One of the original ideas I had for this site was to go through the various cookbooks of terror (such as the infamous gallery of regrettable food) and make some of the recipes, with the intent of either modernizing them and perhaps even making them palatable, or simply gagging at them for others to see. I never followed through on this plan, but fortunately, someone else had the same idea and we can all enjoy the jello-encrusted fruits of their labor.
After about a year of perusing old-school cookbooks looking for weird recipes and spotting bizarre trends (hot dogs + eggs, inside a Jell-O mold) from the ’50s, food blogger Robin Wheeler compiled her twenty most stomach-turning concoctions. (Do not view this list before lunch. Jeez, or maybe after lunch either. Either way, consider yourself warned.)
We’ve presented those twenty worst below as a warning to enthusiastic cooks out there: Creativity isn’t always a good thing, and in relation to high-quality food porn photos, please consider these pictures the equivalent of a snuff film.
An Acton teen was left with second-degree burns Saturday after having an epileptic seizure inside a KFC outlet and landing face-down in her piping-hot poutine.
Her irate father told the Sun Monday he’s not after a multi-million dollar lawsuit, he just wants to speak out to warn others and perhaps get the Colonel to turn the temperature down on the cheese and gravy.
Granted, this isn’t that different from the famous Liebeck McDonald’s coffee case — it does sound as if KFC’s poutine is dangerously hot, and while making it tepid and lukewarm would be a major overcompensation, what value is there in serving something so hot that it can’t be safely consumed for several minutes anyway?
CORRECTION: Earlier I wrote that the parents were suing KFC, but that is what happens when I hastily misread an article with an American mindset. They actually aren’t suing KFC, they’re just seeking to politely ask KFC to turn down the temperature on the poutine. Of course, that was the first course of action taken in the Liebeck case (with the addition that she wanted McDonalds to cover her medical expenses, but of course Canada has social medicine so that’s probably not even applicable here – any Canadians care to explain?), but some combination of “McDonalds” and “in America” made it have to blow up into a gigantic lawsuit. Mea culpa.
INGREDIENTS:
1 sleeve saltine crackers
1 package of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 stick salted butter
1 cup sugar
Walnuts
METHOD:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lay saltines side-by-side, on greased cookie
sheet. On the stove, melt butter, dissolve sugar in butter and bring to boil. Pour
butter mixture over crackers. Bake in oven 7-10 minutes. Spread chocolate
chips on top of hot crackers, spread with spatula until they melt and the entire top
of crackers are covered. Sprinkle walnuts over top of chocolate, place in freezer.
Freeze for 2-4 hours or until hard. Break apart and enjoy!
Place cocoa mix in medium heat-proof cup. Stir in milk until cocoa mix is dissolved. Let cool slightly. Stir in cola. Place 2 scoops ice cream in each of 4 tall glasses; top with cola mixture.