[Photograph: Sage Trifle] Last week we asked you to travel back in time to recreate some of your favorite dated recipes. This challenge was a scary one and not everyone was ready to break out those cream of mushroom soup cans and pineapple slices. Some of you shared fond (and not so fond) childhood food memories and some brave souls broke out those yellowing cookbooks to cook up some classics from times gone by. Here are some of our dustiest favorites: Jilly's mom made a dish that she considered to be the height of elegance, it consisted of a round roast of beef coated in a can of cream of mushroom soup, some HP Sauce, and an entire packet...
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Photograph from Be the HBIC on Flickr Browsing through the Vintage Meat pool on Flickr is an adventure. An adventure of questionable food styling, uncommon recipes, charming illustrations, and whatever's going on in this photo. [via The Retro Blog] Related Share the Meat! Propaganda Posters Sausage Art in Russia Photo of the Day: Meatscapes...
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Schlitz, with Sunshine Vitamin D, gives you the sunny source of health you need the whole year round. Beer is good for you—but Schlitz, with Sunshine Vitamin D, is extra good for you. Now that's good marketing, not like today's ads that try to sell us sex and youthful energy. If only I had grown up in the 1930s—then I totally could have gotten my vitamin D from Schlitz Beer. [via copyranter]...
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This vintage sexist coffee commercial for Folger's instant coffee ... I don't know what to say. I can't believe they ever made ad spots like this. After the jump, the patriarchal percolations....
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I can't place my finger on it, but there's just something I really love about this illustration of a dream kitchen circa 1944. LR Monkeytoes found it pasted into one of her mother's scrapbooks from back in the day: "She not only cut out these types of photos but also ones of fresh fruit, a glass of orange juice and other foods not readily available in rural Canada in the 30's! "...
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My friend Andrew found this beautiful bus stop ad in Chicago recently. Designed just like a World War II-era poster, of a caped nurse cradling a corn dog in the crook of her arm like a baby and feeding it from a mustard bottle, it urges you to visit Springfield's own Cozy Dog Drive In, the birthplace of the corn dog. It's part of a series of vintage-styled advertisements from the Illinois Bureau of Tourism for their Offbeat Illinois campaign, meant to highlight quirky attractions around the state. I love the corn dog poster best and am planning to get one for my wall, but you can buy any of the other advertisements (the Butter Cow and World's Largest...
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