Food Crimes - Offenses against nutrition

I've had a little theory that post war American food is universally terrible due to everyone smoking and destroying their taste buds. Stuff starts getting better in the mid 90s when smoking rates start noticeably dropping.

Especially with coffee. People used percolators for years. You know how bad percolator coffee is? So bad that when Mr Coffee came out, it sold for about the same inflation adjusted price as a modern entry level espresso machine. It went into high end restaurants and people thought it was amazing.

I don't know if this fully works, though. Much of Western Europe had higher smoking rates for longer, and the food isn't so shit.

Growing up with food ideas like this might explain some things about boomers.

I love how fast and loose this plays with the definition of "salad".

Serve with mayonnaise.

😂 There's a kind of innocent madness in this "recipe" that makes me happy.

The "Serve with mayonnaise" got me at the end... I held it together until that point. Why was everything served with mayonnaise?

Shit like this is why meat eaters are not convinced going vegetarian isn't a conspiracy.

This is what happens when you let capitalists control the food supply

I feel like a lot of postwar US cooking could be explained by the following facts:

• A Americans lived through the great depression
• All Americans lived through world war rationing
• A huge portion of Americans grew up in a world where things like refrigeration, grocery stores, etc didn't exist.

The end result was the food equivalent of giving a thirteen year old from the 1990s a smartphone for the first time. Just pure disgusting excess with no real rhyme or reason.

The recipe actually started off halfway decent until the donuts and mayonnaise lol

It definitely sounds like some classic 1950s cooking... The only things missing are maraschino cherries and cut up hot dog weiners

This has to be fake. No one would combine these.

I hope that "chef" spent the rest of their life in prison.

Well I think I can confidently speak for all "meat and potatoes" men when I say that not only would this not change my mind, I think I'd never be able to look at a prune in the same way again after eating this

“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he’s created? …here on Earth?”

This is just an episode of ~~Can't Cook, Won't Cook~~ Ready Steady Cook, where one of the contestants has brought in some prunes, cottage cheese, donuts and a lettuce.

I can already hear Ainsley Harriott getting unnecessarily excited.

(Edit: sorry, got my Ainsley Harriott cooking shows muddled up!)

Adding lettuce does not a salad make. If I chop up some tomatoes and cover a cheesecake in ranch dressing, is it a salad? No, it's a crime against God and man, and restitution must be made.

If I drive home from the supermarkt with some baby leafs in the trunk, does that qualify as a human-car-salad? And would that be still be legal or count as attempted (self-)cannibalism?

I'll stick to meat and potatoes, thanks