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Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

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[–] jordanlund 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot of these are more 50s and 60s war crimes than 80s.

50s invented Jello Salad war crimes.

[–] grue 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, most of these sorts of abominations are pushed by big food conglomerates trying to manufacture demand for their shelf-stable hyperprocessed shit by publishing recipes that feature their "convenience foods" as ingredients. (Just look at how many of the recipe images in the list are literally advertisements for Miracle Whip and whatnot!) That sort of thing really resonated with the whole '50s atomic-age modernist thinking crowd.

(Don't get me wrong: I think the modernist aesthetic/furniture design/aesthetic is great. Lots of other stuff about it, like the food and the [anti-]urbanism, was an absolute disaster, though.)

[–] teft 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My mother did that shit all the time. I distinctly remember one time she tried to make spaghetti with calamari. She had never cooked squid before so we ended up eating what tasted like tomato sauce covered erasers.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

That's too bad, I would commit crimes to eat my grandfather's calamari with red sauce again

[–] PeroBasta 5 points 2 months ago

Hi! Spaghetti con calamari is a very legit italian recipe and very good too.

It's only a matter of following the right recipe but in south of Italy pasta&seafood or fish is very common.

[–] _stranger_ 18 points 2 months ago

Every rage bait tik Tok and YouTube "cooking" short: am I a joke to you

[–] EvilBit 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TIL you can just eat any goddamn thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

technically, yes

i still don't reccomend cyanide tho, it has a really bitter taste

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The almond smell is to die for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

cyanide doesn't smell like almonds, it's more of a pool chlorine smell that irritates your nose

[–] grue 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

#4 "Frankfurter Pie" isn't so bad. It's just sausage and sauerkraut with some bread under it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That was one of the more edible looking ones I saw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The egg curry is quite tasty. I don't think their recipe is going to be as good as an Indian version though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually tried bacon wrapped banana once a while back, tastes amazing.

[–] danjoubu 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But did you have it with hollandaise sauce

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

As tradition demands

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

No, that's insanity

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I found a book of 70s Italian recipes and half the dishes were stuff like vegetables encased in a ring of aspic jelly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better veggies than larks tongue I guess

[–] BobbyGasoline 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Better then crunchy frogs?

[–] slingstone 3 points 2 months ago

As long as it's garnished with lark's vomit.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 5 points 2 months ago

Tuna and waffles doesn’t sound too bad

[–] Sanctus 5 points 2 months ago

TIL SpongeBob's house is an 80s food crime.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

“Depression but with a weirdly high amount of energy meals”

[–] mriormro 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

White people are wild, man.

[–] SkyezOpen 3 points 2 months ago

And they say we have no culture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

A lot of these were designed just so wife’s could get back at their husbands. As a child of the 50/60s I frequently suffered collateral damage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'd try curried eggs bengal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah that one looked nice, actually

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Aspic would like a word.

[–] Valmond 1 points 2 months ago

Neighbours had the "flying jacob", mnm's pushed into peeled bananas, rolled in bacon and cooked in the owen.

That stuff was not delicious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Tuna and olive pasta"? A weird meal? I need to see the recipe.

[–] chetradley 1 points 2 months ago

Mexico would like a "word", Marcy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That hollandaise sounds interesting. Actually a few of those are close to something I've eaten or stuff that might actually be good

[–] TwoBeeSan 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is what white culture looks like. You wonder why we are culture thieves lmao I would be too if this was what o grew up on

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

We kind of had to start from scratch again after a generation of Great Depression cooking was followed by a generation of "It's in a can and claims to be edible"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not Polish culture! We've got... cabbage!... and um... nah that's about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Italy, France, Spain, Greece...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

and germany has the fucking schnitzel, which so good that it has become a staple in japan.