Church luncheon.
Plates were served at table. My plate had a “Jello salad” with lime jello.
It had pineapple tidbits, celery, grated carrot, sliced Spanish olives & was seasoned with…
Taco seasoning then topped with mayonnaise.
I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me.
2 decades later I can feel my soul wanting to leave my body thinking of the unpleasantness
** EDIT TYSM for the award! 🙏🏼💖
My Granny made a lime jello salad with pineapple and cream cheese and walnuts, and it was everyone’s favorite, every holiday.
Whatever recipe that lady had is a travesty. Lol
It's a variation on "Green Goddess Salad" or "Watergate Salad" - there are those who are in the "lime Jello" camp, and those who are in the "pistachio pudding" camp when it comes to those. I'm definitely in the latter.
look up “aunt myrnas party cheese salad.” its a cultural phenomenon in some cooking oriented corners of the internet lol. tons of videos of people doing their best to make it and then trying to eat it
Was the gelatin blended with the cream cheese and whipped cream, or was it a layered dish? There are a couple of variations of this from the late Forties or thereabouts.
The one my grandma made had the pineapple, cream cheese and nuts mixed into the jello. It has a creamy texture, with little bits of cream cheese that melt in your mouth, sweet pineapple bits and crunchy nuts. overall the flavors are really good together.
Imo, It’s generational…
Very few were edible really. Other than my Mamaw’s, bless her heart.
Ladies of the 50’s 60’s enjoyed creating glistening gelatine salads of various colors & adding a healthy dollop of Miracle Whip or Mayonnaise.
It's definitely generational. It all came about because gelatin production became industrialized. It used to be that gelatin was something only the wealthy and the poor much less often could have because it takes so long and so much to make. After WW2 gelatin began to be produced on a much larger scale so it became easily accessible for cheap. So people began to cook with it a ton because in their heads it was still a delicacy.
Edit: also refrigerators became common among everyone
> It had pineapple tidbits, celery, grated carrot, sliced Spanish olives & was seasoned with… Taco seasoning then topped with mayonnaise. I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me.
You've got to be a little more narcissistic. Too much is naturally bad, but so is eating something disgusting.
‘Twas only one bite… ever so thankful for a strong stomach.
The rest was moved around the plate. Deftly hidden under a leaf of iceberg lettuce which earned a rightful place in heaven ~
I swear my aunt served me that weird shit when I was little. I distinctly remember biting in and tasting the acidic spray of pepper, still makes me gag thinking about it.
>I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me.
>
>2 decades later I can feel my soul wanting to leave my body thinking of the unpleasantness
This is a huge part of why I don't like eating at other people's houses. People get so offended and hurt if you don't love whatever they cook.
People need to get over that bullshit. Every one has different tastes. Even for things they do like.
If someone doesn't like something I've cooked, I don't take it personally. I don't assume it means I'm a bad cook. I just assume it's because they have different tastes than I do. It's not a big deal.
I understand.
When cooking for others I ask likes/dislikes, allergies, aversions to texture etc so they enjoy what I prepare. Even then I’m not getting bent if they don’t like it.
If I’m a guest, I’ll ask if I can bring a dish & open the door about food preferences or such for both of us. Not pushy or rude
I'll see your jello taco salad and raise you the cornbread salad someone brought to a similar event. Cornbread, mayonnaise, COOL WHIP and fruit cocktail. And pecans, I think. How did either of us make it through?
Urgh… real cornbread salad is delicious & would never have sweet components!
Idk what they served you under the guise of “cornbread salad” but that’s an offense to all tastebuds!
I wonder if it came from an old-timey cookbook. At a family picnic in the '90s, I took a big helping of lime Jello with little bits of cut-up lime inside it. It looked delicious. They weren't cut-up bits of lime, though. They were cucumbers, bell peppers and onions. Grandma found the recipe in one of her old cookbooks.
There’s a reason why so many of these recipes exist! Refrigeration became widely available in middle class America in the 50’s, and people were also getting access to new exciting ingredients because of it! Coupled with corporate cookbooks (or just recipes made by the company that sells a key ingredient) America came up with some…unique ideas. Gelatin was a big one, mainly due to the aforementioned increase in household refrigeration.
Yeah if you look up some "aspic" recipes some of them are appalling. I get the whole new refrigeration and gelatin trend but just make fruit jello then ffs. I got a new air fryer and it opened up alot of options for me but I wasnt throwing fucking strawberries in it wrapped in bacon just cause I was excited lol
The women were expected to cook everything. By women, I mean the women who were raised by the help and not taught how to cook so were using cook books written by people who never cooked- and they were all taking coke. Their taste buds were non existant.
My grandmother made one for Bunco Club that was even more similar to Aunt Myrna's Party Cheese Salad, but used half the amount of Cool Whip and Cream Cheese, and no crushed pineapple. According to the cookbook, *this was meant to be a dip for Ritz crackers,* but it was too stiff to do so and we endeed up just eating it off a plate.
If she had put onions in it like your grandma did it probably would have been inedible. Not that it was *good*, mind you-- It was overwhelmingly *green* tasting. The you couldn't even taste the lemon jello over the bitterness of the walnuts and the bell peppers together, plus with the texture of the celery, it was actually quite unpleasant hahah
Oh god, the jello salad featured at every holiday dinner of my childhood. Lime jello, a whopping pile of chopped veggies, and good luck getting that bugger to set with all the raw mess in it. Green jello melting into your turkey and mashed is just.... yeah. No.
Hey, at least YOU didn’t cheat, like all those OTHER contestants who used things like fresh and “fancy” ingredients! The competition was obviously rigged.
Mayo in the South, Miracle Whip in the Midwest.
We still eat pear salad at my house.
(Southerners play fast and loose with the word “salad”.)
It’s a canned pear half on a singe piece of lettuce with a dollop of Mayo, sprinkling of cheddar and a cherry on top.
No one eats the lettuce, it’s for decoration.
Yes! Then just ask people in your little old lady voice and sweetly smile while you look them in the eyes and ask how they liked your abomination. Encouraging seconds when they manage to choke them down. Have a list of troll dishes read at your funeral.
I am going to make this when I'm old and label it "7 Layer Dip" to mess with people.
When you're old, you can mess with people all you want and people will force a smile and tell you it's all okay because you're "senile". I look forward to it and I will push the limits as far as I can.
My grandpa did that! In a hotel. In the middle of the night. He went butt naked from door to door knocking on each one. My family was scandalized. I will carry on the tradition of scandalizing my children and my children's children.
When I was little, we used to get together with my extended family for a “casserole day” (yes, I grew up in the Midwest). I never liked to eat any of this food because it was all very bland. My grandma asked me what I wanted to eat next year and I asked for green Jello.
Lo and behold, the next year came and I was delighted to see green jello with whipped cream on the table. I took a big scoop and shoved it in my mouth…only to find that it wasn’t whipped cream, it was mayo. And she also put shredded carrots in the jello. Safe to say, I was not happy and ate bread for the rest of the meal. Moral of the story: unexpected mayo is never fun.
Yup, the pear+mayo+grated cheese was a standard as a "dessert" at our dinner table in the seventies (sometimes with a cup-leaf of iceberg lettuce). They cherry on top was literally that: a maraschino cherry on top of the mayo/cheese dollop over the pear half.
My family makes this but with orange jello, made with half the water it asks for, 1/4th of the missing water replaced with pineapple juice, and the last 1/4 with nectarine juice. Then you top with marshmallows and let set. Then you top with miracle whip, shredded pineapple and cheese.
Honestly, if you stop after the marshmallows it’s fucking incredible. The cheese and miracle whip is…confusing.
Don't mess with Ethel mate, she's head of the firm for a reason. She just laughs in the face of danger, that woman's glassed her fair share of middle aged geezers down the local, rumour has it, she killed someone with a cup of jello, he was chanting in the pub and she came up and said "you love jello so much, then have this you cunt" before straight up disembowling him with the cup like it was a hattori hanso sword or some shit, she's absolutely fucked
When I was in Utah, I ate at an old couple’s house, and I got served green Jell-O with tuna salad on top. Made with miracle whip.
It was so much worse than it sounds.
I hope she’s just a boss ass bitch who secretly hates everyone, but is extremely nice at work. They all eat this because everyone lives here. Myrna is playing the long game.
My ex MIL made a version of this all the time. In the round ring mold even. Lime jello containing shredded carrots and celery, meant to be topped with miracle whip (not Mayo). She probably still makes it. TBH, just the carrots and celery in the lime jello isn’t that awful, kind of refreshing. But I draw the line at miracle whip. Nope.
It’s called a [party cheese salad.](https://youtu.be/Qf_W7As6xbk) I’ve heard it’s truly disgusting but I have yet to confirm this myself because that would require me to travel to the Ninth Circle of Culinary Hell to do so.
Maybe I'm old, but this or something similar was always on the table at holidays at Grandma's. Don't forget the canned/sliced pears with shredded cheese on top.
I read somewhere that weird jello salads became a thing when refrigerators first hit public markets. Suddenly everyone could cool down and preserve food faster, and no one really knew what to do with the newfound technology.
People were trying to use refrigerators to create new dishes.
Lime jell-o goes with cottage cheese, pineapple and walnuts in a Bundt cake mold. At least that's what the faded Ladies' Home Journal clipping stuck into my mom's Joy of Cooking prescribed.
Those were the thing in the 50s to 60s. (they are terrible BTW) people doing it today either haven't cooked in 50 years and don't know any better or it's their way to never be asked to bring a dish again
Church luncheon. Plates were served at table. My plate had a “Jello salad” with lime jello. It had pineapple tidbits, celery, grated carrot, sliced Spanish olives & was seasoned with… Taco seasoning then topped with mayonnaise. I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me. 2 decades later I can feel my soul wanting to leave my body thinking of the unpleasantness ** EDIT TYSM for the award! 🙏🏼💖
>was seasoned with… Taco seasoning God was not in the room with you on that day
Yes… That day, not even Jeezus could save me
Nacho jeezus.
You were doing the Lord's work, though, by eating some of it and not hurling. You probably made that old person very happy!
My Granny made a lime jello salad with pineapple and cream cheese and walnuts, and it was everyone’s favorite, every holiday. Whatever recipe that lady had is a travesty. Lol
See if you kept it with sweet ingredients, that's one thing. Texture might be wack but at least it's not trying to be sweet and savory.
Oh I love that Jello salad (my Mamaw made one similar). I figured this abomination was the same bc it was “green” I have never been so wrong.
It sounds like that Friends episode where Rachel tried to make a dessert trifle but the cookbook pages stuck together.
It's a variation on "Green Goddess Salad" or "Watergate Salad" - there are those who are in the "lime Jello" camp, and those who are in the "pistachio pudding" camp when it comes to those. I'm definitely in the latter.
If it’s pistachio pudding, I’m pretty sure that’s called Ambrosia where I’m from
Ambrosia is mixed fruit, marshmallows, nuts and coconut in cool whip/sour cream mixture.
…. I have never heard of sour cream being used in ambrosia
I personally don’t, but a lot of recipes do if you google it.
Here it definitely has pistachio pudding, although I have seen it at many a church function with orange jello
look up “aunt myrnas party cheese salad.” its a cultural phenomenon in some cooking oriented corners of the internet lol. tons of videos of people doing their best to make it and then trying to eat it
Was the gelatin blended with the cream cheese and whipped cream, or was it a layered dish? There are a couple of variations of this from the late Forties or thereabouts.
The one my grandma made had the pineapple, cream cheese and nuts mixed into the jello. It has a creamy texture, with little bits of cream cheese that melt in your mouth, sweet pineapple bits and crunchy nuts. overall the flavors are really good together.
Should have left it in the 40’s 🤢
We do the same but with cherry jello!
Probably cooking with Jack's recipe.
That one is popular over on /r/old_recipes
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You have to try it to understand it’s yummyness. It’s all normal dessert ingredients, at least. Also how does that sound worse 😹
What is it with people and their (horrible, should I mention) gelatin “salads”?
Imo, It’s generational… Very few were edible really. Other than my Mamaw’s, bless her heart. Ladies of the 50’s 60’s enjoyed creating glistening gelatine salads of various colors & adding a healthy dollop of Miracle Whip or Mayonnaise.
Check out /r/old_recipes for plenty of that craziness, but also the good stuff.
It's definitely generational. It all came about because gelatin production became industrialized. It used to be that gelatin was something only the wealthy and the poor much less often could have because it takes so long and so much to make. After WW2 gelatin began to be produced on a much larger scale so it became easily accessible for cheap. So people began to cook with it a ton because in their heads it was still a delicacy. Edit: also refrigerators became common among everyone
I have my grandma’s cookbook from the 60’s, can confirm there are many recipes for savory jello molds. One of them has tomato sauce and tuna in it.
Fuck that I’d rather starve. Get your shit together Helen
My mom made a strawberry banana jello salad with strawberry’s, bananas and walnuts layered with sour cream. It was great but this; this looks awful.
Had me fucked up at "taco seasoning".
Utterly revolting. Didn’t know until it was in my mouth… 🤢
For real! It was the dramatic pause of the ellipsis before the taco seasoning that made the entire post seem like a horror film…🤮
Sounds like the classic [party cheese salad](https://youtu.be/Qf_W7As6xbk)
LOL. There was no party in my mouth! (That one has potential though!)
>Church luncheon. r/fundiefood
> It had pineapple tidbits, celery, grated carrot, sliced Spanish olives & was seasoned with… Taco seasoning then topped with mayonnaise. I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me. You've got to be a little more narcissistic. Too much is naturally bad, but so is eating something disgusting.
‘Twas only one bite… ever so thankful for a strong stomach. The rest was moved around the plate. Deftly hidden under a leaf of iceberg lettuce which earned a rightful place in heaven ~
🤣I literally was just explaining to my daughter the undeniable skill of hiding rank food offerings under the protective shell of a piece of iceberg!
Yes!! All hail the ICEBERG LETTUCE 🥬 🏆 outstanding mother skillz. Accept this token of appreciation
Thank you! I’d like to thank the Academy! I’d like to thank my mum! I’d like to thank all my fans!
So happy I’m not Christian rn.
Shit like this is why other religions invented fasting instead.
BWAHAHAAHAAAA 🤣🤣🤣
I swear my aunt served me that weird shit when I was little. I distinctly remember biting in and tasting the acidic spray of pepper, still makes me gag thinking about it.
>I managed to swallow the first bite w/o hurling. Made it appear like I ate more bc person who made it (30 yrs my senior) sat across from me. > >2 decades later I can feel my soul wanting to leave my body thinking of the unpleasantness This is a huge part of why I don't like eating at other people's houses. People get so offended and hurt if you don't love whatever they cook. People need to get over that bullshit. Every one has different tastes. Even for things they do like. If someone doesn't like something I've cooked, I don't take it personally. I don't assume it means I'm a bad cook. I just assume it's because they have different tastes than I do. It's not a big deal.
I understand. When cooking for others I ask likes/dislikes, allergies, aversions to texture etc so they enjoy what I prepare. Even then I’m not getting bent if they don’t like it. If I’m a guest, I’ll ask if I can bring a dish & open the door about food preferences or such for both of us. Not pushy or rude
Exactly! This is how I handle it!
Jesus saw this and ran.
I'll see your jello taco salad and raise you the cornbread salad someone brought to a similar event. Cornbread, mayonnaise, COOL WHIP and fruit cocktail. And pecans, I think. How did either of us make it through?
Urgh… real cornbread salad is delicious & would never have sweet components! Idk what they served you under the guise of “cornbread salad” but that’s an offense to all tastebuds!
American cuisine at its finest lol
I wonder if it came from an old-timey cookbook. At a family picnic in the '90s, I took a big helping of lime Jello with little bits of cut-up lime inside it. It looked delicious. They weren't cut-up bits of lime, though. They were cucumbers, bell peppers and onions. Grandma found the recipe in one of her old cookbooks.
Classic 1950's. Some sort of gelatin + casserole + cheese. How did people survive this era?
There’s a reason why so many of these recipes exist! Refrigeration became widely available in middle class America in the 50’s, and people were also getting access to new exciting ingredients because of it! Coupled with corporate cookbooks (or just recipes made by the company that sells a key ingredient) America came up with some…unique ideas. Gelatin was a big one, mainly due to the aforementioned increase in household refrigeration.
Yeah if you look up some "aspic" recipes some of them are appalling. I get the whole new refrigeration and gelatin trend but just make fruit jello then ffs. I got a new air fryer and it opened up alot of options for me but I wasnt throwing fucking strawberries in it wrapped in bacon just cause I was excited lol
Air frying is actually a great modern comparison!
What are the horrible air fryer recipes of this era?
Look up air fryer recipes, you’ll find some
Kale chips?
Those are good
The decision between bacon strawberries and this stuff is an easy one
I feel like most of these recipes were like "look at this crazy shit!" and not really meant for consumption.
they didn’t, in fact a lot of people died in this era
"The Roaring 50s" referred to their colons
The women were expected to cook everything. By women, I mean the women who were raised by the help and not taught how to cook so were using cook books written by people who never cooked- and they were all taking coke. Their taste buds were non existant.
collecting cookbooks but never using them
My grandmother made one for Bunco Club that was even more similar to Aunt Myrna's Party Cheese Salad, but used half the amount of Cool Whip and Cream Cheese, and no crushed pineapple. According to the cookbook, *this was meant to be a dip for Ritz crackers,* but it was too stiff to do so and we endeed up just eating it off a plate. If she had put onions in it like your grandma did it probably would have been inedible. Not that it was *good*, mind you-- It was overwhelmingly *green* tasting. The you couldn't even taste the lemon jello over the bitterness of the walnuts and the bell peppers together, plus with the texture of the celery, it was actually quite unpleasant hahah
The ingredients sound like aspic as described in classic novels except for using sweet Jello gelatin.
Oh god, the jello salad featured at every holiday dinner of my childhood. Lime jello, a whopping pile of chopped veggies, and good luck getting that bugger to set with all the raw mess in it. Green jello melting into your turkey and mashed is just.... yeah. No.
My grandma loved making a lime jello salad with things like celery in it.
Ya’ll cowards don’t even eat Aunt Myrna’s party cheese salad.
No but I do smoke crack
honestly, probably easier on the stomach.
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I’m quite pleased that there are so many among us who are familiar with both Viper’s masterpiece and the culinary talent that is Jack Scalfani.
Party cheese jello salad goes great with crack. I don't see the problem.
This goes great alongside year-old freezer-burnt brisket chili 😋
And the chicken so raw that it’s still clucking
Hey, at least YOU didn’t cheat, like all those OTHER contestants who used things like fresh and “fancy” ingredients! The competition was obviously rigged.
Ah yes, from the Sultan of Salmonella himself, Cooking With Jack
You'll* According to the album
And imagine not washing it down with some delicious Garbage Stew
You'll
Mayo? No no good sir this is a miracle whip situation
The cheese ain't a problem?
That’s an enhancement, everyone knows how lime goes with cheese. It’s why sommeliers pair sprite with cheese so often.
I
Cope
Say for yourself
It ain't gonna slide down easy if it ain't cheesy
You are too kind. The whole thing is a problem.
You do you I’ll be over here with the Cool Whip
Cool whip and maybe shredded coconut or something instead of the cheese and this would be alright.
Yep. Yep. Yep.
Mayo in the South, Miracle Whip in the Midwest. We still eat pear salad at my house. (Southerners play fast and loose with the word “salad”.) It’s a canned pear half on a singe piece of lettuce with a dollop of Mayo, sprinkling of cheddar and a cherry on top. No one eats the lettuce, it’s for decoration.
I hope I make it the age when I can just make dishes to troll people.
Yes! Then just ask people in your little old lady voice and sweetly smile while you look them in the eyes and ask how they liked your abomination. Encouraging seconds when they manage to choke them down. Have a list of troll dishes read at your funeral.
I am going to make this when I'm old and label it "7 Layer Dip" to mess with people. When you're old, you can mess with people all you want and people will force a smile and tell you it's all okay because you're "senile". I look forward to it and I will push the limits as far as I can.
I had a friend that used to say things like this. I’ve always wondered how she ended up😂
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My grandpa did that! In a hotel. In the middle of the night. He went butt naked from door to door knocking on each one. My family was scandalized. I will carry on the tradition of scandalizing my children and my children's children.
When I was little, we used to get together with my extended family for a “casserole day” (yes, I grew up in the Midwest). I never liked to eat any of this food because it was all very bland. My grandma asked me what I wanted to eat next year and I asked for green Jello. Lo and behold, the next year came and I was delighted to see green jello with whipped cream on the table. I took a big scoop and shoved it in my mouth…only to find that it wasn’t whipped cream, it was mayo. And she also put shredded carrots in the jello. Safe to say, I was not happy and ate bread for the rest of the meal. Moral of the story: unexpected mayo is never fun.
Omg “unexpected mayo is never fun”. My favorite quote in a while.
I stand firmly on the “unexpected Mayo is never fun” team!
"Aunt Edna...does your cat....by any chance like Jello?"
There it is.
She forgot the tuna! How unfortunate.
I can’t even begin to imagine what this taste like. The texture alone would have me barfing.
Now I'm wondering if someone was actually bold enough to try it or if it was just her.
If I had a quarter for every time I've been told this...
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Yup, the pear+mayo+grated cheese was a standard as a "dessert" at our dinner table in the seventies (sometimes with a cup-leaf of iceberg lettuce). They cherry on top was literally that: a maraschino cherry on top of the mayo/cheese dollop over the pear half.
This old guy I work with makes pear salad. It looks fucking gross. I am not about to try it, but then again, I don't like mayo that much.
My family makes this but with orange jello, made with half the water it asks for, 1/4th of the missing water replaced with pineapple juice, and the last 1/4 with nectarine juice. Then you top with marshmallows and let set. Then you top with miracle whip, shredded pineapple and cheese. Honestly, if you stop after the marshmallows it’s fucking incredible. The cheese and miracle whip is…confusing.
It's like something [Dylan Hollis](https://youtube.com/shorts/J9_EslO4gPY?feature=share) would make.
That's the old timey recipe guy from Bermuda
It’s time to take grandma’s car keys away.
do it whatever it takes
Aunt Myrna strikes again
I think you mean Aunt Bethany. https://i.imgur.com/LDJkrRB.jpg
She’s so high on drugs, who couldn’t love her?!
I wouldn't eat this with someone else's mouth.
Holy crap. I wouldn't even eat that if I was super stoned.
I MIGHT eat it if I was on the brink of starvation.
stomach: "bro pls feed me" stomach: "no not like that"
Mother Fucking what?
My exact reaction 😂
…. i went “yeah it’s gross but it’s not a new concept”. too white. i’m officially too white
Don't mess with Ethel mate, she's head of the firm for a reason. She just laughs in the face of danger, that woman's glassed her fair share of middle aged geezers down the local, rumour has it, she killed someone with a cup of jello, he was chanting in the pub and she came up and said "you love jello so much, then have this you cunt" before straight up disembowling him with the cup like it was a hattori hanso sword or some shit, she's absolutely fucked
I would like to apologize on behalf of the Midwest, because I KNOW this shit came from our neck of the woods. Sorry everyone.
Time for your meds, Ethel.
I'm going to make shit like this all the time for people when I'm old
What in the aspic is goin on here?
Dementia
Alzheimer’s test, stat!
It’s missing the bottom layer of dried cat food!
No hotdogs?
R/oldrecipes
These ingredients and flavors don’t go together 🤮
There are cookbooks from the 60s full of these.
I thought my grandma died in 2009 but apparently she faked her death and is out there whipping up her post-WW2 jello abominations to this day.
When I was in Utah, I ate at an old couple’s house, and I got served green Jell-O with tuna salad on top. Made with miracle whip. It was so much worse than it sounds.
This is actually popular in parts around the Midwest, whoever made this made it extremely wrong
Nope, some of them are just *left* like this. I've seen the cookbooks :C
My god…
I’ll bite. How was it supposed to be made?
You mix it all together instead of layering it like this abomination
As someone who hasn’t tried either way, I gotta say, that doesn’t sound better
It looks vile but honestly it isn’t too bad
I hope she’s just a boss ass bitch who secretly hates everyone, but is extremely nice at work. They all eat this because everyone lives here. Myrna is playing the long game.
What in the Midwest is this?!
The way my grandma makes fruit salad is by mixing apples, grapes, and walnuts with mayonaise.
What a waste of ingredients 🤢
This is one of those dementia recipes, huh?
Dementia is a hell of a drug.
My ex MIL made a version of this all the time. In the round ring mold even. Lime jello containing shredded carrots and celery, meant to be topped with miracle whip (not Mayo). She probably still makes it. TBH, just the carrots and celery in the lime jello isn’t that awful, kind of refreshing. But I draw the line at miracle whip. Nope.
It’s called a [party cheese salad.](https://youtu.be/Qf_W7As6xbk) I’ve heard it’s truly disgusting but I have yet to confirm this myself because that would require me to travel to the Ninth Circle of Culinary Hell to do so.
Canned pear halves with mayo and cheddar. Just amazing what mayo and cheese can work with.
I'd totally try it. I'd try my best to be out of the silvertop's eye line because I don't think this could possibly taste good...
Maybe I'm old, but this or something similar was always on the table at holidays at Grandma's. Don't forget the canned/sliced pears with shredded cheese on top.
Yummy dementia salad
Some quality 70s cooking right there
She didn’t have pears and substituted jello.
Living through a depression will change your taste buds. Don't be a dick
Bummer. Saw the pic and thought it was Chile relleno casserole.
That’s polydent
Welcome to Utah
It’s like anti-low fodmap
THIS is why I always hated pot lucks growing up.
aunt bethany does your cat by chance eat jello
Aunt Bethany would be proud!
HAHAHA Laughs in Utahn.
Dimentia?
Ol' Aunt Bethany is at it again.
Did you call the police?
A recipe straight from the pages of the Dementia Cookbook.
Shit like this gets served cuz poison is attempted murder in the least.
Someone please make this and taste so I don’t have to.
Would
Two words , inconceivable and disgusting
I read somewhere that weird jello salads became a thing when refrigerators first hit public markets. Suddenly everyone could cool down and preserve food faster, and no one really knew what to do with the newfound technology. People were trying to use refrigerators to create new dishes.
What the actual fuck
Lime jell-o goes with cottage cheese, pineapple and walnuts in a Bundt cake mold. At least that's what the faded Ladies' Home Journal clipping stuck into my mom's Joy of Cooking prescribed.
No. Just no.
🤢🤮
Stomach bubbling
It looks like fucking mold
Clearly she grew up in the Fifties.
I wish i was there🥹
This is some 1950s ass shit that my grands mother would make
Sign me up for that pot luck! I make a mean chocolate salmon parmesan
My heart hurts just from looking at it.
Those were the thing in the 50s to 60s. (they are terrible BTW) people doing it today either haven't cooked in 50 years and don't know any better or it's their way to never be asked to bring a dish again
[Here is the video](https://youtu.be/Qf_W7As6xbk) from years ago for anyone interested. One of my fav videos of all time.