35 Horrifying Vintage Recipes That Would Have Made Your Party A Success Decades Ago (New Pics)
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Just like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so does taste depend on each person. Some like wild food combinations (think of sriracha coupled with peanut butter), while others opt for more traditionally approved tastes.
And hey, we get it. When it comes to food, to each their own. But weirdly, bygone eras are notorious for serving questionable dishes and spreading bizarre recipes with a straight face. We know it from what we have seen in this insanely entertaining Facebook group titled pretty straightforwardly “Disgusting Vintage Recipes.”
The group’s content is exactly what’s in the title. So buckle up and get ready for a trip down memory lane full of stomach-churning turns. More of the bizarre recipes resurrected from the past and shared on this group can be found in our previous feature.
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Bored Panda reached out to Samuel Brown, the founder of 'Disgusting Vintage Recipes,' to find out what his community has been up to since we last spoke some time ago. Turns out that the group has since moved with an updated link, but engagement is way up.
“People are starting to make these recipes and it's hilarious. The Frosty Law Man is a festive hit,” Brown told us. The founder also said that they are going to see if they can get more traffic to the new page. “We can expand and discuss once we hit 10,000 or so. I know that last time, it was extra work at that point.”
Noooooooooooo my alien pet!!! (Well at least I hope it’s not ZARA… O_O)
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it is swedish and the text says "tentcles, a nice evening snack without to high ambitions" Quiet true. Wonder if this is a scam one though.
I love how the Swedish reads: A nice, unpretentious evening meal. Mmm…
So gross to look at never mind put that in my mouth? No way. My husband loves them. They were done like ribs. His Mother use to make them for him.
I'm just picturing people gnawing on these. Is it unpretentious because you have to pick it up and bite it like corn on the cob?
Okay, is this a Scandinavian dish? Certainly looks like it based on the words long the top of the picture. I don’t think Americans have ever enjoyed steamed cuts of meat like this.
Assuming that's octopus, this is just lazy preparation. We make an octopus seviche salad where I live that is just delicious and not this Cthulhu-looking monstrosity.
It looks like they're sitting on a bar next to beer taps-are these some sort of bar snack? Buy a beer and get a pig tail to gnaw on?
The way this is shown is gross, but actually pork rai soup with bits of pork tail in it is really nice
This one makes my skin crawl! I can see the tentacles squirming around....
When asked whether Brown would like to try any of these crazy retro recipes, he said that it is the aspic aquarium recipe that he wants to make the most. “Tell you what: when we reach a 10,000 member goal, I'll make it and post me eating it,” he said.
“I think that many of these recipes are leftovers from old cookbooks trying to sell canned goods, industrially made products and filler for cookbooks. The low-fat craze made this funny as well,” Brown explained the craziness behind the vintage recipes.
how a generation learned to cook after this monstrosity in their childhood is...
When asked if any of these trends may actually come back, the founder of the group said: “I can see SPAM making a comeback, maybe? There's this weird white covering on meat that could come back, but I don't even know what it is made of.”
When it comes to vintage Christmas foods that people made in the past, Brown said that meat trees are different, that's for sure. “Want to see more? I posted a challenge for members to post their favorite holiday recipes on the page. It sounds like amazing Christmas morning scrolling.”
No, no. You spell it "mold". As in, the disgusting structures some fungi can form when growing on something that is rotting. (It's a joke, folks. I'm comparing these "moulds" to gross "mold". Because they look gross. Get it? I'm not actually criticizing the original spelling. Sigh.)
This is what happens when you are a stay at home wife with way too much Valium.
I don't like having my frankfurts be swift. They need to take AT LEAST 15 minutes. 5 to 8 minutes is unacceptably swift. That's just selfish.
Note how Spongebob only lives in the pineapple and doesn't actually eat it.
it looks gross, but tuna, cheese and macaroni is a good combo, especially if you add peas
It looks like someone tried to murder it with a knife, but it was already too powerful.
Marcy needs to be taught how to make a proper enchilada by a proper Mexican cook.
This sounds pretty delicious actually. I'd sub the french dressing out for sure. And this needs smoked paprika.
Even the prawns look like they're trying to crawl to the top of the olives to escape this dish.
"Digestible" is definitely the #1 adjective I look for when I'm considering food. Who cares about things like "texture" and "flavor" as long as it's digestible!
The tubes of dog food that they keep in those special fridges in the pet aisle, it looks exactly like that. We call it 'dog sausage'.
This actually sounds like it might taste delicious, but boy, the picture :|
"Fluffy" is not an acceptable adjective of "mackerel". I'm not allowing it. No. Forbidden.
Dear lord, there must have been so many cow's hooves boiled down to make the glut of gelatine used in all those 60s/70s monstrosities.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."
There's a lot of Miracle Whip in this thread, do they even taste good? I'm actually curious
Sweat and sour chicken ok that's actually good especially if you cut the chicken in small pieces, dip it in a batter, deep fry the chickens and cover the fried chicken with the sweet and sour sauce, but for the love of my kidney WHY THIS????
I declare it is now a federal crime to suspend things in aspic or clear gelatin.
"Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing. They are shallower than single-headed tom-toms and usually tuned much higher, especially for their size." ...what
I feel like you'd take one bite and all those beans would just be all over your shirt and the table.
This has got to be one of the most appealing dishes on this list. In the dim and distant past, I 've had canned macaroni cheese, and it was fine. Adding cubes of ham, and veggies would make it better. I'd prefer to make it all freshly, but I can see how this would be great as a 'pantry special'.
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If we ever invent a time machine, the first thing we need to do is go back to the 70s and ask what their effing obsession was with green olives with pimientos.
That'll be a very disappointing first bite if you thought it was sweet potato pie.
This morphed into tuna casserole, which is pretty good if done right.
A packet of Lipton Onion Soup mix IS actually amazing in meatloaf. The picture is just unfortunately hideous :(
It's as if the color neon green was only just invented in the 1970s and people felt like it had to be everywhere.
How in the name of all things holy did humanity survive the era of the mould and loaf?!
I think the obvious deduction from this article is that food manufacturers all had recipe development kitchens where they kept chefs captive, and they weren't released until they had come up with at 100 recipes involving miracle whip, or 100 versions of jello salad.
After Christmas 🎄 when I go back on my diet I will refer to this list as it seems very effective at putting me off my food! Maybe thanks to this post I'll diet successfully in 2023!
I didn't bother clicking the link to the rest of this posting. Nearly all of them are genuine nightmare fuel - as well as VERY unappetizing.
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The sad thing about being old is, I remember way too many of these as a child, when we had family gatherings.
I had a cookbook with a recipe for Surprise Pound Cake. It listed two ingredients; pound cake mix, and blue cheese. I wonder what the surprise was? 😳
I think we should have a global BP xmas party and everything on this list is on the buffet.
I work on and in sewers, have seen and smelled things that would gag a maggot and didn't flinch...but 99% of these recipes made my stomach churn over so hard.
I was just looking at these while thinking, "were they high or something?" and then it clicked. it was the 60s and 70s, so yes, that's exactly what they were.
Ngl, if presented to me, I would try every single one of these. I might not like it, but I would take a bite.
I'm pretty sure my Mom had the cookbook for all of these ? food? items.
I don't believe half of these even made it out of the magazines and on the table.
Anybody remember canned pear half on a limp leaf of iceberg lettuce with a dollop of mayo in the middle as 'salad' for dinner? Yuck!
Such crazy food ideas back then. I do wonder what some of them would taste like.
Were these recipes from the Cooking for your pregnant wife cook books?
I NEVER thought that I was a picky eater. But, after scrolling through this, I guess I am.
How in the name of all things holy did humanity survive the era of the mould and loaf?!
I think the obvious deduction from this article is that food manufacturers all had recipe development kitchens where they kept chefs captive, and they weren't released until they had come up with at 100 recipes involving miracle whip, or 100 versions of jello salad.
After Christmas 🎄 when I go back on my diet I will refer to this list as it seems very effective at putting me off my food! Maybe thanks to this post I'll diet successfully in 2023!
I didn't bother clicking the link to the rest of this posting. Nearly all of them are genuine nightmare fuel - as well as VERY unappetizing.
Load More Replies... The sad thing about being old is, I remember way too many of these as a child, when we had family gatherings.
I had a cookbook with a recipe for Surprise Pound Cake. It listed two ingredients; pound cake mix, and blue cheese. I wonder what the surprise was? 😳
I think we should have a global BP xmas party and everything on this list is on the buffet.
I work on and in sewers, have seen and smelled things that would gag a maggot and didn't flinch...but 99% of these recipes made my stomach churn over so hard.
I was just looking at these while thinking, "were they high or something?" and then it clicked. it was the 60s and 70s, so yes, that's exactly what they were.
Ngl, if presented to me, I would try every single one of these. I might not like it, but I would take a bite.
I'm pretty sure my Mom had the cookbook for all of these ? food? items.
I don't believe half of these even made it out of the magazines and on the table.
Anybody remember canned pear half on a limp leaf of iceberg lettuce with a dollop of mayo in the middle as 'salad' for dinner? Yuck!
Such crazy food ideas back then. I do wonder what some of them would taste like.
Were these recipes from the Cooking for your pregnant wife cook books?
I NEVER thought that I was a picky eater. But, after scrolling through this, I guess I am.
