In the middle: egg salad, sliced tomato, ham salad. “Frosted” with whipped cream cheese. From Better Homes and Gardens cook book ca. 1968.

Serving slice with time-appropriate drinks:

    • starik@lemmy.today
      131·
      5 天前

      The only thing bad about it is the presentation. Making it look like a cake and serving it in slices is playing games with people’s expectations of what sweet and savory are supposed to look like. We’d have no problem with these same ingredients served as finger sandwiches.

    • ttayh@lemmy.zip
      2·
      4 天前

      They are called cold-cake in Brazil!

      5 yr old me was very disappointed, disgusted, and may have thrown up when I found out it wasn’t just some icy cake

  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
    23·
    5 天前

    Looks a lot like the Swedish dish Smörgåstårta (Sandwich Cake), which is not uncommon to be served at parties.

    It’s really quite tasty! Also quite convenient for parties since you can buy a few in the deli section of well-stocked supermarkets.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    7·
    4 天前

    You thought this was a sandwich? TURNS OUT IT WAS CAKE. The waiter who brought it to you? ALSO CAKE. Your wife of fifteen years? Cake.

      • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        5 天前

        That word is similar to smorgasbord, which is a word I’ve heard occasionally, but probably never used, so I figured I’d look it up.

        Its etymology from that Wikipedia link is very interesting. Apparently “smorgas” means sandwich, and it has a weird etymology for getting there (it apparently literally means “butter goose”), while “bord” means table. Which is all very strange, because smorgasbord now means something like “buffet”, and has little to do specifically with sandwiches (or butter geese).

        So, I’m guessing smörgåstårta would mean something like “sandwich tart”?

      • TribblesBestFriend
        1·
        4 天前

        Haha ! Personally never saw it before ten years-ish ago when my grand-mother bring one at Christmas. « We always have that at Christmas » she said, my girlfriend and I saw some on instagram but it was about all.

        So not really 😅

    • Bev's Dad@lemmy.ca
      6·
      5 天前

      I would have eaten this faster than a plate full of rolled sandwiches at Christmas as a kid.

      (Still missing the pickles and olives at the center to win first place. Maybe add those as toppings on the icing?)

      • Enkrod@feddit.org
        4·
        5 天前

        Pickes! I’m with you. But imho you always want olives as an opt-in, not an opt-out.

              • TribblesBestFriend
                1·
                5 天前

                There’s full of sugar bread that are sell at grocery stores.

                But like everywhere there’s bakeries

                • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                  2·
                  5 天前

                  I see. Most people I’ve met outside the US call that type of sliced bread “toast” because that’s the only thing it’s good for.

                  In america they call it “bread” because it’s all they know. Other types of bread exist here, but they’re seen as “fancy,” are marketed as “artisan,” often have subpar recipes compared to elsewhere in the world, and a lot of people here will view you as a snob for preferring it. It’s really annoying, as someone who prefers good bread.

    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksOP
      13·
      5 天前

      Once I got over the idea that the “frosting” is savory and not cake frosting, it was pretty good. I mean, the ingredients involved are all tasty. It’s one of those strange novelty dishes from back in the day when people wanted to impress “company”.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    4 天前

    At first I thought it might be some kind of mayo situation, but the cream cheese is somehow worse?

    Honestly the cream cheese component is the only part that throws it off.

    • recursivethinking@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 天前

      Agreed. (A slice of ham and tomato on an egg salad sandwich is where it’s at btw) I do like cream cheese, but it’s completely unnecessary here. At least it’s not whipped cream lol.

      Of all the kitchy 60s cuisine, this might be the least offensive to me. If you’re gonna mke a “cake” out of a sandwich though, you need something on the outside. Which breaks the deal because you really can’t use anything. Honestly cream cheese is the only thing I can even imagine. Maybe butter, but how much butter can you have lol.

      Maybe, possibly, if you can make an icing out of Swiss?

      I’d still rather just make canapes or something.

  • Dookieman12@piefed.socialBannedEnglish
    8·
    5 天前

    In 1968, there was cocaine and heroin in everything, domestic abuse was the norm, and man does it show in the stuff women would feed their husbands