pigtail wrote:
 I guess someone had try them out to - maybe an intern or something sometimes for the publishers, but I do wonder how many consumers actually made those ghastly things for parties back then.   I posted a link a while back where a few cooks prepared and tried some of the gross dishes.  Some of their facial expressions are hilarious, as well as their commentary.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I would like to know if people actually ate this shit at parties.

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Poor little hedgehog...there outta be a law...against Miracle Whip...don't judge...


great link. Love Mrs. Filbert's mayonnaise cake ad. She favors red_draggum except happier...

Some really scary stuff on this site, including:

 Steely_D wrote:
 

Food for thought...

 edieraye wrote: 
Southern Louisiana childhood.

When I stayed home from school ill, my mom would warm a can of cream of mushroom soup and give it to me in a glass beer mug with a glass straw. I would watch the little pieces of mushroom come up through the straw and gnaw on them a little while I watched cartoons. This is a good memory.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I've tried and tried and I can only figure out about 1/3 of the ingredients.............lol   The head is killing me.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
OMG! Do you cook the noodles first or let them add crunch?

this hurts my pancreas just thinking about it...

 

 Proclivities wrote:
 

Everything you look at is an entirely new/different horror.
 
Yes, I'm just talking about this photo but the "you" could mean whatever. :lol:

 haresfur wrote:

 

 haresfur wrote: 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
I guess this is why Australians like incredibly dense cakes. They are essentially designed to be building materials.

 haresfur wrote:
  



"Bitch of a cake. Don't make it."

"Kids are daggy"

6 Gross Foods from a 50's Cookbook (That We Taste Tested)

 miamizsun wrote: 
no. just no.

 miamizsun wrote: 
That's just nasty

 islander wrote: 

ha! churros are one of the four food groups here

have a look at this