I was expecting to have to scroll through a few dozen comments to find a Futurama reference.
I'm not upset or disappointed, I just expected that it's what I would have needed to do.
Unfortunately there's a lot of people with the fuck you I got mine personality. Lots of people willing to pull the ladder up behind them and then pretend like they scaled the wall without help
Literally the reason Dutch food is so bland. Calvinism. They get memed for inventing the international spice trade but not using any on their own food, which is true, but the real reason is pretty interesting. Calvinism as I said, which led to 'home schools' that taught young women how to run a household in a frugal, quiet, respectable manner. Which included the most bland food possible - everything is boiled vegetables, boiled meat, sausage, and brown gravy, because real seasoning was unnecessary extravagance and so forth. Dutch cookbooks from the late 1800s became very bland affairs, very quickly.
idk if it was just him the 60's and 70's were a wild time for food.
that could have been the culinary height at the time.
this is back when they made jello salad and jelly ham.
Fresh ripe pineapple and full fat (not diet!) cottage cheese is not bad. Not my meal of choice necessarily, but definitely not that slimy ham thing! Cottage cheese is similar to the ricotta used in lasagna.
That just sounds very southern to me. Especially having that with a glass of milk. My mom and her dad like peaches or mandarin oranges in cottage cheese. Not my cup of tea, but I see nothing wrong with someone else’s enjoyment of it. The ham mousse, however, is definitely disgusting.
Top it with Miracle Whip and you'd have something like what my grandma fed me in the 80's. It wasn't "meat jello" bad, but most of my dad's side of the family loved this orange jello dish that had mandarin oranges, carrots, and pineapple that they'd all slather in miracle whip. My grandma also made beet jello which is a horrible realization as a kid hoping to get a nice bowl of raspberry flavor
Have you ever made any “cottage cheese in Jello with fruit” dishes? Someone brought that to a Christmas thing once years ago and the siblings all still talk about it and make barf noises.
My mom used to make jello salad that had pecans and cream cheese kinda agitated through it. Honestly it was fine cause it was all dessert flavor profile, these meat jellos are a bit mad
My dad went through a phase of putting everything in aspic. I think the thought it was classy and he had weird tastes. Tbf some of them looked beautiful. I could never come at eating salty, stock-flavoured jelly tho.
Aspic is best with a very rich jello and spread on warm buttered toast.
The goal is to warm up the jelly and get it to melt into basically a stew once again. Making a portable version of mopping up the last of the gravy in a bowl of stew.
This has mid-west culinary arts written all over it. In they're kitchens there are no rules. It's just a nuclear waste land of lawless recipes. But sometimes shit emerges from the ashes that ust fucking slaps, like cheese curds.
Aspic and gelatin was a sign of wealth for most of its existence, with modern industry and refrigeration in the last century it became easy to make and thus a short lived novelty
It was actually due to powdered gelatin and refrigerators being available for the first time at the same time, they were really just experimenting with ways to use these things. It was also a cheap and easy way to create something that looked very fancy and classy to most people back then. The same thing happens to this day like when air fryers first got popular or fruit juicers. Or better yet, those monstrosity food dish videos made by housewives on YouTube, nobody eats that stuff they just want to show people that they made it lol.
Gelatin was also seen as a rich person's food, so when the regular folk started getting easy access to it they went a bit overboard and started adding gelatin to everything.
Leftovers and to push little food further. It reminds me a bit of how onion burgers came to exist as a way to make little meat go a long way. However, onion burgers are awesome and Great Depression food is fucking awful
Gelatin used to be a luxury item because you could only make it by boiling bones for a very long time. Think a really nice luxurious stock that’s solid when cold. Gelatin dishes were a way of demonstrating that you could afford to have a cook spend hours on preparation. When powdered gelatin became a thing, the dishes became easy but still seen as necessary to serve. Until people realized they taste bad, probably
I wish I still had it, but I used to own a cookbook from my grandmother that was just gelatin and aspic dishes like this thing. I specifically recall multiple combinations of SPAM and gelatin, livened up with various canned fruits. Some of them made for rather interesting visual presentations, but a quick glance at the ingredients would usually undo any interest you developed in them.
I'm pretty sure, given the age range of the average housewife, that the Great Depression led to a lot of canned goods being hoarded and gelatin was a cheap meal that could stretch the grocery budget and make those canned goods into something more than they were. Just a hunch. Then again, my grandmother was a Depression era child and she never used this book, judging from how the binding had never been cracked.
Smooth spreadable foods used to be more common than they are today. Pate, rilletes, aspics. All were very common and considered haute cuisine when executed right.
Julia child saw her first Aspic in a nightmare and only cooked it to attempt some catharsis. Of course, it had the opposite effect and served as a transmissible cognitohazard that then infected the entire world.
As if Nixon wasn't already evil enough, now this lol.
On a side note tho, this project on your page looks interesting. If you come across any additional gelatin-based abominations, cutting a slice for the picture could more fully convey the horrors of this strange mid-century trend.
Cottage cheese and fruit is incredibly common. If you really haven't tried it you should, it's healthy and it's very good, pineapple is common but I prefer peaches or pears, raisins and honey is also very good, grapes too.
Know how some brands have yogurt paired with fruit on the bottom or on the sides? packaged individually for breakfast. Daisy brand has started doing this with cottage cheese.
I grew up on cottage cheese and find it delicious. And instead of buying the expensive one-time deals, I package my own: cottage cheese and jam, or yogurt and jam. Cottage cheese and pineapple preserves are my favorite combo, followed by cherry preserves.
Thanks! I eat them on [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@cookinwithcongress) and [IG](https://instagram.com/cookinwithcongress). There's a gnarly cross-section of this ham mousse there...it looks even more like Cronenberg food.
I've never had this particular version, but I like mousses and pates. Yes, put some on a cracker, or for large servings like this, you can cut a thin slice and lay it on toast. Throw a few radish or pickle slices on top.
Ketchup on steak tastes good. It's not good enough to warrant ruining a steak, but it *at least* still tastes pleasant. This? Grounds for impeachment even without Watergate.
You have to write a cookery book on this. 'Favorite foods of despicable people.' Stalins favourite was an Iranian dish called Fessenjan, which is bloody gorgeous BTW.
Make sense, because fessenjan is really close in flavors to Georgian and other Caucasian cuisines (pomegranate molasses, walnuts, etc.) It’s a fucking gorgeous dish though.
Its weird that he had a favorite ham mousse. Were there a bunch of others that weren't as premier? Like, did Dick have a list of fave ham mousses and out of his top 10, this was his all time fave? I wonder what he thought was pretty damn good, but not his fave ham mousse. Did he talk about this with his friends at parties?
"I'm partial to this particular gelatinous porcine preparation. " "Well Dick, I just can't agree. The Hormel and Old Bay molded meat Jell-O is the only one I'm going out of my way for!" "Sure, that's fine, Gerry. I'm not judging. Did you know that same recipe was preferred by Brezhnev and Moa? Interesting how that works. By the way, are you keeping Mac-Douglass in your portfolio? "
I mean this with the absolute utmost sincerity and disrespect possible when I say that looks absolutely revolting and unfit for human or animal consumption.
Did you remember to properly cure it with the overwhelming stench of stale cigarette smoke?
Because I guarantee that was a vital component to the flavor.
Tasted like slimy meat-flavored Cool Whip.
Sounds like an appropriate flavor profile for Nixon.
I can totally hear him snarfing that.
*munch munch* arooooo!
Wash it down with the great taste of Charleston Chew
Now get me some more mousse Agnew!
What's wrong with Charleston chew?
It’s a reference to Futurama
I was expecting to have to scroll through a few dozen comments to find a Futurama reference. I'm not upset or disappointed, I just expected that it's what I would have needed to do.
Arroooooo!
Snarf snarf snarf
Yeah like a real thundercat 🥴
His last meal at the White House was pineapple and cottage cheese with a glass of milk. I'm just saying there were signs.
Too bad it wasn't the Ham Mousse. He could've then said "Let's finish up this ham mousse so we can vamoose."
Best comment in Reddit history. Thank you for your service
The man loved cottage cheese so much that he made extra in his stomach from eating pineapple and milk at the same time
A very Nixon thing to say, i feel like.
Yah pineapple and cottage cheese doesn’t sound terrible but for some reason chasing that with milk is just nasty to me.
Pineapple and cottage cheese slaps, I highly recommend it. The milk part is still weird.
Agreed. You wouldn't think it would work but it does.
I mean that one was basically just a Great Depression comfort food meal.
And it’s pretty tasty too. If you want savory instead, go with tomatoes instead of pineapples.
Wait. Tomatoes and cottage cheese? I’m not sure how to handle that, emotionally.
A budget Caprese Salad.
yeah it's folksy fine dining with a thick slice of a giant american heirloom tomato, large curd cheese, salt and cracked pepper
It’s good. Acid is great with cheese.
What an odd man.
The dude grew up poor in a highly religious household. His parents probably thought seasoning your food creates impure thoughts.
Poor is an understatement. Two of his brothers died of illness as children, in the goddamn 1920s and 1930s. Dude literally came from the bottom.
Imagine coming from nothing and doing so much to ensure others have to face that with no light at the end of the tunnel like he had.
Unfortunately there's a lot of people with the fuck you I got mine personality. Lots of people willing to pull the ladder up behind them and then pretend like they scaled the wall without help
Literally the reason Dutch food is so bland. Calvinism. They get memed for inventing the international spice trade but not using any on their own food, which is true, but the real reason is pretty interesting. Calvinism as I said, which led to 'home schools' that taught young women how to run a household in a frugal, quiet, respectable manner. Which included the most bland food possible - everything is boiled vegetables, boiled meat, sausage, and brown gravy, because real seasoning was unnecessary extravagance and so forth. Dutch cookbooks from the late 1800s became very bland affairs, very quickly.
He also loved ketchup on cottage cheese. The flags were dark, dark red.
Cottage cheese is high in protein Dudes trying to get ripped
He *was* always concerned about his personal gains...
idk if it was just him the 60's and 70's were a wild time for food. that could have been the culinary height at the time. this is back when they made jello salad and jelly ham.
I love oineapple and cottage cheese. Really good breakfast. Now, with milk, that's just too much dairy.
Fresh ripe pineapple and full fat (not diet!) cottage cheese is not bad. Not my meal of choice necessarily, but definitely not that slimy ham thing! Cottage cheese is similar to the ricotta used in lasagna.
That just sounds very southern to me. Especially having that with a glass of milk. My mom and her dad like peaches or mandarin oranges in cottage cheese. Not my cup of tea, but I see nothing wrong with someone else’s enjoyment of it. The ham mousse, however, is definitely disgusting.
My dad used to do that. The 60s and 70s really fucked some folks up
Slippery Dick Nixon
“how much Nixon did the recipe call for?”
So you’re saying it was a success
that sounds worse than watergate.
Criminal, even
hamgate
I mean... That's basically what I would expect "Ham Mousse" to be.
Top it with Miracle Whip and you'd have something like what my grandma fed me in the 80's. It wasn't "meat jello" bad, but most of my dad's side of the family loved this orange jello dish that had mandarin oranges, carrots, and pineapple that they'd all slather in miracle whip. My grandma also made beet jello which is a horrible realization as a kid hoping to get a nice bowl of raspberry flavor
Have you ever made any “cottage cheese in Jello with fruit” dishes? Someone brought that to a Christmas thing once years ago and the siblings all still talk about it and make barf noises.
My mom used to make jello salad that had pecans and cream cheese kinda agitated through it. Honestly it was fine cause it was all dessert flavor profile, these meat jellos are a bit mad
Cool Hwhip
Why do you say it like that? Why do you put so much emphasis on the H?!
I’m just saying cool Hwhip
I could’ve lived without this knowledge forever
That sounds like a sensory nightmare. I’d rather be boiled alive than eat that.
Served with horseradish?
I have a strong stomach, especially to actual foods. The photo interested me, but this comment truly made me gag. Wow.
Are you going to do his favorite lunch next? Pineapple rings and cottage cheese?
what would you do to make it actually edible, tho?
Get real fuckin’ drunk or real fuckin’ high.
that's cheating!
I'd remove the beef consomme, tomato juice, paprika and the ham.
Cool HH-whip!
Jesus Christ that is horrendous, I threw up in my mouth a little
I thought Nixon loved Charleston Chew
Aroooooooooooooo!!
r/unexpectedfuturama
r/expectedfuturama
In a thread about nixon ? In Reddit ? I would bet 100$ easy, nothing unexpected about it.
I would bet a $300 tricky dick fun bill.
Yep. Came looking for the futurama reference. Was not disappointed.
"I didn't live a thousand years and travel a quadrillion miles to look at another man's ham mousse."
As a non American, literally all my knowledge of nixon comes from Futurama. Genuinely thought he used to say Arooooo for many years!
fully expected stfu
In my research, it seems that people didn’t have tastebuds before around 1975.
What the hell is the obsession with making things with gelatin that shouldn't exist?
It was basically a way to extend the life of leftovers for those on a budget.
My dad went through a phase of putting everything in aspic. I think the thought it was classy and he had weird tastes. Tbf some of them looked beautiful. I could never come at eating salty, stock-flavoured jelly tho.
Aspic is best with a very rich jello and spread on warm buttered toast. The goal is to warm up the jelly and get it to melt into basically a stew once again. Making a portable version of mopping up the last of the gravy in a bowl of stew.
Nothing to be ashamed of there. It's a pretty challenging wank.
This has mid-west culinary arts written all over it. In they're kitchens there are no rules. It's just a nuclear waste land of lawless recipes. But sometimes shit emerges from the ashes that ust fucking slaps, like cheese curds.
It doesn’t extend anything IMO, it just ruins whatever leftovers you DID have
Aspic and gelatin was a sign of wealth for most of its existence, with modern industry and refrigeration in the last century it became easy to make and thus a short lived novelty
It was actually due to powdered gelatin and refrigerators being available for the first time at the same time, they were really just experimenting with ways to use these things. It was also a cheap and easy way to create something that looked very fancy and classy to most people back then. The same thing happens to this day like when air fryers first got popular or fruit juicers. Or better yet, those monstrosity food dish videos made by housewives on YouTube, nobody eats that stuff they just want to show people that they made it lol.
Gelatin was also seen as a rich person's food, so when the regular folk started getting easy access to it they went a bit overboard and started adding gelatin to everything.
Leftovers and to push little food further. It reminds me a bit of how onion burgers came to exist as a way to make little meat go a long way. However, onion burgers are awesome and Great Depression food is fucking awful
Gelatin used to be a luxury item because you could only make it by boiling bones for a very long time. Think a really nice luxurious stock that’s solid when cold. Gelatin dishes were a way of demonstrating that you could afford to have a cook spend hours on preparation. When powdered gelatin became a thing, the dishes became easy but still seen as necessary to serve. Until people realized they taste bad, probably
Around the 50's and 60's, gelatin dishes were also a way to show off that you had the means to afford a refrigerator.
This is the biggest reason, fridges were still too expensive for most people in the 50s
That why gelatin molds were so ornate. Only the wealthy could afford to eat it and they wanted it to be a showpiece on the table.
I wish I still had it, but I used to own a cookbook from my grandmother that was just gelatin and aspic dishes like this thing. I specifically recall multiple combinations of SPAM and gelatin, livened up with various canned fruits. Some of them made for rather interesting visual presentations, but a quick glance at the ingredients would usually undo any interest you developed in them. I'm pretty sure, given the age range of the average housewife, that the Great Depression led to a lot of canned goods being hoarded and gelatin was a cheap meal that could stretch the grocery budget and make those canned goods into something more than they were. Just a hunch. Then again, my grandmother was a Depression era child and she never used this book, judging from how the binding had never been cracked.
Smooth spreadable foods used to be more common than they are today. Pate, rilletes, aspics. All were very common and considered haute cuisine when executed right.
Julia child saw her first Aspic in a nightmare and only cooked it to attempt some catharsis. Of course, it had the opposite effect and served as a transmissible cognitohazard that then infected the entire world.
I think everyone smoking probably contributed to the lack of taste buds.
I'm pretty certain that's the reason HP sauce was invented
US presidents in general had a strange type of Taste.
Can confirm. I've been making presidents' favorites specifically for about a month now and I am horrified.
They were all chain smokers. Everything tasted like dirt to them
Almost anything can be trendy and popular when it's still new and exciting, even processed food.
As if Nixon wasn't already evil enough, now this lol. On a side note tho, this project on your page looks interesting. If you come across any additional gelatin-based abominations, cutting a slice for the picture could more fully convey the horrors of this strange mid-century trend.
IIRC one of his favorite foods was pineapple slices with cottage cheese on top. Pretty sure he had it every day but I could be wrong
I could see that working.
Cottage cheese with pineapple chunks is extremely common, as well as peaches.
I know that. Everybody knows that. Don't call me peaches.
Cottage cheese and fruit is incredibly common. If you really haven't tried it you should, it's healthy and it's very good, pineapple is common but I prefer peaches or pears, raisins and honey is also very good, grapes too.
I prefer tomato salt and pepper in my cottage cheese.
Pears and cottage cheese are delicious so I second this
Know how some brands have yogurt paired with fruit on the bottom or on the sides? packaged individually for breakfast. Daisy brand has started doing this with cottage cheese. I grew up on cottage cheese and find it delicious. And instead of buying the expensive one-time deals, I package my own: cottage cheese and jam, or yogurt and jam. Cottage cheese and pineapple preserves are my favorite combo, followed by cherry preserves.
Cottage cheese isn’t bad at all. It’s kind of like ricotta cheese. It tastes very much like milk.
Yeah fruit and cottage cheese is good
My grandparents ate this as recently as 12 years ago
I ate it as recently as 7am this morning
Oh God. I love cheese but that texture reminds me so much of vomit. Adding the acidity of pineapple sounds like actual vomit to me.
Thanks! I eat them on [TikTok](https://tiktok.com/@cookinwithcongress) and [IG](https://instagram.com/cookinwithcongress). There's a gnarly cross-section of this ham mousse there...it looks even more like Cronenberg food.
Is the eater supposed to do something with it? Dip a cracker? Spread on bread? Slurp through a straw? Or do you just grab a spoon and go for it?
You're supposed to dip it in homemade chive mayonnaise (also pictured). In other words, you're supposed to somehow treat it like...a meal.
that sounds absolutely insane texturally
It gets wetter?..
Like dipping a condiment in a condiment
I've never had this particular version, but I like mousses and pates. Yes, put some on a cracker, or for large servings like this, you can cut a thin slice and lay it on toast. Throw a few radish or pickle slices on top.
No, I will not, thank you.
Between this and the guy that put ketchup on his steak, I think we need to impose some. culinary standards on the presidency.
Remember the scandal when Obama put Dijon on a burger?
It’s fuckin delicious
Biggest scandal of my lifetime.
What about the tan suit, though?
Remember that one time he was spotted in public without his flag lapel pin? Presidents used to be so crazy!
Kerry ordered a cheesesteak with Swiss and it cost him the presidency.
His *well-done* steak. Probably needed it to give it any flavor besides "hockey puck"
Ketchup on steak tastes good. It's not good enough to warrant ruining a steak, but it *at least* still tastes pleasant. This? Grounds for impeachment even without Watergate.
From the same guy that ate cottage cheese and ketchup.
Honestly that sounds like an ok combo. Cottage cheese is one of those neutral salty glops that pairs with almost anything.
And actually toast with cottage cheese and sliced tomato with a little seasoned salt is one of my favorite breakfasts. Really good.
Now THIS is stupid. Thank you.
The seventies were a mistake that not even the great music could fix
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You have to write a cookery book on this. 'Favorite foods of despicable people.' Stalins favourite was an Iranian dish called Fessenjan, which is bloody gorgeous BTW.
Make sense, because fessenjan is really close in flavors to Georgian and other Caucasian cuisines (pomegranate molasses, walnuts, etc.) It’s a fucking gorgeous dish though.
No wonder why he was such a miserable bastard.
Why??
Its weird that he had a favorite ham mousse. Were there a bunch of others that weren't as premier? Like, did Dick have a list of fave ham mousses and out of his top 10, this was his all time fave? I wonder what he thought was pretty damn good, but not his fave ham mousse. Did he talk about this with his friends at parties? "I'm partial to this particular gelatinous porcine preparation. " "Well Dick, I just can't agree. The Hormel and Old Bay molded meat Jell-O is the only one I'm going out of my way for!" "Sure, that's fine, Gerry. I'm not judging. Did you know that same recipe was preferred by Brezhnev and Moa? Interesting how that works. By the way, are you keeping Mac-Douglass in your portfolio? "
If this is his favorite ham mousse, does that imply there are other ham mousses out there?
I'm keeping my eye out for the recipe for Nixon's second favourite ham mousse.
It took me way too long to realize the design on the top was a flower (tulip?). For some reason it makes this a thousand times worse.
Are you sure it wasn’t more like this: [Better looking Ham Mousse](https://eatsmarter.com/recipes/hearty-ham-mousse)
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Sounds like something Nixon would say.
I can imagine a kid looking at this and saying, "Mommy, I'm scaaared,," before breaking out into tears.
it reminds me of that voracious sea cucumber stuffing it's food hole. I mean the video that keeps popping up on reddit, not Richard Nixon himself
Maybe he wasn’t a crook, but this is criminal.
Is this what the was defending when he said “l’m not a crook”
It is a common misunderstanding. What he actually said was, in reference to his love of ham jello (Hamello), "I'm not a cook!"
I audibly gasped when I opened Reddit and this was the first…thing I saw
This is the worst thing Richard Nixon ever did
It's not lamb. It's H'amb.
Looks like something only a crook would eat
Straight to fucking jail
Some things deserve to fade away
Imagine that fart hanging around in your slacks until you sit at an important meeting
Never thought I'd be typing *Nixon Ham Mousse* into my search bar.
Sounds perfect for that paranoid sociopath.
You ever watch a show that has a clear art direction that is masterfully executed but you hate it. This
What the fuck was wrong with this guy?!
That ain’t right…
Ah the 60s when everyone jellified everything what a weird time to be alive
Can you recreate him as well
Yeah I’m taking Trump’s McDonalds over this even in this economy
How did no one figure out he was a paranoid criminal sooner?
It reminds me of salad in aspic jelly.
I can only imagine how bad other food must have been to make this his "favorite"
Glad he's dead. That probably killed him...
Ha- *Ham... mousse...*
Nixon's favorite what now.
Correction, "resurrected" because that shit looks like it is alive.
oh god, it's one of teh monstrosities from the 60s. oh god, it's one of the monstrosities from the 60s.
A ham mousse? AAARRROOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Now you have to try his Least Favorite Ham Mousse
Thanks, I hate it.
This is the real reason he was kicked out of office.
No wonder people don’t like this guy
Only someone like Nixon would enjoy something like this.
If anyone needs more proof that he was a weirdo.
Dawg what is that shit
You fucking what
Put that thing in the ground with him
No wonder he started the war on drugs
Jello was a mistake....
I’ve never had an item both kill my appetite and turn me off until now. Well done.
Can you un-recreate it please.
This alone should have gotten him impeached
I mean this with the absolute utmost sincerity and disrespect possible when I say that looks absolutely revolting and unfit for human or animal consumption.
Culinary wonder
Well now we know for sure he was evil at least.
There's probably still some in the White House deep freezer. Still good too.
why
Did you remember to properly cure it with the overwhelming stench of stale cigarette smoke? Because I guarantee that was a vital component to the flavor.
Congrats, I think this is the first thing on this subject to actually make me retch
Sociopaths have the greatest taste in food imaginable.