Back in Time for Dinner - Season 1 Episode 5

The Campuses enter their home for the first time this decade to find the décor is all glass, brass and lacquer to reflect the new prosperity and openness of the era, that prosperity especially by who will be coined yuppies, the more affluent of the baby boomers. For the first time in the experiment, Tristan is banished from the kitchen in the preparation of the first meal, it, iconic to females of the time, which will ironically be prepared by the males. Men in the kitchen does not mean that the women's domestic duties were usurped. The new sense of adventure, which extended to cooking gourmet at home with more and more kitchen gadgets and people getting new ideas from cooking classes, was balanced by a new health trend as baby boomers were approaching the middle age bulge, that health both in diet and exercise. The former includes meatless meals with the use of non-animal protein ingredients such as tofu. The latter saw the onset of aerobics for women, and pumping iron for men, both while adorned in spandex. The mid-80s saw the rise of Japanese food, the California roll the gateway to the more adventurous raw fish sushi. What arguably changed the family dynamic was the introduction of the tech gadgets of the home video game console, hand held electronic games, and the videocassette recorder (VCR), which revolutionized the way people watched television. The late-80s saw another revolutionary kitchen appliance hit the market, the microwave oven which led to complete meals being cooked in such. Cultural novelties include Trivial Pursuit, friendship pins (the equivalent today of friending someone on Facebook), the pogo ball, and painting à la Bob Ross style. A style icon, especially for girls Valerie and Jessica's age, was Madonna, with big curly hair and bangs, and overtly sexualized feminine items mixed with overtly masculine items. The Campuses last meal of the decade is something with which they are more familiar in present day: the home delivered meal, specifically of the Canadian invention of the Hawaiian pizza.