19 Foods That Gen X and Boomers Once Considered Sophisticated Even Though They Aren’t

Back in the day, if your parents got a Hickory Farms gift basket, they felt regal for at least a week. All those meats, cheeses, crackers, etc., were packaged to look as fanciful as possible.

Nowadays, the food is still great, but these are gifts you give a relative when you have no clue what to give them. They’re a crowd-pleaser for sure, but they’re not very fancy by today’s standards.