oh this is genuinely shocking
hi i'm josh i'm ollie and today
we're going to be reviewing the worst
recipes the 1950s
have to offer
wow today we have five show-stopping
courses
five courses that should be consigned to
history i've resurrected them in some
cases
had to find ingredients that no longer
are in circulation
so we're going to be just looking at
them actually we're trying them man
what is going on i commissioned jenny oh
my friend jenny
to make things she spent literally all
day yesterday dawn till dusk making
these what
are you ready for this no not at all all
right
round one of course one should i say
it's more
a kind of a moose bouche this is the
jellied
tomato refresher oh
that looks disgusting it looks like a
bloody mary that someone's
drank and then vomited up in jelly form
do you want to know what's in it
unflavored gelatin cold water
tomato juice a tablespoon of dehydrated
green peppers artificial sweetener
a packet of instant beef broth
oh worcestershire garlic salt ground
cloves and a green pepper to garnish
who the heck thinks of this stuff it
smells
putrid i mean that there's a lot that's
just
it's just jelly all right enough amusing
our booshes
time to flipping actually try this
i hate tomorrow i hate tomato juice
ollie i hate it
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oh my gosh
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is that a real recipe do people actually
eat that
my booster's not even remotely amused
i would say my bush is angry it's
limited it's an angered food i'm seeing
it very red
that is disgusting take it away please
next course all right of course i dread
to think what's next
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why did that need to be jelly that's an
important thing that was so
unnecessary that is an important
question that we
can answer today okay now we come on to
our starter
lime cheese salad
that's not a real thing it is
oh it looks flipping identical
so this is lime jello and cottage cheese
and then lime jello on the top with
grated onion
vinegar mayonnaise with a seafood salad
you might be noticing a pattern here
right there is an ingredient
that has tide that has tied these dishes
together why is there so much chili
gelatin was invented in the 1650s i
think
but it only really long time ago became
popular at the beginning of the 20th
century following the second world war
the world was rebuilding there wasn't a
lot of expendable income
right and jello people had to get
creative you had to get creative right
by the 50s it's like this is the heyday
of jello and this isn't even the
craziest
like you're gonna see some crazy crazy
stuff today oh dear lord
let's try it that is actually an
abomination it keeps
jiggling about all right our bushes are
thoroughly amused
oh now we need something healthy i'm
just going to get a little bit of jelly
first
because my inclination is surely that's
going to be like
that's going to be sweet it's got a bit
of onion in it though
oh oh
that's the cottage cheese layer and then
i'm going to get some seafood oh that
seafood salad in the middle
this is genuinely shocking cottage
cheese
bunch of tuna lime jello
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there's a lot going on you know what
that's a lot better than the last one
really if you don't think about
what it is i'm kind of not that mad at
that for me
the combination of the acidity of the
lime no don't don't don't
talk about it talk about it and then the
cottage don't want to analyze
onions the tuna and the cottage cheese
jelly thing that's the texture of vomit
with the sour lime
jelly on top goodness me oh that's like
maybe a party dish
that's a joke a pasta party dishes and
chocolate yeah you put it out
and and people can actually try it's not
a waste of food okay the last one
was a genuine waste of ingredients i
mean i feel bad talking about it like
this in front of it
you know like imagine if you say someone
i like you but kind of as a joke
now we're coming on to our seafood maine
you have
really outdone yourself today us
what is that it's seafood
moose gelatin it's not jelly in there
there's more gelatin boiling water half
a cup of mayonnaise lime juice
grated onion teaspoon of salt teaspoon
of pepper two
fish tablespoon of capers tablespoon of
chopped parsley
one cup of heavy cream whipped carrot
strips and sliced olives for decoration
look how solid it is it's mousse
can you start out you stop whipping the
fish oh
oh it's really thick i'm actually quite
looking forward to this to be honest
why i'm partial to a tuna mayo sandwich
why is there jelly in it again
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all right right as i bit into it you
reminded me that there's jelly
there oh the text
it's like it honestly tastes
like a tuna mayo sandwich
that has just been lubricated why is it
sour it's slightly sour
it's got lime juice in it i mean that
doesn't sound bad but lying on a bit of
fish
and it's good but that that it's not bad
that's the texture
and the lime that i would actually say
that's worse than the last one
really yeah i feel bad for the fish that
went into that whatever that is that's
bad we're now moving on
to the meat mane this i would say is a
show stopper
that's a real pineapple it's the real
top of the pineapple but the body is not
pineapple
oh my goodness
that's amazing i know i know
how on earth do you even go about making
something like that
what is that it is a jellied
liver sausage pineapple oh
there's a pineapple made from liver
sausage
and jelly this has been described as the
worst
recipe ever invented
it's not like just sausage meat that's
been pressed into an actual pineapple do
you want to see
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oh no
this is like the nightmare evil
cousin of meat fruit it is it is
you're right heston would be proud that
was a 700 yard recipe
that actually tasted amazingly good
maybe this you haven't tasted it yet
this looks like a 17 year old recipe
that is going to taste incredibly bad
who knows it might be incredible oh
the skin is falling down
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oh it's so squidgy ready cheers
i'm not that bad i had way too much is
that too much too much
i think you need a thinly led thinly
layered okay
spread it's a very strong flavor
definitely not the world's worst recipe
very strong flavor no no jelly tomato
for me takes that crown at the moment
i'm on board for this i'm genuinely i
mean
if you throw a party serve up that
it's a talking point massive talking
point i genuinely think heston would be
proud
wow okay probably you don't get mission
in star but history but you get a round
of applause i think heston would
performance i mean you you that's a
performance piece
it's historical and it's edible i'm
amazed you've outdone yourself i'm
amazed at that
that that's realistic managed to
replicate it
how on earth
that could literally be anything
cream cheese on the outside melon on the
inside
hollowed out and that's filled with
jelly and fruit salad it's like a ball
of trifle without the sponge
held in a melon and then covered with
cream cheese
oh my gosh
wow that looks identical to the picture
i'm genuinely impressed that you've
managed to replicate that so well
um and really good right
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not quite feeling your level of
enthusiasm
the cream cheese though which is the
worst part of it
really ironic configuration it would
taste a lot better if it was just
melon and trifle oh yeah melon and cream
cheese
not cream no no that exactly what's
wrong with it this is how advertising
works
but the cream cheese really doesn't help
i mean it makes the whole thing taste
very odd to be honest
i'm just glad that there's no mayonnaise
or vinegar in it that's true
you're right this is by far the best
thing we've tried would you be tempted
to have
any of these again
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i'd make that without the cream cheese
okay fun i think this
points for creativity right yeah this
points for movement
points for wtf where you think yeah yeah
genuinely that is
the worst thing i could possibly imagine
this i
would say abomination abomination yeah
this is an insult to fish everywhere
yeah and i would say that is
an insult to mouths everywhere genuinely
it's made me stop and think how thankful
i am that we have
good food in the world today why am i
just
miscellaneous retro outfits from the
1950s man
okay i think that's about what we have
time for today guys
we'll see you jolly soon
hello jolly i am alex from brazil
and my reason to be jolly today is that
i can sing
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bye