Discontinued Foods!: Oscar Mayer Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat (1948-circa 1955): A novel innovation, in which a meat product was sealed in a can, along with a separate bag of sauce to accompany it. The idea was to package both together for convenience, but separate to retain flavor and texture

Oscar Mayer Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat (1948-circa 1955): A novel innovation, in which a meat product was sealed in a can, along with a separate bag of sauce to accompany it. The idea was to package both together for convenience, but separate to retain flavor and texture

It's a shame they didn't diversify the sack o' sauce, they basically gave us "mild bbq sauce" and nothing else. Imagine the possibilities now! Sack o' honey mustard, sack o'sweet Thai chili, sack o' Buffalo, sack o'Cajun honey butter, sack o' "Mulan" Szechuan Sauce...

my favourite part about this ad copy is how "mild" is repeatedly trotted out as one of the most delicious adjectives that can be applied to food. you gotta check out this sauce! it's mild as hell!

if you gave someone who was used to ww2 rations something less mild than glorified ketchup sauce or something i think theyd fucken die

Schonlands got you fam

it was marketed towards white people who put vegetables in gelatin, ofc "mild" is a selling point

youtu.be/Af3islo5neU

Aw damn I was hoping it was Mike and the bots saying "It's BOOOOOOLD!" youtu.be/GfBr5l4S63Q

MST3K - BOLDyoutu.be We got sauce!Barbecue sauce!

The sauces 1950’s Americans would be familiar with: bbq, brown gravy, white gravy

Arguably chili

I think "mild bbq sauce" was already kind of out there on the edge of the American palate in 1950!

Sack o' kranch

Sack o'Donkey Sauce

All those are way too exotic for the kind of person who would have bought this in the 50s.

It's also worth noting that the print ads for this product pretty much use the same copy, but cycle through variations on the same 3 serving options: 1. Meat and sack o'sauce on bread 2. Meat and sack o'sauce over spaghetti 3. Meat and sack o'sauce just...on a platter by itself

Are we not all simply "sacks of sauce" in "cans of meat"?

DO I NOT MARINATE?!

AM I NOT SEALED TO PRESERVE FRESH COOKED FLAVOR!?

Cannibalism had to be banned for a reason, right? We just taste too damned good!

Taste like bacon or pork chops.

lol

Ha, yes!

Sack o' Sauce in a Can o' Meat sounds like one of those baroque 40s insults to someone's manhood.

The marketing department didn't even try here with the name. I kind of respect the lazy honesty.

This is peak postwar modernism

New display name just dropped

Even the kid who wishes he were an Oscar Mayer wiener is grateful he isn't whatever the hell this is.

It obviously failed as "bachelor chow" because it only gave you a ketchup-based sauce for your Oscar Meyer wieners.

Keeps the sauce side sauce and the meat side meat

I just wrote something similar on a repost. Perhaps great minds? youtu.be/gHA4wkN-VVQ?...

McDonalds McDLT [Jason Alexander] (1985)youtu.be

And I checked the replies first to see if anyone else had said it 😂

What kind of Melville whale processing anecdote is this?

possibly more Upton Sinclair

Yes, most certainly so

plus plastics!

Epigraph from The Graduate

We used to be a proper country

I get my meats in a bag and my sauces in a can tyvm

Man-made horrors beyond our comprehension

Well now I have a new line for my bio.

@ebs.bsky.social @joshuaicore.bsky.social @hellkitty.bsky.social @annateresa.bsky.social @wompanafrank.bsky.social We never have cool foods like this anymore

Trader Joe's orange chicken comes in a bag with separate sauce pouch... Correct yourself, Gabi! HNY! 🥰

Happy New Year!

Snoopy and Woodstock happy new year dot gif

The Korean chicken in this month’s Costco ad is pretty good. Same setup, chicken in one bag and sauce in another.

I have that on my camera roll lol

I’ve seen this picture!

Sack o’ Sauce

It's all just soooo appetizing lol

My favorite part is in the lower-right where a regular hotdog is labeled as a “wiener burger”

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