some of you who know me may know how much i enjoy the gallery of regrettable food*. tonight, i found something almost better–a flickr group called the mid-century supper club filled with folks who find these recipes and then do their very best to actually recreate them (although some ingredients may no longer be available). i especially loved the party sandwich loaf pictured above. i can’t read more than three or four entries without laughing so hard that i cry.
*check it out, he has his own website now!
oh my goodness, i have several old pamphlets from my grandma: Joys of Jell-O (with all those vegetable Jell-O molds (unsure of year)), The Lunch Box Cookbook (1954), Hershey’s Recipes (1949), Monarch Electric Range Instruction Book (price of 50ยข (unsure of year)) and Kitchen-tested flavor-perfect…Recipes for you new automatic cooker and deep fryer (with instructions you have to use AC current, as DC will ruin the appliance (unsure of year)). it sounds like i am *set* for that flickr group!
oh, my! I can recall my mother making this, though it was loaf shaped, not round. There was tuna salad in it. I don’t recall that I ate any….it may have been only for company!
I’m a grandma now, so you can imagine this really goes way back!
holy disgusting-ness look at this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jenosale/2159394980/in/pool-midcenturysupperclub
this site/club (mid-century supper club) reminds me of the weird-o recipes that we found and placed in the GPL cookbook from that old magazine….
i usually cant read more than three or four entries into the best of craigslist before i laugh so hard i cry… i always go there or the onion if i find myself in a bad mood. of course, neither is for the easily offended. thats my disclaimer.