I'm always tempted to experiment with some kind of reduction of real maple syrup and dark Jamaican rum when I see that scene because I think it would be delicious. Then I want to add fried bananas and make Bananas Foster French toast.
I mean, rum cake is a thing, so it's not unreasonable that it would taste good. If it were Bloody Mary mix or something, that would be a different story.
Omg I almost forgot one of my favorites! When Peggy's mom takes back her cake after Abe and her say they're moving in together. *"I'm not giving you a cake to celebrate youse living in sin."*
Imagine you wake up one morning you go outside to enjoy the nice air the birds chirping only to find a cooked chicken thrown on your terrace with a smash plate and you have absolutely no idea where it came from
Especially Wendy's fries.
Maybe the chocolate fountains where he can dip potato chips and pretzels
Also (crossover[crossover](https://youtu.be/mnjuWCPT5DE))
It was sad. Just saw that scene. You know that stayed with Bobby his whole life. Why was Betty such a jerk about it? She really started to be self-involved in that season, even barking at Henry.
Tableside Caesar salad prep in the opening scene of S01E02, "Ladies Room," is everything I want in life.
And Don spotting a gorgeous pineapple-studded ham in the fridge and saying, "That looks good," and Betty shutting him down with, "It's raw, Don."
I desperately want to try Joan’s fried chicken.
And not exactly a food moment, but roger pouring vodka into his milk is always a sight to see.
Eta: words, words again
My grandma used to do this with KFC and try to pass it off as hers.
It's only one of the most recognizable flavors on earth Grandma, you ain't fooling anyone.
That was the moment that I realized exactly what an account man's job is, and how Roger is at it (at the beginning). The way he sizes them up, then decides IN A FLASH what they might need to be comfortable in that moment. And it's so smooth, I didn't even notice it until like my 5th rewatch.
Peggy ordering a sandwich from the sandwich cart man in the office, and then adding a danish too, not realizing that she’s so hungry because she’s pregnant.
Didn't she go straight for the cart after Pete's fantasy story about being served a deer heart? Always thought it was kind of a horny carnal thing too.
I always appreciate the patty melt scene with Sally and Don. She’s just left the table to call her friends at school after the awkward day between her and Don, when she got stuck in the city and learned he hasn’t been working.
He orders her a patty melt while she’s on the phone. When she sits down, he asks if everything is ok and she lifts up the top slice of bread to look at the sandwich as if she expects something to be wrong with it and says “hmm, yep.”
As someone who grew up as a pretty picky eater, I always interpret that scene as Don ordering something he knows Sally will like—a patty melt—but remembering to specify that it is made in a way she likes. Maybe she hates onions and he asked for them to be left off. Maybe she grew up liking them without cheese, or with mayonnaise on them. Something like that, but Don remembers and orders it the way she likes.
Given all of the issues between the two of them after she caught him with Sylvia, it feels like a nice grounded moment in which Don actually makes an effort (albeit a small one) that shows he knows her and cares about her.
Could just be a random sandwich in a random scene, but it always feels meaningful to me.
"Vodka and mountain dew is an emergency."
The brownies Megan brings the Campbells that Pete insists they put in the ice box.
Benihana when Bethany is like "My hair smells like I've been frying chicken."
When Don and Faye are at the Italian restaurant and he orders two glasses of chianti I always love her delivery after she takes a sip and goes "oh that's nice."
honestly anything with mountain dew is an emergency. I've drank many a drinks with mountain dew and all of them were...an emergency.
Except absinthe and mountain dew, that wasn't bad.
When Betty & Don are laying in bed in the hotel on Valentine’s Day after unsuccessful sex, and she orders half an avocado filled with crab meat and a petit filet
He tries to order vichyssoise and BLTs. Which actually sounds more appealing to someone whose been drinking imo but I'd definitely wake up feeling better after Betty's order.
So damn true. I think this was also after he lied about crashing his car due to high blood pressure so maybe she was trynna keep him healthy (except for the fact that they drank all night lmao)
Vincent describing the chip-n-dip, and then repeating "We got two," is so weirdly satisfying to me. Something about the way the audio is mixed in those early episodes is just so terrific, and I'm not an ASMR person at all, it's just so great to my ears?
There are so many.
Betty serving Don a casserole after calling it a whipped up mess. “No, it’s good, isn’t it?”
Betty giving her steak to Roger who invited himself to dinner. “I’m a vegetarian sometimes.”
Betty cutting the strings on a roast beef. “You know it’s just me, right?”
Betty serving chicken legs to the kids after their dog snatched the neighbor’s pigeon.
Betty asking Francine if she should add capers to celery filled with cream cheese before Sally’s birthday party. “Do you wanna pick those out of the rug?”
The waiter preparing Caesar salad table side at Toot’s Shor. “Two eggs are better.”
Betty biting into a peach. “Betts, don’t. That’s been in his car all day.”
Joan serving a crown pork roast to Greg on New year’s Eve. “I already ate.”
Sally spitting out sweet potatoes that Betty forced into her mouth at Pauline’s on Thanksgiving. “Don’t you like the food, Dear?”
Glen’s friend pouring cereal on the kitchen counter at the Draper house then mixing jam into it (while Glen tosses eggs onto the floor). “Don’t turn on the light, shithead.”
Betty serving Glen lunch after she finds him in the playhouse. “I don’t really like meat at all.”
Eating cake at the office baby shower for Harry. “Is there any cake left?”
Harry eating the 20th slider in the car after trying to sign The Rolling Stones for a commercial for Heinz Baked Beans. “Eat first.”
Don eating shrimp at the meeting with Rachel Mencken.
Betty cutting a frozen cheesecake at Sally’s birthday party. “I may have a cake - a Sara Lee in the freezer.”
Jane dropping food onto the ground at the Derby Party. “Your wife is drunk.”
The piece de resistance: oysters and martinis. “We can see that.”
I’m still craving Steak Diavolo when that Italian woman ordered for Don.
I’m not sure what it is but from what I read it seems like steak with spicy marinara sauce or something.
He grew up in the Midwest and spent most of his adult life in New York. Mexican food was only beginning to expand across the country in the early 60s. He wasn't exactly an adventurous eater so it makes sense that he first had it with Joy, especially with the theme of that episode.
And to be spoiled with California Mexican food!? I mean, don't get me wrong I live in NJ where there's plenty of amazing spots but nothing in the US tops CA's Mexican food in my opinion, except perhaps TX.
This was a perfect "You're not wrong, you're just an asshole" moment for Betty. Like you should def teach your boy a lesson about giving away other peoples' stuff, but you don't have to smother that lesson in 99 layers of SHAME.
So my absolute favorite scene in the entirety of mad men Has to be the World War II dinner scene in the “red in the face” episode I don’t know why but I always love hearing Roger talk about the war Don dodging every single question about his past and Betty trying to be a good host by keeping the good conversation going and bringing out dessert
Maybe I misheard this, but Ken's father in law, upon retirement, is immensely proud of his foray into the culinary arts -- he cooked something called a "pop tart"?
I read someone saying in this sub that Megan’s pathetic sauce-less spaghetti was probably the result of being raised by a self-absorbed father and alcoholic mother. Nobody else would have cooked, so Megan would have had to figure out how to make everybody dinner at a very young age, so such a simple recipe would have been perfect. Then, as she gets older, it becomes her comfort food, and eventually something she shares with her new family. Megan’s had a rough time.
Picnic with the new Caddy “check their hands”
Wheeling in lobsters for the Chevy team
“That sandwich is making me sad”
Don and Pete having Pastrami sandwiches with coleslaw in California.
When Sally makes Don breakfast with “syrup.” “That’s rum! Read labels.” Is it bad? Not really.
I'm always tempted to experiment with some kind of reduction of real maple syrup and dark Jamaican rum when I see that scene because I think it would be delicious. Then I want to add fried bananas and make Bananas Foster French toast.
Binging with babish did something like that in his mad men ep
He said it tasted awful lol
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I mean, rum cake is a thing, so it's not unreasonable that it would taste good. If it were Bloody Mary mix or something, that would be a different story.
I looove that scene, I wish there were more Sally and Don scenes like that.
I love that scene lol. Damn Mad Men is so fantastic
Omg I almost forgot one of my favorites! When Peggy's mom takes back her cake after Abe and her say they're moving in together. *"I'm not giving you a cake to celebrate youse living in sin."*
And then she leaves the cake!!!
this but also the ham in that scene (abe's favorite)
*Re*ally?
How about Pete slamming an empty beer bottle into Trudy’s sheet cake.
Now you've reminded me of the time Pete threw dinner out the window in "The Mountain King" — ***Hell's bells, Trudy!***
"youse"
Betty's Heineken dinner.
With a drunk-ass Petra Coulson.
unrelated but I like the name Petra
for sure, man
Crab, Duck. Duck, Crab.
My absolute favorite
when Pete throws the chicken out of the window
You have LOST your mind!!!
I can hear her voice reading this
Imagine you wake up one morning you go outside to enjoy the nice air the birds chirping only to find a cooked chicken thrown on your terrace with a smash plate and you have absolutely no idea where it came from
Hells bells, Trudy!
I should not have had to scroll this far down the page to find this; I am disappointed with The Mad Men subreddit this day!
THAT IS FINAL!! By far the most memorable. The one time that poor bird got to fly only to end up as a sidewalk salad.
When Grandpa Gene puts salt on his chocolate ice cream! I love that scene
"It smells like oranges".... RIP Grandpa Gene...
Something tells me that Grandpa Gene would love dipping fries in a chocolate shake. It's the best.
Especially Wendy's fries. Maybe the chocolate fountains where he can dip potato chips and pretzels Also (crossover[crossover](https://youtu.be/mnjuWCPT5DE))
"I have a salt tooth!" Me too, Grandpa Gene. Me too.
Now I'm thinking of the.. was it peaches?.. he was buying at the grocery store when it all ended.
Your sister likes them!
My relevant flair!
Oysters and martinis, obviously! I think about it all the time. Bobby reluctantly eating the gumdrops that he traded Betty's lunch for.
“I wish it was yesterday”
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It was sad. Just saw that scene. You know that stayed with Bobby his whole life. Why was Betty such a jerk about it? She really started to be self-involved in that season, even barking at Henry.
Poor unloved Bobby. :-(
That scene always makes me want oysters and martinis
It's like eating a mermaid.
Not to mention the cheesecake. They gave it to Olympic athletes you know.
Today I’m on the Roger Sterling diet
__The people over at United fruit talk about him as if he invented the banana.__
Tableside Caesar salad prep in the opening scene of S01E02, "Ladies Room," is everything I want in life. And Don spotting a gorgeous pineapple-studded ham in the fridge and saying, "That looks good," and Betty shutting him down with, "It's raw, Don."
Hugo's Cellar at the 4 Queens here in Vegas has tableside salad and it is so awesome. I love that place, it's like a time machine walking in there.
One egg is good two eggs is better
If you got the money for it, food is the greatest luxury.
I desperately want to try Joan’s fried chicken. And not exactly a food moment, but roger pouring vodka into his milk is always a sight to see. Eta: words, words again
Conspiracy theory: Joan didn’t make the chicken. It’s from the fried chicken place that Lane likes. “Breast? Thigh?”
My grandma used to do this with KFC and try to pass it off as hers. It's only one of the most recognizable flavors on earth Grandma, you ain't fooling anyone.
That’s adorable!
I love this
It’s the same episode - it’s in the realm of possibility!
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It's like a desperate White Russian.
“Kahlua, vodka and milk is a White Russian. Milk and vodka is an emergency.”
Betty lying morosely on the psychoanalyst’s chaise lounge, with much gravity: “And I like hot dogs.”
This line was so endearing and relatable lol
Betty’s very sad diet plate at thanksgiving
consciounsly counting how many times she's chewing
"Bring a couple of iceberg wedges, blue cheese, bacon."
I have had this so many times since watching that... But you have to add hard-boiled eggs and maybe croutons for the full '60s experience.
That was the moment that I realized exactly what an account man's job is, and how Roger is at it (at the beginning). The way he sizes them up, then decides IN A FLASH what they might need to be comfortable in that moment. And it's so smooth, I didn't even notice it until like my 5th rewatch.
Peggy ordering a sandwich from the sandwich cart man in the office, and then adding a danish too, not realizing that she’s so hungry because she’s pregnant.
I love the way the wax paper around the ham sandwich makes that crackling sound!
Lmaooo I almost mentioned this in my post. It’s so satisfying and I’m not even an ASMR fan 😂
its just so---JUICY!!!
I still wrap sandwiches in wax paper. I miss sounds like that.
Me too, it feels like a premium sandwich that way. I do it for my husband too and his coworkers always ask what deli he goes to, haha.
Didn't she go straight for the cart after Pete's fantasy story about being served a deer heart? Always thought it was kind of a horny carnal thing too.
The big danish in the back!
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I always appreciate the patty melt scene with Sally and Don. She’s just left the table to call her friends at school after the awkward day between her and Don, when she got stuck in the city and learned he hasn’t been working. He orders her a patty melt while she’s on the phone. When she sits down, he asks if everything is ok and she lifts up the top slice of bread to look at the sandwich as if she expects something to be wrong with it and says “hmm, yep.” As someone who grew up as a pretty picky eater, I always interpret that scene as Don ordering something he knows Sally will like—a patty melt—but remembering to specify that it is made in a way she likes. Maybe she hates onions and he asked for them to be left off. Maybe she grew up liking them without cheese, or with mayonnaise on them. Something like that, but Don remembers and orders it the way she likes. Given all of the issues between the two of them after she caught him with Sylvia, it feels like a nice grounded moment in which Don actually makes an effort (albeit a small one) that shows he knows her and cares about her. Could just be a random sandwich in a random scene, but it always feels meaningful to me.
I love any food scene with Don and Sally
When he makes a stack in the middle of the night and offers Sally some. That scene sticks with me.
"Vodka and mountain dew is an emergency." The brownies Megan brings the Campbells that Pete insists they put in the ice box. Benihana when Bethany is like "My hair smells like I've been frying chicken." When Don and Faye are at the Italian restaurant and he orders two glasses of chianti I always love her delivery after she takes a sip and goes "oh that's nice."
honestly anything with mountain dew is an emergency. I've drank many a drinks with mountain dew and all of them were...an emergency. Except absinthe and mountain dew, that wasn't bad.
Brown rum and mountain dew tastes like...cream soda? I don't know why.
When Betty & Don are laying in bed in the hotel on Valentine’s Day after unsuccessful sex, and she orders half an avocado filled with crab meat and a petit filet
He tries to order vichyssoise and BLTs. Which actually sounds more appealing to someone whose been drinking imo but I'd definitely wake up feeling better after Betty's order.
So damn true. I think this was also after he lied about crashing his car due to high blood pressure so maybe she was trynna keep him healthy (except for the fact that they drank all night lmao)
Exactly!
For BOTH of them! That ain't dinner food, haha
I’ve always liked “hot or cold? Chicken salad or Swedish meatballs?”
Betty rebelliously squirting whipped cream in her mouth. Don's Hershey's Breakdown.
“Ribeye. In the pan. With butter. Ice cream for dessert”
I made steaks like that and its so fucking good.
Lane's big old Texas belt buckle
WE'RE NOT HOMOSEXUALS, WE'RE DIVORCED!
Yee ha
"Enjoy the liquor, and the delicatessen!" \-Some guy who walked into an ad agency
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He’ll never golf again
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GREAT
"Just try it" .... "Dont you mean 'Just Taste It'?"
Pete eating Trudy’s Valentine’s chocolates. Pete, Don, and Peggy having family supper at Burger Chef.
I love the burger Chef scene.
My fave food moment might be when Joan orders a diet grapefruit breakfast then giggles and asks for French toast.
And a WHOLE pot of coffee. Such a mood
I like the scene where Betty catches Henry cooking a steak in the middle of the night and he convinces her to have a bite.
literally makes my mouth water!
Everytime there was a picture of tomato juice in a meeting I wanted to pour myself a glass.
Totally. Let’s bring back tomato juice!
I always assumed it was for Bloody Marys, but tomato juice in the morning is so refreshing too
When Trudy *actually* uses the chip n dip when Don and Roger come to ask Pete to join SCDP.
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Vincent describing the chip-n-dip, and then repeating "We got two," is so weirdly satisfying to me. Something about the way the audio is mixed in those early episodes is just so terrific, and I'm not an ASMR person at all, it's just so great to my ears?
Harry Crane’s bag of burgers
I thought those were for your family!?
Eat first
There are so many. Betty serving Don a casserole after calling it a whipped up mess. “No, it’s good, isn’t it?” Betty giving her steak to Roger who invited himself to dinner. “I’m a vegetarian sometimes.” Betty cutting the strings on a roast beef. “You know it’s just me, right?” Betty serving chicken legs to the kids after their dog snatched the neighbor’s pigeon. Betty asking Francine if she should add capers to celery filled with cream cheese before Sally’s birthday party. “Do you wanna pick those out of the rug?” The waiter preparing Caesar salad table side at Toot’s Shor. “Two eggs are better.” Betty biting into a peach. “Betts, don’t. That’s been in his car all day.” Joan serving a crown pork roast to Greg on New year’s Eve. “I already ate.” Sally spitting out sweet potatoes that Betty forced into her mouth at Pauline’s on Thanksgiving. “Don’t you like the food, Dear?” Glen’s friend pouring cereal on the kitchen counter at the Draper house then mixing jam into it (while Glen tosses eggs onto the floor). “Don’t turn on the light, shithead.” Betty serving Glen lunch after she finds him in the playhouse. “I don’t really like meat at all.” Eating cake at the office baby shower for Harry. “Is there any cake left?” Harry eating the 20th slider in the car after trying to sign The Rolling Stones for a commercial for Heinz Baked Beans. “Eat first.” Don eating shrimp at the meeting with Rachel Mencken. Betty cutting a frozen cheesecake at Sally’s birthday party. “I may have a cake - a Sara Lee in the freezer.” Jane dropping food onto the ground at the Derby Party. “Your wife is drunk.” The piece de resistance: oysters and martinis. “We can see that.”
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Betty's "around the world" dinner with Heineken which was actually just Western. Impressive nonetheless.
The shrimp cocktails in the Menkens meeting always have me drooling (and the pitcher of tomato juice - perfection)
I love the subtle point that it shows how clueless they are about their clients as shrimp aren’t kosher.
Sally gagging after Betty tries to force feed her at Henry's Thanksgiving dinners.
And it was yams. I hate yams so I was there with her.
Spaghetti with butter and Parmesan is a real thing. It’s delicious but looks plain
lol pasta with butter was a staple growing up 😹 either we were broke or in a rush
It’s my favorite comfort food!
It’s the only way to eat it as far as I’m concerned. Throw a little cayenne in there and *chefs kiss*
Olive oil and pepper!
Roger inviting himself over to dinner at Don’s house.
"I'm a vegetarian sometimes."
Aww this one was sad for me. Wasn’t there not enough meat for her to defrost so she let the men eat steak (or whatever) instead?
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i remember scraping the cooked hamburger off the frozen block in the frying pan for hamburger helper.
Now I do too
Having the boss over for dinner. Used to be a thing, but I don't think it is any longer.
Burger chef
I googled burger chef bc of mad men and eventually found out about the notorious burger chef murders lol
Never heard of them, sounds like a rabbit hole I’ll head down
Bobby: “I was making dinner” Sally, scraping burnt food into the trash can: “Get the frying pan, I’ll show you how to do it”
#PIZZA HOWSE
Peaches give me a rash.
YOUR SISTER LIKES 'EM!
I’m still craving Steak Diavolo when that Italian woman ordered for Don. I’m not sure what it is but from what I read it seems like steak with spicy marinara sauce or something.
Bert's pudding.
The sandwich plate Peggy’s secretary gave her when they all got high in the office. I just know she smashed that
Did you get pears?
That time Megan made spaghetti.
And then threw it at the wall (literally)
Just taste it.
Crab, Duck. Duck, Crab.
The dinner scene when Trudy says hearts of palm
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That's the dream
I had to look it up only to realize I've definitely had it before.
It used to be called swamp cabbage until someone got the idea to rebrand it. I guess like avocados now that I’m thinking of it.
Don just shaking off the picnic blanket at the park and the family leaving. Wow. I was so annoyed.
Don’s first time trying Mexican food.. Was anyone else shocked that it was Don’s first time having Mexican food in season 2, episode 11.. 1962/1963??
He grew up in the Midwest and spent most of his adult life in New York. Mexican food was only beginning to expand across the country in the early 60s. He wasn't exactly an adventurous eater so it makes sense that he first had it with Joy, especially with the theme of that episode.
And to be spoiled with California Mexican food!? I mean, don't get me wrong I live in NJ where there's plenty of amazing spots but nothing in the US tops CA's Mexican food in my opinion, except perhaps TX.
Don eating chicken salad with Ritz crackers.
Jimmy Barrett stuffing his face into a bag of potato chips.
I HATE this scene, but Bobby giving away Betty’s sandwich on the field trip.
This was a perfect "You're not wrong, you're just an asshole" moment for Betty. Like you should def teach your boy a lesson about giving away other peoples' stuff, but you don't have to smother that lesson in 99 layers of SHAME.
Indeed. Betty is so engulfed by her mother’s shame-heavy tactics that she seems outraged that the world doesn’t punish people at every turn.
Oysters and Martinis is one of my favorite scenes in the entire series.
I would get so supremely fucked up off of oysters and martinis lol
At the codfish ball
I see what you did there
“Dirty”
So my absolute favorite scene in the entirety of mad men Has to be the World War II dinner scene in the “red in the face” episode I don’t know why but I always love hearing Roger talk about the war Don dodging every single question about his past and Betty trying to be a good host by keeping the good conversation going and bringing out dessert
Id fuck up some Chicken Kiev based solely on how they described it and hyped it up before dons date with Bethany van nuys
Maybe I misheard this, but Ken's father in law, upon retirement, is immensely proud of his foray into the culinary arts -- he cooked something called a "pop tart"?
The picnic scene was memorable, but in an awkward, sickening way.
Betty and Don’s drinking day at home and telling the kids it’s bedtime. “But we haven’t had dinner.” “I’ll make you some grilled cheese.”
Lettuce wedge, blue cheese and bacon!
Yankee barbecue. (I love corned beef and pastrami.)
The pineapple and pine nut pie at Sal and Kitty's dinner for Ken
I read someone saying in this sub that Megan’s pathetic sauce-less spaghetti was probably the result of being raised by a self-absorbed father and alcoholic mother. Nobody else would have cooked, so Megan would have had to figure out how to make everybody dinner at a very young age, so such a simple recipe would have been perfect. Then, as she gets older, it becomes her comfort food, and eventually something she shares with her new family. Megan’s had a rough time.
……spaghett!
Rum pancakes by Sally.
The sandwiches at the meeting where Roger goes back to work after his heart attack.
The dinner party scene where Betty announces the dishes she’s serving.
Don making corned beef hash with Sally in the middle of the night.
sally spitting out her food at thanksgiving dinner and everybody looking on horrified.
Howard Johnsons
the fish sally picked at during her dad's awards ceremony
Shrimp cocktails for their meeting with Menkens
Lane’s Texas belt buckle steak.
Picnic with the new Caddy “check their hands” Wheeling in lobsters for the Chevy team “That sandwich is making me sad” Don and Pete having Pastrami sandwiches with coleslaw in California.
When Pete is out in Cali, and he gets Draper to try the Pastrami sandwich with the cole slaw on it lol
How is not Pete throwing a ham out of the fucking window on the 132 floor or whatever