Food
The Most Useful Mayonnaise
How useful is your mayonnaise? Not as useful as Durkee's!
San Francisco Examiner - Aug 21, 1927
San Francisco Examiner - July 3, 1927
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 05, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Mayonnaise, Advertising, 1920s
“Miss Wisconsin” Arrives for National October Cheese Week Festival, 1951
She's the one on your left.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 01, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1950s
Canned Wheat
In an effort to sell more wheat, the Kansas Wheat Commission invented canned wheat. It began selling it in 1961 under the brand name Redi-Wheat.By 1963, the product was acknowledged to have been a flop.
Perhaps the problem was that it wasn’t clear what canned wheat was. A kind of oatmeal in a can? I'm not sure. The only description I could find was in an article in the Muscatine Journal (Jan 12, 1962), and it really didn't shed much light on the matter:
Emporia Gazette - Feb 23, 1961
Council Grove Republican - Feb 22, 1961
(Note the caption names all the men in the photo, but purposefully excludes the two female employees)
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 29, 2020 -
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Category: Food, 1960s
Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 28, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Humor, 1970s
Every Night I Bring Her Frankfurter Sandwiches
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 21, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Humor, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1930s
Insect Butter
The latest effort to convince everyone to eat insects comes from Ghent University in Belgium where researchers tested whether people could tell the difference between waffles, cookies, and cake made with butter, versus butter combined with fat from black soldier fly larvae.They claimed that a mixture of 75% butter and 25% insect fat was undetectable to people. And, in some cases, even a 50/50 mix of butter/insect fat couldn’t be detected.
So they’re hopeful that bakery products made with insect butter may soon be on shelves. They note:
More info: Ghent University
Posted By: Alex - Wed Feb 19, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Insects and Spiders
Follies of the Madmen #466
This was part of a campaign that made far-fetched comparisons between the animal kingdom and a desire to eat Jello.Source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 15, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Food, 1950s
Serve More Cottage Cheese
A 16-page recipe book published in 1954 by the National Dairy Products Corporation, Sealtest Division.A better name for the cover recipe would be Vomiting Clam.
via reddit
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 13, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, 1950s
Peanut Butter Floor
An art installation consisting of peanut butter spread out on a floor in a giant rectangle. The Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen website provides some historical context:I guess the five-second rule would no longer apply.
via Book of Joe
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 11, 2020 -
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Category: Art, Food
Obst
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 02, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Food, Surrealism
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