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19th Apr '14 11:26:43 PM WillBGood

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9th Apr '14 12:45:38 AM FreezairForALimitedTime

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* [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com The Mid-Century Menu]] is a website that tests recipes from the 1930's to the 1960's, and many, ''many'' of them dip into this trope. Recipes from the Depression (where utilizing every scrap of food was important) and recipes from the advent of home refrigeration (when non-dessert gelatin was in vogue) tend to be some of the worst offenders. Some of the most notable include:
** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2011/07/tuna-pizza-tuna-contest-finalist-2/ Tuna "Pizza"]], made from biscuit dough, canned tuna, Parmesan cheese... and ''condensed milk and ketchup.'' It's exactly as horrible as it sounds. 
** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/06/chicken-mousse-aka-chicken-ice-cream-glistening-and-jiggly-finalist-4/ Chicken Mousse,]] which is essentially roast chicken-flavored ''ice cream'' with the added bonus of being made with gelatin as well. It's not a bad selection of seasonings for roast chicken, but ''not'' something to be served up whipped and chilled. 
** [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2012/02/liver-pate-en-masque-a-retro-gelatin-dare/ Live Pate en Masque,]] which is essentially a liver and green bean ''Jell-O mold'' covered in ''buttermilk.'' It came from a diet cookbook, presumably put there with the mindset that the more revolting you make the food, the less of it you'll want to eat.
** And for sheer volume of incomprehensible ingredient combinations, there's the [[http://www.midcenturymenu.com/2011/09/the-yule-sandwich-loga-mid-century-recipe-test/ Yule Sandwich Log.]] It includes such mouthwatering ideas for sandwich filling as ''cheese, lemon, and shrimp'' and ''pickles and peanut butter.'' Combined with this are more "normal" ideas such as eggs 'n' bacon and pineapple-avocado filling... but then it's all piled on the '''same sandwich''' and covered with cranberry-flavored cream cheese. [[spoiler: It turns out to be bizarrely edible, but so repulsive on a conceptual level it's hard to get past.]]

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2nd Apr '14 3:34:18 PM CaptainCrawdad

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Not a competition

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* The Japanese ''IronChef'' had a turkey battle. Offerings included turkey sashimi, which is this to American audience since it's not common to find any kind of poultry served uncooked, due to the risk of salmonella poisoning. On the other hand, poultry sashimi is permissible in Japan if the birds meet the inspectors' standards; some breeds (such as the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresse_(chicken) poulet de Bresse]]'' and its North American derivative, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Foot_chicken Blue Foot]]) are certified salmonella-free and prized in Japan for sashimi purposes (partly because of the salmonella thing, partly because the chicken is actually just that good). In the U.S., food handlers are required to serve poultry fully cooked, and not to allow the utensils used to cook it to come into contact with other food.
** Far more memorable: tuna sorbet. For the rest of the series, [[SchmuckBait whenever a chef headed for the ice cream maker]], the commentators would recall it, exclaiming "ice cream machine!" in mock horror.

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* The Japanese ''IronChef'' 
** The a turkey battle. Offerings included turkey sashimi, which is this to American audience since it's not common to find any kind of poultry served uncooked, due to the risk of salmonella poisoning. On the other hand, poultry sashimi is permissible in Japan if the birds meet the inspectors' standards; some breeds (such as the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bresse_(chicken) poulet de Bresse]]'' and its North American derivative, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Foot_chicken Blue Foot]]) are certified salmonella-free and prized in Japan for sashimi purposes (partly because of the salmonella thing, partly because the chicken is actually just that good). In the U.S., food handlers are required to serve poultry fully cooked, and not to allow the utensils used to cook it to come into contact with other food.
** Tuna sorbet. For the rest of the series, [[SchmuckBait whenever a chef headed for the ice cream maker]], the commentators would recall it, exclaiming "ice cream machine!" in mock horror.

2nd Apr '14 3:30:47 PM Flinto

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28th Mar '14 5:45:38 AM maedar

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18th Mar '14 10:13:04 PM Shadoboy

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