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6215826 No.6215826 [Reply] [Original]

When did it all start to go wrong, guys?

I'm gonna guess sometime in the 1950's.

>> No.6217978

>>6215826
?

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Oh, are we doing this now?

>> No.6218004

>>6215826
IDK what you mean, honestly. With how often people complain about grocery store canned food and fast food on this board I'd assume you all live in gated off 50+ communities with no access to actual restaurants, delis, and things of that nature. You do have options, it's just that cheap shitty food is easier.

>>6217989
That's gross.

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why

>> No.6218036

>>6218003
>>6217989
>>6218013
>>6218020
>>6218022
Why?

Who was responsible for these abominations?

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>>6218056

>> No.6218067

>>6218036
America discovered gelatin and lost their shit. Also, wartime rations meant a lot of canned food.

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>> No.6218267

>>6218036
Housewives on tranquilizers.

>> No.6218270

Beefaroni is top notch, you pinko commie faggot

>> No.6218271

>>6218267
"Thus terrible tiredness took so many women to doctors in the 1950's that one decided to investigate it. He found, surprisingly, that his patients suffering from "housewife's fatigue' slept more than an adult needed to sleep -as much as ten hours a day- and that the actual energy they expended on housework did not tax their capacity. The real problem must be something else, he decided-perhaps boredom. Some doctors told their women patients they must get out of the house for a day, treat themselves to a movie in town. Others prescribed tranquilizers. Many suburban housewives were taking tranquilizers like cough drops. You wake up in the morning, and you feel as if there's no point in going on another day like this. So you take a tranquilizer because it makes you not care so much that it's pointless.""

>> No.6218287

>>6217989
swap the bananas for that more vegetablesque things, dont know what they are called right now, fry them and that could actually be pretty intresting, if not delicious.

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>>6218287
What you're looking for is plantain.

>> No.6218309

>>6218298
aah yes, delicious yellow fucks

>> No.6218361

>>6215826
In the 1950's Chef Boyardee was the largest importer of olive oil in the United States. You couldn't hardly find olive oil in supermarkets until the mid-1980's.
>When did it all start to go wrong, guys?
The Great Depression was the start. "Doing well" back then was eating homefried potatoes with hot dogs cut up in them. Then WWII hit, and you had rationing. After the war people were happy to have plenty of food. The quality didn't matter so much, because they'd just been through a depression and war rationing.

The companies who did pretty well during the war providing canned meals for soldiers suddenly had a new market - a general public whose expectations about food had been lowered by hardship.Madison Ave sold these products to housewives as "modern", "thrifty", "convenient" and most important as a way to free a woman from "kitchen drudgery" (actual cooking).

>> No.6218365

>>6218361
I still think quaaludes and the like had much to do with it.

>> No.6218391

>>6218365
No doubt really terrible shit seems appealing when you're fucked up. (I've always assumed that's how Taco Bell stays in business). So a housewife halfway round the bend on mother's little helpers would be more likely to buy TV dinners and other crazy shit someone in full possession of their faculties would think twice about.

But let's not forget that after years of depression and war rationing a TV dinner probably looked pretty good to the average American, even if they weren't high.

>> No.6218621

>>6218020
Made me lol for some reason, holy fuck

>> No.6218637

>>6218046
I'd eat it

>> No.6218904

>>6215826
>Beefaroni

As an Italian, that name sounds hilarious.

>> No.6219598

>>6218904
learn sentence structure. you just said the name was an italian

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>>6219598
>to me

>> No.6219611

>>6215826

actually, chef bd was made, specifically, to capture the flavor of old world italian cuisine.

i went to italy once while taking delivery of my f450 and I can attest that chef bd is basically the closest thing that america has to authentic tasting italian cuisine.

all that "fine dining" bullshit that americans pay out the nose for tastes nothing like chef bd, and therefore, nothing like true italian cooking.

>> No.6219617

>>6215826
>Children just love this hearty dish... company does, too.

There was a time when people would serve this to visiting guests? No, I don't believe that. "Delicious! Why, this tastes just like the same stuff that I or anyone else could buy in a store for pennies! What a great host you are!"

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>>6219611
dubs may make that true, but look at these trips

>> No.6219681

>>6219666
>>>/b/

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>>6219681
bateman pls go

>> No.6220181

>>6218361
Don't forget that many people still had lots of war bonds well into the 50s (ie. were still cash-poor despite having lots of IOUs) and that WWII drove women out of the kitchen in droves.

Fucking FDR.

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>>6218003
>>6218003
>>6218003
title name made me lol

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>> No.6221927

>>6221883
That is some tragic shit.

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>> No.6221938

>>6215826
ur dumb
it was already too late when this was written
blame lincoln if anyone

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>> No.6222214

Literally just now realizing that "Chef Boy-Ar-Dee" is a phonetic spelling and not a reference to some sort of "Chef Boy."

>> No.6222230

i love these

what the fuck was mid 20th century america thinking re: food?

why are there so many things that come out of molds, and so many things that use gelatin?

>> No.6222244

What the fuck is with Americans and gelatine? What is so great about it?

>> No.6222248

>>6222244
Surplus stocks.

The canned shit + aspic was huge in post war Norway as well. My mother had shitloads of recipe cards with garbage like that.

>> No.6222253

>>6217989
LITERALLY WHAT

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this thread is making me want to commit suicide. fuck

>> No.6222257

>>6222230
They became infatuated with canning, refrigeration, freezing and food processing. They thought convenience was the wave of the future. My father has horror stories of growing up with this kind of food.

>> No.6222258

>>6217989
with plantains it would be okay. needs a different sauce though

>> No.6222260

>>6222257
>My father has horror stories of growing up with this kind of food.
I have horror stories about a mother with a ladyboner for lazy cooking and aspic and I'm not that old.

My mother is a boomer though.

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>> No.6222270

>>6222264
>Duck in 7-Up

JESUS FUCK 50'S WHAT THE HELL, THE GOOD DRUGS HADN'T EVEN BEEN INVENTED THEN, WHAT'S YOUR FUCKING EXCUSE?

>> No.6222273

>>6219611
>italy overcooks its noodles
>italian food is noodles in tomato sauce
jesus what fly over state are you from.

>> No.6222276

>>6222273
>I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup.

>> No.6222279

>>6222248
except meat in gelatin was common in nordic regions for a long time. Jesus learn about your fucking country sometime.

>> No.6222285

>>6222279
We're not talking meat in gelatin. We're talking aspic abominations containing peas, shrimp and asparagus.

Mostly from cans.

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>>6218003
>oh god
>oh Jesus
>oh mothermary
>oh dearlordwhy!

>> No.6222300

>>6222270
50's seven up was just sparkling lime juice
>according to my mother in law

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>> No.6222363

>>6219666
Damn.

>> No.6223282

>>6215826
It seems like anything gelatin based was the memefood of the 50's. Maybe one day well look back and be disgusted by pictures of sriracha infused anything and microbrew IPA's, thinking "How the fuck could people consume this fucking garbage".

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>>6218020

I know someone who does this with coke, ugh.

>>6218013
>>6218015
>>6218022
>>6218037
>>6218046
>>6218056
>>6218063
>>6218072
>>6221883
>>6221932
>>6221943
>>6221992
>>6221960
>mfw

>>6217989
I... sort of want to try this

>> No.6223304

>>6218015
bologna lined bread bowls isn't a bad idea, but what could possess someone to fill them with creamed corn?

>> No.6223413

>>6223304
And black olives!

>> No.6223419

I'm getting heart burn looking at these images.

>> No.6223424

>>6215826
American cuisine has gotten exponentially better since the 50's.

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>>6222230
>>6222248
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I'm honestly shocked no one's posted The Banana Candle yet.

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>>6222353
I drink this shit right out of the jar

>> No.6224549

>>6222264
Duck would be insane, but I could actually see ham working. It's basically sugar with a minimum of citrus. When I was in Canada I tried their peameal bacon (basically a cured strip of pork loin rolled on cornmeal) that was baked in a covered container with some ginger ale in the bottom of the pan. Pretty good actually.

>> No.6224600

>>6223444
That looks like a dick.

>> No.6224617

>>6222273
>new york
>fly over state

toppest of lels.

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I've seen a recipe from a canned wiener manufacturer in the early 50s, they tried to talk people into mixing booze with the sausage water and have it on the rocks.Didn't look fake, either. That was also the time they told people to mix 7up into a meatloaf.

>> No.6224651

These fucking recipes are the reason Americans used to be skinny. I'm pretty sure people would rather starve then eat this shit.

>> No.6224697

>>6222264

My family actually does this with Vernor's Ginger Ale, and it makes a fantastic gravy.

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And not a lot has changed, Mac and processed fake cheese, Fried chicken with mashed potatoes, hamburgers and hot-dogs

Everyone knows that USA = No food culture... or culture whatsoever, thank god you have Mexicans, Chinesse, Indians, etc, that can somewhat save your shitty cousine.

>> No.6224704

>>6224698
Honey, I asked you to stop "rolling" on that 4chans.
-Mom

>> No.6224712

>>6224698
thisiswhatretardsactuallybelieve

>> No.6224722

>>6224698
some native american food is pretty good actually

oh but you probably don't know what that is you faggot fuck off to your own sad country where you have nothing to do but go online and talk about how bad food is in another country with the technology you got from those countries

>> No.6224730

>>6224698

>he really is this yuropean
>he really is this mad

>> No.6224735

>>6224730
>>6224712

>being this buttblasted that you live in a cultural void

at least >>6224722 was starting to make a good point until his anus became diamonds as well

>> No.6224772

>>6224735

>He completely doesn't know about southern cuisine in the US

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>>6221883

>tuna mold
>tuna
>mold

>> No.6226108

>>6219617
A) 14 cents in the 1950s is $1.25 today. Which means it was more expensive back then, because a whole can costs that now, and I assume it serves two people if you're not fat.
B) You may love your family, but that doesn't mean you like them. And you may not even love your husband's family either.

>> No.6226121

>>6223437
See, that doesn't look terrible (though no idea what the "chili sauce" is the peppers are stuffed with - some horrible 50s version of memesauce I assume), but the presentation is just bizarre.

>> No.6226177

>>6218046
Id totaly fucking eat that

>> No.6226182

>>6226121
>but the presentation is just bizarre.

That's because it's presenting poverty-tier ingredients in a haute cuisine way. Aspics, ring molds. etc. are all used for high-level formal presentations in French cooking, and because the Anglos aped the French so much it ended up being common for high-brow meals (such as entertaining guests) in America as well - but without high-quality ingredients and careful preparation you may as well be putting lipstick on a pig.

>> No.6226284

>>6224735
>nation full of a huge number of incredibly diverse people and cultures, many of which have merged to form new cultures completely separate from their European roots
>'cultural void'

stay butthurt

>> No.6226297

>>6224698
Actually Native American cuisine is basically food culture, as is implementations and morphing of other cultures to make "Tex Mex" and the USA rendition of Chinese food.

British also lacks a food culture, as, just like America, even they're most historic dishes are just streamlined versions of another culture's.

There are no other cultures in history that has made a cuisine out of streamlining others as well as American and British cuisines. Outside of blind patriotism that makes people believe this isn't the case, it's actually very impressive.

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>>6221883

>international sauce

>> No.6226590

>>6223430
I tried pepsi and milk and quite liked it actually. Pepsi Max doesn't go at all though.

>> No.6226628

>>6218036
I'm guessing that there was just a fad of people becoming cookbook authors just for the cash and publishers who would print whatever they made no matter how disgusting it was.

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>>6215826
so do you guys pronounce it "Chef Boy-ar-DEE" or "Chef Bo-YAR-dee"?

>> No.6226641

>>6226628
Nope, these came out during the baby boomer generations era of proceeds foods being convenient therefor THE FUTURE OF COOKING! It was a cultural thing that, unfortunately, seemed to have become Scandinavian regular dishes now

Serious if they're not eating candy made of bitter salt they're eating jello meat

>> No.6226642

>>6223430
>Diet

Why.

>> No.6226645

>>6226638
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSFIdYcClrs

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>>6219598
Learn to write before correcting others

>> No.6226822

>>6224722
Yeah Europeans are so jealous they didn't invent the web. Oh wait, we did

>> No.6226826

>>6226805
....................................

even eating spaghetti noodles like a fucking retard, i would fuck this girl in to another dimension.

wtf is wrong with me and why is it her fault?

>> No.6226833

>>6224697
well yeah, ginger and pork aren't exactly a bad mix. lime is probably allright too, it's just all the sugar and shit that makes me worried

>> No.6226846

>>6222276
I'm italian and "marinara sauce" triggered me, reported for terrorism

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>>6222276

>> No.6227034

>>6227024
kek

>> No.6227035

>>6226182
>not putting lipstick on your pig
what is wrong with you?

>> No.6227050

>>6226822
The web never could have been invented if DARPA/American universities hadn't invented the internet first.

>> No.6227059

>>6227050
The internet could never have been invented if the British GPO hadn't invented packet switching first.

>> No.6227061

>>6227059
Packet switching could never have been invented if Konrad Zuse hadn't invented the electronic computer first.

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>>6219666

>> No.6227065

>>6224735
"cultural meltingpot" is the term you are searching for

>> No.6227066

>>6227061

The electronic computer wouldn't exist unless God made humans, such as Konrad Zuse.

What's your point?

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>>6222264
This is the first one that doesn't make me feel like retching.

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>>6227066
>God

>> No.6227071

>>6227059
Paul Baran was an American, dumbass. Americans invented packet switching. Americans invented the internet.

>> No.6227074

>>6227071
>Americans invented packet switching

Donald Davies was British and invented it in Britain. Even the name, "packet switching", is entirely British.

>> No.6227080

>>6227074
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran

>In 1969, when the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) started developing the idea of an inter-networked set of terminals to share computing resources, the reference materials which they considered included Baran and the RAND Corporation's "On Distributed Communications" volumes.[3] The resiliency of a packet-switched network that uses link-state routing protocols used on the Internet stems in some part from the research to develop a network that could survive a nuclear attack.[3][20]

>> No.6227083

>>6227080
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davies

>In 1966 he returned to the NPL at Teddington just outside London, where he headed and transformed its computing activity. He became interested in data communications following a visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he saw that a significant problem with the new time-sharing computer systems was the cost of keeping a phone connection open for each user.[7] He first presented his ideas on packet switching at a conference in Edinburgh on 5 August 1968.[9]

>> No.6227087

>>6227083
now show me where it is says DARPA used his work when they made the internet

>> No.6227096

>>6227087
>In 1970, Davies helped build a packet switched network called the Mark I to serve the NPL in the UK. It was replaced with the Mark II in 1973, and remained in operation until 1986, influencing other research in the UK and Europe.[10] Larry Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency in the United States became aware of the idea, and built it into the ARPANET, another network precursor to the modern Internet.[7]

>> No.6227108

>>6227096
>1970

>>6227080
>1969

>> No.6227111

>>6227108

>>6227083
>1968

>>6227080
>1969

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>>6227087

>> No.6227120

>>6227111
>>6227116
nice samefag, third worlder

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>>6227120

>> No.6227127

>>6218020

Huh. It tastes good with cola so maybe it's alright with 7up too. Got to try that out

>> No.6227128

>>6227125
>makes gifs at gifsoup.com

newfag

>> No.6227130

>>6227128
>making

>> No.6227139

Makes me wonder what the 2050s will look like

>> No.6227160

>>6226642
>not watching your figure

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>>6222256
This thread is making me worry what kind of shit I'm being brainwashed with

>FOOD IN CANS ARE DELICIOUS AND SO CONVENIENT

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>>6222264
>Gash as a verb

Fuckin metal

>> No.6228189

>>6228182
this.

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>>6223430
>that look of regret

Gets me every time

>> No.6228223

>>6223301
I did it with milk and coke once as a kid.

>> No.6228258

>>6218072
I kinda want to try this

>> No.6228289

>>6223430
my mom used to do this all the time. It got to the point where she would pour her pepsi into the milk jug. I can't tell how many breakfast cereals were ruined like this.

>> No.6228299

>>6218037
Looks like shit, just like the state it was named after.

>> No.6228301

Well, idk about anyone else, but I sure am hungry now.

>> No.6228306

>>6227035
It's too much work to clean off my dick

>> No.6228330

>>6218003
I feel sick

>> No.6228374

>>6218036
After WWII, America had scads of surplus food in cans, and companies tried to create demand for said cans and thus reduce their inventory.

>> No.6228379

>>6224698
one day someone is going to show you BBQ and you will fall to your knees weeping

>> No.6228640

>>6222264
>>6222270
Dude, back then soda was still made with sugar, and was nowhere near as sweet. It would make a pretty good glaze.

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I'm honestly surprised no one has posted this.

>> No.6229237

>>6221883
>recipe taken from a restaurant on Montauk
Wat
I guess the rule is if you can't make it taste good, at least make it look good.

>> No.6229249

>>6221960
>Sue Swanson
>Home Economist

>> No.6229250

>>6222257
>>6222260
I gaurantee this shit is going to make an ironic comeback at some point. Some dude is going to get a bunch of michelin stars for bringing back aspic.

>> No.6229253

>>6222264
What if I told you that people still do that with pork, only they use Coke?
Lots of things go great with a sweet glaze, and soda is basically carbonated sweet glaze in a bottle. Pour it on and bake, or boil it down and brush it on.
Tastes good, man.
Doesn't take a genius to figure this stuff out sometimes.

>> No.6229255

>>6226297
I agree, and I am also impressed. In true american fashion you take something from someone else and improve on it. I'm Canadian so we did a lot of that with french cuisine too (in b4 someone gets bootyblasted about "improvements")

>> No.6229258

>>6222285
Well, when canned stuff is everywhere and they're slashing prices trying to clear it out, and you've finally got a decent job but you're new, have a kid and are still broke. What are you gonna do?
Same thing we do now: You surf the sales, buy the cheap crap they are trying to move and then try to figure out what the hell you can do with it to make it not taste like boiled ass.

>> No.6229261

>>6222300
Not quite, but close enough
Any soda with flavoring that simple would have been copied to death in a heartbeat.
7-up had a few other flavorings in there to make it taste "distinctive", and much harder to copy.

>> No.6229262

>>6223282
Funny, I'm saying that now.

Does that mean I'm a trendsetter?

>> No.6229267

>>6229250
People have tried, Aspic is dead for a reason.

>> No.6229276

>>6224651
Look at pictures of people from 40 year ago. They're all skinnyfat.
Food wasn't quite cheap enough that they became full-on hamplanets yet.

Also, they all smoked like fucking chimneys, and the appetite-reducing effects of that kept them from gaining too much weight.
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/09/137085989/the-skinny-on-smoking-why-nicotine-curbs-appetite

>> No.6229282

>>6229258
I just don't get it. I mean how hard was it to spend an extra 15 minutes cooking and getting something pretty edible versus horror in plate form? It's like watching the food equivalent of John Carpenter's The Thing.

My theory is that lower-class Americans who weren't first gen immigrants literally forgot how to cook during the depression and the subsequent hardships of rationing and work in the factories. As if there were a generation of women that never had learned really HOW to cook, and became convinced that "modernity" and "convenience" trumped all that "icky hard old-world demeaning drudgery" that making food from scratch represented. Thus new age hardship was disguised as "liberation".

I just don't get it though - even fucking canned bullshit could be easily whipped into some pretty enjoyable meals with just a little bit of extra effort. You could make shit like a potato soup easy as fuck to hide the quality of the canned veggies right? Instead though, people insisted on just heating it and then pouring that shit into a bowl.

>> No.6229283

>>6224735
>welfare+poverty+ruins=culture
Nope. Try again

>> No.6229287

>>6227035
Clearly he's not a true porcophile.

>> No.6229295

>>6228665
I-is that supposed to be coleslaw on top?
>oh FUCK NO

>> No.6229363

>>6229282
>My theory is that lower-class Americans who weren't first gen immigrants literally forgot how to cook during the depression and the subsequent hardships of rationing and work in the factories. As if there were a generation of women that never had learned really HOW to cook, and became convinced that "modernity" and "convenience" trumped all that "icky hard old-world demeaning drudgery" that making food from scratch represented. Thus new age hardship was disguised as "liberation".
You're probably on the right road here, but the trend of women not being at home to cook dinner started long before the 50s. My grandmother was born just before WWI in upstate New York, and her family was grindingly poor.
Long story short they made do, but right about the time she would have been really learning how to cook, the Depression hit and forced her out into the workforce just to try and keep her family afloat somehow. As a result, she never really leaned how to cook very well, as my mom will attest to.

The thing about the 50s was that it was supposed to be this great "return to normalcy" after the Depression and two World Wars. And normalcy of course meant having Mom at home doing the cooking.
But the dirty little secret was that women had been working en masse for 25 years or more by then. Mom didn't know how to cook-she'd been in offices and working as long as Dad had, and longer if he'd been away at war! When did she have time to learn how to cook? And now she had to cook for others to impress them and show how much of a natural-born housewife she was? In what time-right after he got home from work at 5:30? They were set up for failure from the start.
So the recipes had to be easy, they had to be quick, and you couldn't spend all day shopping for the ingredients. And if they turned out bad-well,so was everyone else's cooking back then, so nobody really noticed.

>> No.6229404

>>6227068

Dolphin flipper? Let's drop another nuke on the nips.

>>6228182

Well, do you eat fast food? There you go. McDicks, Tim Hortons, and Five Guys are the seafood lime jello and 7-up duck of today.

The jews have me craving donuts donuts donuts, and I get one and it's a pile of stale sugar (except for based local bakery.) Anything advertised on the TV is trash (also, you shouldn't watch/own an electric jew at all) because good products don't need a marketing team and 1 mil per minute ad slots in order to sell. Just think about it. They spend all that budget on marketing and ads, well where does it come from? They lower product quality to make room for ad budget, or else have prices jacked up. Under normal business circumstances, the profit margin is pretty small because you can only sell it for a little more than it cost to make, otherwise someone else would make it for less. You have giant corporations with billion-dollar ad budgets. Well, the money doesn't come from magic. Once they have a consumer base hooked on their brand, they lower the quality by using cheap materials/ingredients/labor and put out a subpar product that the rubes still buy because muh brand name. After they get you hooked, the quality is no longer a factor in the consumer decision making process. You're so convinced their shit is delicious that you delude yourself. That's why blind taste tests between megacorp food and small crafts don't happen and aren't aired. The brand name would get blasted the fuck out. The jews can't have something like that airing. Or, if it does get out, the jews trick you into thinking the craft is unattainable, rare, and expensive, even if it may be cheaper than megacorp brand and stocked in local stores!

If it's in the ads, take it as a warning message to stay the hell away.

>> No.6229409

wow these are stunningly accurate, I have to cater a 50's style party at a local art gallery soon.
I scoured the antique shops and found a local 1954 church recipe book, and yes its basically Jello/Gelatin, Maraschino cherries, and coconut I got home and had to drink, when i wasn't laughing.
I'll post some recipes when I'm off work.
cool thing is >>6221992
if from where i am, Hamilton Ontario.. a little more history, with the food abomination.

>> No.6229434

>>6229404
>let's eat metric fuck-tons of cows/pigs/chickens/sheep, no worries.
>omg how dare you eat a dolphin, they are precious little angels of the sea.

get over yourself, please.

do not over-harvest dolphins/whales, and knock yourself out on their meat. you have no business making judgements on that.

>> No.6229536

>>6228640
hfcs will reduce and caramelize... 7up/sprite and gingerale are actually good for sweet and sour applications when you're too lazy to do it properly (seriously, it's fucking sweet and sour... if you're even considering it, you're as fat and lazy as I am)

>>6228379
I hope that person's from Louisiana or the Caribbean - still yet to meet someone who consistently nails the art of "take fire, add meat" as former slaves and their former owners. HAPPY FEBRUARY!

>> No.6229544

>>6229434
>comparing farm animals to endangered species

Fucking chinks I swear.

>> No.6229549

>>6229544
The only logical answer is to farm dolphins and sharks. We farm tuna and catfish.

Don't even start with ">comparing dolphins to tuna" One is a mammal, I know. I bet it's a delicious mammal like every other.

>> No.6229616

>>6229283
>americans still think they're not just as poor

your news must be hilarious

>> No.6229627

>>6219666
Satan plz.

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:^)

>> No.6229729

>>6223436
aww, that's actually kinda cute.
>You will never have a sweet gf who makes cute things with food.

h-happy valentines day

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>>6229799

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>>6229810

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>>6229828

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>>6229833

pls stop. i dont think I can handle any more of this

>> No.6229891

>>6229799
so those are basically balls of flavored lard, amirite?

>> No.6229912

>>6229833
My grandmother has this exact book. There's like a dish made entirely of jello and olives arranged in a tower or something

>> No.6230821

>>6226297
Britain did have its own food culture, but it was mostly killed off by wartime rationing and awful food education in the last century.

>> No.6230845

>>6229677
To be honest Heinz ketchup is and always has been pretty alright. It's interesting seeing how little it's changed in all this time.

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>>6218037
> filename

>> No.6230899

>>6226628
A _lot_ of these, including three of the ones from the one you replied to, are from print ads for canned products that were new at the time.

>> No.6230903

So, general question, since about half of these are clearly from commercial ads by the companies that make one of the ingredients. What kind of magazines were these printed in? Do they still exist today? Are food companies still running ads with godawful serving suggestions?

>> No.6230914

>>6224642
pls deliver

>> No.6231033

>>6229729
>Not getting girls to fuck you by making them cute food
What are you doing?

>> No.6231039

>>6229544
>Every species of Dolphin is endangered
You're a stupid.

>> No.6231050

>>6229283
America literally has all of those things.

>> No.6231053

>>6218271
I lived that way for a while. I'm off tranquilizers now though.

>> No.6231081

>>6229253
I make ribs with Dr Pepper all the time. Shit is fuckin' cash.

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>>6228665
LET'S JUST FUCKING REARRANGE SHITTY CANNED FOODS ON A PLATE AND CALL IT A DISH AHAHAHAHAHAHAH I'M SO GOOD AT COOKING HONEY AHAHAHAHAHA

>> No.6231190

>>6218046
It's like wedge salad 2.0!

>> No.6231241

>>6229282
It was a time where people thought that soon they never have to do dishes again and instead use disposable plastic dishes. Seriously. It was the coming of a new age. The age of glass and steel. Our age. Giving birth is not a cakewalk.

>> No.6231310

>>6229833
spongebob?

>> No.6231329

>>6229677
And they didn't even mention how to use it as a spaghetti sauce.

I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that they never did that.

>> No.6231349

>>6230903
A lot of them are from McCall's, Good Housekeeping, Better Homes and Gardens, or Redbook. And of course they are still printing recipes in those magazines, and more besides. Food producers still want to sell their stuff, and part go that is showing people how it can be useful in more things than they ever thought of.

>> No.6231353

>>6231050
So what, you need gypsies robbing you at random or something?

>> No.6231564

>>6229799
actually looks pretty good.

>> No.6231817

>>6229544
Dolphins are endangered?
Citation?

>> No.6231860

>>6231817
he's full of shit and likes them as a pet. it is stupid but understandable. we usually do not eat things we find cute or loyal or intelligent above other animals.

i have had dolphin, whale, and even a dog, though i was horrified knowing i ate dog meat; and why? b/c they are my friends, basically. tasting amazing, i just don't see them as a food source.

w/e ppl want is fine imo. as long as things are kept sustainable, and dolphins are, then fine..knock yourself out. i don't want to join in, but i have no right to judge or stop you.

>> No.6231871

>>6221960
someone would have 'walked into a doorknob' if they served that sandwich to me for dinner

>> No.6231902

>>6224642
Shit like this is why men were not allowed in family kitchens for like 30 years
>you dumb bitch learn how to cook
>yeah spam, eggs and fucking lettuce
>that's the ticket
>i'm a goddamn chef now

>> No.6232127

>>6215826
Chef Boyardee was originally just trying to package a popular dish from his restaurant. Back then processed food was a miracle.

It's a miracle alright, in a way.

>> No.6232130

>>6218063
>mixed vegetable imitation flavor
am I in hell?

>> No.6232149

>>6228665
I'm imagining a husband who will push you down the stairs if you don't make him feel fancy with dinner, no matter how poor you are.

>> No.6232150

>>6221950
This... might turn out weird but good?

>> No.6232152

Fucking Don Draper ruined everything.

>> No.6232157

>>6218391
>war rationing

What did this look like, exactly? Weren't people still able to cook stuff at home?

>> No.6232191

>>6217989
I want to reserve judgement on this one because depending on when the recipe was released, it might've been made with that banana that went extinct, Michael Groos or whatever it was, so maybe it had a different flavour when paired with ham and hollandaise.

>> No.6232202

>>6229677

>Crimson Slaw

Welp. Got my new band name.