02.18.10
20 unholy recipes
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.