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[CanadianHippie]

I was standing in line at the check out today, scanning the magazines while I waited. I had to take a picture of this because... Well, it makes me worried about the future of mankind, and it made me think of FJ.

So for all of you who are "hot for tots" as the magazine puts it....

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The "good food easy on the budget" is a variation of tater-tot casserole called "pizza tot casserole".

[lilwriter85]

lol. That pic would be porn for Mullet and J'Slaves.

[celestial]

:lol: There is a GROUND BEEF MAGAZINE?? This is so wrong in so many ways that it just adds up to WIN!

[ladypuglover]

I love Taste of Home, those are like porn for me. :oops: But I think that might be on mag I skip buying. Maybe, I'd have to see the rest to know for sure.

[CanadianHippie]

:lol: There is a GROUND BEEF MAGAZINE?? This is so wrong in so many ways that it just adds up to WIN!

That was my second thought when I saw that, until I noticed the small-by-comparison Taste of Home in the corner.

[sassyNoz47]

that honestly LOOKS gross..I don't plan on trying it anytime soon.

[GenerationCedarchip]

Yikes! I've been aware of tater tot casserole for years (it's a staple of church cookbooks around here), but it's one of those dishes that I keep hoping will die out - kind of like the lime jello with spinach and hardboiled eggs in it that gets optimistically called "salad." I like Taste of Home, too, but I think I'll pass on this edition.

[CanadianHippie]

In case anyone wants the recipe http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/Pizza-Tot-Casserole

[emmiedahl]

kind of like the lime jello with spinach and hardboiled eggs in it that gets optimistically called "salad."

:o

[BoomerLynn]

kind of like the lime jello with spinach and hardboiled eggs in it that gets optimistically called "salad.

People actually eat that?

[GenerationCedarchip]

:o

Yep - I'm with you on that. And I was always forced to eat a bite or two at church picnics so people wouldn't think I was rude. :shock: Jello salads are still big in parts of the South, especially among my parents and grandparents' generations.

[donks]

No. People don't eat it.

Little-known fact; there has only been 1 of them created. It is passed along from person to person, cover dish event to covered dish event.

No one can tell it's old as hell cause it's already green.

[Wolfie]

kind of like the lime jello with spinach and hardboiled eggs in it that gets optimistically called "salad."

My great aunt used to make one with lime or lemon jello and shredded carrots and raisins. Not something that I ate.

But my grandma made a jello salad that we all loved- it was strawberry jello with raspberries in it and a layer of sour cream in the middle. I think the key here is that there were no vegetables involved.

[ladypuglover]

Yep - I'm with you on that. And I was always forced to eat a bite or two at church picnics so people wouldn't think I was rude. :shock: Jello salads are still big in parts of the South, especially among my parents and grandparents' generations.

Is it as gross as tomato aspic that my sistes still love to this day? I tried to find our recipe but no luck but all the others looked just as gross. We don't add brown sugar but instead we add minced clams and lots of crunchies. I have never even tried to try the stuff but will make it for my husband who also loves it. Tomato jello :snooty:

[Sydney Fox]

Is it as gross as tomato aspic that my sistes still love to this day? I tried to find our recipe but no luck but all the others looked just as gross. We don't add brown sugar but instead we add minced clams and lots of crunchies. I have never even tried to try the stuff but will make it for my husband who also loves it. Tomato jello :snooty:

I think tomato aspic is completely gross. I went to dinner at my friend's grandparents house once and they served it. I was a polite young thing, so I ate it. I just barely kept it down. It still ranks as the grossest thing I've ever eaten. Bleh!

[sassyNoz47]

People actually eat that?

You mean everyone hasn't seen this? :shock: I have never been to a family function , school , church potluck where this has not been there. Just like green bean casserole its a standard, around here its with carrots though!

[emmiedahl]

I have thankfully never encountered this atrocity of vegetables (and eggs??????) in jello. I make a magnificent Jello salad with berries, but no spinach in my dessert!

[onlyorganic]

I have thankfully never encountered this atrocity of vegetables (and eggs??????) in jello. I make a magnificent Jello salad with berries, but no spinach in my dessert!

My ex's southern aunt used to make a lime-jello-mayonaise-sliced-cabbage salad. It was so vile and she'd bring it to EVERYTHING! Hardly anyone ate it so I'd force a few bites to not seem rude. It was disgusting!

[BoomerLynn]

You mean everyone hasn't seen this? :shock: I have never been to a family function , school , church potluck where this has not been there. Just like green bean casserole its a standard, around here its with carrots though!

Nope. I've seen jello with fruit and marshmallows in it but never veggies or eggs. And no one ever tried to pass it off as salad lol.

[Jezebel]

Long, long ago there used to be veggie flavors of Jell-O--tomato, celery, and vegetable--that were made for savory molded salads that included eggs and vegetables. Rather than make aspic, you just broke out a box of Jell-O. Both of my grandmothers used it, but I'm pretty sure it was no longer in existence by the time I was born in the late '60s. At any rate, there were molded salads they used to love that they no longer bothered to make because fruit-flavored gelatin just plain didn't work.

I'm no fan of Jell-O (I ate too much of it as a kid), but there's one salad with tons of cranberries, a chopped apple or pear, walnuts, and raisins in raspberry Jell-O that my grandmother used to serve at Christmas that I still make every year (and I never eat it at any other time because that would be wrong). I add some grated ginger and orange zest to the hot water and let it steep a minute before adding it to the gelatin, and when properly made the Jell-O simply serves as a binder for a shit-ton of fruit and nuts.

I've taken it to Christmas potlucks, where people usually give me strange looks because, like, hello? Molded Jell-O anything? That's just too retro. But at the end of the evening it's always gone, no matter how big I make it, and I always get at least one person who eats it for dessert with whipped cream. Because hey, it's Jell-O--which means it's both a salad and a dessert.

[clibbyjo]

WTH is up with all these weird Jello salads with vegs? I have never heard of any of them and they all sound nasty! :dance:

I eat Jello 1 time a year on Thanksgiving. My Mom makes a lemon Jello mold which is basically lemon jello, cream cheese and lemon rind whipped up and turned into a mold. We have always had it for Thanksgiving and we all love it and call it "the mold" and we get mini ones to take home. Cranberry sauce on top is optional, noone ever puts it on.

[formergothardite]

My mom still has the very first Taste of Home magazines that came out. I think it was 92 or 93. The food was usually pretty good. This doesn't look good at all.

[Witsec7]

Jello molds were alien in the culture I grew up in. I didn't know about them until I came west and met Mormons. :lol: Even the Methodists around here don't make them. I did enjoy the raspberry one mentioned earlier in the thread.

[ceg045]

All this talk of unappetizing vintage recipes is making me revisit Gee, That Food Looks Terrible and Weight Watchers recipe cards, circa 1974. Food history (particularly postwar American food history) totally fascinates me.

[Lillybee]

My son is now on a gluten free kick. One of his favorites these days is chili served over tater tots.