Guest guest Posted October 16, 2006 Report Share Posted October 16, 2006 This is a look at history. I offer it for a view of how folks used to think and eat. It was enjoyable reading. Wait till you see how they felt about vegetables in general!!!! It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn't non- nutritious - no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It's that the pictures are so hideously unappealing...... The Gallery of Regrettable Food http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html Poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes from the 1940s, 50s and 60 LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSELaw of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2006 Report Share Posted October 17, 2006 OHMYGAWD ish ish ish. some of those pictures had me almost gagging!!! the writer did a helluva job tho, i was cracking up!!! C Jackson <teachjack_20 wrote: This is a look at history. I offer it for a view of how folks used to think and eat. It was enjoyable reading. Wait till you see how they felt about vegetables in general!!!! It's a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it's a miracle that people didn't put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn't that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn't non- nutritious - no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It's that the pictures are so hideously unappealing...... The Gallery of Regrettable Food http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html Poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes from the 1940s, 50s and 60 LAWS OF THE NATURAL UNIVERSELaw of the Telephone: When you dial a wrong number, you never get a busy signal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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