Lobster Relish Jell-O - Neatorama

From Davis Dainty Dishes (1948) by Davis Gelatine [Photo: Shelf Life Taste Test]

Unlike the bacon pancake post that Miss Cellania wrote last week, certain things that are delicious really don't belong together. Case in point, this lobster relish creation above, which combines lobster and gelatine (Jell-O). Now, I like lobster and I love Jell-O, but the thought of them combining is giving me the ooies.

Matt Stopera of BuzzFeed has a list of 12 terrifying culinary creations made with Jell-O. Each one is more horrifying than the last. Read at your own risk: Link - Thanks Eric!

Heh. Back in 1962/3 I had to take "home economics" as a mandatory for girls. (one semester cooking, one semester sewing). Not only did we have to cook monstrosities like this, but we had to EAT them too, or get a failing grade. I remember throwing up after class. Now, I wish I had thrown up during class.

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a) my mother had this cookbook
b) i gagged back then and i am gagging now

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Davis Gelatine is a New Zealand company, and I collect cookbooks from my country, so I have about a dozen Davis Danity Cookbooks of various editions and that is not the worse image contained in gelatine in their pages. Like 'Macaroni Sausage Shape' in gelatine, 'Green Pea Salad' with rice. The factory was and I think still is located in my home city.

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You folks really need to give The Gallery of Regrettable Food over at Lileks.com a visit. He's been collecting such culinary nightmares for over a decade.

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They aren't kidding. I was given this book as a birthday gag... Every page in that book is straight from the pit of hell! Culinary disaster at it's best!!!

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Bah, small-minded. I remember gelatin-covered meats in Russia that were all very delicious. The key is that not all gelatin is sweet.

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INDEED. I made one with chicken for funsies. Not good. http://timetravelkitchen.blogspot.com/2010/06/molded-chicken-and-grape-salad.html

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I would love to make that mushroom one and take it to a potluck and surreptiously drop it off at the serving table. Then to stand back and watch peoples faces as they encountered it while moving through the line.

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Ironically, if you actually read the recipe, it calls for a packet of gelatine. It's not sweet - just a thickening agent.
Obviously most people think of only the sweet, flavored jello. Which is sad...because it also indicates people don't know how to cook from scratch anymore either.
I have made a crab jello mold similar to this and it was wonderful.

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