pan with a little water to produce mouthwatering fried potatoes in minutes. >> people discovered canned soup as sauce poured over the chicken, fish, whatever, and that was your sauce. >> americans were eating jell-o salad and might have chopped up carrots with marsh mellows in them. it was pretty awful. >> people used a lot of spam. it would not be unusual to go to a dinner party where there was grilled spam with slices of pineapple on top of it. >> we ate without much style, flare, and imagination. so when julia did her omelette on that first example of her cooking on television, the phone began to ring and the station actually got a pulse. what a sketch, what a take on french cooking.