60's potluck

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 2:02 am

Someone you love has just informed you that they have accepted an invitation to my 1960's potluck party on your behalf. Like it or lump it, you're coming. Question is, what are you bringing?
I'll make peas with pearl onions and a big bowl of rum punch with a floating jello ice ring.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 4:04 am

I'm bringing a dish of raw whole green onions!

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:58 am

I'll bring cream-cheese-and-balogna rolls with olive eyes, parsley hair, and mayonnaise bow ties, a deviled egg gelatin, and croissants filled with spring-fresh tartar sauce.

infopetal · Post by **infopetal** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:07 am

I'll bring the pimento cheese (served with celery sticks) and a no-bake banana pudding layered with plenty of Nilla wafers and served in a glass dish.

mrbrown · Post by **mrbrown** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:16 am

i'll be preparing tall warm glasses of mayonnaise.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:19 am

oh I'll also bring a big round glass jug of toxically red Hawaiian Punch

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:22 am

mrbrown wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:16 am i'll be preparing tall warm glasses of mayonnaise.

touché

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:31 am

I’ll bring some ham and bananas hollandaise and just an unreasonable amount of shellfish suspended in aspic

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:28 am

CHIPPED BEEF

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:44 am

I spent the afternoon crafting little paper booties for the turkey!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 10:56 am

Coincidentally, this just popped up in my Tw*tter feed today

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Abe · Post by **Abe** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:04 am

Perfection Salad - just as sculpture.

Post by **joni** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:28 am

I’m bringing a couple six packs of beer and they don’t have pull tabs or anything, you gotta use a can opener.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:32 am

"Chop six of the hotdogs until they are the consistency of coarse corn mea1"

I had to google perfection salad. Is that a midwestern thing?

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:42 am

coarse hot dog meal

Phil · Post by **Phil** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:12 pm

With my hip I bump open the swinging door into this disgusting event. My hands push a dusty cocktail trolley containing stacked up souvenir glasses that say "Venezia", "Graz", "Orlando", etc, and one humongous jug of Seagram's blended whiskey and a little dish of cobweb covered peanuts.

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:30 pm

Does anyone need a drink? All we have is a massive glass punch bowl filled with something the hostess is calling "cherries fantasia"

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:34 pm

I've got a carton of slim cigarettes with the fancy colored tips

Post by **joni** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 12:44 pm

I ate some of the cobweb peanuts and they were actually fine

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:07 pm

Oh right, thank you, cigarettes! I almost forgot to put gold-rimmed glasses of them out around the house. What a terrible hostess I am!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:15 pm

Ooh and the jello salads are running out. Does that mean it's time to set the dessert table?

I'll set out the ingredients for white russians and I made a pineapple upside down cake with maraschino cherries and a marble cake. Anyone else bring a dessert?

mrbrown · Post by **mrbrown** » Mon Apr 13, 2020 1:46 pm

m o l l y wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:22 am
mrbrown wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:16 am i'll be preparing tall warm glasses of mayonnaise.
touché

love you babe

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:55 am

back atcha, downtown brown.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:03 am

For dessert I brought an Easter ham with fluorescent cherries and pineapple rings stuck all over it with toothpicks

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:51 am

You brought a dessert ham?! You are too good, Ms Ritchey.

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 4:55 am

Please, it was the least I could do! You're such a wonderful hostess.

I also brought Folgers coffee for after dinner!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:00 am

Oh no need, I prefer my Maxwell House crystals. I just toss a spoonful into lukewarm water. Or straight into my white russian at breakfast.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:00 am

But hell, why not? It's a party!

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 8:14 am

Gotta say, dinner party thread walked so that 60s dinner party thread could run

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:53 am

I have to say, this is a potluck I have for reals wanted to host for an eternity but never followed through. It is a rich topic. Think of the crumble topped pound cakes in disposable aluminum pans. Think of the slaws made with white sugar and white vinegar and white oil. Think of the shapes of cut fruit and the sheer amount of jello-based salads. Who needs science fiction when you've got that hot-dog recipe?! What a ridiculous time to be alive!

meadows · Post by **meadows** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:15 am

I was at an antique mall w my mom once, admiring some little crystal dishes with funny compartments, and she told me that it was for hors d'oeuvres and that one of the nooks was for your drink cup, and one was for ashing your cigarette!!! Right next to your olive on a toothpick and candied nuts!!

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:45 am

Sounds like you could (should?) use it to replace the glove box!

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Related: I made my grandmother's potato salad last night as part of our BBQ Hot Dog Pandemic Extravaganza and the recipe legitimately called for both "Mayo" and something vaguely called "Salad Dressing", after which several phone calls to multiple family members turned out to be a pseudonym for Miracle Whip. So y'all live your virtual 60's potluck but I'm over here LIVING THIS SHIT

ritchey · Post by **ritchey** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:28 pm

I also want to say that one time I saw a 1930s cookbook and it had a recipe for "turkey surprise," which was creamed turkey which you spread on a cookie sheet, FREEZE, then chip off into chunks? I can't remember what the end result was supposed to be like because I was traumatized by those details. I know it was the Depression but WTF

"creamed turkey"

RCH · Post by **RCH** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 5:43 pm

Hello everyone! Where should I put my keys?

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Tue Apr 14, 2020 6:24 pm

Jona made his mom’s famous Swedish meatball recipe a few years back and the ingredients were WILD. Grape jam, pineapple chunks? Jona will remember. They were really good in the end though. As BREAD DAD says you must trust the process

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:31 am

Ok, I googled "creamed turkey" and the first link is literally a recipe for "Mamaw's Creamed Turkey" which I did NOT click. That recipe sounds excruciating and like so many hours of hard labor to boot.

RCH, Pop those keys in the bowl, and start slamming iced vodka, you delightful goof.

m o l l y · Post by **m o l l y** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:02 pm

Look at this nugget i just stumbled upon: https://instagram.com/70sdinnerparty?ig ... tool4bmqrt

yourfriendclaire · Post by **yourfriendclaire** » Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:42 pm

Seeing this thread back up top made my heart go ZING