Popular Foods of 1964?

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i'm doing a project and we have to bring in some food with our presentation. It has to be relevant to the period of time and country. the Period i'm doing is 1964 USA? Any ideas?????
Please and thankyou

Answer 1

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USA: Oven cooked pot roast with onions, potatoes, and carrots. Fried chicken, Jello-fruit desserts, mac and cheese with cut up hot dogs in it. Casseroles were real big then , such as tuna-noodle casserole with mushroom soup, peas, and canned Durkee onion rings and/or cashew bits. In those days you heard nothing about cholesterol. Good luck and have fun!

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thanks!

Answer 2

POPULAR AMERICAN FOODS, 1964

NEW PRODUCTS:
Pop-Tarts (Kellogg's)
Buffalo Wings (Anchor Bar, Buffalo NY)
Coca cola in cans
Ruffles potato chips
Lucky Charms breakfast cereal (General Mills)
Bugles, Whistles & Daisy*s snack foods (General Mills)
Chiffon Margarine and Seven Seas Salad Dressing (Anderson, Clayton & Co, now Kraft)
Yoplait Yogurt
Awake synthetic orange juice (General Foods)
Maxim freeze-dried instant coffee (General Foods)
Carnation Instant Breakfast (Carnation Co.)
Instant mashed potatoes

These foods were advertised in Good Housekeeping, May 1964:
Nescafe coffee (freeze-dried instant), Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Spaghetti Sauce with Meat (can), Kraft Pure Jellies & Preserves (glass jars), Adolph's Instant Meat Tenderizer (glass jar), Swift's Premium cold cuts, ham & hot dogs, Miracle Whip Salad Dressing (Kraft, glass jar), French's Potatoes Au Gratin and Scalloped Potatoes (instant potatoes & cheese mix, add water and bake), Bisquick (Betty Crocker/General Mills), Spam (Hormel), Betty Crocker Chocolate Crunch Frosting Mix, Life Cereal (Quaker Oats), Gerber baby foods, Borden's Whipped Potatoes (instant mashed potatoes), Kraft cheese slices, Lawry's Seasoned Pepper (spice), Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix, Del Monte Green Beans (can), Knorr Beef Noodle Soup (instant packet), Half and Half (Bordens milk & cream product), Betty Crocker's Heavenly Strawberry Angel Food cake mix, Birds Eye vacuum sealed mixed vegetables (frozen in a plastic pouch...boil them in the bag), Comstock fruit pie fillings (cans), Sunkist Oranges, Imperial Margarine.

Source(s):

http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades.…

Answer 3

Home cooked:

Meat loaf,
Roast beef,
Ham,
Oven chicken,
Oven turkey at Thanksgiving,
Chicken and dumplings,
Fried chicken,
Home made soups.

Answer 4

how about a bean & weenie casserole?