30-D, three letters
Chicken à la King in a 1957 ad.
Moon-like
Paying a little more attention to the moon made me think about the moon-like flavor of the supper in a Ritz ad that I clipped some time ago.
All ice cream, all the time
A 1925 advertisement touting Hydrox Ice Cream as a food you can live on.
The infra-red sandwich
A Life ad, 1956.
“Individual meat loaves”
The marmalade cuts the taste of the Prem. The cauliflower and buttered almonds cut the taste of the Prem and marmalade. The french fried onion rings cut the taste of the cauliflower and buttered almonds.
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A winning sandwich name.
Name that sandwich
French toast, currant jelly, chopped nuts, and PREM, pan-fried or broiled.
Sunshine Hydrox
Hydrox was made by Sunshine Bakers, delivering “light inside the body” with every delicious bite.
Lunch
File between Breakfast and Dinner, also made with Pepperidge Farm White Bread. A 1966 ad.
”Which dinner isn’t a Swanson?”
It’s 1966.
A Brooklyn bar menu
Sublimated oyster?
The Oysterette man
“When the N. B. C. let me go,” he told me, “I didn’t know what to think. I thought I had a job for life. But what are you gonna do?”
Big fish, little fish
A 1977 advertisement for sardines.
Some like it hot
One poem, two faucets (hot and cold), three “everyday Americans” (as we are now known), three smartly dressed sophisticates, five recipes. An old liverwurst ad.
“Sardines in instant cans”
What will they think of next?
Sardine moose
Field & Stream sardine ad.
The frightening truth that they don’t want you to know about sardines
Yes, sardines are addictive.
Satan’s seafood
Underwood sardines.
Shaw’s Southern Belle Crab Cakes
It was the only item of its kind in the freezer case. Do you see what’s wrong?
Store-brand cereals and their mascots
My friend Sara meditates on store-brand cereals and their mascots.
An afterthought
If I were Boing Boing, the title of the previous post might’ve read like so: Hardee’s commercial likens young women, virgins to breakfast meat.
Hardee’s pigmeat commercial
The song is not about bacon.
"THIS IS FUN"
1940s ad for mystery fun-producing food
Coming soon: fun
A 1940s ad for a food that means fun. Can you guess what it is?
Little sponges
From the back of the Cheerios box