Comments | morwen_peredhil: Recipe from Hell: Polynesian Salad

morwen_peredhil

Recipe from Hell: Polynesian Salad

Feb 01, 2010 21:56

It's been a while since I bestowed a recipe from hell upon you, dear flist, but I spied Joys of Jell-O (1963) on my vintage cookbook shelf and felt inspired. As you might imagine, there were many excellent candidates, but in the end I just had to go with this recipe. Don't all thank me at once!

Polynesian SaladA main-dish salad of rice and ham, ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

ancarett February 2 2010, 03:02:40 UTC

That recipe looks sadly familiar. I'm pretty sure I ate something sort of like this at some point in my childhood!

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 03:06:27 UTC

Yikes! It was a very popular cookbook, so such things must have been inflicted on millions of defenseless children.

ancarett February 2 2010, 03:12:53 UTC

I remember all the Kraft-sponsored holiday specials showing up on TV with the recipes included. "Don't forget to top that with mini-marshmallows!" Bleargh!

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 03:19:38 UTC

There were lots of Jell-O recipes that included them, because apparently Jell-O isn't sweet enough by itself.

The only thing I want topped with mini marshmallows is cocoa.

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hercircumstance February 2 2010, 03:41:51 UTC

I've never enjoyed my not-born-yet status as much as I do right now.

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 03:48:34 UTC

My mother may have inflicted carob and wheat germ on us in the seventies, but I'll take that over those mid-century gelatin monstrosities any day. Bullet dodged!

hercircumstance February 2 2010, 04:02:44 UTC

Speaking of eating trends, my bosses daughters who are supposed to be health nuts keep trying to kill me with Splenda. What is with well-meaning people and fatal flaws? Why ruin whole wheat and organic produce with Splenda of all things (and no, they are not diabetic)? They even try to make cookies using vegan butter and then wonder why they are flat and nasty tasting. I think I'd prefer the 1970s version of healthy over that.

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 04:08:47 UTC

I have been less than impressed by vegan baked goods. Weird egg substitutes and margarine are not tasty.

Splenda is fine in iced tea, but there's no way I'm baking with it. Ick.

Oh, well. More butter, eggs, and sugar for me!

the_sun_is_up February 2 2010, 04:20:03 UTC

Oh sweet baby Jesus, I am really glad that I grew up in the 90s. 8[ I don't even like plain old fruit-flavored Jell-o, let alone this.

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 04:22:14 UTC

Not a big Jell-O fan here, but at least when I occasionally ate it as a child it was just plain Jell-O, with no horseradish or three-bean salad or ham or anything like that.

N IS FOR NUTRITION liminalliz February 2 2010, 04:23:26 UTC

I hate you so much.

Re: N IS FOR NUTRITION morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 04:26:13 UTC

N is also for NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! like ROTS!Vader, which is pretty much the reaction I'd expect from anyone who was served this.

Re: N IS FOR NUTRITION liminalliz February 2 2010, 04:32:49 UTC

YOU ENJOY TORTURING US.

Re: N IS FOR NUTRITION morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 04:35:02 UTC

YES. IT'S FUN.

simone7418 February 2 2010, 17:54:22 UTC

Wow, that's got to be one of the worst ones I've read. I'm so glad I didn't grow up at a time when I had to eat this or I'm quite sure I'd have starved to death.

morwen_peredhil February 2 2010, 18:06:58 UTC

I, too, am glad I was born after the worst of the molded Jell-O salad years. Still can't figure out what the hell people were thinking when they made these.