FROM AMERICA'S TEST LABS

From an advertisement in a ladies magazine circa mid-fifties: "Blend one can of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup with ⅓ cup milk, 1 cup drained flaked tuna (7-oz can), and ¼ cup sliced stuffed olives. Heat thoroughly. Pour over four crisp waffles. Presto, a quick and easy dinner for 4." Presumably they meant garlic and blue cheese stuffed olives.
And instead of crisp waffles, a slab of toasty garlic bread.
Garnish with sliced green Jalapeños.
And chopped cilantro.

On second thought, I don't know what they were thinking.
The recipe is baffling in the extreme.

Keep the garlic bread, Jalapeños, and stuffed olives. Have some wine while you think. Open that jar of South Indian lime pickle, and consider ordering from the Chinese place nearby.

And while you nibble, you read.
The Betty Crocker Cookbook.


Back in the fifties, canned tuna was America's answer to Spam™. Instead of wartime canned meat, canned fish! A miracle food that suburban moms used for everything; sandwich filling, salad ingredient, cat food, and spackle on the dented walls in their suburban tract houses underneath the primer. Went with the pink, pale green, yellow, and blue paint scheme.

Everything good came out of a can in those days.



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