Ahhhh, such fond memories of my first Thanksgiving with my mother's family. Getting excited because Jell-O, followed by the horror when I realized they had put celery in it. Total support~~~

I've seen a youtuber I love to bits make and taste some retro recipes, and I think these would be fit on Subeta. Especially the more bizarre varieties! You think the jello salad is gross? Banana candle with mayo is worse. Retro recipes can be surprisingly weird.

Have nasty and nice counterparts, like staff did with some of the Bake Stop and Half Baked items! Sentient jello salad as a fireside challenger! Jello critters as minions! Just... more weird zombie foods that don't involve bodily fluids pls.

tl;dr - retro and jello foods yesplease

Haha, I think I'll pass on the aspic and cold soup. x) But there is one good upside to most people not liking it - there's more left for you!

I am 100% in support of horrifying vintage food

I also highly recommend The Mid-Century Menu if you want to enjoy the terror of watching other people re-create nasty (and sometimes good) recipes from the past and eat them. Tom's reaction photos are easily the best part. They even run contests every so often to find the worst recipes. 10/10 will read in horror again

Not just food, but some of these ideas (meat and aspic as a salad?!?!) are extremely well suited for some kind of Morostide/Battledome monster.

"Oh no, we left this Alegarten sausage out so long in the graveyard it turned into this radioactive animated gelatinous salad thing and it's coming for your intestines! Rawr!"

Edit: Turns out not reading the front page of the thread can be a mistake, as folks have already mentioned this. :)

I love how this entire thread is just omg this is so gross i need it.

Aw, this reminds me of my Grammy. She was a fantastic cook otherwise but she made some horrific concoctions involving green jello, shredded carrots, some kind of other crunchy but unidentifiable vegetable matter and mayonnaise topping. spew I couldn't deal with the mayo but with that left off, it was...tolerable. It would be neat to see these here for the nostalgia (and for the opportunity to toss it around the room a bit if it was a battle challenger, because that's what I really wanted to do with it but I was too well-behaved as a child haha).

I like the idea of this joining the ranks of "gross foods" here without being actual poop or vomit. Even if it's not too far removed from it... :x

I love this! And we could get a special cat food filled jello for Luminaire with a reference to National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

I'd be up for more jello clothes, too. Like a jello mould hat, in various flavours. A Jello dress, but big and 'fancy' like a ballgown because it's just you plonked into a big jello - not like the one we already have.

Also, here is 'sandwich loaf.' It's like cake, but instead? It's sandwich. :D

I've been following some old recipe person on twitter and they post these foods. People really hate the tongue, brain, and assorted insides, despite those things being delicious, but that's getting away from jellies. So, maybe we need those in jello for the Underground? Guts Jello. Fresh from Rachelle's scrap pile, Bubble's underworld-famous recipe. ;)

Icing on fruit is a lot better than mayo. :'D Trust me on this. Pipe cleaner in fruit salad... Oh man, I can see a zombie using it to floss after a meal. ngl, I'd probably want to try that sandwich loaf, or a bologna cake. x) Still kinda out there, but they're considerably less nasty than the idea of fruit with mayo.

You could easily get away with making various innards jellos and aspics as zombie foods. Mystery meat jello - it's the best thing since mystery meat!

Or "Mystery Meat Jello; Let that meat slide down your throat hole." ha!

Yeah, I like the idea of sandwich loaf too! Not as cool with the idea of the mayo being dyed blue/green, but I guess it makes it fancy for parties where you really want to serve everyone sandwich, but don't actually want to go through with making them. heh. ... If that's even mayo, it might be potatoes, like the meatloaf covered in potato frosting:

(makes grabby hands in the direction of fireside) maybe not... some of the more esoteric retro foods like the banana... candle thing, but jello that's not just blocks in a bowl would be fun c:

These are horrific. We need them now. Challenger to drop them would be great too.

How about we have jello stuff show up for every event/holiday/season throughout the year? That way we could take full advantage of the variety these abominations come in.

Niiiiiice. :D