Comments on: Crazy Cold War Recipes

By: Mary Fisher

Mary Fisher — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:06:14 +0000

All these derogatory comments from people who rave about peanut butter and jello sandwiches, who eat enormous mixed media burgers and tomato and lettuce with their bacon sandwiches.

I suspect that none of you has ever been hungry, you’re like picky children who say they don’t like something before they’ve even tried it.

BTW I have tried the popular American ‘foods’. They are not, shall I say, to my taste.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:05:12 +0000

I have had perfection salad, and it does not have much taste, to be honest. And it, and other gelatin recipes were around in the early 1900s. Jello is merely the brand that survived, thanks to aggressive advertising .eg., “The Jello Program starring Jack Benny”

My husband is still crazy for salad made with one box of lemon and one box of orange with shredded carrots and crushed pineapple.

By: Patti

Patti — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:10:05 +0000

I remember that loaf cake with fondness. I remember my mom making it in the late 70s. I loved it.
And Jello moulds are still cool. I have a Jello cookbook. Can’t attend a potluck without it.
(and I do like salmon mousse made in a fish mould with olive eyes)
I do admit that I don’t make my mom’s company speciality: orange jello with carrots cut into squares and served on a lettuce leaf with a dollop of miracle whip and a dash of paprika.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:06:31 +0000

OMG! My mom made this sandwich loaf cake for every bridal and baby shower in the 70′s!! She cut it with an electric knife.
Ugh.

By: LNM

LNM — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:19:35 +0000

My mother also has a microwave cookbook. No, we’ve never tried to make a rack of lamb or a whole chicken (although those recipes are in there), but some of the recipes are actually worthwhile. (Like cheesecake. Real cheesecake made in a carousel microwave. It’s good.) It’s all in the power you cook them on. Sorry, all in the power on which you cook them.

Of course, some of the recipes look like the ones above. We never made those, either. Ew.

By: H.

H. — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:46:42 +0000

OK – my aunt used to make these for every baby/wedding shower and I found it delicious! Updated with fresh tuna, chicken and egg salad. With a carrot and orange creamy Jell-O mold. And a ginger ale? A crazy old-school indulgence.

By: Adri

Adri — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:36:37 +0000

Oddly enough, sandwich loaf is popular in my neck of the woods (which I will not disclose in order to protect the poor fools who like it). The key seems to be good sandwich spread.

Jello, as any good Lutheran knows, is an art form. However, olives or cheddar cheese is just weird.

By: Roz.

Roz. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:17:00 +0000

I have never laughed so hard in my entire life. As a child of the fifties, I do remember the spam & whatever’s handy meals. Thank Heavens that my mother did not attempt to go beyond that in her culinary creativity. In a moment of temporary insanity, my dad probably would have fled with us to my grandfather’s place in the country where brains scrambled with eggs were the “healthy” breakfast fare.

By: RISwampyankee

RISwampyankee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:45:31 +0000

I knew it was time to leave Wisconsin when my then mother-in-law served a Christmas dinner of burned ham (cinders floated out of the oven) canned yams, seven kinds of Jell-O molds, and half the inventory of O&H bakery.

By: Auntie Lovie

Auntie Lovie — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:10:52 +0000

So hard to laugh and retch at the same time!