21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Recipes

[cali]

the pictures are enough to give you nightmares-

1. Tuna and Jell-o Pie

2. Ham and Bananas Hollandaise

3. Hot Dog Fondue

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and it just gets more.... incredible

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/truly-upsetting-vintage-recipes

[LiberalEsto]

1. The food is grotesque

I posted it the other day too



http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018551183

[Jenoch]

2. The only one of those dishes I would eat is the meatloaf igloo.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Take this to the family Christmas dinner?

They call it banana candle. Most of us would call it something else.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. Sometimes it's just a banana

Are you familiar with James Lilek's Gallery of Regrettable Food at http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html and The World's Worst Food at http://www.flaneur.org.uk/html/food.html ?

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Lileks I've seen, but the other is new, and...

if it has an entire section devoted to Atora suet, and another on Marmite, it deserves more attention next time I get the midnight munchies and am tempted to go off the diet.

I can't imagine that people my age grew up with this modern marvel type food and still made it to this age. I don't remember my mother making any of the worst of it, although she did experiment with Jell-O and some other stuff, but quickly gave up on most of it and went back to just cooking.

Or, maybe I've just blocked out the worst of it.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Wouldn't last long in our home!

[MrMickeysMom]

13. I think there's a treatment for that...

if you catch it early!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I've eaten a good 6 or 7 of those dishes. Why are they upsetting to you?

[Retrograde]

11. In 30 years people will be laughing about kale smoothies

and other popular fads of today (I don't get kale smoothies myself: why not just eat the kale?). Tastes and fads change: in the 50s using packaged products was something of a trickle-down status symbol, today it's locovorianism (or is it locavorianism?)

Speaking of kale smoothies, does anyone remember when chlorophyll was the big miracle ingredient, back in the 50s? It was added to a lot of things, including chewing gum and toothpaste. What good it did you if you weren't a plant, that I can't say.

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. Chlorophyll for non-plant beings

I think if you rub chlorophyll on the bare skin on your forearm and hold the arm in the sun, your arm will get warm from photosynthesis, or something.

[cbayer]

5. OMG, I felt queasy as soon as I saw the words "Tuna and Jell-0 Pie"

But the pictures are so hilarious that I felt better right away!

[Retrograde]

8. The last is sort of a deconstructed cabbage role

kinda - it might be edible if you left off those chunky things in the meat (or is it salmon?) part. I'm assuming it's cabbage: I shudder to think of what else it might be.

Some of the items just suffer from poor color reproduction - the salmon dish and the lobster relish for example. Nothing can save the banana candle, though.

[Phentex]

10. Nina made a potato salad loaf looking thing on Top Chef last week...

I thought it looked disturbing but the judges all thought it tasted great.

[MrMickeysMom]

14. This one didn't even HAVE a name...

… so, I'm wondering what's in it?

[Retrograde]

15. I originally thought some sort of stuffed cabbage, but

that outer green layer looks more like a cream-cheese based frosting. The interior looks a little like canned salmon, and those green chunks in it may be pickles. Or candied fruit. It's dishes like this that paved the way for Hamburger Helper: at least that had more recognizable components.

[MrMickeysMom]

16. I thought by color, salmon….

… but then went sort of queazy inside thinking of the chunks of pickles or worse, candied fruit!