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

[lash-larue.livejournal.com]

At various times of my life, I have rubbed elbows with the very privileged. One of them told a story about a luncheon at their home where a school friend referred to a lobster in aspic dish as "wicked Jello".

I feel the friend had the right of it.

From my youth I recall a casserole of rice and canned tomatoes topped with cheese. I do not recall liking it much.

But it was better than green bean casserole. * shudders *

L

Oh! Then there was the time my mom was frying liver (nightmare right there), the thing started flapping about in the pan, throwing hot grease all over me. My hand to God, the thing flopped out of the pan onto the floor. My big brother pinned it with a butcher knife. This may explain my interest in knife-throwing.

[lady-of-clunn.livejournal.com]

LOL

German food must have set me up to like all things horrible.

Now I am hungry for carved hot dogs, fried liver with apples and onions and herring salad (went off on an image-search tangent).

Not necessarily all at once. Or even on the same day.

[delphipsmith]

I will actually admit to liking fried liver and onions. I've never had it with apples but it sounds pretty damn good.

[lady-of-clunn.livejournal.com]

It's a Berlin specialty - mashed potatoes with fried apples, onions and liver.

It's also quite good without he liver ;)

[delphipsmith]

...a school friend referred to a lobster in aspic dish as "wicked Jello".

::dies:: Oh that is priceless XD