Not My Art Post

[minoanmiss]

Everyone I cook for should be glad I do not intend to make and serve this creation, I do think.






I do admire the way details are picked out in luminescent orange sauce, though.

Comments

[bikergeek]

That looks like something from James Lileks's "Gallery of Regrettable Food".

[beradan]

ah, horrifying vintage jello

[dine]

with some random crap from the pantry and an unusual mold, you too can horrify your dinner guests!

[flamingsword]

😂😂😂

[full_metal_ox]

There are Japanese and Chinese chefs whose execution of tuna salad cutely shaped to evoke the living fish would be a masterpiece for eye and palate alike; I’m imagining some Uncle Roger type snarling, “Give me that before you can screw it up any further!”

[acelightning73]

That looks like a Jello-salad party mold from the 1950s. The stripes of orange aren't hot sauce - they're slivered carrots.And pimento-stuffed olives as eyes. This would be accompanied by crackers or melba toast. Dear gods, I remember learning how to make this shit in seventh grade home ec class.

[adrian_turtle]

Oh, carrots! I was trying to figure out what sauce would be that color.
I've seen fish-shaped molds, though my friends in this century tend to fill them with egg salad.

[acelightning73]

I used to have a set of jello molds - a fish, a doughnut shape, and a hemisphere. They were a wedding gift fifty years ago. And they always included odd decorations - cream cheese dyed pink piped into roses around the jello. Or those weird olives. Or vegetables carved or twisted into the shape of a familiar object.And the fish mold was for "fish mousse", not jello salad.

A fish mold might be decorated with very thin slices of radish, painstakingly arranged like fish scales.

[dissectionist]

It’s adorable and I would eat the hell out of it. Though I readily admit that I love tacky shit.

[goss]

YIKES O_O

[cmcmck]

This sort of thing makes me so glad I'm veggie! :o)

[magid]

From this photo, it's hard to tell whether the decorated object has non-vegetarian ingredients....

[julian]

I think it's tuna, but admittedly, it's difficult to discern.

[minoanmiss]

It was attached to a recipe for salmon mousee, but it's pretty gray. I think the protein may not matter overmuch. TVP mousse?

[julian]

"Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can!" (Which may have been about tuna, but which I first heard about salmon.)

[ororo]

AIEE!

[sabotabby]

I love it though.

[minoanmiss]

I'm pretty sure the animal components can be replaced, and this might hold up even better with agar than with gelatin.

If you wanted to make this thing.

You could make it a sandworm I suppose.

[sabotabby]

omg

[minoanmiss]

trembles

[med_cat]

LOL you know it might actually taste good... ;)

(but yeah it looks a bit disturbing :P )

[minoanmiss]

I think for this to be edible I would have to develop my own salmon mousse recipe. Most American ones are... dire.

[med_cat]

Hehe I defer to your expertise :) I haven't actually had salmon mousse, now that I think of it, but I do like fish.

[gingicat]

I would have tried really hard to get Uncle Harvey to do that with his homemade grfilte fish.

[minoanmiss]

that would have been glorious and fitting. I think gefilte fish would have ennobbled the project. But then I notoriously like the stuff.