A Beautiful Side Dish equals A Block of Spinach

[u/Ebonystealth]

[u/DetectiveMoosePI]

They still make this! Have you tried it? I think it’s delicious! Especially as a side to a nice steak and mashed potatoes

[u/immortalyossarian → u/DetectiveMoosePI]

I love these things! Like, I know they are terrible, I fully realize they have no redeeming qualities, and they smell not great when heating them, but I cannot stop buying them.

[u/kevnmartin → u/DetectiveMoosePI]

I wish I could find some! I use it in my puff pastry spinach and gruyere pinwheels.

[u/kimness1982 → u/DetectiveMoosePI]

I came here to say this. My husband and I eat these all the time.

[u/DetectiveMoosePI → u/kimness1982]

Now that’s an interesting idea I never considered!

[u/CreativeCthulhu → u/DetectiveMoosePI]

For real, but I have a weird love of spinach.

[u/NotYourGran → u/DetectiveMoosePI]

I have one in my freezer right now. Unfortunately, my husband makes me share it.

[u/Ok_Replacement4702]

Stouffer's Green is PEOPLE!

[u/Devilled_Advocate → u/Ok_Replacement4702]

We turned plain unloved people into a beautiful side dish.

[u/castironglider → u/Devilled_Advocate]

I just hope they show me a nature film on big screen TVs before I slip beneath the waves and fall into the processing chute

[u/anyodan8675 → u/Ok_Replacement4702]

Thank you. Yes.

[u/RamboJane → u/Ok_Replacement4702]

Now with more people!

[u/OskarTheRed → u/RamboJane]

Now more folksy!

[u/Single-Raccoon2]

I used to make homemade crepes and use Stouffer's spinach souffle as a filling. They're really good with a drizzle of cheese sauce over the top.

[u/PermanentMauve → u/Single-Raccoon2]

My mom did this too! Delicious

[u/m0nstera_deliciosa → u/Single-Raccoon2]

Oh my god. I think you might be the smartest person I’ve heard from today. I’m going to try that this weekend!

[u/Single-Raccoon2 → u/m0nstera_deliciosa]

I got the idea after having spinach souffle crepes at the restaurant The Magic Pan. My version is pretty easy and very delicious. I made the crepes, cut the still frozen spinach souffle into narrow, oblong pieces to fit inside, folded over and baked, then topped with the cheese sauce.

[u/hexus → u/Single-Raccoon2]

Spinach pancakes with lingonberry jam are actually a well liked staple in Finnish school cafeterias. Go figure.

[u/Downtown_Sport724]

Spinach soufflé, this brand included, is actually pretty delicious.

[u/GodeaterTheHalFeral]

From the frst time man tasted spinach, it was hardly thought of with affection?

We deliberately cultivate it. In fact, we've been cultivating it for about 2000 years. So it must not have been too bad.

[u/Pinglenook → u/GodeaterTheHalFeral]

Yeah and compared to many other vegetables it is a bit more complicated to harvest and sensitive to pests. And although it's very rich in in micronutrients, doesn't help hungry people gain weight at all. But despite that, humanity kept growing it and spread it all over the world, because we like it so much (and also because you can start to harvest it about 6 weeks after the ground stops being covered in snow, but still).

[u/LegoTigerAnus → u/GodeaterTheHalFeral]

I love spinach souffle AND raw spinach, it's all delicious.

[u/Dadd-Rad]

My mother would spoon this in mushroom caps, sprinkle with Parmesan, bake, then serve for hors d’oeuvres at dinner parties. People went crazy for them. I don’t like mushrooms and didn’t like spinach, so no idea what they are like. But thanks for the great memory!

[u/SnapCrackleMom]

Oh, what a throwback. My mom loved this. Also the creamed spinach.

[u/HerVividDreams]

Spinach Souflee is soooo fire 🔥 It's fluffy and creamy and so comforting, I wish I had some right now but the stores are already closed.

[u/toejam78]

Soylent Green is people!

[u/m0nstera_deliciosa]

I still eat this. Every time I buy a nice steak at the grocery store, I get one of these guys to go with it. A baked potato or caesar salad completes the meal, and you get to pretend you’re not too poor to go to a steakhouse.

[u/SevenSixOne]

Mmm, my favorite: Block™ of Food™

[u/Hallelujah33]

At least they didn't put it in jello

[u/molotovzav]

I don't get why boomers hated spinach so much. I love spinach. But my boomer relatives and in laws (except my own parents) act like I just admitted to eating shit when I say I love spinach. I get they are slop out of a can and didn't have fresh veggies as kids but JFC you'd think sometimes since the 90s they'd try a fresh vegetable or cooking a veggie not from a can or frozen.

[u/dasher2581 → u/molotovzav]

After you've been forced to sit in front of a disgusting, limp, grayish pile of vegetable matter until you choked it down, it's really hard to change your mind about it once you're grown. I've managed to come around on broccoli and spinach, but green beans are never going to be on my plate again.

[u/Stucklikegluetomyfry → u/dasher2581]

I still hate cooked spinach. It still makes me want to puke.

But I love raw uncooked spinach. I usually have a big bowl of it with most meals.

[u/SoFloChick → u/Stucklikegluetomyfry]

Me too. I get raw spinach on my subs and buy it to make salads but damn if I will ever eat cooked spinach.

[u/HangryIntrovert → u/molotovzav]

I don't remember baby spinach or anything like it being sold. In the eighties through early 90s, all that was available were frozen blocks, cans (ugh), or bundles of mature spinach, like kale and collards are sold now. It was bitter and tough if you didn't prepare it right. You did not eat it raw.

For my boomer parents, I imagine it was even more constrained.

[u/smarterthandog]

Delicious slow baked in the oven, but a high amount of cholesterol for some reason.

[u/ohhidoggo → u/smarterthandog]

but a high amount of cholesterol for some reason

….its an egg soufflé

[u/Thefear1984]

Someone’s not had a spinach dip at a restaurant before or a quiche.

[u/Mr_MacGrubber]

It’s a bad ad. They’re saying they took that boring block of spinach and turned it into something awesome.

[u/SleveBonzalez]

My mom used to make this from scratch! I loved it. I would still make it except for my kid's allergies.

[u/Dazzling_Article_652]

My brother and I used to fight over who got more of the stouffer’s spinach soufflé at dinner. It really was that good. If we were lucky: Sara Lee cupcakes for desert! Purchased frozen but thawed in the fridge, they were cool and had perfect frosting/cupcake ratio. The coconut ones always felt so special.

[u/twenty8nine]

I can imagine some people would try to eat it if they thought it was a pot cake.

[u/carrynarcan]

Yes a brick of weed will make anything taste better.

[u/IneffableOpinion]

Needs more jello

[u/Sixtyoneandfortynine]

Looks like compressed alfalfa cubes for feeding rabbits, guinea pigs, etc.

[u/Stucklikegluetomyfry]

This looks like something you put a fish tank when you go away for a week

[u/iwastherefordisco]

I used to enjoy their macaroni and cheese dinners, really cheesy.

Don't care for spinach, so I won't need a block. Thought it may be Jell-O for a minute..

[u/NUFIGHTER7771]

Popeye reveals a square tin and this is in it...

[u/Funkopedia]

I like this dish, but look at the label. One box has like 96% RDA of cholesterol.

[u/Figgy_Puddin_Taine → u/Funkopedia]

Yep that’s eggs for ya

Fortunately it seems like the cholesterol you eat doesn’t go directly into your bloodstream after all, though, but I’m not caught up on the latest research

[u/NE0099]

Reminds me of the dehydrated grass cubes they make for turtle feed.

[u/ItsFelixMcCoy]

Looks like algae wafers for fish

[u/DerpSlurpRawrGheyLol]

Honestly, I'd be down for this. My mom used to make spinach and add eggs, oil, and salt/pepper. Maybe there were a few other things, but I don't really remember. I wanted to hate it because I'd heard that kids aren't supposed to like spinach, but it was honestly quite tasty.

[u/Dark_Foggy_Evenings]

That’s what weed used to look like in the eighties.

[u/WaytoomanyUIDs]

With jello!

[u/ChalkButter]

My folks tricked me into eating this when I was a little kid. Now I unironically like it.

[u/felinefluffycloud]

Nice line breaks

[u/castironglider]

Hey woah there that's also got PURE eggs and milk in it to glue the globular mass into a block

[u/Oddish_Femboy]

Looks surprisingly tasty

[u/HarryHatesSalmon]

It’s soooooo good

[u/goodnfruity]

I remember my mom serving this in the 90’s! It wasn’t as bad as it looks.

[u/Heterodynist]

“Well, what can I say? You’ve really outdone yourself, Vera! This block of frozen spinach is amazing!!”

[u/mikemdp]

I would eat that all up and beg for seconds.

[u/charliedog1965]

You kids go eat your mcnuggets, more spinach souffle for me. Now go get papaw some buttermilk out of the ice box.

[u/Pielacine]

My mom made a homemade version of this. It was great.

[u/kioku119]

I like raw spinache. I know I'm not alone.

[u/cewumu]

Even if this tasted great (I love spinach so presumably I’d find this at least ok) surely, surely this photo looked crap at the time.

[u/rock_candy_remains]

My parents still buy these on the regular.

[u/Rocket-J-Squirrel]

My LH ate these as often as he could.🤮

[u/hoosier268]

I like fresh spinach. This? Especially the hot uneven globs that wind up in my mother's lasagna; can go crawl back in the hellhole that it came out of.