Thread: 20 of the worst dishes

"idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php

I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those will
ever be on my table.

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> "idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
>> American dishes
>>
>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>>
>
> I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those
> will ever be on my table.

And I'm so sick that I feel like I want to try at least one of them. I
have this weird fascination with recipes that look AWFUL but end up in
cookbooks, with pictures even.

I've got a small collection of these sorts of cookbooks. Sometimes I
think about starting a blog that just reviews the recipes from them.

Serene

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"I tend to come down on the side of autonomy. Once people are grown up,
I believe they have the right to go to hell in the handbasket of their
choosing." -- Pat Kight, on alt.polyamory

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:11:02 -0700 (PDT), idugall wrote:

> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php

(OMG, it came back after it's introduction!)

So, Idugall, what made you choose that phrasing in your message when
you intruoduced yourself? What book or guide ld you to post that
message and how to word it? We're curious.

As for your appropriate and interesting post,

I think I've had things similar to #19. They're not bad. You can
still find them on cheap salad bars in the South as a dessert dish.

-sw

"idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php




Is it just me, or do most of these 'dishes' look pre-eaten and partially
digested?
-ginny

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:10:38 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> I think I've had things similar to #19. They're not bad. You can
> still find them on cheap salad bars in the South as a dessert dish.

and the Cream of Celery with swiss cheese isn't bad either.

-sw

Serene wrote:

>>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>>
>> I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those will
>> ever be on my table.
>
> And I'm so sick that I feel like I want to try at least one of them.

I thought the reuben chowder was an idea I might like trying, but I wouldn't
use the recipe given.

Bob

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:57:37 -0700, Serene Vannoy
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I've got a small collection of these sorts of cookbooks. Sometimes I
> think about starting a blog that just reviews the recipes from them.

That would be a fun read!

--
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Sometimes I even put it in the food.

"Virginia Tadrzynski" <[email protected]> wrote:
>"idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
>> American dishes
>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php

>Is it just me, or do most of these 'dishes' look pre-eaten and partially
>digested?
>-ginny

LOL! That's a nice way to put it.

Vienna Sausage Shortcake - LOL again!

Also check out the associated link to "Ten Best Irish Dish Names"
http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...log_031210.php


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"Ed Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> "idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
>> American dishes
>>
>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>
> I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those will
> ever be on my table.

I picked up a set of Southern Living Cookbooks cheap (around 95 cents each)
from a used book store. Published in the late 60's, early 70's. They all
contain really disgusting recipes. But they're very amusing. Did people
really cook these things? The one that really got to me was the lime jellow
combined with canned tuna. Ewwwww! The photos are fun.

This, of course, brings me back to this infamous web site:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

Jill

sf <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:57:37 -0700, Serene Vannoy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've got a small collection of these sorts of cookbooks. Sometimes I
>> think about starting a blog that just reviews the recipes from them.
>
> That would be a fun read!


At the bi-annual library book sale (I know, another thread, sorry!),
there's a table with cookbooks and a ton of the "antique" kitchen
appliance and food brand recipe booklets. I sweep them up. The book sale
cost $5/ea. for as much as you can stuff into each plastic bag they
provide.

I have around $50 of them in the closet in the guest bedroom. easily
accounting for at least 20,000,000 of the worst dishes from here to the
next universe and beyond! If, at some point in the future, the earth gets
blown to bits, it'll probably be all my fault! LOL!!!

Maybe a collector's item in the bunch was my initial motivation, although
I quickly ran out of motivation to go through them all.

Andy

idugall <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes

> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php

I don't know, the "Circle Pups" is fairly innoucuous, especially
if made with decent kraut. Seriously, it's just a hotdog and bun
with kraut in an open face sandwich presentation.

The beef bake seemed sort of OK, in a cheap throw-something-together
kind of way. Though, I admit most of the others were hard to believe.

Bill Ranck
Blacksburg, Va.

idugall wrote:
> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>

Some of these are certainly bad dishes, but others are just just bad
recipes. Several of these I like; cheese balls, fruit cake cookies,
franks & sauerkraut, although I may not like those specific recipes.


Becca

"Serene Vannoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> "idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>>> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
>>> American dishes
>>>
>>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>>
>> I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those will
>> ever be on my table.
>
> And I'm so sick that I feel like I want to try at least one of them. I
> have this weird fascination with recipes that look AWFUL but end up in
> cookbooks, with pictures even.
>
> I've got a small collection of these sorts of cookbooks. Sometimes I think
> about starting a blog that just reviews the recipes from them.
>
> Serene
>
> --
> "I tend to come down on the side of autonomy. Once people are grown up, I
> believe they have the right to go to hell in the handbasket of their
> choosing." -- Pat Kight, on alt.polyamory

do it, Serene, I'd send you copies of any I have in my vast cookbook cave.
-ginny

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> "idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
>> American dishes
>>
>> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php
>
> I was hoping to find at least one that I'd try. Yuck, none of those
> will ever be on my table.

Truly appalling.

On Mar 14, 6:11*pm, idugall <iidug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...holy_recipes_d...

I actually started to gag when I saw the picture of the vienna sausage
shortcake..... yikes!!

"idugall" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...shes_so_aw.php

The Treet cooked in marmalade bears a strong resemblance to the Spam cooked
in pineapple juice and marshmallows that was on the menu in my first grade
cafeteria. And we had to eat it all before we were excused.

Paul

"ImStillMags" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Mar 14, 6:11 pm, idugall <iidug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> American dishes
>
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...holy_recipes_d...

I actually started to gag when I saw the picture of the vienna sausage
shortcake..... yikes!!

The first picture of the aspic hot dogs reminded me of a dish on the
Japanese Iron Chef. It was jellied fish roe served in an aspic soup. The
judges slurped it off a spoon in long, sticky threads. I almost tossed my
dinner watching that one.

Paul

On Mar 15, 12:14*pm, "Paul M. Cook" <pmc...@gte.net> wrote:
> "idugall" <iidug...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:[email protected]..
>
> >I thought this was kind of funny....it talks about some of the worse
> > American dishes
>
> >http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gut...holy_recipes_d...
>
> The Treet cooked in marmalade bears a strong resemblance to the Spam cooked
> in pineapple juice and marshmallows that was on the menu in my first grade
> cafeteria. *And we had to eat it all before we were excused.
>
> Paul

child abuse!!!

I am very impresssed that the original blogger didn't just make fun of
old cookbooks, but made the stuff. A perverse Julie and Julia project
that I could see myself doing.

About the aspic - I've mentioned the cookbook from White Castle. My
favorite picture, not from a real recipe, was a slider suspended in a
classic dome-shaped jello mold. Some of the real recipies were almost
as bad.

And drifting - I know some people, mostly Polish immigrants, who
really like aspic and head cheese. I don't get it. Do you eat this
stuff? I'll make aspic once in a while, but for soup dumplings, and
then when it is done, it is not aspic anymore, it is soup. Is it a
salad? A condiment?

B