ADVERTISEMENT

Peculiar food trends have been around for decades now. Some of them were even published in cookbooks and magazines of yesteryears, which you’ll see in today’s post. 

We’ve collected a few photos of these dishes from two Instagram accounts: Vintage Food Photography and Cursed Cookbooks. You will find sweet treats with faces, oddly shaped sandwiches, and a mixture of flavors that may raise some eyebrows in puzzlement. 

Scroll through these images and enjoy the amusingly weird part of the internet.

#1

Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

vintage_food_photography Report

BoredPossum
Community Member
2 years ago

Awesome!

View more comments
RELATED:
    #2

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This one is cool.

    View more comments
    #3

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "Wait a second, that seamstress looked like Lady Gaga."

    View more comments
    #4

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Noltha
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That is actually cool :D

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #5

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Lotekguy
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 years ago

    I can't tell what's inside, but the bread looks tasty and funny.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #6

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Lotekguy
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 years ago

    That looks like it lures kids into sewers.

    View more comments
    #7

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Heather Ball
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    looks like cannabis cake - cute!

    View more comments
    #8

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Tropical Tarot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Pretty sure that's the real head too

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #9

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    It's me.
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Noooooooooo!

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #10

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    What's wrong with this? Unless those things are some unmentionable animal part.

    View more comments
    #11

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Three frogs in a mating-conga-line.

    View more comments
    #12

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh the indignity!

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #13

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Hyuna
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    It reminds me of the real meat dress

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #14

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This is not the worst.

    View more comments
    #15

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    glowworm2
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Reminds me of a similar old children's cookbook I found in my house where the last recipe has a big old creepy clown cake! This also is a big old creepy clown cake.

    View more comments

    Never miss a story that brings joy to the world. Add us on Google

    #16

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh, the little cat/dog/mouse/squirrel!

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #17

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I'm trying to figure out what that could be. Mashed potato?

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #18

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    kissmychakram
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    But it is good for any scholastic event!

    View more comments
    #19

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Ghostpotato
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Na that's just a sh!tload of pickled herring and a nubbe (small glass of alcohol like aquavit), a regular Swedish midsommar lunch. (Though more commonly it's the other way around, pickled herring with a sh!tload of booze...)

    View more comments
    #20

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Judes
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I had a cake like this when I was a kid! It was great and I won't have anyone say otherwise.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #21

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This one is fun and looks edible.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #22

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Damned_Cat
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "A real-life nephew of my Uncle Spam..."

    View more comments
    #23

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Are the googly eyes edible?

    View more comments
    #24

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Waiter, there's food in my shoe.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #25

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That looks unappetizing as f**k.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #26

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Looks like seagulls dropped their lunch on yours.

    View more comments
    #27

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Tropical Tarot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Is that white asparagus that started to go green at the tips or some bizarre sea creature?

    View more comments
    #28

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    karen snyder
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Salmon salad and pickles. If there were some good crackers, I would actually eat this one.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #29

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    You haven't touched your vegan fish!

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #30

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Nadine Debard
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I don't have the bowel to mix beans and onions, I don't want to become a biochemical weapon

    View more comments
    #31

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Nadine Debard
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This one isn't bad

    View more comments
    #32

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I thought: fun fruit salad, and then I saw "Mayonnaise". Nope, just nope.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #33

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Huddo's sister
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This reminds me of the time my church made a stop motion 'Very veggie Christmas' movie!

    ADVERTISEMENT
    #34

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Daniel Atkins
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This is only here just because of the cup onion rings are normal.

    View more comments
    #35

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Passerby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I am always gay, not only just on holiday, so I am always good, I guess.

    #36

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Upstaged75
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh lord, that's an abomination!

    ADVERTISEMENT
    #37

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Passerby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I know it is probably not, but it looks badly photoshopped, or I am just seeing things weirdly because I am not wearing my glasses.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #38

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Deanna Watson
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    There had to at least be some spice drops or jellybeans lying around. Betty Crocker would be ashamed.

    #39

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Dear heavens, the second row ..

    View more comments
    #40

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Even Audi and I aren't going to eat that.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #41

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Sven Petersson
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Eaten it. It's OK. The sauce is, as Nicole Weymann said, Cocktail dressing.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #42

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    It was so delicious Uncle George wolfed it down and now he's in the burns unit.

    View more comments
    #43

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Passerby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Eww, I thought those black things were cockroaches at first. I dealt with one just yesterday.

    View more comments
    #44

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Lotekguy
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 years ago

    A Busby Berkeley design? Does it rotate rhythmically?

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #45

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Tim Fawcett
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Cthulu awakes from the slumber of eons

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #46

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    kissmychakram
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    What's wrong with this?

    View more comments
    #47

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    D Battle II
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Macaroni filled lungs....

    View more comments
    #48

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "That...could have gone better."

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #49

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I had to look up "homard". Its lobster.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #50

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Bubba Jones
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I would eat this one!

    View more comments
    #51

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Amanda Fondaumiere
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    One meat cart please!

    #52

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "Get em off!"

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #53

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    We had this pizza every Sunday for lunch.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #54

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Passerby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "almost" is used pretty liberally here.

    View more comments
    #55

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Illifred
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Okay... I'd rather go wrinkly then.

    View more comments
    #56

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Sara Frazer
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Aww lil bread guys (I'd eat this lol)

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #57

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Bill Swallow
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The 'Angels' off to the right look somewhat Aghast.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #58

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Mavis
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Graphic design is my passion.

    View more comments
    #59

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Very impressive.

    View more comments
    #60

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Another level of decorating

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #61

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bill Swallow
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The travel base of a Dalek.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #62

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bubba Jones
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Again with the fish? Why so many freakin fish?!

    View more comments
    #63

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    #64

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Tropical Tarot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    What is it with all the damn fish?

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #65

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bill Swallow
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "Pardon me, can you tell me where I can find Tasha Yar?" Skin-of-Ev...9719e2.jpg Skin-of-Evil-66857a19719e2.jpg

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #66

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That's cute-ish

    View more comments
    #67

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Clever decorations

    #68

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    ADVERTISEMENT
    #69

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Maya l'Abeille was a well known cartoon character here in the 80s/90s. Just à cake (OK, badly) decorated with a kid's favorite cartoon.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #70

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Okay, I like the wedding party cakes.

    #71

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    BoredPossum
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    "Guess what I just did."

    View more comments
    #72

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Make a garlic bread caterpillar and I'm in

    ADVERTISEMENT
    #73

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bill Swallow
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Close the lid, grab the handle, and pick it up. Does wonders for the presentation.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #74

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Lorrie Rothstein
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    A turd with a face

    #75

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    #76

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Sara Frazer
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    No thanks!

    ADVERTISEMENT
    #77

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Sara Frazer
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I don't want to be a clown party, thank you much

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #78

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Amanda Fondaumiere
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I remember that guy. He had a merry old soul.

    View more comments
    #79

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I feel so old suddenly.

    View more comments
    #80

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My!
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This, I could eat.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #81

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Galantine de cochon de lait. We see some here around Holiday season. I avoid. Nope.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT
    #82

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Bill Swallow
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Oh No! Mr. Sluggo decapitated Mr. Bill - and his three brothers!

    #83

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    cursedcookbooks Report

    #84

    Vintage-Recipes-Food-Photography

    vintage_food_photography Report

    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    A bit fussily presented, but those roasted lamb cutlets are very tasty.

    View more comments
    ADVERTISEMENT