• My dad’s a meat, potatos and mixed veggies guy. Whicu worked great for him to gwt all that hearty calorie rich food because he was a construction worker, but I grew up unhealthy and fat as fuck because i’m a nerd and i was always a nerd

    Now im fat as fuck due to my own choices but still

    • TommyBeans [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I’ve thought about that off and on for a while. Same with Jello. I think it mostly just coincides with the rise of mass factory food production. Mass chicken farms produce tons of short shelf life eggs that can get easily made into shelf stable mayo. And mayo is part of the pantheon of “things that are difficult to make at home, but I can buy a mass produced version cheaply at the store.” Then aggressive marketing on the parts of Hellman’s and Best Food’s. Probably something to do with refrigerated trucking being more common as well and the general trend towards those “quick and easy for the housewife” recipes.

      I think mayo is inevitably american

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    I remember being a kid at a grandparent’s house and occassionally rummaging around the storage room and some book shelves and finding cookbooks and magazine articles like this. Seemed like they were almost always some food company sponsored thing.

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    So like, they thought of cottage cheese the same we we think of like marscapone cheese in terms of a cheese cake yeah? I saw an old Italian recipe that used sweetened ricotta to make a cheese cake kinda thing. I can see the through line here. Just like a handful of benzidrine as was the style at the time and this makes sense

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      “Honey…”

      “Yes, dear?”

      “I’m gonna watch teevee. Could ya make me a donut prune salad and bring it to me on a silver tray with a G&T and a couple-a benzos?”

      “Yes, of course.”

      “You are the best wife.”

      “You’re not so bad yourself.”

      “I know.”

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    I refuse to believe that anyone has ever made this dish. The very idea that someone out there has prepared and possibly eaten a donut with a cottage cheese filled prune topping plated on a lettuce leaf with a side of mayonnaise… I cannot accept it. Even Nixon wouldn’t have eaten this. dean-frown

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      A bunch of poor people, who grew up on hunted and locally grown seasonal foods, where sugar and fat were expensive commodities, suddenly had cheap access to the (literal) fruits of imperialism and about a decade of government bolstering domestic industrial infrastructure on the cheap. Actually this is more of a 1930s-1940s thing that just culminated in a 1950s thing.

      You spent your whole life eating backyard root vegetables stored in a dirt hole. Now you can go buy pineapples and bananas and coconuts, plus all the cream, cheese, sugars, and syrups you could. Nothing goes bad as quickly anymore because mass produced shelf-stable foods are new. Jello wasn’t something that took hours making anymore from scratch, you can go buy a cheap box of dried gelatin with flavor added. Mayo came from jars, not making emulsions at home. You can buy a lot of things pre-made and they’ll last longer than what you could make from scratch.

      So from that you get mayonaise jello spam pies and banana ham suffles with syrup. People were trying everything they could. Their tastebuds were just amazed by salt and sugar.

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    1950s tv series - kitchen scene

    “Mom! Whatcha makin’?”

    “It’s for your birthday TOMORROW.”

    “But moooooooooom!”

    “Well, don’t tell your father but you can have a little now as a treat.” She hands him one and he puts the whole thing into his gob.

    “Timmy!”

    “Arggggh… Ggggh… Mpph…!” he says.