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[Anonymous No.12344313]

Classic 50's American Dishes Thread

[Anonymous No.12344314]

>>12344313
>dairy foods
>eating outside
no

[Anonymous No.12344315]

buckling up for a good thread

[Anonymous No.12344318]

Cool. I'm on board.

[Anonymous No.12344321]

>>12344314
was it autism?

[Anonymous No.12344326]

Holy shit imagine if America was never subverted by poilitical, chemical and media facilities. The absolute potential.

[Anonymous No.12344328]

[Anonymous No.12344334]

[Anonymous No.12344339]

what the fuck were they thinking?

[Anonymous No.12344340]

>>12344339
wtf they didn't even remove the black bits at the end of the bananas

[Anonymous No.12344344]

[Anonymous No.12344348]

>>12344334
That looks based, I'm thinking of unironically making it.

[Anonymous No.12344349]

what was with the 50's obsession with jello?

[Anonymous No.12344353]

>>12344334
how come there's only one good jello mold pic in this thread?

[Anonymous No.12344356]

[Anonymous No.12344358]

>>12344334
that's good tho. post the weird ones.

[Anonymous No.12344365]

>>12344349
it was a fad.

[Anonymous No.12344368]

>>12344313
Take me back please boys

[Anonymous No.12344370]

[Anonymous No.12344371]

>>12344353
im the only one posting i can only do so much

[Anonymous No.12344374]

So is 50's cooking total dogshit because it was primarily the woman's job to cook meals for the family?

[Anonymous No.12344378]

step aside kids

[Anonymous No.12344387]

[Anonymous No.12344402]

i kinda like the idea of this one

[Anonymous No.12344445]

The 50's was post war and cheap synthetics and cheap meats and stomach-filling foods were the norm. Product placement was rampant and anything that they could throw to the wall and have stick was the goal. Thus the obsession with jello and mayo and smeat and all the rest of the garbage they tried to pass off as edible.

[Anonymous No.12344654]

[Anonymous No.12344680]

>>12344654
An eternal classic

[Anonymous No.12345389]

>>12344349
You had two things going on with gelatin, first was an obsession with the idea that with a food consisting mostly of water and gelatin that you could shove anything in there and it would make it healthy, a majority of weight watchers recipes at the time were gelatin-based. The other thing was that gelatin allowed you to flex on your neighbors, bringing a gelatin salad, aspic, or dessert as tall as your picture to a dinner party was a statement that you had a fridge with a tall enough compartment to let it set.

[Anonymous No.12345459]

>>12344313
Heart disease? no thanks.

[Anonymous No.12345469]

>>12344445
Yee and all this shit was just the left overs from the food industry created for world war 2 and the whole idea was to convince people that cooking anything else other than this garbage was really difficult and took a long time and they did it because ultra processed ready to eat full meals weren't around yet but they still had to sell there garbage as whole meals

[Anonymous No.12346131]

>>12344370
you post this but you just know that if this exact dish was on a giant square white plate at a michelin starred restaurant there'd be a line of yuppies out the door willing to pay $60 for it

[Anonymous No.12346172]

>>12344371
fuck me

[Anonymous No.12346284]

>>12344349
>>12345389
I thought there was also the mentality that you could mimic old french aspics and such with it, despite the food not having existed in forever.

>>12344313
Not sure what long John soda is but, probably those float looking things near the seltzer water.
>Vagabond Shortcake
That's a strawberry shortcake overthere and looks awesome.
>Garden-Fresh Pickles
Looks like they've got two different kinds of pickles, cool.
>Spamaroni Pi-
Spam terrifies me, but it's probably that noodle, potato salad, with meat bits in the middle. Perfectly fine.
>Cheese Dip
Canned?
>Cheese Beanies
Don't know, not worst thing ever.
>Milk
Okay.
>Salad
Okay.
>Hot dogs
Okay.

This one doesn't look smack a woman too bad.

[Anonymous No.12346800]

[Anonymous No.12346993]

>>12344313

[Anonymous No.12347001]

>food must be in jiggly jello
Still better then the HFCS garbage of today though

[Anonymous No.12347015]

>>12344402
>It’s like there’s a party in my mouth and everyone is throwing up

[Anonymous No.12347029]

>>12344348
>>>12344334
>That looks based, I'm thinking of unironically making it.
I also was intrigued at the citrus one, since fresh grapefruit prevents setting of jello. I think I have never seen anned sections other then mandarin oranges. I wonder if the little cups count.

[Anonymous No.12347041]

>>12344349
>what was with the 50's obsession with jello?
Potlucks, bridge game parties, and other get togethers were pretty popular, considering all the stay at home mommies who didn't work and planned ahead for all kinds of things, from dinnertime to outfits complete with gloves and hat and getting your hair set in the salon once a week.

[Anonymous No.12347152]

>IT’S DIGESTIBLE

[Anonymous No.12347378]

>>12344349
gelatin was expensive and hard to make. but they invented a new process that made it cheap and easy. it was part of the "modernization" thing along with processed and frozen foods. So people started using it for almost anything simply because it was novel. obviously gelatin dishes existed way before that but they were prohibitively expensive or hard to do for the home kitchen.

[Anonymous No.12347384]

>>12344370
That's not a totally crazy idea actually. Depending on what you stuffed it with. Tomatoes, peppers, cumin, chili p, some chipolte mixed in cream cheese. Maybe throw some chorizo in it. then stuff the center of a head of lettuce with it. Cut slices for a quick snack.

[Anonymous No.12347480]

id rather eat out thanks

[Anonymous No.12347485]

>>12347480
inflation is scary

[Anonymous No.12347490]

>>12347480
yeah me too

[Anonymous No.12347491]

>>12346800
what was the jello flavored like for recipes like this? was it just passively flavored by whatever you put into it? that doesnt sound pleasant

[Anonymous No.12347505]

Remember when white men could go out to eat and not be bothered by minorities?
Me niether .

[Anonymous No.12347536]

>>12347505
me

[Anonymous No.12347542]

>>12347536
I wonder what he's looking at? You know theres no television up there.

[Anonymous No.12347545]

>>12347505
This image twinges something deep and sentimental in me. Just knowing all these old crackers are dead by now.

[Anonymous No.12347562]

to be desu, nowday's dishes that you muriccans usually post, look and seem to be way better than these all 50's stuff

t.alien

[Anonymous No.12347568]

>>12347545
Based

[Anonymous No.12347716]

>>12347490
Orange-ade still reminds me of soccer practice

[Anonymous No.12347725]

>>12347542
People used to look at radios

[Anonymous No.12347752]

>>12344356
>...the soup loaf I think
>No, sir, I'm afraid you misheard me

[Anonymous No.12347753]

>>12344370
I feel like there should be a way to fuse this with the popularity of the Wedge Salad

[Anonymous No.12347754]

>>12344349
The Jell-O company had a marketing campaign when they just opened which was just a book of recipes, since nobody knew what the fuck to do with it (it's not exactly like aspic and doesn't behave in the same way). Ever since, they continued to publish recipes, and they got more and more batty as time went on because there's no limit to the formula "stick some shit inside Jell-O". It's also the reason there are so many extant recipes; the booklets were a huge success.

[Anonymous No.12347757]

>>12347152
May actually beat out Kellogg's Shredded Wheats for worst slogan

[Anonymous No.12347831]

>>12344313
Do Americans really do this?

[Anonymous No.12347857]

>>12347831

No. Americans aren't white anymore so its hard for them to do that.

[Anonymous No.12347869]

>>12344313
>Tuna Noodle Casserole
>Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
>Salmon Mousse
>Crown Roast
>Swedish Meatballs
>Deviled Eggs
>Potato Candy
>Glazed Ham
>Spumoni Icecream
>Baked Alaska
>Chicken A La King
>Moscow Mule (cocktail)
>Clams Casino

[Anonymous No.12347923]

>>12347505
Looks like a gay bar.

[Anonymous No.12347955]

>>12347869
>>Tuna Noodle Casserole
My dad always called it Tunc. Shit was pretty dank if you drenched it in enough Parmesan cheese and used actual albacore tuna.
>>Pineapple Upsidedown Cake
a shit cake desu
>>Salmon Mousse
a terrible way to use canned salmon
>>Crown Roast
never had it but it looks ok
>>Swedish Meatballs
good if done right.
>>Deviled Eggs
the realm of every shitty easter brunch
>>Potato Candy
never heard of it. this shit must be from minnesota or something
>>Glazed Ham
still good
>>Spumoni Icecream
good shit gelato is dank
>>Baked Alaska
ruined by a dickhead political operative
>>Chicken A La King
fucking great
>>Moscow Mule (cocktail)
dark n stormy is the same thing but better
>>Clams Casino
good shit

You missed salisbury steak, which is also really good if done right.

[Anonymous No.12347969]

>>12347955
>You missed salisbury steak, which is also really good if done right.
It belongs to the Japanese now

[Anonymous No.12348022]

>>12347831
>>12347857
Why are Europeans so angry all the time?

[Anonymous No.12348071]

>>12347955
>never heard of it. this shit must be from minnesota or something
Maine actually
https://newengland.com/today/food/needhams-potato-candy/

[Anonymous No.12348085]

>>12348022
Imagine your country is forcefully turned communist. Imagine your politicians bussing in massive amounts of third world refugees despite the fact the people don't want them there. Imagine the government telling the women of your country that they should be breeding with these third world subhumans. Imagine 2/3rds of your paychecks being taken in taxes to support NEETs and 3rd world subhumans. Imagine all the men in your country are to cowardly to do anything about it except seethe on a South African beat box collaboration board. Them you know why yuropoors are constantly uppity. It's funny.

[Anonymous No.12348108]

>>12345389
Based food historian

[Anonymous No.12348135]

reminder that most people back then did not eat this shit. don't fall for the eurangutan agitation

[Anonymous No.12348142]

>>12344339
This isn't real. It doesn't make sense.

[Anonymous No.12348148]

>>12347041
I hate jello.

[Anonymous No.12348205]

>>12348085
I'll have things that never happen except in the fantasy world of breitbart and F(au)x News for $1200, Alex.

[Anonymous No.12348293]

>>12344339
the bananas are cooked

[Anonymous No.12349794]

>>12344387
holy fuck it's the proto-hurgin

[Anonymous No.12349801]

>>12346993
That's about 6 pancakes and 3 slices of bacon short of an actual breakfast, but okay

[Anonymous No.12349948]

>>12347757
Hey, three for free!

[Anonymous No.12350289]

>>12344313
Honestly how the fuck did baby boomers survive on this shit, seems like cooking knowledge literally died from 1946 to sometime around the early/late 70's.

[Anonymous No.12350316]

>>12349948
What a great restaurant.

[Anonymous No.12350329]

>>12347491
most of the non-jello sponsored recipes recommended aspic. Aspic's basicly normal jell-o before they add colours and tastes. Its basicly pure gelatin.

[Anonymous No.12350366]

>>12344374
No because canned food companies had to find a way to keep selling thier product after the war ended.

[Anonymous No.12350415]

>>12346993
Aunt jemima was based. I’d save that woman’s life anytime

[Anonymous No.12350645]

>>12344340
anti segregation subliminal messaging

[Anonymous No.12350659]

This thread is russian propaganda

Fuck you Ivan!

[Anonymous No.12350675]

>>12347152
digestability aside that's a dank ass cake. the best baked goods are made with crisco

[Anonymous No.12350756]

>>12348085
I can't tell anymore is people like you are real or just trying to sound as dumb as possible to get a rise out of people.

[Anonymous No.12350828]

>>12344314
what the problem is?
oh, you're one of those peanut allergy guys?
carry a bottle of sanitizer?
that's real america, a little bit of the runs in the afternoon gets the blood flowing.
America and minor food poisoning, A down home tradition!!

No, but really, moms always kept that shit in the cooler until the last minute.

[Anonymous No.12350836]

>>12344339
How do we create dishes that will outlast the upcoming nuclear holocaust between us and the USSR.
Mostly. That and,
Holy Shit, this IceBox doesn't require Ice!

[Anonymous No.12350887]

>>12347725

[Anonymous No.12351059]

>>12344313
#7 how to pour glass of cold milk lol

[Anonymous No.12352007]

>>12347485
Sure is.

[Anonymous No.12352017]

>>12350887
It's actually true, before television. Today people leave televisions on 24/7 and only occasionally glance at them. People are weird.

[Anonymous No.12352024]

>>12347542
They had TVs in bars since the 40s.

[Anonymous No.12352872]

>>12344313
>50's american fetishization

[Anonymous No.12354170]

>>12344358 #
k
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>>12346284 #

You now know that Soylent was not even close to an original idea
>originally came in a powder form made of skim milk, soybean flour, corn oil and vitamins and minerals

[Anonymous No.12354181]

>>12352007
night night, Ronnie

[Anonymous No.12354214]

>>12348085
take your meds

[Anonymous No.12354241]

>>12347001
>Implying the corporate overlords that pushed jello into the inbredicans were not the ones pushing the HFCS as well
are americans even capable of independent tought?

[Anonymous No.12354260]

>>12354241
they are the same people that push avocados and quinoa. They find a cheap food and market it.

[Anonymous No.12354759]

>>12354170
this ad is autism, did they need to explain the joke, holy shit

[Anonymous No.12354848]

>>12354759
most ads of that time had a short flavor text explaining the whole ad because people back then was dumb as hell and couldn't get the message otherwise

[Anonymous No.12354860]

>>12354759
It's just a funny behind the scenes story to show the warmth and humanity of the people responsible for the ad.

[Anonymous No.12354876]

>>12354848
Probably because people weren't used to complex themes to convey advertising, since the advertising industry wasn't very advanced so only a few companies had campaigns that were above simply "hey, you, buy X."

[Anonymous No.12354877]

>>12344314
nigger

[Anonymous No.12354889]

>>12354876
well, yeah, the masses usually have troubles with new forms of media
the mass hysteria caused by the broadcast of war of the worlds comes to mind

[Anonymous No.12355005]

>>12352872
Fuck off crapskin

[Anonymous No.12355177]

>>12344313
Unrelated but is there any combination worse than salad and hot dogs? Fuck that noise

[Anonymous No.12355239]

>>12354889
Nothing really happened when war of the worlds was broadcast. The masses believe anything they are told by the media

[Anonymous No.12355300]

>>12345389

>tfw dabbing on your neighbors with your jello mountain.