The Retro Blog

 
If I remember correctly, the recipe for Kool-Aid is one packet Kool-Aid, one quart water, and 27 cups of sugar. That’s why it makes me happy to know that in the 50’s it was considered “pure and good” for kids by Parents Magazine. As a child of the 80’s, though, the most striking thing about [...]

A strangely addictive and entertaining blog called Cake Wrecks has been gaining a lot of notice on the internet. It celebrates cake designers that should perhaps be seeking employment in other fields as well as skillful cakes made to look like things that should have never been set in icing. Here’s a cake I nominate [...]

This Jello commercial seems to be more of an endorsement of spoons than the jiggly dessert, but it just goes to show you that 60’s ad execs thought you could sell just about everything through the wonders of racial stereotypes.

Road trips are starting to seem a little pointless. These days it seems like you can go to pretty much any small to medium sized American town along a highway and it’s the same as the last one. Main Street USA consists of a bunch of chain restaurants and gas stations, and it has been [...]

Have you eaten any of these retro cereals? WMFU’s Beware of the Blog has a post about these breakfast food items that didn’t make quite enough gains in popularity to stay on the market. This is shocking to me, because what sounds more appealing than crunchy logs? Or how about OKs? [...]

Making a “fluffer nutter” sounds a little dirty to me, but if you want to give it a try, here are some simple instructions given by an adorable bouncing head and a disembodied hand.

I am alternately intrigued and horrified by the concept of a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich. I’d probably try it.

If you were one of those people who were offended by Speedy Gonzalez, you might want to think again before indulging in everybody’s favorite deep-fried corn chip. From 1967 to 1971, the official cartoon mascot for Fritos was The Frito Bandito. Picture Speedy Gonzalez but subtract the running fast part and add a penchant for [...]

 
Why take diet pills when you can enjoy Ayds? Ayds comes in a variety of flavors like chocolate, chocolate mint, butterscotch, caramel, and peanut butter. Ayds sounds delicious. Watch a 1970’s commercial for this unfortunately named product below:

Ayds first appeared in 1944, but the company sold off the rights to the name in 1981. Hmmm, [...]

1950’s food seems pretty nauseating by today’s standards. Whenever I open a retro cookbook I find that every recipe seems to have mayonnaise, gelatin, hot dogs, hard boiled eggs, or a stomach-churning combination of the above. What they lack in basic dietary needs is more than made up for by presentation. Mid century food seems [...]