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The Gourmet Game
Here's a predecessor for all those competitive cooking shows and restaurant makeover shows.
Each player has his own board, which is in the form of a menu. Dishes include classic haute cuisine and are name in English and French (you'll soon learn the French words and their correct pronunciation). Six cards are dealt to each player, and as a player takes new cards from the deck or does discarded by his opponents he gradually puts together a gourmet meal. To win, however, he must order the right dishes and beverages, and must prevent other players from ordering.
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 20, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Games, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1970s
French Fries Guitar
Made out of McDonald's fries. By Russian guitar maker Artem Mayer.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jun 19, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Music
Mrs. Sparrow found a sparrow
1952: Mrs. Florence Sparrow found a sparrow in her loaf of bread.
Spokane Chronicle - Feb 29, 1952
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 17, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Odd Names, 1950s
Burglary Party
Our Glorious Founder Chuck Shepherd frequently featured reports of housebreakers who a) did housework; b) drank themselves into a stupor; c) cooked a meal; d) had a bath or shower; etc. Here's a variation on the theme.Source: Wichita Falls Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 30 Jun 1953, Tue Page 1
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 31, 2022 -
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Category: Dinners, Banquets, Parties, Tributes, Roasts and Other Celebrations, Food, Stupid Criminals, 1950s
Edible Tape
A group of students at Johns Hopkins recently invented edible tape for burritos. They're calling their invention Tastee Tape.
I thought edible tape was a pretty old idea, and some searching quickly pulled up prior examples of it. But despite the idea being around for a while, I've never seen edible tape in a supermarket. So perhaps the Johns Hopkins version of it will be the one to catch on.
San Luis Obispo Tribune - Apr 13, 1991
Honolulu Star Bulletin - Sep 2, 1950
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 16, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Inventions
The Kitchen of the Unwanted Animal
According to its website, The Kitchen of the Unwanted Animal is "the kitchen that sells products from unwanted animal species. This installation makes a statement about the absurdity of meat production and socially unacceptable animals."The website is in Dutch, so that quotation is via Google Translate.
The Kitchen is located in Amsterdam and, from what I can gather, it's primarily a food truck. Though it does cater some sit-down events.
The "unwanted species" on its menu include pigeon, goose, muskrat, crow, and horse.
More info: npr.org
Posted By: Alex - Tue May 03, 2022 -
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Category: Food
House Bean Soup
The U.S Congress has some unusual traditions, one of which is that the U.S. House of Representatives Restaurant always has bean soup on the menu. Details from the Congressional Archives:A common item in the U.S. House of Representatives even before the turn of the 20th century, bean soup became a permanent fixture in the institution when Speaker Joe Cannon of Illinois discovered that his favorite meal had not been prepared by the kitchen staff on a hot, summer day in 1904. Dismayed by the omission, the Speaker directed that bean soup be served in the House every day, regardless of the weather. More than a century after Speaker Cannon’s decree, bean soup remains on the menu in the House Restaurant, making it one of the more longstanding and famous traditions in the House.
Back page of the 1955 House Restaurant Menu
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 02, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Politics
Miss Sauerkraut of 1947
Being named Miss Sauerkraut of 1947 seems to have been a high point of Alice Niesen's modeling career.
Ithaca Journal - Aug 1, 1947
The only other example of her work that I could find was a 1948 piece in which she modeled the "sock pocket".
The Frederick Leader - Jan 19, 1948
Posted By: Alex - Tue Apr 12, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Food, 1940s
Recipes for the fallout shelter housewife
Marie Adams, food editor of the Charlotte News, felt that nuclear war shouldn't stop a "fallout shelter housewife" from providing her family with tasty meals and "appetizing snacks". In a 1961 column (Sep 7, 1961) she offered suggestions for fallout shelter meals that included deviled ham and parsley dip served with tomato juice, swedish fruit soup with cheeses, and vichyssoise with crackers.
A response from a reader of the Charlotte News:
Charlotte News - Sep 11, 1961
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 22, 2022 -
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Category: Food, War, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1960s
A Device for Intercepting the Moisture running down the Hands and Wrists when Eating Crayfish
In 1933, the British patent office awarded Edgar Honig of Germany Patent No. 393,673 for this invention. From his patent:This invention relates to a means for intercepting the liquid tending to run down the wrists and the arms when eating crayfish.
When eating crustacea of this nature, it is found very unpleasant that the liquid emerging therefrom tends to run down the wrists and into the sleeves, this liquid resulting in stains, which it is extremely difficult or impossible to remove.
According to the invention, this drawback is overcome by means of a ring which tightly encircles the wrist and consists of an absorbent material. As a material of this description it is convenient to employ rubber sponge. It is, however, also possible to use paper, fabric or similar materials, which intercept the moisture running over the wrists and absord the same.
When eating crustacea of this nature, it is found very unpleasant that the liquid emerging therefrom tends to run down the wrists and into the sleeves, this liquid resulting in stains, which it is extremely difficult or impossible to remove.
According to the invention, this drawback is overcome by means of a ring which tightly encircles the wrist and consists of an absorbent material. As a material of this description it is convenient to employ rubber sponge. It is, however, also possible to use paper, fabric or similar materials, which intercept the moisture running over the wrists and absord the same.
I'm not a fan of shellfish, so I wasn't aware how messy crayfish (aka crawfish) could be. But evidently their messiness really bothered Honig.
Below: how to eat crawfish.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Mar 10, 2022 -
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Category: Food, Patents, 1930s
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