kitsch

Part of the reason those recipes look so alien to us now is that, in postwar America, food science was less kitsch than it was cutting-edge.

I was never a fan of Cracker Barrel’s food, Stuckey’s candies or the kitsch you had to wade through if you had the misfortune of spending time at either establishment.

At the more exalted level of national politics, cultural stagnation is a dive into tackiness and kitsch.

The North Hollywood house, which songwriter Allee Willis first purchased in 1980 and turned into a living ode to all things kitsch, is awash in trinkets and tchotchkes.

It’s so ornate, so frothy with kitsch, you have to smile.