Splitabanana!

[pulltostart]

I found this "banana split idea" in the May, 1959 copy of Better Homes and Gardens. This is so bizarre, I can't imagine eating this but there it was in print. Has anyone tried this or a variation?

Main-Dish Split
Splitabanana and brush with lemon juice. Serve with hot shrimp and rice, and top with your favorite curry sauce. Delicious and so easy!

lawrence

 

[foraloysius]

Doesn't sound bad, but why not fry it? I love fried bananas!

 

[danemodsandy]

If There Was Ever Any Doubt....

....About how close '50s housewives were to full, total and irrevocable revolt, the recipes found in women's magazines of the period reveal the whole story.

If it was frozen, came in a can, came in a package or just needed water added, the ladies were all over it. Many "recipes" of the era were just combinations of products, like the famous Five Can Casserole.

No one cared much about taste if the prep was easy. The Dinty Moore people, I think it was, touted their product as the base for a Chinese dinner - you poured canned, heated Dinty Moore beef stew over Chinese noodles and doused it with soy sauce.

I am willing to bet that some housewives out there splitabanana and filled it with Minute Rice, canned shrimp and curry sauce from a jar.

And spent the rest of their lives wondering why their husbands strayed.

 

[circlew]

YUCK!

That sounds totally disgusting, and I wouldn't eat it even if I liked bananas. I would have had to go hungry if my mom had ever made anything like that (which she wouldn't have). She was raised in the rural south, so we usually had more basic country type food.

I don't remember any of the neighbors making food like this either; maybe more suburban type women fixed things like that.

 

[norgeway]

Do you know what???!!!

Beef tongue and bannanas is called....A LICKETY SPLIT!!!LOL...

 

[mich]

@sandy

As someone who's never eaten, nor heard of a "5 can casserole" I just had to "Google" it... And look what I found I just thought that was funny. 

 

 

 

[mich]

Anyhow..

Processed Wood Chips & Artificial Flavoring has come a long way since then. Haven't they? 

 

[jeffg]

It was only a matter of time until Google pointed us to absolutely nothing except ourselves.