I came across a link to the Gallery of Regrettable Food which digs up some of the more bizzare recipes introduced in the post-depression era from old cookbooks. As the site says:

"They're not really recipe books. They're ads for food companies, with every recipe using the company's products, often in unexpected ways. (Hot day? Kids love a frosty Bacon Milkshake!) There's not a single edible dish in the entire collection. The pictures in the books are ghastly - the Italian dishes look like a surgeon got a sneezing fit during an operation, and the queasy casseroles look like something on which the janitor dumps sawdust. But you have to enjoy the spirit behind the books - cheerful postwar perfect housewifery is taught in every book. Sure, you'll fall short of the ideal. But what's an ideal for if not to show up your shortcomings?"

Some of the recipes: Cooking with 7-Up, Fun with Coffee, Cooking with Dr. Pepper, Banana-rama, and many others. And with captions like: "Let's ignore the phallic implications of bananas" and "Add Seven-Up! You know, the one with that famous flavor. The one no one can really define, other than to say 'it’s the stuff you either drink when you have the pukes, or because you’re at a party at some kid’s house and he has weird parents who don’t have normal stuff.'," this site's hilarious.