- Welcome to the 1940s.
- Let's talk about that.
(jaunty music)
Good mythical morning.
- As you know, it's the 1940s.
World War II is a thing.
Food rationing is happening in America.
And it's the decade that brought us a lady with real moxie.
Diane McLaughlin, aka, your mom.
- That's right. - Happy Mother's Day
to all the moms out there, in two days.
- Yes.
Now in honor of my mother, we're tasting recipes
from her childhood, which is right now.
Where we're at, when we're at, the 1940s.
Now these are the kinds of dishes that people
in the future like, just think of a random year,
like say maybe 2023. - 2023, yeah.
- These are the kinds of dishes
that people in 2023 have probably never heard of
and might hesitate to try
given their very futuristic food preferences.
- And to help us through this real swell,
bees knees of an episode, we have Mama Di.
Diane, joining us live, via radio.
- Hey there, Mom.
Oh.
We gotta get her dialed in here.
Hey Mom, can you hear us?
- [Diane] Yes.
Hey, it's Mama Di.
I'm here.
- How you doing?
How are the '40s?
- [Diane] They're great.
(crew laughing)
- What was the best part about,
what was the best part about living in the '40s?
Or what is the best part about living in the '40s?
- [Diane] Well, I don't remember much
because I was very young.
But it was a great time.
And what I remember was wonderful.
So it was a good time to be alive.
- Did you you have to like,
you go out and you cut ice yourself, and put it in the box?
- [Diane] Well, the ice man came.
He'd come in the ice truck.
And he would bring the hunk of ice,
and put it in the ice box.
And he would do that like once a week.
Or sometimes twice a week.
- And there was a milk man too, right?
An ice man and a milk man.
- [Diane] Yes.
And there was a milk man also, that would bring your milk,
put it on your porch.
And it was in a bottle,
and it tasted very, very good.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's, I love my ice box and my milk man, yeah.
Now I understand, Mama Di,
that you're gonna be providing us with some fun facts
about your birth decade throughout this episode.
And that's just really rooty tooty fresh and fruity.
- I don't think that's a thing that people are saying yet.
Just between you and me.
- Really?
- Okay, this one goes out to moms everywhere,
especially ones born in the '40s.
It's time for Time Travel Tastings: 1940s.
- [Stevie] Hello there, fellas.
It's me, heterosexual Stevie.
(all laughing)
You're about to taste four different
actual recipes from the 1940s,
the decade we're all in right now.
After you taste each dish,
you'll decide if the recipe makes you say
what a gas, or shucks I'll pass.
And here to deliver your food is Betty Buford,
straight from right now, the 1940s.
- Well hello there, gents.
- Hey Betty. - Hi.
I'm so excited to share these recipes with you.
Our first one is mock banana sandwich.
It's smashed up parsnips and banana extract.
You know what makes a gal much happier
while she's eating a mock banana sandwich?
- No what?
- Knowing that they just invented the epidural.
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pain free deliveries, man.
- I love it, I love an epidural.
- Mock banana sandwich?
Did she say, did Betty say parsnips?
- Yes, she did.
So it's not actually bananas?
Mama Di, did you get an epidural?
(crew laughing)
- [Diane] No.
- Yep.
- [Mama Di] He came very fast.
We didn't have time for that.
- That's right.
- But wasn't--
- [Diane] Barely go to the hospital, so.
- Wasn't he really long?
- Oh yeah.
- Oh yes he was. - Yeah. I had a life to live.
I had to get going.
I had to get that life going, you know?
Now, Mom, do you have a fun fact for us?
- [Diane] In the 1940s,
every child is issued their first cigar when they turned 10.
- Whoa.
Yeah, 'cause people didn't know about the effects yet.
It was just good fun for everybody.
Okay. - Right.
- Right, she says. I have a hard time believing that.
So what's in this?
Is it bananas and parsnips, or parsnips made--
- She said banana extract.
- And then parsnips?
- And then parsnips.
- 'Cause mock is fake.
- Yeah, right. - Yeah.
- Because parsnips are not bananas.
This is awful, Link.
- [Link] And then, what's the white stuff?
- Probably the extract.
I don't know, man.
I just know that... - It's not bad.
- You don't like banana flavored things,
how would you like this?
- 'Cause I'm fooled-- - You're changing, man.
- I'm fooled into thinking that it's actually banana.
I respect actual banana.
- I would rather have a banana sandwich.
- With a little peanut butter maybe.
- Than not banana sandwich.
This isn't doing anything for me, I'm sorry.
I wanna apologize to you, Mom,
and everyone else born in the '40s.
I do not like this mock banana sandwich.
But you seem to be into it.
- I mean I don't,
I'm not gonna be thinking about it later in the day.
Like, oh, I wish I had another one of those.
- So when I look at you and you have a far away look
in your eyes, you won't be thinking about
this mock banana sandwich?
What will you be thinking about?
- Your mom getting an epidural.
- Okay, great.
Mock banana sandwich.
- [Rhett And Link] Shucks, I'll pass.
- Hello, boys. - Hey.
- Betty's back.
- This is our beloved jellied chicken.
It's got gelatin, chicken, pimento stuffed olives,
salt, celery, and there's one more,
but it's a long list.
It was lemon juice.
(crew laughing)
But go easy on it.
You know, in the 1940s only 55% of people
have running plumbing.
(Rhett laughing)
- Running plumbing. - Running plumbing.
- [Betty] You know what I meant.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh my gosh.
This is scary looking, dude.
- Yeah, so Mom, put putting things in jelly, like gelatin,
that was a big thing back in the day huh?
- [Diane] Yes it was.
- Now why was that, do you think?
- [Diane] I think because Jell-O was cheap
and that it was a good thing to not spend a lot of money.
- And it was cool, wasn't it?
It's like, wow, it shakes, it jiggles.
It's the future.
Yeah, it felt very futuristic.
- Oh gosh. - Exactly.
- Is this stuff, is the gelatin like broth flavored?
- Yes! - Oh gosh.
- Yeah, so it's like gelatin with a chicken broth.
I'm going full bite.
I got two olives.
I'm gonna get a little bit of these peppers.
You may not be able to tell in black and white,
just how awful this looks.
But Link is helping with that.
- You know, if you took a can of chicken noodle soup,
and you opened it, forgot about it for a couple of days,
and then it got real thick on top.
And there was like a chicken bits
floating up there in that fat layer.
And then you just like took that
and ate it without the noodles.
- Yeah.
- That's exactly what we are experiencing right now.
- It's not that bad though.
(crew laughing)
There are people who drink...
- You hated the mock banana
and then you're trying to like this?
- There are people who take the jelly
in between Vienna sausages and eat it.
I was one of those.
- Uh uh.
- That seemed to not go over too well
with some of the faces that I just saw.
- I know, it's just like fatty jiggly stuff, man.
- Mom, you got any fun facts for us?
Maybe that can lighten the mood.
- [Diane] No one is lactose intolerant in the 1940s.
We just drink our milkshakes on the toilet.
(Rhett and Link laughing)
- Wow, okay.
- That did bring my mood up.
- Milkshake goes right through you.
- This is a nightmare.
- Yeah, this is a tough sell.
I gotta say it's a tough sell.
It looks gross in person.
It tastes better than I thought it would.
But, sorry 1940s, jellied chicken...
- [Rhett And Link] Shucks, I'll pass.
- Hello fellas, I'm back!
- Yes, you are.
- This is our cola marsh ice.
It's marshmallows, and cola,
and lemon juice, and salt, and ice.
You wanna know something else that's sweet about the 1940s?
- [Rhett And Link] Yes.
- The most popular breed of dog was a cocker spaniel.
- Great.
So a marsh ice.
- She's so amplified.
- Never heard of it.
- Self amplified.
- Yeah, they didn't have megaphones in the '40s.
- There's lemon and salt in this.
- Interesting.
- Mom, did you ever have one of these?
A cola marsh ice?
- [Diane] No, I have not heard of it.
And I've never had one.
- Hmm, okay.
- Well I'm having one right now.
- I'll give you a full report.
- It's very sweet from the marshmallow.
- The cola... - Very strange.
- And the lemon together.
That's actually a nice, that's a nice little combo.
Marshmallow kind of gives it
a little bit of a root beer float.
- Yeah 'cause, it really does.
I think that the marshmallow
has just disintegrated into soupyness.
- And the salt is not bad either.
It adds this little bite to it.
I think it's maybe better than a float.
You're not a float guy.
You don't like parades or floats.
- I don't like root beer, so I'm liking this a lot better.
- [Rhett] This is like a cola float.
- This is fun.
It gives you a little bit of a pucker.
- Maybe a fun fact from Mama Di
will help us make a decision.
- [Diane] These days, a tank of gas
only cost a friendly wink and a firm handshake.
- Oh. - Whoa.
- A tank of gas.
- A tank of gas is just a barter system
and there's no exchange of currency involved.
- The fun facts did give me more fun.
But I already knew that this was
unlike anything I've ever had.
And I recommend trying it out.
- [Rhett] Cola marsh ice.
- [Rhett And Link] What a gas!
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- What's that?
(crew laughing)
- It's a box store.
- Is that Sam's idea?
Is that the thing Sam's been working on?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Betty] Am I supposed to come in now?
- Yes. - Come on in.
- All right!
Hey, good to see you again.
This is the carrot and peanut butter sandwich.
It's got grated carrots, peanut butter, chopped raisins,
mayonnaise, on white bread.
It's a very innovative creation.
You know what else is innovative?
The aerosol spray can.
It just came out and it will definitely
not be an environmental problem in the future.
- No.
- Yeah, what's the ozone?
- I mean, if I was blindfolded
I'd just think it was a peanut butter sandwich.
- 'Cause peanut butter covers a world of hurt.
But does it cover a world of carrots
and raisins did she say?
- Yeah, I like raisins.
- [Rhett] This seems like baby food.
- I like carrots.
It just tastes like a peanut butter sandwich,
but you're getting something that's good for your eyes.
- It tastes like ants on a log without celery,
which means it's better than ants on a log.
- Yeah, it does.
- Y'all know about ants on a log.
Y'all had that growing up right?
- Sure, when you get a little bit of the raisin
it's not overpowering.
This is a something.
- It's actually really good.
Mom, you remember-- - This is so good.
- You remember making me those ants on a log?
- [Diane] Yes.
You loved peanut butter.
- You could put peanut butter on anything.
- Still do.
You got another fun fact for us?
- [Diane] Sometimes we passed notes in class
using our giant typewriters.
- Giant typewriters.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
- Wow. - That was a fun fact.
- I'd love to see that.
- I'm loving this.
Carrot and peanut butter sandwich.
- [Rhett And Link] What a gas!
- What an unexpected gas.
- Why is this not a thing now?
- Well, it can be.
That's what this show is all about,
is bringing things back.
- And fun facts.
Let's have another one, Mama Di.
- Let's have a closing fun fact, Mom.
- [Diane] People think drive-in movies are for smooching,
but we really are just doing our taxes.
- Oh, wow. - Oh.
- That's what it was about.
- That's how you did your taxes.
- It was just about the taxes.
- Back then.
- Well Mom, thanks for joining us.
Happy Mother's Day in a couple of days.
What are your plans for the rest of the day?
- [Diane] It's taking it easy.
Enjoying being a mother.
- Oh, well you do that.
You've been a good one.
You still are. (laughing)
You still are.
You're still my mom.
- [Diane] Thanks, buddy.
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- Happy Mother's Day, Mom.
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- [Diane] You know what time it is.
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