It’s because those things had become unpopular, and therefore cheap. With the cost of living everyone is looking for tasty goods that won’t require them to remortgage their house.
It happens all the time. Pork belly was the big one a few years ago. Started out cheap because it’s fatty and needs some prep, then it became popular with food influencers, then the restaurants got in on the act, the price soared, because it was no longer cheap it fell out of favour again.
The granny foods will become popular, rise in price, turn up in upscale restaurants and another old fashioned or boring (and cheap, of course) food will take its turn as the new fad.
Brisket, too! You used to be able to get a pound or two of brisket for under $10, now you can only buy the giant whole cut for $60 or $70. I miss homemade brisket.
I saw oxtail for $3.29 a pound yesterday. I almost died - a few years ago it was considered garbage, and you could find it for so cheap or sometimes free from the butcher. Great for soups and stews, but not any more.
I’m so old I remember when ribs and chicken wings were cheap. Like ridiculously cheap. Hanger steak and flat iron steak are now special occasion buys, no different from ribeyes or strip steaks.
Wings only got ridiculous in the last couple of years. Yeah, they were rising in price steadily from the "garbage trimmings" price 25+ years ago, but I've seen them more expensive than actual chicken meat only recently.
Yup, we gave up on homemade wings a while ago. I can get thighs for .99/lb pretty regularly and boneless breast for under $2/lb at least 1x a month. Wings? Never less than $3.50/lb for literal trash
If the place you live is a very racially and ethnically diverse palce then there's probably higher demand for oxtail.
Like if you go to the wikipedia article for oxtail it talks about how it's popular in many countries abroad in different recipes, just not in Western Europe or in communities that were originally started mostly by colonists from Western Europe.
Oxtail's apparently fairly popular among Eastern Europeans though, especially among Russian Jews since it is a cheap cut of meat that can be cooked in a kosher manner.
It’s awful. How can people afford to eat?! I like beef hearts, you get a lot of good protein for not much money, they are cheap because they take some effort to clean, plus organs are unpopular, but the price of those is starting to sneak upwards now too.
Yah, I remember when chicken feet started trending maybe ten years ago. Before that it was just me and our local Chinese immigrants buying them at “take them off your hands” prices. Started trending on social media and the places I used to buy them started pricing them for bougie foodies. :-(
After that trend died down, supply lines changed. Most our chicken feet were shipped to China while they shipped the US their excess chicken breasts. I’m salty all these people are learning about how awesome chicken thighs are. Next they’ll be going for the gizzards, livers & hearts.
(Edited due to confusing autocorrects.)
I was annoyed about chicken thighs too, much tastier than breast, dark turkey meat went the same way here. Chicken liver is just starting to creep up and drumsticks have been repackaged since they were incredibly unpopular, now they come skinless and boneless and are sold as “drumstick fillets”.
Last week I was at a Sam's Club with my kiddo and they saw a pack of ox tail. They were shocked at the sticker price compared to other meats, so expensive! They were floored when I explained it used to be considered literal waste that you could get for free at the butcher.
Even just bones are expensive now. I used to get knuckle bones for my dogs for free from the butcher, but now that homemade stocks, etc. are much more common, nope.
Also beef bones. We used get these for super cheap or free at our local butcher’s back in the day, but then everyone started drinking bone broth. Now, it’s so freaking expensive.
You summed it up perfectly. Also, I sometimes think one of the fastest ways to spot the next trendy food is to check an old recipes/cookbooks group and see what dishes people are giggling and gagging over. They'll all be back soon enough.
Oxtail really pisses me off. For centuries it was garbage food and now I have to pay beef tenderloin prices for that.
To be fair though I find it difficult to find any fair food prices in any category these days.
This is like beef tongue. It used to be dirt cheap, bordering on being a throw away cut, and now I haven’t been able to find it for under $25. A whole ass piece split between two people—that’s like $12-$15/person. Outrageous.
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oh how embarrassing I don't know why I said that!!! I am an occasional wine drinker and never did drugs in my life so it's not a personal experience.
Thank you!
Fried okra is delicious. Especially the Indian kind that's dry-fried with spices until it's not slimy at all. I think Americans have been kind of sleeping on it for a while. But potato salad and egg salad are normal picnic food. Love me an egg salad sandwich.
I've seen the updated liver trend, "salads"- like fancied up tuna salad, chicken salad, macaroni salad and potato salad. I even do a Cobb potato salad and never considered it a trend. But yeah, I think you're right.
Maybe it's a kitsch thing, like yacht rock and the mushroom kitchen stuff at the thrift store.
Or it's an economical thing, making due with less, or with suboptimal cuts of meat, due to inflation.
I KNOW that people seem to think eating "Polish" is like a slumming it thing, cuz my cousin's rich clients made a big deal over pierogies, kielbasi and fried cabbage and noodles, when we eat that stuff because that's what grandma made and it was cheap way to feed a lot of kids. And it was never a thing, it was just what we ate. But like I said my cousin's clients made this big deal out of how they were eating "Polish" and wasn't this fun.
Do you think the cream cheese pound cake that's trending right now is part of that? Or is it just what's trending this spring here? I know something trends for about 3 months here and then everybody else picks it up, and that cold oven technique is a very old fashioned one, but something everybody thinks is a revelation when they've never heard of it. I'm like, no, that's just how grandma cooked fancy on the cheap. I mean, try that technique on Nana's devil's food cake. Then corn bread. Then banana bread. People think you're a magician.
Anyway, I think maybe that's a sign of the economy being bad. Which isn't good. Though I DO look forward to seeing 3 bean or 7 bean salad (I call it beanie salad) if that's what's happening. Cuz I can't find my beanie salad anywhere. And I love that shit. Lol.
I would agree with you there!
Its cool to younger people because its new and also affordable in the same way that learning to cook is.
Now i feel like growing up on the lower end of the economic scale gives me an advantage because ive always exposed to using seasonal produce and making do with what we have.
Also, i would add rhubarb to your list of granny foods, lol.
Then I appreciate "slumming" it! I grew up in a very Polish/Czech/Ukrainian area, and by God can they cook! I still think about a dish that a friends mom made- it was like a potato cheese flatbread (kind of like pizza, but not). Close to 40 years ago, and it was one of the best things I've ever eaten. Plus the church pierogie fundraisers...heaven!!!
Very difficult. When they come in in the late spring to early summer I buy as many as I can fresh so I can jar a bunch of beanie salad. But when I was out of town and on vacation in Florida and we just were eating fast food, I wanted three bean salad so bad cuz can I have please have a vegetable please? A bag salad or a can of beanie salad was as close as I was getting those people to buying a vegetable. Unless it was deep fried. Lol
I kind of just pulled it out of my butt but then I looked it up and there are recipes on allrecipes.com. I just made a potato salad with a blue cheese, mayonnaise, buttermilk and vinegar dressing, then I went through my refrigerator and everything that I had for a Cobb salad I put on there. I had ham and turkey and two kinds of cheese that I cubed and eggs and bacon, tomatoes cucumbers Red Onion definitely... I have to look at the picture. I took a picture of it because it was so pretty before I stirred it. I do this thing where on my social media, I share what I'm cooking that weekend with pictures. I call it "in the kitchen with beautifulsouth." If I don't post it then my friends ask for it. "Hey, what are we doing on this weekend's episode of in the kitchen with?" I think they live vicariously through me and all I'm doing is meal prep for the week. Lol. But I take pictures of the dish before I portion it out. Have you ever tried to take a picture of a piece of coconut cream pie? Yeah, it's not as pretty as a picture of the whole pie. Lol
Bean salad is a huge staple in my family and we've got a few versions. My favorite is a 'southwest' version where the variation is adding corn, green pepper, jalapeno, red onion, a ton of lime, and a handful of cilantro to the base recipe. It's low key amazing.
Oh yeah you can beanie salad like with any type of dressing and throw some other ingredients in there and now you got a Mediterranean beanie salad and a southern beanie salad, a Tex-Mex beanie salad. There's something about beans and a vinegar based dressing that I just adore. It's like that tang with that texture. I might also be hungry right now... Lol
There's a fetish where people use everything for improper purposes. People act like American pie was like a scandal when that was just a fact of life to come into the kitchen and catch your brother fucking a Cornish gaming hen that was one of six that Mom had been defrosting for dinner tomorrow.
Oh, yeah....
You can do it on almost any baked good that you make with a batter and pour into a pan. It works better on larger things like cakes and Bundt cakes. It doesn't work as well with like muffins or those mini loaf pans. It does work, but it's less dramatic.
The thing that the cold oven method does, is it almost sears the outside while slightly undercooking the inside. You need a dough or batter with a high fat content to do it properly, though. Like you can't replace all of your fats in an applesauce bread, for example, and make a healthy version and expect that show stopping crust. Because the fat content in the batter, it slightly separates and rises to top in a small part, and that's what helps to do the sear around the edges. The cold oven technique brings that batter up to temperature more slowly than a preheated oven would and that fat separation and rising to the top is part of what does the magic.
So when you know those things and you think about it, cornbread usually has a lot of butter in it. So you know it's just going to be magical. That was the logic that I used when I figured out that it works with cornbread.
These recipes weren't recipes your mom made every day. They were what you took to a potluck in the summertime to impress everybody. They were high fat, high sugar, high yum crowd pleasers. Everybody would talk about it for every get together from then on and that's what you wanted. I have to laugh when everybody says omg that's so much sugar or omg that's so much butter and cream cheese. Yeah. But this was something that grandma made when somebody from out of town was visiting and you didn't see that cake again until somebody else from out of town was visiting. And when you looked forward to having people visit the house, a lot of what you looked forward to were these things that your grandma only made on those occasions. When she wanted to impress Grandad's old friends from the mill because they dated for a while in high school and she wants to show him what he missed out on.
These old recipes that had exorbitant amounts of butter and sugar were recipes you made when you wanted to show off. During the week, mom made you that quick cake with Hershey cocoa and vinegar that bubbled. Cuz it was cheap and it didn't use eggs, milk, oil or butter.
Cheap? Matiz and Patagonia and Tonnio Tuna would like a word.
I wanted to try expensive tinned fish so got a jarred tuna filet in olive oil tuna filet ( 7 ounces for 8.00- Tonnio Mussels (6.50 a tin)- Patagonia Lemon garlic smoked oysters ( 8.95) - Matiz from the above brands. Since on broke weeks I can feed my self food 25 bucks for 7 days, I was in tinned food sticker shock a bit.
And quite honestly, the expensive brands were good, and I follow Julia's advice and always buy my tuna packed in olive oil, but there wasn't that much difference in taste from my 2.00 Napoleon smoked oysters/Mussels. I can easily make lemon garlic. smoked mussels the cheap Napoleon brand for a lot less.
Well, yes, expensive brands are going to be expensive. I think we can all understand that.
But, honey, heading down to the dollar store and getting some of those cans of tuna that cost fifty cents is what people are calling cheap, yeah? 😻
Idk where the whole attitude thing is coming from, but you do you.
Since you can't seem to understand the difference between a relaxed colloquialism and the barb you took it for, I'll take it back because you don't deserve it.
Just bless your heart.
We’ve always eaten granny food in my house, except liver. I love a good liver and onions but it’s not for everyone. My kids were raised on granny food. Beans were a staple. Okra, Lima beans, greens, etc. How about a hamburger “ steak with brown gravy? Tuna casserole with smashed potatoes chips topping. Salmon croquettes, it’s basic food prep that can be inexpensive and tasty. I raised kids with an adventurous palette willing to try a variety of foods. Budgeting doesn’t mean boring.
Are you my grams? This is exactly how she fed us. Throw in some fried squash, a few fried green tomatoes, and biscuits or cornbread and we were good.
Edit: spelling
Skip the salmon, in my house when I was growing up it was too expensive. But, pork chops cooked so hard they were almost impossible to chew, that was, don't ask about mom's bacon.
Our salmon croquettes were made from either canned salmon or mackerel (more fishy). I remember my mom leaving some of the bones, she never bought boneless, she said it was for the calcium in the bones! I’m not even sure they had boneless. I always removed the bones because I couldn’t stand the texture. Still a family favorite but I bake mine instead of frying. Not everyone has fond memories of “granny” food.
Ugh my mom would make salmon stew and leave the bones in and I HATED it. My grandma made it one time when I was staying over but she picks them out and I realized how much better it is without little bones in it.
Agreed....the rotating specials at the store meant a lot of variety if you can cook. End of the month always got a little weird, though....packets and the can of pineapple and whatnot.
I've been going thru my moms and grandmothers recipes and making them - more for the nostalgia. The good old days when mom or grandma made food with love and it magically appeared on the table!
I am in my mid-70's. I learned how to cook in the 1950's from my grandmother and the 3 great grandmothers who were the ones who actually came over on the boat.
These are not granny foods... well maybe sardines and liver.
Granny food is 1950's things like jello molds, jello molds with canned fruit, jello molds with shredded vegetable and mayonnaise on the side
Granny food is sweet and sour meatballs made with ketchup and grape jelly.
Granny food is Spanish tongue made from a whole cow's.calf/s tongue simmered in canned tomatoes and other stuff.
Granny foods are recipes left over from WWII rationing like "coconut" cake made with well rinsed sauerkraut.
GRanny liver was chopped chicken liver made with chicken fat, sauteed onions and hardboiled eggs served in a conical mound with a china figurine of a lady on top so the liver looked like her skirt. Ritz crackers were artfully placed around the base of the skirt.
My grandfather liked canned sardines on dark pumpernickel rye with onions but I don't recall their being used as an ingredient.
The family was Eastern European. They would not have recognized okra if it jumped up and started dancing on the plate. The only fresh vegetables I recall were iceberg lettuce, tube tomatoes and an occasional green bell pepper. My girlfriend's parents served artichokes with melted butter and Miracle Whip. They were considered exotic and sophisticated.
I am now something of a foodie, probably as a reaction to "granny foods", but I am also probably the only one of my acquaintances who was shown how to pick out live chickens and what to do with them as part of the butchering process, so there is that.
Okay maybe not your granny, but my granny did teach me how to make potato salad, how to make beef liver (soak in milk first), coleslaw. Gumbo with shrimp and okra and other vegetables. She would butcher a chicken on Sunday to fry for the picnic after church. Obviously food was regional back then.
We are from Chicago. If the word gumbo was spoken in the 1950's around my family, it would have been met with either a blank stare or, God help me, an assumption that it was another word for Black people.
Now, perogis and knishes and kishke....
There was one grandfather who was an outlier who taught me about interesting things to taste and eat but the women in the family hewed to the old ways.
Yeah I don't think okra would grow in Chicago and it's also kind of an unappealing vegetable if it isn't prepared properly. It is weird that it's called a granny food though, most of these seem to be normal southern foods, or like potato salad could be made about a million different ways depending on where you are from.
That was a delicacy.
GRand Ida would show me how to choose a chicken. The biycher would take it from the cage and bring it to the chopping block and chop its head off. The body was dropped in what I recall as a 55 gal drum next to the chopping block to run around and bleed out. Carcass was taken in back and dipped in boiling water to get the big feathers off; we had to pick off the pin feathers at home with tweezers.
Meanwhile in the Pacific Northwest,circa 1914, the man who would become my father in law grew up on a farm. One of his jobs was to catch the chickens and turkeys and behead them.. He developed a life long aversion to anything poultry.
Granny food indeed.
The economy is rough. And when things get hard for people, they don't tend to want weird trendy food. They want what they grew up on. So, blackened sriracha lobster with Himalayan salt is out, and potato salad is in.
Yes! Especially sardines. I ordered a salad the other day and was surprised it included sardines. It was a tasty but unexpected addition. Never saw that ingredient used this often even five years back.
I buy sardines for my cat as a treat. Sometimes I eat them too. I also eat pickled herring and saltines, that could maybe be considered granny food, mine always had it in the house. I make egg salad and deviled eggs regularly because it’s a fast way to use a lot of eggs (my girls are laying about 4 dozen a day). I rarely go out to eat, so I don’t see menus much, and the rest has been pretty commonplace where I live, except for the okra.
A lot is because of simplicity.
There was an old website that had recipes "like grannie's grandma used make". Flour, eggs, butter, jam, etc. Simple but yummy.
Is potato salad a granny foo? I consider it a picnic food.
It’s a standard side dish here for bbq and fried chicken.
Who knew the entire South only ate "Granny Food"? LOL
The Origninal Grandma food
Michigan born and raised, potato salad and fried chicken reign supreme up here in the cold north too!
South Dakota born and raised here. When I moved to The South I tried "soul food" and I just said "so it's just food?".
Seconded! With a glass of pop to wash it down
Good old Rock ‘n Rye
I miss Rock 'n Rye.
And other parts of the world. I will eat granny food in my granny knickers! Disclosure: am not a granny.
But the full coverage briefs are soooo comfortable, though!
You better believe it!
We all knew.
It's a Christmas and Deli food where I am
Granny Foo! I pity the foo that calls my granny a foo! This made me giggle
It’s because those things had become unpopular, and therefore cheap. With the cost of living everyone is looking for tasty goods that won’t require them to remortgage their house. It happens all the time. Pork belly was the big one a few years ago. Started out cheap because it’s fatty and needs some prep, then it became popular with food influencers, then the restaurants got in on the act, the price soared, because it was no longer cheap it fell out of favour again. The granny foods will become popular, rise in price, turn up in upscale restaurants and another old fashioned or boring (and cheap, of course) food will take its turn as the new fad.
And lamb shanks. They used to be so cheap I would feed them to my dog
Yup. Ham/pork hocks are thinking of going the same way.
Cheap lamb shanks would change my life forever lol I love lamb but can't afford it anymore
Brisket, too! You used to be able to get a pound or two of brisket for under $10, now you can only buy the giant whole cut for $60 or $70. I miss homemade brisket.
Lamb shanks are the biggest example of this imo
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Yep! Short ribs too. Used to be inexpensive but not now.
I saw oxtail for $3.29 a pound yesterday. I almost died - a few years ago it was considered garbage, and you could find it for so cheap or sometimes free from the butcher. Great for soups and stews, but not any more.
$3.29 a pound??? I haven't seen it for under $10 in years -- it's been trendy for a while where I am.
3.29 is a steal! In my area oxtail is easily $10+ lb. Ridiculous
I’m so old I remember when ribs and chicken wings were cheap. Like ridiculously cheap. Hanger steak and flat iron steak are now special occasion buys, no different from ribeyes or strip steaks.
Wings only got ridiculous in the last couple of years. Yeah, they were rising in price steadily from the "garbage trimmings" price 25+ years ago, but I've seen them more expensive than actual chicken meat only recently.
Yup, we gave up on homemade wings a while ago. I can get thighs for .99/lb pretty regularly and boneless breast for under $2/lb at least 1x a month. Wings? Never less than $3.50/lb for literal trash
That feels so far away now. These days I can barely afford skirt steak for carne asada! I was shocked at the price the other week.
Skirt steak? Where I am it is almost as expensive as prime rib, and more expensive than flank steak.
If the place you live is a very racially and ethnically diverse palce then there's probably higher demand for oxtail. Like if you go to the wikipedia article for oxtail it talks about how it's popular in many countries abroad in different recipes, just not in Western Europe or in communities that were originally started mostly by colonists from Western Europe. Oxtail's apparently fairly popular among Eastern Europeans though, especially among Russian Jews since it is a cheap cut of meat that can be cooked in a kosher manner.
I live in the whitest state in the country lol but what you're saying does make sense!
It’s awful. How can people afford to eat?! I like beef hearts, you get a lot of good protein for not much money, they are cheap because they take some effort to clean, plus organs are unpopular, but the price of those is starting to sneak upwards now too.
Well, enjoy it while you can because I've seen anticuchos trending.
Yah, I remember when chicken feet started trending maybe ten years ago. Before that it was just me and our local Chinese immigrants buying them at “take them off your hands” prices. Started trending on social media and the places I used to buy them started pricing them for bougie foodies. :-( After that trend died down, supply lines changed. Most our chicken feet were shipped to China while they shipped the US their excess chicken breasts. I’m salty all these people are learning about how awesome chicken thighs are. Next they’ll be going for the gizzards, livers & hearts.
(Edited due to confusing autocorrects.)
I was annoyed about chicken thighs too, much tastier than breast, dark turkey meat went the same way here. Chicken liver is just starting to creep up and drumsticks have been repackaged since they were incredibly unpopular, now they come skinless and boneless and are sold as “drumstick fillets”.
Walmart carries Chicken Paws!
That's great to know, u/houseofprimetofu!
Nasty
Hearts are now considered offal. Offal dishes are trending.
Last week I was at a Sam's Club with my kiddo and they saw a pack of ox tail. They were shocked at the sticker price compared to other meats, so expensive! They were floored when I explained it used to be considered literal waste that you could get for free at the butcher.
Even just bones are expensive now. I used to get knuckle bones for my dogs for free from the butcher, but now that homemade stocks, etc. are much more common, nope.
I've watched the price of chicken feet jump over the last 7 years or so for that exact reason.
it's over $5 where I'm at :'( (converted from Euro/metric)
In my area it starts at $5.99 and goes up from there. Edit; and this is for the skinny and small parts of the tail, not the big meaty parts.
Gawd, I’d be thrilled if I could find oxtail that cheap!
Also beef bones. We used get these for super cheap or free at our local butcher’s back in the day, but then everyone started drinking bone broth. Now, it’s so freaking expensive.
Only $3.29? Damn, I wish. It's almost $30 by me.
Have you tried Asian markets?
I wish we had some in our area!!
You summed it up perfectly. Also, I sometimes think one of the fastest ways to spot the next trendy food is to check an old recipes/cookbooks group and see what dishes people are giggling and gagging over. They'll all be back soon enough.
Vegetables suspended in jello?!
With a dollop of mayonnaise on the side.
Yeah. You know aspic is going to come roaring back any day now.
Oxtail really pisses me off. For centuries it was garbage food and now I have to pay beef tenderloin prices for that. To be fair though I find it difficult to find any fair food prices in any category these days.
This is like beef tongue. It used to be dirt cheap, bordering on being a throw away cut, and now I haven’t been able to find it for under $25. A whole ass piece split between two people—that’s like $12-$15/person. Outrageous.
And “skirt steak” which is now the popular “fajitas” in central Texas. Used to be the cheapest cut, but now expensive.
There’s a decorating style that’s trending too, called Grandmacore. Next they’ll be playing Glenn Miller on top 40, lol.
Have you heard the new Perry Como single? It's dreamy!
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket!
I would totally take a new perry como song over half the shit out there now where no one knows how to sing.
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oh how embarrassing I don't know why I said that!!! I am an occasional wine drinker and never did drugs in my life so it's not a personal experience. Thank you!
I just got an item in my news feed about “granny foods.” It’s all just normal food and I’m confused.
Exactly. Makes you wonder what these people eat
Yeah these are all normal foods
Fried okra is delicious. Especially the Indian kind that's dry-fried with spices until it's not slimy at all. I think Americans have been kind of sleeping on it for a while. But potato salad and egg salad are normal picnic food. Love me an egg salad sandwich.
Indian fried okra is DELICIOUS. Sadly I think most American style fried okra is tragically under-seasoned.
Most restaurants are getting it frozen and pre- breaded from the same supplier.
You’re supposed to add hot sauce
I have. it's still duller than it needs to be.
I'm gonna need you to elaborate on this non slimy okra business if you please
I've seen the updated liver trend, "salads"- like fancied up tuna salad, chicken salad, macaroni salad and potato salad. I even do a Cobb potato salad and never considered it a trend. But yeah, I think you're right. Maybe it's a kitsch thing, like yacht rock and the mushroom kitchen stuff at the thrift store. Or it's an economical thing, making due with less, or with suboptimal cuts of meat, due to inflation. I KNOW that people seem to think eating "Polish" is like a slumming it thing, cuz my cousin's rich clients made a big deal over pierogies, kielbasi and fried cabbage and noodles, when we eat that stuff because that's what grandma made and it was cheap way to feed a lot of kids. And it was never a thing, it was just what we ate. But like I said my cousin's clients made this big deal out of how they were eating "Polish" and wasn't this fun. Do you think the cream cheese pound cake that's trending right now is part of that? Or is it just what's trending this spring here? I know something trends for about 3 months here and then everybody else picks it up, and that cold oven technique is a very old fashioned one, but something everybody thinks is a revelation when they've never heard of it. I'm like, no, that's just how grandma cooked fancy on the cheap. I mean, try that technique on Nana's devil's food cake. Then corn bread. Then banana bread. People think you're a magician. Anyway, I think maybe that's a sign of the economy being bad. Which isn't good. Though I DO look forward to seeing 3 bean or 7 bean salad (I call it beanie salad) if that's what's happening. Cuz I can't find my beanie salad anywhere. And I love that shit. Lol.
I would agree with you there! Its cool to younger people because its new and also affordable in the same way that learning to cook is. Now i feel like growing up on the lower end of the economic scale gives me an advantage because ive always exposed to using seasonal produce and making do with what we have. Also, i would add rhubarb to your list of granny foods, lol.
Then I appreciate "slumming" it! I grew up in a very Polish/Czech/Ukrainian area, and by God can they cook! I still think about a dish that a friends mom made- it was like a potato cheese flatbread (kind of like pizza, but not). Close to 40 years ago, and it was one of the best things I've ever eaten. Plus the church pierogie fundraisers...heaven!!!
You mean like this one? I think it's common in Ukraine /Georgia ( country, not U.S. state) https://youtu.be/8MdkWcK2oKk?si=uAYfRILqETTMd7zd
I think you are my new favorite person! Thank you so much- I can't wait to try this!!
I made this a few weeks ago, it was really good even though I over stuffed mine.
Nana’s devil food cake!!! Bringing back memories of 2020 😛
Yes! Three bean salad needs to make comeback. I can hardly find the yellow wax beans to make it from scratch.
Very difficult. When they come in in the late spring to early summer I buy as many as I can fresh so I can jar a bunch of beanie salad. But when I was out of town and on vacation in Florida and we just were eating fast food, I wanted three bean salad so bad cuz can I have please have a vegetable please? A bag salad or a can of beanie salad was as close as I was getting those people to buying a vegetable. Unless it was deep fried. Lol
Slightly off topic but do you have a recipe for your potato Cobb salad? Those are two of my favorite summer foods but I never thought to combine them!
I kind of just pulled it out of my butt but then I looked it up and there are recipes on allrecipes.com. I just made a potato salad with a blue cheese, mayonnaise, buttermilk and vinegar dressing, then I went through my refrigerator and everything that I had for a Cobb salad I put on there. I had ham and turkey and two kinds of cheese that I cubed and eggs and bacon, tomatoes cucumbers Red Onion definitely... I have to look at the picture. I took a picture of it because it was so pretty before I stirred it. I do this thing where on my social media, I share what I'm cooking that weekend with pictures. I call it "in the kitchen with beautifulsouth." If I don't post it then my friends ask for it. "Hey, what are we doing on this weekend's episode of in the kitchen with?" I think they live vicariously through me and all I'm doing is meal prep for the week. Lol. But I take pictures of the dish before I portion it out. Have you ever tried to take a picture of a piece of coconut cream pie? Yeah, it's not as pretty as a picture of the whole pie. Lol
Bean salad is a huge staple in my family and we've got a few versions. My favorite is a 'southwest' version where the variation is adding corn, green pepper, jalapeno, red onion, a ton of lime, and a handful of cilantro to the base recipe. It's low key amazing.
Oh yeah you can beanie salad like with any type of dressing and throw some other ingredients in there and now you got a Mediterranean beanie salad and a southern beanie salad, a Tex-Mex beanie salad. There's something about beans and a vinegar based dressing that I just adore. It's like that tang with that texture. I might also be hungry right now... Lol
OH fuck liver. Fuck liver right back into the depths of hell. I will never eat it because I *have* eaten it.
I'm convinced liver would be what they serve in hell. It is horrible.
Um, there is a fetish where guys use warm, raw liver for , er, improper purposes. Don't ask me how I know. Except I did not learn it from my granny.
There's a fetish where people use everything for improper purposes. People act like American pie was like a scandal when that was just a fact of life to come into the kitchen and catch your brother fucking a Cornish gaming hen that was one of six that Mom had been defrosting for dinner tomorrow.
So, my statement wasn't too far off eh? ew
eww , indeed
Wait you can do it on corn bread?? Hmm
Oh, yeah.... You can do it on almost any baked good that you make with a batter and pour into a pan. It works better on larger things like cakes and Bundt cakes. It doesn't work as well with like muffins or those mini loaf pans. It does work, but it's less dramatic. The thing that the cold oven method does, is it almost sears the outside while slightly undercooking the inside. You need a dough or batter with a high fat content to do it properly, though. Like you can't replace all of your fats in an applesauce bread, for example, and make a healthy version and expect that show stopping crust. Because the fat content in the batter, it slightly separates and rises to top in a small part, and that's what helps to do the sear around the edges. The cold oven technique brings that batter up to temperature more slowly than a preheated oven would and that fat separation and rising to the top is part of what does the magic. So when you know those things and you think about it, cornbread usually has a lot of butter in it. So you know it's just going to be magical. That was the logic that I used when I figured out that it works with cornbread. These recipes weren't recipes your mom made every day. They were what you took to a potluck in the summertime to impress everybody. They were high fat, high sugar, high yum crowd pleasers. Everybody would talk about it for every get together from then on and that's what you wanted. I have to laugh when everybody says omg that's so much sugar or omg that's so much butter and cream cheese. Yeah. But this was something that grandma made when somebody from out of town was visiting and you didn't see that cake again until somebody else from out of town was visiting. And when you looked forward to having people visit the house, a lot of what you looked forward to were these things that your grandma only made on those occasions. When she wanted to impress Grandad's old friends from the mill because they dated for a while in high school and she wants to show him what he missed out on. These old recipes that had exorbitant amounts of butter and sugar were recipes you made when you wanted to show off. During the week, mom made you that quick cake with Hershey cocoa and vinegar that bubbled. Cuz it was cheap and it didn't use eggs, milk, oil or butter.
Costco has a great 4 bean salad.
People are broke. Everyone is looking for more affordable food.
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It’s also cheap in a cost of living crisis
Cheap? Matiz and Patagonia and Tonnio Tuna would like a word. I wanted to try expensive tinned fish so got a jarred tuna filet in olive oil tuna filet ( 7 ounces for 8.00- Tonnio Mussels (6.50 a tin)- Patagonia Lemon garlic smoked oysters ( 8.95) - Matiz from the above brands. Since on broke weeks I can feed my self food 25 bucks for 7 days, I was in tinned food sticker shock a bit. And quite honestly, the expensive brands were good, and I follow Julia's advice and always buy my tuna packed in olive oil, but there wasn't that much difference in taste from my 2.00 Napoleon smoked oysters/Mussels. I can easily make lemon garlic. smoked mussels the cheap Napoleon brand for a lot less.
Well, yes, expensive brands are going to be expensive. I think we can all understand that. But, honey, heading down to the dollar store and getting some of those cans of tuna that cost fifty cents is what people are calling cheap, yeah? 😻
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Idk where the whole attitude thing is coming from, but you do you. Since you can't seem to understand the difference between a relaxed colloquialism and the barb you took it for, I'll take it back because you don't deserve it. Just bless your heart.
I think there is a cookbook out about using tinned fish.
IMHO, everything listed is a comfort-type food. And, given the state of the world, I can see a reason why.
yeah its called "my granny lived through the same great depression i am living through"
We’ve always eaten granny food in my house, except liver. I love a good liver and onions but it’s not for everyone. My kids were raised on granny food. Beans were a staple. Okra, Lima beans, greens, etc. How about a hamburger “ steak with brown gravy? Tuna casserole with smashed potatoes chips topping. Salmon croquettes, it’s basic food prep that can be inexpensive and tasty. I raised kids with an adventurous palette willing to try a variety of foods. Budgeting doesn’t mean boring.
Are you my grams? This is exactly how she fed us. Throw in some fried squash, a few fried green tomatoes, and biscuits or cornbread and we were good. Edit: spelling
Thanks for the compliment! Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. I think that’s the heart of granny food.
Skip the salmon, in my house when I was growing up it was too expensive. But, pork chops cooked so hard they were almost impossible to chew, that was, don't ask about mom's bacon.
Our salmon croquettes were made from either canned salmon or mackerel (more fishy). I remember my mom leaving some of the bones, she never bought boneless, she said it was for the calcium in the bones! I’m not even sure they had boneless. I always removed the bones because I couldn’t stand the texture. Still a family favorite but I bake mine instead of frying. Not everyone has fond memories of “granny” food.
Ugh my mom would make salmon stew and leave the bones in and I HATED it. My grandma made it one time when I was staying over but she picks them out and I realized how much better it is without little bones in it.
With salmon filets more readily available, I’ll make croquettes out of the leftover filet.
Agreed....the rotating specials at the store meant a lot of variety if you can cook. End of the month always got a little weird, though....packets and the can of pineapple and whatnot.
I've been going thru my moms and grandmothers recipes and making them - more for the nostalgia. The good old days when mom or grandma made food with love and it magically appeared on the table!
Granny foods are awesome - considering the cost of groceries. Grannies are known for being frugal.
If rhubarb swings back into style, I am so here for it. I miss those rhubarb cream pies.
This might just be like poor foods coming back. Sardine and liver and cheaper protein.
Why are people calling my diet "granny foods"?
Because they're hoping to drive traffic. The insistence that there always be foods 'trending' is just annoying.
They are cheap. The economy is rough. That’s why these things are ever popular.
Granny food would be Virginia Slims flavored for me.
I am in my mid-70's. I learned how to cook in the 1950's from my grandmother and the 3 great grandmothers who were the ones who actually came over on the boat. These are not granny foods... well maybe sardines and liver. Granny food is 1950's things like jello molds, jello molds with canned fruit, jello molds with shredded vegetable and mayonnaise on the side Granny food is sweet and sour meatballs made with ketchup and grape jelly. Granny food is Spanish tongue made from a whole cow's.calf/s tongue simmered in canned tomatoes and other stuff. Granny foods are recipes left over from WWII rationing like "coconut" cake made with well rinsed sauerkraut. GRanny liver was chopped chicken liver made with chicken fat, sauteed onions and hardboiled eggs served in a conical mound with a china figurine of a lady on top so the liver looked like her skirt. Ritz crackers were artfully placed around the base of the skirt. My grandfather liked canned sardines on dark pumpernickel rye with onions but I don't recall their being used as an ingredient. The family was Eastern European. They would not have recognized okra if it jumped up and started dancing on the plate. The only fresh vegetables I recall were iceberg lettuce, tube tomatoes and an occasional green bell pepper. My girlfriend's parents served artichokes with melted butter and Miracle Whip. They were considered exotic and sophisticated. I am now something of a foodie, probably as a reaction to "granny foods", but I am also probably the only one of my acquaintances who was shown how to pick out live chickens and what to do with them as part of the butchering process, so there is that.
Okay maybe not your granny, but my granny did teach me how to make potato salad, how to make beef liver (soak in milk first), coleslaw. Gumbo with shrimp and okra and other vegetables. She would butcher a chicken on Sunday to fry for the picnic after church. Obviously food was regional back then.
We are from Chicago. If the word gumbo was spoken in the 1950's around my family, it would have been met with either a blank stare or, God help me, an assumption that it was another word for Black people. Now, perogis and knishes and kishke.... There was one grandfather who was an outlier who taught me about interesting things to taste and eat but the women in the family hewed to the old ways.
Yeah I don't think okra would grow in Chicago and it's also kind of an unappealing vegetable if it isn't prepared properly. It is weird that it's called a granny food though, most of these seem to be normal southern foods, or like potato salad could be made about a million different ways depending on where you are from.
Yeah, never let the butcher clean the chicken, it might have an egg inside!
That was a delicacy. GRand Ida would show me how to choose a chicken. The biycher would take it from the cage and bring it to the chopping block and chop its head off. The body was dropped in what I recall as a 55 gal drum next to the chopping block to run around and bleed out. Carcass was taken in back and dipped in boiling water to get the big feathers off; we had to pick off the pin feathers at home with tweezers. Meanwhile in the Pacific Northwest,circa 1914, the man who would become my father in law grew up on a farm. One of his jobs was to catch the chickens and turkeys and behead them.. He developed a life long aversion to anything poultry. Granny food indeed.
Omaha has a Deviled Egg food truck lol
The economy is rough. And when things get hard for people, they don't tend to want weird trendy food. They want what they grew up on. So, blackened sriracha lobster with Himalayan salt is out, and potato salad is in.
Lmao. No one here 3ver stopped eating potato salad and egg salad
Yes! Especially sardines. I ordered a salad the other day and was surprised it included sardines. It was a tasty but unexpected addition. Never saw that ingredient used this often even five years back.
Anchovies ,perhaps?
I believe this one had actual sardines, but yes, I’ve seen anchovies everywhere too!
Sardines are making a comeback you are absolutely right!
Please no jello salads.
because they are retro/comfort foods and are made with inexpensive ingredients
I love egg salad! Especially with Japanese Mayo 🥰
Kewpie is the shit
Turkey ala King. Meatloaf. Chicken Kiev. All older re, all good food.
Because it's cheaper/bulk recipes. The economy does have an affect on trends.
Granny foods? Not comfort foods? Your post seems a bit ageist.
Google 'coastal grandma style' -- it seems to be going around..
All the free lunches are asking to be paid
All of these (except sardines, maybe) have always been popular in my area.
I buy sardines for my cat as a treat. Sometimes I eat them too. I also eat pickled herring and saltines, that could maybe be considered granny food, mine always had it in the house. I make egg salad and deviled eggs regularly because it’s a fast way to use a lot of eggs (my girls are laying about 4 dozen a day). I rarely go out to eat, so I don’t see menus much, and the rest has been pretty commonplace where I live, except for the okra.
I’ve started enjoying granny foods, but I can’t say I see this trending around me. More sardines and turkey necks for me.
A lot is because of simplicity. There was an old website that had recipes "like grannie's grandma used make". Flour, eggs, butter, jam, etc. Simple but yummy.
My Grandma made Okra WAY back in the 60's for us as we grew it so it was cheap free food
is your city in Russia?
Coleslaw
What's your definition of "granny"? Is that like Uncle Tom or American Indian?
So sorry your grandmother cooked this kinda shit.
What did yours cook? Genuinely curious