/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Cheese Whiz anything

>>5188516
I'm so in, OP. brb.

This shit. Green plaster.

>>5188535

This is my favorite kind of thread oh my god

>>5188544

>>5188547

>>5188554

>>5188530
What the fuck? As abhorrent as this sounds, I'm actually curious how it would taste. This ad couldn't have been made if it was THAT bad, right?

Did people used to eat this crap? When did they stop? What caused the modern evolution of American cuisine?

>>5188573
I'm curious too - someone try this and report back. Or with real cheese, if you don't have any crap.

You've got to hand it to them, they did know how to make a good grilled cheese back in the day.

>>5188574
Burgers

>>5188573
>As abhorrent as this sounds

It sounds first weird at first, then you remember that cheese and grapes are a pretty standard combo.

>>5188574
This actually doesn't look that bad

Can't forget the classic banana candle.

>>5188574
Influence of nouvelle cusine in late 70s

>>5188574

Processed food has been around since the 50's, and Americans completely embraced it without question for a very long time. You could still buy unadulterated natural ingredients, while processed food was a convenience that people were excited to incorporate into their lives. But changes to agricultural regulations/practices and the introduction of more advanced food science like GMO crops in the 1990s have caused an explosion in processed food, to the point where unnatural factory processing infiltrates every single aspect of every single food in America today. Even once-innocuous foods like vegetables are subject to heavy processing and tampering. This has caused a warranted backlash against that, with Americans generally trying to put more scrutiny on the foods that the megacorporations are trying to feed them.

There's also more appreciation for food now. Being a "foodie" used to be nonexistent just a decade or so ago, restaurants didn't have to be all that creative to make money. People outside of the food industry just didn't care that much about food until Food Network started getting really popular by incorporating reality TV into its programming. Before that it was only those shows they now put on in the daytime where boring dowdy old women talk into the camera for the benefit of boring dowdy old housewives.

never again will my lips touch another taco bell item


the last shit i had was a seasoned chicken style rice bowl THE FUCKING CHICKEN WAS ALL FILLED WITH MEAT GLUE AND IT FELT STRANGE AS FUCK never again

>>5188530
I collect these old food ads. I've never seen this one or even expected it to exist.

I guess this was dreamt up sometime between the fall of acid, and the rise of Quaaluden.

>>5188574
>american cuisine

>>5188516
dat zz top

>>5188653
All of this is 100% correct. American food in general was mostly awful for a very long time starting probably in the 50's. Its improved significantly in the past 10 years or so, as has our beers.

I would eat all of this.

>>5188653
>Before that it was only those shows they now put on in the daytime where boring dowdy old women talk into the camera for the benefit of boring dowdy old housewives.
Not true. Batali's Molto Mario and Emeril's Emeril Live were both reasonably serious shows about cooking serious food at home, and they were in the early days of the Food Network.

There have always been Americans into food and fine dining. They just tended to be affluent people who lived in major cities, and tended to travel often. So when they went out they were looking for French food like they had in France, or Italian that reminded them of their last trip to Italy. Often they cared as much about the wine list as they did the kitchen. They were your rich aunt and uncle, not you.

Today interest in good food is a bit more democratized. As a result we're seeing more street food influence and poor man's cuts of meat in fine dining, because the audience is broader than it used to be.

But don't kid yourself, we still have horrors today. People still eat overcooked pasta at the Olive Garden (or Macaroni Grill, if they have an expense account). Taco Bell still does fine, as does Chipotle. How much of the population is eating dry, tasteless chicken breasts because they think that's what "healthy" means? American beer nrewing is now leading the world, yet many still think an overhopped IPA = quality. And idiots still line up for Shake Shack like it's the second coming. And come the holidays how many sad green bean casseroles made with cream of mushroom soup will be assembled, even by people who otherwise know better?

>this whole fucking thread
>somehow the faded colors make it worse

>>5190612

>>5190617

>>5190622

Keep this thread going. It's fascinating how disgusting some of this shit is.

Unfortunately,these were all I had. My folder is mostly just vintage adverts,not actual food.
>>5190612
>>5190617
>>5190622
>>5190625

>>5188573

it's super good, actually; grilled cheese is great with fruit preserves of all sorts, from grape jelly to strawberry jam to marmalade.

>>5190664
>tfw brie with blueberry preserves,bakes in the oven

>>5190473
I love the stereotypical green bean casserole so much. It's a guilty pleasure.

>>5190738
>I love the stereotypical green bean casserole
You're obviously not alone. It's still a foodcrime.

I wonder if there will ever come a time when people look back upon the ads of today and think "disgusting, food gore".

>>5190843
Three words: stuffed crust pizza

>>5188653
But even the "crap" food tends to be different - more along the lines of a boxed pasta or rice-a-roni, or canned soup or chili.

>>5188522

Whoa, I had no idea cheez whiz ever came in anything other than a pressurized can. I thought that was the whole point.

>>5190473
Oh, I know we have horrors today, but they're entirely different horrors. That's what I (>>5188574) was asking about.

>>5190473
>They just tended to be affluent people who lived in major cities, and tended to travel often. So when they went out they were looking for French food like they had in France, or Italian that reminded them of their last trip to Italy. Often they cared as much about the wine list as they did the kitchen. They were your rich aunt and uncle, not you.

Well, now that just not true at all. I grew up in a small town of only 8000, and my middle class family was very into fine dining and food. We watched all the cooking shows on PBS (this was back before Food Network or any of the cooking channels), and we drove to the nearest cities (80 miles one way in either direction) every weekend to go out to dinner in exotic and fine restaurants. My parent taught us from very young ages to appreciate good food, and when dining at home, they would give us little appertif glasses of low alcohol wines to teach us how appreciate them. My mom had the reputation of being one of the best cooks in town, and drilled into us the importance of learning to cook well. I never had green bean casserole until I was in college and ate a holiday dinner at a friend's house. Never even really knew that boxed mac and cheese even existed until I had a roommate who lived on it.
I know that's not necessarily typical, but I'm sure other middle class kids from small towns in flyover land had my same experience, I can't possibly be the only one who's family understood about food.

>>5191041
Cheez Whiz always came in a jar. You're thinking of Easy Cheese.

>>5188522
>cheez whiz on a hot dog
It's so simple....why have I never thought to do this?

>>5188533
> hot dogs in a jar
And we just assumed that German company from the one thread a few weeks back selling pic related was taking the piss.

United States History: The Thread

>>5190622
> When you see it...

>>5191202
What, the semen?

>>5191041
Cheese Whiz has never come in a pressurized can. Completely different product.

>>5191159
I sometimes eat tinned hotdogs. They're kept in brine so it's kinda nice

>>5191046
Your anecdote, while interesting, doesn't change the accuracy of his assessment. I think your childhood was ... unusual to say the least.

Personally, I think it's more of a stereotypical norm for people to grow up hating their mother's cooking than it is growing up a foodie. The only main exception to that cultural perception that I can think of are the recipes handed down through generations from foreign born ancestors. "This is your grandma's recipe. Isn't it great?"

>>5191320
I think meatloaf is an excellent example, incidentally. Good meatloaf is wonderfully delicious and is extremely easy to make. However it has a reputation for being dry, tough, flavorless and generally gross. I think that reputation was earned by a few generations of Americans being raised on recipes like the ones in this thread. We simply didn't have a cultural love of food like can be found elsewhere.

Fortunately for us, culture is something that can sometimes change quite swiftly, and foodie is a word that's working it's way into usage. Say what you will about Rachael Ray, but she taught a lot of housewives how to make tasty meatloaf.

>>5188539

This looks delicious

>>5191347

>>5191355

What's wrong with it?

>>5190473
this guy fucking gets it

would invite to sit around kitchen island with me and buddies while we prep awesome meals and appetizers for each other for hours while sampling beers and wines

>>5193049
Offer appreciated, but I would not hang with a tripfag.

>>5193059
it's cool, i tend to not like to associate with someone so autistic to care about how they post on le epic 4chins anyways

don't think i've ever even met anyone irl that knows what the fuck this insignificant website is. keep on keepin on don juan

>>5193063
>don't think i've ever even met anyone irl that knows what the fuck this insignificant website is
Me neither. Just want to keep it that way.

>>5191284
Is that gelatin?

>>5191211
Thats probably cream of mushroom sauce or something similar. Delicious with peas or greenbeans.