Retro Recipes That Don't Need To Make A Comeback. Ever. (Pic heavy)

[underpants]

http://www.viralnova.com/would-you-like-some-mayo-with-your-mayo/







Aspic Aquarium

The next time someone starts waxing nostalgic and talking about everything was better before kids and their cell phones, remind them about aspic. Aspic is food, usually meat or something savory, suspended in gelatin. This one features an ocean scene made out of shrimp, vegetables, and elbow macaroni. Usually one has to garnish it, of course, with a healthy slather of mayonnaise.

Liver Sausage Pineapple

While it would make a good band name, this recipe involves molding a mixture of mayonnaise, Worcestershire sauce, and liver sausage around a jar to make a "pineapple." The best part is that it calls for a "real pineapple top," implying you had a perfectly good pineapple and made this instead.

Deviled Lettuce

Check out the glob of Miracle Whip on this thing. In keeping with the trend of waging war on vegetables everywhere, this recipe calls for hollowing out a head of lettuce and filling it with mayonnaise, cream cheese, and deviled ham. The dish is then topped with more mayonnaise.

Fancy Chicken

This chicken in a pastry tux is nowhere near as revolting as the rest of the food pictured here. Still, think about the person who created this, and the thoughts the kind of person who puts a pastry tuxedo on a chicken must have on a daily basis.


From Buzzfeed similar type thing

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariannarebolini/truly-upsetting-vintage-recipes#.nk5LlV6QY

[Autumn]

1. I'm just gonna gonna on record here. The Snowy Chicken Confetti Salad?

I remember something like that when I was a kid. It wasn't bad.

[pinboy3niner]

2. No comeback? Are you kidding?

Every single one of those dishes is absolutely guaranteed to repeat on you.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. There's an entire book about this:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

Between episodes of you'll

[underpants]

5. Meat Fisting : a Guide ----- LOL

Clown Pickles

[mrmpa]

4. If you ever see the movie "Mermaids".......

with Cher and Winona Ryder, you will see Cher's attempts at cooking. It was all '60's food similar to these photos. This is the end scene of the movie

[femmocrat]

6. I remember the seafood mousse.

Pictures, that is. I never made one. I think you would spread the seafood (probably tuna) salad on crackers. It would be on a party buffet.

[underpants]

8. My wife recognized it too

The aspic thing was also familiar to her

[pipi_k]

7. A perfect example

of why obesity was not a national problem back then

[underpants]

9. I love that gif

[Wolf Frankula]

10. At First I Thought It was 'Seafood Mouse"

The Cats would LOVE that!

Wolf

[OriginalGeek]

11. I love deviled Ham

I'd probably eat that lol. Maybe not quite so much Miracle Whip... The rest of that stuff is nightmarey. I remember my mom trying to make various aspic dishes. We always seemed to have different people at each consecutive dinner party.

Yeah, it was pretty much like this:

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. lol

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. For some reason it was a thing in those days

to try to make food look decorative (if you want to call it that), or like something that it wasn't. Hostesses couldn't just serve food in its natural state; a dinner party or other gathering had to have food that was weirdly tarted up, usually with something that you wouldn't imagine mixing it with, the greasier the better. Fortunately that sort of cooking has fallen out of fashion.

[shenmue]

14. Oh dear

[oldandhappy]

15. oh, dear. Memories best forgotten!

At this time of my life and in the winter season, oven roasted vegetables are the yummiest food I can imagine. Delish!

[kentauros]

16. I'd say that the Miracle Whip one is a creative method of plating the food

that could use an update on the filling. It actually comes across as an appealing presentation, if only it didn't use anything related to Miracle Whip or the rest of that filling.

It could make a good presentation for a party dip


And counterpoint: Creative Food Manipulation

[struggle4progress]

17. Kramp Kitchen

[Auggie]

20. +1,000,000 ...

everytime I think of this I lose it. THE BEST cooking parody ever.

The Groove Tube (1974), directed by Ken Shapiro. That's Shapiro in the clip, BTW.

[jmowreader]

18. Most of these heinous foods date back to World War II

They had four advantages over the non-heinous foods we enjoy today:

* you could feed your whole family using relatively small amounts of rationed items
* they can be made quickly and easily
* they look attractive - a VERY important factor in the middle of a costly war
and
* encapsulating food in gelatin helps keep it fresh longer

[Codeine]

19. ham and banana hollandaise?

Fuck me.

[Liberal Veteran]

21. Food that was meant to be seen, but never eaten.

I'm pretty sure the dishes were only cooked one time and then frozen and thawed for formal occasions as a decorative centerpiece that no one in their right mind ever really ate.

All the real food came out of the the kitchen already on the plate.