from spam and fondue to the cabbage soup diet people have been going bananas for
tasty trends since the beginning of time today we're covering the most popular food
fads in the last 100 years and we're going to talk more about human blood than you'd expect
wow we're not nutritionists and can't endorse any of these food fads one thing we can do is
count them down by the decade so strap on the feed bag because it's time to get chomping
believe it or not there was a time when the general public had never heard the term calorie
a utopian era where food was thought of as nourishment people lived in pure naive bliss
well until the 1920s when lulu hunt peters came along and warped our perception of
food and nutrition forever peters touted a diet technique that helped her lose 70
pounds and she dubbed it calorie counting she wrote diet and health with key to the
calories to convince the masses to bring mathematics into their meals and it quickly
became america's first best-selling diet book making her into a different kind of fat cat
beggars couldn't be choosers when it came to food in the 1930s for many it was a time of take what
you can get and make it into something that could stretch meals for a week enter the casserole the
sauces were creamy and thick with two seeds the noodles were cheap and the combo made for
delicious and incredibly filling dinners that only required a small amount of expensive meat
perhaps the most appealing part of the casserole is that you can throw literally any combo of
ingredients in a dish toss it in the oven and call it a casserole and yeah we really mean anything
green beans cheese sauce and egg noodles that's a casserole tuna broccoli gravy and rice casserole
canned beef gelatin peas and vinegar somehow despite the odds still a casserole
the war effort in the 1940s had every american making sacrifices including scarfing down canned
meat yep uncle sam was slinging spam pork water salt starch sugar and sodium nitrate
ground up and stuffed into a can delish spam became the unofficial food of the world war ii era
when distributor hormel sent 100 million pounds of spam overseas to feed american and allied soldiers
though spam soared in popularity due to the fact that it was convenient
cheap and just barely meat not everyone was a fan executive j hormel actually collected
hate mail from american gis who were sick of choking down their daily ration of spam
turn the tv on it's dinner time as soon as television became widespread people began
to plop their keisters down in front of the tube every evening for hours on end eventually they had
to eat and thus the tv dinner was born according to one popular version of the story the origin of
the swanson tv dinner was the result of a major turkey miscalculation around thanksgiving 1953.
the poultry company over-ordered for the holiday and was left with over 260 tons
of extra frozen turkey so they packaged it up into aluminum trays and launched the tv dinner
boob tube enthusiasts all around the country embraced the futuristic convenience of the frozen
meals and within a year swanson had sold over 10 million turkey tv dinners ah the 1960s the
golden age of frighteningly jiggly and unnaturally transparent bundt cake julo we're talking jello in
the 60s jello was not just marketed as a sugary dessert made from the collagen of animal bones
but as a staple of the dinner table the 1964 book the joy of cooking featured an
entire section dedicated to making jello dishes for every occasion for dinner expect jello salad
made with tuna chicken or even pasta the savory slime boasted flavors like celery mixed vegetable
and italian salad because nothing screams traditional italian delicacy quite like jello
when we think 70s we think shag carpets swinging parties and of course
fondue while dipping things in melty cheese dates back to the dawn of man fondue really
flowed onto the scene after being featured in the swiss pavilion at the 1964 world's fair
as part of a marketing scheme to increase demand for swiss cheese exports
it soon became a popular way of socializing with friends while also eating yummy cheese and getting
minor burns from the hot melting pot of course as the fad grew in the states americans had to make
it even more sugary sweet when a swiss american restaurateur introduced chocolate fondue in the
late 60s by the 70s fondue became associated with the sexual revolution because of its popularity
among young adults and the reputation of fondue parties being warm and intimate affairs the
opposite of guzzling hot cheese is the next food fad on our list the atkins diet atkins pushes the
idea of a low carbohydrate diet to encourage the body to metabolize stored fat instead of glucose
for energy in layman's terms no carbs one key loophole you were permitted to eat large portions
of food to avoid hunger as long as you stayed the hell away from bread atkins rose in popularity
because it seemed to be the anti-diet diet going against the status quo of the time today people
are still subscribing to the adkins diet or a similar trends derived from it such as keto
one of the hottest trends of the 80s was cabbage patch dolls and when the dolls were ground into a
fine paste you get the next food fad on our list whoops sorry no uh we're seeing here that it's
actually made from vegetables it's the cabbage soup diet passed around in faxes and photocopies
like a chain letter this seven day diet was all cabbage soup all the time with a few fruits and
vegetables thrown in for crunch some say this diet is so effective it can help you drop 17 pounds
in just one week and the best and possibly the worst part is that you get unlimited cabbage soup
still not convinced well lucky for you nutritionists say that this much cabbage
is definitely not good for long-term dietary needs and you should probably find a better diet sorry
sexy vampires were everywhere in the 90s which makes it no surprise
that blood was on the minds of those hoping to get a brad pitt level bond
introduced in 1996 by naturopathic physician peter d'adamo the blood type diet was all the rage but
it had more to do with matching your food intake to your blood type the styles were the cultivator
the nomad the enigma and the hunter which each matched to a different blood type for example a
person with type a blood or cultivator should eat a vegetarian diet while type o or hunter
should eat high protein foods like meat poultry and fish no scientific evidence was ever given
for why each blood type was given its nickname or why those nicknames dictated what you ate as
with many fads that were mostly nonsense people in the 90s were really into it and it was a bad idea
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people from outside south america may not know exactly how to pronounce it but we do know that
it was part of the biggest diet trend of the early aughts superfoods the term superfood
wasn't fresh in the new millennium the first use of the term may be a 1949 canadian muffin recipe
although the concept was promoted in the 1910s to drive up sales of bananas
by the 2000s it came to mean any food containing an extra health boosting ingredient
which rose to popularity by 2007. today superfoods are a multi-billion
dollar industry and includes superior nom noms like blueberries seaweed turmeric
chia and flaxseed basically if you'd put it in a smoothie it's probably a superfood
just like the meteoric rise of justin bieber in 2010
one moment they were only in guacamole and the next they were everywhere
avocados the justin bieber of foods believe it or not avocados are actually a berry that is high in
fiber healthy fats and potassium avos have been around since 10000 bc where the indigenous peoples
of central america called the fruit ahukatu which translates to testicle we have no idea why
it's truly a mystery today avocados top every meal from breakfast lunch and dinner even dessert yes
avocado ice cream has long been popular in south and southeast asia avo's are so popular in the
u.s that the average person in 2018 consumed over three times as many avocados as in 2001.
it's safe to say avocados have maintained a better reputation throughout the last decade
than the biebs the next fad on our list is not a food yet lack thereof intermittent fasting is a
term given to fasting diets where the common goal is to limit eating to a time restrictive window
there's the 5-2 diet where you eat normally for five days and then eliminate solid foods
for two days there's the 18-16 where you fast for 18 hours of the day straight and then are
allowed to eat within a hour window so on and so on intermittent fasting is all about getting
the body's insulin levels as low as they can go safely the idea is if your insulin levels drop
far enough for long enough it will burn fat with celebs like oprah and jennifer aniston
mentioning it in the press it's easy to see why people everywhere are getting in the fast lane
it's beyond impossible to be alive in 2020 and not know about the meat alternative craze
plant-based meat alternatives have been around for decades but recent advances
in the industry have made them more realistic in flavor and texture enticing meat eaters to
dabble in the meatless fields where once only vegetarians and vegans would roam
it's become so popular that even fast food joints like burger king carl's jr and white castle have
added meat alternative burgers to their menus aside from the meatless meat substitute there's
been a growing trend of eating less meat overall popularized by hashtags such as meatless monday
sales of alternatives like jackfruit tofu tempeh and legumes have increased to meat demand
a recent report claimed that by 2040 60 of meat consumed will either be plant-based or lab-grown
move over cows we've got something better on the grill the younger brother of the atkins
diet don't count keto out in 2020. social media has helped this carb limiting diet
gain popularity in recent years the goal of keto is to achieve ketosis which requires a diet that
is seventy to ninety percent fat six to twenty percent protein and five percent carbohydrates
nutritionists are not fans of keto and many of them warn that the diet is not sustainable
and can cause possible long-term health risks despite being shunned by experts keto is still
popular among the average jane looking to drop a dress size fast according to google recently
there have been more searches for the keto diet than other trendy diets such as paleo whole30 or
intermittent fasting never mind the potential health risks keto is catapulting to the tongue
well now we're full of avocados and acai we have a bit of a stomachache and we need to go double
check our blood type to make sure we're not supposed to be vegetarian what we're saying is
this list was a lot to digest but we loved sharing every last bite stick a fork in us we're done
you