"While you can still find products like Chef Boyardee's version on some store shelves, canned macaroni and cheese could never overcome the popularity of its boxed competition. The most famous name associated with canned mac and cheese was Franco-American, a subsidiary of Campbell that kept its name after the soup giant first acquired it in 1915."
"Canned mac and cheese was a nostalgic meal Despite never reaching the ubiquity of Kraft's blue box, Franco-American's canned version had a cult appeal. Fans still keep it alive on Facebook pages, where they trade copycat recipes and reminisce about its taste. A Change.org petition in 2019 even pushed for its comeback. Old images and recipes suggest the product was quite different from the mac and cheese we make today."
"For many people in the U.S., canned foods are not just an affordable staple - they are also a taste of nostalgia. But not every popular canned food has stood the test of time. Chances are that if you grew up in the 20th century, there's at least one discontinued canned food you wish you could taste one last time. In many cases, it was something like Campbell's Pepper Pot Soup, a long-running product first introduced in 1899 and made with honeycomb-textured beef tripe, which simply fell out of fashion over time."
Canned foods functioned as affordable staples and sources of nostalgia for many Americans. Some long-running canned items, like Campbell's Pepper Pot Soup introduced in 1899, eventually fell out of favor. Canned macaroni and cheese persisted after World War II but never matched boxed counterparts' popularity. Franco-American, acquired by Campbell in 1915, produced a canned mac and cheese popular through the 1960s–1980s and advertised by June Lockhart. Campbell discontinued the Franco-American brand in 2004 while folding other products into Campbell. Fans maintain a cult following online and even started a 2019 petition seeking the product's return.
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