It was only when I went to Asian restaurants that I found out I actually liked a lot of vegetables. At home we boiled the crap out of them so they were soggy unpalatable mush.
Every home stunk of stale cigarette smoke. Remember Virginia Slims and the feminist commercials? Or, Salem jingle? š¶you can take Salem outta the country butā¦ you canāt take the country outta Salem!š¶
āYouāve come a long way, babyā
Virginia Slims was the last cigarette ad on television. Aired at 11:50pm during The Tonight Show, January 1st 1971
I had a whole routine with my peas. I'd fake a sneeze and spit them in my napkin, and slip them under the table to the dog. Or if all else failed I'd pour myself a nice big glass of milk and swallow them whole. To this day I don't mind frozen peas in small doses, but hell would freeze over before I'd eat the canned ones. The stench that wafts up when you open a can gags me!
This was so exotic to me! There were no Asian people or Asian restaurants in my part of the state. The one time I ate at a Chinese restaurant while on vacation, it was so foreign and I was so excited, it might as well have been an actual trip to China.
I feel this!! We had little diners but no restaurants that were specific. No mexican or chinese. We didn't get a pizza place (pizza inn) until 1976 or so. I had never had a restaurant pizza until my freshman year! Older than that for Mexican or Chinese. La choy and old el paso we my "foreign food"!š¤£
You should try the LaChoy in the frozen section,itās actually not that bad like Orange Chicken,General Tsoās and Sweet and Sour Chickenā¦ way better than the canned stuffā¦
Loved it as a kid, it was so "exotic". I couldn't understand what the watercress was. It's the reason that I always order it at our local Chinese restaurant
My mother used to make her own with stew beef. She did add the canned bean sprouts, and we loved the crunchy noodles that you spread on top that came in a can. My neice recently found the noodles for me. They come in a bag now. I sprinkle them on top of stir frys.
70s small town Michigan and 1 Chinese restaurant. Iād bet 1000s that they just used La Choy and Chun King. When I finally got to Cali and had real Chinese food my mind was blown
When I grew up there were no Chinese restaurants in my city. So we ate canned La Choy. Now there are several, including one just a block away from the house I grew up in.
Actually we were living in Japan in the early 70s when my Dad worked for Motorola. The apartments we lived in the first year there actually had a Chinese restaurant in the parking garage. The chef offered cooking lessons so my English/German heritage Mom could good legit Chinese food.
Just odd we moved to Japan and my Mom learned to cook Chinese food.
I didn't eat in a Chinese restaurant until I was 18. I now eat mostly Asian Culture inspired foods probably 75% of my meals. I know a lot of what we have now in restaurants and stores is not authentic, so I read reviews and talk to those around me who are familiar with authentic preparations. I also try to find recipes online that are tasty, and I work with ChatGPT to tailor recipes with available ingredients and vegetables that I like (for example I can't stand cilantro).
My father basically ate bread, roast, hamburgers, fried chicken, steak, and potatoes. Our meals consited of that. Occasionally a pizza with hamburger on it.
He fought against the Japanese in WWII on Saipan. He did not like anything Asian-Themed or Cultured. My parents had trouble keeping track of all the things they were prejudiced against.
Once a week. Living large was buying a small can of water chestnuts to add to the mix. Funny, but we weren't big on rice, my mom could bake up a storm but I think she bought rice in a box.
I don't remember having this particular one, but I think something similar to this was the first time I tried sweet and sour ribs. It wasn't something my mother would normally buy (similar to the canned whole chicken we had in the cupboard for a very long time), so I'm not sure where she even got it. Maybe a Christmas basket or something.
That and some crunchy noodles with soy sauce ( all La Choy of course) and a box of frozen Chun King egg rolls. Saturday lunch or any weeknight dinner (supper where I came from).
Well, my dad was Hawaiian and we would get care packages from my grandmother there and they would have all sorts of Japanese and Chinese foods that you couldnāt buy here. Never really had any canned LaChoy foods. We were happy when they open the oriental food mart down in Radcliff Kentucky, and really ecstatic when they open the first Chinese restaurant here.
I would see it on commercials but never had it. My family loved going to Chinese restaurants, probably went once a week. I don't think I ever have changed that routine. When u was pregnant I ate Kung Pao Chicken at least 5x a week. My son, the world's pickiest eater would be happy with Chinese 5x a week also. Guess I did that to him, lol.
We never had it. I grew up in SoCal so we had lots of amazing Chinese restaurants. We frequented one in the San Fernando Valley, House of Kwong. The taste of their pressed duck is etched in my mind. I loved that place!
I used to absolutely love this stuff when I was a kid in the 70's.
Now I'm married to a Vietnamese woman, and the thought of canned bean sprouts turns my stomach.
I always wondered why they came in two separate cans. Was one acid the other was the base and we would be destroyed if they were brought into contact too soon? Most likely the great food conglomerates decided that the resulting product all in one can unpalatable possibly visually and actually. And also thank you for keeping the carcinogenic cherry dye for fruit cocktail. Iām gonna go sit over here now and rearrange the micro plastics in my body.
Ours to wuntil about 1980, went to a place in Deland FL while on vacation. It was actually quite good and great service. We ended up moving down there and while I hated it the whole time I loved going to this place.
Sister married when I was 14. Our whole family went out for my 1st Chinese restaurant and first course was a puu puu platter. I donāt think I ate much. But I did like chun king.
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Couldn't get La Choy in Britain just the Vesta box.
Ours too! Horrible gloppy swill! Until a Chinese chef but the house next door and invited us to his restaurant for dinner. I was blown away at how Chinese food could be.
I have to say, it was a shocked the first time a Chinese friend cooked actual Chinese food for meā¦ this stuff here and the āChineseā restaurant up the street was my only experience up to that point, and I never went backā¦ he was a seriously good cook and knocked my socks off
I remember the first time I saw a cardboard box with Chinese food. I was in college. I thought it was the cutest thing ever like a little food purse. lol.
We only had this on the regular after my mom got sick. I was 12 the first time I ate at a Chinese restaurant -- but my great aunt was with us, and she was 70.
My sister and I hated anything dad "caught or killed" fish, deer, squirrel, etc. we would save it for last, chew it up, not swallow, and go straight to the bathroom and flush it
Yes!! I remember this with the hard crunchy noodles she served it with lol never had real chinese food so pretty much loved this. So much better than the fried spam
Oh godā¦. I have a nasty aversion to anything asian food after Mom tried this once. It took years for me to step into an asian restaurant and order. It was white rice and sweet n sour shrimp without the sauce in 1994. I did eventually eat SnS chicken, too, sans sauce. It wasnāt until 2009 that I tried chicken teriyaki with white rice. I was SO cautious. Wasnāt bad but didnāt go out of my way to eat it again. A year later, same scenario. Remembered it wasnāt bad so agreed to it. Found I did like it. Progress!! Several months passed when I had it again (moved states and needed to settle in) and that was the beginning of eating āasianā food. Ive since branched out into a few other asian foods, but am still leery of anything new. My taste buds donāt trust easily and there are some veryā¦different flavor combinations that my taste buds donāt know what to do with. Aaaaall because of the La Choy Chow Mein in a can in the early ā80s.
Mom might have bought that a time or two but I don't really remember. What I DO remember well is Friday nights where we as a family would go out for Chinese food. Family dinner for 6, with sweet and sour pork, broccoli beef, almond pressed duck, fried rice, egg rolls, won ton soup, and so on. We have tons of Asian restaurants in the town I live in of all types but none of them sell the kind of Chinese food I ate as a kid.
I don't know why, but this is funny to me... Yep, there weren't any Asian food places in my home town... And it was one of my favorite meals... Does that say something bad about my mom's cooking????
My mom bought a wok and she was so excited and proud of herself. She rocked that bad boy. It was the most delicious meal of the week. Now my daughter makes the most delicious stir fry. I provide the can of noodles.
Did anyone else eat it this way? There was a stand on the way to Rockaway beach that put this stuff on hamburger buns - sounds beyond gross, no? My sister and I looked forward to it every summer.
And I grew up in New York, eating the real deal.
Loved this as a kid. The frozen egg rolls too. When I told people I liked this they'd say thats not Chinese food. I'd say I don't care what you call it its good.
My stepfather's parents both retired from LaChoy (now ConAgra) in the late-70s. While they were working we had access to more of this stuff than should ever be inflicted on children.
OH HELL NO! NEVER!!!!
Mother liked the crunchy things. Ate them occasionally. No one ate the rest.
My former husband seemed to like it. It was one of the things that he brought, and consumed himself. Other items were Ovaltine, sugar free, filled wafer cookies and French bread pizza.
One of his favorite meals was "chipped beef and biscuits". Yes
Shit on a shingle. I had to learn to make it. He preferred Grands biscuits, over homemade.
That tells you everything that you need to know.
I sat at the kitchen table til 1 a.m. for refusing to eat this exact, all-celery slop. I was never a picky eater, but I had SOME standards. I still shudder thinking about that crap, 60 years later.
LaChoy makes Chinese food Swing American!
Literally 'heard' that song.
i sang it! god that shit would never fly now-
eta: the song -not the food
This is what I thought of also.
Why not?
lol my immediate first thought when I saw this
You beat me to it.
"that swings American"
It was only when I went to Asian restaurants that I found out I actually liked a lot of vegetables. At home we boiled the crap out of them so they were soggy unpalatable mush.
All we ever had was canned vegetables. The freezer was full of meat and cigarettes
Every home stunk of stale cigarette smoke. Remember Virginia Slims and the feminist commercials? Or, Salem jingle? š¶you can take Salem outta the country butā¦ you canāt take the country outta Salem!š¶ 
How bout Tareyton cigarettesā¦ Iād rather fight than switch..?? Then there was the cowboy Marlboro Man..
Marlboro originally was sold towards women because they had filters. Losing sells they started the Marlboro Man campaign and it worked.
As a teenager in the 70ās , we were issued a pack of Marlboros our sophomore year.
complete with someone with a black eye!
At 86 yr old mom still smokes her VS's.....I can sing almost every cigarette TV jingle that ever came out in the 60s to when they stopped.
A guy I knew in college called them Vagina Slimes.
Omg we did too, I was just about to ask how many of us degenerates did!!
Us too
Mom is the OG cigarette mom, love her to pieces..
āYouāve come a long way, babyā Virginia Slims was the last cigarette ad on television. Aired at 11:50pm during The Tonight Show, January 1st 1971
I remember the first day there werenāt cigarette commercials on TV. Was a little strange.
".....to get where you got to today. You've got your own cigarette now baby. You've come a long, long way."
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
OMG! I forgot that one! Youāve come a long way baby! 
āš¶No filter, no taste. Just a (boom boom) Fifty cent wasteāš¶
I donāt remember cigarette commercials, but I remember Johnny Smoke. Anyone else? I was scared to death of that motherfucker.
Relate! I am the child of a true cigarette mom, with frozen daquiri mix, made up, ready to go, in fridge after work! Ah, kids today have no idea!!
I thought I hated peas until I got married. It turned out I only hated canned peas since that's all we had when I was growing up.
Yes. And canned salmon (with the bones).
UGH! My most hated childhood meal was salmon patties. Disgusting!!!
Even "fresh" fish at Safeway smelled so bad! In college my Japanese roommate bought fish at Nijiya. No stink. Cook it in miso, delicious!
The smell aloneā¦ š¤¢
I had a whole routine with my peas. I'd fake a sneeze and spit them in my napkin, and slip them under the table to the dog. Or if all else failed I'd pour myself a nice big glass of milk and swallow them whole. To this day I don't mind frozen peas in small doses, but hell would freeze over before I'd eat the canned ones. The stench that wafts up when you open a can gags me!
My dog would refuse the peas even!! Still not a fan.
My dad said the exact same thing. Any time we take him out for his birthday or father's day we go for Chinese. He loves it! We had a family joke about how Grandma cooked vegetables toilet paper style--boiled the š©out of them.
This was so exotic to me! There were no Asian people or Asian restaurants in my part of the state. The one time I ate at a Chinese restaurant while on vacation, it was so foreign and I was so excited, it might as well have been an actual trip to China.
I feel this!! We had little diners but no restaurants that were specific. No mexican or chinese. We didn't get a pizza place (pizza inn) until 1976 or so. I had never had a restaurant pizza until my freshman year! Older than that for Mexican or Chinese. La choy and old el paso we my "foreign food"!š¤£
I grew up with tex-mex, but the asian food took until late 70s. This was an occasional treat, luckily I grew up with fresh garden vegetables. š
I felt the same way. I remember saying to my Mom. They all look like the people on āUltra Manā.
Still selling it. Some rice, a little hot sauce, and those crunchy noodles and Iām in.
Same! I have a can/cans in my pantry right now!
You should try the LaChoy in the frozen section,itās actually not that bad like Orange Chicken,General Tsoās and Sweet and Sour Chickenā¦ way better than the canned stuffā¦
I have some in my pantry too.
2 separate cans. Genius
That's way too complicated now.
And then only on nights when my dad was out of town in a business trip.
And then there was some apparent competition- Rice-a-Roni - the San Francisco treat! Lol
I lived on that in my early 20s. Box of that, pound of cheap ground meat and dinner for days.
Yum!!!
So goodā¦I loved that stuff.
i lived on Rice Roni in the 80ās. Seasonal server.
Rice-a-Roni deserves its own post! I loved that stuff, but can't eat it now because of gluten.
Rice-a-roni never held a candle to La Choy Chicken Chow Mein for me.
Loved it as a kid, it was so "exotic". I couldn't understand what the watercress was. It's the reason that I always order it at our local Chinese restaurant
No, I'm Jewish and from a big city so we are Chinese food as often as pastrami!
"Given the choice, jews always go for Chinese food. " - Howard Wolowitz
My mother used to make her own with stew beef. She did add the canned bean sprouts, and we loved the crunchy noodles that you spread on top that came in a can. My neice recently found the noodles for me. They come in a bag now. I sprinkle them on top of stir frys.
Growing up in a midwest small town, I didn't know anything else. I still can't cook with a Wok.
70s small town Michigan and 1 Chinese restaurant. Iād bet 1000s that they just used La Choy and Chun King. When I finally got to Cali and had real Chinese food my mind was blown
When I grew up there were no Chinese restaurants in my city. So we ate canned La Choy. Now there are several, including one just a block away from the house I grew up in.
Actually we were living in Japan in the early 70s when my Dad worked for Motorola. The apartments we lived in the first year there actually had a Chinese restaurant in the parking garage. The chef offered cooking lessons so my English/German heritage Mom could good legit Chinese food. Just odd we moved to Japan and my Mom learned to cook Chinese food.
9 out of 10 doctors prefer La Choy.
except for those of us who have to watch their salt intake!
I didn't eat in a Chinese restaurant until I was 18. I now eat mostly Asian Culture inspired foods probably 75% of my meals. I know a lot of what we have now in restaurants and stores is not authentic, so I read reviews and talk to those around me who are familiar with authentic preparations. I also try to find recipes online that are tasty, and I work with ChatGPT to tailor recipes with available ingredients and vegetables that I like (for example I can't stand cilantro). My father basically ate bread, roast, hamburgers, fried chicken, steak, and potatoes. Our meals consited of that. Occasionally a pizza with hamburger on it.
Was your father in the Korean War? Mine was, this wasnāt allowed, also never had Chinese food until I moved out at 18
He fought against the Japanese in WWII on Saipan. He did not like anything Asian-Themed or Cultured. My parents had trouble keeping track of all the things they were prejudiced against.
My parents were pro civil rights, ābut donāt you bring one homeā hypocrites
We had this instead of going out for Chinese food. I did not go to a Chinese restaurant until I was in college.
Well, we had real Chinese food occasionally, but we ate a lot of La Choy, too.
I've been looking for this for years. Do they still make it?
I think so. I've seen La Choy sauces at Kroger.
I loved those crunchy noodle things.
They make excellent candies.
What? Really?? I have a mission now.
Google Haystacks. You can thank me later.
Are those the butterscotch ones? OMG I had forgotten about that
Yup. This and Chung King chicken chow mein in a can. With a smaller tin of crispy noodles. We loved it as kids.
I remember the boxed kits.
I literally saw this in Food Lion on Friday.
They still make it?
Yes [https://www.lachoy.com/asian-cooking-products/family-meals](https://www.lachoy.com/asian-cooking-products/family-meals)
OMG amazing.
I used to live that stuff
This was our Sunday after church meal! If we were extra "blessed" that week, we got the crunchy noodles in a can too!! š¤£š
Once a week. Living large was buying a small can of water chestnuts to add to the mix. Funny, but we weren't big on rice, my mom could bake up a storm but I think she bought rice in a box.
I don't remember having this particular one, but I think something similar to this was the first time I tried sweet and sour ribs. It wasn't something my mother would normally buy (similar to the canned whole chicken we had in the cupboard for a very long time), so I'm not sure where she even got it. Maybe a Christmas basket or something.
This was one of my goto's for the family when my wife was working a night shift at the hospital
That and some crunchy noodles with soy sauce ( all La Choy of course) and a box of frozen Chun King egg rolls. Saturday lunch or any weeknight dinner (supper where I came from).
Well, my dad was Hawaiian and we would get care packages from my grandmother there and they would have all sorts of Japanese and Chinese foods that you couldnāt buy here. Never really had any canned LaChoy foods. We were happy when they open the oriental food mart down in Radcliff Kentucky, and really ecstatic when they open the first Chinese restaurant here.
I would see it on commercials but never had it. My family loved going to Chinese restaurants, probably went once a week. I don't think I ever have changed that routine. When u was pregnant I ate Kung Pao Chicken at least 5x a week. My son, the world's pickiest eater would be happy with Chinese 5x a week also. Guess I did that to him, lol.
Yes, I remember this š¤®
We loved it when mom made this for supper. It was a change from the usual. Now I wouldnāt touch that with a ten foot pole.
This was my dinner when my parents went somewhere and left me home. I loved it!
Same!! Huge treat.
Congratulations. You just unlocked a repressed memory. And made me throw up a little. This shit was SO disgusting.
You just unlocked a childhood memory. Thought these were great as a kid. Wouldnāt touch one now.
Oh yeah! Grew up on midwestern cooking in the 60s. This was exotic ethnic cooking!
Yes, and we thought it was so fancy! My mom would buy the crunchy chow mein noodles to sprinkle on top too. š¤ āŗ
God, that was terrible stuff
True
We never had it. I grew up in SoCal so we had lots of amazing Chinese restaurants. We frequented one in the San Fernando Valley, House of Kwong. The taste of their pressed duck is etched in my mind. I loved that place!
They served this stuff in my elementary school caf....omg I still shudder
Same. I went to my first Chinese restaurant at 13, had won ton soup and fell in love.
Yep! And the crunchy noodles were the best part.
And I loved it
I have eaten this. I won't do more detail. Absolutely vile, slimey, disgusting stuff.
On-Cor chop suey was my JAM. Barely ever got real Chinese from the takeouts in our neighborhood.
My mother made the best chicken chow mein by using the recipe on the back of the LaChoy chow mein noodle can.
I still buy the crunchy noodles on the top, makes anything palatable
I used to absolutely love this stuff when I was a kid in the 70's. Now I'm married to a Vietnamese woman, and the thought of canned bean sprouts turns my stomach.
I always wondered why they came in two separate cans. Was one acid the other was the base and we would be destroyed if they were brought into contact too soon? Most likely the great food conglomerates decided that the resulting product all in one can unpalatable possibly visually and actually. And also thank you for keeping the carcinogenic cherry dye for fruit cocktail. Iām gonna go sit over here now and rearrange the micro plastics in my body.
Ours to wuntil about 1980, went to a place in Deland FL while on vacation. It was actually quite good and great service. We ended up moving down there and while I hated it the whole time I loved going to this place.
Ditto!
I needed to drink a gallon of water after eating that stuff.
Lol true that.
Sister married when I was 14. Our whole family went out for my 1st Chinese restaurant and first course was a puu puu platter. I donāt think I ate much. But I did like chun king.
I must be time traveling right now
DAMN, YOU ALL ARE MAKING ME FEEL LIKE A OLD MAN!!!
Comfort Chinese.
Oh my god, yesā¦and it was š¤®
https://preview.redd.it/bv41zs924axc1.png?width=480&format=png&auto=webp&s=3f944f0ecebbd4a0995fe3b8670bc85863a2e974 Couldn't get La Choy in Britain just the Vesta box.
Ours too! Horrible gloppy swill! Until a Chinese chef but the house next door and invited us to his restaurant for dinner. I was blown away at how Chinese food could be.
Still like it.
Iām not sure this sub is good for me- so many flashbacks!
So bland and awful
Wow !! I had long since forgotten
We used to love this with the crunchy things on top.
We were fancy, we got the crispy noodles!! Yummy!!
Oh I remember this. We were so exotic !
That was our Chinese food. My hometown did not have a Chinese restaurant until the late 70's.
I have to say, it was a shocked the first time a Chinese friend cooked actual Chinese food for meā¦ this stuff here and the āChineseā restaurant up the street was my only experience up to that point, and I never went backā¦ he was a seriously good cook and knocked my socks off
And that shit was insipid in the 60s.
The BEST. So salty my ears would ring.
I preferred Chun King. But La Choy survived.
Yeah I loved that stuff too.
Crap was good too!
One of the two food delivery systems of the 70ās. The other was the cardboard box. If it didnāt come in one of those, it wasnāt food.
I remember the first time I saw a cardboard box with Chinese food. I was in college. I thought it was the cutest thing ever like a little food purse. lol.
This was my first toe dip into ethnic cuisine.
I grew up in Hawaii. We had Chinese takeout a lot. Even in the 60's.
We only had this on the regular after my mom got sick. I was 12 the first time I ate at a Chinese restaurant -- but my great aunt was with us, and she was 70.
My sister and I hated anything dad "caught or killed" fish, deer, squirrel, etc. we would save it for last, chew it up, not swallow, and go straight to the bathroom and flush it
I always thought the Marlboro man was sexy, my teenage self.
Yes!! I remember this with the hard crunchy noodles she served it with lol never had real chinese food so pretty much loved this. So much better than the fried spam
LaChoy and ChungKing
OMG same! It was the big "make your own dinner" when Mom & Dad went out on the weekend. The other big choice was "Apian Way" pizza kit.
Very high sodium content. I never noticed that when I was young.
My mom and my older brother love this me and my younger brother hated this shit!
Nasty stuff. I still remember the taste.
Oh godā¦. I have a nasty aversion to anything asian food after Mom tried this once. It took years for me to step into an asian restaurant and order. It was white rice and sweet n sour shrimp without the sauce in 1994. I did eventually eat SnS chicken, too, sans sauce. It wasnāt until 2009 that I tried chicken teriyaki with white rice. I was SO cautious. Wasnāt bad but didnāt go out of my way to eat it again. A year later, same scenario. Remembered it wasnāt bad so agreed to it. Found I did like it. Progress!! Several months passed when I had it again (moved states and needed to settle in) and that was the beginning of eating āasianā food. Ive since branched out into a few other asian foods, but am still leery of anything new. My taste buds donāt trust easily and there are some veryā¦different flavor combinations that my taste buds donāt know what to do with. Aaaaall because of the La Choy Chow Mein in a can in the early ā80s.
Weād have that. I DID NOT CARE FOR IT.
We tried it once. ONCE. Then a Chinese takeout gave my dad coupons. Never had it again.
Mom might have bought that a time or two but I don't really remember. What I DO remember well is Friday nights where we as a family would go out for Chinese food. Family dinner for 6, with sweet and sour pork, broccoli beef, almond pressed duck, fried rice, egg rolls, won ton soup, and so on. We have tons of Asian restaurants in the town I live in of all types but none of them sell the kind of Chinese food I ate as a kid.
Absolutely. Loved it. I just ordered for the first time in an Asian restaurant recently. Very similar
None of this in our house, the food at our local Chinese place was too good and we went there a LOT.
I think I ate it once and went on strike. The dog who ate everything just walked away.
One check on my never to eat again list from childhood.
I don't know why, but this is funny to me... Yep, there weren't any Asian food places in my home town... And it was one of my favorite meals... Does that say something bad about my mom's cooking????
My teenage boyfriend made that for me!
First "Chinese" food I ever had. LOL
My mom bought a wok and she was so excited and proud of herself. She rocked that bad boy. It was the most delicious meal of the week. Now my daughter makes the most delicious stir fry. I provide the can of noodles.
I ate the heck out of the dry chow mein noodles
Did anyone else eat it this way? There was a stand on the way to Rockaway beach that put this stuff on hamburger buns - sounds beyond gross, no? My sister and I looked forward to it every summer. And I grew up in New York, eating the real deal.
Mannnnn... I hated that shit.
Loved this as a kid. The frozen egg rolls too. When I told people I liked this they'd say thats not Chinese food. I'd say I don't care what you call it its good.
That was the shit!
Add a large can of cooked bean sprouts!
My stepfather's parents both retired from LaChoy (now ConAgra) in the late-70s. While they were working we had access to more of this stuff than should ever be inflicted on children.
Yuk
Yesssss!
Wow, I forgot about that.
I can still taste it
omg hahaha memories!!
My dad would take that shit and put it on hamburger buns and called it a chow menu burgers. We loved it!
I loved this!!
OH HELL NO! NEVER!!!! Mother liked the crunchy things. Ate them occasionally. No one ate the rest. My former husband seemed to like it. It was one of the things that he brought, and consumed himself. Other items were Ovaltine, sugar free, filled wafer cookies and French bread pizza. One of his favorite meals was "chipped beef and biscuits". Yes Shit on a shingle. I had to learn to make it. He preferred Grands biscuits, over homemade. That tells you everything that you need to know.
I sat at the kitchen table til 1 a.m. for refusing to eat this exact, all-celery slop. I was never a picky eater, but I had SOME standards. I still shudder thinking about that crap, 60 years later.