Scary vintage recipes

[delphipsmith]

How many of these terrors of the table do you remember?

The banana ones are particularly nightmare-inducing. But the little igloo meatloaf is kind of cute.

When I was a kid, my mom went through a serious health-food kick. The rule at every meal was "No matter what you think, you have to try at lesat one bite." Then, if you didn't like the brewer's yeast surprise or the kale cookies, you didn't have to eat them.

This rule stood until one morning when my brother barfed his one bite of wheat-germ-scrambled-eggs all over the breakfast table.

What's your scariest childhood food memory?

Comments

[drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com]

I'm sitting here at nearly 2 AM laughing out loud at these food...things.

My mom did make a couple of Jell-O loaf things in the 70s. Never anything with meat or seafood mash. I think there was one thing she mixed with sour cream and canned pineapple...? I probably still have the pamphlet with the recipe. She also did that rainbow Jell-O thing where you tilt the wine glass in the fridge and add more colors once the layers chill. That was pretty. Huh. Maybe I should...nah.

[delphipsmith]

Actually the layered colors of jello is pretty neat. I just can't deal with jello that has creamy or chunky things in. Jello should just be, well, jello, right?

[drinkingcocoa.livejournal.com]

It gets an interesting ice-creamy texture if mixed with creamy things and then frozen. In a loaf shape. And then sliced. With colored chunks in it. Like maraschino cherries. Which I remember buying in the 1970s but I don't think I have touched in decades. So pretty, though!

It's the creamed seafood with artificial fruit-flavored gelatin that sends me right over the edge, screaming.