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A 1930s dinner party menu would probably also have included dishes that mirrored what Hollywood considered sophisticated European taste with items like scones, crumpets, cucumber or watercress sandwiches, salmon croquettes, trifles, tortes and meringues. Taco Bell shot back that their beef product contains 88 Beef.

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Including ingredients like lobster, squab, oysters, tongue, crab, fruit punch, prunes, peaches, pineapple, honeydew melon and orange marmalade in the menu helped gentrify the meal and add that touch of elegant refinement that was so important. In 2011, Taco Bell took out a full page ad in at least nine major newspapers, in an attempt to explain what’s exactly in their beef product because they were being sued in a class action lawsuit that claimed their beef is only 35 beef and full of extenders and fillers. Using the right ingredients was important, too: A lavish shrimp cocktail appetizer like our Pineapple-Ginger Shrimp Cocktail, carried as much cache in the 1930s as it does today.

A hostess could layer a loaf pan with ingredients like bacon, mushrooms and even mashed potatoes for a striped effect that was bound to elicit oohs and ahhs from guests. Lamb loaf, veal loaf and salmon loaf were all considered party food.

Form it into a loaf - Meatloaf may get groans from your kids, but way back when, serving a loaf of magical meat was too cool.

This one's delicious and pretty to look at: Pesto-Pasta Stuffed Tomatoes. We've got the perfect stuffed tomato dish to show you how it's done. Recipes like tomatoes stuffed with chicken salad, bell peppers stuffed with ground beef and mushrooms stuffed with bacon and breadcrumbs were popular.

Stuff it - Filling the hollowed core of any of a number of vegetables with chopped or ground ingredients was also huge.

Want to create the right note for your party? Give our Festive Cranberry Ring Mold a try. Rings were also made out of rice and even pasta. In the 1930s, gelatin molds and aspics were often ring shaped and served with assorted vegetables in the open center.

The shape was considered unique, and it could be achieved using a simple mold and inexpensive ingredients.

Make it into a ring - If you've discovered how easy it is to slice and serve Bundt cake, you can see why placing food in a ring was considered convenient and attractive.

Aspics were served cold like the fruity molds you're used to, so they were often warm weather or light afternoon fare. If you were really on the cutting edge of food fashion, you might have served aspic - a savory gelatin mold using ingredients like tomato juice, cream, salmon, crab or minced chicken. Our Cranberry-Apple Gelatin Salad is a good representative example. Gelatin molds also sported ritzy ingredients like mayonnaise, nuts and tropical or seasonal fruits. You had to have an ice box or refrigerator to make a gelatin mold, which made it a dish that required modern technology.

Give it some jiggle - That kid-friendly gelatin mold in your pantry was once so fashionable no 1930s food fest would have been complete without it. Everyone is usually served the same appetizer and then the main course is handled a few different ways: Guests are served the same entrée with a silent vegetarian or vegan alternative.

Our Spicy Deviled Eggs are a great place to start.

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Grind it up, mix it with mayo and serve it on a cracker or piped into the hollow of a hard cooked egg and you have elegant finger food. Devil it - Think deviled eggs, deviled ham (or ham salad) and deviled chicken, and you've got the general idea.According to McDonald's, the chain is still actively exploring opportunities to bring back missing menu items in new ways. Chick-fil-A's salads have received top marks from Business Insider taste testers, with the chain exploring options such as the kale and broccolini instead of bland lettuces. Since the '80s, salads have served as a key option to prevent a "veto vote" from health-conscious customers and vegetarians who might otherwise block a family or group of friends from going to McDonald's.īut if some version of salads do return to McDonald's menu, they may take on a new form. "With customers at the center of everything we do, we'll continue listening to them and evolving our menu to meet their needs," McDonald's said.ĭoes that mean salads will be off McDonald's menu forever? It would be a bold choice - probably too bold for McDonald's. The company declined to comment on if its salads would return to menus. McDonald's said in a statement to Business Insider that the chain cut menu items in April in an effort to simplify operations while improving customer experience.