Posted on 05/12/2022 12:02:36 AM PDT by DallasBiff
With an increased focus on novelty and convenience cooking, the 1960s were a time of truly odd food. Some concoctions of the era, such as 7-Up basted ham, the tuna-berry sandwich and ham-banana rolls, have been pretty much relegated to that time. But some of the other food trends of the 1960s have had some real staying power.
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Wait, that was Kool-Aid, never mind.
That was delicious.
RC Cola with a small sleeve of salted peanuts poured in
RC Cola and a moon pie
The Gallery of Regrettable Food
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50s and 60s.
Atlanta until several years ago had a great fondue restaurant for decades, Dante’s Down the Hatch. Dante was also an original SEAL plank holder and quite an interesting guy. We once took some friends there whose son was a SEAL. They told the son about Dante’s, and his reaction was “oh sure, a SEAL” (there are a lot of fake SEALs out there). Then he checked it out, and Dante checked out as real. They went with the son the next time he was in town, and Dante wouldn’t hardly leave the table talking to the son.
Oh, and we have a fondue pot from the sale when the restaurant closed down.
Grape jelly and Lit’l Smokies were a popular gameday food for a while a couple of decades ago. The best were the ones with the purple label on the pack. But Hillshire Farm stopped making them. They still make others but they’re not as good as they were or worth the trouble to make now.
Not a hair split but the correct dip mix in the 60s was “California Onion.” They quit making it in the 80s. One can still make a good dip with onion soup mix and sour cream but the “California Onion” was better.
I love cheese fondue.
Meatballs with grape jelly did not define the ‘60s!
(Never heard of or encountered them.)
Oh my goodness! I remember that song! lol
Loved Dante’s! He had alligators or crocodiles in the water around the wharf area. Interesting place and good food and jazz. We always took out of town visitors there for dinner and music.
Jelly with meat is pretty common. Mint jelly with lamb is delicious.
Liver sausage and grape jelly sandwiches were part of the regular lunchbox rotation when we were kids. I still eat them occasionally, and still with potato chips as the crowning layer. I was familiar with hunger so I wasn’t fussy.
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“RC Cola with a small sleeve of salted peanuts poured in”
Yep, Planter’s peanuts, it was the rage. lol
The meatballs were from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. They were called Waikiki Meatballs. The sauce was grape jelly and chili sauce.
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