"Vintage" Holiday Dishes you hated

[RebelSS]

The side dishes thread got me thinking about the holiday dishes I used to hate in the mid 60's, that we had to have every year....any ones you didn't like? The #1 "salad", that someone had to be wasted to come up with, was the lime jello with celery, shredded carrots, cottage cheese mixed in...topped with mayo.  What nut came up with THAT?! *GAG* 

 

 

And the variations........*URP*

 

Edited December 23, 2015 by RebelSS

[leechlake]

my mom kept it simple, lime jello and shredded carrots and it didn't look like that.  

Anything with beets in it would be my answer.  

[smurfy]

that does look disgusting!!!! beets, olives, I agree LL!!!!!!!!

[RebelSS]

And you HAD to eat some, couldn't turn it down. Another popular one was "Ambrosia salad"....that wasn't too bad, though, if ya didn't go overboard on the mandarin oranges.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2015 by RebelSS

[nofishfisherman]

I'll whole heatedly agree with anything with beets or olives.  Both are actually a source of turmoil in my house. My wife loves both and I HATE both.  Beets basically taste like top soil so I can't see how anyone can enjoy them.  I also tell me wife I can't eat olives due to my dislike for eating anything that resembles a testicle. 

[RebelSS]

I just had a BOWL of pickled beets last nite.  

I'm gonna end up doing this thread with all MY dislikes.....how about the relish trays with the celery sticks filled with the pimiento cheese spread? And the stuffed  olives....with the pimiento cheese spread..

 

Edited December 23, 2015 by RebelSS

[leechlake]

I'll whole heatedly agree with anything with beets or olives.  Both are actually a source of turmoil in my house. My wife loves both and I HATE both.  Beets basically taste like top soil so I can't see how anyone can enjoy them.  I also tell me wife I can't eat olives due to my dislike for eating anything that resembles a testicle. 

my wife hates olives and frankly that is too weak of a word for it.  Pickled Beets?  The worst food item in the world.  At the Supper Club by our cabin they have a huge pedestal bathtub with ice in it as their salad bar.  It isn't as disgusting as it sounds it's kind of cool.  My dad used to fill his plate with stuff and then that beet juice would be all over the plate.  Reb, my friend, this one we aren't in agreement on.

19 years of marriage have made mine shrink but they are way bigger than an olive and not green or black  but yes I don't want to eat one.

 

Edited December 23, 2015 by leechlake

[RebelSS]

Aahh, a salad bar loaded with pickled beets, herring, big olives, chunky blue cheese dressing...making me hungry! 

May yer kahona's never turn green or black, leech. Or be stuffed with a pimiento.  

[LindellProStaf]

My Mom bakes this great casserole with brussell sprouts,, cauliflower, broccoli, french fried onions on top with lots of melted cheese, and in it are also a jar of those little onions.  This is one of my favorite veggie dishes.  Well one year she sent my Dad out to get the jar of onions.  We are sitting down at Thanksgiving dinner and I dig into this veggie casserole and take a bunch of it.  When I took the first bite which of course had an onion in it I was jolted by the flavor. What the H. I took another bite and it was the same.  Well my Dad got pickled onions by mistake.  lolol  I watched my Mom take a bite and waited for her response.  She got a funny look on her face and looked at my Dad and did't say a thing.  Nobody else did neither.  lol  I had a hard time not laughing but didn't want to and embarress my Mom.  My brother and I still laugh about it when Mom isn't around. 

[reinhard1]

If you love testicles you would love smokey mountain oysters.  Taste's like chicken.  One time I bought some beef balls from work and took them home as a prank item.  I skinned them , and then cut them into slice.  Breaded them and deep fried them.  Took them back to work and heated them up in the break room to serve to the crew.  Man these are good!!  Great chicken recipe!!  Most laughed when they found out and only one guy got mad [temporarily].  The big eater of the crew ate the rest that were left over, now that was funny, because he was the one that got a little ticked at me LOL.  good luck.

[leech~~]

If you love testicles you would love smokey mountain oysters.  Taste's like chicken.  One time I bought some beef balls from work and took them home as a prank item.  I skinned them , and then cut them into slice.  Breaded them and deep fried them.  Took them back to work and heated them up in the break room to serve to the crew.  Man these are good!!  Great chicken recipe!!  Most laughed when they found out and only one guy got mad [temporarily].  The big eater of the crew ate the rest that were left over, now that was funny, because he was the one that got a little ticked at me LOL.  good luck.

Come on rein you an't seen no ones Grandma making testicles for a Christmas side dish-ever! lol

[RebelSS]

I figgered reinhard would come up with some good "old" dishes he didn't like...

[ThunderLund78]

Balls aren't bad, I've had 'em!

I whole-heartedly agree on the beets - I think it's the only thing I wont eat.

We always had Jell-o, but none with veggies or olives. - I could see carrots, I mean we make cake out of them and they do have a certain sweetness...  Texture would be horrible though.

[RebelSS]

I'm gonna side-track my own thread and paste some GOOD dips I remember from the holidays...anyone remember these snacks? I do!

 

[smurfy]

bugles...............no you didn't sidetrack your thread........I wouldn't feed them to my ex much less my hounddogs!!!!!!!! ISH!!!!!!!!!!!

[RebelSS]

I LOVE Bugles! Plus, you can do lotsa fun things with them!!   And yes, I have a new bag of those in the cupboard! 

Edited December 23, 2015 by RebelSS

[smurfy]

I LOVE Bugles! Plus, you can do lotsa fun things with them!!   And yes, I have a new bag of those in the cupboard! 

YOUR A SICK MAN REBEL! not to mention minds in the gutter!

[delcecchi]

Cheetos and bugles, I can't have in the house or they are gone and my pants don't fit.

[RebelSS]

Cheetos and bugles, I can't have in the house or they are gone and my pants don't fit.

See? Told ya there's fun things to do with 'em.    

[leech~~]

I'm gonna side-track my own thread and paste some GOOD dips I remember from the holidays...anyone remember these snacks? I do!

 

I think all 3 of these came out about the same time many years ago. I was walking through the store the other day when I saw some Bugles and was racking my brain trying to remember what the other 2 were?

Oh yeah now I remember!  I don't think they make Whistles and Daisys anymore that I can find anywhere?

[ThunderLund78]

One thing I just remembered that I just can't do: Oyster Stew.

It's a Christmas tradition in my wife's family... Literally just milk, butter and packaged smoked oysters.  The oldsters just sit around the table and gobble that stuff up like it was there first meal in a week.

Oh man it's gross...

 

[RebelSS]

Ah gawd...that's heaven!!! Was every Christmas Eve I made a pot...but not with fresh oysties at $15 a lb.now. Thinking a frozen pizza instead....

[Mid-Lake Rock]

My grandma would make the Jell-o salad posted by Reb in the first picture.  Grandma passed about ten years ago.  Last month, my mom made it for Thanksgiving as a tribute to grandma.  I ate a small amount (after a couple of bloody mary's).

I love pickled beets.  Yum.  The guys I do fishing trips with are all under 40 and we all love beets with grilled steaks or brats.  

Oyster stew is also fantastic.  My girlfriend in high school was the pickiest eater on the planet, yet loved oyster stew.  One of the few things she would eat with me. 

[delcecchi]

My daughter and me like beets.  My wife not.  I don't care for Jello anything. 

[LindellProStaf]

Since Leech Lake isn't here to derail this I have to make one little off topic sort of on topic thing.  NOW I want oyster stew.  Thanks Thunder.  I think tomorrow we will have hor de ourves and Oyster Stew.  The wife doesn't like it. (so I am on topic)  So I can eat it all.  With onions and garlic and butter mixed in.  Maybe a pack of those small shrimp too.