Just One Thing

Share this post

πŸ‘€ What is the opposite of food porn?

www.justonething.in

Discover more from Just One Thing

A delightfully short email that rescues obscuraΒ from the wasteland of the Internet – your daily bit of quirky fun.
Continue reading
Sign in

πŸ‘€ What is the opposite of food porn?

#313 | They really liked Jell-o in the '70s

Pai
Sep 8, 2023
4
Share this post

πŸ‘€ What is the opposite of food porn?

www.justonething.in
1
Share

I might be dating myself here when I tell you I'm old enough to remember cookbooks my parents owned. You know, the ones with photo pages, showing off dishes plated to look "fancy", which in ye olde days meant that everything was arranged in concentric circles or cut into little animal shapes or something just as quirky. Over the years, food trends (thankfully) changed, and I'd all but forgotten about those pages and their accompanying recipes. Until I unearthed an ancient cookbook at a friend's with a little recipe titled "Orange Surprise".

The surprise was that the recipe contained no trace of the eponymous fruit. It's jello, guys. It's a jello salad with carrots, canned pineapple, and no orange whatsoever.

Thanks for reading Just One Thing! Subscribe to receive every post.

Today's Thing isn't Orange Surprise, but it's along the same lines. Welcome to the 70's Dinner Party Instagram account, one of my favourite weird insta pages ever. It's a curated selection of cookbook pages from the '70s and beyond, when all was aspic and decorative vegetables, including recipes, photo spreads and the occasional advertorial. The unifying factor is that they're all... really, REALLY weird and probably all inedible.Β 

Now if you're a young'un, you'd ask me - Oh Pai, how bad could it possibly be? Welp. Let me show you:

70sdinnerparty
A post shared by @70sdinnerparty
70sdinnerparty
A post shared by @70sdinnerparty

Remember those advertorial pages I mentioned?

70sdinnerparty
A post shared by @70sdinnerparty

Never cook any of this, please

Here's an aside about this particular Thing. Some friends and I got together last year for a 70's Dinner Party party. You know, to try things for science, so you don't have to. The menu was extensive, and at least three of the dishes contained some amount of jelly. And, of course, I brought Orange Surprise. It did surprise everyone on the day by being actually rather tasty.Β 

- Pai

Just One Thing is the perfect recommendation for anyone into Instagram. And food. Point us their way?

Share

4
Share this post

πŸ‘€ What is the opposite of food porn?

www.justonething.in
1
Share
Previous
Next
1 Comment
Share this discussion

πŸ‘€ What is the opposite of food porn?

www.justonething.in
Analina
Sep 8

Orange Surprise is deeply disturbing and fascinating in equal measure. Maybe that's what they were going for?

Expand full comment
Reply
Share
Top
New
Community

No posts

Ready for more?

Β© 2023 Just One Thing
Privacy βˆ™ Terms βˆ™ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing