I’ve noticed that American recipes often have ingredients like “1 packet (brand name) (foodstuff)”. I wonder if this kind of advert is how it started.
Thanks mom, I don't want any
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MadBob@feddit.nl 1 year ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Pretty sure that’s exactly how that started. Much easier to sell more of your industrially made foodstuff if you give people some ideas about what to do with it.
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I fear soup over waffles is a poor example of that but I understand.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lots of American food companies use recipes on the box to give the buyer an idea of what to make. This was a part of American food packaging going back to the Depression; learning to work with what we had was the lesson of the period. It was a time of searching for what was cheap and learning how to make it palatable.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Also quite a few packages include recipes.
- my family recipe for pecan pie has always been from the bottle of Karo Syrup
- green stuff I made for New Years was originally from a package of Jello brand Pistachio instant pudding
- family pumpkin pie recipe was from a can of pumpkin
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
TFW grandma finally hands down her secret recipe book and they’re all clipped from boxes of supermarket food items and adverts in Good Housekeeping.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use more of (brand name’s) stuff to sell more. That’s all there was to it. No idea why on Earth some of these were so horrendous, though.
CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m stuck trying to figure out if it’s like creamy mushroom soup or they boiled the liquid out of the mushroom soup and made a mushroom soup flavoured hunk of…mushroom soup remains?
Like a thick chunky, overly strong flavoured, very american sounding hunk of processed flavours.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Is this what they are referring to when they say they want to “make America great again”?
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you want to watch a fabulously flamboyant gay man cook disgusting vintage recipes check out “Eye Spy Antiques” on YT.
A lot of fun.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I was assuming you were talking about B Dylan Hollis until you got to the name of the channel.
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Worth checking out?
SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy shit, thank you for pointing out this dudes channel, he is fucking hilarious. I was hoping someone would cook these shitty recipes and try them out.
POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Looked it up. That dude looks like he really enjoys making videos.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol you weren’t joking. This dude is cracking himself up.https://youtu.be/3eNDNCe4rRw
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Absolutely. I’m having fun watching because he is clearly having fun creating.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When all the flavor buds were covered by cigarette tar
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 year ago
I actually don’t think this would be bad. Growing up, my mom used to make tuna casserole and it was one of my favorite casseroles. Looking at the recipe, this is mostly the same, except you sub noodles for waffles. What’s one carb for another? I could do without the olives though…
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Expert troll, my friend. But you can’t fool me.
DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 year ago
Yeah, people do savory waffles all the time, it’s just waffles with a mushroom and tuna soup, kinda think it would taste good? Like a savory pastry maybe? Then again I’m also the kind of deviant who loves olives.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I actually don’t think this would be bad. Growing up, my mom used to make syrupy waffles and it was one of my favorite breakfasts. Looking at the recipe, this is mostly the same, except you sub waffles for noodles. What’s one carb for another? I could do without the strawberries though…
Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can buy puff pastry, ready to be filled, in stores. We used to do that a lot. Just blend all scraps and spices we could find around the kitchen, put them into the pastry, shape it and bake it in the oven. Totally delicious.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been watching “Sandwiches of History” on YT lately and I believe sometime in the 1980s people realized food could taste good
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
And they used to sit us down and scream at us until we ate every laat bit of it.
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
might be slightly better than some of the stuff they put in jell-o back then.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That recipe says for 4. So that’s actually not a lot of tuna per person.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I dunno. 1.75 oz of tuna on my waffle is far too much tuna on my waffle.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Recipe calls for four waffles. Image shows the concoction poured over two waffles.
Apparently two people will be eating off the same plate.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But that 7oz of 50s tuna was also like 20% dolphin by weight. It’s 5 ounces of tuna.
taanegl@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
This is why we need to build the wall…! From the south Atlantic to the north Atlantic. The yankie threat can not go unabated.
Also, this is fitting punishment for the Belgians. They - and the entire world - knows they they did.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Wait, what DID the Belgians do?
taanegl@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Ask Africans.
ximtor@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Doesn’t sound bad tbh…i like savory waffles. Don’t sugar the dough (no idea if thats a thing, just guessing) and you are good to go
Omnipitaph@reddthat.com 1 year ago
“This is what happens when you lobotomize half the women, and put the other half on qualudes”, my partner xD
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s worse…
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
What a terrible day to have good eyesight
socsa@piefed.social 1 year ago
I really hate that so many memories of my one grandmother were being traumatized by these jello atrocities.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’d be willing to try it
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It might be potato waffles
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s just the Great Value version of fried chicken and waffles.
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gross, olives.
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s honestly not that far from a tuna melt if you think about it.
anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can’t remember what the movie was, but there is a scene where someone eats a tuna melt at a diner. Shortly after they go to the toilet to throw up. I can’t eat tuna melt since that day.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not a recipe, that is bio-terrorism.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why? Why does every old weird recipe from the 1950s and 1960s include olives?
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
I would like to try it, depending on “mushroom soup” it might be great or disgusting, everything else is ok.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 year ago
🤢🤮
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So there’s a comfort-food staple at my house that’s distressingly close to this, but sounds even worse.
It’s 1 can cream of mushroom, one can cream of chicken, one can of peas, and one can of tuna heated in a skillet. That unholy mixture is then stacked on tops of layers of toast, and seasoned with lemon pepper.
It looks like the kind of food that would attack Calvin in the old comics, but my family loves it. I’m not sure how good it actually is, or if it’s just the comfort food from when we were really poor and that was a feast for us.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Yeah thanks, I think I don’t want any of that either but you do you
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
Cyberpunk 2077 has a name for food made by using other pre-packaged foods together to make something new, but I always forget the term for it. SCOP always pushes itself to the front of my mind, but that’s just the basis for a lot of the packaged food (Single Celled Organic Protiens to make synthetic meats and such).
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Slop, perhaps?
Breve@pawb.social 1 year ago
[deleted]MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Nah, chicken and waffles is pretty good actually. I mean, people also eat them with bacon and eggs. I just wouldn’t want anything fishy to come near my waffles, IDK why, but it just feels wrong.
VubDapple@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chicken of the sea and waffles?