#38: Peanut Butter-Stuffed Onions
During the Great Depression, American culinary creativity soared to new heights, birthing eccentric dishes like peanut butter-stuffed onions. A bizarre blend of onions, peanut butter, bread crumbs, celery salt, milk, and pepper was deemed surprisingly appealing. Despite its lack of dreaminess, this unusual mix was cherished as a luxury, epitomizing the era’s desperation for any kind of sustenance.
Amid these trying times, the focus shifted from gastronomic delight to the sheer necessity of feeding the masses. Peanut butter-stuffed onions, questionable in nutritional value but undoubtedly better than mere crumbs, embodied the era’s ethos of making do with whatever was available. It was a period less about culinary pleasures and more about survival.