Chefs Tell Us The 17 Old-School Foods They Wish Would Make A Comeback

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Chefs Tell Us The 17 Old-School Foods They Wish Would Make A Comeback By Holly Riddle Aug. 31, 2025 3:40 pm EST

Foods come and go. Sometimes, trends and fads inspire dishes like the cronut or milkshakes overloaded with dramatic toppings — dishes that experience meteoric rises to fame on social media, before their flames are snuffed out for good. Other times, foods grow in popularity due to necessity, as was the case with foods like vinegar pie , coming into the mainstream during the Great Depression, when ingredients were scant, or the English potato pie during the First World War, which fed soldiers on rations.

However they came to be, some once-popular vintage and old-school foods have been lost to history, and according to the professionals, they rea