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Can You Name These Gross Old Foods?

Today, we don’t really have weird foods. At least, not like we used to. In the ‘90s, we had things like purple and green ketchup, Orbitz soda, and plenty of other foods we probably shouldn’t have eaten. Only God knows what was in them, right?! Well, even though we may have eaten some of those foods (and we still don’t know what’s in them), that’s the same sentiment we have for food that we see in cookbooks from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.

Let’s be honest: some of the food looks astonishingly gross. That’s mostly because we don’t use the ingredients in the same way. Most of us know Jello as the delicious cherry, strawberry, or orange-flavored dessert that we spray whipped cream over. That’s definitely not what it used to be. If anyone flips through a cookbook from the ‘50s, they’ll see that Jello and gelatin were something people used to suspend meats and fresh vegetables—not fruits. Lettuce and ham sound delicious suspended in celery flavored gelatin, right?! We didn’t think so, either.

Along with these gross-looking old foods, they tend to have names that make it even more disgusting. We think the word “surprise” should be omitted from any dish because no one really wants to be surprised by the ingredients. Are the names of these foods as gross as we think or are we just making mountains out of molehills? 

Simple Supper Mould

Simple Supper Mould

This simple supper mould doesn't look easy or delicious.

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Pickle Stretcher Salad

Pickle Stretcher Salad

That's unmistakably pickles, making this a Pickle Stretcher Salad. Even with how much we love pickles, we're not going to eat them with olives suspended in Jello.

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Prune Whip

Prune Whip

Okay, so, salmon whip does sound nastier, but prune whip isn't much better. It's cooked prune puree folded into egg whites. That's a recipe for food poisoning.

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Liver Sausage Pineapple

Liver Sausage Pineapple

We still style food today, but we don't ever want to see liver formed into a pineapple using cheese.

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Fiesta Peach Spam Bake

Fiesta Peach Spam Bake

Wishing it was ham? It's Spam. Not far off, but strange enough to make it a hard no for us.

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Pie Plate Salad

Pie Plate Salad

This pie plate salad looks pretty dang bad. Canned mixed veggies suspended in gelatin would make Gordon Ramsey lose his mind.

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Tomato Banana Tarts

Tomato Banana Tarts

Both sound bad, but this is tomato-banana tarts. Huge pass. 

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Shrimp Sandwich roll

Shrimp Sandwich roll

Please be strawberry, please be strawberry. Nope! This is a shrimp sandwich roll. Pureed shrimp with breading and an olive in the center.

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Meatloaf Igloo

Meatloaf Igloo

Why do mashed potatoes need to be formed into an igloo? And what is that on top?

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Aspic

Aspic

Aspic is a savory Jello. Savory Jello shouldn't exist.

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Poor Man's Gravy

Poor Man's Gravy

Poor Man’s Gravy is also known as “Red-Eye Gravy.” It’s made using coffee, which sounds pretty gross until we tell you that you can also make it using soda.

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Ham and Banana Hollandaise

Ham and Banana Hollandaise

The ingredients don’t seem horrible until you combine them. Why on earth would you combine bananas, ham, and hollandaise sauce?

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Cheeseburger Pie

Cheeseburger Pie

Nothing says healthy like making a pie out of a cheeseburger. Top it with globs of cheese and have an ambulance on standby.

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Lime Cheese Salad

Lime Cheese Salad

Grab yourself some lime Jello, mix in some chili, fold in some cottage cheese, and garnish with peas. Since you’re using a Bundt pan, the center can be filled with seafood salad! Yum!

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Glazed Potato Salad

Glazed Potato Salad

Preparing food for a party? You know what that means: it’s time to make a "glazed" potato loaf topped with mayonnaise! Just schmear that mayo all over it.

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Stuffed Picnic Loaf

Stuffed Picnic Loaf

This stuffed picnic loaf looks like ordinary bread until you cut it open to find it’s filled with pureed meat and olives.

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Tuna and Waffles

Tuna and Waffles

Chicken and waffles are a great combo. Tuna and waffles? Not so much. To make it even less delicious, it’s topped with cream of mushroom.

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Spaghetti Galantine

Spaghetti Galantine

Spaghetti is something we hold sacred, so doing this to perfectly good pasta is blasphemous.

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Mayonnaise Jello

Mayonnaise Jello

What’s better than a mouth full of mayonnaise? A mouth full of mayo Jello, of course! If that makes you sick, know that you’re not alone.

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Gentleman’s Cake

Gentleman’s Cake

This is a cake for gentlemen. Nothing is better than a massive amount of cheese, pickles, tomatoes, and a mysterious meat! Don’t forget to pair it with tea. 

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