Food
Potato Fish, Potato Bug, Potato Bird
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 17, 2023 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Food, Toys, Advertising, 1970s
Hoosier Poet Canned Goods
Very few--if any other--poets have a line of canned goods named after them, as did James Whitcomb Riley.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 14, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Poetry, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Unlikely Reasons for Murder No. 15
Source: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) 17 Feb 1949, Thu Page 21
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 13, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Food, Scary Criminals, Stupid Criminals, 1940s, Alcohol
Journal of the Identical Lunch
Journal of the Identical Lunch, published in 1971, records the experiences of artist Alison Knowles and her friends all eating an identical lunch — "a tunafish sandwich on wheat toast with lettuce and butter, no mayo and a large glass of buttermilk or a cup of soup" — though not all at the same time. Knowles herself reportedly ate this identical lunch every day at a New York diner.Copies of the book are now quite rare, so if you want one (perhaps as an investment? The price will surely only go up) it'll cost you at least $200, and perhaps as much as $500.
More info: artnet.com, MoMA.org
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 10, 2023 -
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Category: Art, Food, Books, 1970s
Futurist Cuisine
The Italian Futurist movement, like the Surrealists, was fond of taking the piss out of traditional things. In 1930, they decided to overturn normal cooking and eating, publishing a MANIFESTO OF FUTURIST COOKING.Read about it at THE NEW YORKER.
And here.
And here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 07, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, Surrealism, 1930s, Europe
Radioprotective Blancmange
Several years ago, Russian scientists developed a recipe for a blancmange that would help protect against radiation poisoning. The perfect dessert to serve in your bunker after a nuclear war. Details from Improbable.com:You can find the article by the Russian scientists here, but it's in Russian (except for the initial abstract).
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 23, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Jello, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters
Hitler’s Peace Pudding
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 23, 2023 -
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Category: Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Food, War, Cartoons, 1930s
Ann Wigmore’s Recipes for Longer Life
Ann Wigmore believed that the secret to good health and a long life was eating 1) a lot of wheatgrass and 2) only raw food. If those appeal to you, you'll find lots of recipes in her cookbook below, Recipes for Longer Life (published in 1978, available at archive.org).Wikipedia says that she lived to be 84, which is a relatively long life, but not remarkable. She died of smoke inhalation from a fire. So maybe she would have lived much longer if not for that bad luck?
Wikipedia also says, "many of her claims were denounced as quackery, and her qualifications were never confirmed to be genuine."
I guess she wasn't keen on melons: "eat them alone or leave them alone".
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 16, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Cookbooks, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Dieting and Weight Loss
Hemo
This kid was seriously craving his Hemo fix.Strange name. Makes it sound like something blood-related, rather than a chocolate milk drink.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 02, 2023 -
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Category: Food, Advertising, 1940s
Marvin Parson’s Inner Wilderness
Marvin Parson’s Inner Wild Wilderness, Fred Casia, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 24, 2023 -
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Category: Cryptozoology, Death, Food, Cartoons
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