Hey most of us stopped eating that way.

1987 was nearly 40 years ago...

Bruh I cook at home all the time and it never just looks like baby shit.

Right? And let's be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire

They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don't understand how just the way they're cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they're also soaked in lye or something. Or maybe the exposed inner part of the beans absorbs metal from the can.

Wait until you have family that say that daily meals are chronologically "breakfast, dinner, and supper."

It's kind of Bostonian too, but then it's pronounced "suppah".

Supper is eaten from 4-6 while dinner is eaten from 5-7 in my experience. Dinner is usually a heavier meal than supper, as well.

Wait, no one else calls it that?

Meals like this are exactly why I don't ever use condensed soup in anything I make. I've had a lot of meals like that growing up. My family, my grandparents, my friends families.. My wife still will make stuff like this sometimes. It's all just lazy mush to me. I can't stand it. Even my mother-in-law, who makes her own soup stock and makes bread and has her own chickens will make condensed soup and canned green bean mush. I just do not understand.

Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:

Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.

The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.

yeah, no, that's ambrosia for sure. cool whip and mandarin oranges

I was born in '87 and I distinctly recall eating a lot of canned veggies growing up. I'm sure it's what my mom grew up (in Newark, NJ) eating, and so it probably just passed on down when she was a young mother. I'm curious if canned veggies were just the rage at the time or if it was so because access to the fresh stuff wasn't as available.