Weird Foods People Ate During The 1950s

Conquerer ^ | 5/15/21 | Conquerer

[1Old Pro]

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

Sicilian heaven.

[Chickensoup]

Betty Crocker Cookbook and Joy of Cooking both have pride of place on my kitchen shelf

I got the 60’s editions that I have for all the kids as a shower gift.

They love them, we all learned to cook out of them

[deport]

(SOS in the army)

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Lot people today probably haven’t heard that expression.. LOL

[PIF]

Oh yeah - then there was the original hamburger helper: wonder bread white bits and chopped onions in chuck.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My mother made lime Jello with shredded lettuce in it. 😉

[Kadric]

It was pork.

[jjotto]

Lime Jello with shredded carrots was always present at family reunions, way back when.

[DallasBiff]

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.

Back in the day, when there were independent butcher shops, pigs feet were shown up front in the showcase.

I guess they were quite the delicacy, yet.

[jughandle]

Pacific Edible Seaweed Company

[Do_Tar]

Longhorn is a style of Colby cheese. I think it’s mostly just that it’s sold in a half-round rather than a block.

[minnesota_bound]

#59 Jeff Foxworthy: If you have a full set of salad bowls and they all say “cool whip” on the side, you might be a redneck.

[9YearLurker]

Ha!

[Sirius Lee]

It was pork.

It was BIG pork. And fresh lettuce and tomatoes from the looks of it. I guess you'd make little Ritz cracker sammiches out of those ingredients.

They don't look fat, for all that food either.

[gnickgnack2]

Right next to the nickel packs of baseball cards (six for a quarter) and the candy dots stuck to wax paper.

[1Old Pro]

Betty Crocker cookbook

Still have my Mom's from the late 50's or early 60's, great cookbook.

[1Old Pro]

And people killed their own chickens

And I have my Grandparents cleaver to prove it.

[1Old Pro]

In my mind, jello is for when you are sick in bed, not for the dinner table

Or a pre colonoscopy snack, in Yellow of course.

[Clutch Martin]

👍

Mom’s was Betty Crocker. I have one also.

[Clutch Martin]

“There was olive loaf too.”

Oh hell yeah!!!

[pnut22]

Didn’t like head cheese then nor it’s brother, scrapple.