My dad’s a meat, potatos and mixed veggies guy. Whicu worked great for him to gwt all that hearty calorie rich food because he was a construction worker, but I grew up unhealthy and fat as fuck because i’m a nerd and i was always a nerd
Now im fat as fuck due to my own choices but still
Maybe i should block hexbear, holy shit. Im going to watch some beheading videos as a palette cleanser.
Spoiler alert - I post 'em when I got 'em.
At least you provide bleach along with your pathogens.
You thought people hated us for “tankie” takes, but it is actually the shitty food posts.
Yeah, look, ive had a few really nice nights with a lady who thought Stalin did nothing wrong.
But this shit is vile, every one of you people deserves the wall, and i think most of you know it.
change his mind about what, continuing to live?
Was mayonnaise just discovered in the 50s or something? Every recipe seems to involve mayo, no matter how strange.
Can’t be called a salad if there isn’t oil, salt, and vinegar in it. Mayo is all of those things.
I’ve thought about that off and on for a while. Same with Jello. I think it mostly just coincides with the rise of mass factory food production. Mass chicken farms produce tons of short shelf life eggs that can get easily made into shelf stable mayo. And mayo is part of the pantheon of “things that are difficult to make at home, but I can buy a mass produced version cheaply at the store.” Then aggressive marketing on the parts of Hellman’s and Best Food’s. Probably something to do with refrigerated trucking being more common as well and the general trend towards those “quick and easy for the housewife” recipes.
I think mayo is inevitably american
I remember being a kid at a grandparent’s house and occassionally rummaging around the storage room and some book shelves and finding cookbooks and magazine articles like this. Seemed like they were almost always some food company sponsored thing.
For a second I thought this was a mushroom cloud from a nuke
I wish.
So like, they thought of cottage cheese the same we we think of like marscapone cheese in terms of a cheese cake yeah? I saw an old Italian recipe that used sweetened ricotta to make a cheese cake kinda thing. I can see the through line here. Just like a handful of benzidrine as was the style at the time and this makes sense
“Honey…”
“Yes, dear?”
“I’m gonna watch teevee. Could ya make me a donut prune salad and bring it to me on a silver tray with a G&T and a couple-a benzos?”
“Yes, of course.”
“You are the best wife.”
“You’re not so bad yourself.”
“I know.”
It is like looking into back into history
I refuse to believe that anyone has ever made this dish. The very idea that someone out there has prepared and possibly eaten a donut with a cottage cheese filled prune topping plated on a lettuce leaf with a side of mayonnaise… I cannot accept it. Even Nixon wouldn’t have eaten this.
A donut stuffed with a cottage cheese and prune filling would work. But stacked higher, open-faced, with mayo on lettuce? Not so much.
Nixon was born in 1913. The ad came out in 1947. It’s just my wild hunch but I can imagine Nixon eating shit like - oops - I mean traditional American cuisine like that in the 1950s. But maybe - cough - I have egg on my face. Could the “ad” be a 1947 version of The Onion?
Nixon had pretty ascetic tastes from his Quaker upbringing, he had odd to us stuff like the pineapple and cottage cheese @Florn@hexbear.net posted but this seems too excessive for him.
this is like the print media version of terrible-on-purpose cooking tiktoks
we need ann reardon to debunk this
Prune donuts are great, but this rest of this baffles me.
Eating that would result in one weird bowel movement.
at least one
Maybe none, and never again
YMMV but I think this would get resolved quickly and definitively.
Your movements may vary
what the actual fuck was going on in the 1950s
A bunch of poor people, who grew up on hunted and locally grown seasonal foods, where sugar and fat were expensive commodities, suddenly had cheap access to the (literal) fruits of imperialism and about a decade of government bolstering domestic industrial infrastructure on the cheap. Actually this is more of a 1930s-1940s thing that just culminated in a 1950s thing.
You spent your whole life eating backyard root vegetables stored in a dirt hole. Now you can go buy pineapples and bananas and coconuts, plus all the cream, cheese, sugars, and syrups you could. Nothing goes bad as quickly anymore because mass produced shelf-stable foods are new. Jello wasn’t something that took hours making anymore from scratch, you can go buy a cheap box of dried gelatin with flavor added. Mayo came from jars, not making emulsions at home. You can buy a lot of things pre-made and they’ll last longer than what you could make from scratch.
So from that you get mayonaise jello spam pies and banana ham suffles with syrup. People were trying everything they could. Their tastebuds were just amazed by salt and sugar.
This is the shit they told our parents to eat after forcing all our grandparents to give up their traditional recipes from home country
1950s tv series - kitchen scene
“Mom! Whatcha makin’?”
“It’s for your birthday TOMORROW.”
“But moooooooooom!”
“Well, don’t tell your father but you can have a little now as a treat.” She hands him one and he puts the whole thing into his gob.
“Timmy!”
“Arggggh… Ggggh… Mpph…!” he says.
They really were just throwing anything out there to see what would stick weren’t they
I need forty recipes on my desk by Friday or you’re fired! We’ve got a magazine to fill, Don!
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