Food
Grape Nuts Flakes Promotes Magnetism
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You saw the effect this cereal had on Roy Rogers in an earlier post. Its powers were manifold and awesome.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 02, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Comics, 1940s
Grape Nuts Flakes Promotes Fisticuffs
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 19, 2013 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Regionalism, Violence, 1950s
Mystery in the Kitchen
Mystery in the Kitchen by Don Haldane, National Film Board of Canada
Invisible supercilious foppish food policeman invades a family's life and assigns all nutritional malfeasance to the "emotional" mother/wife.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 16, 2013 -
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Category: Food, PSA’s, 1950s, North America
Vanilla
Castoreum, a secretion from the bowels of beavers, is used as vanilla flavoring. Disturbingly, although the story is out of Sweden, it is mentioned that castoreum is used as a 'natural flavoring' in products in the United States as well.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 15, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Road Kill It’s What’s For Dinner
Montana has legalized taking road kill for food. Arkansas and West Virginia must be kicking themselves for not thinking of it first! As you can see there are already cookbooks out there to prepare it as well.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 09, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Cream of Muskrat Casserole
Via Unique Historic Recipes
Posted By: Alex - Mon Sep 09, 2013 -
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Category: Food
How to Cook Raccoon
According to this youtube video, the secret is to remove the glands under the legs. The end result is meat so tasty "you'll slap your grandma."Another pro tip: If you didn't road kill the raccoon yourself, and are getting an already skinned animal from a trapper or hunter, make sure the feet are still attached. Otherwise, you might have been given a cat or opossum. Apparently this is an old trick in the raccoon meat trade.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 30, 2013 -
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Category: Food
Follies of the Madmen #210
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 29, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Body Modifications, Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature
Jasper and the Haunted House
What else but "Spooks Gooseberry Pie?"
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 23, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Stereotypes and Cliches, Fantasy, Stop-motion Animation, 1940s
Rodent Fur in Ketchup
Back in the 60s, my mother graduated from college with a degree in chemistry, and the first job she got with that degree was working in a Heinz factory, microscopically examining ketchup samples for things like bug parts and rodent fur. As she tells it, her responsibility wasn't to make sure that there was no nasty stuff in the ketchup. Instead, she was only supposed to make sure that the nasty stuff didn't exceed certain levels. So all the condiments you buy are going to have unpleasant things in them. The question is just how much.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 22, 2013 -
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Category: Food
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