Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Eine Himbeer Fräulein?

What is worse than than the cuisine in 1960s cookbooks?  

The cuisine in 1960s German cookbooks.

Behold the horrors of Kulinarische Kostelichkeiten:


Breakfast? How about a fried egg in motor oil drippings?  Or maybe a "Parisian Art" vomit omelet?



Get your vitamins with boiled leeks covered in a  silly putty demi glace:



Don't forget the kinder. They may enjoy their food fancied-up like vivisections of Kermit the Frog's head and a smattering of raw vegetables disguised as a transvestite piranha.


For dessert you can play it healthy and go for a Teutonic apple-bot...


...or you can splurge and opt for an infected pear or sauteed Nerf football slices.



And after dinner, what lovely fräulein doesn't want a serving of Himbeer?  Am I right, ladies?  ;-)


10 comments:

Rosemary said...

Wow, those *are* worse...I don't get the applebots--are those olives and radishes speared into the sides? And I know the square things aren't ravioli, but they sure look like it. On the other hand, ravioli don't seem any less sensical than olives and radishes.

leslie said...

Is there a complete lack of aspic in this book? Yet again the Deutsche letting us know they're not French.

Maah said...

mmmmm...voss itz goot lukingk footz!

Angie said...

Throw in some mayonaise-based salads and some jello, and you got yourself a Pongratz Family Reunion!! Angie

tracy said...

Uh, hello, where are the phallic sausages to go mit der himbeer??

LazyMF said...

Don't worry Tracy - the wurst is yet to come.

[rimshot]

Christy said...

I think you need to drop a line to Steve of 'Steve, Don't Eat It.' This book's begging to be Phase 2 of that experiment, and I'm guessing this stuff'd be worse than potted meat and the potentially poisonous mushrooms on the tree outside his house.

Alan Hendrixson said...

Where's the herbeer?

Josh said...

Having recently returned from Frankfurt, I can attest that the Germans make a fine automobile, they are challenged on the gastronomic front.

I mercifully came across the Rama V thai restaurant which is indeed world class, but the other 7 meals were a series of disappointment.

Beer was exceptional and if you drank enough you didn't need to eat as much.

Pretzels and Beer. Anything beyond that is perilous at best.

Anonymous said...

the french are always superior, in everything. even vomit. clearly. what else use for froi gras?