Uncooked and Unforgettable: 30 Vintage Recipes That Might Just Shock Your Taste Buds

Ever wonder what your great-grandma was really cooking up when nobody was looking? Spoiler alert: it wasn’t just apple pie and pot roast. Dive into a time when culinary creativity took some wildly bizarre—and frankly, stomach-churning—turns, like the infamous banana salmon salad or a liver “beehive” that sounds more like a medieval torture device than dinner. This curious collection of vintage recipes, proudly paraded by the Facebook group “Disgusting Vintage Recipes,” opens a window into food experimentation gone shockingly wrong. Trust me, you’ll want to see these nostalgic nightmares—if you dare. LEARN MORE

Article created by: Rugilė Žemaitytė

Nowadays, the online world is brimming with mouth-watering pictures of delicious food. However, chances are that if we had the internet, let’s say, a hundred years ago, the situation would be very different. Anyone with an old recipe book on hand can attest that some of them there are somewhat bizarre; banana salmon salad, for instance, or a “beehive” made from liver.

These are just a couple examples of horrifying old-school dishes shared by the Facebook group, appropriately titled “Disgusting Vintage Recipes”. With nearly 6k members, it is, in their own words, “a group where people look at disgusting vintage recipes”, and their posts surely live up to the description. Scroll down to find some of them below and see for yourself.