Historic Photos from 'Life': Thanksgiving Fruit Relish
Photograph from LIFE Magazine Google archives
Earlier this week Google made the web a cooler place by adding historic photos from Life magazine to its image archive. We took a look around to check out how Thankgivings past looked.
Today, here's a photo of different types of fruit relish from 1959. LIFE featured these dishes as a substitute for cranberries, which were banned at the time because of contamination. The berries had been dusted with a weed-killer called aminotriazole, which caused cancer in rats. This scare came two weeks before the holiday, causing desperate housewives (the 1950s kind) to seek other options.
Lucky for the cranberry lovers out there, in 2008 our ruby-red side dish is safe to eat.
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2 Comments:
Taking the photo at face value, that would actually be a nifty idea. Serve ALL of those little dishes. It'll be a Thanksgiving twist on okazu...or Ethiopian.
Cassaendra at 7:27AM on 11/21/08
I was never much of a cranberry lover, too sour. I like all the little neat dishes. Also, I didn't know that Life pictures were now available on Google. I'll have to check it out. I can't tell what's in all those little dishes but it's intriguing!
jaywarner at 8:31AM on 11/21/08