The European union is now allowing GMOs. Thats been recently. The new world order is marching on and they dont care what you say or like
I grew up in the 60's, and eggs and cheese tasted fantastic together. Now, suddenly, the eggs are nearly odorless and flavorless, and the cheese, unless you pay premium, is more like salted bubblegum trying to act like cheese. The best whole wheat bread was "Arnold's", and it smelled so delicious, just by itself, with those little square shaped slices. All you needed then was a slab of butter and a toasted slice of Arnold's whole wheat bread, and you were on another planet for a while.
Real foods were real, back then. Now, even natural foods are no longer fully natural. Mostly lost are the aromas and textures that some foods used to possess. When was the last time anyone had a corn-on-the-cob snack? You cannot find corn today like those juicy, nearly barrel-shaped yellow logs of buttered segments. Now, 2023, corn cobs look damn near like cucumbers or celery stalks, and they never, ever, never become soft and juicy, no matter how long you cook them. They forever keep that plastic-like hull, with kernels that refuse, even with pressure-cooking, to soften.
In Europe you can still get food like that.
Your corn on the cob is bad because you are OVER-COOKING it! Peel the leaves back before buying, and choose only those ears with white or light yellow color, straight rows and shiny, not wrinkled, kernels. At home, clean off the leaves and silks, cover in COLD water, and heat on high on a stove until full boiling just barely starts. Then turn OFF the stove, cover the pot, wait 2 minutes, drain, and serve.
Nothing like putting a ton of honey and sugar in a child's cereal, lol. I grew up in the 60s and enjoyed that cereal. I don't eat stuff like that anymore, lol.
I don’t remember those donut squares.
Nope. Me neither