Food
Cheese slaw
Cheese slaw is a regional specialty of Broken Hill, Australia. It's a mixture of grated cheese, grated carrots, and mayonnaise. [Source: abc.net.au]
Some googling reveals that it's not only an Australian dish. There's apparently an American (southern) version that dispenses with the carrots and adds in a bit of chopped onions.
On its own, it sounds pretty disgusting, but served as a dip with crackers or tortilla chips, as in the video below, I'd be willing to try it.
Posted By: Alex - Sun May 05, 2019 -
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Category: Food
Donut Prune Salad
“Place two donuts on a lettuce leaf, fill the donut centers with cottage cheese and then top each donut with a stuffed prune. Place two whole pitted prunes beside the donuts. Serve with mayonnaise.”Source: 36 Delightful Recipes to Perk Up Your Meals, published by the Doughnut Corporation of America, 1947.
via Vintage Bug
Posted By: Alex - Sun Apr 28, 2019 -
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Category: Food, 1940s
Muskrat allowed
Submitted by Jenny Beatty, from USA Today, April 17, 2019.Luckily for the Catholics in Detroit, we here at WU have their muskrat-cooking needs covered, having previously posted the recipe for Cream of Muskrat Casserole, as well as how to find the full cookbook Recipes for cooking muskrat meat.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Apr 20, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Religion
Grocery Store with Moving Shelves
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 17, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Retailing, Chindogu, 1930s
Electronic Yodeling Pickle
All yours for a mere sawbuck.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 13, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults, Food, Pickles, Chindogu
Lodi Grape Festival Queen
Here is the first holder of the honor.
Read article here.
The festival continues to this day, but I find no reference to a queen.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Apr 12, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Food, Regionalism, 1930s, Alcohol
More unicorn food
Unicorns continue to take over the food industry. (See previous post: Unicorn food phenomenon). Some recent examples:Unicorn farts glitter beer from Duclaw brewing.
Unicorn-shaped macaroni & cheese.
Unicorn Swirl ice cream
But a criminal element may be infiltrating the world of unicorns. Last month, a man dressed in a pink-and-white uniform costume robbed a Maryland convenience store.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 02, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Myths and Fairytales
Decomposition Cupcake
The “Five Stages” cupcake by artist Claire Ratcliffe. It was part of the Edible Body Farm exhibit held in England back in 2016, which used culinary creations to explore the topic of bodily decomposition.
Stages of decay cupcakes by Claire Ratcliffe
Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 25, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Death, Food
The Lobster Waitresses of Hackney’s
Short entertaining history of Hackney's here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 09, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Culture and Civilization, Food, Forgotten Figures and Where Are They Now?, Regionalism, Twentieth Century
Jelly-Strength Tester
Invented in 1932 by C.R. Fellers and J.A. Clague of Massachusetts State College. It's technical name is the Fellers-Clague Penetrometer.As is explained in The Complete Book on Gums and Stabilizers for Food Industry, there are two ways of testing the strength of jelly: 1) "tests in which the elastic limits (breaking strength) of the jellies are exceeded and the jelly is ruptured", or 2) "tests measuring deformation (sag) of jellies without exceeding the elastic limit."
The Fellers-Clague Penetrometer is of the first type.
Latrobe Bulletin - July 13, 1932
Source: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Analytical Edition
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 02, 2019 -
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Category: Food, Jello, Inventions, 1930s
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