http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/spec.html From a collection of old 50's cookbooks and such, when I guess the rule for thing such as butter, sugar and fat was 'as much as possible'. Some of that stuff doesn't look too appealing at all.
I don't no. Most of it looked ok to me. Damn it, now I'm hungry and nothing besides cowbell will suffice. Except...
I bought that guy's book for my mother for her birthday. She's probably read through it five times. The book is even funnier than the website -- makes a great gift.
Wow. I believe you when you say it was good, I'm sure it was, but looking at the pic it looks like there was no moisture in that thing at all. I keep seeing the dinner scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Please, please tell me how and why you brought this thread back up. I mean, I lose sleep over figuring out why people bump up months old threads and respond to a post in them as if the conversation was current. For the love of God, please answer this question so that I and others can know what goes through a person's mind when they do this. Please!!!!!!!!
Honestly, I think quite a bit of the problem was the poor state of color photography at the time. My mother had tons of those old cookbooks, and the reciepies, when modified and modernized where appropriate, looked nothing like the pictures. The biggest problem at the time wasn't so much the lard and butter, which had been cut back quite a bit from the 40's but rather the tendancy to overcook everything, especially vegetables.
It seems to me that perhaps the most unappealing thing is that everything comes with Jello. Damn near everything has Jello somewhere. It's either suspended in jello, or has jello on top of it, or jello cubes next to it, and it's not normal jello either. It's these freaky, weird jellos. My grandmother has a box of it still -- Celery Jello . . . Celery . . . Jello . . . still unopened since like 1958. Celery itself is bad enougy, but Celery-flavored Jello?
I'm vegan. Everything you guys eat grosses me out. It's like you guys are dining on babies' heads all day long.
I thought the Benedictish Frankwiches looked pretty sick ... until the creamed lobster in creamy lobster sauce with cream.
