I’m researching the food of the 1950s for a new book project and it’s so much fun because of the idiotic foods the manufacturers, newspapers, and magazines were pushing on a gullible American public. From the book Gastroanomalies by James Lilek, here are some examples.To buy a copy of Gastroanomalies, go here.
Nothing’s better than a dead fish head on your plate!
Yes, believe it or not, people ate Sardine Pies!
This is some sort of aspic. It went extinct in 1962