Truly awful haute-cuisine 60's and 70's style

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Tinkertoy

<snip> A big favorite (not mine) was a salad made with green Jello, cottage cheese, shredded carrots, chopped green olives with pimento, onions, radishes, cabbage, pineapple and topped with mayonnaise.

Dear Lord - did they just take everything they could find in the house and throw it in green jello?!? :eek:

[johnpost]

Jello was big enough where ito was the sponsor for the Jack Benny radio show.

there is history mentioning this at

Jell-O

[twickster]

Moved MPSIMS --> Cafe Society.

[Johnny_L.A]

I don’t care if the frosting is cream cheese-based, it still doesn’t belong anywhere near “pretty layers of ham and egg filling.”

Cream cheese rolled up in slices of ham is actually pretty snacky. Except for the presentation, I don’t see anything wrong with it.

SPAM[sup]®[/sup] and limas? I think ham and lima beans is a popular dish in some parts of the country. SPAM[sup]®[/sup] is basically ham (and pork shoulder) that has been chopped and formed. Nothing wrong with that. It seems that that image was put there just to disturb people who hate SPAM[sup]®[/sup] even though they’ve never tasted it.

ETA: Oh, the cup steak puddings? I thought it said AORTA.

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[johnpost]

half a century from now people are going to think bacon goofy.

[SerafinaPekala]

@Pai325

Sandwich loaf tasted pretty good, if I remember correctly. Ham salad, chicken salad, egg salad, and maybe tuna salad, all frosted with cream cheese. It used to be served at showers. My mom would either make it herself or, for one shower, bought it at he bakery but it was expensive.

I remember being served something like this at a children’s bday party in the 50’s. Most of us thought it was going to be something SWEET, since it was FROSTED! It took all the grace I could muster to not spit it out and/or vomit after tasting it. WTF would you trick kids with this stuff for?

[salinqmind]

I thought the cream-cheese-frosting ‘sandwich loaf’ garnishes were really pretty!

In the 60’s, I had a hardcover book of beauty and entertaining published by Seventeen Magazine. There was a chapter on food, there was a checkerboard loaf cake like that, with beautiful vegetable garnishes. Never forgot that!

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

I want to make the meatloaf igloo.

[Kamino_Neko]

Me, too.

Looks like basically a cottage pie in a cute shape.

[jabiru]

@johnpost

half a century from now people are going to think bacon goofy.

Why? I’ve been eating bacon for more than half a century. Loved it then, love it now.

[Ike_Witt]

The one that interests me is the one that used lime Jello with some vinegar and onions in it.

[dzeiger]

@johnpost

half a century from now people are going to think bacon goofy.

Well, stuff like the “bacon bowls,” yes. I think they’re kind of goofy now.

[Lukeinva]

@kayT

You know, I was just saying last night that I like jello. As jello. Not as tuna pie. Jesus. What a way to give jello a bad name!

Coincidence. I like tuna. As tuna.

[adhemar]

@Chefguy

I grew up back then and never saw anything like any of those dishes. My mother used to make a halibut dish with mayo smeared all over it. I never ate any of it. I seem to recall some sort of jello with shredded carrots in it that may have been topped with Miracle Whip. But that could just have been a childhood nightmare.

I have seen jello mixed with cottage cheese before. I didn’t eat it.

[Spoons]

Love the comment for number 19, the Baked Stuffed Salmon:

Host places dish on table, beaming with pride.
Guests flee in tears.

[Johnny_L.A]

@adhemar

I have seen jello mixed with cottage cheese before. I didn’t eat it.

My mom made it every year: lemon Jell-O, lime Jell-O, cottage cheese, Miracle Whip (I believe), diced red apples, diced green apples, and chopped walnuts. Looked disgusting. Tasted good.

[No_umlaut_for_U]

We had the variant:
Orange jello
Apricot jello
Cool whip
Cottage cheese
Pineapple
Canned mandarin oranges

It was quite decent.

[Wile_E]

@Hello_Again

Too late to edit but Igloo Meatloaf is badass and I would totally eat and/or serve that.

I have to agree with Hello and the other posters who mentioned it. I don’t see anything wrong with the meatloaf igloo. However, the jello thing in the background is definitely wrong.

[AncientHumanoid]

My mom made a tuna/jello salad. In a jello mold thingy.

I learned to cook for myself at the age of six. Lots of scrambled egg sammiches!

[Pai325]

@SerafinaPekala

I remember being served something like this at a children’s bday party in the 50’s. Most of us thought it was going to be something SWEET, since it was FROSTED! It took all the grace I could muster to not spit it out and/or vomit after tasting it. WTF would you trick kids with this stuff for?

Well, the same thing happened to me at a party my mother had. I thought it was cake, but luckily my mother saw me eyeing it and warned me.

Of course I thought she was wrong and had some. Same reaction as you.

Once I was older - late teens maybe- I had a piece and liked it.