/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Eastern European speciality.

>>14319999
check'd and you're wrong.
Gelatin molds were given as gifts and bought as part of packages like Tupperware
>buy this 40 piece set and get a FREE mold!
So, like bread makers and other counter-top appliances, back then cooking gadgets and fixtures were popular, but not used very much.
I'd guess there were more meme-gadgets back then than now, for precisely the reason you stated.
Except the 2nd time someone used a Jello mold, they thought to themselves
>Y'know, I could just put jello into a bowl which is a lot easier to clean.
Gelatin products were not a sign of wealth, they were made available after the Petroleum Revolution of the 20s and 30s made products like adhesives, dyes, and other things made from hooves and bones easy to synthesize from crude oil.
This left an enormous glut of industrial gelatin on the market so it got pushed hard.

The flash-in-the-pan popularity of chintzy kitchen gadgetry in the 50s and 60s does not mean all of that stuff was used. It means it got bought.
Then it sat.

The idea that everyone was making hot-dog casserole in a fancy mold back then was re-popularized in the 1990s when the Internet made all of those old advertising broadsheets easy to view. For example, the picture I posted early is Art Frahm, from the Pinpup Era of the 1950s. I got it from a website
>http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html
with all kinds of weird food from the 20s - 60s.

It's all marketing. These things were not part of everyday life. It's an idiosynchrosy of History to believe that what was written down, was. I was there and I can refute that it wasn't.

People were not making shit like pic rel back then, they just weren't anon