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:
I totally thought this was a cake.
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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.
Here we called that « pain sandwich », didn’t think it existed outside of Quebec
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Oh, the 50's...
Credit to you for being adventureous. I wouldn't get near such a recipe.
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do jello salads next!
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Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.
Was it the leaded gasoline that led to these crimes against humanity in culinary form to be invented, or what?
Did you like it? Sounds good.
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Gonna need a Quaalude with that
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God that looks good.
I'm a sucker for shitty food porn
Sandwich, but hard to eat?
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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.
I don't want it.
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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
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
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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.
You gotta say how it was!
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didnt Rachel green make this dish because the recipe pages stuck together?
lady fingers and beef. mmmm
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you know a dish is good when it has loaf in its name.
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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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Fuck yeah I'd eat that!
I really dislike the combination of egg salad and tomato. Ham and egg, awesome. Ham and tomato, awesome. Tomato and egg, do not want.
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I respect you making a classic. I also hate it
Would never make it myself, but it just seems like an over-the-top egg salad and tomato sandwich with ham thrown in, which doesn't sound bad. Not sure how the "frosting" factors into the texture here, but if that goes over well i can see it being palatable
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Omg with the Lambrusco! Brings back the 1970s and Sunday dinners. The PBR can take a hike though.
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Do people actually eat this stuff?
The people who wrote that recipe are currently in office.
As a Slav who enjoys Herrring in a Fur Coat, I am delighted to see an American "equivalent"! 😁
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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I vomited from this image. TIHI
1960s American food was the pinacle of pretending that the nutrition facts label is the only thing one needs to have nutrition.
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The egg layer reminded me of this;
https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/rasmalai-recipe-easy-rasmalai-in-10-mins-diwali-recipes/
Mixed the yellow liquid with cream and put the pieces of the white ?cake? in it. Then used that mixture between a normal vanilla cake.
It was probably the best cake cream layer I've had.
Doesn’t look too bad actually. Put some heat in it with some Hungarian Paprika or chopped up Italian pepper mix and I’d be all over that.
I would eat it.
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