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Eating Weird Food from the 50s (with Katherine)

2016-01-15 · challenge / punishment · Hank, Katherine Green · 3:59 · watch on YouTube

Topic: History & curiosities · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: guest or collab

Hank and Katherine cook five 1940s-50s recipes clipped into her grandmother's recipe book and react: the Golden Rabbit is bland, beer dressing and the relish mold are bad, the chop suey needs salt, and only the popovers win them over.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Katherine's Christmas gift: her grandmother's salon logbook turned 1940s-50s recipe book; they try some recipes

  • ★★ Hank says that for Christmas Katherine's mother gave her a logbook from her grandmother's hair salon, which the grandmother later turned into a recipe book of 1940s-50s newspaper and magazine recipes. — 00:00:01 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says the recipes are 'interesting', so he and Katherine decided to try a few; the results were mixed. (playful) — 00:00:12 · Katherine Green

00:00:19 — Recipe 1: Golden Rabbit (Campbell's soups over crackers): bland

  • ★★ Hank calls the Golden Rabbit (Campbell's cheddar cheese and tomato soups with milk, poured over crackers) bland; its predominant flavor, he says, is crackers. (playful) — 00:00:47
  • ★★ Katherine Green: Katherine says the Golden Rabbit is not on the list of things she wants to eat again. — 00:00:53 · Katherine Green

00:01:04 — Recipe 2: popovers, slightly burned but liked

  • ★★ Hank admits he kind of burned the popovers but likes them: they taste like bread. — 00:01:25
  • ★★ Katherine Green: Katherine likens the popovers to a Northern biscuit and would like to try them again. — 00:01:28 · Katherine Green

00:01:37 — Recipe 3: beer dressing: not good

  • ★★ Hank says the beer dressing (mayonnaise, mustard, horseradish and beer) is not good, though he doesn't much like mustard anyway. — 00:01:43

00:01:47 — Recipe 4: Mexican Chop Suey: smells like dog food, needs salt, 'Cleveland Chowder'

  • ★★ Katherine Green: Katherine says the Mexican Chop Suey smells like dog food. (playful) — 00:02:18 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank's suggestion for improving the chop suey is huge amounts of salt, which he says makes it much better. (playful) — 00:02:24

00:02:50 — Recipe 5: orange cranberry relish mold; why does Jell-O exist?

  • ★★ Of the orange cranberry relish mold, Hank says eating it is like coming across sand in your food, and warns viewers not to serve it to friends or family. (playful) — 00:03:18
  • ★★ Katherine Green: Katherine asks why Jell-O even still exists, since people only eat it in prison, high school or the hospital. (playful) — 00:03:25 · Katherine Green

00:03:35 — What they learned about '50s food; thanks to grandmother Helen; sign-off; Katherine leaves Hank the cleaning

  • ★★ Katherine Green: Asked whether, after this, she would rather live today than in the '50s, Katherine says yes. — 00:03:37 · Katherine Green
  • ★ Hank begins to say there may be some wisdom in '50s food, but is cut off. (hedged) — 00:03:39

Humor (dominant)

  • Hank suggests adding more crackers to the bland Golden Rabbit; Katherine tops it. — 00:01:02

    “Serve it with half a raw potato.”

  • Hank asks Katherine to name the chop suey, which is inspired by both Chinese and Mexican food. — 00:02:43

    “It's like uhh Cleveland...Chowder”

  • Hank unmolds the orange cranberry relish mold. — 00:03:11

    “It's...like...a colon!”

  • Hank thanks Helen, and Katherine explains that's her grandmother's name, not Helen Hunt. — 00:03:48

    “Thanks to Helen Hunt, too, though”

Mentioned

Central: Katherine Green · Katherine's grandmother's recipe book

Also: Campbell Soup Company · Helen Hunt (actor) · Jell-O · popover

Only in the description or credits: Helen

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