Tag Archives: 50s

We’re eating chemicals. Anybody got a problem with that?

Posted on May 4, 2021 by Burnt My Fingers

We’ve recently discovered Sugar Free/Fat Free Jello 5-Minute Pudding. A box is 93 cents at our local Wal-Mart (there’s also a house brand, with identical ingredients, for 50 cents) and makes four half-cup servings. You mix it with milk: skim … Continue reading →

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Vintage recipes from Milwaukee Library

Posted on April 22, 2021 by Burnt My Fingers

We stumbled on a remarkable and little-known (judging from the Google search results) resource for mid century recipes: The Historical Recipe Archive of the Milwaukee Public Library. The home page pretty much says it: “For over 20 years, from the … Continue reading →

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Questionable recipes and threatening aspics

Posted on April 16, 2021 by Burnt My Fingers

The pandemic makes strange bedfellows, as evidenced by three Facebook groups we’ve been following recently. Each is an attempt to explore an obscure avenue of our current and former foodways, and each features roughly equal quantities of commentators who like … Continue reading →

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Yummy (the 50s called, and it wants you to eat its tuna loaf)

Posted on January 14, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Yummy is a new song and video in which the shape-shifting Justin Bieber is seen cavorting with various 50s-inspired dishes and Jello molds. And my Yelp friend Eric T has alerted me to a Buzzfeed compendium called “21 Truly Upsetting … Continue reading →

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