70's Food recipes and shit food pictures general. - How I learned to stop worriying and learned to fast

[Helvítis Túristi]

I don't have a vintage picture of the food, but there's this Swedish dish I'm aware of from the 70's called fläskfilé med banan. It's some sort of chicken and banana casserole. I never tried it since it sounded vile.

Edit: Ok, I found another similar dish called flygande jakob. Same thing only with chili sauce of some sort.

 

[Solid Snek]

I like those joke meals that are made to look disgusting.

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I'm not a fan of garbage plates and the tortillas look pretty gross, but the egg and (beef? pork?) might be good, and I think that Mustard and M&Ms sandwich could potentially be awesome.

I can't find any 1970s photos of it, but my favorite (?) shit food may be jellied eels.

Imagine cold boogers served to you by an English person.

 

[XYZpdq]

I don't have a vintage picture of the food, but there's this Swedish dish I'm aware of from the 70's called fläskfilé med banan. It's some sort of chicken and banana casserole. I never tried it since it sounded vile.

Edit: Ok, I found another similar dish called flygande jakob. Same thing only with chili sauce of some sort.

I can theoretically see how the sweet and spicy might work well despite the initial concerns about banana.

 

[Lame Entropy]

I don't have a vintage picture of the food, but there's this Swedish dish I'm aware of from the 70's called fläskfilé med banan. It's some sort of chicken and banana casserole. I never tried it since it sounded vile.

Edit: Ok, I found another similar dish called flygande jakob. Same thing only with chili sauce of some sort.

I've had fried chicken (Pollo Chuco) with a side of fried plantains at a Honduran restaurant before (really good btw) but chicken and banana in a casserole....nah.

 

[Solid Snek]

I don't have a vintage picture of the food, but there's this Swedish dish I'm aware of from the 70's called fläskfilé med banan. It's some sort of chicken and banana casserole. I never tried it since it sounded vile.

Edit: Ok, I found another similar dish called flygande jakob. Same thing only with chili sauce of some sort.

I can theoretically see how the sweet and spicy might work well despite the initial concerns about banana.

I've had fried chicken (Pollo Chuco) with a side of fried plantains at a Honduran restaurant before (really good btw) but chicken and banana in a casserole....nah.

I'd try that, no hesitation. I can't guarantee it'd be good, but as Lame Entropy points out, it looks similar to dishes you find in the Caribbean. Granted, most Caribbean dishes I'm familiar with use plantains or green banana instead of what I suspect to be yellow banana (starchy and bitter rather than sweet), but I've had caramelized plantains with chicken before, and that's pretty bangin'. I'm also a big fan of cream curries, and the peanuts they added to the plate on the bottom are clearly going to taste just fine (who doesn't like "the Elvis"?)

I poked around a little, and found this article about the dish (article says that flaskfile is a pork casserole, Flying Jakob is the chicken version; dunno if that's accurate). Looks legit, and while I am distrustful of the 1970s and Swedish food in general, this may be one of the few things the 70s got right.

 

[Steely Dan]

The 1970s is one of the most fascinating periods of time in culture to me; and for all the wrong reasons. People call today clownworld and I'd imagine a lot of people felt the same back then. OPEC and the oil crisis, recovering from the hangover of Vietnam, Nixon being a crook while simultaneously trying to create détente with the Soviet Union. It must have seemed like the world was going mad, and I think this bled into every aspect of culture from films, music, and even food. (Or at least how food was marketed in magazines because of the massive postwar surplus of things like gelatin and canned goods, along with the rise and ease of refrigeration)

 

[Syaoran Li]

Even lunch was sleazy back in the 70's!

 

[Mnutu]

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some conspiracy or money laundering scheme surrounding 70’s cookbooks and culinary arts. No fucking way anyone looked at any of this and thought “that’s appetizing”. Like it has to be the Mafia throwing whoever the fuck out in the public to churn out shit so they can wash dirty cash.

 

[FatalTater]

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some conspiracy or money laundering scheme surrounding 70’s cookbooks and culinary arts. No fucking way anyone looked at any of this and thought “that’s appetizing”. Like it has to be the Mafia throwing whoever the fuck out in the public to churn out shit so they can wash dirty cash.

A lot of recipes are based around selling a product.
When were recipes for aspic and other gelatin abominations showing up everywhere? It was when gelatin became easy to obtain and companies wanted to sell more of it.
Icky mayo-based recipes? If it says "use Miracle Whip brand spread" in the ingredients then it's more of an advertisement than a recipe.

 

[talk sh1t]

A lot of recipes are based around selling a product.
When were recipes for aspic and other gelatin abominations showing up everywhere? It was when gelatin became easy to obtain and companies wanted to sell more of it.
Icky mayo-based recipes? If it says "use Miracle Whip brand spread" in the ingredients then it's more of an advertisement than a recipe.

To this day most American recipes I find always mention some kind of product as ingredient at some point (sometimes it's even spelled lower-case, as if it was just another raw ingredient), it's bizarre.

 

[Piggy Pot Pie]

This looks delicious and I want to make it so badly!

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

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This looks delicious and I want to make it so badly!

Not going to lie, that looks good.

Here's another Swedish 70's abomination. Smörgåstårta.

It's straight up sandwich ingredients made into cake form. Instead of icing, you have sour cream/cream cheese. I've had it once, but it's honestly better in my opinion to just make separate sandwiches for everyone than make this.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Not going to lie, that looks good.

Here's another Swedish 70's abomination. Smörgåstårta.

It's straight up sandwich ingredients made into cake form. Instead of icing, you have sour cream/cream cheese. I've had it once, but it's honestly better in my opinion to just make separate sandwiches for everyone than make this.

We need to convince hipsters to make this a thing and jerk themselves off over making more ridiculous sandwich cakes

 

[Radiant Orchit]

Magnificent.

70s food is what happens when you've grown up under rationing, there's still piss all available in the shops, the economy is tanked, but you're feeling ~ * aspirational * ~ and a few cheese squares on cocktail sticks feels the height of sophistication for those few hours before the power goes out in the evening.

I was reading about weird Nordic banana recipes recently in a cookbook. Never caught on here but my culture has an unfortunate preoccupation with pineapple (on pizza, on gammon).

 

[A Gay Retard]

Not going to lie, that looks good.

Here's another Swedish 70's abomination. Smörgåstårta.

It's straight up sandwich ingredients made into cake form. Instead of icing, you have sour cream/cream cheese. I've had it once, but it's honestly better in my opinion to just make separate sandwiches for everyone than make this.

 

[Dysnomia]

I don't have a vintage picture of the food, but there's this Swedish dish I'm aware of from the 70's called fläskfilé med banan. It's some sort of chicken and banana casserole. I never tried it since it sounded vile.

Edit: Ok, I found another similar dish called flygande jakob. Same thing only with chili sauce of some sort.

Why do all these weird banana recipes call for bananas instead of plantains? I mean it would still be a waste of plantains because the recipes are vile. But it would make more sense.

 

[Helvítis Túristi]

Why do all these weird banana recipes call for bananas instead of plantains? I mean it would still be a waste of plantains because the recipes are vile. But it would make more sense.

I think bananas were more popular and plantains were not shipped to Sweden until the last decade or so. Also, Nordic countries use fruit in savory dishes. Although, the fruit is usually very tart and is treated like cranberry sauce here in the states.