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.
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.
Over at poe-news.com, one of the most notorious posters, Gibbs, was recently banned for repeatedly breaking one of the rules. Sadly, that rule had nothing to do with his odd culinary senses, which one poster took it upon himself to make a tribute to.
Gibbs, you will be missed, but your legacy will live on forever.