# Truly awful haute-cuisine 60's and 70's style **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457 "2014-01-10T19:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/121 "2014-01-14T09:19:37Z")
I don’t see why, personally; it’s hard to imagine anyone suggesting eating melted ice cream over carbonized cake. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/122 "2014-01-14T09:19:46Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Never once had “Baked Alaska”-sounds horrifying to me. How did it ever get served in restaurants? It seems like it would be very difficult to make. Nah, it’s good, really. Or was good. Why would it be horrifying?\* Make sponge cake, bash some fruit around, buy ice-cream (never tried making it myself) and make meringue. It’s not difficult to make because I know I made it way back when. Nowadays, I’d be far too lazy, and if I wanted fruit and cake and ice-cream and meringue, I suppose I’d just shove them all together in a bowl and scoff the resulting mess. The happy scruffiness of living alone. 🙂 But all the fruit flavoured jelly “salads” with vegetables incarcerated in sweet jelly/jello - they do sound odd. :eek: - I just realised it’s a bit horrifying in terms of avoiding being fat and unhealthy. Fair enough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/123 "2014-01-14T09:20:06Z")
And then fried ice cream becomes a problem, right? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/124 "2014-01-14T09:29:01Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I don’t see why, personally; it’s hard to imagine anyone suggesting eating melted ice cream over carbonized cake. No, really, the cake survives uncarbonised and the ice-cream remains cold. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/125 "2014-01-14T10:44:15Z")
> [@Darth\_Nader](#): > > And then fried ice cream becomes a problem, right? How would you fry ice-cream?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/126 "2014-01-14T10:56:14Z")
Jeez… here’s the wiki page. > **[Fried ice cream](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_ice_cream)** > > Fried ice cream is a dessert made of a scoop of ice cream that is frozen hard, breaded or coated in a batter, and quickly deep-fried, creating a warm, crispy shell around the still-cold ice cream. > There are conflicting stories about the dessert's origin. Some claim that it was first served during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, where the ice cream sundae was also invented. Though in 1894, a Philadelphia company was given credit for its invention describing: "A small, solid \[cake\] of the ice cream... ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/127 "2014-01-16T05:24:19Z")
These folks have put their stomachs on the line to cook and eat some of those truly awful looking or not so awful looking recipes. > **[Home - Mid-Century Menu - Vintage Recipes & Shop](https://www.midcenturymenu.com/)** > > Ruth is the creator & culinary historian of Mid-Century Menu, where she recreates mid-century food much to the delight and horror of her readers. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457/128 "2014-01-17T00:03:06Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > That would be a dildon’t. Also, ‘dildo’ is a mass noun now? Now my five year old is cross examining me about what I’m laughing at. So THANKS! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-awful-haute-cuisine-60s-and-70s-style/678457.md?page=6)