The Weirdest Foods Ever Marketed

Have you ever cracked open an old cookbook and wonder who would ever make this or eat this dish?  Well here are some interesting foods that were marketed back when.

► Ham & Bananas Hollandaise: Yup. Bananas coated in lemon juice, wrapped with mustard-slathered boiled ham slices, and baked – and topped off with hollandaise sauce. It was a 1970s thing.

► Apples Stuffed with Prawns: How about combining apples, lemons, mayo, olives, Tabasco sauce, pickles, tomato paste, AND SHRIMP, and stuffing it all into hollowed apples. And just to add to the hurt, let’s top it with whole prawns and stuffed olives.

► Bologna Cake: Not really a cake, but it looks like one. It layers bologna with a mix of cream cheese, Worcestershire sauce, and onion. The outside is “frosted” with a cheese mixture, and decorated with spray cheese.

► Liver Sausage Pineapple: This shows up in a 1952 cookbook. Despite the name, it does NOT feature pineapple. Rather, it is liver sausage (bad enough!) shaped and decorated to LOOK like a pineapple, using gelatin and mayo, olives and pimento.

► Tuna and Pear Pizza: A suggestion from the Fruit Producers Council in 1972, it’s a pizza made from a sauce containing a combination of tuna and pears. It is topped with pickled walnuts and – you guessed it – anchovies! (I didn’t even know you COULD pickle walnuts!)

► Anything in Gelatin: Yeah, in the 1960s and 70s, people were somehow convinced they could make simple, delicious foods better by molding them in gelatin. Example? The Jellied Tomato Refresher, a combo of juice, beef broth, Worcestershire sauce, green pepper flakes, lemon juice, garlic and cloves. In gelatin. And that thing was a dessert!

 

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