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How to lose friends: Bring vintage '50s recipes to Friendsgiving
sfgate ^ | 11/22/2019 | Madeline Wells

Posted on 11/26/2020 4:39:22 AM PST by mylife

The year is 1950. The Thanksgiving table is set, and before your growling stomach lies a cornucopia of show-stopping dishes: tomato aspic, jellied turkey vegetable salad, creamed spinach and whatever “cranberry surprise” is (yep, there’s mayonnaise in it).

Celia Sack, owner of Noe Valley’s 11-year-old Omnivore Books on Food, is a connoisseur of vintage recipes like these. Formerly a rare-books specialist at an auction house in San Francisco, both her personal collection and her in-store collection of antiquarian cookbooks are extensive.

So when I waltzed in one drizzly San Francisco afternoon with a strange request, Sack was more than prepared to help. I was embarking on a journey most would never choose to take: Instead of leaving the gelatinous monstrosities of ‘50s American home cooking in the past, I was determined to revive them.

With Sack’s help selecting a menu, I planned to test the boundaries of friendship by serving these dishes in an impromptu “Friendsgiving.”

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: food; memories; nostalgia; thanksgiving
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To: elcid1970

zing zang!


41 posted on 11/26/2020 5:39:43 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Oh, God! I remember those wretched jello molds - green jello with tuna, sliced eggs, black olives...there was a tomato one too that was almost as bad.

I think I was forced to eat that as a small child once or twice.

Why I won't eat jello to this day.

Whoever thought this was a good idea, let alone "food" or even appetizing?

42 posted on 11/26/2020 5:40:54 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: mylife

I almost lost my breakfast looking at that!

Horrible and wretched are the only two words to describe it - not edible, not at all...


43 posted on 11/26/2020 5:41:50 AM PST by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: mylife

I should have checked with my wife. Its miracle whip, not cool whip. I just look at it.


44 posted on 11/26/2020 5:42:34 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: mylife

I love seeing horrible recipes—it would make a heck of a coffee table book, with painfully clear pictures; my favorite in this category was shared by my minister, who dreaded every pot luck event at her previous church; one parishioner ALWAYS brought her signature dish—onion Jell-O.

It just makes me laugh. Saying it, and thinking of her dreading it all those years—knowing it was coming, like grim death, and having to practice that Christian straight face...


45 posted on 11/26/2020 5:44:13 AM PST by _longranger81
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To: PrincessB

Yeah I’m being told that’s the secret. Lol


46 posted on 11/26/2020 5:44:25 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: gcparent

“ Canned String beans in can of mushroom soup with canned fried onions on top.”

I am making that today. The kids love it.


47 posted on 11/26/2020 5:44:48 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: _longranger81

Ahh the Church pot luck dinner. LOL


48 posted on 11/26/2020 5:49:37 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: BillyBonebrake

I like ambrosia salad. But I like it made with fresh whipped cream. It’s a side dish, but I prefer it for dessert.


49 posted on 11/26/2020 5:53:30 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: bk1000

So do all my nieces and nephews. My kids preferred fresh veggies.


50 posted on 11/26/2020 5:54:28 AM PST by gcparent (Justice Amy Coney Barrett)
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To: BillyBonebrake

See? this is why she is the cook!! LOL


51 posted on 11/26/2020 5:54:29 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

How’d I miss that? I’m sure I would have loved it.


52 posted on 11/26/2020 5:55:29 AM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: sauropod

I think it’s back but disappeared for a long time.
It has too much salt, but is SO GOOD!!


53 posted on 11/26/2020 5:59:23 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife; metmom; Liz; Jamestown1630

54 posted on 11/26/2020 6:00:40 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Reeses
Copper Jello molds doubled as high fashion interior decorating.

HA! My Mom still had the bottome set in the 70's when I was growing up.

55 posted on 11/26/2020 6:00:54 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Reeses

The Fish, Lobster and Heart were always my faves on Grandma’s kitchen wall! :)


56 posted on 11/26/2020 6:04:23 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

That’s the Spirit!


57 posted on 11/26/2020 6:05:44 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: gcparent
Canned String beans in can of mushroom soup with canned fried onions on top.

I still love that to this day. Along with canned B&M Brown Bread.

Just need me a little cream cheese.

58 posted on 11/26/2020 6:06:45 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Yeah right......Rum.........or maybe Napoleon Brandy.
59 posted on 11/26/2020 6:09:08 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: madison10

“Remember gelatin salad with cottage cheese? Usually green, maybe with peaches or pineapple?”

Always Lime Jello, Cottage Cheese, Pineapple ‘tidbits’ and chopped Pecans.

Mom has the temerity to call this a, ‘salad’ and we eat it politely - except for Beau who would eat the whole bowl were it socially acceptable, LOL!

I’m 99.999% sure it’ll be on her Thanksgiving Table, today!

I’m bringing wine. ;)


60 posted on 11/26/2020 6:09:16 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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