Disgusting Recipes From Vintage Cookbooks That People Actually Ate

Have you ever looked through vintage cookbooks to check out the disgusting recipes our parents and grandparents used to eat when they were kids? Some of them were truly horrible. Maybe no one back then had tastebuds, because that would be the only excuse for some of these combinations.

There’s so much mayonnaise, tuna and Jell-O here, you guys. And often, horrifyingly, mixed with each other. So get your gag reflex under control and take a look at these disgusting recipes from old cookbooks.

Perfection Salad

The call it Perfection Salad. Please tell me what about a sickly brown Jell-O filled with lettuce and a ton of random shredded ingredients is so perfect. It looks very gross and giving it a fancy name really doesn’t make it any better at all.

Almonds In a Haystack

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What do you get when you combine cubes of ham with a ton of Miracle Whip and sliced almonds? This monstrosity. It is supposed to be some sort of dip, but tbh it looks like cat food covered in mayo.

We will pass on trying this appetizer, thank you very much.

Potato Salad Pie

This one doesn’t sounds completely awful, but it doesn’t look appealing, either. Potato salad is delicious. Potato salad in a pie pan covered in a thick layer of mayo and garnished with fresh cherries is just very weird.

Hellman’s didn’t bring out the best with this one.

Mayo Cranberry “Candles”

Again, this one doesn’t sound totally horrible, but why is it necessary? Just buy normal candles. Why do you have to make your own strange edible candles out of mayo, gelatin and cranberry sauce?

Rest assured, regular cranberry sauce is just fine on its own.