Completely disgusting foods our parents ate

Continued from: mayo: the devil's condiment

hooray

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2 c hot 7-Up
1 c mayonnaise
1 c cottage cheese
green food coloring, if desired

Too bad nobody in my family took a picture of the creamed tuna on toast we used to have. (PS, it was good)

"Spread on top of Jello"

a more chilling string of words have never been written

bright green hot 7-up + mayonnaise
think about it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_hbic/3219680026/in/pool-789063@N20/

this seriously looks like an alien fish hatchling that someone plopped onto a plate

mordy what are the pics you posted? WE NEED CAPTIONS, PEOPLE

Mordy those are gross, but the game needs to be stepped up if you are competing alongside jello + hot 7 up ;)

I apologise to anyone who enjoyed this dish but Mum used to insist on making scotch eggs

the 70's was full of dishes that hid things inside meat, or buried hidden hated vegetables in quiches

scotch egss were my worst nightmare. I hated eggs so much

http://www.thebritishmenu.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/scotch-egg-second.jpg

SCOTCH EGGS ARE AMAZING

the only thing that could make a scotch egg more amazing is if you bit into it and inside was ANOTHER SCOTCH EGG

INFINITE SCOTCH EGG RECURSION

I've never had a scotch egg but I've wanted to try one for a while. BRB, going to VG's Mom's house.

I leave you with MAYO & PEA SURPRISE
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speaking of peas

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/3072001428/in/pool-789063@N20/

I love the obsession with ring-food
it's horrifying and fascinating

oh shit you guys

okay

guaranteed spit-take link HERE: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superminx/3047090157/in/pool-789063@N20/

xp loool VG. I can't figure out what's going on there. Cubist Shepherd's Pie?

this is called Deep Fried Prawns in Sesame Mayonaise but just looks like a tiny, skinned, boiled elephant to me D: I blame that one, trunk-like prawn(?)

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oh jesus fuck

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this just looks like a really thick stew (carrots, kidney beans, potatoes, ground beaf, peas)...? I'd eat it.

my pics: first kishka (i love vegetarian style, but that's from internal organs), second is tongue, and third is cholent

omg @ smiling dolphin that is amazing

LILEKs has a gallery of these
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/homecuring/5.jpg

I nominate VG's last pic as the new rickroll

FFM that shrimp thing is terrifying -- like there's valves in there? yeeeek

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some of these are disgusting foods my parents ate, and still eat, and that i sometimes eat too :'(

smiling dolphin is killing me.

I keep going back to it

KIDS WILL LOVE "SEVERED PENIS MONSTER SERVED IN ITS OWN BLOOD"

Bless my mom's heart.

She always boiled zucchini.

I think I only started liking it maybe...seven years ago when I had some grilled zucchini for the first time.

"loosening the bung" ruined my day ;_;

can a smiling dolphin bring it back?

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this i never ate. my mom likes to stuff the head w/ gefilte fish

yikes

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chicken schmaltz -mmmm heart attacks

"dolphin" looks like happy chestburster xp

SCOTCH EGGS ARE AMAZING

― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, September 24, 2012 6:57 PM (10 minutes ago)

^^^ homemade are great, store bought are mostly disgusting

enjoy delicious refreshing racism!

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Boiled zucchini, Ned.. I am *so sorry.* That sounds like the best possible way to ruin zucchini!

severed penis monster ;_; tears of terrified joy at my desk right now

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doesn't look disgusting but tastes like cardboard

What racism? xxxp

Boiled zucchini, Ned.. I am *so sorry.* That sounds like the best possible way to ruin zucchini!

Was it ever.

making food smile seems to be the surefire way to make an already questionable dish unspeakably hilarious

these veal rollups are cracking me up right now

it seriously looks like drooling mouths

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I may have just answered my own question when I got to the Mandarinade.

i think i've run out but if i come up w/ anymore... oh wait, one more:

http://food-fun.wisconsinfood.com/.a/6a00e54f0ac1a68834010536c93a8b970c-320wi

my parents did not to the best of my knowledge eat these but there's no way they don't belong on this thread

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Mini Kievs - each one was slightly smaller than a ping pong ball, the chicken was like rubber, and in the oven the cheese filling used to squirt out of the syringe hole they were filled from, leaving a burnt cheesy mess everywhere.
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xp they couldn't have stuck a sausage in there to complete the amazing trolljob?

wash down your pork faggots with a refreshing smiling dolphin

Would totally eat those mini-chicken Kievs.

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sweet jesus

I think putting ketchup on avocado is taking the whole 'never putting mayo on anything evar' stance a bit too far.

how much of this is stuff our parents actually ate vs stuff that food brands advertised to see if they could move a few more pallets of Heinz or Hellmans or whatever during a given month

^ gets it. I saw a lot of those ads when I was a kid, but other than Chex Mix and Rice Krispie squares, I can't recall ever seeing the stuff served or eaten.

My parents / their friends / relatives certainly did serve up food like that. They'd all copy recipes from the back of food packets and send off for those '100 Fresh Ideas For Cooking With Crispbread' booklets.

Avocados are a staple of Cuban diet. Ketchup isn't, despite Reagan's reclassifying it as a vegetable.

I think putting ketchup on avocado is taking the whole 'never putting mayo on anything evar' stance a bit too far.

― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Monday, May 28, 2018 9:26 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this post implying that putting mayonnaise on avocado is acceptable?

It's more acceptable that ketchup, that's for sure.

VINCENT: You know what they put on avocados in Holland instead of mayonnaise?

JULES: What?

VINCENT: Ketchup.

JULES: Goddamn!

VINCENT: I seen 'em do it man, they drown 'em in it.

JULES: Uuccch!

Peanut butter and ketchup on Ritz crackers or on toast. It's really good actually.

ketchup squirted directly onto hot spaghetti, with cheddar cheese also directly grated onto it

actually ridiculously delicious

chop some bacon and bell pepper in there too and that's about as gourmet as we got

Sounds like spaghetti at Hong Kong-style diners.

It’s not like tomatoes and avocados are unknown to each other (avocado and ketchup still sounds awful, of course)

http://nordicfoodlab.org/blog/2013/10/bog-butter-a-gastronomic-perspective

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Why did someone stab that poor jacket to death

mark, be honest: are you posting this five-year-old article because you're researching ancient foodstuffs you might be able to enjoy after being denied the opportunity to get a sip of the sarcophagus juice a while back

5 yr old article, 10 yr old bog butter, 10,000 yr old sarcophagous juice, i'm a slow foodie now

bury me with my dairy products as a gift to future generations

king tut's headcheese

ramesses ii labels the lactose intolerant 'pussies' and 'snowflakes' in shock new translation of hieroglyphics at his final resting place

Disgusting 90's cakes that I probably ate at some point

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Nowt wrong with those. What are they?

I want that black chocolate one.

nothing wrong? ugh, too much cream, to begin with

1st is Pineapple cheesecake
2nd one looks like Forêt Noire but with strawberry
3rd I don't know

there must be hundreds of recipes like these in my family's drawers

Use a fork, the cream on the cheesecake is there to accompany slivers of the half-inch thick crust.

The amount of cream on the chocolate cake is more alarming, but only 1/5 as alarming as the insta-diabetic quantity of frosting there

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according to this cookbook I have from my wife's grandmother, there are only three main food groups: loaves, rings and molds

xxp add something that contains eggs to some eggs!

does this belong here? I think this belongs here.

Finger Food! Everything tastes better with a "touch" of cheese! pic.twitter.com/PDjkPvDALu

— Chefclub Network (@ChefclubNetwork) October 26, 2020

I just had a tin of Heinz Ravioli. Not only did the sauce stain the inside of the tin orange, but also the microwaveable jug I cooked it in, and presumably now my insides as well.

Every time I visit my parents their food cupboards have several packets of Atora Suet, which surprisingly hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread. I learn from the internet that suet is "the compacted, flaky and fairly homogenous fat that is found around animals' kidneys". Like so many things in life I'm sure that in the right hands it can be a force for good, but I've always associated it a certain kind of old-fashioned knowledge that isn't passed down any more.

e.g. I have the impression that my parents organically knew, from birth, how to cook with suet. They knew what it was. They grew up around it. Like little baby birds they jumped out of the nest and took wing without having to learn how to fly. But from my point of view, as a member of the first generation of British people to have pizza, suet feels alien and strange. It's used to cook the kind of things that British people ate in the 1950s - DUMPLINGS!, spotted dick, jam roly-poly, "sussex pond pudding", and clangers, which has this beautiful Wikipedia photograph:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Bedfordshire_Clanger.jpg/330px-Bedfordshire_Clanger.jpg

But I grew up in the 1980s. I grew up at a time when most of those foods were dead as a doornail, and the few survivors - steak and kidney pudding, for example - were only eaten as a kind of Keith Allen-style affectation. When I was a kid no-one explained what suet was for, and I still don't know. The dishes it makes were hot stuff fifty years before I was born. To make things worse, every time I think of it, I get scared that my own vision of food is outdated. That ham and beef paste might no longer be "crucial".

I learn from the internet that Atora was invented by a man called Gabriel Hugon, who was upset that his wife had to struggle to cut blocks of suet. He loved suet, but he also loved his wife. He named it after the Spanish word "toro", and "to reinforce this connection, prior to the Second World War, the suet was transported around the country in painted wagons pulled by six pairs of Hereford bulls", which sounds like a complete rubbish but apparently it's true:
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My parents cooked suet DUMPLINGS! in stew and pies with suet pastry when I was growing up in the 80s and I did so a few times myself as an adult.

Only other place i’ve heard of suet is the Silver Jews song, “ Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer.”

You've just unlocked a memory of cooking jam roly-poly with suet in 'Home Economics' class. This was in the 1990s not the 1890s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6-PMS3tBXs

I cook DUMPLINGS! with suet, though vegetable suet I think. Total comfort food.

I only thought suet was used in bird food.

Not sure why DUMPLINGS! was capitalised but hell yeah, shout it out.

same - been hitting the irish stew fairly hard recently, and parsley and suet DUMPLINGS! are critical. also the lid for steak and kidney pudding, which is one of my favourites. xpost

suet pastry and suet DUMPLINGS! are delicious, also i swear mincemeat used to taste better when it had suet in it

xps: DUMPLINGS! autoreplace dates back to August 10, 2009 on I LOVE CRICKET: THE CHINATOWN OF ILX (ilc)

I'm w/ peace man, in USA suet is exclusively used to bind a mass of seeds in a lumpy block for the birdfeeder

I once wrote a thing about the question of what are dumpings?

Now I'm craving suet DUMPLINGS!, might have to research veggie stews to have them in (I'm not but the family are).

I am cursing not making DUMPLINGS! with the stew I made on the weekend