Has anyone tried making those horrific 50s recipes posted here?
>>7709762
Literally every single thing about this image makes me want to bash a pregnant woman's face in with a hammer, cut out her spawn, and feed it to a colony of flesh-eating cockroaches.
>>7709723
If my wife in the 40's would make this i'd beat the fuck out of her
>>7709776
What's your issue with grapes?
>>7709793
I'd chow that down in a heartbeat.
>>7709793
I am currently vomiting on my grandmother thanks to this 'recipe.'
Fuck you Cambells Soup!
>>7709800
I love grapes. That's why I fucking hate that they're being used as a bed to garnish a turkey in some horrifying attempt at "fancy" presentation.
>>7709799
No, just no...
There is no way that anyone ever thought this was a god idea.
This is just old school trolling, that has to be it.
>>7709799
That genuinely looks good. Would devour. Would be even better if they were non-sweet plantains.
>>7709809
So, you would eat the grapes?
>>7709812
Im from a culture where the carb staples are rice and bananas and let me tell you, satanspawn, i would not touch that shit with a yardstick
>>7709812
You should probably look into euthanasia.
>>7709799
I like Hawaiian Pizza I'd probably like this
"Lime Cheese Salad"
>>7709828
Besides everything else wrong with this... It doesn't tell you how to make the seafood salad. 0/10.
>>7709822
That's an odd request, but I'd be happy to euthanize you.
>>7709813
Not when they've had a turkey with a ridiculous tuxedo crust lying atop them.
>>7709793
Is this even real? Jesus damn, the olives? Tuna and waffles though. Man, everything here. And dinner for the whole family. Shit.
Yo nigga we heard you like pears.
We also heard you like Miracle Whip.
So we brought two great flavors together at least by taking half a canned pear, and dropping a huge fucking load of miracle whip on it.
Then you shove it into your face hole and enjoy.
>>7709985
ruining pears by adding dressing... just thinking about the taste makes me gag
>>7709993
It makes me gag 9 times
>>7709852
I would eat this. Kinda tempted to actually try...
>>7709852
gelatinized potato salad
no
>>7709985
My wife does this whenever I buy pears. I don't buy pears too much anymore.
>someone made the shrimp mould
http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2014/05/mid-century-guest-test-saturday-shrimp-mold-or-ptsd-on-a-platter/
>>7709985
"good old-fasioned boiled dressing"
Those were dark times
ITT: Myopic children with very little life experience (and seemingly zero understanding of history or culinary context) masturbate each other by despising foods from another time, all the while missing the irony of being prudish and close-minded while assuming themselves worldly and knowledgeable about food.
>>7710036
The gelatin is only in the glaze. Otherwise the potato salad is just chilled.
>>7710122
wow dude ur so cool and smart
>>7709985
>_Only_ Miracle Whip can make pears taste so good!
I dispute this claim.
>>7710045
Solution: buy pears, but do not by Miracle Whip.
>>7709716
What's wrong with that, exactly? Are you grossed out by the word "suet"? It's just beef dumplings in sauce.
I made that warm dr pepper with lemon before. It was not ... bad I guess?
This is what food still looks like in the midwest. If you think it's anything less than the best food in the universe, you're anti-American yurop poor and you'll stop at nothing short of the total destruction of America and all Americans (at least we're not the south).
>>7710122
>implying we didn't grow up with some of these foods and despise them for being terrible ideas in hindsight, and even worse in execution
Flippity Floo, here's your (You)
>>7710274
He's just shitposting.
>>7709716
I don't know about this recipe but steak puddings made with suet are a British Classic.
>>7710314
Like which one of these things did you grow up with?
>>7709809
This was a simple time... Honestly I feel like stuff like this would be the norm for good home cooks. Grapes as a garnish
>>7709793
Holy shit.
A lot of the gross af foods were born out of necessity... You know all the wars and bad shit going down. Many people were poor
>>7710356
looks awful and i'm british
>>7709762
This is adorable
>>7710122
>Myopic children with very little life experience
Because we don't like mayo mixed w/ gelatin and poured on everything....
here is your obligatory (You) you want so bad
>>7710580
>looks awful and i'm british
And I'm 20 foot tall.
>>7710580
>He thinks a Steak & Kidney pudding looks awful
>Claims to be British
Sure thing Hank. Why not prove how British you are by misusing the word "wanker", that'll sure fool everyone.
>>7710564
The gelatin-based stuff came from back when instant gelatin showed up.
Suddenly you didn't have to be rich or boil bones all day to experience that fancy aspic cuisine.
>>7709716
You mean to tell me no one tried making these white people cuisines? What a shocker.
>>7710105
>"the hubs"
>>7710356
looks disgusting. carrots, green beans and broccolis boiled in water.
typical british food
>>7710631
>carrots
>green beans
>broccolis
Oh the horror! Vegetables!
>boiled in water.
Those look steamed to me.
No you're right, best stick to your tendies anon.
>https://vintagerecipecards.com/2014/07/14/tuna-and-pear-pizza/
>>7709852
I'm seriously considering making this the next time I'm invited for a meal
>>7710629
http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/02/liver-pate-en-masque-a-retro-gelatin-dare/
>>7710772
>tuna and pear pizza
>it's actually anchovies and prunes
I'm okay with this.
>>7710843
> anchovies and prunes
That's what it looked like to me.
I would try it.
>>7710105
Did people actually like this shit back then? I know that a lot of cuisine in the mid-20th century was a very gaudy attempt at looking refined and/or French but come on now.
>>7710772
I read it as "Tuna and beer" and that seemed better, somehow.
>>7709985
This is actually very good, add a tiny bit of cheese on top and you have something very special.
I am not even joking.
My grandmother used to make this for me in my youth.
>>7710888
Minis the boiled part..
http://denbrunamaten.se/
This family cooks and reviews old recipes. It's in Swedish, but I think the pictures speak for themselves.
>>7709776
But it's got a cute lil bowtie
>>7709799
This recipes are wild, I wonder how different people's tastebuds were...or were they just cramming "exotic" stuff into everything
>>7710426
Someone answer this question. I'm thirty, and mayo gelatin salads were already a discredited meme when I was a kid. Do we have any 40somethings here?
>>7710838
>Tom let’s me do this
>Tom let us me do this
That whole blog is really annoying to read.
>>7710772
>Fruit Producers Council
If I was in a band, and also if I was an orchard, I would name myself this.
>>7710934
50 year Britbong here.
I do recall my mother watching Fanny Craddock doing this sort of stuff but I can't recall eating much.
>>7710631
Oh please . . .you see it's British food and you just have to find a feeble excuse to slate it, Why?
>>7709852
> Potato salad
> FRESH TO THE LAST SLICE
> Salad
> Slice
Wasn't there a series of articles on Cracked a while ago that did exactly that?
>>7710580
>>7710631
>Americans will never stop obsessing over us
I made this once
>>7711193
A combination of obsession and /ck/s overall poor moderation allowing it to run rampant.
>>7710122
Oh, shut up and face the fact that the 20th Century was truly an awful time for food in America because people abandoned traditional cooking for "modern" bullshit invented in some industrial test kitchen to sell more prepared mayo, canned soup, gelatin, frozen vegetables and various "mixes". The entire focus was doing as little actual cooking as possible by relying on prefab ingredients.
The results are some pretty grim shit. Pic related..
>>7711519
To be fair, cheese and pineapple hedgehogs are pretty standard for parties.
>>7711546
>what dustbowl
>what depression
>what world war
>veterans' widows could've cooked fresh homemade meals every day if they'd just slow-cooked their bootstraps
>>7711549
Yes, Ladybird books were made for kids but when I was young, we never used orange it was usually Pineapple or Apple.
Infact Cheddar and Apple are a very good combination and to go one step further try stilton with grapes . . .it's godly.
>>7711546
>shitting on green bean casserole
get the fuck out of here
>>7711592
Like I said, the 20th Century was brutal for food in America. The dustbowl, the depression and WWII were part of it. The rise of industrialized food production, the supermarket, women in the workforce and modern advertising were huge factors as well.
But the results were a whole lot of really awful, degraded foods being normalized as part of our cuisine.
>>7711645
It's trash, just like pic related. And that's the tragedy of 20th Century American cuisine. This kind of garbage not only became normal, but became part of people's family traditions. Which is just plain sad.
>>7711710
>the good things
Here (you) go
>>7711731
>(you)
is this some new meme
>>7710122
Agreed. people don't value the aesthetic of party food anymore, or any food at all for that matter.
I say this because since comfort food is alright, but sometimes the requirement is to spruce things up a bit and show off your skill, not to make a brown buffet that caters directly to guests appetite. It's an aged practise but I can see the point of it, and it is good.
>>7711710
I would make the case that the 20th Century degraded our tastes so badly that we actually feel fondness toward a whole bunch of foodgore tier dishes.
>>7711746
how is this any different than a normal hot dog except with a pastry shell instead of a bread roll
>>7711746
I've never been a candied yams person, and while I like green bean casserole it isn't precious to me. But bashing pigs in a blanket is TOO FUCKING FAR.
Rhett and Link did these, I think.
>>7711677
Why do americans put marshmallow on sweet potato? I suppose it's fine as a dessert, but do you honestly eat that as a savoury side?
>>7709995
Clever
It's really interesting to see what half a century of cooking change looks like.
>>7711746
>a simple combination of bread and sausage aka carbs and fat/protein
>food gore
It's b a s i c but it's not foodgore.
>>7711755
>>7711759
It's a matter of how degraded the starting ingredients are.
>>7711774
>it's not foodgore.
Take the ingredient list into account and it is.
>>7711786
??? I thought that was just croissant dough wrapped around a wiener.
>>7709810
or its from when Britain got bananas again after 15 years without them
>>7711746
So it's a poor mans sausageroll.
>>7711789
Two ingredients, rite?
Crescent roll dough:
Enriched Flour Bleached (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Soybean and Palm Oil, Sugar, Hydrogenated Palm Oil, Baking Powder (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate). Contains 2% or less of: Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Mono and Diglycerides, Vital Wheat Gluten, Dextrose, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Xanthan Gum, TBHQ and Citric Acid (preservatives), Yellow 5, Color Added, Red 40.
Do I even have to list what's in the hot dog to make a case for this being foodgore?
>>7710600
a mix between a few factors. Colour cameras weren't that great and neither was the printing equipment (or inks) they used. Shit was made to be cheap. Also early understanding of food photography. Well, in comparison with today where it's such an art.
>>7711854
SO flour, oils, baking powder, sugar and salt. Plus additives that make it last enough for industrial food production to be at all viable. What exactly are you crying about?
>>7711815
>I can totally choke this down if I'm drunk enough
Pretty much how Midwestern '''food''' got invented
>>7709716
There's a YouTube channel just for that called "Making it Modern."
>>7711875
My point is that so much food in 20th Century America went through this kind of degradation. And when instead of using ingredients you start off with industrially produced stepped on garbage you turn a dish that might have started out as a good idea into foodgore.
Really, how different is opening a CAN OF DOUGH and wrapping it around a hot dog any less disgusting than hollowing out a loaf of bologna and stuffing it with mashed peas? Both dishes aren't really cooking - they're combining garbage tier prepared foods in novel ways.
But that doesn't change the fact you're preparing garbage, and this particular kind of garbage was developed in 20th Century America.
>>7711905
If it wasn't for American LIVES sacrificed for you cucks, you'd have been lining up for bread with the rest of the Communists in 20th century Europe
Must be why you're so obsessed with us
>>7711932
Hey, man, I'm American. We did a lot of great and not so great stuff during the 20th Century. Unfortunately most of our food fell into the not so great camp. Thankfully that's history, and we can start doing better if we so choose. Or we can keep eating pic related.
>>7711932
Wow . . . .are there still people who believe this?
I guess it's some sort of PTSD.
>>7710888
>My grandmother used to make this for me in my youth.
somehow i read that as "My grandmother used to shit in my mouth."
>>7711956
>PTSD
More like STUPID. We got a lot of that here.
>>7710356
Steak Puddings are the shit. I have 1 every Tuesday
>>7711952
>American
>Commiefornia
Pick one
>ITT shit taste plebs act superior
>>7712001
Not a fan of Cali, either, which is why I never moved there. But it is better than a lot of the shitholes where people claim to be "real Americans" live. Some of the stuff they eat in places like that is just plain inexcusable. Pic related.
>>7711905
>industrially produced stepped on garbage
It seems like industry equals shit for you. This is untrue. Industry assures a constant quality. The specific level of quality depends on the target.
>>7711826
Sausage rolls aren't exactly haute cuisine to begin with
My mom used to occasionally make breakfast burritos for lunch/dinner. She'd use a 2-burner cast iron pan to fry some grated potatoes and chopped onions, then push them aside to cook some bacon and then scramble some eggs. Two scoops plus some hot sauce in a tortilla, and it was honestly fucking perfect.
Then one day she got lazy and decided to just mix grated potatoes, pre-cooked bacon, and beaten eggs and pour it into the crock pot, put that shit on high and leave it for 3-4 hours. What emerged was the most unpleasant gelatinous mess. For some reason it smelled like ass and it had the consistency of wet cheese.
She insists its just as good but no one fucking touches it when she makes it now.
>>7712061
And? Only a pretentious dickhead cares about something like that.
>>7712061
They are still lightyears ahead of a hotdog wrapped in what ever that is.
>>7711963
but anon that's what he said
>>7709985
My dad eats pear halves with mayonnaise and shredded cheddar cheese on it. For fucks sake, my middle and high school would serve that shit for lunch. I think it's kind of a southern thing.
>>7712026
And where are you from, you fuck? I can find just as much disgusting shit people eat there.
>>7712146
If he is insulting Cali, then he is most likely a flyover.
>>7712046
Mass marketed products to price sensitive consumers leads to a race to the bottom as far as quality is concerned. And that happened well before most posters here were born. I would guess many posters here have never even tried good quality cheese, ham or chicken, and have no idea anything better than the mass produced garbage they're eating actually exists, because it has so much become the standard..
These people and their fucking gelatin, man
>american cuisine
no wonder you guys are dying on fast food. Look at all this crap.
>>7711952
bbq chicken pizza is a gift from god, do not knock it
>>7710296
Never ever traveling to the midwest. Thanks for the warning, friend. What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>7711546
This. Actual poor people wouldn't have brand name jellos, mayo, canned soup, and other shit. They would have fucking rice, beans, and potatoes.
>>7711677
Fuck you though, that shit is great. Like a dessert.
>>7711766
What part of that looks savory to you? It's sweet, like cornbread or a glass or milk or something.
>>7712193
This. I thought turkey deli meat was always flavorless slimy garbage, then I tried real turkey and it blew my mind. And it was actually CHEAPER. Most of my family still eat garbage tier shit like canned vegetables, bologna, white wonderbread, kraft phood productz, etc. I can't eat that even if I'm dreadfully hungry. It's so nasty now that I know what real food tastes like. But 95% of the shit in the grocery store is bottom of the barrel complete processed garbage.
>>7712392
>dreadfully
britcuck stfu & go eat a chip butty
>>7712405
I'm just a burger who read Tolkien, sir.
>>7712405
>Canned
>Bologna
>Wonderbread
>Kraft
>British
>>7710045
Keeping miracle whip is the real mistake
>>7712374
wouldn't call Ed DaLou a god, but I would say if you consider chicken and sticky sweet BBQ sauce good choices for pizza toppings your sense of taste is pretty far gone.
>>7709798
That decade had an unusual rash of wives at the ER from falling into doorknobs.
>>7711546
Fuck you faggot, green bean casserole is great.
>>7711870
I figured these were just colorized monochrome photographs.
>>7712686
>green bean casserole is great
Look at what you just typed and be ashamed.
>>7712378
>It's sweet, like cornbread
>>7712756
I work at a food marketing agency where we develop recipes and do food photography AMA.
Some of our recipes are good, some... Aren't.
>>7712832
examples?
>>7712824
I'm not the one claiming a dish made with frozen green beans, condensed cream of mushroom soup and CANNED FRIED ONIONS (ffs) is delicious. That's like claiming the chicken Alfredo pasta at the Olive Garden is delicious. The onus is on you to defend this garbage. I would claim this crap is only delicious to people who know nothing better.
>>7712903
>the only way to make green bean casserole is with canned and frozen shit
>>7712903
are you okay, anon?
>>7712756
You are a fucking queer with no taste.
>>7712970
>canned and frozen shit
That is the standard. Defy it an get this:
>>7713013
>fucking queer with no taste
Advertising has done a very good job of selling degraded trashy products as modern, wholesome and normal. Take a good look at the crap in your fridge and pantry and ask yourself the following questions: Would your great-great-grandmother recognize this as food? Is this a step up from what she ate?
For most of us the answers are no and no.
>>7712832
Tell us more
>>7712193
THIS
I made a recipe that has been passed down through the generations when my family came to visit. Originally it was made from scratch, then my grandparents replaced parts of it with post WWII products and my parents further refined it using modern day food products. I followed the recipe to a T using fresh whole ingredients and made everything from scratch. The whole family said it tasted better than ever before, even though it was always a favorite. They asked what my trick was and when I told them I made it from real food they accused me of lying, that they always did the same and asked what flavor packet I used to enhance it. They are still in denial that their products arent the same as homemade.
>>7710122
>implying I haven't had seafood salad made with lime jello
It's like you think people who made that food in died in that era instead of becoming elderly with vile palates.
>>7710631
Fucking brits and their vegetables when will they ever learn to drink butter like true americans
>>7711766
>do you honestly eat that as a savoury side?
Only on Thanksgiving or maybe Christmas. It's a once-a-year thing, I don't know why people get so worked up over it.
>>7711905
>Really, how different is opening a CAN OF DOUGH and wrapping it around a hot dog any less disgusting than hollowing out a loaf of bologna and stuffing it with mashed peas?
One tastes good.
i've had a lot stuff posted in this thread.
fucking utah and mormons. them and their gelatin obsession.
>>7712193
Well, I live in Germany and over here, hm. Let me say it like this: industry still equals quality.
I always loved German bread bought at the bakery over the crappy toaster shit you get at the supermarket. It has more flavor, much better texture, keeps you full longer, that sort of stuff. Much better than that mass produced garbage am I right? But then one day I talked about it with my dad and he just laughed ant told me he used to work in a bread factory. Not that rectangular toaster shit either, really good bread with the name of a big chain of bakeries around Germany. I was confused and asked him to elaborate.
Turns out the tasty high quality bread is pre-baked / ready prepared dough in a factory, frozen and then delivered to the bakeries, where it is just thrown into a large oven and baked until fully done. The quality is still baller high and the bread is as fluffy and flavorful as ever, but this mass manufacture process just cuts so many corners and saves so much money and time that everything else seems like burning money in comparison.
Get to the 21st century already. Industry beats out everything else. Be it quality or quantity.
>>7714027
Yes but in Germany organic food actually means something and mislabeled stuff is against the law instead of being celebrated as a sacred rite of high capitalism
>>7714027
What you're describing is a baked goods retailer (dunno the actual term in English or German). In many European countries there is legislation that says you can only call it a bakery if they actually make everything on premises.
>>7713790
kek
>>7714027
In Germany industry traditionally equates to quality. There's a tradition of precision manufacturing, and bread is taken as seriously as machinery. That is not the case in the US. Bread here has been crap for a long time.
You can live with the fantasy of industry beating everything else because of your Germanic view of the world, but for most people the high end good stuff remains handmade. Germany and Switzerland remain the last bastions of industry equating to quality. The rest of the world buys industrially made goods from China, where quality is secondary to price. And when it comes food the US is no better than China.
>>7709723
I feel sorry for all the cuck husbands in the 50's who just got off work at a steel mill or something and their fat cunt wife made fucking salad loaf for dinner
>>7714027
>>7714066
>>7714102
As long as you put raw dough in an oven, you're allowed to call it fresh. Flash-freezing yeast dough does impair the quality of the final product a little bit, but the differences are quite minor. The bread they sell at discounters like Lidl and Aldi is basically identical to bread you get in a bakery, it's flash-frozen yeast dough that's baked there. If you've baked bread before, you know that the timing and logistics have to be within certain parameters to get a good result, so your choices as a business are offering either stale bread from fresh dough or warm fresh bread made to order from frozen dough
>>7709716
most taste good, it's just old photos with fucked upcolors that make you gag like a baby in front of brocolis
>>7711826
it's not "poor man" i's literally the same
>>7709793
It's tuna noodle casserole with a crispy waffle instead of noodles. Yum.
>>7709762
That's not what I meant when I said dress the bird.
>>7714718
>tuna noodle casserole
Basically prison food, or something a member of a not very prestigious branch of the armed services would eat.
>>7714458
Women weren't fat 60 years ago
>>7709723
>>7709723
>scoop out middle of a bologna
>smash up peas and mix with gelatin
>fill bologna with pea jelly
>serve chilled, in slices
>wala
Has anyone ever found out why there were so many wild foods like this in the Fifties? Was it the post-War prosperity boom? Was it the advent of refrigeration causing people to want to experiment more? Was it because heavily-spiced food had fallen out of popularity so the average Fifties person was desperate to get some actual flavor in their food?
>>7714487
Good bakeries will make their own dough. Not to say that stuff made from "Teiglinge" (idk the English word) doesn't taste good - they have the formula down pretty good.
>>7715800
Rationing had ended and all sorts of new food techs were introduced, so they just sort of experimented.
>https://youtu.be/f5KSx3WmHQQ
>>7716576
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-1950s-most-nauseating-jell-o-soaked-recipes/
>>7709776
That's cold brah.
>>7714509
How is a hotdog in bread dough in any way the same as a sausage in pastry? Aside from the protein wrapped in carb aspect they are fuck all alike, you utter twat.
>>7713064
My great grandmother was given an orange for Christmas when she was a kid. She grew up during the great depression.
Kys, sorry you don't know how to make things like green bean casserole from scratch. Enjoy your tendies
>>7713142
What is the dish, out of curiosity?
I enjoy cooking from scratch when I have the time and money. However, those are two important caveats.
That said, somewhat related, some years ago there was a restaurant that made a dish that I loved (angel hair pasta with shrimp in a tomato cream sauce) that I experimented for a couple of years to finally figure out how to replicate at home. One day I went to the restaurant and it had been replaced by another. Saddened, I went inside and found it had changed ownership but it was the old staff. The place was empty and I got to chatting with one of them- turned out she was the cook, little older lady. I told her about re-creating her recipe and she laughed delighted and said I more or less had it, but the *original* recipe that she did back in the old country called for slowly simmering the cream sauce for three days. But she was so delighted that someone enjoyed her food enough to do that, and to actually get it right.
>>7711880
I'd drink a lot too if I suffered er, I mean lived there.
>>7709723
This is just a pate?
>>7713794
It's easier to feed give wives and twenty kids with this slop. It's also faster so you can have more time diddling your kids.
Mormans are fucking retarded in general. The only good to come out of Utah is the Bonneville salt flats.
>>7714234
This, sadly. Americans like me don't equate mass production with high quality because everything is shit now.
>>7714746
lel
>>7714875
Domestic abuse was good for some things apparently.
>>7715800
Post ww2 economic boom in the us changed the landscape of not just our food but almost everything.
We were the manufacturing powerhouse of the world. Our infrastructure and factories were intact unlike the rest of the world.
With the lift on restrictions and rations and the ability to focus on something other than the war attention was now focused back on consumers. With the newfound prosperity more houses were built and refrigerators were the norm. Supermarkets with a vast array of easy products came into its own. The purchasing power of the consumer was up. TV and advertising had started to develop showing off products such as "tv dinners" (iirc this was invented back then)
I'm sure I'm missing things but the gist of it is the economic boom post ww2 changed food as we know it.
>>7718714
>The only good to come out of Utah is the Bonneville salt flats.
and the best snow in america. you tubs of lard wouldn't appreciate that though
>>7711677
Candied yams are a great and respectable side dish, you take that back you yuppie filth.
>>7710105
I want to make the salmon pie just to piss off my dad.
>>7718834
True, I forgot that. I'm a car guy so it escaped my mind. I can't snow or water ski for shit. My knees are crooked and I can't keep my feet oriented strait.
>>7711956
What you think that post WWII Western Europe could have defended against a communist invasion from Eastern Europe? Your fucking dense man.
England Germany France and Italy were basically leveled during the war not to mention France almost went commie after WWII so how the fuck would battle bruised England west-Germany and Italy defeat millions of Soviet troops?
>>7718990
Do it fgt. Post results and reaction. If you're really pissed mix some miralax in there.
>>7709828
christ
>>7711546
I made this for Christmas last year. What next? You gonna shit on corn pudding?
>>7711519
>knife r sharp!!
no shit fuckin retard book
>>7712310
shut up you African't
>>7710296
Midwest here
You are full of shit
>>7709762
Thats a fine ass bird right there. I'd want him to be my Wing Man.
>>7719903
It's a children's cookbook you fucking mong.
>>7712374
There are two opinions on barbeque chicken pizza. You and I think it's a fucking slammajammin trip to flavor town, while others think it's literally Satan's anus.
Have you tried it with pineapple? (The pizza, not Satan's anus.)
>>7712131
I'm with you. My MeMe used to make that for us when we went to her house for Sunday dinner. A pear half with mayo, cheese, and served over a lettuce leaf. I enjoyed the pear and cheese, but the mayo and lettuce kind of threw it off for me.
>>7710036
potato salad IS gelatinized
>>7715800
pretty much all modern food prep was invented at this time
it was literally a technological revolution
>Was it because heavily-spiced food had fallen out of popularity so the average Fifties person was desperate to get some actual flavor in their food?
oh, you're trolling
nevermind
>>7712756
Green bean casserole is basically just blanched green beans covered with mushroom bechamel and baked before being topped with fried onions. Making it from scratch is piss-easy.
>>7715800
It was pretty much a perfect storm of degraded culinary traditions via prohibition and then the depression and THEN war rationing and THEN waiting to cash in bonds followed by a marketing blitz of shitty heat-and-serve meals and preserved goods coupled with a desire to celebrate the end of lean times via entertaining others.
So basically you had a bunch of women who grew up learning to make shitty food and/or who had been cooking said shitty food for decades trying their hand at fancy party food without knowing how and utilizing lousy frozen/canned/dried/etc. ingredients to do so. In the French/Anglo tradition moulds, and especially seafood moulds, have been pretty much at the top of the formal dining pyramid (for example: when I say "salmon mousse and crudites served with white wine", does your mind conjure up a black tie cocktail party in an English manor house ca. 1920 with Vivaldi playing softly in the background or do you think of something more akin to >>7710105 served with carrot sticks and ball jars of two-buck chuck in someone's backyard?) and so they're quite prominent.
>>7709799
Cultmoo actually made this recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehkk9bxGRzo
Oldfag here. These are all much before my time but some of these look oddly familiar (we were poor). Mostly >>7709828
It was common to use Jello (not just gelatine) and something else, sometimes multiple different foods, all sorts of stuff, as a way to make a bulkier meal. I remember eating a light-pink chunky variant as a child and hating it.
I have no idea what it was, but I can recall green and orange masses as well.
My mother also used to put flour in everything and it was awful.
>>7720585
Yeah. But now we have """"chicken""" nuggets and """beef""" patties. These 50's food might look strange to us but probably taste ok. Fashions change.
>>7709716
My fucking god
>>7720759
I prefer mechanically separated meat to offal as the lowest rung on the hierarchy of readily available meats, and being able to afford meat at all being the employment-challenged young adult I am at the moment. A few decades ago I'd be stuck eating a can of pork and beans on toasted wonderbread six nights a week,
>>7709852
didn't hellsman change their recipe for mayo
>>7710905
>den bruna maten
>the brown food
>>7717902
>They were beaten regularly anyways. Dinner was their way of exacting revenge.
this explains a lot
>>7711875
oil is not butter, for one thing. hydrogenated soybean oil is probably the worst invention of processed food.
>>7713142
Even if you made it from scratch the taste is inferior to how it probably would've tasted with great-grandma's homegrown vegetables and eggs gathered that morning. Modern ingredients are inferior so even starting from scratch, you're at a disadvantage.
Chicken isn't just chicken anymore. You need to know what the chicken ate, how it lived, and even its genetics. Even raised in the best conditions a modern chicken won't taste as good because its genes were chosen for fast growth, not flavor. Why bother with flavor when you can cover it up with manufactured flavors.
So we've got two levels of fuckery to break through. Not using real food at all, and "real food" not actually being real. The second is harder to understand because it's an invisible problem. It sucks.
>>7722470
>real food" not actually being real
Back to the matrix with your bullshit neo
>>7722510
Eat some heirloom tomatoes you grew yourself instead of those pink watery transparent things on your Big Mac and maybe you'll understand.
>>7722526
Or a real ayam kampong instead of this horrid American supermarket chicken that oozes a foul smelling juice when you cook it, and tastes like cotton
>>7722470
Of course, to enjoy that "real food" you'd have to be back in a time in which smallpox exists, so the tradeoffs are worth it IMO.
>>7722568
>hydrogenated corn oil in everything is the only way to avoid communicable diseases
This is what Americans ACTUALLY believe
>>7722578
More like, if you wanted those foods you'd have to travel to a time in which they still exist (given those plants and animals are essentially extinct now) and in those times you'd have to deal with all the other shit, such as communism, nazis, virulent diseases running rampant, surgery being a butcher shop etc.. Industrialized food production seems like a small tradeoff.
>>7722586
They are hardly extinct outside the US, you are being totally ridiculous
The problem is, genetic pollution is becoming a major risk to crop diversity as certain multinationals aggressively push their products internationally
>>7722607
I'm the German from way above with the bread factory and I can't entirely buy these ebin meems that all American food is supposed to be utterly tasteless garbage. I mean, you still have proper butcheries, right? Or at least a meat counter in your supermarkets? Or import shops? I like to buy my chicken at the Turkish import shops because they strip the meat off of leg bones while leaving the skin on, which makes for great frying.
>>7722617
It's certainly possible to buy food that isn't trash, if you live in the right places and are willing to pay
For instance a butcher in my area carries meat from better breeds of animal - guinea fowl, mangalitsa pig, and such
But it's at least 4x the price of "normal" meat and it's a bit out of the way, it's hardly surprising that most people have never and will never taste such things
>>7722635
How much would a pound of chicken be in comparison then?
>>7722639
Not really sure what it goes for at Wal Mart, but good chicken might be around $5/lb for whole birds, for a run of the mill breed (nothing too exotic)
>>7722655
I was at a butcher earlier today and the kilo of chicken goes for 6 to 7 euro- this is just chicken breast. So that'd be like 3,50 Euro per pound, so about 4 dollars or a little more.
I'm not sure how this compares or what the quality of the meat is. I mean, I like the chicken and I'm pretty satisfied with it but I'm not a meat-knower.
>>7722586
Such things aren't totally extinct, I mean I only mention the heirloom tomatoes because I've had them, thanks to somebody saving the seeds.
Industrialized food was just to make food cheaper, that's the main 'progress' we got. Americans have become used to dirt cheap food, but paying the higher prices wouldn't be that bad. Less money for designer clothes and cars, boo hoo.
>>7722617
>I mean, you still have proper butcheries, right?
Some, but what's the butcher supposed to do to fix meat that's tasteless and mushy -- isn't that the farmer's problem.
>Or import shops?
Asian groceries are pretty common but the quality of that meat might be even worse.
As mentioned above, best idea in this country is to get away from industry and find a farmer you can talk to in person. No other way to know how shit was done.
>>7722547
put some ranch on it commie
>>7722781
The butcher is supposed to buy quality meat in the first place to supply good shit to his customers. I mean, who the fuck has time to go out and find every bit of meat for yourself? That is literally what the butcher would be there for. The guy's supposed to buy entire fucking pigs or cows and turn them into sausage and steaks for you. Or hell, buy hogs off of hunters and make nice venison cutlets.
>>7722837
>who the fuck has time to go out and find every bit of meat for yourself
well, some people buy whole hogs or half cows to make the better quality meat more affordable.
butchers aren't popular in America as far as I know, so the price is probably why. average people get Walmart and STILL complain food's too expensive.
>>7722781
>quality of that meat might be even worse.
Or not the animal you think you bought :^)
>>7710296
You must live in one of the shittier Midwestern states. I'm sorry.
>>7709828
Aunt Myrna?
Yes I've made aspic numerous times and it always ends up tasting delicious. Only ever worth it when it's meat based though.
>>7709985
This is actually good....must add shredded cheddar on top tho.
>>7710356
Damn British puddings, they're so good but a pain in the ass to cook. I wish there was a way to make them that t didn't include 2 hours of continuously topping the blinding water underneath to keep the steam going
>>7710600
they are heavily retouched photos, back when retouching didn't mean Photoshop but actual colored crayons, plus the printing process was literally warmed-over shit and the years have not been kind to either ink or paper
>>7724622
you need an immersion heater/circulator aka sous-vide machine
> tfw pudding was actually at the forefront of culinary science for so long it became antiquated before the world caught up
>>7710356
>eating kidneys
>literal piss factories
Every time anyone ever cooks the fucking things, I gag from the stench. There's some offal that just shouldn't be eaten
>>7712378
>cornbread
>sweet
The fuck kind of cornbread have you been eating? Shit should be savory and slightly salty.
>>7709828
Good lord that one is just wrong.
>>7724694
Animals are literal shit factories. You sound like a 12 year old girl who finds out that meat comes from animals for the first time.
>>7722617
HAHAHAHAHA! Butcheries? Meat counters? Oh man, you're killing me! We have a freezer aisle with week old frozen meat that's been died red with food coloring. It's next to the frozen premade chicken tendies and other autistic shit. And don't even get me started on the seafood... most stores carry none at all, and the one that does has "sushi-grade" raw fish sitting on the shelf for weeks at a time. Yes, I'm completely serious. Shit like this is why I'm vegetarian. I'd rather have no meat at all then this toxic garbage.
>>7712429
>being a self hating beta male that unironically says "dreadfully"
>>7724698
Not that anon but any recipe you like that you want to share?
>>7709723
Isn't this a pretty common dish? I buy premade ones at the supermarket all the time
>>7709852
>all that mayo
I want to puke
