Weird Foods People Ate During The Great Depression

[@katem2411]

Tomato sandwiches are delicious - especially when they're in season. The peanut butter stuffed onions are good - the onions caramelized and got sweet and the peanut better melted along the sweet onions. There were and are a lot of worse things.

[@lindawright7092]

Hey I really liked this video namely because I have made that ritz cracker pie myself in the past and even fooled my own kids with it! Maybe you can include the recipe for that pie since you recommended it. It's quite fun to make. If you want, I can give it to you to post. Also, regarding those jello salads and other meats in aspic or gelatine, they look strange, but I've sampled a few of these at my mother-in-law's who grew up with them from her german parents. they are not all that bad...the fruit ones are good if. you like jello. Thanks for another insightful piece of history. Food culture is so interesting!

[@kimyoonmisurnamefirst7061]

Onions have umame flavor when cooked. Peanut butter is also umame. Low key I was kinda hoping you would cook and try these before judging them to be bad. Cucumber sandwiches are a part of tea parties still.

[@NZKiwi87]

Tomato or cucumber sandwiches are normal everyday foods here in New Zealand, and beans on toast with cheese is also very standard.

[@ladysaraofinsomnia2334]

Wacky Cake!!! This is a beloved family recipe passed down from my grandmother, and seeing as she grew up during the depression, it likely came from her mom. I always asked for it on my birthday. Also, my grandmother recalled eating potatoes, and nothing but boiled potatoes, for dinner so often as a child she'd put ketchup or anything else she could find on them just for her sanity.

[@Historidame]

I'd love to try wacky cake sometime, it looks really good :)

[@williamcarter1993]

squirrel and possums taste good. once you get the internals out and marinade it a bit in some nice buttermilk and cook it properly

[@Whiteboykun]

Okay there Ed Gein

[@calicocritter10]

the peanut butter stuffed onions actually don't look that bad😅

[@phineas117]

yep. plus spam.

[@eileenlu4108]

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