Posted on 05/10/2022 10:42:14 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Weird Foods People Ate During The 1950s
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I remember early government subsidized school lunches. One horror was a layered mess of ham(?) slices layered with powdered eggs and a cheese-like food substance. We ate it but one serving was enough.
My wife puts celery in Jello. I hate it.
I remember gummint food...Silver cans with black letters.
Canned meats and veggies. AND we did have cheese...blocks of it.
Late 50’s. IIRC, there was a resurgence in the 70’s during the gas crisis...
Both of the items you mention are readily available from the HEB food chain in Texas. But HEB is well known for being one of the better run businesses in the USA.
Otherwise called SOS.
What about head cheese? I remember taking sandwiches to school for lunch and being embarrassed about it.
I’m not yet 30 and have never eaten Jello. Or Spam.
However, I have heard food horror stories from boomer parents regarding the fare served to their parents. Among them, an eastern European dish containing pig feet in a gelatinous substance. You could actually see that they were, um, feet. I have never seen the word; it sounded like cochina. Maybe that’s from the French for pig; or akin to the Italian for kitchen...maybe not since the folks who cooked it spoke Hungarian and Russian.
Also, they were known to float recognizable chicken feet in pots of soup.
My WW2 vet grandpa made some horrific coffee, for that matter. They still talk of it now and then.
And people killed their own chickens, right on their laps.
Today you may have to go to China to pick out live food, unless it’s something you can’t relate to at all, like a lobster.
Back to weird stuff, my cousin born in the 80’s recalls “pop rocks,” which crackled in the mouth, and an uncle older than that recalls drinking candy juice from wax tubes, and wax lips you could eat. I’m not sure how that works. They don’t sound traumatized when they talk about such things, but frankly it’s a little triggering.
PS: Great-grandfather put tobacco wads in his mouth, took them out and left them lying around, put them back in later. He didn’t have to, being quite rich later in life.
The Germans put sawdust in bread dough to make it go farther.
I like olive loaf but rarely can find it
“With some miniature marshmallows tossed in for good measure!”
Absolutely! And with whipped cream spread over the top.
The term you are looking for is “pickled pig feet” which along with pickled eggs, whole dill pickles could be bought at the counter of a country store.
I looked it up. The Hungarian word is kocsonya, which sounds like “kutchunya.”
Looks like something you could buy in a gag shop.
“mortadella”
LOL...Italian bologna.
In Sicily, we’d hit the meat counter at a local grocery store, buy thinly sliced mortadella, prosciutto, salami, various sliced cheeses. Then visit the bakery next door for some hot bread. Cross the street to a park and make sandwiches. No mayo, mustard, olive oil, etc...just meat, cheese and warm bread. We called mortadella “Italian bologna”. The best sandwiches!
And some other stuff called “liver cheese” and “head cheese”. There was no cheese in that stuff, I tell you.
Fried bread & butter, scrapple with maple syrup, deviled eggs, cinnamon & sugar on dough strips rolled then baked.
I’ve seen plenty of squirrels in Nashville and their fat and healthy looking!
Mom made chipped beef gravy & Toast, Dad called it Sh@t on a shingle, but we loved it. Also hamburger gravy, boiled eggs and gravy. Her sausage gravy was made in the same skillet. You didn’t waste grease.
Or Cool Whip, in the ‘60s.
Ha. That stuff was closer to toe cheese than cheese cheese. Popular longer in the UK than over here.
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