Most of that looks like it already passed through a person once.
1987
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hOrni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
At least once…
…the brown slop on the left could easily be a two’fer!
shortrounddev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to think I hated vegetables as a kid. Turns out I hated my parents “cooking”
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My mom used to make liver every Thursday. She now denies that ever happened, which is hilarious.
Acters@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What’s even more silly about this is that you never bothered to cook it yourself to experience better cooked food and the reason is? Idk for me it was because I am lame and too shy to ask to change the established way of life. On the other hand I have adjusted to eat food of all sorts even though it is displeasing. Except foods that have capsaicin or or peppers, I’m allergic to them.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
because fresh vegetables are expensive and have short shelf lives
howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
You would first have to believe that better tasting vegetables was a possibility before you start looking for it.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Things were much different before the internet. “Food porn” wasn’t really a thing (unless maybe you sought it out in cookbooks, and even then…). Hell, Food Network didn’t exist until the mid-90s, and back then it was a third-rate cable channel that nobody watched.
If you’re a child in that world, how would you even know that vegetables could be good?
gmtom@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of British food.
CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not even comparable😂 Americans look back at this and laugh or cringe, Brits still eat their old-timey slop
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
1987 was nearly 40 years ago
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Botzo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I also feel seen in a really weird way. That Corelle, the gray hot dish, the lump of salad. Except the french cut beans. Mom never sprang for that. Dad did sometimes though.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 months ago
I don’t know what that grey lump actually consists of, but for some reason I think it probably tastes really good. I have no basis for this belief, but I would try that. I’d probably take a too-large helping and regret it shortly thereafter.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dogfood on the right, catfood on the left, goat chow in the middle
garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Idk what rice hot dish is but it looks just like my vomit from last week.
Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s actually really good although the stuff in the picture looks like it wasn’t made very well.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can get wild rice soup from places like Panera, it’s really good! The hotdish version is thicker/baked. The stuff in the photo basically looks like the wild rice, carrots, and just a cream of potato base, probably not much flavor to it.
thebigslime@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s casserole.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
You know that jello salad slaps though. You can just tell.
Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“French cut” green beans make me irrationally angry.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They have a uniquely terrible taste, but I don’t understand how just the way they’re cut could produce that taste. I think maybe they’re also soaked in lye or something.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m guessing it’s more dependent on the brands you’re buying, but there shouldn’t be that significant of a flavor change. Also most cans have a liner inside them to protect the contents from chemically affecting the contents. I just checked a few sources for various products, and all of them were simply the beans in a water solution.
Some did include salt, which may be having a minor effect. The French cut, julienne, provides a higher surface area / volume ratio. This means the beans will “marinate” in the solution more effectively than larger cut beans. As in, the salt and water have better access to the inner parts of the beam, leaving them more tender and “marinated.”
I’m using that weird very loosely because I honestly can’t remember the right word.
Uranus_Hz@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s not the taste so much as the texture. The difference in a green bean casserole made with French cut green beans and whole, cut, green beans is night and day. And by that I mean only one is worth eating. The other is just mush.
SippyCup@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Please, explain
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The anger is irrational and thus cannot be rationally explained.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This got re-posted to !minnesota@midwest.social, where we actually know what a hotdish is.
(It’s a casserole. /s)
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A? Hotdish?!? Get him!
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yes, that is what home made food looks like sometimes.
You’re not in a restaurant, the “cook” isn’t payed, and presentation is not high on the priorities list if you also have to do dishes, wash clothes, and organize life for the family, possibly in addition to a job.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Right? And let’s be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
Bruh I cook at home all the time and it never just looks like baby shit.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My mom used to make me add a can of mixed vegetables to my instant ramen until we agreed that I could eat them separately. So I would quickly force down the bland, mushy veggies then enjoy my ramen in its pure form.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I was alive in 1987 and I was never served anything resembling this. What in hell is that?
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Alive in 1987… but in Minnesota or the greater midwest, USA? Alive doesn’t cut it. Did you even live life if you didn’t eat this?
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I risk I lived a better life by not having eaten it.
Again, what is that?
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How got-dang popular were those plates? Had me hundreds of (probably lead-tainted) dinners on those bad boys.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My folks still have those dishes. It’s their daily driver.
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Got-dang? Is that supposed to be a stand-in for goddamn?
owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More of a bastardization of it. Not something I use often, it just carries a certain tone and energy with it.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Calling dinner supper is super Minnesotan, too.
bigb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wait until you have family that say that daily meals are chronologically “breakfast, dinner, and supper.”
Draegur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS LUNCH @_@
Are you telling me they call lunch “dinner”?!
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What do they call brunch, brinner?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Wait, no one else calls it that?
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Others do, it’s a Midwestern thing.
DeepSeaHexapus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where I’m from, it’s interchangeable.
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s kind of Bostonian too, but then it’s pronounced “suppah”.
justastranger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Supper is eaten from 4-6 while dinner is eaten from 5-7 in my experience. Dinner is usually a heavier meal than supper, as well.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
So how many times was this eaten before?
astutemural@midwest.social 2 months ago
Actually that wild rice dish looks fine. Mirepoix, wild rice, cream of mushroom… bit of seasoning and it’s a nice hearty dish in the winter.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Meals like this are exactly why I don’t ever use condensed soup in anything I make. I’ve had a lot of meals like that growing up. My family, my grandparents, my friends families… My wife still will make stuff like this sometimes. It’s all just lazy mush to me. I can’t stand it. Even my mother-in-law, who makes her own soup stock and makes bread and has her own chickens will make condensed soup and canned green bean mush. I just do not understand.
smayonak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Food conglomerates had tried to sell a more efficient vision of the kitchen to working mothers:
Less food prep time meant more time for family and career. But it also meant more sales of processed food and the extinction of the skills required to prepare food.
The children of the seventies and eighties were among the first to experience this change toward preprepared foods.
M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 months ago
TEETH ARE OPTIONAL IN THIS HOUSE
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How the fuck is thay Jello
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh man… my mom called it “rice stuff.” It tasted like it looked.
WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know its meant to represent 1987 but why canned?
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Did she eat the ‘food’ herself before putting it on this plate?
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Boomers across the country still have china hutches FULL of these plates. With probably more plates in storage.
generic_computers@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I have those exact plates…
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
fun fact, that plate has lead in it.
encrust9870@lemmy.world 2 months ago
XRF showing lead (Pb) from the pattern.
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Damn is this your picture? Did my comment cause you to go and test for yourself? Cuz thats amazing if you did lol
Machinist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is not a cheap toy. I’ve heard of them, never seen one. What is it and how much was it?
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m pretty sure that’s Corelle. Do they still do this today? Because all of our dishware are fucking Corelle
frunch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably ran out of their stock of lead around that time
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Not sure, regulations probably? Too worn out from existing today to Check
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have corelle (or corealle?) but mine are all white and don’t have the decorative print. Does that mean mine are safe from lead?
Vorticity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What part of the plate has lead? The plate itself or the paint?
Darorad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The paint in the pattern
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I still own a few of those plates… 😶
Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 months ago
i do too, they aren’t used anymore though.
pipe01@programming.dev 2 months ago
That’s not very fun
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It sure will be when the lead-induced delirium kicks in.
TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh no, I ate off plates like this as a kid. That explains a lot.
weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’re fine. The lead is bound in inert glass and only in the design. You would have had to chip off the design and eat it to have any problems.
bss03@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I think we still have one of those plates in the cabinet. It’s not in normal rotation, tho.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can play poker with the symbols on the outside.