On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:27:04 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>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.

Certainly no worse than using Spam, actually I'd argue it's much
better than spam. Canned corned beef was very popular up until around
the mid-70's in Australia. Things improved considerably here after the
mid-70's...