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In the middle: egg salad, sliced tomato, ham salad. “Frosted” with whipped cream cheese. From Better Homes and Gardens cook book ca. 1968.

Serving slice with time-appropriate drinks:

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, except it was really mostly just the 50s-60s with a bit into the 70s before sanity was regained. Source: aspic, motherfuckers!

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Suprised there is no gelatin involved.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

So basically you thoroughly considered that aspic of the situation? ;-)

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 39 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, the 50's...

Credit to you for being adventureous. I wouldn't get near such a recipe.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When every kitchen concoction was quiet revenge for getting slapped around on a daily basis

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 37 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I totally thought this was a cake.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 13 points 3 days ago

The only thing bad about it is the presentation. Making it look like a cake and serving it in slices is playing games with people’s expectations of what sweet and savory are supposed to look like. We’d have no problem with these same ingredients served as finger sandwiches.

[–] BooBees@fedinsfw.app 9 points 3 days ago

The cake is a lie

[–] ttayh@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

They are called cold-cake in Brazil!

5 yr old me was very disappointed, disgusted, and may have thrown up when I found out it wasn't just some icy cake

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You thought this was a sandwich? TURNS OUT IT WAS CAKE. The waiter who brought it to you? ALSO CAKE. Your wife of fifteen years? Cake.

[–] VibeSurgeon@piefed.social 26 points 3 days ago

Looks a lot like the Swedish dish Smörgåstårta (Sandwich Cake), which is not uncommon to be served at parties.

It's really quite tasty! Also quite convenient for parties since you can buy a few in the deli section of well-stocked supermarkets.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 21 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Here we called that « pain sandwich », didn’t think it existed outside of Quebec

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

'Pain' in French or in English?

[–] BlackVenom@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Depends on time within the context of the specific body metabolizing it.

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow you guys are really preserving everything old.

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[–] Rothe@piefed.social 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It is a popular dish in Sweden as well. They call it smörgåstårta.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That word is similar to smorgasbord, which is a word I've heard occasionally, but probably never used, so I figured I'd look it up.

Its etymology from that Wikipedia link is very interesting. Apparently "smorgas" means sandwich, and it has a weird etymology for getting there (it apparently literally means "butter goose"), while "bord" means table. Which is all very strange, because smorgasbord now means something like "buffet", and has little to do specifically with sandwiches (or butter geese).

So, I'm guessing smörgåstårta would mean something like "sandwich tart"?

[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Close. Tårta means cake. So it translates to sandwichcake

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.

[–] cropsec@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Savory or sweet? Tomato aspic sounds 🤢

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do the one with olives and bits of tuna. Serve it with egg coffee.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

Egg coffee? Dear god.

[–] bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

My great grandma always made this dish that me and my cousins called "pink salad". It had both Jell-O and cottage cheese in it but I can't recall the other ingredients. The texture was so unsettling to us.

edit: I think it was this. I like the ingredients by themselves but can't handle them together. +retches+

[–] cropsec@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

grandma behavior…mine does it with lime (green) jello and pistachios

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

“””salad”””

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

At first I thought it might be some kind of mayo situation, but the cream cheese is somehow worse?

Honestly the cream cheese component is the only part that throws it off.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 3 days ago

Today's food crime brought to you by Better Homes & Gardens

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 12 points 3 days ago

Was it the leaded gasoline that led to these crimes against humanity in culinary form to be invented, or what?

[–] Outokolina@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

It's never a proper party without voileipäkakku. Might have to make one and celebrate something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%B6rg%C3%A5st%C3%A5rta?wprov=sfla1

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Gonna need a Quaalude with that

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did you like it? Sounds good.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago

Once I got over the idea that the “frosting” is savory and not cake frosting, it was pretty good. I mean, the ingredients involved are all tasty. It’s one of those strange novelty dishes from back in the day when people wanted to impress “company”.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sandwich, but hard to eat?

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Definitely a fork-and-knife situation.

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[–] Bismyth@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

God that looks good.
I'm a sucker for shitty food porn

[–] Kojichan@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ugh... looks like the traditional Quebecois (family Christmas) "sandwich". Egg salad, ham salad, and chicken salad layers between horizontally sliced bread loaf... "frosted" with CheezeWiz.

Yours looks pretty good, though.

I respect you making a classic. I also hate it

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

In 1968, there was cocaine and heroin in everything, domestic abuse was the norm, and man does it show in the stuff women would feed their husbands

[–] crazycraw@crazypeople.online 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

didnt Rachel green make this dish because the recipe pages stuck together?

lady fingers and beef. mmmm

[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago

Cream cheese? Good! Ham? Good! Egg salad? Good!

[–] Edges@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Pretty damn good. The “frosting” kind of wigged me out a bit, but that’s a mental thing. It tasted just fine, since it’s cream cheese.

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