1950s fine dining

[Owlie]

Meat and jello should not go together...except on the cow. Urk. I must say that the photography/illustrations do nothing to enhance their appeal.

Also, spam. Lovely spam.

My mom has a cookbook from when she was in college/grad school (late 70s/early 80s). Lots of recipes for things in aspic. Where's the barfing smiley when you need it?

[Eden]

You may also enjoy The Gallery of Regrettable Foods - http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/
(caution - if you are drinking milk you may snort it from your nose while reading this)

[Owlie]

You may also enjoy The Gallery of Regrettable Foods - http://lileks.com/institute/gallery/
(caution - if you are drinking milk you may snort it from your nose while reading this)

+1. It's hilarious and stomach-turning at the same time.

[trista]

Some of those are hilarious.... my favorite is ring-around-the-tuna.

I'll admit though, my kids LOVE Spam!

Although looking at those pictures, I can't but wonder what people will be saying in 50-60 years about some of the things people are eating today.

[shootingstar]

Although looking at those pictures, I can't but wonder what people will be saying in 50-60 years about some of the things people are eating today.

True. They just have flip on Food Network show which some shows focus heavily on interesting/but junk like food.

I was amazed/appalled in Hawai'i, spam sushi is pretty popular when I was there.

But maybe some people feel better having it for awhile (especially if there are concerns of radioactive leakage infecting the sea life after nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan during earthquake earlier this yr.).

[withm]

Fortunately my mother was a good cook. We never saw anything that even resembled some of this ersatz 'food'. I can probably count on one hand the times I have eaten jello. Well tomato aspic not withstanding, but I don't make it with jello either.

[channlluv]

What is aspic?

I love that little hotdog man-thing. My grandmother used to slice hotdogs up the middle for us so we didn't choke on them, but she never made a little man out of one.

I used to love my mom's Jello molds. My grandmother used to make this great Jello salad she called Ambrosia. One of my favorite things about holiday dinners.

But seriously, look at some of the stuff we eat today. Turducken, anyone? And those nuclear-spiced Cheetos? I can't even stand to be around someone eating those, they smell so bad.

Roxy