/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17052591
>Americans are wrong about
I take it you watched a lot of US tv and got that idea.
You have to remember old sitcom were written by boomers and meat loaf is a boomer meal during hard times with low resources.
A lot of old recipes would suggest putting extra shit to add vitamin or make it more dense/filling if you couldn't get a lot of meat for the loaf.
Carrots, oatmeal, raisins, olives, etc could be found in old recipe books.
My mom still puts olives in her meatloaf because that's how my grandma taught her how to make it. You can't really tastes them and the slices fall out or can be picked out so my family never minded.
So a lot of people like yourself had the misfortune of eating meatloaf that wasn't pleasant.
It was also a weekly food for some family. Like Taco Tuesday but worse.
In TV and movies it became of trope of "MEATLOAF, AGAIN!?" and the kids or whole family groaning.
It's very easy to fucked up meatloaf despite it being very simple to make due to there being so many varying ways to make it.