/ck/ - Food & Cooking

why not?

>>11598849
and I said
"..why not?"

The 60's were a weird time. Everyone was smoking that Jew's Cabbage. Jell-O even had vegetable-flavored gelatins back then, for your more savory jell-o salads. Then, like the disco music and bell-bottoms of the following decade, jell-o salad vanished without a trace, never to return to our dinner tables and party platters. Salads with jell-o still exist however, but they look more like this, and are nearly always sweet with fruit instead of savory with veggies. I like this kind of jell-o salad. Damn I'm high, I should go to the store and make some.

>>11598849
i see the six different flavors, but what exactly does this taste like? is it just something to hold shit together or does it count as a seperate food item?

>>11598849
if you live in a hot humid climate and you need to pack a lunch for out doors (no fridge available), putting food in aspic is not a bad idea.

>>11598849
easy way to make something that looks fancy but is very easy to prepare, that was a huge thing in post war dinner parties

>>11598849
Real answer for all this weird food from that era was that housewives were expected to come up with new meals to cook, but they were running out of ideas, so companies were throwing recipes at the wall to see what stuck.

Boomers are weird.

>>11598849
>>11598858
Did people actually eat this shit...?

To answer your question OP I guess it was post depression era food. Most of it was really nasty.

>>11599292
tastier than rations

Do americans really??

Aspic used to be a thing

I remember having one of these. It tasted like puke.

>>11598861

>>11599567
>ITALIAN SALAD FLAVOR
hmm...

>>11599277
not as weird as some 30 year old pretending to be 18 “””ironically”””

>>11599624
Heheheheh

>>11598849
Gelatin is an extremely fancy dish dating back to like the 1400s, when you had to simmer like an entire pig down and also somehow refrigerate it.

The postwar period brought with it several things: widespread access to refrigeration, widespread access to newfangled, easy to prepare foods like instant gelatin, and a population of people who were on strict rations for several years and were now eager to experiment.

>>11599651
>basted heh poster
must eat a lot of turkey heh

>>11598849
Wait, I have an answer for this.
Aspics have been around for centuries. It was in the medieval ages that people figured out that boiling bones for broth can sometimes create this jelly when it cools. It required a lot of bones and a lot of work to make enough gelatin to make an aspic, so it was pretty much just relegated to the rich.
Isolated and powdered gelatin was invented much later in the mid 19th, but it was slow to catch on. In the early 20th, the sweet Jello that we know was started to be sold, but the real explosion happened after WW2. This was when convenience was a real selling point. Washing machines, dishwashers, and all kinds of other gadgets replaced doing traditional home work.
Jello finally exploded in that period because it fell right into the "all the reward and none of the work" meme that was so popular at the time. It was so fancy and took very little effort! Wow!

Aspics fell out of favour when they became more associated with tacky housewives than with decadent pre-industrial richness.

>>11598849
We don't decide what we like, companies and media decide what we like and we comply

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>>11600192
What a load of fucking bullshit! I decide what I like, no one else does!

>>11598867
This. Its not a bad preservative

>>11599678
Neat

>>11598859
>Moral Orel

Jello salads became popular in the 50s-60s as a way to brag about your big, new refrigerator and thusly how much money you had.
Prior to WWII residential fridges were pretty shit and making something like a Jello salad or an aspic took more work.

>>11599678
That makes sense.
+1 internet to you, sir.

What does aspic taste like

>>11599678
>Aspics fell out of favour when they became more associated with tacky housewives than with decadent pre-industrial richness.
True. Also it's hard to overemphasize how being "modern" was valued in the Atomic Age. Legions of poor and working class people suddenly joined the middle class, moved to Levittown, bought cars and televisions and started shopping at the newly opened supermarkets. These housewives had no real guide to negotiate this weird new world, so advertising and women's magazines filled the void. Any crazy recipe Home Economists came up with in corporate test kitchens could be distributed nationally as quickly as you could print a magazine and distribute it. And these people were hard at work coming up with ways to sell more Jell-o, cream of mushroom soup, marshmallows, ketchup, Spam or whatever. This stuff didn't come out of nowhere.

>>11600646
Whatever meat stock is used to make it.

>>11600646
Decadence.

>>11600649
>tfw people freaking about about the middle class dissolving as if we're entering a dystopian nightmare world when it's really just a return to form and the opulent economically bountiful world the baby boomers lived in was ALWAYS destined to be temporary

>>11599667
>>11599678
People really need to understand just how big a deal it was that aspics had become accessible. It’s like if EVERYONE in the United States could suddenly own a solid gold toilet.

>>11601987
And, very much like a solid gold toilet, aspics might have been a cool novelty for a little while but they were still full of shit.

I had a grandma that would make some sort of aspic every holiday. Not a single one of them was edible. Of course, everyone else told her how wonderful they were. Fucking asskissers. Thank god she's long dead now.

>>11600646
beans and rice

i honestly want jello salads to come back but only with fruit like pineapple and mango
or a chocolate pudding one with peanut butter cups inside

>>11602406
Those jello fruit salads never went away, but nowadays the jello is whipped or at least crumbled instead of being served in a mold.

>>11601976
Absolutely. I'm old (Gen-X), and I figured this is how things would work out. No surprise or outrage here. Back in the 80's I figured things would be full-on dystopian by 2020, and pretty much lived accordingly.

>>11603437
The only thing I'm really resentful about is that the baby boomers seemed to know this and set up a bunch of systems to continue living their lifestyle at the cost of future generations. Social Security is a fucking joke that is entirely dependent on factually impossible infinite growth and will break down (coincidentally) at roughly the same time that the generation which created it and that profited from it dies off.

>>11604866
No point in being resentful. Times change. The move is to enjoy what's good about the times you live in without letting the fucked up shit drag you down. Given all the economic uncertainty I'd say set your shit up with the absolute lowest possible overhead, so whatever you manage to earn always leaves you with a cushion. Shopping for recreation is boomer bullshit. Don't buy shit you don't need. Keep your fucking money. Then you can take advantage of what's good about the way things are right now. Food is much better than it was a few decades ago as long as you're not eating fast food and tendies. It's easier than ever to learn to cook reasonably well and get just about any ingredient you need. It's easier than ever to become a decent home cook and feed yourself well on a budget. Do that. You can go gawk at the dystopian shit around you, just don't fund it with your dollars. All of the boomer modern convenience shit is a lie. Don't buy into it. Bake your own bread. Make your own food. And do something social so your life doesn't revolve around your smartphone. And ffs don't get hurt or sick in the process.

>>11601976
This is wrong, though. The money didn’t just vanish. The boomer lifestyle was paid for by a 90% tax rate that was cut and cut and cut until only the wealthy could enjoy quality services. If we raised taxes again, we could actually be living BETTER than they did because of the sheer ludicrous amount of wealth that the modern rich have compared to back then.

>>11605151
If you tax the rich the rich will simply leave. It's well documented that tax rates may rise but tax REVENUE drops when you do so.

>>11605180
Wrong. In the 50's the rich tax rates were very high and that was a period of the greatest growth the US has ever experienced. No matter, the reckoning is coming and they'll be paying their fair share once we vote the current crop of pirates out of there.

>>11605151
>>11605236
Fuck off.

>>11605180
How can one man be so cucked? the transnational elite does not owe you any allegiance (in their minds) even if you share citizenship.

>>11605236
The rich already pay all the taxes, bro.

The answer is to tax the poor.

>>11605420
What if we just eat them instead?

>>11605242
brainlet

>>11605955
Commie

>>11605943
Even the Irish potato nogs didn't accept THAT "Modest Proposal."

>>11600646
Niggers