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I'm personally interested in what old fast food and junk food used to taste like, for example the recipe to the original Coke drink: https://www.thisamericanlif

by kanobo 6y ago

I'm personally interested in what old fast food and junk food used to taste like, for example the recipe to the original Coke drink: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-recipe https://www.thisamericanlife.org/extras/the-recipe. I wish I could go back and taste a 50's In-N-Out meal.

dutchmartin 6y ago
Sounds like a great idea to start a museum (exhibition) with. You could make a 50’s restaurant with various food offerings that were popular then.
- antupis 6y ago
  Or restaurant which copies very precisely some famous historical restaurant menu.
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  - JacobDotVI 6y ago
    You might be interested in the restaurant Next in Chicago. From the Wikipedia: >Rather than stick with one type of cuisine, Next completely changes its style every few months, focusing on a different time period, parts of the world, or various abstract themes for each "season" of its menu. Next's very first menu was "Paris 1906" which was based on Escoffier's dishes from that year. https://chicago.eater.com/2011/4/4/6688919/next-restaurants-paris-1906-menu-in-pictures https://chicago.eater.com/2011/4/4/6688919/next-restaurants-...
  - Wistar 6y ago
    Although, depending on the era, sourcing all the identical ingredients may be impossible, or nearly so, due to "culinary extinction." Lenore Newman's recent book, "Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food," explores the foods lost to the world. In late 2019, the Gastropod podcast ran an episode with Newman and the "Ghost Foods." https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction/ https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction... Also, it has become very hard to find things such as true buttermilk or real heavy cream that hasn't been ultra-pasteurized, etc.
kritiko 6y ago
I recommend Paul Freedman's Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The section on Howard Johnson's is very interesting.
proverbialbunny 6y ago
Lard burgers and fries are really good. I highly recommend checking them out. It may not be the exact taste of a brand from the past, but it will be closer to the taste of a mom and pop burger stand pre 1970s.

by kanobo 6y ago

dutchmartin 6y ago

Sounds like a great idea to start a museum (exhibition) with. You could make a 50’s restaurant with various food offerings that were popular then.

antupis 6y ago
Or restaurant which copies very precisely some famous historical restaurant menu.
- deleted 6y ago
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- JacobDotVI 6y ago
  You might be interested in the restaurant Next in Chicago. From the Wikipedia: >Rather than stick with one type of cuisine, Next completely changes its style every few months, focusing on a different time period, parts of the world, or various abstract themes for each "season" of its menu. Next's very first menu was "Paris 1906" which was based on Escoffier's dishes from that year. https://chicago.eater.com/2011/4/4/6688919/next-restaurants-paris-1906-menu-in-pictures https://chicago.eater.com/2011/4/4/6688919/next-restaurants-...
- Wistar 6y ago
  Although, depending on the era, sourcing all the identical ingredients may be impossible, or nearly so, due to "culinary extinction." Lenore Newman's recent book, "Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food," explores the foods lost to the world. In late 2019, the Gastropod podcast ran an episode with Newman and the "Ghost Foods." https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction/ https://gastropod.com/of-ghost-foods-and-culinary-extinction... Also, it has become very hard to find things such as true buttermilk or real heavy cream that hasn't been ultra-pasteurized, etc.

kritiko 6y ago

I recommend Paul Freedman's Ten Restaurants That Changed America. The section on Howard Johnson's is very interesting.

proverbialbunny 6y ago

Lard burgers and fries are really good. I highly recommend checking them out. It may not be the exact taste of a brand from the past, but it will be closer to the taste of a mom and pop burger stand pre 1970s.