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

[haruhi-fan.livejournal.com]

Can't say we've ever seen let alone run into these recipes up here, eh. For scary food memories 1 I kind of caused was bringing my fish casseroles during my university days to my office hours for clubs or my commissioner (hockey, baseball, clubs) sessions and being too close to a fan in the room that basically made sure everyone knew what I was eating, and most of my friends were (and still are) not seafood fans. But the #1 childhood food memory that haunts me today is simply this: DURIAN. It's an Asian fruit that some claim tastes good but DEAR that smell! Go look it up, safer than smelling it.

[delphipsmith]

I make tuna noodle casserole a lot, and I'm always of two minds about whether it's OK to bring leftovers to the office :) I have heard of durian fruit. It appears to be some kind of demonic infliction upon humanity, as near as I can tell. Ugh.