Frightening food from the 1970s – 50 photos

REMEMBER when food was terrifying, meat was a luminous pink and vegetables the work of John Wyndham’s nightmares? We do. In this gallery you will see some of the horrors you were expected to put inside yourselves. With thanks to James Lileks, whose site is must read for 20th-century cultural curations:

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