Food
Toaster That Butters the Toast
Man, given the laziness of the average person, this should have been a bestselling item. Unless...the notion of a reservoir full of old butter sitting at room temperature for weeks was a turn-off.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 15, 2024 -
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Category: Domestic, Food, Inventions, Patents, Technology, 1960s
Meat Cutting Offers You Success and Security
Because PEOPLE MUST EAT!
Popular Mechanics - Jan 1953
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 05, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Jobs and Occupations, Advertising, 1950s
The Wayfarer’s Dole
From Gastro Obscura:The Church's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 25, 2024 -
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Category: Food, History, Religion, United Kingdom, Alcohol
Miss Durum Macaroni
To win the title of 'Miss Durum Macaroni' it wasn't enough to be attractive. Contestants were also judged on a macaroni recipe that they were required to submit.You can find the recipe of the winner, Julie Kay Dunkirk, below. She won with Mexican Macaroni Casserole.
Also, if you're a fan of browsing through old trade journals, the entire run of The Macaroni Journal (1919-1984) can be found online at the website of the National Pasta Association.
Billings Gazette - Oct 30, 1963
Mandan Morning Pioneer - Oct 11, 1964
Macaroni Journal - Dec 1963
Update: I found a better quality image of Miss Durum Macaroni on the website of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 23, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, 1960s
A case of food poisoning in Peru
Louisville Courier-Journal - Dec 4, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 21, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Poisons and Other Injurious Substances, 1970s, South America
LSD Dangers: The Hotdog
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 09, 2024 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Death, Drugs, Psychedelic, Food, PSA’s, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #595
This commercial is mundane and unexceptional--barring one thing.The woman lays her poopy child directly onto one of the Bake Sale tables.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 12, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Advertising, Babies and Toddlers, 1970s
Making Pigeons Pay
Wendell Levi's book is about how to make make money raising pigeons. Not about getting revenge on them. Though the latter would doubtless be a more interesting book.You can read the entire book for free at the Internet Archive.
Browsing through his book, I learned that squab is the term for pigeon meat. (I'm sure most WU readers knew this already, but it was news to me). I've never eaten squab. Nor can I recall ever seeing it for sale in a supermarket, or on a restaurant menu. But it's readily available online, such as at squab.com.
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 06, 2024 -
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Category: Food, Farming, Books
Buy bread in waxed paper
Buy bread in waxed paper and then lounge about with it while wearing a gown designed by Pauline Trigere.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 24, 2024 -
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Category: Fashion, Food, Advertising, 1950s
Humanised Trufood
Make sure your food has been humanised...
Daily Telegraph - Jan 28, 1937
Post-Graduate Medical Journal - June 1935
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 06, 2024 -
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Category: Babies, Food, Advertising, 1930s
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