I think a lot of these are more 50s and 60s war crimes than 80s.
50s invented Jello Salad war crimes.
Yeah, most of these sorts of abominations are pushed by big food conglomerates trying to manufacture demand for their shelf-stable hyperprocessed shit by publishing recipes that feature their “convenience foods” as ingredients. (Just look at how many of the recipe images in the list are literally advertisements for Miracle Whip and whatnot!) That sort of thing really resonated with the whole '50s atomic-age modernist thinking crowd.
(Don’t get me wrong: I think the modernist aesthetic/furniture design/aesthetic is great. Lots of other stuff about it, like the food and the [anti-]urbanism, was an absolute disaster, though.)
My mother did that shit all the time. I distinctly remember one time she tried to make spaghetti with calamari. She had never cooked squid before so we ended up eating what tasted like tomato sauce covered erasers.
That’s too bad, I would commit crimes to eat my grandfather’s calamari with red sauce again
Hi! Spaghetti con calamari is a very legit italian recipe and very good too.
It’s only a matter of following the right recipe but in south of Italy pasta&seafood or fish is very common.
I had some fantastic clam pasta dishes in Naples.
I also had gastronomic consequences that were major health events.
TIL you can just eat any goddamn thing
technically, yes
i still don’t reccomend cyanide tho, it has a really bitter taste
The almond smell is to die for.
cyanide doesn’t smell like almonds, it’s more of a pool chlorine smell that irritates your nose
Every rage bait tik Tok and YouTube “cooking” short: am I a joke to you
#4 “Frankfurter Pie” isn’t so bad. It’s just sausage and sauerkraut with some bread under it.
That was one of the more edible looking ones I saw
The egg curry is quite tasty. I don’t think their recipe is going to be as good as an Indian version though.
I actually tried bacon wrapped banana once a while back, tastes amazing.
But did you have it with hollandaise sauce
As tradition demands
No, that’s insanity
I found a book of 70s Italian recipes and half the dishes were stuff like vegetables encased in a ring of aspic jelly.
Better veggies than larks tongue I guess
Better then crunchy frogs?
As long as it’s garnished with lark’s vomit.
TIL SpongeBob’s house is an 80s food crime.
Tuna and waffles doesn’t sound too bad
White people are wild, man.
And they say we have no culture.
“Depression but with a weirdly high amount of energy meals”
This is what white culture looks like. You wonder why we are culture thieves lmao I would be too if this was what o grew up on
We kind of had to start from scratch again after a generation of Great Depression cooking was followed by a generation of “It’s in a can and claims to be edible”
Not Polish culture! We’ve got… cabbage!.. and um… nah that’s about it
Kolaches! Which look like beige lumps with goo on top.
Pierogi! Which look like beige lumps with goo inside.
Bagels! Beige. BYO goo.
Italy, France, Spain, Greece…
I’d try curried eggs bengal
Yeah that one looked nice, actually
A lot of these were designed just so wife’s could get back at their husbands. As a child of the 50/60s I frequently suffered collateral damage.
Neighbours had the “flying jacob”, mnm’s pushed into peeled bananas, rolled in bacon and cooked in the owen.
That stuff was not delicious.
