From The Link, 1948.

Her traditions include crowning an animal's severed head on a platter and festooning it with leaves.  With bells on.  From Queens College's 1957 yearbook.

A heart full of waffles, sausages, fish, and galoshes, surrounded by aquatic life forms, and topped with roasted poultry.  From Colorado College's 1925 yearbook.

From Cine-Mundial, 1943.

Forty Canadian dollars in 1972 would be over $243 today.  From The Martlet, 1972.  But in 1979, Philip K. Dick predicted a $1000 hamburger: "From [the robot's] slot came a hamburger, french fries, and a strawberry shake. 'That'll be one thousand dollars in cash'" ("The Exit Door Leads In").

From The Link, 1948.

Exotic dainties.  From Nebelspalter, 1897.

From Festive Food Decoration for All Occasions by Shelia Ostrander.

From L'Eclipse, 1869.

"You're not hungry?"  From Unknown, 1943.

"The Cat Who Married a Mouse" … and the bottle of meat that came between them.  From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.

Cooking shows used to be elegant.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.

Meat growing on trees.  From Lustige Blätter, 1914.  Previously, we saw this carnivore's dream but a vegetarian's nightmare -- a land where sausages grow on trees and cooked pigs frolic with apples in their mouths and cutlery in their loins.

Charles Dickens left out this detail: "Yule spirit comes with meatloaf."  From Florida Flambeau, 1959.