Tough times made for odd meals
http://www.countryliving.com/food-dr...n-era-recipes/

"In the 1930s, gelatin was considered a modern, cutting edge food,"
writes Rudie Obias at Mental Floss. Back then, people apparently enjoyed
a food called Corned Beef Luncheon Salad, a mix of canned corned beef,
plain gelatin, canned peas, vinegar, lemon juice, and, sometimes, if you
were lucky, cabbage.