17 Vintage Recipes From the 1970s We’re Happy Do Not Exist Anymore!

vintage everyday ^ | 11/29/2020

[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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

[polymuser]

Oh yeah, liver & onions for us, too. Still make it in honor of Dad. And spaghetti & a salad often. And fried bologna sammies. Oh, yeah!

[Interesting Times]

This thread is crying out for a link to the Gallery of Regrettable Food.

[dayglored]

“Bloody Vikings!”

[mylife]

Does anyone recall “Mock City Chicken”?

[ebshumidors]

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

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I love fried bologna sandwiches. Fry up the sliced bologna in a pan with butter. Little pit of mayo. Lettuce if you wish. Lightly toast the bread. Mmm. Mmm.”

Fried bologna and cheese on white with mustard. One of the best things for lunch.

[CJ Wolf]

Cheese fondue never went out of style.

[Vigilanteman]

Kids today wouldn't believe you. But I do because those old engines had a little hollow spot inside that would keep the food from falling off. Plus there was an insulated blanket between the hood and the engine. It was a standard safety feature in vehicles of that era.

We also carried baling wire and duct tape. I had a muffler come loose near Miles City, Montana back in the 1970s. I slid under the car and reattached it with baling wire, duct tape and a set of those fencing pliers.

That's the way it was.

[Vigilanteman]

You each had your OWN mason jar? My, didn’t you live in the lap of luxury, LOL!

[Sacajaweau]

I do like fried baloney occasionally.

[joe fonebone]

Don’t forget the onion.... Sliced as thick as the slice of braunschweiger

[dljordan]

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

Oh yeah. Back in the 50’s and 60’s.

[Calvin Locke]

The Library of Congress has hundreds, if not thousands, of PDFs of old cookbooks. Tens of MBs a piece, with a number over 100MB.

[polymuser]

I’ve heard about dishwasher salmon, too.

[HombreSecreto]

Go for the SPAM, stay for the Vikings. They’re a riot!

[caseinpoint]

I will have to check it out.

[dinodino]

I *love* Braunschweiger! Add some raw onion.

[CJ Wolf]

ditto dino!

[sauropod]

ping!

[NEMDF]

Not that, but I remember something “mock apple pie”. I think the recipe was on the box of Ritz crackers. It did not use apple slices, just crackers with the pie seasonings. I think we had it ONCE just to see if it really tasted like apple pie.