15 Weird Vintage Foods You'd Love To Have At Your Holiday Party
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2022
- The holidays are a time for friends, family, festivities, and food. Lots and lots of food. Before the days of vegan eggnog, gluten-free gingerbread houses, and sugar-free sugar cookies, holiday foods from yesteryear included temptations such as savory Jell-O molds, mayonnaise cakes, and piping-hot Dr. Pepper. Vintage cookbooks would recommend condiments as main ingredients while housewives from the Atomic Age and home cooks from the '60s bravely experimented with ham and marshmallows.
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I'm going to drink Fireball Dr.Pepper, snort a mountain of mayo and wrap all the Christmas presents in jello this year.
I thought they had a food channel for this stuff
Good choice.🤣🤣🤣💓
Don't forget to garnish the presents with some good ol' soupy eggs
well hell yeah
You sound like fun
These recipes sound like "How to make holiday treats with stuff that's been laying around in your kitchen for awhile".
I'm old enough to remember the 70's when my parents were the ultimate hipsters of their day. Which was when they threw a few supermarket prawns into half an avocado and squeezed some lemon over it. Hey presto, instantly sophisticated and chic. Nowadays people make Scottish venison with truffle mousse and who knows what from god knows where, then they take a picture of it for the net and drink microbrewery beer but I'm too broke for that because l never learned to code.
Except for the pineapples, that yam bake is pretty much the sweet potato casserole a lot of us in the South make for Thanksgiving. The topping is either marshmallows or a brown sugar/pecan crumble.
Yes, we have sweet potatoes in orange shells with marshmallows on top (big ones) every Thanksgiving and Christmas. No pineapple in the sweet potatoes, only orange juice, raisins, perhaps pecans, and a little brown sugar.
Yeah basically. We make it every year
Always pecans at my house, marshmallows are FORBIDDEN! 😡😂😂
My family does brown sugar, pecans, and marshmallows. It is cavity causing.
My wife's sweet potatos will end a diabetic. Her sweet tea, as well. I call her tea (Diabe-tea). It's too sweet, I know it's too sweet and unhealthy, but I always shamefully (maybe not so) get a refill or 3...
What type of Doctor is Dr Pepper?
A FIZZician
you'll see yourself out, right?
Marshmallows on yams comes from when jet puffed marshmallows were invented about 130 years ago and suddenly what was something only for the rich was affordable to anyone. It is as common phenomenon (Jello in the 1950's, Orange Juice and croissants in the 80s, truffle flavored everything 5 years ago). The yam dish survived but I have seen recipes for marshmallow on steak and other odd things.
I've made mashed sweet potatoes topped with mini marshmallows. Everyone loved it!
I know ppl who still put the marshmallows on their yams
When I was a little girl i had a great aunt (born in the 1800s) who would always make really old school dishes like this at family gatherings.
That pistachio cool whip dish looks yum 😋
My Mom used to make a slightly more simplistic version of that around the holidays when I was a kid. Pistachio fluff I think she called it, it was so delicious!!
Fun fact, Jello used to come in flavors like celery, for vegetable salads. I prefer the Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise!
Dare I ask...😫 What's the surprise?
@@DefinitelyNotAnAlien search it on YT, it's a song.
I heard that.
The pistachio pudding, chocolate wafer, Cool-whip cake seems like a type of icebox cake recipe.
That's exactly what it is. Replace the Cool-whip with real cream, and it probably would be good.
I remember Jello salads as a child in the early 70s. They were the most disgusting food on the table.
Ever have aspic?
@@marianneb.7112 No.
I drank hot Dr. Pepper growing up. It was my dad’s favorite drink.
I love hot Dr. Pepper. I drink it when I have a cold. This needs to be brought back!
I give hot (room temp) dr pepper to my kid when she eats something spicy, her reaction is always hilarious.
It's been advertised as "Drink it hot or cold" ever since the beginning.
This reminds me of the Pepsi tweet saying boil it 😂
My family drinks hot Dr Pepper when we are sick or have sore throats. Have been for four generations now. My granddaughters and I were drinking some earlier today because we have the flu. It's better than hot tea!
I'm surprised this isn't on the weird history food sub channel. I hope they don't delete the other channel before making a video on Taco Bell's menu history :\
Whomp whomp 😐
Me too! I love the vintage fast food menus. I'm one of the few Gen Xers who remember the Taco Bell seafood salads. As scared of eating it as I would be today, I remember eating some of my sister's as a kid and honestly, it was not bad.
I mean I don't see why they would. In terms of subscribers the other channel is smaller, but in view count they're still about the same if not more for a few videos.
Then again I know nothing of the algorithm or making CZcams content so...eh
@@lilitharam44 excuse me, Taco Bell WHAT??
@@lilitharam44 Nasty!
The family favorite for Christmas is 7 up Salad, which is actually Lemon Jello with Ginger ale! Then we add crushed pineapple, apples and bananas before letting it chill. The real secret is the pudding made with the pineapple juice that is cooled and then folded into whipped cream. It’s spread on top and that’s why everyone loves it.
What’s your address?! Expect one more!😃😋
Say what you want but the coffee Charlotte has me intrigued 😂
It sounds like it might be good.
A friend shared this channel yesterday, I love it ! I was amazed to hear of these food mixtures, surprisingly I knew a couple , most thankful my Mom never made lol
@@ekaterinakozhevnikova8023 that sounds very good , I love red pepper 😋 💖
To be fair, scrambled eggs with a little cream of mushroom or potato soup are pretty good. The pistachio pudding/chocolate wafer/cool whip log is also not bad, although it's way easier in a bowl trifle style. Lime jello made with ginger ale but without any extra stuff is also not the worst. Am Gen X, so I too am vintage.
I was thinking the ginger ale salad reminded me of one my Great Grandmother made with cherry jello and coke. It had cherries in it too, I remember eating it as a kid so I know it wasn't nasty. I too am Gen X and vintage.
As a fellow/lady actually Gen Xer, I'm not feeling vintage...just old.
Cream of mushroom soup is pretty good in just about anything.
@@lilitharam44 My Aunt always made that Cherry Jell-O, cherries and Coke "salad" for holiday gatherings back in the 70s. I loved it. I'm also a Gen-,Xer.
@@scottbubb2946 It is! It's an easy way for people who don't cook much or aren't great at it to make a dish that everyone will enjoy. Throw some chicken breasts and rice in there and you're good to go.
My mom's family has a Christmas recipe called dishwater pudding, I think it's a kind of Christmas pudding from the depression era.
Now you have me wondering where the name came from. The look? The smell? Or the ingredients?
The vegetable tray is usually the first thing to disappear at my family gatherings, along with enough food to feed 20 in a gathering of about 10 or so.
When I was a kid, I tried hot Dr. Pepper, immediately threw up, and to this very day, I can't drink Dr. Pepper hot or cold; just the smell of it makes me gag.
For me as a person from Germany it would be fun to see international holiday foods because for a lot of people in Germany it is really irritating that people in Japan think that strawberry cake is a Christmas food😅 and food for Christmas in Germany is very very special like potato salad with sausages on 24th are all that Christmas market foods like Schmalzkuchen, Bullen Augen, Flammlachs😅 are the Christmas party food like the beloved German Mett Igel😅
In the US Christmas food is just Thanlsgiving food all over again w/ ham instead of turkey. But, most people hate turkey so sometimes it's the exact same feast all over again.
Try content creator 'kwoowk', has a dedicated shorts form on international holiday (christmas foods)
Christmas food in Germany is regional. Potato salad and sausages isn't something I associate with Christmas at all.
In Ontario, as a French Canadian, a traditional dinner would be tourtière (meat pie, whipped mashed potatoes, usually either turkey or ham, bread n butter pickles. A garden salad with our family's house dressing, homemade cranberry sauce, StAlbert cheese cubes (St Albert is a community near where I lived, they are well known for their cheese, and it has to squeak against you teeth, since it's super fresh). Devilled eggs too. Dessert is a thin sugar pie (filling is less than 1/2", raisin pie, and a whole slew of special Christmas cookies (thumbprint cookies, date and coconut balls, date squares, grandma's molasses cookies. To drink is either pop/soda, wine (on my dad's side, it's homemade). I drink water. The next morning, we'd usually have crêpes that were about 13" across (like Huuuuge), and these would have butter spread on them (then eat like that, or add white or brown sugar and enjoy), molasses or maple syrup poured on the crêpes. These would be as thin as possible. My max was 3 or 4. My dad and brother would like in about 10 each. Lol. Be blessed!
@@Kelly-ml5tl For our family, Thanksgiving is turkey, Christmas is roast beef, and Easter is* ham.
*edit
The pistachio wonder log doesn't seem too awful... at least there isn't any mayo or jello in it! Merry Christmas. 🎄
Whatever happened to fruitcake? It used to be such a staple of the season it was often the butt of every joke, but I always genuinely liked it. Now I haven’t seen it in years.
I make it but I only use real dried fruit, none of that candied fluorescent stuff. And it’s too good (and expensive) to share with people who are just going to toss it so I just give them to people who have asked for a loaf.
I'm surprised that fruitcake wasn't mentioned.
The jello salad gave me flashbacks to my mother’s monthly “ladies club” luncheon. A staple was a dish containing lime jello, celery, canned pineapple, and cottage cheese chilled in a festive themed mould. Happy Holidays Weird History Dude 😉🎅🏻👍🏻
Omg. Did you ever try it?
@@jeremy28135 absolutely never 😉
@@UnclePumblechook cream cheese and fruit flavored jello doesn't sound like a weird combo at all. Jello and celery though???
@@jalapeno1119 Celery goes well with Jell-O salads. It takes on the flavor of the Jell-O and adds crunch. There's a bunch of red Jell-O salad recipes that are delicious. My great grandmother made it for every major holiday in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s.
@@elph77 no, celery does NOT go well with Jell-O
Great video, perfect timing on releasing it, it was fun.
Oh hey, my mom makes the New England Yam Bake for Thanksgiving all the time! Except we do a more modern Casserole version of it... Except we use just a tablespoon of OJ (for the whole casserole) to add a little tang. Yams are mashed to ones liking and it's amazing to pair with almost any holiday feast! She got it from our grandparents and the recipe is now mine to continue.
I agree the combination of ingredients is delicious.
This gave me the idea for a vintage recipe party. Already put it out to the family
The California raisins. My childhood revisited
Take small package of Jello, any flavor. Dissolve in 3/4 cup hot water. Let cool a half-hour in the 'fridge.
Add 3/4 cup Everclear. Pour into small cups, if desired. Refrigerate and let the gelatin gel.
Ho, ho, ho...
Hot Dr. Pepper is surprisingly good. (you know you're tempted!)
Considering that cold Dr. Pepper tastes like an industrial grease cutter, I can’t imagine that heating it up is going to significantly alter its taste for the better.
Yes, I am tempted and I'm angry that I'm tempted. 😅
@@monkeygraborange tasted many industrial grease cutters, have you?
@@ladyfarona1988 insidious, isn't it? 😄
That jell-o ginger ale salad sounds something like my late grandma would’ve made. She was a fan of lime jell-o. So much so, that that’s what she was kinda known for! 😍😂
I listen contently while I at my pot roast with potatoes and carrots
Yum my favorite meal
Idk why but hot Dr Pepper sounds…medicinal
I'm SO going to make the angel food cake jello thing. Happy Happy everyone!
Ditto!😃
I'll pass on those. I learned what NOT to serve at the next Christmas party.
So the cheese cone is more or less the same as a cheese ball? It's probably alright tasting but definitely not for me
The hot Dr. Pepper sounds intriguing, especially with some rum or Scotch or Bourbon.
I'd rather scald my mouth on Dr. Pepper than try that Pepsi and milk thing they're pushing lately.
Pepsi and milk sounds yucky. Brap. 🤮
@@jbaker7311 I believe this weird combo was shown on The Laverne and Shirley TV show
@@tabithamashburn8786 That does sound familiar.
Thank you, Weird History! I particularly love that you gave us the recipes in case we want to (gack) recreate any of these marvelous recipes from the past.
Very interesting merry Christmas to you and your family
The history videos you make are amazing. So so much better than any detailed long documentaries that are not even available for free.
Just because these recipes were created and promoted by food companies doesn't mean anyone actually made or enjoyed them. LOL
Thank you....someone need to say that. Most holiday foods were classic recipes arghhhhhhhh....a can of tuna, half a bag of crushed Fritos...no..no..no..🤣
Those retro recipes from many years ago looked pretty nasty. And then they say add a 'glop' of mayo or miracle whip and you're family is going to love it. 😦
That one recipe for cream of chicken soup and eggs sounds good for breakfast 🍳 if you have biscuits or toast and jelly plus turkey sausage and hash browns
Is it bad that I'd like to take the Fundue and mix it with the Cambelled Eggs to create a monster omelet thing? 😅
Didn't I see that done in that movie "Elvira..Mistress of the Dark".?
Yup✌
My mom ALWAYS made a jello mold with lime jello, cottage cheese and crushed pineapple. We LOVED it.
Happy Holidays to our fiends at Weird History. Thank you for the outstanding content. Here's to 2023 🥂
Happy Hoidays to you,and the very best in 2023!🤩
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Hot Dr pepper used to be amazing, but ever since they started using high fructose corn syrup and everything it just does not taste good anymore
My mother makes candied yams every year, basically that recipe minus the pineapple. I’ve always hated it because it’s extremely sweet.
The pineapple gives it a tart component.
I never knew Marshmallows came from a plant of the titular name
"The whole family will love it" - Citations needed.
All the best recipes include the step, "spoon the mixture into the hole."
Hello Weird History 🎄🎄🎄💜💜💜💜‼️‼️‼️💫💫💫
In the movie Blast From the Past, Christopher Walker's character drank hot Dr. Pepper while he was constructing the fall out shelter! Funny!
Do a video on food packaging and storage, from wooden barrels to tin cans to thermo-stablized pouches...
We have that yam bake every Christmas when my gram was alive… but we all remember the ham she baked…my gramp would drag out his steel guitar and my dad would play bass, and we would all sing….it’s strange what you miss when people die and the traditions die away with them.
What a snob! I am glad my whole family loves Jell-o desserts. We have gourmet dishes too, but Jello lends itself to imagination AND good taste. These recipes are a little simple but they can be gussied up. Merry Christmas to you haute gastronomes from us humble experimenters. They are not all winning recipes but they stir up the desire to get creative.
A mayonnaise blob with nuts all over it...yummy! 😆
a video on Christmas side dishes across the world would be awesome and how each country has something different to another.
You never fail to delight. The narrator is especially good.
The eggs and soup is pretty good I've had that one before. And drunk at waffle house on Christmas eve I've done that to. When I first moved out on my own me and my best friend had a holiday tradition and it was spaghetti os because we had little money and I worked weird hours and she had no family. But we had each other so it was cool
Are the yam bakes really "vintage"? They're still made pretty widely.
My friends just served yams and marshmallows for Thanksgiving. It's a staple!
Maybe the pineapples were what made it vintage? I haven’t seen a yam hair with pineapples.
the party fruit basked sounds good tho, the base is regular cake so if you get a good angel food cake and use good fruits it could be really good. i dont like the texture of jello but id try it
One drink I can't highly recommend enough for holidays is advocaat. I originally made it because it was the drink that was spilled all over Jack Nicholson in The Shining so I really wanted to make it and was glad I did. I brought a batch to a Christmas get-together and it was a huge it. It works as a great alternative if you're getting a bit tired of eggnog (which I was a little shocked to find out how many guests told me they were when they were enjoying the advocaat.)
You can easily get the recipe online and it's surprisingly not difficult to make, so just an idea you might want to try. Hope you enjoy!
I'm from the UK & its a well known drink here.
Are you from the UK, too?
I just commented about it, too.
Mix with lemonade and a glacé cherry ..... Its called a snowball and its *chefs kiss*
That coffee Charlotte actually sounds kinda good
I never understood the yam casserole with marshmallows on top. One thing my new England ancestors often obsessed about cole slaw - you need a salad with all those rich dishes.
Ironically, this Vintage Holiday Foods video started with a vintage ad for Burger King! But as a bachelor... sadly... Burger King is more of a Valentine's Day tradition.
Feels bad man 🫤
@@susieqz813 Thanks, but it's all good. I have chosen not to bring kids into an already overpopulated world, and as a consequence of my moderate autism I feel little need to have intense personal interactions, and therefore I don't actually miss a marriage type relationship. It probably would not be rewarding for myself or my partner. I only say "sadly" as a joking aside because most holidays give the occasion for celebrating your exuberance for life, partner or not. Valentine's Day is the exception. And it is other people's well meaning intentions that often make them uncomfortable on that day because they feel I have been shortchanged for not having something they think I should want. I don't want people feeling sorry for me, and I only write this so you won't either. My life is full of contentment, frequent happiness, and occasional joy. I hope yours is too.
Have a
❄ Wonderful Winter Solstic! ❄
P.S. If you live in Australia or elsewhere in the Southern hemisphere, then have a
🏖 Super Summer Solstice. 🏝
Cool Whip isn't even REMOTELY close to being whipped cream, except for being white and soft and the same thing could be said about mashed potatoes.
Hot Dr. Pepper used to be served at the concession stand at football games in a town near the Nebraska border in Kansas. On the other hand, My mother loved cold Dr Pepper with lemon and I do to on occasion
This feels like Crazy recipes made up at midnight in the test kitchens. Boss loved it but they were a flop so creator was fired.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! What unique and potentially great vintage foods!
Not gonna lie, the Winter Wonder Log sounds like it'd be good & something my family would dig. Especially my pistachio-loving dad.
I’m half Italian-American and our family always had the Feast of the Seven Fishes as our evening meal on Christmas Eve. There is more that our family does but what Id like you to do is a vid about the tradition. I know what our family did but why? Do Italians in the homeland do this or is it simply Italians who settled here in the Northeast (NYC specifically) do? I’m from NJ and generations my family from Italy settled here in NJ (Perth Amboy NJ) did this.
Love your channel!
Way back when .... My cousin married an Italian-American fellow; they
served 12? fishes on Christmas Eve (I think it also included chopped
squid/octopus) She used to have the younger cousins (without children)
over to her place for a late dinner before Midnight Mass. (Happy memories!)
You’ve given me inspiration for a new concoction! Lime jello mold with diced fruit cake from 2014! 😃👍
Oh, what beautiful food memories of my childhood! This is my favorite of yours.
Some of the recipes showed in the video seem delicious. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for this! 🍠 #WeirdHistory #FoodHistory #Holiday #Winter
Between making faces at the heinous recipes, I laughed myself sick. Excellent job!!! Loved this video! Not that I'd eat any of that shyte...That mayonnaise pinecone thing was absolutely hysterical!
Some brilliant ideas!
That Holiday Fun-Due and Winter Wonder Log (pistachio pudding is my favorite) look particular great though they all look like they have potential.
Most of them sound fun for Christmas.
I imagine the recipes used for ginger ale and mayonnaise and other ingredients changed a little since the '50s, so they might taste as good as they were once made.
How about talking about the Christmas Tradition of the Catalan in Barcelona? That is a VERY interesting Christmas tradition. It even had a song they sing to the pooping log.
I think I recall the pistachio Cool Whip log in magazines in the 70's as a child.
Surely there’s some weird history about the history of safes/vaults? I ask because there’s these videos showing how they open with really complex (for the time) sequences, design mechanics, and elaborate keys.
The hot Dr. Pepper is not bad. I remember parties when I was a kid and my Mom and the other ladies making all those jello salads. Some weren't bad, but I do remember a sardine-jello mold that still gives me nightmares!
Vintage foods...sounds like a food that was made 30 years ago that was forgotten to place a "Best Before" or "Consume Before" label.
Nothing more refreshing than a hot glass of Dr. Pepper! Lolol
Jell-O Ginger Ale Salad is a sure fired way of never being asked to bring a dish...ever again.
We made the hot Dr. Pepper punch in the winter of 1968-69, and it was delicious!
This had me laughing so hard!
The ummm... Cambledeggs gives a whole new meaning to runny eggs. 🤣🤣🤣
I'm sorry😂🤣
A winter water log sounds like something you do in the potty
My father was in the Vietnam War and I was wondering if you could do a video about some of the foods the military ate there and then, please and thank you
I like that winter wonder log!
Sounds like recipes only made in corporate test kitchens somewhere. Recipes politely chunked in the trash or recycling depending on what part of the packaging they are printed on once you get your groceries home.
All of these sound delicious!
I love the recipes that are just “buy some cheese sauce, cut up bits to dip it in and bam! Fondue!”
Love history
Minus the pineapples we call the sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top "candied yams" and have it every Thanksgiving...its a pretty common dish at least in the South and its delicious.
My eyes lit up when I saw hot Dr Pepper! Everyone thinks I'm weird when I mention it. They used to have it at our high school football games (it was the mid-70s in Colorado) It was a welcome warmer on those cold fall & winter nights. I like mine with an orange slice