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Monday, January 13. 2014

21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes


These are sure-fire ways to lose weight: 21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes (h/t Dr X)


It's funny, but also sad. We forget how relatively poor people were in America during and after the war. People tried to stretch things, and tried to make inexpensive food appealing. Nobody was eating steak or roast chicken for supper the way middle class people do now.


Truman campaigned on a chicken in every pot. Now you can get a delicious fat rotisserie chicken at Costco for $4.99 and $3.99 when it's on special.


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Those dishes look like they were concocted with vomit. It's from the aftermath of a night of drinking too much Jagermeister. Ugh City.
#1 mystomachsnotthatstrong on 2014-01-13 16:14 (Reply)
LOL! My "ewwwww' read for the day.

I think I have had some of those dishes at funeral lunches.
#2 feeblemind on 2014-01-13 17:45 (Reply)
That "banana candle" is just WRONG. I think I understand why jello is considered a salad in the mid-west.
#3 ama on 2014-01-13 17:57 (Reply)
The Spam and lima beans is the only dish that looks to be edible. Lol!
#4 Daphne on 2014-01-13 18:15 (Reply)
OK, my dear grandma thought these were great. So many look familiar! She made one of those loaf things for my bridal shower in 1982, and her friends in attendance ooed and ahhed! The younger crowd, not so much. The parlsey or olives on the cream cheese "frosting" served as a warning.
#5 guillaume on 2014-01-13 19:02 (Reply)
James Lileks' The Gallery Of Regrettable Food is the standard here. It makes a great gift for any number of people.

http://www.amazon.com/Gallery-Regrettable-Food-James-Lileks/dp/0609607820/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389669703&sr=1-1&keywords=gallery+of+regrettable+food
#6 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2014-01-13 22:24 (Reply)
this is not Forties' austerity food. this is fancy food from the Seventies! some of it made from pretty expensive ingredients, too, I'd imagine. The Gallery of Regrettable Food is truly a "delicious" experience and worth viewing ;-)
#7 magdalena on 2014-01-14 04:48 (Reply)
weirdest thing ever.

On Sunday I was reading a LHJ from 1947 and there was a recipe for egg and cheese puffs and inspired, I threw some crisco in an electric skillet and cooked some up.

I didn't think they were too bad, although a bit bland. nothing a lot of garlic powder, salt and extra cheese couldn't rectify.

These recipes here... not so much.
#8 figment on 2014-01-14 08:42 (Reply)
Truman campaigned on a chicken in every pot.

Err, that would be Herbert Hoover,though apparently he wasn't the first to utter it. The "chicken in every pot" phrase came not from Hoover himself, but from a 1928 campaign ad.

One of the "21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes" was Liver Sausage Pineapple. Which reminds of of a story told about my preschool years. One day at lunch there was a liverwurst sandwich on my plate. I informed my mother that there was no way that I was going to eat that liverwurst sandwich. After all, it was worse than liver and I already knew I didn't like liver.
#9 Gringo on 2014-01-14 13:34 (Reply)
Have you never seen James Lileks's "Gallery of Regrettable Food?" He's covered this sort of thing brilliantly at book length.
#10 BlogDog on 2014-01-14 20:46 (Reply)

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