Regrettable Retro Food from the 50's

OneEyedDiva said:
I have to admit, being I always hated to cook, when I was younger I ate T.V. dinners, so have partaken of Swanson's Hungry Man dinners. The rest of that stuff looks disgusting. BUT I also used to eat this....wouldn't today:View attachment 188122
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Never tried this stuff but my granddad, who I came over here from Lithuania, used to make it from scratch during the holidays. Good Lord pass me a turkey leg.
 

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It looks like it's gonna get up and crawl away.
 
oldpop said:
I still get a craving for these occasionally. They are very tasty.

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My grandfather always had a jar of these in his refrigerator. When I had to get something out of the fridge, I'd close my eyes and grope around because I couldn't look at those things.

I do like pickled eggs, though.
 

Logger taverns almost always had big jars of pickled pigs feet and pickled eggs behind the bar. They were popular.

Vienna sausages and off brand copies were staples in a logger lunchbox as were various potted meat spreads.

I passed through the late 40s and 50s unscathed with no exposure to the horrors displayed in this thread. Although bologna and it's cousin's had their disgusting secrets.
 
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jujube said:
Anybody remember putting your Spanish peanuts in with your Coke or RC Cola? It was quite a fad in the 50's but I thought it was pretty disgusting with all those peanut skins floating on top. It seemed to be more a "boy" thing to do.
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Emptying a small bag of peanuts into your bottle of Coke has made a come-back. My 19yr-old grandson loves it.
You very rarely find any skins in today's bags of peanuts.
 
I have a few old cookbooks with these type of recipes. I'll be kind and won't add to the mess.

I do remember enjoying pickled ham hocks instead of the feet. More meat on the bone but a little more pig hair. lol I guess they didn't have the cleaning techniques they have today.

My grandma made chopped up spam with dill pickles and mayo. It was really good on rye bread.
 
What is all this stuff?! hahaha...I have never laughed so hard, especially page one (1-24) :ROFLMAO:.
My dogs got up from their nap to find out what all the commotion was (they get so excited when I laugh out loud).

...And then Pink Biz with a chilled mold of canned Spaghettios and canned Vienna Sausages poking out of the center:LOL: Bananas wrapped in processed ham then covered in a very thick greenish-yellowy sauce and displayed on a beautiful healthy table of fresh green salad and fresh grapes...in the background (what???...proof that they really know what you should be eating but shoved in the back).

And then "Potato Fudge"????? hahaha. And canned Beenie Weenies? Never heard of that

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I was an adult before I found out that *most* people make their ham salad out of... well....ham. My mother would grind up a big hunk of boloney (or bologna, if you want to make it sound better), mix it with mayo and pickle relish and VOILA! ham salad. And we ate a lot of it.

I guess, to be totally accurate, bologna *can* be all pork, which being cheaper than "all-beef bologna" was probably what she used, frugal being my mother's middle name.....thus it was distantly related to ham as we know it. There's even veal bologna for the connoisseur and turkey bologna for the health-conscious among us and even tofu bologna (not-so-fondly known as "phony boloney) for the Vegans.

To wander no farther down this gustatory minefield, I'll say I dislike ham salad to this day, no matter *what* it's made of.
 
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