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Here's your goddamned bread, 1960s
1977 red-headed fabulous lady, looks like Lobster Thermidor. Eat up, honey!
A week’s worth of groceries for For $12.50, 1947
Cake # 1 - talk about layer cake!
Ladies with Tupperware popsicle makers that I remember using as a kid, 1977
Steak chart from Merry Man Tavern in Akron, OH. My choice is rare to medium rare - please note that well done isn't an option.
1986 school lunch - you need TWO drinks?
Dinner at Casa Susana, a transvestite vacation home, NY, 1950s
Pear and Gooseberry pudding, 1973
Did you know Pepperidge Farms made Star Wars cookies? 1983
Love this outdoor double folding chair meat display, impressive decoration on the main slab, 1974
White Castle needs you to look yourself over, 1950s
Dave, make sure you touch the whole plate of meat, thanks, 1955
Camping breakfast while looking at the back of the cereal boxes, 1975
Waitress, 1977
Crab feast with hats and a Pastafarian. But why bleach on the table? 1960
McDonald's playground, horror tree, 1976 (photo by Bill Owens)
Cake # 2, Charlie's birthday, love the belly button
Doris eating in hospital after having her daughter. Check out the phone, the bed (wood frame in hospital!) and the sink, 1952
I could look up what a buckwheat groat is, but I prefer to remain ignorant, 1973
The pig roast, Kansas, 1982
1970s baby shower
1930s kitchen, colorized
The glorious Harvest Gold kitchen of 1975
Corn, 1900s
Cake # 3, the most crazed wedding cake of all time - eight cakes on top of a large sheet cake. The groom is not really featured. 1960s
Little lady ready for that turkey, 1940s
Black Bananas? How? Why? 1984
Giant Farmer Bob holding sausage and cheese at a Mobil Gas Station in Portage, WI, 1980s (he's still around today)
Naples, Italy, 1954 - wow, his shoes (photo by Sabine Weiss)
I call this the two-fisted gullet-stuffer.
Salvatore Scalco's wedding - he owned National Fruit Company, Wash, DC, 1921
Great spinning buffet table at Mendenhall Motel in Mendenhall, MS, 1950s
Preparing Irish Coffee in Dublin, Ireland, 1964
Pie-eating contest in Peacham, VT, 1950s - the pies are so tiny!
Blue birthday cake with bonus twins, 1958
Cake # 4 - No More Yellow
Jan nibbles away on the veggie platter, 1962
Big buffet, but why the indoor umbrella? 1950s
Singer Jaye P. Morgan (remember Match Game in the 70s? Anyone?) has lunch with friend. Love the sauerkraut and dill pickles on the table, NYC, 1954
What are they eating? Shrimp? Earl Carroll restaurant, Hollywood, CA, 1948
1970s United Airlines meal
Candied apples, 1945
The Coffee Mold, 1967
McDonald's, France, 1980. I see no Royale with Cheese here.
Atkins Diet, Day 1
There's food but that living room is akin to being punched in the face with the 1960s
1960s family BBQ while camping
No, I don't know why no burgers on Tuesday.
Jerry and his chest hair prep the green beans. Hope he throws out the ones in his ears, 1950
The Fish
Adapted kitchen/dining table for little people, Germany, 1928
1958, nice Thanksgiving spread, but look at the incredible salt and pepper shakers collection!
Holy Shit!
Starting with grapefruit, nice wallpaper, 1963
Cleaning the lingonberries, Sweden, 1970
Woman getting baked beans from Horn & Hardart Automat, NYC, 1955 (photo by Arthur Rothstein)
Food Show in Wash DC, Borden Creamery booth featuring Moon Girl Butter, 1922.
Cake # 6, Peanuts and Mickey Mouse
The butter, egg and cheese truck, NYC, 1943 - and Hitler's Children! (photo by John Vachon)
1973 prom or wedding
Having a smoke, a Coke and cooking in a cave, 1971
Watermelon kids, 1973
Junior BBQ master, 1972
Chuckie, Provincetown, MA, 1980 (photo by Joel Meyerowitz)
I kinda miss the milk cartons in elementary school - they would arrive early morning in a crate outside the door to the classroom and just sit there til lunchtime. I wanted that chocolate milk immediately.
Too much bologna, 1970s - the child also seems stunned.
The dilemma of a cake but no plates, 1978
1970 fish is ready to cook!
Thanksgiving, 1952
The waitress, 1950s
Mom and daughter make kebabs, 1962
Actress Simone Simon enjoys a succulent Chinese meal, 1930s
Great 70s fashion and Automat for snacks, Netherlands, 1971
Three Jell-O mold dishes at the Christmas party! Milwaukee, WI, 1951
The souffle - nice Amish facial hair, 1970s
Chili and Ritz Crackers! 1975
My kind of picnic - bread, wine, cheese, 1972
Stop lying about it being from scratch, Ruth!
Cake # 7 - World's Largest Birthday Cake, Seattle World's Fair, 1962
Officer Big Mac getting some love, McDonald's, 1970s
Just a cold corned beef lump, 1981
1976 family fondue dinner, Des Moines, IA
Cake # 8 - Jonathan's bar mitvah with bonus uninvited photo bombers, 1972
Oyster guy found actual string of pearls! 1955
Lobster feast, 1955
Kingaburger in Malibu, CA, 1964
Eye-catching ad campaign at the National Potato Chip Convention in Chicago
Banana Burt and his gal Lil at their Dairy Queen, love the floating bananas, Buzzards Bay, MA, 1950
A sausage tree on display during International Green Week exhibition, Berlin, Germany, 1976
Couple gets the flambé treatment at the Three Keys restaurant at Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, WA, 1970.
Super Giant Supermarket in Rockville, MD, 1964 (photo by John Dominis)
Wrigley Company and it's World's Largest Store Counter (one million sticks of gum!) New York World's Fair, 1939
Supermarket Institute Convention with Peter Pan and his peanut butter, 1973
I have no context here, just the heebie-jeebies
Candy making at Nut Tree Candy in Vacaville, CA, 1960s
Martha Raye's NBC TV show with the wonderful dancing Kellogg's cereal boxes, NYC, 1952
Early 80s dinner, sister is wearing a turtleneck, a polo shirt and a sweater. The son looks like the mean brother from the Get Out movie.
At the soda counter, drinking a ice cream soda and SPINNING A PLATE on a stick! This kid is amazing, 1959
Marie Merrington's cooking album, Gay Gourmet, 1950s
ILikeFood2000
#49, Whimpy from Popeye cartoons https://youtu.be/68eue5cpbsE?feature=shared
IAMSRC
#28 Recipe: https://vintagerecipecards.com/2022/02/09/baked-chicken-and-black-bananas/
AmyBethMegJo
It could work. Apples go well with chicken; I can see bananas working.
drduffer
#20 Groats:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groat_(grain)
Waitiing2Move
We keep a supply of groats along side our other cereal storage (wheat flour, cream of wheat, rye flour, almond flour, whole grains, etc.)
Appollon
That picture might not look appetizing, but buckwheat is amazing. With just salt and some butter, yum!
slidewhistlesymphony
Terrific historic food dump! Totally awesome! +1
Hemelsblauw
#20 buckwheat has no gluten. With buckwheat, you can make pancakes and porridge. It used to be a poor farmers meal in Europe.
NAbsentia
The little girl sticking her hand into the blender was a PSA about how you shouldn't let that happen. It terrified me, and that image still shows up in my dreams fifty years later.
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
#100 it's amazing that anyone had time to be gay preparing that much food
justplainvanilla
MisanthropicMath
#66 In my day, they had the milk cartons delivered daily in the milk crates, but they went to our kitchen… oh my god! You made me remember that in kindergarten they delivered to the class for snack time or something! Thank you for the memory jog!
Aintlurkingnomo
I love these but had me thinking that someday...people will be calling the pictures we take today..vintage. @.@
ps238principal
#2 The pattern on that guy's suit is intriguing. The circle things are horns, but I can't tell what the other part of the artwork is. A heart with crossed clarinets, maybe?
thekeyofe
Kinda looks like a shield with sheathed sabers crossed behind it.
Also kinda looks like an X-Wing.
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DanimalRC
X-Wing Blazers. Hell yeah.
TheGhostOfFutureDisappointments
Does anyone remember eating cereal at the breakfast table and reading the back of the box like it was a newspaper?
Melanie10482
We sold a house with a harvest gold kitchen that had red carpet in it!
AssDewlap
#29 Bob is still there!
iatezola
my observations: lobster roll, $3.25 (cries in 2024 Cape Cod); i wore turtlenecks with button down shirts and sweaters when i lived outside of Princeton, NJ for a year in the 80s, but no other time before or after.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
#74 - Childhood memory from Germany. We had a "Automatenrestaurant" opposite our local train station back then. 3 walls covered with those little doors all the way down to where a 6 year old could see into them on eye level.
Myowngrampa
I can't fully tell what I'm looking at
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
The four rows to the left and the four on the right are small compartments with a small locked glass door on the front. There are all kinds of snacks or even whole meals in them. The middle row has a key pad and slots for the coins in it. You chose your snack or meal, put the amount of money into the slots, dial the code on the key pad and you can open the door. Those restaurants had back areas from which the compartments could be filled.
Myowngrampa
Ahh thanks!
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
You're welcome.
Fortherea
This was very enjoyable, thank you! And see, people did take photos of their food before instagram!
Causeitsmadeofmeat
No meat Tuesday was a campaign to make rationed meat go farther during WWII
bobadrew
#33 Always heard this called a Lazy Susan.
Clymenus000
She's not lazy if she did all that! That's hard work!
cuddleskunk
#20 Buckwheat Groats are just whole buckwheat. Buckwheat is not actually a grain, and is gluten free. It's a pretty sweet pseudocereal and a bit on the soft side, so is relatively easy to overcook if you try prepping it like you would steel-cut oats or the like. It has a bit of a Graham flour-type flavor and is wonderful if seasoned like one might season ginger snaps. Here's some nutrition facts if you're interested: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/buckwheat#nutrients
Dinwiddie
Mixed half and half with wheat flour, buckwheat is great for pancakes too.
gumblemuntz
Groaty to the max!
DigYourselfBaby
I was raised in a Ukrainian family, and 'kasha' was roasted low & slow, packed as a filling in buns, or mixed with cooked rice for buckwheat holubchi. I love its earthy flavour and use it, roasted with dill & caramelized onions, as a frequent side dish. :)
KafkasKarma
#39 I don't think that's indoors.
VidaVita
As seen by the foliage on the walls.
Tenugui
Yep, looks like a open courtyard.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
GreenNinja22
TheEleventhHand
Somebody with 'shop skills I don't have needs to stick that into The Nun horror movie poster.
RadioactiveMuff
Looks like a moth
Myowngrampa
Not enough lamp
bekindtoanimals
Ken Copeland? Is that you?
BeaverOnFire
feyrismeow
Scary giant roach
zertmaster
$12.50 is about $175 today.
erikleorga
Yea, her food haul doesn't seem that great in today's money.
Gibleteousjack
A lot of our 'food' these days is cheap, processed garbage. Not to say you can't do something cheap and nutritious buying raw ingredients.
madsander
When camping , we had the little cereal boxes you could open and pour milk into it.
SweetJudyTenuta
DanimalRC
theoracleofdreams
#27 here's one of old man Chiqui (RIP) waiting for his portion of turkey
arfysdad
Somewhere there is a picture of my mom holding a martini with one hand, cigarette in the other, while 8 months pregnant with me. Oh, the fifties.
hetnkik999
#8 "Nobody was trans when I was a kid!"
DigYourselfBaby
I watched a really cool documentary about Casa Susanna. Very important place. :)
LokJok
LOL
SteveMND
#49 I'd imagine it has something to do with this: https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2019/11/15/meatless-tuesdays
TedNuggetKidSclock
I was thinking that it had something to do with Wimpy from Popeye. "I'll happily pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. "
HashMaster9k
That was a fascinating article! Thank you!
SteveMND
SJSHARPei
I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today.
SteveMND
"A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of the diner owned by Rough House into buying his meal for him. His best-known catchphrase started in 1931 as, "Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Tuesday." In March 1932, this then became the famous "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today". Rough House explains why Wimpy is able to get away with this tactic in one strip, stating that "He never comes around on Tuesday".
SJSHARPei
Does he not come around on Tuesdays because there are no burgers?
WaterUnderTheRocketAppliances
#3 multiple boxes of salt and an entire bag of sugar for just one week?
Clymenus000
Maybe not literally what she'd use for a week? Maybe she was out of or low on sugar and salt and was just stocking up? Last time I bought sugar, I bought a big bag like that.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
Maybe a hold-over from before fridges when people had to salt and sugar various household foodstuffs in order to survive the winter. And that Ralston wheat germ won't sugar itself.
mesogiria
Baking from scratch was a lot more common, too. That common, I dunno, but it was.
DidItForScience
6lbs of salt in a week? That's rookie numbers!
Cthulhudreams
$181.59 in today's money
dojustice
Maybe they're making pickles and ice cream
justuschickens
three loaves of bread and three dozen eggs??
Myowngrampa
I eat 4 eggs a day usually and that's just for 1 person. Or more normal 2 eggs each for a family of 5 is 10 a day. Doesn't seem crazy to me. And that's not including the baking and whatnot
rej787810
Yeah, kind of a lot, but people also actually made food from scratch back then.
DidItForScience
I make food from scratch and I doubt I could burn 6 pounds of salt in a week. You usually use a pinch!