Sunsweet Booklet (7), 1942

Here, we definitely enter into the realm of Trying Way Too Damn Hard.

Prune Ham Rolls (l): Deep-fried rolls of boiled ham, prunes, and ketchup, coated in eggs, milk and white bread crumbs. Yikes.

Veal "Birds" (upper right) were disturbingly contorted fried-then-boiled (!!) pieces of veal steak got up to resemble chicken. Because chicken was more expensive and/or harder to get back then and apparently you couldn't just give up and eat beans and rice like the rest of the world..

The "Jack Horner Fritters..." Oh, Dear God. You don't want to know. Let's just move on, quick!