Spam & Limas, Yum! Just kidding. Had to look this up, and I would've hated it.
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.
No tunafish or shrimp in jello. ughhh
The gelatin has been a preservative for centuries and only recently has lost favor. May make a comeback as folks again become cave dwellers.
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I think jello with fruit encased is good.
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.
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.
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I grew up in the 50s and the only thing we had that was actually shown in the video was meatloaf. My mother never made any of those Jello mold foodstuffs I can recall. About the weirdest thing she made I didn’t like was liver and onions.
I didn’t think much of the video. Like they were just looking for something to bitch about the 50s.
I think the videographers ought to go take a swing through a supermarket today and concentrate ONLY on the milk case and all the crazy milk variety/substitutes people fall for today. I was in the market yesterday trying to get some half and half and it took 5 minutes to find some amongst the wheat/oat/almond/lactose-free/skim/%s/plant-based/goat/buffalo milk......
This guy started on TikTok and is on YouTube. He cooks old recipes, many from World War II and tastes them.
He is very entertaining.
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Chipped beef on toast......hated it
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.
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.
Fried bread & butter, scrapple with maple syrup, deviled eggs, cinnamon & sugar on dough strips rolled then baked.
In my mind, jello is for when you are sick in bed, not for the dinner table.
In a few years they’ll be talking about the crazy foods people invented to survive the Great Biden Depression (coming soon).
My mother made lime Jello with shredded lettuce in it. 😉
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