Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #3 – Creamed Eggs in Corned Beef Crust

by RetroRuth | Aug 4, 2010 | Contests, Hot Dogs & Mystery Meats, Main Dishes

Holy Cow!  The Worst Mid-Century Recipe Contest marches onward, and there are plenty of horrible recipes still to choose from.  Finalist #3 is a peach of a recipe from Sharon, aka Charm and Poise on Flickr, and the curator of the hilariously horrible group Gee, That...

Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #2 – Lemony Salmon Towers

by RetroRuth | Jul 28, 2010 | Contests, Hello Jell-O, Salads

Ohhhhhh, baby.  Check this out! This week we have excitement, mayhem, craziness and canned salmon! In gelatin! Seriously! The finalist for this week’s menu is really something else.  I got this horrifying recipe from Adriane L., who wrote: I’m submitting...

Mid-Century Menu Contest Finalist #1 – Summer Salad Pie

by RetroRuth | Jul 21, 2010 | Contests, Hello Jell-O, Main Dishes

Ladies and Gentlemen! Boys and Girls! Mid-Century Aficionados of All Ages!  Let me present to you the first Finalist for the Worst Mid-Century Menu Contest: Miss Marwood and her horrible Summer Salad Pie! *Muted cheering. Some gagging* I know, I know.  I said I...

Mid-Century Menu Recipe Contest – Send Us The Worst Mid-Century Recipe!

by RetroRuth | Jun 30, 2010 | Contests

Well, I think this contest has been inevitable, don’t you?  Only a matter of time until we sent out this request: Tom and I want to hear from you guys, and we want the most creative, bizzare, weird, nasty, ugly, retch-inducing recipe you have. In short, we are...

Barbecue Bean Mold – A Mid-Century Recipe Re-Run

by RetroRuth | Feb 18, 2015 | Hello Jell-O

I’ve been thinking about summer a lot lately. Probably because it is colder than anything outside and we are covered with about 3 feet of snow. So I went into the archives and tried to find something that screamed, “summer”. Of course, I came up with a gelatin. Enjoy!...