Thanks to J. Lileks,the culinary mastermind who created The Gallery of Regrettable Food:
“What were they thinking? How did they eat this bilge?
Good questions, but you won’t find them answered here. This is a simple introduction to poorly photographed foodstuffs and horrid recipes. It’s a wonder anyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s gained any weight; it’s a miracle that people didn’t put down their issue of Life magazine with a slight queasy list to their gut, and decide to sup on a nice bowl of shredded wheat and nothing else. It wasn’t that the food was inedible; it was merely dull. Everything was geared for a timid palate fearful of spice. It wasn’t non- nutritious – no, between the limp boiled vegetables, fat-choked meat cylinders and pink-whipped-jello dessert, you were bound to find a few calories that would drag you into the next day. It’s that the pictures are so hideously unappealing.”
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March 26, 2007 at 9:56 am
There’s something funky about the colours in colour film in those days–made everything look extra garish. That food would still be horrific without that factor, however. 🙂