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17 Vintage Recipes From the 1970s We’re Happy Do Not Exist Anymore!
vintage everyday ^ | 11/29/2020

Posted on 11/30/2020 11:56:49 AM PST by mylife

There was a time when bananas were considered a perfectly reasonable option for a dish’s main component. Food in loaf form was also popular. Cookbooks with names like McCall’s Great American Recipe Card Collection and Betty Crocker’s Dinner in a Dish Cookbook trotted these dishes out as quick and easy ways to feed your family and impress your guests, and similar recipes were also featured in magazines like Family Circle and Better Homes and Gardens.

We’re not sure if dishes like these were all some sort of prank orchestrated by the editors of these magazines, or whether Betty Crocker and Better Homes were getting serious kickbacks from the mayonnaise, gelatin, and banana industries. But believe it or not, everything here was published with complete sincerity, and, presumably, some people actually cooked these recipes and fed them to their families or friends.

Here are 17 recipes from the 1971 Betty Crocker card catalogue, a collection of dishes we should be glad we’ll (most likely) never be forced to eat.


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Oh it wasn't all bad, I lived on fried bologna sangwiches

In fancy places they call that Mortadella...

1 posted on 11/30/2020 11:56:49 AM PST by mylife
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Cheeseburger pie looks good!


2 posted on 11/30/2020 11:58:25 AM PST by TiGuy22
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Betty Crocker really was an odd person.


3 posted on 11/30/2020 11:59:18 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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The Parsley Pinwheels look OK, maybe a little undercooked, but the slop on the bottom is a no. Even less cool is the use of “plantation” to casually describe a casserole.

PC in the kitchen.........................

4 posted on 11/30/2020 11:59:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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Yeah, it looks OK.


5 posted on 11/30/2020 12:00:06 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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We still eat the cheeseburger pie and the sombrero thing.


6 posted on 11/30/2020 12:00:30 PM PST by Mathews (It’s all gravy, baby!)
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I remember when cheese fondue was the in thing.


7 posted on 11/30/2020 12:01:54 PM PST by kaehurowing
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Jeeeze yer fussy!


8 posted on 11/30/2020 12:02:17 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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I get a hankering for bologna from time to time. Brings back memories of anytime we traveled when I was a kid. A loaf of bread, mustard and mayonnaise, and a couple of pounds of bologna. On the road again.


9 posted on 11/30/2020 12:03:12 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (With age comes wisdom or well practiced ignorance )
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We have a Betty Crocker from back in that day. It’s a good source for basic recipes. I don’t recall any of this weird stuff.


10 posted on 11/30/2020 12:03:19 PM PST by colorado tanker
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Massa wasn’t eating that Plantation Ham Pie in the Big House.


11 posted on 11/30/2020 12:03:42 PM PST by PAR35
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WAY TOO MANY PEAS


12 posted on 11/30/2020 12:04:54 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: All

13 posted on 11/30/2020 12:05:31 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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In that article, much smug snark and wokeness there is.


14 posted on 11/30/2020 12:06:07 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Cheeseburger pie is good and is still a betty crocker recipe. I make it all the time!


15 posted on 11/30/2020 12:06:15 PM PST by The MAGA-Deplorian (It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
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Racist...

/sarc

16 posted on 11/30/2020 12:07:05 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism. )
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WAY TOO MANY PEAS


Remember: eat every carrot and pea on your plate.


17 posted on 11/30/2020 12:07:40 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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Sexist...

/sarc

18 posted on 11/30/2020 12:07:52 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism. )
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And the award for the all time worst of the worst goes to...


19 posted on 11/30/2020 12:08:21 PM PST by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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Confederatism...

/sarc

20 posted on 11/30/2020 12:09:03 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism. )
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