America's Old Time Thanksgiving Desserts

I know I'm hijacking a bit, but anyone entertained by this thread MUST visit James Lileks' Gallery of Regrettable Food.  Click on a link on the right side of the page and enjoy the... er... "cuisine".

The 70's were my childhood (lots of good times!), too but unfortunately the food (most of it cooked by Mom) was not good.  Sorry, Mom. 

My Grandmother did the Jell-O with canned fruit cocktail mixed in.  Not too bad, but after Jell-O made me throw up, I have never had it again.

Besides the 5 things my Mom could cook, I grew up on Spaghetti-Os, Campbell's soups, and baloney sandwiches.  Grown-up parties (as opposed to kid's birthday parties) meant a tray full of velveeta and olives on toothpicks and potato chips and dip made from sour cream and onion-soup mix in a packet.

Breakfast wa almost always some sickeningly sweet cereal like Cocoa Pebbles, Trix, Cap'n Crunch, Boo-Berry, etc. with a Devil Dog afterwards, washed down with chocolate milk.

That's basically what I remember about the food in the 70s, but now we're getting off-topic.

I think I'm gonna have to make the most disgusting jell-o salad ever at Christmas, just for a giggle. I'll have to run down to the Sally so that I can find some kind of horrible mold for it straight from the 1970s. 
Pistachio and cherry- Christmas colours, with cool whip and some kind of fruit cocktail and carrots and raisins and cucumbers and red peppers and something. Ha!  Or maybe make something really fun like "Strawberry Salmon Mousse"

 

I think I'm gonna have to make the most disgusting jell-o salad ever at Christmas, just for a giggle. I'll have to run down to the Sally so that I can find some kind of horrible mold for it straight from the 1970s. 
Pistachio and cherry- Christmas colours, with cool whip and some kind of fruit cocktail and carrots and raisins and cucumbers and red peppers and something. Ha!  Or maybe make something really fun like "Strawberry Salmon Mousse"

 

Good god girl, it is still early morning...strawberry salmon? Oh just yummy. 

Good god girl, it is still early morning...strawberry salmon? Oh just yummy. 

Nothing like waking the ole tastebuds up with a jolt!

Nothing like waking the ole tastebuds up with a jolt!

It'd certainly wake up the old taste buds and a few other zones.

I can handle kippers and toast in the morning, hell I can handle the Burmese breakfast of mohinga - kind of a bed of rice in a bowl of fish soup with dried prawns, noodles, lots of garlic and chili - that'll definitely wake ya up. But strawberry fish anything at anytime - naw think I'll give it a very berth.

but back to the sweet side of things

My mom was always big on meals with lots of choices for afters, pumpkin pies (several), apple pie, chocolate cake, Jello (normal stuff), cookies of types. It was always 4 days of bliss. For a kid.

No, jello salad was not for dessert!  You ate that on the plate with your other mains! 

No, jello salad was not for dessert!  You ate that on the plate with your other mains! 

Exactly! It was the salad! Just like the bananas sliced in orange juice that my mom would serve with dinner occasionally.  I haven't thought about that in years. What a weird thing to serve! I think I'm going to have to ask her about that one....

Just like the bananas sliced in orange juice that my mom would serve with dinner occasionally.  I haven't thought about that in years. What a weird thing to serve! I think I'm going to have to ask her about that one....

Now that sort of sounds like a normal fruit salad (as a dessert) with no other fruit besides bananas!

My mom used to give my dad as a dessert bananas in sour cream with sugar.