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

[thickety.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. I am your mom. Kale in the smoothie, flax on the oatmeal, brewer's yeast on the popcorn. Yesterday's Valentine treat was beet gnocchi (it's pink!) for dinner. No doubt my little sprogs will someday post about my horrors on Buzzfeed, but at least they won't suffer from B-complex deficiencies!

What amuses me about these sorts of midcentury grossout recipes is that they simultaneously assume you want to use prepackaged/instant everything for maximum ease, but are willing to spend an hour+ arranging those things into pineapples/igloos/gardens.

[delphipsmith]

What amuses me about these sorts of midcentury grossout recipes is that they simultaneously assume you want to use prepackaged/instant everything for maximum ease, but are willing to spend an hour+ arranging those things into pineapples/igloos/gardens.

I know, right??? I guess that must have been how you showed your mad culinary skillz: since you didn't have to actually COOK anything, you had to DISPLAY. Kind of like, I don't know, this guy.

[thickety.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I had no one where that link was going. Perfect!