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:
Oh, the 50's...
Credit to you for being adventureous. I wouldn't get near such a recipe.
When every kitchen concoction was quiet revenge for getting slapped around on a daily basis
I totally thought this was a cake.
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.
The cake is a lie
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
'Pain' in French or in English?
Depends on time within the context of the specific body metabolizing it.
It is a popular dish in Sweden as well. They call it smörgåstårta.
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"?
I would have eaten this faster than a plate full of rolled sandwiches at Christmas as a kid.
(Still missing the pickles and olives at the center to win first place. Maybe add those as toppings on the icing?)
« pain sandwich »
...
Quebec
Isn't that... redundant?
Yes, except it was really mostly just the 50s-60s with a bit into the 70s before sanity was regained. Source: aspic, motherfuckers!
Suprised there is no gelatin involved.
Needs some bourbon and cigarettes.
do jello salads next!
Savory or sweet? Tomato aspic sounds 🤢
Do the one with olives and bits of tuna. Serve it with egg coffee.
Egg coffee? Dear god.
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+
“””salad”””
I don't want it.
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.
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”.
Gonna need a Quaalude with that
Today's food crime brought to you by Better Homes & Gardens
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
God that looks good.
I'm a sucker for shitty food porn
Sandwich, but hard to eat?
Definitely a fork-and-knife situation.
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.
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.
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
didnt Rachel green make this dish because the recipe pages stuck together?
lady fingers and beef. mmmm
Cream cheese? Good! Ham? Good! Egg salad? Good!
You gotta say how it was!
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.
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 know a dish is good when it has loaf in its name.
Be glad you've never heard of the Nutraloaf.
I really dislike the combination of egg salad and tomato. Ham and egg, awesome. Ham and tomato, awesome. Tomato and egg, do not want.
I respect you making a classic. I also hate it
Fuck yeah I'd eat that!
Omg with the Lambrusco! Brings back the 1970s and Sunday dinners. The PBR can take a hike though.
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