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How’s that for a blog title? I love old ads and the stories they tell. Sometimes the stories are a little different than what the ad creators intended though…
Here’s an ad for some sort of Spam type meat. The meat wouldn’t look so bad if it weren’t for the blood being poured on it with a torture device.
This is another ad that proudly proclaims MEAT. The beginning paragraph says:
New Meat Development For American Fighters — Grilled Hamburgers In A Can — precooked, prebrowned, then sealed in a vacuum to hold that right-out-of-the-skillet taste.
That sounds…good. In a preprocessed mystery meat sort of way. I mean you can’t go wrong with hamburger patties out of a can right? The picture proves it.
She’s trying to see the ham she really is…
Heh.
That’s right Bitches, I go meat shopping in my expensive pearls and fancy white gloves.
The secret ingredient is bloood.
Usually when kids want a treat on toast all they get is some sort of boring jam. Why not change things up and use ground guts instead? Look at how happy she is…
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They still make Open Pit bbq sauce…did you notice that hot dog was wrapped in bacon? Yum.
I collect old cookbooks, and especially like the ones printed by food manufacturers that deature their products, they’re full of pics like these!
That hot dog was a heart attack waiting to happen :D. You should scan your old cookbooks in and start a blog! I would read it for sure.
Why did I keep reading, “Bottomless Pit BBQ Sauce”? In the pit, no one will hear your screams!!!!
Um.. what exactly is that white stuff on the hot dogs?
Onions or sauerkraut maybe?
My mom made dishes with giant wedges of cabbage like the ones with the sausages. Took me 25 years to try cabbage again.
Krudler,
It’s the ‘secret sauce’ lol.
I think I’ll go have some guts on bread right now. “Ground Guts” the other meat product.
Mark,
Yeah that kid looks like she would love a heaping serving of ground guts on bread. Creepy as hell.
I also collect old cookbooks! So much entertainment! When I discovered other people share my enthusiasm for revolting food I was so excited. For more awesome-ality see: http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
That little girl looks excited to get that meat spread in her mouth because she is a zombie, obviously. I would not want the job of washing that knife either, after it sat out for a bit and the meat spread got all dried out and caked on…it wouldn’t smell good.
Juicy,
You and Bhigh should start an old cookbook blog.
I went to that link you posted, oh my gosh so much twisted food awesomeness lol. My favs so far are:
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/brunches/7.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/meat/8.html
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/10PM/2.html
…that last one…wtf??
I love that you love that website. I like bonding with people over processed meats :)
Juicy! I am loving that link you posted (www.lileks.com)!! They even have a little radio feature that plays music from the era to get you in the mood (http://www.lileks.com/institute/index.html, right side halfway down). Thank you! The 10PM Cookery was great, but when I hit page two of “The Unbearable Sadness of Vegetable”, I laughed until I cried and wanted to share it with everyone I’ve ever met.
Plural. “The Unbearable Sadness of Vegetables.” We *are* spoiled with the editing function.
So awesome, right? I’m always glad to share that link…you’d be amazed at how many people simply don’t care about disgusting food! Who needs people who don’t like gross food?!
Meh! Pearls, whatev. She’s still no June Cleaver. She would’ve been sporting a much nicer hat.
Lol it is interesting the lady in the ad decided to go with a more modest hat after the flashy pearls and gloves thing.
There’s very little I like more than freaky food ads from the forties and fifties. It’s also a wonderful Jeopardy category. I, too, collect old creepy cookbooks that have the giant photos of aspic (my favorite!) and other “nutritious” foods that made America what it is today. Good Housekeeping ones are especially good. I also collect fake food and body parts. Yeah, I watch Hoarders for a reason.
Lee,
You act like there something wrong with eating chicken soup like it’s Jello…
http://www.quellicheilgiovedi.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Aspic-di-carne-blog.jpg
I love any kind of ads from the 50′s era, they seem to have come from a stylish yet utterly ridiculous dimension that is so fascinating:
That last little blonde girl scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Even to another kid she looked positively demonic!
Our school lunches were Krations, Krap in a can from military surplus. Talk about mystery meat! I wonder how old they were, since that was the late 50′s. Luckily my mom knew about it and I took my lunch to school.
Cold Justice,
Whoa never heard that they gave k-rations to school kids before, did they have the little packs of cigarettes in them too? Also extra points if you seen someone get a can of the alleged hamburger patties mentioned earlier.
Hell yea that little girl is demonic, she’s not only having ground guts for lunch to the right you can see that she’s washing it down with a glass of fresh blooood lol.
http://thephantomdarkroom.blogspot.com/2009/05/unintentionally-disturbing-cellophane.html
I only just noticed the bread, so I googled the name. Look who the contact is?
STEVE!!!!
Krudler,
Lol that ad is filled with endless hours of entertainment.
Pea soup anyone?
I love how they’re pouring the alleged pea soup out of a coffee carafe.
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