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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

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To: MomwithHope

Wow!!!!!


81 posted on 11/26/2020 6:41:15 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: BillyBonebrake

My in-laws still serve ambrosia salad. With the cool whip.

One of my favorites, although I substitute real whip cream as Cool Whip is basically nothing but whipped hydrogenated oil and sugar.


82 posted on 11/26/2020 6:41:47 AM PST by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; Liz; Jamestown1630
“Whoever thought this was a good idea, let alone ‘food’ or even appetizing?”

I think that was an experiment where the Jello Cartel locked a bunch of Home Economics Teachers in a lab and wouldn’t let them come out until they ‘invented’ something! ;)

I think you're on to something...Jello company must have gotten fat and happy with all the government contracts for canned meats for Lend Lease, aid to Russian and of course for the huge US forces and looked to stay solvent after the war.


83 posted on 11/26/2020 6:43:44 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Reeses

There was a store in Rockford, Illinois called “The Sweet Pans Shoppe”, that must have had the largest collection of extant plastic molds in the world. My wife had bought a bunch to make chocolates of every shape. We moved from the area in 2014, only to find this long-standing institution closed down in 2017. It will probably be replaced by another “Molly’s Slot Machines”.

https://www.wifr.com/content/news/Sweet-Pans-Shoppe-prepares-to-close-450333803.html


84 posted on 11/26/2020 6:49:57 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: mylife

One of my favorite albums of all time


85 posted on 11/26/2020 6:51:02 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: albie

Lilek’s food website is a hoot!


86 posted on 11/26/2020 6:51:47 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

You save the rum to make more pecan pie.


87 posted on 11/26/2020 6:51:52 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Larry Lucido

Bookmarking because I want to read this and time is very short this morning, laf!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!


88 posted on 11/26/2020 6:55:44 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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To: Reeses

I have one of those! My grandmother had several and so when I came across one in a rummage store, I bought it. And I do use it as decoration because of the memory of my beloved grandmother.

In the mean time, I still stuff my turkey and not with stovetop. Many of the recipes I use were strait out of the 50’s and 60’s if not before. But they don’t include anything with jello, marshmallows, or moulded tomatoe juice.

My gravy is made from the roast drippings and I don’t serve ham. And even though my family descends from Canada, peas aren’t on the menu either. Root crops are.


89 posted on 11/26/2020 6:57:09 AM PST by PrairieLady2 (Replacing Trump with Biden is like shitting your pants then changing your shirt.)
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To: mylife

laf. Just noticed that this is from the SFGATE and is talking about ‘friendsgiving’. Yep. They do their best to destroy the family. Never learn forgiveness or true sharing and love. And knowing something is missing from their lives. They try as they might to imitate the things that makes life worth living. But they fail miserably. Because it isn’t the actions. It is the SPIRIT of God in those Actions!


90 posted on 11/26/2020 7:01:07 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

YES!!! More please!


91 posted on 11/26/2020 7:01:40 AM PST by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump )
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To: mylife

Nice post!


92 posted on 11/26/2020 7:03:11 AM PST by BikerTrash
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I “might” have eaten the salad if the cottage cheese had gone through a blender. The texture is awful, otherwise.

The whole bowl? Ewww


93 posted on 11/26/2020 7:12:21 AM PST by madison10
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To: John Milner

Sunshine salad. I love it. Yellow gelatin, shredded carrots and pineapple tidbits. First gelatin salad I made. Was in a kids’ cookbook.

No marshmallows. Some people added celery. Just no.


94 posted on 11/26/2020 7:16:28 AM PST by madison10
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To: Joe 6-pack

Christmas through the decades (YouTube)did a documentary type review of Christmas celebrations going back to the 1920’s. The Christmas dinners were amazing.


95 posted on 11/26/2020 7:22:37 AM PST by mware (RETIRED)
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To: madison10

Never seen it with Lemon Jello Only orange. And yes, in the Midwest it often did have marshmallows. I forgot about the pineapple. With the tidbits it was ok. I never cared for the consistency of the crushed pineapple, but it was used often.

Agree-Celery is not a good idea

Remember the 50’s/early 60’s fad of the pineapple upside down cake?


96 posted on 11/26/2020 7:41:50 AM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food. )
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To: mylife

Never heard of it, or forgot it, if I did.

(Probably better than using Mr. T’s ...)

Apparently distributed by Del Monte nowadays.

Walmart carries it.


97 posted on 11/26/2020 7:51:41 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: John Milner

I am in the midwest, no marshmallows, but mainly because the Betty Crocker recipe did not call for them.

I do not like marshmallows much anyway, except in Watergate salad.


98 posted on 11/26/2020 8:01:11 AM PST by madison10
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To: John Milner

Yes, my mom made pineapple upside down cake a few times. Child of the 60’s here.


99 posted on 11/26/2020 8:02:47 AM PST by madison10
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To: Covenantor
The existence of vegetable flavored Jello is philosophical disproof of solipsism because I could never have conceived of such horror myself. There must me a world outside of my own mind, even if it is some type of hell where such a thing could exist.

What evil could come up with celery flavored fish salad for Thanksgiving?

100 posted on 11/26/2020 8:06:52 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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