30 Recipes From The Past That Show How Everything Has Evolved, Even Our Taste
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Tuna waffles. Bananas with mayonnaise. Hot Dr. Pepper poured over slices of lemon. People can eat anything if they put their minds to it. Anything. Nothing proves this better than taking a gander at cooking recipes from the past that create spectacularly weird food combinations.
So we bring you [drum roll] adverts of strange foods from the not-so-distant past that will make you pity your parents, shout ‘Yuck!’, and have a whole new appreciation for living in the 21st century. It’s nice having the option of not eating Jell-O topped with mayonnaise and strawberries and—oh God, I think I’m gonna be sick—
Honestly, though, ham with bananas, as well as hotdogs in hot cheese soup both sound delicious. I’ll use these cooking ideas for my next soirée. So while I’m thinking of how to lose friends and deter people with my gastronomical genius (read: evil ways), scroll down and enjoy the weird foods from the 50s. Upvote your favorite disgusting food recipes and share this list with your foodie friends. And let us know in the comments which exotic foods you’d be willing to taste or if you’ve tried any of these things to eat before!
Bored Panda spoke to Professor Nathalie Cooke from McGill University to learn more about vintage foods. Scroll down for the full exclusive interview.
Almonds in a Haystack
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Lettuce Salad
Lime Cheese Salad
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Perfection Salad
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2 envelopes unflavored gelatine
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 can (12 oz) apple juice
1/2 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons vinegar
1 cup shredded carrot
1 cup sliced celery
1 cup finely shredded cabbage
1/2 cup chopped green pepper
1 can (4 oz) chopped pimiento
1. In small saucepan, combine gelatine, sugar, and salt; mix well.
2. Add 1 cup water. Heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar and gelatine are dissolved. Remove from heat.
3. Stir in apple juice, lemon juice, vinegar, and 1/4 cup cold water. Pour into medium bowl. Refrigerate 1 hour, or until mixture is consistency of unbeaten egg white.
4. Add carrot, celery, cabbage, green pepper, and pimiento; stir until well combined.
5. Turn into decorative, 1 1/2-quart mold. Refrigerate 4 hours,or until firm.
6. To unmold: Run small spatula around edge of mold; invert onto serving plate. Place hot dishcloth over mold; shake gently to release. Repeat, if necessary. Lift off mold. refrigerate until ready to serve.
Makes 8 servings.
Frozen cheese salad
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2 2/3 cups cottage cheese
8 ounces blue cheese
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 tablespoons chives
2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
1 teaspoon barbecue spice
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 cups raw broccoli florets
Green pepper strips, to garnish
Let cheeses stand at room temperature for 30 min-utes. Place in blender container with buttermilk, chives, lemon peel, barbecue spice, and Worcester-shire, process at medium speed until mixture is smooth. Transfer to freezer tray. Freeze at least 3 hours. Remove from freezer 15 minutes before serv-ing. Unmold on serving platter. Surround with broc-coli florets. Garnish with green pepper strips. Divide evenly. Makes 8 luncheon servings.
Simple Supper Mould
Velveeta Shortage
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Prawn stuffed apples
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Preparation time: 10 mins.
Main cooking utensils: bowl, wooden toothpicks
For 6 people you need:
6 red-skinned eating apples
lemon juice
Filling:
3 tablespoons thick mayonnaise
1 teaspoon tomato paste
dash Tabasco sauce
2 pickled cucumbers, finely sliced
4 stuffed olives, chopped
2/3 cup peeled prawns or shrimp
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
Garnish:
6 whole prawns or shrimp
6 stuffed olives
1. Cut off the tops of the apples, and scoop out the insides to hollow them.
2. Remove all core and pips and dice remaining flesh.
3. Sprinkle the apples with lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
4. Mix the chopped apple with all the other filling ingredients.
5. Just before serving, pile into the apple cases.
6. Decorate with prawn and a stuffed olive on a wooden toothpick.
TO SERVE: With a green salad.
TO VARY: Use same filling with addition of chopped celery or omit the olives and add extra chopped gherkins and a few capers instead.
Banana candles
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Prune and marshmallow coupe
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Preparation time: 5 mins. plust time for prunes to stand
Main utensil: fork
For 6 people you need:
12 bananas
1 cup milk or cream
sugar 2 taste
Decoration:
6 whole prunes (optional)
walnut halves
marshmallows
1 Pour boiling water over the prunes if using them and leave for several hours.
2. Take the prunes, walnuts, marshmallows, and the sugar in screw-top jars, and carry the milk or cream in a small vacuum flask.
3. To make the coupe, mash bananas and the milk or cream with a fork. Add sugar to taste.
TO SERVE: Put the mashed bananas in individual dishes or glasses and top with whole prunes, nuts, and marshmallows. This is an easy picnic dessert because it is easy to transport and there is very little preparation. Each person can easily make his own in his individual bowl.
Terrine of garden vegetables
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ham in aspic
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Chilled celery log
Beet and pineapple salad mold
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1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1 cup dietetic black-cherry or lemon-flavored soda
8 ounces cooked beets,chopped
4 slices canned pineapple, no sugar added. cut in pieces p!us 4 tablespoons juice
Brown sugar substitute to equal 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon lemon juice
1/8 teaspoon salt
Lettuce leaves
Sprinkle gelatin over dietetic soda in a small sauce-pan, to soften. Stir over low heat until gelatin is dis-solved. Refrigerate until mixture is syrupy. Combine beets. pineapple with juice, brown sugar substitute. lemon juice, and salt in a saucepan. Cook over low heat. stirring frequently, 4 minutes. Cool. Fold into gelatin mixture. Spoon into a 1-quart mold. Refriger-ate until firm. Unmold on lettuce leaves. Divide evenly_ Makes 4 servings.
Paella
mushroom stuffed plaice
jellied tomato refresher
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1 envelope unflavored gelatin
1/4 cup cold water
3 cups tomato juice
2 tablespoons dehydrated green pepper flakes
Artificial sweetener to equal 2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1 packet instant beef broth and seasoning mix or 1 beef bouillon cube
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 medium green pepper, cut in rings (optional)
Sprinkle gelatin over cold water to soften. Combine tomato juice. green pepper flakes, sweetener, lemon juice, broth mix, Worcestershire, garlic salt, and cloves in saucepan. Bring to a boil, then remove from heat. Add softened gelatin; stir to dissolve. Pour into bowl. Refrigerate until set. Just before serving. beat lightly with fork. Spoon mixture, evenly divided, into 4 dessert dishes. Garnish with green pepper rings, if desired. Makes 4 servings.
Baked Bologna Jubilee
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Salmon shortcake
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Salads
Tasty ham loaf ring
Lobster Relish
Vegetable quiche
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Ham ‘n’ Lima Bean Sadness Casserole
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Frankfurter pie
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Aspic-glazed lamb loaf
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Cuban salad
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ham and bananas hollandaise
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Spam and Banana Fritters
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Tuna Mold
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Party Sandwich
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Impossible Zucchini-Tomato Pie
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2 cups chopped zucchini
1 cup chopped tomato
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1-1/2 cups milk
3 eggs
3/4 cup Bisquick mix
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 10-inch quiche dish. Layer zucchini, tomato, onion in dish. Beat remaining ingredients until smooth 15 seconds in blender on high or 1 minute with hand mixer. Pour over vegetables in dish. Bake until knife inserted in center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool 5 minutes.
Mexican shrimp-orange salad
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rosted layered sandwich loaf
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Ingredients
Ham-Pickle Filling, below
Chicken Salad Filling, below
Curried Egg Filling, below
Peeled tomatoes
1 loaf (about 1 lb. 13 oz.) unsliced sandwich bread
Butter or margarine
2 tablespoons mayonnaise or salad dressing
2 packages (8 oz.) cream cheese
1/4 cups mayonnaise or salad dressing
2 tablespoons light cream
Directions
Prepare fillings; slice tomatoes; chill. Cut all crusts from bread with a sharp knife. Lay loaf on its side; cut into 5 even slices; spread 4 slices with soft butter or margarine.
Spread fillings on three slices; arrange tomatoes (halve slices if necessary) on the fourth slice; spread tomatoes with 2 tablespoons mayonnaise or salad dressing. Stack slices; top with the fifth slice of bread. Combine cream cheese, 14 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing, and cream. Blend until smooth. Spread mixture on tops and sides of loaf.
Chill thoroughly. Garnish with sieved, hard-cooked egg yolks, if desired.
Ham-pickle filling: Mix 3 cans (2-1/4 oz. ea.) deviled ham and 1/4 cup chopped sour pickle. Chicken Salad Filling: Mix 1/3 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing; 1 tsp. grated onion; 1 tsp. lemon juice; 1/2 tsp. salt; dash of pepper; 1 cup chopped cooked chicken; 1/3 cup chopped celery; and 3 tbs. finely chopped parsley.
Curried egg filling: Mix 1/4 cup of mayonnaise or salad dressing; 1 tsp. prepared mustard; 1 tsp. grated onion; 1/2 tsp. curry powder; 1/2 tsp. salt; dash of black pepper; and 3 hard-cooked eggs, finely chopped.
Makes 8 to 10 servings
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Gelatine salads/everything was such a huge fad in the 60's. Some of them make me want to gag. GELATINE SALAD!
Not to mention the large abundance of Miracle Whip.
Yuck, ugh nasty stuff.
True
I credit a lime jello "salad" with giving me the push to move out of my parent's home. My mother put my dinner in the oven to stay warm until I got home from work... more than 2 hours later. She didn't bother to remove this "salad", so everything was coated with lime jello. Yum.
Why is everything that shouldn’t be in gelatin, IN GELATIN?
My parents had these cookbooks. The answer is: It was basically very cheap and it could trick you into being full more. Jellied meats have been around for centuries, and preserving things in jelly was very common. A lot of this stuff is pretty gross, but from memory, you could overcome the gross once you were hungry enough. And that's basically it - you've got to suddenly work out a way to feed guests on nothing. Out comes the gelatin.
And whatever does not use gelatin, use mayonese or both...
Agree
At least it's a benefit for the cartilage...
Somebody's in tight with the mayo/banana/unflavoured-gelatine lobby.
Part of me really wants to make these for when my in laws come visiting at Christmas.
They probably had this food as children - might make them nostalgic and then they may NEVER leave!!
Half the problem is that the photos are so luridly colored. I mean, the food is mostly gross anyway, but the pictures make these, uh, “dishes” look so much worse.
You're right -- the color printing methods used were primitive compared to today's methods. Also, the profession of Food Stylist as it exists today must have been in its infancy then, if it existed at all. Food Stylists employ all kinds of artificial methods and materials to make food look more appetizing in photos, e.g. white glue instead of milk on cereal. https://www.theartcareerproject.com/careers/food-styling/
Yes, some terrible photos for sure. But I would never eat any of that gelatin shit.
Growing up in rural MN I ate A LOT of this kind of thing.
I was a kid in the U.S.A. in the '60s. These hideous recipes / photos made up by food companies to advertise their products are good for a laugh now, but are NOT an accurate representation of the way people really cooked and ate in those days. My Mom used some of the convenience food products but in a normal way, e.g. pan-fried chicken with gravy made with Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup; Rice-A-Roni as a side dish. Other typical dinner items were meat loaf, hamburgers, mashed potatoes, spaghetti with tomato/meat sauce, macaroni & cheese, vegetables, green salads. She made one molded gelatin dessert that was beautiful as well as delicious, a purple marbleized confection made with lemon Jello, blueberry pie filling, and real whipped cream.
That last one you mention sounds a LOT nicer than the other molded gelatin desserts featured above!
It was! It was from a recipe in the Los Angeles Times Food Section called "Blueberry Jello Mold." I think I still have the recipe clipping from the paper. ;-)
I had to stop after 26 items because I couldn't stomach this anymore.
Some of this stuff doesn't sound bad. But the photography and over-the-top presentations make it look less than appetizing.
Blurgh, this is a whole lotta nope.
I kind of want to make a YouTube channel where each episode I make a couple recipes from the 40-60s and make my friends eat then. By which, I mean I want someone else to do this and i watch it endlessly.
Moral: Miracle Whip is disgusting. Case closed.
There is too much gelatin in these. And how is anything covered in it a salad?!
I heard that someone once actually came up with a recipe that involved putting pineapples on pizza!
So. Much. Gelatin. They left off my favorite recipe... It's sounds horrific, but tastes really good... Tuna Casserole. 1 box Kraft Mac & Cheese, 1 can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, 1 can of Tuna. Prepare the mac & cheese as per instructions, add soup & tuna. Spread buttered bread crumbs over the top and bake until the bread crumbs are golden brown.
Never had boxed Macaroni Cheese... When using macaroni and actual cheese is so easy (even I can do this one) what steps are shortened/removed in a boxed version and is it as good as freshly made? Wondering if I'm just wasting my time making it from scratch rather than using a box of the stuff! Also, how do you make breadcrumbs from bread that is buttered? Doesn't it just clump together? I'm no genius in the kitchen, obviously..!
Cook away my friends..... http://www.midcenturymenu.com/
Ha, ha, ha! Good ideas to "surprise" my guests this Thanksgiving or even Christmas!
Some of those are cringe worthy, I can''t imagine anyone actually eating that, my Mom loved using Jello we had banana puddings and such but never, ever anything like these gelatin creations lol
Its no wonder that they all drank and smoked so much during that era. For the love of all that is holy the only way to force most of those dishes down would be to do it totally tanked. BLECH!!!!
This was laugh out loud funny. Seriously, I didn't know whether to eat half or these or attack them! So love the more unique and original posts like this!
I remember reading my mother's cookbooks from the 60s. A lot of this type of recipe were in there.
So... "back in the day" - it was all gelatin and Miracle Whip... and just like today, Asian dishes are found to be "strange"... Right. - organ meat and pig's feet, y'all, it's still good and sweet 'n' sour is still going on today...
So much jello in this thread! He's a very cool song about weird jello recipes: https://youtu.be/7tWuG2oPL3o
Professor Cooke studies food. Hmmm
This was disgusting! I loved it!
my grandmother still makes Gelatin salads for every holiday. Usually lime ones with celery. All the kids bet each other to take a bite. So gross lol
Does anyone eat it?
My grandmother does lol
Ah, the 70s: where everyone was colorblind and jello came in meat flavor.
Anyone else feeling a bit queasy?
Distinctly.
Somebody leaked the dinner menu from Hell
I threw up in my mouth. Not just a little. Several times.
Just add a little gelatin and Miracle Whip and call it dinner!
So many gelatine dishes and miracle whip…
Some of those recipes are mental!
I am wondering if most Americans don't realize the current recipes are quite questionable in the same way. Creamy, cheesy, bacony. Processed food mixing all possible ingredients. Colorful sugarish horrible cakes. The list is long.
I think most Americans don't realize the current recipes are quite questionable in the same way. Creamy, cheesy, bacony processed food... Or colorful sugarish horrible cakes, mixing all the possible ingredients. The list in quite long
While strange I love looking at these recipes. I created a site just for these type of vintage goodness (and not so good) at https://vintagerecipeproject.com
Someone send this to Good Morning Mythical
The 70's were a scary time to be a kid at meal time
Pardon me, I need to go vomit.
Here is another fun recipe to try Spam-Limas...f39d25.jpg
I grew-up in the 50's, but was never subjected to any of these atrocities. Miracle whip is just plain nasty.
why is it all so gelatinous?
I would be emaciated if I had to eat that kind of sickening food on a regular basis. I'd rather starve to death.
"the combination of "sweet and sour" eg mayo and lime...." um.... mayo is not *meant* to be sweet. Only americanised mayo has sugar added, or worse yet, corn fructose syrup. :(
I feel ill! Lost my appetite .
I think there's too many weird colors, too much processed meat, too much Miracle Whip (which is not a miracle in any stretch of the imagination), and too much gelatin. Just weird recipes that needed to go away.
Boomer meals... this is why we are all f**ked up!
I am glad I wasn’t born back THEN!
Flashbacks! (Shudder! Gag!)
🤢🤮
I remember us thinking they looked horrid back then. Maybe because my family was 2nd generation and we ate a Mediterranean diet, but we gagged at the thought of spam in the 60s and Miracle Whip.
Sure glad I never saw any of those!
Aspics and jellies became popular at the end of the 19th century among the wealthy. Then, with the advent of refrigerators, middle class people could make these dishes with gelatin that set in cold. So in essence, being able to successfully make and serve one of these dishes meant you had a refrigerator. You were now rich enough to mimic what the upper classes had been eating. As more people got refrigerators through the century, these abominable recipes spread like black mold.
So many of these looked like a lot of work for something no one would want to eat.
Thank heavens I grew up keeping kosher! Dodged many bullets!
Funny, I don't remember these things being common in the '60s and '70s. I remember seeing the recipes on Jell-O boxes and in magazines, but I don't recall very many people actually making them. Gelatin with fruit, yes, but not the rest.
I actually couldnt make it through this list, i was heaving so badly
Jello molds were very over rated back in the day... Some look like molded nightmares.
If you're curious about stuff like this check out Emmymadeinjapan on YouTube. In her "you made what?" series she did dragonball weird aspic/gelatin things. Including one with spaghettios.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I think I saw few of those in Kitchen nightmares.
No one ever made this for company, at least. Please.
Wow! No wonder people were thinner in the 60's!!
I couldn't imagine the taste of any meat or meatloaf mixed with gelatin.
Lira Mai lol
Lira Mai follower
Lira Mai -
I wonder if some people still make these.
Did 'Salad' mean something else back then?
I don’t remember seeing any of these in the sixties. I’m really happy about that!!
Great new weight-loss diet here! Just look at these pictures and you won't want anything to eat.
these made me sad. were there any meals that weren't gelatinous jail cells of horror??
Mayonnaise and gelatin... ugh...
I'm hoping no one actually tries any of these recipes
I'm so glad some of these came with the recipes so I don't have to search for them!
This was a nice, disorganized, stagger down memory lane
Lilek's Gallery Of Regrettable Food has even more of this. Good for an hour or so of horrified laughter.
Some of these are gross( many abuses of bananas!) But the meat puddings and igloo look good .and salmon salad is similar to crab dip. I like jellied souse but i admit im weird.
Just for once tell me who the hell came up with all of these things??
I think that prior to serving most of these dishes I would have to yell, "Behold God's mistake!"
Bit harsh blaming God for these!
All of these recipes sound pretty disgusting to me!
So glad the 70's are over...
Apparently gelatin in your food was appetizing in the 60's...
I think the death penalty is too kind for the monsters who created half of these horror film rejects
Mayonnaise and Gelatine… the 60's and 70,s dish. how could they still be alive
Preservatives.
Mmmm, I can’t wait to make me a trifle with alternating layers of Miracle whip, pineapple, and beef-flavored aspic! Maybe I’ll throw some prawn heads in there for good measure.
Or you can just bake a nice basic cake people want to eat.
Gelatine salads/everything was such a huge fad in the 60's. Some of them make me want to gag. GELATINE SALAD!
Not to mention the large abundance of Miracle Whip.
Yuck, ugh nasty stuff.
True
I credit a lime jello "salad" with giving me the push to move out of my parent's home. My mother put my dinner in the oven to stay warm until I got home from work... more than 2 hours later. She didn't bother to remove this "salad", so everything was coated with lime jello. Yum.
Why is everything that shouldn’t be in gelatin, IN GELATIN?
My parents had these cookbooks. The answer is: It was basically very cheap and it could trick you into being full more. Jellied meats have been around for centuries, and preserving things in jelly was very common. A lot of this stuff is pretty gross, but from memory, you could overcome the gross once you were hungry enough. And that's basically it - you've got to suddenly work out a way to feed guests on nothing. Out comes the gelatin.
And whatever does not use gelatin, use mayonese or both...
Agree
At least it's a benefit for the cartilage...
Somebody's in tight with the mayo/banana/unflavoured-gelatine lobby.
Part of me really wants to make these for when my in laws come visiting at Christmas.
They probably had this food as children - might make them nostalgic and then they may NEVER leave!!
Half the problem is that the photos are so luridly colored. I mean, the food is mostly gross anyway, but the pictures make these, uh, “dishes” look so much worse.
You're right -- the color printing methods used were primitive compared to today's methods. Also, the profession of Food Stylist as it exists today must have been in its infancy then, if it existed at all. Food Stylists employ all kinds of artificial methods and materials to make food look more appetizing in photos, e.g. white glue instead of milk on cereal. https://www.theartcareerproject.com/careers/food-styling/
Yes, some terrible photos for sure. But I would never eat any of that gelatin shit.
Growing up in rural MN I ate A LOT of this kind of thing.
I was a kid in the U.S.A. in the '60s. These hideous recipes / photos made up by food companies to advertise their products are good for a laugh now, but are NOT an accurate representation of the way people really cooked and ate in those days. My Mom used some of the convenience food products but in a normal way, e.g. pan-fried chicken with gravy made with Campbell's Golden Mushroom Soup; Rice-A-Roni as a side dish. Other typical dinner items were meat loaf, hamburgers, mashed potatoes, spaghetti with tomato/meat sauce, macaroni & cheese, vegetables, green salads. She made one molded gelatin dessert that was beautiful as well as delicious, a purple marbleized confection made with lemon Jello, blueberry pie filling, and real whipped cream.
That last one you mention sounds a LOT nicer than the other molded gelatin desserts featured above!
It was! It was from a recipe in the Los Angeles Times Food Section called "Blueberry Jello Mold." I think I still have the recipe clipping from the paper. ;-)
I had to stop after 26 items because I couldn't stomach this anymore.
Some of this stuff doesn't sound bad. But the photography and over-the-top presentations make it look less than appetizing.
Blurgh, this is a whole lotta nope.
I kind of want to make a YouTube channel where each episode I make a couple recipes from the 40-60s and make my friends eat then. By which, I mean I want someone else to do this and i watch it endlessly.
Moral: Miracle Whip is disgusting. Case closed.
There is too much gelatin in these. And how is anything covered in it a salad?!
I heard that someone once actually came up with a recipe that involved putting pineapples on pizza!
So. Much. Gelatin. They left off my favorite recipe... It's sounds horrific, but tastes really good... Tuna Casserole. 1 box Kraft Mac & Cheese, 1 can Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup, 1 can of Tuna. Prepare the mac & cheese as per instructions, add soup & tuna. Spread buttered bread crumbs over the top and bake until the bread crumbs are golden brown.
Never had boxed Macaroni Cheese... When using macaroni and actual cheese is so easy (even I can do this one) what steps are shortened/removed in a boxed version and is it as good as freshly made? Wondering if I'm just wasting my time making it from scratch rather than using a box of the stuff! Also, how do you make breadcrumbs from bread that is buttered? Doesn't it just clump together? I'm no genius in the kitchen, obviously..!
Cook away my friends..... http://www.midcenturymenu.com/
Ha, ha, ha! Good ideas to "surprise" my guests this Thanksgiving or even Christmas!
Some of those are cringe worthy, I can''t imagine anyone actually eating that, my Mom loved using Jello we had banana puddings and such but never, ever anything like these gelatin creations lol
Its no wonder that they all drank and smoked so much during that era. For the love of all that is holy the only way to force most of those dishes down would be to do it totally tanked. BLECH!!!!
This was laugh out loud funny. Seriously, I didn't know whether to eat half or these or attack them! So love the more unique and original posts like this!
I remember reading my mother's cookbooks from the 60s. A lot of this type of recipe were in there.
So... "back in the day" - it was all gelatin and Miracle Whip... and just like today, Asian dishes are found to be "strange"... Right. - organ meat and pig's feet, y'all, it's still good and sweet 'n' sour is still going on today...
So much jello in this thread! He's a very cool song about weird jello recipes: https://youtu.be/7tWuG2oPL3o
Professor Cooke studies food. Hmmm
This was disgusting! I loved it!
my grandmother still makes Gelatin salads for every holiday. Usually lime ones with celery. All the kids bet each other to take a bite. So gross lol
Does anyone eat it?
My grandmother does lol
Ah, the 70s: where everyone was colorblind and jello came in meat flavor.
Anyone else feeling a bit queasy?
Distinctly.
Somebody leaked the dinner menu from Hell
I threw up in my mouth. Not just a little. Several times.
Just add a little gelatin and Miracle Whip and call it dinner!
So many gelatine dishes and miracle whip…
Some of those recipes are mental!
I am wondering if most Americans don't realize the current recipes are quite questionable in the same way. Creamy, cheesy, bacony. Processed food mixing all possible ingredients. Colorful sugarish horrible cakes. The list is long.
I think most Americans don't realize the current recipes are quite questionable in the same way. Creamy, cheesy, bacony processed food... Or colorful sugarish horrible cakes, mixing all the possible ingredients. The list in quite long
While strange I love looking at these recipes. I created a site just for these type of vintage goodness (and not so good) at https://vintagerecipeproject.com
Someone send this to Good Morning Mythical
The 70's were a scary time to be a kid at meal time
Pardon me, I need to go vomit.
Here is another fun recipe to try Spam-Limas...f39d25.jpg
I grew-up in the 50's, but was never subjected to any of these atrocities. Miracle whip is just plain nasty.
why is it all so gelatinous?
I would be emaciated if I had to eat that kind of sickening food on a regular basis. I'd rather starve to death.
"the combination of "sweet and sour" eg mayo and lime...." um.... mayo is not *meant* to be sweet. Only americanised mayo has sugar added, or worse yet, corn fructose syrup. :(
I feel ill! Lost my appetite .
I think there's too many weird colors, too much processed meat, too much Miracle Whip (which is not a miracle in any stretch of the imagination), and too much gelatin. Just weird recipes that needed to go away.
Boomer meals... this is why we are all f**ked up!
I am glad I wasn’t born back THEN!
Flashbacks! (Shudder! Gag!)
🤢🤮
I remember us thinking they looked horrid back then. Maybe because my family was 2nd generation and we ate a Mediterranean diet, but we gagged at the thought of spam in the 60s and Miracle Whip.
Sure glad I never saw any of those!
Aspics and jellies became popular at the end of the 19th century among the wealthy. Then, with the advent of refrigerators, middle class people could make these dishes with gelatin that set in cold. So in essence, being able to successfully make and serve one of these dishes meant you had a refrigerator. You were now rich enough to mimic what the upper classes had been eating. As more people got refrigerators through the century, these abominable recipes spread like black mold.
So many of these looked like a lot of work for something no one would want to eat.
Thank heavens I grew up keeping kosher! Dodged many bullets!
Funny, I don't remember these things being common in the '60s and '70s. I remember seeing the recipes on Jell-O boxes and in magazines, but I don't recall very many people actually making them. Gelatin with fruit, yes, but not the rest.
I actually couldnt make it through this list, i was heaving so badly
Jello molds were very over rated back in the day... Some look like molded nightmares.
If you're curious about stuff like this check out Emmymadeinjapan on YouTube. In her "you made what?" series she did dragonball weird aspic/gelatin things. Including one with spaghettios.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I think I saw few of those in Kitchen nightmares.
No one ever made this for company, at least. Please.
Wow! No wonder people were thinner in the 60's!!
I couldn't imagine the taste of any meat or meatloaf mixed with gelatin.
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I wonder if some people still make these.
Did 'Salad' mean something else back then?
I don’t remember seeing any of these in the sixties. I’m really happy about that!!
Great new weight-loss diet here! Just look at these pictures and you won't want anything to eat.
these made me sad. were there any meals that weren't gelatinous jail cells of horror??
Mayonnaise and gelatin... ugh...
I'm hoping no one actually tries any of these recipes
I'm so glad some of these came with the recipes so I don't have to search for them!
This was a nice, disorganized, stagger down memory lane
Lilek's Gallery Of Regrettable Food has even more of this. Good for an hour or so of horrified laughter.
Some of these are gross( many abuses of bananas!) But the meat puddings and igloo look good .and salmon salad is similar to crab dip. I like jellied souse but i admit im weird.
Just for once tell me who the hell came up with all of these things??
I think that prior to serving most of these dishes I would have to yell, "Behold God's mistake!"
Bit harsh blaming God for these!
All of these recipes sound pretty disgusting to me!
So glad the 70's are over...
Apparently gelatin in your food was appetizing in the 60's...
I think the death penalty is too kind for the monsters who created half of these horror film rejects
Mayonnaise and Gelatine… the 60's and 70,s dish. how could they still be alive
Preservatives.
Mmmm, I can’t wait to make me a trifle with alternating layers of Miracle whip, pineapple, and beef-flavored aspic! Maybe I’ll throw some prawn heads in there for good measure.
Or you can just bake a nice basic cake people want to eat.