Food
Skippy and Hellmann’s
Odd partners in advertising: when Skippy and Hellmann's teamed up in 1963, claiming Together Tremendous!
The recipes for those peanut butter/mayo sandwiches, enlarged:
Update: Astute readers noted that if this was a nationwide ad campaign, then the version of the ad that ran west of the Rockies should have referred to Best Foods mayonnaise, rather than Hellmann's. I checked, and it turns out this was exactly the case. It was an identical ad, but with Best Foods substituted for Hellmann's.
San Francisco Examiner - Oct 13, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 02, 2019 -
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Category: Food, 1960s
Crazy Cow Cereal
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 22, 2019 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, 1970s
Barbecued Rat
A favorite treat in rural parts of Cambodia. From asianage.com:Sarin tells AFP that rat is like "chicken or beef", whereas others say it's more like pork. He is one of many customers and Cambodian tourists stopping at a stall outside of Battambang town, where rows of grilled field rats are displayed over burning coals and served with dipping sauces made from lime juice, black peppers or chillies.
It sounds like something that, if I didn't know what it was, I would probably think tasted good. But if I did know, then no.... just no.
image via wikipedia
image via Gastro Obscura
Posted By: Alex - Wed Aug 21, 2019 -
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Category: Food
Follies of the Madmen #439
No cereal that has touched dirty baby butt is going in my dish!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 13, 2019 -
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Category: Babies, Business, Advertising, Food, Hygiene, 1900s
Youngster got high on hamburgers
A strange affliction to suffer from.
The Alexandria Town Talk - Jan 14, 1976
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 12, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Health, 1970s
Flexitarian Sausages
Last year, New Zealand sausage maker Beehive debuted a line of sausages that it claimed were 'flexitarian'. This term describes a diet that is semi-vegetarian. So, a plant-based diet that only occasionally includes meat.What made Beehive's sausages flexitarian? According to the company, it was because they were only 80% meat, and contained 20% plant-based filler.
By that standard, you might qualify as flexitarian if you only eat 4/5 of a sausage, instead of the whole thing.
More info: Beehive on Facebook, newshub
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 05, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Dieting and Weight Loss
Donut Queen of 1951
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Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 02, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, 1950s
Crater Critters and Kin
Between 1959 and 1977, an Australian company based in Melbourne called Rosenhain and Lipmann (commonly known as R&L) designed and manufactured unique and innovative toys that became hugely popular both in Australia and overseas.[1] R&L started out making snap-together items that worked like tiny plastic model kits that didn't need any glue and were issued in a clear glassine bag, inside Kellogg's cereal boxes. Between 1959 and 1977, over 70 different sets were released and it is estimated that about one billion R&L toys were delivered around the world.
Quote from Wikipedia entry.
Explore all the sets at this great site.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 31, 2019 -
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Category: Cult Figures and Artifacts, Food, Freebies, Come-ons and Loss Leaders, Twentieth Century
Dessert Stomach
I’ve been saying for years that there’s always room for dessert, because dessert goes to a different part of your stomach. I feel vindicated to find out that there is some scientific basis to this claim. From the Huff Post:"A major part of the reason is a phenomenon known as sensory specific satiety. Basically, this is what we experience when we eat one food to fullness. Our senses tell us we are no longer wanting to eat any more of that specific food. In other words, we are full," Keast told The Huffington Post Australia.
"Part of the response is actually sensory boredom -- the food that excited us with promise of flavour delights is now boring. We are getting satiated, but combine this with the fact that our flavour sensing system is overloaded with the food's flavour helps us stop eating.
"Then you present a dessert, a new flavour experience, a different profile to what we are bored with. It may look and smell good and (from experience) we know sweet is appealing. No more boredom with the food and the anticipation creates appetite -- hence the dessert stomach."
In Japan, this phenomenon is called Betsubara. And some Japanese research suggests that the shape of your stomach can actually change when presented with dessert.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 27, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Psychology
“Breakfast” by Cyriak
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 19, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Destruction, Food, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Surrealism, Foreign Customs, Fictional Monsters, Cars
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