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 green 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.

Why? Why does every old weird recipe from the 1950s and 1960s include olives?

"This is what happens when you lobotomize half the women, and put the other half on qualudes", my partner xD

It's just the Great Value version of fried chicken and waffles.

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).

That's not a recipe, that is bio-terrorism.

When all the flavor buds were covered by cigarette tar

I've been watching "Sandwiches of History" on YT lately and I believe sometime in the 1980s people realized food could taste good

There's worse....

https://vintage.recipes/Ring-Around-the-Tuna/

And they used to sit us down and scream at us until we ate every last bit of it.

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.

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

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.