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Weird Foods People Ate During The 1950s
Conquerer ^ | 5/15/21 | Conquerer

Posted on 05/10/2022 10:42:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Weird Foods People Ate During The 1950s

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TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: 1950s; jello
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I saw some shrimp encased in Jello and about threw up(I love shrimp). I grew up in the 60's and 70's, and every dinner party or block party had some sort of Jello savory dish.

I liked fruit flavored Jello as a kid for dessert, but can't remember the last time I actually ate Jello.

For the dinner and block parties my mother always made bacon potato salad and stayed away from Jello.

1 posted on 05/10/2022 10:42:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

No tunafish or shrimp in jello. ughhh


2 posted on 05/10/2022 10:50:37 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: DallasBiff

The gelatin has been a preservative for centuries and only recently has lost favor. May make a comeback as folks again become cave dwellers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspic


3 posted on 05/10/2022 10:53:21 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff

I think jello with fruit encased is good.


4 posted on 05/10/2022 10:55:20 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I did not shoot the burglar. I pointed a laser dot on his head and let the cats do the rest. )
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To: Jonty30

“I think jello with fruit encased is good.”

Can be.


5 posted on 05/10/2022 11:00:33 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DallasBiff

My dad went through a spell with no job and we were dirt poor. We got government relief. There was no cheese yet, but there was some kind of meat in a can. I also remember powdered eggs that were disgusting. He was also a hunter and would make spaghetti sauce from the critters he bagged. Squirrel meatballs anyone? Never went hungry though.


6 posted on 05/10/2022 11:01:07 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: Larry Lucido

Seafood in a spicy is not bad. Salmon/shrimp/tuna steaks.

Salmon eggs mixed with scrambled chicken eggs is good.


7 posted on 05/10/2022 11:09:34 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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There was no cheese yet [...]

You must be older'n Moses!

Regards,

8 posted on 05/10/2022 11:27:36 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Trillian
Do you remember when the left would pie the face of the people they disagreed with and hated hated.

Someone, and I'm not advocating it, should "pie" a leftist with a shrimp lime Jello mold, that would be disgusting.

9 posted on 05/10/2022 11:38:11 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: Jonty30

jello with cut up fruit...bananas, apples, berries, and for extra crunch, minced up celery.


10 posted on 05/10/2022 11:39:26 PM PDT by cherry (;)
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To: DallasBiff

I wouldn’t term it as weird but that lunchmeat that used to have coarse pepper on it ( old fashioned i think they called it) i don’t seam to be able to find anymore.


11 posted on 05/10/2022 11:46:03 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Go to an Italian grocery to the meat case ask for mortadella :)


12 posted on 05/10/2022 11:52:36 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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I wouldn’t term it as weird but that lunchmeat that used to have coarse pepper on it ( old fashioned i think they called it) i don’t seam to be able to find anymore.

I remember those days also, one would ask the butcher for a 1/2 lb of salami and he would cut it, and wrap it in butcher paper.

Around the mid-80's zip-lok bags became popular at deli counters.

Oh what is a modern leftist to think, get his/her/ transgender/binary/mononary person to think?

Do I get my pastrami in plastic or paper?

13 posted on 05/11/2022 12:10:44 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: pnut22

Spam is maybe what you’re thinking of.

You can take milk, a little butter with potatoes and make potato soup. Add a little salt and pepper, some corn bread or baking powder biscuits and it is good. Rabbit, squirrels, doves, raccoon for meat. Country folks can survive.


14 posted on 05/11/2022 12:17:46 AM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Jonty30

As a lovesick teen I would write poems that were never sent. My wife found an envelope with them all one day.

“How come you never wrote ME a poem?”

So I wrote her one.

“Roses are red
Tulips are yellow
I love you more
than mixed-fruit Jello.”

She never asked me to write another one.
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She still has that one in her jewelry box 30+ years later though.


15 posted on 05/11/2022 12:18:13 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: 21twelve

:) you da man.


16 posted on 05/11/2022 12:21:59 AM PDT by Equine1952
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To: cherry

With some miniature marshmallows tossed in for good measure!

I didn’t exist in the ‘50s, but some of this bled into the following two decades.


17 posted on 05/11/2022 12:25:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

There was olive loaf too.


18 posted on 05/11/2022 12:26:31 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: alexander_busek

LOL.. no government cheese. I was born in the fifties so that should give me away.


19 posted on 05/11/2022 12:42:02 AM PDT by pnut22
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To: Equine1952

It wasn’t Spam. This was a little smaller than a large juice can and was chunks floating in a broth. Pork or beef, not sure. It was tasty.


20 posted on 05/11/2022 12:45:16 AM PDT by pnut22
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