Ashes To Ashes
“Nobody wanted to tell Grandma her dish with ‘slots for spoons’ was really an ashtray.”
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(A.I. has made it difficult searching for the sites where I could laugh at unfortunate-looking foods on holiday tables. It’s as if it cannot understand that people could want to laugh at this stuff, instead of looking at pretty holiday tables photos.)
The first 2 photos below are from a Business Insider page, the next 3 from Pintrest where I was pleased to see I still have an account!
Turkey Jell-O was a thing in the 1930s. Ann_Zhuravleva/Shutterstock
“Cranberry Surprise” combined mayonnaise and fruit. Hellmann’s
The Pintrest user who posted the above pics got them from “Cracked,” where I subscribe. They have a few more of what I was actually looking for to post. I hope all who had time to visit, enjoyed and got a laugh or 2!
https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/6-gross-thanksgiving-foods-your-grandparents-ate-we-tested
Scottie's Playtime 
one they missed: my mother in law’s favorite, the one with the Jello in a huge mold with canned fruit, coconut, apples, anything you could imagine. Serves 800. Lasts forever.
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😀 It’s probably somewhere out there on the internet, a person just has to search in the just right way! There used to be a website/blog, I want to say it was called something like “Unfortunate Food Photos,” that had plenty of such things, along with unfortunate holiday photos of people, and decorations. I’m certain it’s somewhere, but I couldn’t dig it up last night. sigh Happy Thanksgiving, Judy!!
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ah just remembered. Ambrosia. utterly dreadful, one bite and you don’t want to eat another thing for at least 24 hours. =)
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They had a pic of Ambrosia; it probably doesn’t look like your MIL’s. DH’s family always had to have a dish of Ambrosia at family dinners. No one ate it, but if it wasn’t there, it was a scandal. No one could really explain beyond that it was tradition.
Yik!
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