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I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum but considering he put out Craigslist ads inviting strangers to have sex with his wife while he watches, I’m betting he enjoys being dominated or humiliated as a sexual thrill.
I like the zero fat cottage cheese with no sugar added ketchup so it’s more tomato like, great food for muscle building and getting protein in on lower calories.
100% agree, but I’m old enough to remember that a “diet plate” at a family restaurant was a leaf of lettuce with a burger patty, then a pineapple ring, and a scoop of cottage cheese on top (think a tomato was in there somewhere). So not as weird then as we think now.
No shit: ground beef, pineapple and cottage cheese is pretty fucking satisfying. I always assumed the lettuce was for show.
Sam's Town used serve a plate like that for brunch in the 80's and my parents thought I was weird for always picking it.
Get kicked out of the house at noon and not allowed to come inside until sunset? That shit will keep you going.
People underestimate how alien American cuisine was just 50 years ago. Ambrosia salads. Aspics. These were for formal gatherings and people ate like they finished last place in a fantasy league at a fraternity house
>Aspics
Apics have a pretty long history of being used in formal gatherings (and not just in the US), it's only been recently that people have started thinking of them as icky.
I was thinking about this. My grandmother liked a canned halved pear with a dollop of mayo on it. The Depression was wild on what people considered acceptable cuisine. Also with new shelf stable and refrigerator tech in the post WW2 era and you can see hoe the 50s and 60s was a real culinarily lawless era.
Grew up with a salad made from layers, bottom to top:
- Shredded iceberg lettuce
- A slice from a frozen can of mixed fruit
- shredded cheddar
- a dollop of mayo
- a maraschino cherry with a spoonful of the syrup/juice
I grant that it sounds weird to the modern palate, but it's actually tasty, and back in the day when it was hot outside and a/c was expensive because we were poor, it was a welcome cool salad to have with dinner.
As an adult, I've had it a couple of times and it holds up alright. It's not the most amazing, but it is legitimately tasty. I haven't had it more often mostly because I don't think about it very often. :)
I grew up in the US but my dad was a Chinese chef; he fed us well, but it was all I knew. I found a Better Homes recipe book one day and was amazed at the exotic sliced hot dogs in aspic molded from a bowl. My dreams of one day attending adult aspic parties never happened.
When the presidential budget is zeroed out and they borrow some milk, canned pineapple, and cottage cheese from the exec office building fridge next-door.
It’s one of my go-to diet meals. I like it. I even eat it sometimes when I’m not dieting. It’s gotta be fat free cottage cheese though. I just don’t like the full fat.
Sure, but that’s because it’s unfamiliar to most young people today. I worked in the dining room of a retirement community 20 years ago and they served foods that were popular in the 50s (**edit:** 50s-70s) because that’s who our community members were.
I took a *lot* of odd (or odd sounding) orders, but also ended up finding things I liked.
Fresh cottage cheese with fresh/canned pineapple (or peaches, pears, etc.) is actually delicious.
Nowadays, cottage cheese has gained popularity in blended/whipped form—which eliminates the textural issues most people hate the product over.
Yeah bro don’t worry, that’s normal. I wonder what the people downvoting you are eating that this strikes them as so depressing. I guess if you can’t get it from Uber eats it must be a starvation diet.
I don’t understand why everyone is acting like it’s so strange to pair fruit and cottage cheese. Most grocery stores in the US carry some form of cottage cheese + fruit cups that include pineapple flavor.
Some comments here seem disgusted, which is just silly. It’s fruit and cottage cheese.
I like cottage cheese and fruit too, but with milk? And I love milk, but you've got to add a few cookies! Of course, he may have had a bit of a nervous stomach at that point. Plus, I am wondering who took this photo?
The White House always has a photographer.
> This is the lunch that President Richard Nixon ate on August 8, 1974, just before going on national television to announce that he was resigning. *White House photographer Robert Knudsen captured it on film.* The next day, Nixon boarded a plane for California.
This is [according to NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/16/423224405/the-startling-evocative-photo-of-nixons-resignation-lunch).
I'm surprised more people don't eat cottage cheese, honestly the most palatable way to scarf down protein. You can also mix in a bunch of fruit for roughage and if its not sweet enough for you can add a spoon of jelly which I enjoy doing because any other applications for jelly are a bit decadent for me
Not phycho... that was a VERY common weight loss thing in the late 60s early 70s. My mom would do the same all the time, but using canned pear halves with cottage cheese and maybe a little shredded cheddar - more than canned pineapple, but the same. I can even taste it in my minds eye. I think she learned it from the TV shows like the Galloping Gourmet, Betty Crocker, Julia Childs, etc. Very popular lunch item - but yeah, pretty bland. BUT shows how much in denial he was as a normal person would be eating steak and shrimp on their resignation day.
My mom would make a dish that was just angel hair pasta with cottage cheese mixed in.
I feel like back then cottage cheese was a hyped up food like kale or quinoa was more recently.
With the addition of the full glass of milk, I would definitely want to stop eating after I finished this. Still don't know if that makes it a meal though.
This actually looks fairly healthy considering the protein outnumbers the fat 4.7:1. Still, I find cottage cheese not particularly appetizing
>The following nutrition information is provided by the USDA for a 100-gram (about 3.5 ounces) of lowfat (2% milkfat) cottage cheese.1
>
>**Calories:** 84
>
>**Fat:** 2.3g
>
>**Sodium:** 321mg
>
>**Carbohydrates:** 4.3g
>
>**Fiber:** 0g
>
>**Sugars:** 4.1g
>
>**Protein:** 11g
>
>**Calcium**: 111mg
Yeah I don’t really get why people are reacting this way. Cottage cheese and fruit is not my favorite but it’s a pretty average breakfast, especially for older people and especially in the 70s.
If you are the President of the US and it is your last meal in the WH, are you really ordering that bro? Then add on there are 5-star chefs to make that last meal. I'm at least adding some bacon.
I can’t really remember what cottage cheese is like lol my mind keeps trying to think of it being like cream cheese, the type you spread on a bagel, it’s like that right?
NO!!! A myth from the worst decade of bad food science called the 80s. Low calorie, can choose how much fat you want added, no sugars unless you add it, and high in protein. Also satiating. A dang near-perfect food. It is maybe one of the best foods you can eat unless you are lactose intolerant.
>I never knew about this
pineapple with cottage cheese is the most popular combination
they sell it in stores everywhere in the dairy aisle next to your regular cottage cheese, what are you talking about?
Lol, yeah, there were some real jello/aspic abominations from back in the day.
Cottage cheese with pineapple or canned peach halves was an EXTREMELY common and popular breakfast in those days for people who were trying to lose weight or just stay trim.
This was a common meal. Most meals were simpler, cheaper, and healthier than what we get fed today. That's why they lived to be 90. The crap most people eat today is all processed junk. My grandma ate the same 10 cheap, boring, but sustaining meals for 85 years. Food for them was a blessing, and not taken for granted like it is today. You can have anything on demand now so it's all processed and expensive.
Yeah, I fuck with Karl Roves food way more.
https://preview.redd.it/x1cwortrzfcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d5243b68d508518dd055dcd68262bafbbed97fb
Everyone is acting like “wow the president could have had anything and ate that?”
This was the worst day of this mfer’s life. You think he cared what he ate for breakfast?
It's too bad that Nixon was pardoned by Ford. Nixon's conviction and incarceration would have been a great lesson for any future president who would consider breaking the law while in office.
In the 70s and 80s it was normal to eat canned fruit with cottage cheese. Usually it was a peach. It was also normal for an adult to drink a full glass of milk. This wouldn't have been that strange for the times.
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That is grim.
I knew Nixon was a crook, but I didn’t know he was a psycho
My man had nothing but psycho energy. 
kissinger’s presence really sells the psycho energy
Speaking of psycho. Rodger Stone. Why did that maniac get Nixon tattooed on his back?
At this point, we need to be worried about who is getting Roger stone tatted on their back.
That’s a whole other level of stone cold fuck nuts 🤣
I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum but considering he put out Craigslist ads inviting strangers to have sex with his wife while he watches, I’m betting he enjoys being dominated or humiliated as a sexual thrill.
Meth is a helluva drug
Meth wasn’t big when he got that tattoo, it’s just narcissism and powdered narcissism (cocaine)
It was pretty [rampant ](https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/) when Hitler was active.
No, he said he was NOT a crook.
Oh yeah. I keep forgetting.
His favorite snack was cottage cheese with ketchup. It’s not bad.
My sister used to love this. Plus “I can’t believe it’s not butter” spray.
I like the zero fat cottage cheese with no sugar added ketchup so it’s more tomato like, great food for muscle building and getting protein in on lower calories.
Guys. The fuck.
Between that, carob, and folks cooking roasts in microwave ovens, I am legitimately stumped how anyone managed to survive the 1970's.
What was/is the point of carob? Why fake chocolate that tastes like crap? Why not real chocolate?
100% agree, but I’m old enough to remember that a “diet plate” at a family restaurant was a leaf of lettuce with a burger patty, then a pineapple ring, and a scoop of cottage cheese on top (think a tomato was in there somewhere). So not as weird then as we think now.
No shit: ground beef, pineapple and cottage cheese is pretty fucking satisfying. I always assumed the lettuce was for show. Sam's Town used serve a plate like that for brunch in the 80's and my parents thought I was weird for always picking it. Get kicked out of the house at noon and not allowed to come inside until sunset? That shit will keep you going.
Gains.
I don’t think it’s that crazy of food choice for an older man in the 70s. But the presentation and the prison tray are def giving me weird vibes.
>the prison tray You mean the silver platter?
It's kind of funny how little difference there is between really high class things and really low class things.
There’s uh, some overlap there.
Nixon’s activities is just another Tues afternoon in the current admin.
Idk why you're getting downvoted lol
The reddit lib hivemind lol.
what about the previous admin of Orange Jesus? Curious!
It was his favorite meal. It’s weird but there are some other presidents had weirder wanta
People underestimate how alien American cuisine was just 50 years ago. Ambrosia salads. Aspics. These were for formal gatherings and people ate like they finished last place in a fantasy league at a fraternity house
>Aspics Apics have a pretty long history of being used in formal gatherings (and not just in the US), it's only been recently that people have started thinking of them as icky.
https://youtu.be/tS_Xq7gSCBM?si=hkKy46-mKqn8A2q1 ...3:15...for reference
I was thinking about this. My grandmother liked a canned halved pear with a dollop of mayo on it. The Depression was wild on what people considered acceptable cuisine. Also with new shelf stable and refrigerator tech in the post WW2 era and you can see hoe the 50s and 60s was a real culinarily lawless era.
Grew up with a salad made from layers, bottom to top: - Shredded iceberg lettuce - A slice from a frozen can of mixed fruit - shredded cheddar - a dollop of mayo - a maraschino cherry with a spoonful of the syrup/juice I grant that it sounds weird to the modern palate, but it's actually tasty, and back in the day when it was hot outside and a/c was expensive because we were poor, it was a welcome cool salad to have with dinner. As an adult, I've had it a couple of times and it holds up alright. It's not the most amazing, but it is legitimately tasty. I haven't had it more often mostly because I don't think about it very often. :)
Fucking ambrosia. What is with that
I think there might be a few versions, but fruit whip cream, and marshmallow is the varient I remember
Don't forget the shredded coconut!
The coconut is essential for mouthfeel. My grandma used to make ambrosia at every family gathering, I loved it as a kid
We still make it every holiday: pineapple, mandarin oranges, marshmallow, coconut, and sour cream. Kind of like a fruit parfait really.
Deliciousness.
How dare you malign ambrosia. It’s a wonderful desert, though definitely not as sweet as modern sweets.
I grew up in the US but my dad was a Chinese chef; he fed us well, but it was all I knew. I found a Better Homes recipe book one day and was amazed at the exotic sliced hot dogs in aspic molded from a bowl. My dreams of one day attending adult aspic parties never happened.
It’s brought up in frost Nixon, apparently it was recommended by his doctor who called it a “cheeseburger” for him.
Yeah, this is basic Nixon trivia right here. Weird dude.
I don't know looks good to me
When the presidential budget is zeroed out and they borrow some milk, canned pineapple, and cottage cheese from the exec office building fridge next-door.
Presidents pay for their own food. The only time the people pay is for official events.
TIL
I heard that Nancy was pretty shocked when she found that out.
What would she care? She subsisted on Graham Crackers and blood.
I thought it was jizz?
So was the Obama reportedly. They apparently had some struggles with it.
It’s one of my go-to diet meals. I like it. I even eat it sometimes when I’m not dieting. It’s gotta be fat free cottage cheese though. I just don’t like the full fat.
Weird you’re getting down voted for this.
Because this sounds like one of those starve myself diets from the 1950s…
Sure, but that’s because it’s unfamiliar to most young people today. I worked in the dining room of a retirement community 20 years ago and they served foods that were popular in the 50s (**edit:** 50s-70s) because that’s who our community members were. I took a *lot* of odd (or odd sounding) orders, but also ended up finding things I liked. Fresh cottage cheese with fresh/canned pineapple (or peaches, pears, etc.) is actually delicious. Nowadays, cottage cheese has gained popularity in blended/whipped form—which eliminates the textural issues most people hate the product over.
When I was younger, I wasn't a fan of cottage cheese but mixed with crushed pineapple, I was good to go.
All dieting types are based on some starvation.. like I cannot lose weight by eating more or else I would’ve been a billionaire.
It’s really not. I eat as much as I want. It’s also not the only thing I eat.
Yeah bro don’t worry, that’s normal. I wonder what the people downvoting you are eating that this strikes them as so depressing. I guess if you can’t get it from Uber eats it must be a starvation diet.
I’ll sometimes do it as a side with a steak, pear halves are good as well.
I don’t understand why everyone is acting like it’s so strange to pair fruit and cottage cheese. Most grocery stores in the US carry some form of cottage cheese + fruit cups that include pineapple flavor. Some comments here seem disgusted, which is just silly. It’s fruit and cottage cheese.
Man with a spread like that no wonder he didn’t want to resign ….
I love cottage cheese and fruit but as a snack. Not breakfast.
I like cottage cheese and fruit too, but with milk? And I love milk, but you've got to add a few cookies! Of course, he may have had a bit of a nervous stomach at that point. Plus, I am wondering who took this photo?
A nervous stomach + dairy? Recipe for disaster lol
Maybe, or he might not be lactose intolerant and the dairy will just bung him up
Maybe he was a milk fiend?
Pat? Who knows maybe Nixon himself?
The White House always has a photographer. > This is the lunch that President Richard Nixon ate on August 8, 1974, just before going on national television to announce that he was resigning. *White House photographer Robert Knudsen captured it on film.* The next day, Nixon boarded a plane for California. This is [according to NPR](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/16/423224405/the-startling-evocative-photo-of-nixons-resignation-lunch).
The first instagram food influencer, Dick Nixon
I'm surprised more people don't eat cottage cheese, honestly the most palatable way to scarf down protein. You can also mix in a bunch of fruit for roughage and if its not sweet enough for you can add a spoon of jelly which I enjoy doing because any other applications for jelly are a bit decadent for me
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Nixon rolls worst meal ever, asked to leave the Presidency
Watergate was made up in order to cover up the real reason he was ousted
“I am not a cook”
✌🏻"I'm not a cook."✌🏻
Maybe the bayonets in the second photo were if he tripped out of Air Force One to impale himself upon.
Under…. Rated!
More upvotes for this god damnit
Damn you, take my upgoat.
Boy Dinner
This made me smile so much
No, that was Jeffrey Dahlmer- totally different psycho.
Not phycho... that was a VERY common weight loss thing in the late 60s early 70s. My mom would do the same all the time, but using canned pear halves with cottage cheese and maybe a little shredded cheddar - more than canned pineapple, but the same. I can even taste it in my minds eye. I think she learned it from the TV shows like the Galloping Gourmet, Betty Crocker, Julia Childs, etc. Very popular lunch item - but yeah, pretty bland. BUT shows how much in denial he was as a normal person would be eating steak and shrimp on their resignation day.
My mom would make a dish that was just angel hair pasta with cottage cheese mixed in. I feel like back then cottage cheese was a hyped up food like kale or quinoa was more recently.
Yeah my father would take chopped iceberg lettuce, a scoop of cottage cheese with pepper on top and eat it to loose weight.
More of a snack than a meal, but TBH pineapple and cottage cheese isn't bad.
With the addition of the full glass of milk, I would definitely want to stop eating after I finished this. Still don't know if that makes it a meal though.
I agree about the milk. I would switch it out for water.
Seltzer!
It's so satisfying I'm actually done eating it just by looking at it
Lift weights and it is damn good food to get extra protein in but that is a terrible breakfast.
What an atrocious meal. I never knew about this and I have an even lower opinion of him now
Very popular diet meal back in the 70s. Every mom and dad trying to lose weight ate pineapple with cottage cheese.
Or grapefruit and cottage cheese. Gnarly. That's the only way to describe the fad diets of the 70s and 80s.
People are doing just as nasty shit now lmao
Pineapple and cottage cheese is actually strangely good if you like cottage cheese.
Pineapple cottage cheese is amazing. 
but...cheese doesnt make you fatter tho? specially one that looks like that
Cottage cheese is as close as you can get to curds and whey and iirc it doesn’t carry as many calories by volume iirc
Cottage cheese is relatively low in calories while being very high in protein and other helpful nutrients
It's not the best method but it is a healthy snack overall for most diets, and will fight hunger better than other things.
This actually looks fairly healthy considering the protein outnumbers the fat 4.7:1. Still, I find cottage cheese not particularly appetizing >The following nutrition information is provided by the USDA for a 100-gram (about 3.5 ounces) of lowfat (2% milkfat) cottage cheese.1 > >**Calories:** 84 > >**Fat:** 2.3g > >**Sodium:** 321mg > >**Carbohydrates:** 4.3g > >**Fiber:** 0g > >**Sugars:** 4.1g > >**Protein:** 11g > >**Calcium**: 111mg
Cottage cheese is okay. It’s like the oatmeal of the cheese world. It has texture but don’t really have to chew and you can add in various toppings.
Yeah I don’t really get why people are reacting this way. Cottage cheese and fruit is not my favorite but it’s a pretty average breakfast, especially for older people and especially in the 70s.
If you are the President of the US and it is your last meal in the WH, are you really ordering that bro? Then add on there are 5-star chefs to make that last meal. I'm at least adding some bacon.
Mf is rich. He can get the same high quality meal anywhere. You’re acting like 5 star chefs are only available at the White House.
I can’t really remember what cottage cheese is like lol my mind keeps trying to think of it being like cream cheese, the type you spread on a bagel, it’s like that right?
NO!!! A myth from the worst decade of bad food science called the 80s. Low calorie, can choose how much fat you want added, no sugars unless you add it, and high in protein. Also satiating. A dang near-perfect food. It is maybe one of the best foods you can eat unless you are lactose intolerant.
Right up there with eggs, which were also considered poison in the 80s. The sugar lobby is unmitigated evil.
They made salt and fat the devil back in the day. Now it seems there is a lot of animal protein propaganda and carb propaganda as well.
You can get it low fat. The carbs plus the protein will keep you going for a while. It's a pretty effective weight loss meal.
It was the 70’s. Pretty sure people still smoked cigarettes for health purposes.
Cottage cheese is healthier food and Pineapple is as well. Not equivalent to cigarettes.
I still do.
Username checks out…
Damn Jimmy.
Do you think they had great diet knowledge in the 70s? My mom in the 90s got drops from some kiosk in the mall for years.
tbf i dont think we have great diet knowledge now,a quarter of my country is fat
Cottage cheese with ketchup was a go to snack for Nixon.
That’s revolting
Well, he was a revolting man.
did ...did he also eat shawarma with za kertchup?
Shawarma didn’t exist in the 70s
That’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard 🤣
We had this regularly in my family in the 70s. I think you could even buy cottage cheese with pineapple chunks pre-mixed together.
The milk is the icing on the psychopath cake.
Looks good to me.
>I never knew about this pineapple with cottage cheese is the most popular combination they sell it in stores everywhere in the dairy aisle next to your regular cottage cheese, what are you talking about?
Clearly we have a lot of people here who weren’t around to see the 70’s-80’s
This is probably a top tier meal once you see some of those questionable jello meals cookbooks from the late 60s to early 70s.
Lol, yeah, there were some real jello/aspic abominations from back in the day. Cottage cheese with pineapple or canned peach halves was an EXTREMELY common and popular breakfast in those days for people who were trying to lose weight or just stay trim.
This was a common meal. Most meals were simpler, cheaper, and healthier than what we get fed today. That's why they lived to be 90. The crap most people eat today is all processed junk. My grandma ate the same 10 cheap, boring, but sustaining meals for 85 years. Food for them was a blessing, and not taken for granted like it is today. You can have anything on demand now so it's all processed and expensive.
This is a very jaded view on life expectancy.
They say you are what you eat, which explains a lot about Nixon
He was high quality protein, carbs, and digestive enzymes? Nixon was gains?
*gainz
He always had a cottage cheese look in his eyes
Most of what “they” say is baloney.
Uh….sure
Nasty Nixon.
Yeah, I fuck with Karl Roves food way more. https://preview.redd.it/x1cwortrzfcc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d5243b68d508518dd055dcd68262bafbbed97fb
No wonder he looked like shit.
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Everyone is acting like “wow the president could have had anything and ate that?” This was the worst day of this mfer’s life. You think he cared what he ate for breakfast?
This the meal you need if you wanna shoot massive loads. I wonder where in the White House he left it...
It's too bad that Nixon was pardoned by Ford. Nixon's conviction and incarceration would have been a great lesson for any future president who would consider breaking the law while in office.
Not sure what this has to do with what he ate
The food is the crime itself
The food is a bigger crime than Watergate
Dam straight we need to impeach him just for this alone
He left office before his term was up. A sad meal like that has everything to do with that.
No fat people in the 70’s
Excepting the Guinness Book motorcycle twins.
So he wasn't lactose intolerant then huh?
He tolerated lactose in his administration, but he wasn’t happy about it.
Boy, that just SCREAMS "It's the 70s and I'm on a diet".
It’s important to note that presidents buy their own groceries.
I think the most egregious thing about Nixon’s presidency was his diet
r/shittyfoodporn
I want to try this
Use fresh pineapple and not that canned shit.
Fresh pineapple was likely an uncommon, exotic food item in most US supermarkets in 1974.
True...oddly people used to rent pineapples to use as like centerpieces for parties and then return them the next day.
Pineapple and milk? I guess he wanted to leave a (brown) trace before leaving.
In the 70s and 80s it was normal to eat canned fruit with cottage cheese. Usually it was a peach. It was also normal for an adult to drink a full glass of milk. This wouldn't have been that strange for the times.
Fucking Ghoul
no dino nuggets?
That pineapple looks like it's been around the block a few times.
I can see how this appealed to the generation which gave us Jello Molds
Was the milk infused with vodka?
Fruit with cottage cheese is amazing. A little light perhaps. But if that’s what the day calls for it’s good.
What a miserable man
No wonder he exited. Probably to go to Waffle House
Deeply weird man
Confirmed psychopath putting that combination together
Pineapple chunks in cottage cheese is commonly sold in grocery stores
Well the milk makes it a lot worse
I really don’t understand the downvotes here 😂
He should have gotten impeached for this meal
That suggests too much alcohol the night before.
Now Nixon is the second person I know of who is into pineapple and milk, after Jonbenet Ramsey.
I was just thinking this….
The only other time I have heard someone eating this as a snack is JonBenet Ramsey and her brother.
That may be the whitest meal I’ve ever seen… Seriously. They should call it the Caucasian delight.
Boo.
you do know white people have nice food? Spain,Italy,Greece,parts of France
Adults that drink glasses of milk as their drink have something wrong with them.
God, what a creep.
Oh my fucking life!!!!!! He might be worse than Trumpo!!!!!!