Baby Boomers Are Keeping These Gross Foods Alive |

Thanks For The Gross Foods, Baby Boomers

These gross foods are all thanks to the generation of people that were born in the 15-years that followed World War II, the baby boomers. Many people during this time were enjoying both prosperity and economic security after the war, which was taken as an opportunity to have lots of children. While the baby boomers gained economic importance during the 60s and 70s when they became the youth of the state, they also had a huge impact on the foods of the time.

Baby Boomers Are Keeping These Gross Foods Alive

Today, baby boomers are retired and just don’t seem to understand the difficulties that today’s youth encounter on a daily basis. Struggles such as living costs, high rent, and a struggling economy are just some of the several problems that today’s youth must face, which baby boomers simply do not understand. In their day, there was no trouble in buying a house and supporting a family on one middle-class salary; today that just is not possible at all. The baby boomers did contribute a lot to today’s society, such as processed foods and franchise restaurants and some undeniably disgusting foods.

Turkey Stuffing

Only teddy bears should contain stuffing. Turkey stuffing should be illegal because not only does it taste gross, but it also dries out the turkey.

Turkey Stuffing

Nobody likes raw turkey juice and turkey stuffing is basically eating raw turkey juice. You should simply use it as a side dish for Thanksgiving.

Meatloaf

There’s no denying that the name of this food is as tasteless as what it has to offer. Not only does this food look quite revolting, but it also barely has any taste at all.

Meatloaf

In its entirety, meatloaf is just a terrible food and most people prefer their food to look, smell, and taste great. Meatloaf misses all these preferences and yet still, baby boomers cling to meatloaf. Millennials must have their taste buds in check because meatloaf would never be an option.

Mayonnaise-Based Salad And Fruit

Millennials may have some odd behaviors when it comes to food, such as squeezing their own almond milk and eating sprouted nuts; regardless, it is highly unlikely a millennial will go anywhere near a broccoli grape salad doused in mayonnaise.

Mayonnaise-Based Salad And Fruit

In general, Millenials do seem to stay clear from mayonnaise, unlike the baby boomers who seem quite content with dousing practically everything in a gross layer of mayonnaise.

TV dinners

There’s no denying that the idea behind TV dinners is quite pleasing; although, it is also extremely lazy. Even though there is nothing wrong with eating dinner while enjoying a good movie, a ready-made meal consisting of nothing but frozen foods will prove as tasteless as most of the gross foods that baby boomers seem to enjoy.

TV Dinners

Isn’t it a better idea to make your own nutritious meal and enjoy it in front of the television?

Buffets

There’s never a good time for a buffet. All you can eat buffets with lobster, pancakes, prawns, and steak usually consist of terrible quality foods. Which means it really won’t taste as great as it sounds.

Buffets

A buffet is definitely something the world would be better off without.

Chain Restaurants

Not only do chain restaurants insult the mere concept of fancy, but their food usually consists of absolutely no nutrition. It would be a much better idea to leave Applebee’s and Olive Garden for the baby boomers and support a high-quality local restaurant instead.

Chain Restaurants

Despite a large number of Americans choosing chain restaurants, the lack of millennials has a massive impact on general popularity.

Paper Napkins

Paper napkins are just one of many environmentally damaging products that we have the baby boomers to thank for. These products have caused so much damage to our environment that the millennials stress to fix.

Paper Napkins

Not only would you have to use numerous paper napkins during a meal because they are undeniably useless, but the alternative option of paper towel is just as bad for our environment. Why can’t we all just adapt to cloth napkins?

Cornflakes

Cornflakes really are the grossest cereal ever invented. Rice krispies are also quite gross; although, at least you can make rice krispie treats with them and they snap, crackle, and pop. The fact that cornflakes are simply tasteless, makes it the world’s absolute worst cereal ever.

Cornflakes

Other than being closely related to a bowl of sogginess, cornflakes really have nothing to offer.

Canned Soup

It may be a convenient meal that’s a little tastier than aluminum canned soup; however, it is really not much better than aluminum canned soup that is packed full of preservatives, sodium, and contains almost no nutrients.

Canned Soup

What’s more, the canned soup contains a concerningly high source to BPA, which can cause a variety of unpleasant health conditions later on in life.

Meat And Potatoes

While meat and potatoes together are definitely not the worst food combination around, meat and potatoes alone make for quite a boring dish. Why baby boomers simply won’t add any nutritious vegetables is beyond reason. Even a leaf would add some needed color to such a sad looking meal.

Meat And Potatoes

Please, baby boomers, vegetables are good for you!

Processed Cheese Products

Baby boomers are responsible for the creation of all things cheap and convenient. Unfortunately, the more convenient a product is, the worse it is for your health. This is because cheap and convenient foods almost always contain tons of added chemicals and preservatives. Not only are these foods bad for your health, but they are also terrible for the environment. Luckily, there has been a massive decline in the sales of processed cheese products, thanks to the millennials.

Processed Cheese Products

The millennials can be thanked for this decline in sales as they would rather opt for fresh, healthier foods than processed nonsense.

Soda

Most people would agree that nothing beats an ice-cold coke on a hot day, although, there is absolutely no reason to be drinking soda all day, every day.

Soda

Thanks to the baby boomers, there is a global soda addiction that is rotting teeth and affecting the health of millions of people.

Ketchup

Ketchup is good or fries and as a topping on tasty burgers; however, it is not so great to douse your eggs with ketchup or to use it as meat seasoning. With all the spices in the world, ketchup is simply not acceptable to use as a meat seasoning.

Ketchup

Yet again, baby boomers completely miss the fact that spices are widely available.

Vienna sausages

A can of meat that is drowned in a sauce is anything other than appealing to the taste buds, at least for millennials. Baby boomers seem to think that this concoction is a definite winner. Hopefully, it won’t be around for much longer.

Vienna Sausages

The quality of grass-fed, locally raised beef is practically heaven when compared to Vienna sausages. Once again, millennials prove to have exquisite taste buds.

Tuna Noodle Casserole

Tuna noodle casserole is just gross, even the name has most people running for the hills. This meal is quite repulsive, bad smelling, and it tastes absolutely terrible.

Tuna Noodle Casserole

The disgusting combination of egg noodles, condensed soup, frozen peas, and canned tuna is what makes up this foul tasting dish that baby boomers really love.

Boiled Veggies

Vegetables usually taste great when cooked in a variety of different ways, which includes broiling, braising, grilling, and even steaming. However, there is no reason for anyone to boil vegetables, ever.

Boiled Veggies

Other than the undeniably disgusting taste of boiled vegetables, boiling them cooks away most of the nutrients. Baby boomers even found a way to make vegetables tasteless and void of nutrients!

Ham and Banana Hollandaise

This food looks simply revolting and it tastes as bad as it looks. There really cannot be a list of ingrediants that would go worse together than the list of ingrediants that make up this dish!

Ham And Banana Hollandaise

Banana sprinkled with lemon juice, trapped in ham and then drenched in mustard, goes on to be baked for ten minutes before repulsing the entire family! This horrific dish also gets covered in hollandaise halfway through being baked. Why would the baby boomers torture themselves with meals like this?

Buttermints

A buttermint is basically a combination between a breath mint and a dessert dish that creates a terrible tasting minty thing.

Buttermints

Buttermints really should not have a place in today’s world.

Margarine

Baby boomers are the only people around that actually like margarine. This sad mockery of butter is responsible for several health conditions, which includes diabetes. There is absolutely no good reason why a product like this was created.

Margarine

One of the ingredients used in margarine, hydrogenated oil, is responsible for a range of health conditions beyond obesity. It is much better to stick to butter for your toast and leave the margarine for the baby boomers.

Aspartame

This is simply an evil invention. There is no reason anyone should be consuming this foul-tasting sugar-substitute, unless you want to cause an array of terrible health conditions.

Aspartame

Aspartame really does cause cancer and there are numerous research studies that confirm this. It is a much better idea to leave the aspartame alone altogether.

Olestra

Olestra is nothing more than a fat substitute. It is added to products that are high-fat, in order to lower or completely remove the fat content. While that may sound like a great idea, it really is not.

Olestra

Even though it can lower fat content, it can cause a heap of worse conditions, including stomach pains and even diarrhea. Thankfully, most countries have done their bit to remove products that contain Olestra from stores, although, there are some places that you can still find products containing this horrible ingredient if you look hard enough.

Meat Pates

If you have ever wondered what the ugliest food is, it is undeniably meat pate!

Meat Pates

The fact that this food can be served as a pie, a loaf, hot, or cold and that it just looks suspiciously grey and disgusting suggests that it has definitely earned the title of the ugliest food around.

Weenie sauce

Grape jelly and peanut butter make a great combo, and barbeque sauce and meat are also quite delicious together, but the combination of grape jelly and barbeque sauce is simply disgusting.

Weenie Sauce

Whoever invented weenie sauce was obviously lacking taste buds. It is also sad that the baby boomers could have invented much tastier foods with much better options, considering that the economy was thriving. Seems like the baby boomers enjoy repulsive tasting foods.

Summer Sausage Snack Platters

These snack platters really are the most offensive Christmas gifts. Summer sausage snack platters should not be gifted to anyone that you actually like.

Summer Sausage Snack Platters

It can’t be that hard to think of a more creative Christmas gift!

Curly Parsley

These days, it is not all that easy to find curly parsley. And that is actually good news!

Curly Parsley

Curly parsley is the tasteless brother of flat-leaf parsley. Thankfully, flat-leaf parsley does actually offer a noticeably bold flavor and has cast curly parsley into the shadows, where it belongs!

Cream Cheese And Bologna Sandwiches

Bologna should not be classified as a form of meat, by anyone! Additionally, why would anyone even think of throwing some cream cheese into the equation?

Cream Cheese And Bologna Sandwiches

This is how you destroy cream cheese, by spreading it on bread. It would be nice if the baby boomers left this gross sandwich in the 60s where it belongs. These days, we have taste buds!

Snackwell’s Low-Fat Foods

Fat-free cookies are really not healthy and even though the baby boomers are convinced that Snackwell’s fat-free cookies are healthy, they are really just processed cookies with tons of added junk ingredients that will do absolutely no good!

Snackwell’s Low Fat Foods

It is quite sad to think that the baby boomers were misled into believing that fat-free cookies and sodas are good, especially when taking into account that these foods caused the baby boomers to develop diabetes and heart conditions. However, the baby boomers will most likely never point a finger at their beloved cookies and cremes for these health issues.

White Bread

Even though White bread is capable of taking you back to the good old days, it contains absolutely no nutrition. Most of us would agree that bread is a food group all on its own.

White Bread

Therefore, we should respect it and appreciate it.

Milk Chicken

I bet you think this list of foods couldn't get any worse, but it does! If Paula Deen is the chef on the scene, it is better to just turn and run.

Milk Chicken

Milk is quite versatile and it goes well with many foods, such as cereals and cookies, but not for even one second should anyone even consider milk and chicken together. Milk is not a good ingredient for gravy. This should be a crime!

"Artificial" Whipped Cream

There is absolutely no reason anyone should be eating this artificial and harmful mockery of whipped cream.

"Artificial" Whipped Cream

Molded liver pastes

Liver itself is quite healthy because it does offer an array of benefits for your immune system and it encourages the production of collagen. It is also a great source of B-group vitamins such as vitamin B12, and it also contains folate. However, there are so many different ways to make liver look and taste good that this molded liver paste should never have been an option. Molded liver pastes are the ideal way to put your guests off and send them home early!

Molded Liver Pastes

If the look of this food appeals to you, then you may need to book a doctors consult. However, if you are curious as to what exactly goes into making these gross looking liver pastes, one pound of liver sausage, one tablespoon of lemon juice, one teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce, one and a quarter cup of mayonnaise, two teaspoons of plain gelatin, some stuffed olives, and pineapple top are all mixed together to create this monster food from the 70s.

Instant Mashed Potatoes

This food doesn’t sound all that bad, right? Well, it tastes a lot worse than it sounds. Anyone that has ever made mashed potatoes knows that it is one of the easiest foods to prepare and therefore, there is absolutely no reason why anyone should think an instant version is necessary.

Instant Mashed Potatoes

Making mashed potatos yourself will taste way better and it will probably save you a dollar or so.

Boiled Brussels Sprouts

Not many people enjoy brussels sprouts, possibly because they seem to have a somewhat strong taste. However, if they are prepared in a suitable manner, such as roasting, then they are quite tasty! These green veggies are also super nutritious and packed with antioxidants.

Boiled Brussels Sprouts

Boiling brussels sprouts is just begging for a disaster. Just don’t do it!

Twinkies

Twinkies are quite yummy, their spongy texture and cream filled center are admittedly delicious. However; despite the taste of these treats, they are extremely unhealthy and overly-processed.

Twinkies

What’s more, some people are willing to go as far as to actually deep fry twinkies! There is simply no excuse for such blatant disregard towards one's own health.

White People Tacos

This taco is the offensive cousin of the real taco, it is a taco with salad toppings, ground beef strips, yellow cheese, and sour cream.

White People Tacos

It’s time the real taco took back its rightful title! Real tacos consist of soft corn tortilla, strips of spicy beef, onion, and cilantro. Forget the crap that goes on white people tacos, it is nothing more than a mockery of what a taco is supposed to be.

Glazed Carrots

Carrots contain a significant amount of sugar, which is why they are so sweet. Not only do carrots contain enough sugar, but glazing carrots with sugar is really a terrible choice for your poor teeth. Perhaps the baby boomers had no concern for their teeth.

Glazed Carrots

These glazed carrots are probably also boiled. Roasting or eating carrots raw is something unheard of for the baby boomers.

Creamed Corn

Corn tastes great no matter how it is cooked, but why anyone thought it needs to be mixed together with cream is unknown. We should all just forget that creamed corn ever existed.

Creamed Corn

Not only is it extremely high on calories, but baby boomers usually eat it with other foods like spam and jello and that is just wrong. A meal of span and creamed corn is also extremely bad for your health and your weight.

Mayo And Bologna Sandwiches

Layer on the mayo, add some lunch meat between two slices of the iconic Wonder bread and you have yourself an extremely disgusting sandwich that contains absolutely no nutrients.

Mayo And Bologna Sandwiches

Even though this probably won’t kill you, it really is not good for you. All the calories, sodium, and preservatives in this meal will do your body and your taste buds nothing but harm. In addition to this, it is one of the smelliest things to have waiting in a lunch box, unless you like soggy mayo bread.

Fish Sticks

The picture on the box may look quite tasty but what’s inside the box is quite the opposite. Don’t be fooled by dramatized advertising, fish sticks look and taste terrible!

Fish Sticks

The crispy outside of fish sticks is only hiding the gross processed mush that lives within. Once again, there is really no reason anyone should go near fish sticks, especially if you don’t want instant heartburn!

Liver And Onions

Liver and onions are another perfect example of why baby boomers should have never been allowed in the kitchen. Even though liver does offer some great health benefits, this dish is simply insulting to anyone who has normal taste buds.

Liver And Onions

This dish can be easily found in a few diners and American home-style restaurants, but that does not mean you should eat it. It may be a traditional meal, but all the millennials would agree that it does not belong in today’s world.

Plain Toast

Plain toast is unquestionably one of the grossest foods around, while millennials are snapping pics of their avocado toast, baby boomers stubbornly munch away at dry and plain toast.

Plain Toast

It almost seems as though the baby boomers refuse to enjoy good food, considering how they hang on to their habit of toasting dry white sandwich bread and neglecting to even butter it.

Instant Mac’n’cheese

Once again, anything instant is really bad for you. However, the baby boomers felt otherwise. This radioactive orange cheese meal is really bad for your health and quite honeslty, it looks bad for your health too. The macaroni comes packaged with a bag of powdery gross orange cheese and a long list of chemicals that are shockingly bad for your body!

Instant Mac’n’cheese

Phlatates, which are man-made chemicals that can alter your hormones, are found in this very orange powdered cheese. This is what gives instant mac ’n’ cheese its extremely long shelf life. Other than that, it is really just a disgusting meal.

Pot Pies

Baby boomers just love pot pies! It does not matter if it’s homemade or purchased from the store. The flaky crust, steamy meat, and the veggie filling make up the ultimate comfort food for a baby boomer.

Pot Pies

Pot pies are not the worst tasting meal around, although, they do cause quite unpleasant stomach pains. It is probably best to leave them for the baby boomers who seem to have stomaches strong enough to endure them.

Scotch Eggs

Soft or hard-boiled eggs are stuffed inside suspicious-looking sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and then deep fried or baked. Not much in this world sounds any more disgusting than scotch eggs.

Scotch Eggs

Scotch eggs are quite frankly a complete disgrace to the world of food and it never should have existed.

Shrimp Sandwich Roll

Thank baby boomers for another meal drenched in mayonnaise. This sandwich roll stuffed with shrimp and smothered in mayonnaise is nothing short of disgusting.

Shrimp Sandwich Roll

It is time the baby boomers tasted a multi-grain bread sandwich, maybe then we could leave behind this horrific lunch.

Jellygrill Sandwich

Here is one terrifying sandwich that contains a list of already mentioned processed products. It is starting to seem as though baby boomers may not actually have had the ability to taste anything at all simply by looking at this jellygrill sandwich advert for Velveeta cheese. To make this scary-looking sandwich, you should start by layering some grape jelly onto a slice of Wonder Bread, add a few slices of overly-processed cheese, add another slice of Wonder Bread and then smother the outside with some high cholesterol margarine. And that is how you make a jellygrill sandwich.

Jellygrill Sandwich

You can eat this gross sandwich hot or cold, although, preferably, you should rather not eat it at all!

Cornflour Mold

So, you take some cornstarch, milk, a bit of sugar, add some vannila extract and you have the perfect punishment dessert for your children. The sad part of this recipe is that is was probably not a punishment dessert, but actually, a dessert that was expected to be enjoyed by the whole family. There are many uses for cornstarch, but none quite like this extremely disturbing dessert!

Cornflour Mold

It gets worse, this repulsive dessert is served with a side dish of canned fruit. Honestly, it should be advertised as a method of torturing your family.

Hot-Dog Fondue

This list seems to just get more and more disturbing. Here we have an extensive hot dog cutting chart.

Hot Dog Fondue

There really should not be so many different ways of cutting up a hot dog. The only decent place for a hot dog is on a hot dog bun.

Lobster Relish

You must be thinking it just cannot get any worse, but it does. Ever heard of lobster jello? It seems that the baby boomers really liked jello. Luckily, lobster jello is somewhat difficult to find these days, and there’s a very good reason. It is simply disgusting and horrific looking. This scary concoction consists of gelatin, vinegar, a pint of cream, shrimp, mayonnaise, and lobster.

Lobster Relish

While it really does look undeniably gross, it also has the added ability to make anyone vomit instantly. This really is no way to serve lobster.

Jellied Tomato Refresher

Here is another baby boomer recipe that relies on the dreaded jello. Jelly salad just doesn’t sound quite right, and that’s because it is not! This repulsive recipe requires gelatine, tomato juice, green pepper, artificial sweetener, beef broth, and other ingredients that just get worse and worse.

Jellied Tomato Refresher

This gross dish is low in calories and low in nutritional value. It is one of the 1974 Weight Watchers recipes and it may have been an extremely effective diet dish because it is highly unlikely that anyone would actually eat it!

Shrimp sandwich roll

Here’s another baby boomer food that looks a lot like a pile of vommit. Even though it may not have tasted all that terrible, the look of it is just off-putting.

Shrimp Sandwich Roll1

Baby boomers clearly lacked the need to enjoy photogenic food that is worthy of social media.

Tomato-Banana Tarts

These two foods just do not belong together. While bananas are great on their own, and tomatoes are also great on their own, if you put them together you will get this gross looking combo.

Tomato Banana Tarts

Just because tomatoes are a fruit, does not mean that they should be put with other fruits. This is by no means a fruit salad. There are so many other ways that you can prepare a great tasting fruit salad that there is no reason you should be thinking of throwing some tomatoe chunks in the mix.

Savory Jello Products

Food that bounces on your plate does not sound all that appetizing, to begin with.

Savory Jello Products

Even though plain jello is appropriate for situations where you simply cannot stomach any form of food, like when you have food poisoning, jello salad is just unacceptable and disgusting. As far as terrible food inventions go, jello salad is by far the worst and most likely why the 70s was the era of gross foods.

Concentrated Juice

Freshly squeezed fruit juice may be quite pricey, although, it is definitely worth the extra spend because it tastes great. There are also other options to avoid the high price of freshly squeezed fruit juice, such as buying cartons instead of smaller quantities.

Concentrated Juice

Baby boomers probably find the price of freshly squeezed fruit juice appalling, however, the taste of concentrated fruit juice is what’s really appalling! In addition to the bad taste, the process to get a glass of juice from concentrate is simply off-putting. Who has time to thaw the concentrate and add water and then wait forever for it to be ready? It seems baby boomers prefer the timely process and terrible taste.

“Italian” Foods

Everyone loves Italian food, but the baby boomers seem to be slightly confused with regards to what Italian food actually is.

Spaghetti And Meatballs

No, spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread are not genuine Italian cuisine.

Watergate Salad

Otherwise known as Shut the Gate Salad, Watergate salad is far worse than the Watergate scandal. If anyone comes near your house with a Wintergate salad, you really should just shut the gate on them.

Watergate Salad

The anything but charming salad is made up of jello instant pistachio pudding, marshmallows, canned pineapple, and topped with walnuts. Can you even imagine how terrible it must taste for the average person that actually has taste buds?

Strawberry Bon-Bons

In today’s world, there are thousands of different candy treats available. M&M’s, Hershey’s, Reese’s, and the tastiest chocolate bars.

Strawberry Bon-Bons

Yet to this day, the baby boomers are still handing out these tasteless strawberry candy things on Halloween. It is almost as though they want their homes to be trashed with eggs!

Aspic

If you are wondering what in this world could possibly be worse than jello, aspic is your answer! There is a really good chance that aspic really is the absolute worst invention to have ever come from the 70s, and that says a lot!

Aspic

If this picture looks at all appetizing to you, you are most definitely wrong. There is not one reason for anyone to be eating meat and gelatin together, even jello is a better sounding option!

Fruitcake

This cake usually makes an appearance during the festive season and it seems to look more like a Christmas tree decoration than anything edible.

Fruitcake

Even though fruitcake is quite a big holiday tradition, millennials seem to consider their own health more than any old tradition. When taking into account that these cakes are just sugar-filled tasteless and chewy, there really is no reason for anyone to be eating it.

Ham Salad

The baby boomers seem to really like mayonnaise. Here is another dish drenched in thick white cholesterol causing mayonnaise.

Ham Salad

Not only should ham and mayonnaise never be used together, but grapes and mayonnaise have no place together. That said, why are baby boomers not banned from kitchens?