amylsacks' photos with the keyword: steak

Front and back covers of a 32-page promotional published by Sears Roebuck & Co. You've gotta' have all that meaty goodness front and center to justify such an extravagant purchase. ;) Originally posted to flickr on January 30th, 2011.

Here's the inside front cover. Aside from these lavish all-American meal displays, there's not much happening in the 36 or 44 pages (depending on which year's volume you're perusing). At one point a Coldspot penguin gives various food prep instructions, and a demure blonde hausfrau looks likes she's asking one of the freezer models out onto an off-site dance floor. But they lacked the weirdly-hued bravado of these photos.

They attempt to disguise the foreign influences using the traditional brown/green/white configuration of all proper American meals, but he's not fooled...

Yeah... about that "unlimited" thing. I learned the hard way that it doesn't include oatmeal or kale. :o

Sorry, one-child family. You're not consuming enough to raw material to help beat back the Soviets. So you've been DISCONTINUED! Three sections of a brochure published by the Crown Broiler Company, New York, NY. (Originally posted to flickr: June 29th, 2011.)

I'd like my steak done zero-gravity, please! From the July issue of Sunset magazine.

"The few important points to learn about building a Beer-B-Cue fire can be easily mastered. Follow the directions carefully and your fire building will be simple to do..." Or just do what everyone else did back then: Get plastered and impatient and dump a whole bottle of lighter fluid on the grill. Don't give your wife any beer. You'll need her to drive you to the hospital. From a 16 page booklet published by The Tested Recipe Institute, New York, NY and The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co., New York & Albany, N.Y.

"Alway [sic] remember to light the fire early. Allow at least as much time as is required by the fire starter you are using..." Any beer left over after the party can be used to clean the grill.

Behold the only time when the lady of the house should be happy to read the word "Aged." From Sunset magazine.

I'll build a spice-way to Paradise/With a new step every dayyy...

"Waise The Woof." Ooh, those wascawwy witers! From the August issue of Everywoman's magazine.

Let's talk about meat, Bay-bee Let's talk about you, and me... Front cover and first page of a 40-page promotional booklet published by the National Live Stock and Meat Board, Chicago, Illinois.

Mmm... mmm... Flesh and salt: two of the major food groups. Now all we need is a pitcher of martinis and a carton of vanilla ice cream! From the June issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.

Above: It's not the size of the cube steak, it's the torque of the fork. (Sorry.) Below: The Corn Loaf picture is remarkably trippy considering that there's no color involved. The recipe for [ahem] "very hot, well-seasoned White Sauce" is on the back of the card. Other recipe cards feature Chicken and Ham Shortcake, Party Sandwiches, French Toast DeLuxe, Broiled Sausages on Deviled Toast, and Scotch Woodcock. (Hey, I'm not responsible for the name. I think it's a savory version of bread pudding, kind of.) For more Franz-related ephemera, look here .

Yeah, it's large enough to roast a turkey but it's "wonderfully portable." So long as Mrs. America did amateur weightlifting in her spare time. She'd probably also need the patience of a saint and the contortionist skills of a Yoga master to get the damn thing cleaned afterwards.

"...for the Family 'Chef.' " Because it's not like you're really a skilled worker or anything, Sweetheart. Coochie-coo! Now be quiet and read along as best you can. The men have wisdom to impart! Front cover and first page of a 40-page epic published by the National Live Stock and Meat Board, Chicago, Illinois.