@Nancy88,
I think the prototypical words for the fifties, in the US, for some of us, when I was nine years old through eighteen, would be white bread. The white bread tended to be very light and was seemingly puffed up by gas - perhaps it was. It worked well with a spread of mayonnaise and a slice of bologna. Typically, we also had canned chicken noodle soup and there would be a dish of potato chips. For a drink, kool aid, strawberry. All of this was not very nutritious - as we know now.
White bread could, I suppose, be contracted to 'whitebread'.
I'll admit this was more towards the early fifties than the later fifties.
Bland remains meaning something without much character.