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How Instagram breathed nightmare retro food back to life
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How Instagram breathed nightmare retro food back to life

Tara Cox sees herself as an adventurous cook. Be that as it may, even she wasn't certain about SpaghettiOs Jell-O. "It smells like cat vomit," the 45-year-old discloses to The Post, taking a gander at her plate of gelatin-encased pasta. Like clockwork, Cox, a magazine editor who's entranced with retro American dishes, gets together with companions for a midcentury potluck party. She sifts through old recipe books — a champion is "Dishes Men Like," distributed in 1952 — and scours the web, where her kindred formula obsessives share vintage Betty Crocker formula cards and post recordings of fish caught in aspic. At that point, she gets the chance to work making mysterious meat molds, jiggly Jell-O servings of mixed greens and gloopy mayo-marshmallow meals. Is it accurate to say ...