Are These Real Retro Dishes Or Gross Things We Just Came Up With?

Who doesn’t love vintage things? Vintage clothes? Amazing. Vintage mid century modern furniture? Even better! Ideals? Eh, hit or miss, maybe some just not all. Food? NOPE. HARD PASS. WE’LL BE HAVING NONE OF THAT, THANK YOU. They had all the food we eat now back then, don’t get us wrong, but there’s Show More

Who doesn’t love vintage things? Vintage clothes? Amazing. Vintage mid century modern furniture? Even better! Ideals? Eh, hit or miss, maybe some just not all. Food? NOPE. HARD PASS. WE’LL BE HAVING NONE OF THAT, THANK YOU. They had all the food we eat now back then, don’t get us wrong, but there’s something about the food of the 1950’s through the 1970’s that was, uh… how do we put it… full-on disgusting? Yeah, that sounds right.

Thankfully the phase of putting together any combination of meat, cheese, and fruit with gelatin has passed and we don’t put SPAM in everything like we’re astronauts anymore, but we sure tried to make it a thing. If we had a time machine, we’d stop these repulsive kitchen foibles from reaching anyone’s dinner plates, but alas… no DeLoreans here. In the meantime, can you decipher which of these vintage recipes are really real (ew) and which ones are just disgusting things we came up with off the top of our head (still ew, but at least now no one’s eaten it on purpose).

See how you do, Betty Crocker! Let’s get quizzing!

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Tuna is great if you like tuna. Tuna salad? Great. Tuna Jell-o Pie? WHAT?! Is Tuna Jell-o Pie even a thing? Did people really eat that?

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  • No way! Only someone totally sick in the head would think of or even eat something like this.  
  • Oh, for sure. It was a wild time, this sounds right.
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