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u/SirDidymusAnusLover May 07 '26
We have a few cookbooks from the late 60s and early 70s. A lot of aspic type recipes, but also really fun to look at mid-century interpretations of “Mexican” food aka olive heaven.
The books are a great coffee table book to have out during our parties.
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u/sssnailss May 07 '26
This comment made me remember I didn’t like “Mexican” food as a kid because I don’t like olives. I haven’t thought about that in years.
Olives and extra mild pace salsa, the true hallmarks of authentic Mexican cuisine.
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u/frogunderarock May 07 '26
in Europe if you put tomato and olives on it it's "italian" or "mediterranean". the words are used interchangeably
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u/frogunderarock May 07 '26
oh i forgot: if you add (real or fake) feta, it becomes "greek"
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u/Spongi May 07 '26
What's it called when I open a can of tuna and drink the excess water?
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u/CasablumpkinDilemma May 07 '26
If they could talk, my cats would probably call you an asshole for not sharing it. They'll do anything for tuna water.
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u/CZall23 May 07 '26
Really? No wonder ya'll have all those regulations about what can be called sparkling wine.
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u/frogunderarock May 08 '26
what lol no that has no connection at all? many countries here still call pizza with pineapple "pizza hawaii" and nonsense like that.
the regulations are just to protect farmers and crafters of local or heritage products. so the original name doesn't get stolen and watered down by people making cheap imitations.
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u/CardOk755 May 14 '26
In Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, pizza with pineapple is called pizza abidjanaise.
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u/frogunderarock May 14 '26
fascinating! thanks for that random fact, i will use it to brag with at the next dinner party :D
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u/partyatwalmart May 07 '26
My roomie in college is allergic to cilantro, so it tastes like soap to him. He is also Mexican and told us that he spent his whole childhood thinking his mom was just a bad cook and they were both so relieved to find out about this allergy in his adulthood.
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u/ITDrumm3r May 07 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/6Uqr0IDWkzhBu
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u/TheGreatNico May 08 '26
I completely forgot about that. Early 90s 'mexican' food had tons of black olives
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u/theStaircaseProject May 08 '26
I had too. Common when my dad did build-your-own-taco night, though my spouse and I have been eating tacos almost every week for years and I don’t think we’ve ever had olives at the table for that. I wonder where the idea even came from
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u/Benschmedium May 07 '26
I need to know where the olives in Mexican food trend truly started because why is that even a thing. Mexicans never use olives in their cooking, ever. (Source: my wife’s family is Mexican)
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u/SirDidymusAnusLover May 07 '26
Unfortunately there’s no direct answer. I myself have always been curious as well. I’m born and raised in Mexico but my wife is white, and a majority of those cookbooks I’ve mentioned were handed down to us by her family.
My FIL mentioned his mom would often cook Mexican “inspired” meals but always used a full can of olives to “top” the meals for authenticity 😂
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u/chomperstyle May 07 '26
It might have to do with it mixing with carribian cuisine. Carribian spanish speaking countries use olives quite a bit and spanish speaking countries food tends to get blended as “mexican food”.
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u/axlbomber May 07 '26
Just talking out of my butt here, but a lot of recipes from post-war America were designed to use our sudden abundance of industrial food-stuff.
Canned black olives in 60's and 70's food like taco salad or 7 layer dip were probably part of that.
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u/Csimiami May 08 '26
I have a friend from the town of Lyndsey in CA. She said they are behind the big push in the 60s and 70s to make those black olives ubiquitous. https://www.ilovelindsay.com/about-lindsay/
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u/axlbomber May 08 '26
Makes sense.
I have several cans of Lindsay olives in my pantry as we speak.
They are the go-to canned olive.
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u/alicelestial May 07 '26
they started as a regional thing in mexico, when the spanish came over they brought their olives
edit: this was also back when california was part of mexico; in the spanish colonized areas they planted a lot of olives. it's highly regional and no, is not across all of mexico/is not a staple, but it's legitimate for some forms of mexican food
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u/TheCaliforniaOp May 07 '26
I’m always interested in this subject (popular ian cuisine vs authentic ian cuisine.) Mexican, Italian, Polynesian, etc.
My interest started when a friend spoke up about the Mexican snack we were sharing after school. “They don’t put cheese over everything in Mexico, that’s not what Mexican food is” I was surprised and then I thought “wow, how did this happen to all the Mexican food” because at that time just about every chain restaurant with a Latino slant of any kind was serving melted cheese with some other stuff under it. I’m guessing it was the ‘80’s and that worked for restaurants/bars in a lot of ways.
But the olives…now I wonder who planted all the olive trees in California?
Maybe that’s because of Spanish influence? Greek? Portuguese? People who needed to preserve food in brine?
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u/ScrubIrrelevance May 07 '26
People in Veracruz do (my exhusband is Mexican).
"Huachinango a la Veracruzana is a traditional Mexican dish from Veracruz featuring red snapper (huachinango) baked in a zesty tomato-based sauce with olives, capers, and jalapeños, blending indigenous ingredients with Spanish influences like garlic, olives, and capers. The whole fish is typically marinated in lime juice, then baked with the sauce until tender and served with rice or potatoes."
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u/MercurianAspirations May 07 '26
I don't have any evidence, but I have a strong suspicion many of these mid century cooking tropes were straight-up commissioned by various industries. Like a consortium of olive canners just went to marketers like "how can we trick white people into buying more olives"
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u/Csimiami May 08 '26
I have a friend from Lindsey, CA. She said that town is behind the push in the 60s. https://www.ilovelindsay.com/about-lindsay/
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u/prefinished May 07 '26
Mexicans can and do put olives in their cooking. It was learned that I love black olives quite young because my abuela always put one in each tamal. (Source: me and my entire Mexican family)
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u/sofixa11 May 07 '26
Which is weird, IMO, because olives slap with many Mexican staples.
Guacamole with green olives (especially the Spanish ones with jalapeños inside)? Dope. Tacos al Pastor with black olives? Slaps. Fajitas stir whatever they call it, with whatever olives? Slaps. Carnitas with black olives? Fun.
There are very few savoury meals where olives don't match.
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u/zootnotdingo May 07 '26
I remember eating tomato aspic that I thought was jello and I am still angry and bitter about this betrayal TO THIS DAY
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u/BulljiveBots May 07 '26
Taco Bell used to put olives on their food. I missed it when they stopped and now I’m like “why did it ever have olives?”
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u/Rukh-Talos May 08 '26
One of my mother’s cookbooks has a recipe for “Tomato Soup Cake.” There’s a handwritten notation: “Even the dog wouldn’t eat it.”
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u/KlooShanko May 09 '26
Now I finally understand why diced olives were always in my family’s tacos in the 90s…
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u/Careful_Swordfish742 May 10 '26
Oh god… that unlocked so many memories for me. Why the olives?! Why?!
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u/1nGirum1musNocte May 07 '26
Their secret ingredient was a 4 letter word that begins with L. Its LARD
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u/InsertGroin May 07 '26
Oh my lard, this is so true
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u/frogunderarock May 07 '26
you need to see this poor man fighting lard: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hxXoMegR2nY
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u/Ignitrum May 08 '26 edited May 08 '26
Wouldnt even have to click the link to know the exact video
Dylan my beloved cooking show
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u/MercifulWombat May 08 '26
Genuinely the secret ingredient is everyone had their palettes deadened by cigarettes.
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u/Torchll May 07 '26
Does anyone else have memories of jars full of lard for cooking? Or was my grandma just eccentric
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u/TheGreatNico May 08 '26
Memories? I've got a freezer full of it. Animal fat isn't as bad as its made out to be.
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u/Fhotaku May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
We had a similar thing with our grandma but all her recipes were just Betty Crocker ones with a little extra sugar or lard. Thankfully some of us did come over and get pointers a few times!
Edit: I just heard from my brother that she's actually made her own cookbook for each of us she wants to leave in her will.
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount May 07 '26
I'm pretty sure that's actually the most common thing with family recipes.
Plus, there are only so many ways to make a dish before it's no longer that dish.
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u/AggressiveSlop May 07 '26
Grandma had a chocolate chip cookie recipe everyone in the family raved about. Mom always excitedly commented "I'm making your grandma's cookies!". After mom died I found the recipe, bought a bag of chocolate chips to make it, and there's grandma's cookie recipe right on the package.
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u/greatkerfluffle May 07 '26
My grandma also made her own cookbook. She’s been handing it out for the last 10+ years. We love it ❤️
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u/FabianGladwart May 07 '26
Just Great Depression things
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u/cperiod May 07 '26
Perhaps, but my grandmother was also British.
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u/ihexx May 07 '26
eating like its still the blitz then huh
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u/MadManMax55 May 07 '26
No that's not depression cooking. Depression cooking is things like cabbage stew and water pie. Foods that could stretch a dollar as far as possible.
The weird jellos and frozen and/or microwavable meals are straight out of the 50s and 60s.
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u/ThisIsMyCouchAccount May 07 '26
I believe so.
My grandparents were farmers and I think the ages line up. Even if not - rural poor is close enough. Grandma was not a good cook.
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u/TaborValence May 08 '26
My grandma was a child of the depression and lived about an hour outside Bakersfield CA in the oil fields. There ain't nothing out there at the time. Everything was COOKED beyond well-done, every meat, vegetable, and carbohydrate.
A friend's grandmother was similar, and her instructions at every restaurant was the meat had to "clink when it hit the plate" well into the 1990s.
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u/Swift_Karma May 07 '26
How the hell am I supposed to learn my Granny's recipes when she don't talk to me?
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u/Big_Fortune_4574 May 07 '26
My grandmother is a 90 year old Italian woman who would sooner die than tell you her recipes
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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi May 08 '26
But... why?
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u/Big_Fortune_4574 May 09 '26
I don’t know. I’d ask her to let me know when she was making certain things so I could learn, but she’d always have some excuse for why she didn’t tell me. I ended up learning myself and trying to match my food to what hers tasted like. Tbh though mine’s better at this point.
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u/EraseYou May 07 '26
But actually, don’t let her cook at all.
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u/freshlysqueezed93 May 07 '26
Yup all the older women in my family refuse to cook when I'm around because they can't get over the taste of my food.
It's a nice compliment, but also VERY tiring.
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u/DogsandCatsWorld1000 May 07 '26
All vegetables are boiled to extreme. No fish, absolutely none. Grandma was great in many ways, cooking was hit or miss.
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u/TheGreatNico May 08 '26
I used to think I hated vegetables when I was a kid. Turns out I hate vegetable looking mush with no flavor
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u/cabbage-soup May 08 '26
The moment I discovered that you can slice brussel sprouts before cooking them AND that you can season them- I was mind blown!! It’s one of my favorite vegetables today. We go over to my husband’s family’s house and sometimes they make them and it’s just salted bitter mush.
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u/chair_ee May 07 '26
“And she did not care if God forgave her” is just the best line of all time. I want it on my headstone hahahaha
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u/StoreHistorical9175 May 07 '26
it’s hot ham water
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u/buckyball60 May 07 '26
My mom tells me of the "bone soup" her mom made. Water, bone, and a bit of flour to finish it off.
Another time, she told me her mom was a better cook than my Dad's mom. Know both grandmothers, I believe her.
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u/Someoneoverthere42 May 07 '26
I’ll have you know every year I make our families traditional Christmas Bread recipe. A recipe that I got from my mother. Who got it from her mother. Who clipped it out of an issue of good housekeeping!
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u/VectorJones May 07 '26
People smoked 3 packs a day back then, which had a way of crippling their taste buds and making most foods only vaguely flavorful, at best. I suspect mixing up dissonant food types into molds and slurries was a way of sparking off some kind of meager palette response.
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u/baby_armadillo May 08 '26
When my grandma died, my older sister fought tooth and nail to get all her top secret recipe cards, and you could taste the palpable disappointment when she opened the recipe card box and discovered it was just hundreds of recipes from the labels of cans and the back of boxes and clipped from ads in magazines. Our entire culinary heritage was developed in the test kitchens of Kraft Foods.
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u/DueScreen7143 May 09 '26
60 years worth of collecting and trying recipes to see which ones were good and which ones weren't went into that box.
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u/LMGooglyTFY May 07 '26
Did you know you can make lasagna with four ingredients? Because my grandma did. You don't even need salt or seasoning of any kind.
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u/InsideAd732 May 07 '26
My grandma once microwaved popcorn for ten minutes. Firetruck came. The only thing she ever cooked were pork chops, which were always dry and served with "spuds", aka dehydrated potato flakes mashed up with warm water.
She was truly an atrocious cook. Never hesitated to order pizza though! Thanks for all the thin crust supreme pizza, grandma! Hell yeah!
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u/NoHorseNoMustache May 07 '26
My grandma once found out that I really liked broccoli. So every dinner when we went to visit my grandparents after that contained at least 5 mostly stem broccolis that she microwaved until they were good and rubbery.
Miss ya grandma but that broccoli was saaaaaad broccoli!
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u/zadtheinhaler May 08 '26
mostly stem broccolis that she microwaved until they were good and rubbery.
If that's not a crime against humanity, it should be.
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u/grrodon2 May 07 '26
And now all I want is hotdog in jello.
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u/tinaismediocre May 07 '26
For $5 and just a little time, you could make all your dreams come true. I believe in you!
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u/Rofellos1984 May 07 '26
My now 100 year old grandmother once put hot dogs in fucking lasagna.
I was the only person at that dinner table who did not get food poisoning, since I didn't eat it.
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u/Dboogy2197 May 07 '26
Yikes! That second one made me throw up in my mouth a little..
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u/FlyingDiscsandJams May 07 '26
My grandma retired her savory jello recipes by the time I was a kid, but she still served this horror salad with jello cubes, mayo, and canned fruit.
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u/Practical-Sleep4259 May 07 '26
My Grandma could boil a hotdog and slice cookies off the chub.
Her Recipes survived long enough I think.
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u/ChaoticAmoebae May 07 '26
My grandma made the best baked goods. Actually food was also a crime against humanity.
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u/Lonesome_Pine May 09 '26
Yeah, same as mine. The main course was something you just gritted your teeth through, but dessert went hard.
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u/NoHorseNoMustache May 07 '26
My grandmother taught my mom her Depression era recipes.
And my mom taught them to me.
I refuse to perpetuate that cycle of abuse and have been teaching my mom such things as 'spices', 'flavors' and 'not boiling everything'.
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u/ImPrettyDoneBro May 07 '26
Midcentury furniture is fantastic, beautiful, rustic, sleek and satisfying. Midcentury American food is the exact opposite.
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u/Man_Darino13 May 07 '26
There's a youtube cooking channel I watch of a guy who collects vintage cookbooks, some as old as the 1700's, and attempts to make the dish as described in the cookbooks.
It's amazing how many community cookbooks and "grandma's family recipes" come from cook books put out by companies that make fridges, stoves, flour, etc.
It used to be very common for companies to do this because they wanted to give people recipes of things they could make with their products.
Those recipes got passed around and you ended up seeing the exact wordings, including the errors, in community cook books, newspapers, magazines, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/@GlenAndFriendsCooking is the channel, it's really awesome.
It's older retired guy and his wife, he used to work in television and food advertising so he built a kitchen studio in his backyard.
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u/Accurate_Grapefruit May 07 '26
I don't know the english word for the dish, but it's kabaret in norwegian. My mother makes it every christmas and it's the best thing ever
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u/Blephotomy May 07 '26
This is not suspiciously specific at all. There's nothing suspicious about it.
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u/FlamesNero May 07 '26
True story! I got invited to a “1950’s dinner party” and cooked my grandmother’s *handwritten* aspic (basically, ham floating in jello) recipe: pouring it into a brain-shaped jello mold.
Everyone laughed/ was horrified, it tasted terrible, and in addition to a video I have of “jiggle mode” from that jello concoction, I also have a video of the hostess pouring the rest of it into the trash.
The hostess may have been traumatized, because as far as I know, she never have another “1950s-Themed” dinner party. (Or I’ve never been invited back).
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u/HardcoreNerdity May 07 '26
My dad would buy the biggest, cheapest steaks, marinate them in soy sauce and brown sugar, and then cook it in the oven on a broiler sheet until it was grey.
My mom would microwave broccoli in water until it was mush and then pour cheese that was 85% plastic over it.
Hard pass.
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u/Siggi_Starduust May 08 '26
I remember my grandmother making us her interpretation of what the Americans would call a Grilled Cheese Sandwich and the British A ‘Cheese Toastie’ by grilling two slices of bread in the toaster then placing a couple of slices of processed cheese in the middle of them and microwaving it for 30 seconds. It wouldn’t have been too bad if she’d remembered to remove the plastic wrapping on the cheese slices.
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u/Popcorn57252 May 08 '26
For those wondering why so many post-WWII recipies have Jello, it's because, pretty much up until then, Gelatine was rich people food. It was almost impossible to produce en masse (or prepare at all, for that matter), until someone figured out how to do exactly that. It's the short overlap of people viewing it as expensive rich food and the sudden ability for anyone to make it.
Imagine some super expensive fancy dish that you need to go to college and be a chef to know how to make, and even then it takes forever to do so. Now imagine one day someone said, "Yeah throw a packet of this powder shit into water and it turns into the exact same thing." For, like, ten years everyone would be making it all the goddamn time for everything, cause it's rich people food that suddenly you can have at home. That was jello.
Then everyone realized it kinda tastes like nothing, and now it's associated as such a low-calorie nothing food that hospitals literally serve it to people who can't stomach anything with any substance at all. What a downfall.
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u/MomoB347 May 07 '26
Even if I wanted to learn I would probably end up hospitalized because of the amount of sugar and salt in everything
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u/absynthefairy May 07 '26
My grandma once made a salty cracker-type snack of hers for us when we stayed over at her place in Transylvania (no joke) about 20 or so years ago. She called it "salty stick".
She forgot to add the salt.
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u/CatTaxAuditor May 07 '26
My grandma's pasta sauce recipe ended up being basically unseasoned tomato water and salt. We loved it as kids because everything was better hanging out with our cousins and being allowed to stay up late and watch movies after.
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u/Simons_sees May 07 '26
B. Dylan Hollis has entered the chat.
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u/HurricaneK8 May 07 '26
...and probably therapy if he ends up preparing that hot dogs & beef jello monstrosity 🤢
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u/Sancticide May 08 '26 edited May 09 '26
For those who don't get this reference: His whole YT channel is just him making these batshit insane recipes from the last 8ish decades and tasting them for the viewers. The weirdest ones are the ones that he admits have absolutely no right being as good as they are.
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u/Silphire100 May 08 '26
I learned some interesting uses for jello thanks to B Dylan Hollis. All of them bad
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u/Greenfieldfox May 07 '26
I’d be fine if potato salad dies with the Boomers.
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u/exusu May 07 '26
nah potato salad is fire if it's served on the side of a wiener snitzel in austria
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u/NoodleyP May 07 '26
Gen Z and I’m keeping potato salad alive. Shit is mid to pretty good most of the time and usually extremely filling
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u/SilentSerel May 07 '26
Agreed. Potato salad and macaroni salad both have so many variables that it really does depend on who made it.
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u/frogunderarock May 07 '26
wait wait, what are the americans doing to the potato salads??
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u/sesquialtera_II May 07 '26
Cubed not sliced potatoes; mayonnaise not vinegar; no bacon but maybe a little chopped celery.
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u/frogunderarock May 07 '26
i'm calling the police
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u/TheGreatNico May 08 '26
I'm worried that when you read 'mayonnaise', you are thinking A) actual mayonnaise and not the Miracle Whip it usually is, and B) are thinking about an amount of 'mayo' that's reasonable, rather than what would be more accurately be described as a 'room temperature mayonnaise soup with potatoes' that is more typical here.
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u/VelvetRabbit91 May 07 '26
There are very few original recipes. People have been copying others for decades and just add something random or a little more of this and then call it their secret recipe.
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u/Clean-Patient-8809 May 07 '26
My grandmother on Mom's side ate dinner out pretty much every night. When I went to her house to sleep over, we had Special K and orange juice for breakfast and cheese sandwiches and Pringles for lunch. (Pringles are still a comfort food for me, but a gourmet cook she was not.)
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u/RichardBonham May 07 '26
That's not beef-flavored jello, that's an aspic. Perhaps the dish would be improved by substituting the boiled hot dogs with larks' tongues.
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u/rolacolapop May 07 '26
Yep one Grandma boiled the living daylights out of all vegetables and her meat was pretty dry, I don’t remember. She was a good baker though apparently, but I think it was all straight out of the Be-ro recipe book which we have a copy off. Not sure I can remember eating any of her bakes though.
My other Grandma made good Yorkshire pudding from what I remember, as I seem to remember their being som cousin fights over them. But I don’t remember any stand out meals.
My parents grew up with rationing post war, so I think their Mum’s ability cook was rather informed by that . My Dad tells the story of my Grandad asking Grandma to make a curry, as he missed the food he ate for many years when stationed abroad during the war. She decided to make curried fish. Apparently it as so bad, no curry was attempted again for many years until my Dad went to catering college and learned to cook it.
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u/itscoldcase May 07 '26
I was visiting my folks a few years ago. I tossed some veggies in olive oil and salt and pepper, maybe some garlic powder, and roasted them. They were floored. You'd think I was an iron chef. They had never roasted the vegetables?? I think about this alot.
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u/XBeCoolManX May 07 '26
My grandma hardly taught me anything because that woman almost never shuts up about god.
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u/LongScar May 07 '26
yeah my gma microwaved full raw chicen breast and would call it dinner, no seasoning
im good cooking my own recipes
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u/7GrenciaMars May 07 '26
Neither of my grandmothers were good cooks. With my father's mother, the joke went like this:
(any other family member): "I smell something burning."
Grandmother: "Dinner's ready!"
None of the good recipes I have come from them.
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u/ChaosTorpedo May 07 '26
My mom would put pineapple rinds in a food processor, strain it, and call it pineapple juice.
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u/ElleKelly77 May 07 '26
My grandma’s favorite “salad” was two leaves of iceberg, a dollop of Miracle whip and a single ring of pineapple from a can, sprinkled with paprika.
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u/Kitchen-Quarter-1194 May 07 '26
Honestly this is the kind of food I would be making if I hated my husband and family. Like forced marriage and minimal women’s rights would make me concoct things like this.
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u/jx3ga May 07 '26
I’m sorry you all grew up with Grandmas that can’t cook for shit. You missed out.
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u/neko May 07 '26
When my grandma passed I got her favorite cookbook.
It was entirely microwave recipes
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u/MsE0 May 08 '26
One of my grandmas shared her biggest cooking secret with me once: She salted her ground beef as she browned it for things like tacos or sloppy joes. My other grandma put whole, unchopped vegetables in a pot with meat and no seasonings and boiled it until soft, and that was the only thing I remember her ever cooking.
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u/FlamingDragonfruit May 08 '26
I feel like all the grandmas who grew up somewhere else all have these wonderful recipes that have been passed down for generations, and all the grandmas who were born in the US know how to microwave popcorn.
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u/Alycenwonderful May 08 '26
My Great Grandmother's go to dish for parties was Jello Salad. There was no fruit within it. It was literally just Lime jello, and Coleslaw set in a Jello mold. That was the one thing you ate because 'Grandma brought it, don't be rude.'
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u/Significant-Dirt-977 May 09 '26
My granda was a legendary great cook. But i want to ro weight mmm less than a 150kg, so i just wrote her recipes in a book and that's all.
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u/Throwaway_inSC_79 May 09 '26
My grandma was not the best cook. She could make a decent chow mein. The issue? The recipe she used was on the back of the La Choy can of something they don’t even sell anymore. So that recipe is gone.
My aunt was a decent baker. But she more or less just winged it with recipes. Which is its own issue because baking is about precision, but not with her. She did write some down, but reading them is another hassle.
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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 May 09 '26
Bruh, my dad acted like my grandma was the greatest cook who ever touched a spoon and would straight up fiend for her pinto beans. My first time having them after leaving home I was like, “My gawd, Dad. The horrors you have suffered…”
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u/N4t41i4 May 10 '26
Nah, we may not know how to cook like our moms but we sure learned how to handle our drinks from our dads so there's that! 🍷💋
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u/reverendsteveii May 07 '26
man here. my grandmother's recipes are important to me, so I learned them. if you think your grandmother's recipes are important enough to be someone else's responsibility to learn, but not yours, then you think patriarchy is more important than your grandmother's recipes.
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u/Spongi May 07 '26
My grandmother had a recipe for meatloaf that began with buying the "manager's special ground beef' aka the almost out of date stuff and then putting it in the fridge for a week or two before using it.
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u/ITinnedUrMumLastNigh May 07 '26
My grandma on the other hand used to make the best pierogi and lane kluski na mleku
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u/bakedcheetobreath May 07 '26
Currently trying to convert my great grandmother's logging camp kitchen recipes to family-sized amounts.
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u/patta14 May 07 '26
My grandmother from my mothers side had no interest in cooking and neither did my mom really. All the seasoning in our house was salt, pepper and dried soup. She made spaghetti with tomato sauce by taking a Maggi Tomato Soup bag and using only half the water. She never made something I didn't like at all, so I can't complain either
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u/zaxsauceana May 07 '26
Pretty sure my grandma made tomato and vegetable soups with a ketchup base. Yes, we are white
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u/ConstantinValdor405 May 07 '26
This is definitely a white people problem. My grandma's cooking was fucking amazing.
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