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Gummy bear casserole (healthy version)
- 1 cup of sugar
- 2 tubs of cool whip
- 3 bags gummy bears
- A can of mandarin oranges in light syrup
- Brick of low fat philadelphia cream cheese (room temp)
- teaspoon of vanilla extract
Directions:
- Combine the cream cheese and sugar with a mixer until fluffy
- Add cream cheese mixture, gummy bears, 1 tub of coolwhip, mandarin oranges (drained), and vanilla into a casserole dish, mix until homogenous
- Top with remaining tub of cool whip
- Chill in the fridge overnight (optional, you’re gonna throw this together an hour before the party)
- enjoy
Source: my family is from Iowa
I gotta know… What is the unhealthy version? Haha
Substitute gummy orange slices for the mandarin oranges?
Im from the Midwest and never heard of this dish but i know how “Midwest Healthy” works. So I’m willing to bet in the “unhealthy version” you basically double the sugar and possibly also the cream cheese. Oh and switch to full fat creme cheese.
Sometimes you do something outrageous like serve it ontop of a banana split and/or add copious amounts of chocolate syrup.
Full fat cream.cheese and oranges in regular syrup lol
One of my favorite ‘salads’ is jello, mini marshmallows, cool whip, and canned mandarin oranges. I was told it has fruit, so it counts as a salad. A staple at any church potluck.
In my family it’s more like key lime jello mixed with cool whip and mandarin oranges or some shit. And it always slaps
Two non-vegetable “salads” at every holiday gathering in my childhood in southern Illinois in the '80s were Waldorf Salad and Watergate Salad.
Watergate salad sounds pretty disgusting.
I live in the midwest and collect old cookbooks. Every “salad” section is about half recipes comprised of mixed vegetables and the like, and half recipes that sound like someone took all the desserts in their house and mixed them in a big bowl with some whipped cream and jello.
I was browsing the local thrift store for 70s-90s cookbooks and in several of them there were fruit soups which were just blended fruit cocktail recipes. I’ll post a picture after work. My favorite was cantaloupe soup.
Be glad. I have my grandmother’s cookbooks. She had one, that I only keep for proof, comprised entirely of mayonnaise recipes. I think it was published by Hellmans. It is full of some of the worst atrocities to food I have ever read about.
I know I don’t really like everything I’m served, but I swear this cookbook is like for a black-site prisoner encampment that gets deliveries twice a year.
https://www.instagram.com/marcosfunhouse/reels/ this guy does Vintage Recipes Gone Horribly Wrong. He attempts to make vintage recipes and eats them. You should make a submission :)
“Pink Cloud Mold”
🤒
This could be edible if it weren’t for the random unholy addition of mayonnaise
Just makes the mouth water, doesn’t it?
“Oh, that’s my mom’s pink mold recipe!”
shudder
Oh my god that’s amazing. I think you might not know how valuable that is to those of us under the spell of God’s cream.
Allow me to whet your appetite once more, that you may be fulfilled.
The salmon flounder roulades sound pretty good actually
Even better in the microwave
I need to know what the closest dish in that image is! (Presuming the furthest back is Pink Cloud Mold, and the middle is the Salmon-Dill Mousse)
Tri-color vegetable mold.
Thank you, king. My curiosity is satisfied. :-)
Now imagine you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with these recipes
this one is my gran’s. i love frog eye salad
thing you got to remember is, before like the 70s, good fruit was canned
Still better than hash (basically making a casserole of all the leftovers combined)
You have not had my grandma’s Christmas day hash. That is more delicious than the Christmas dinner itself. Damn my father’s side of the family knew how to cook…
I live in the Midwest and it was a couple of different types of fruit salad. Fruit with a bunch of whipped cream.
I’ve eaten many a dish with a combination of fruit, marshmallow and some kind of fluff.
Hmmm, I loved Heavenly Hash growing up…
Well, in the Christmas spirit, my family’s version of these, courtesy of a century spent in Nebraska.
Line the bottom of a cake pan with pretzels, mix up mixed berry jello, with or without the true berries inside, and add whipped cream to the top. Let it set in the fridge before serving. Adds a nice bit of sweet and salty, and an appreciable crunch.
This whole thread is just more evidence for why Americans aren’t allowed to make fun of Brits for our food.
This should make any Brit feel good about American food. May I present to you another holiday treat? The Wisconsin Cannibal Sandwich, which is made from raw hamburger. (link1, link2)
This is real. I remember it being served at a friends party when I was little… and my mom making sure I didn’t eat any.
Tartare sandwich? I’m French and approve, provided there some appropriate aromates in there.
That’s a mettigel. Used to be popular in Germany.
Many people still like mettbrötchen, which is basically what you describe. Should definitely be fresh though, but they usually are.Many cuisines have a version of eating raw beef: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare
If done correctly it is perfectly safe and incredibly tasty.
my favorite part of my british heritage is seeing other cultures’ foods and saying “i’ma cook that now”
I was laughing at all these weird dishes when it occurred to me that the fruit-based ones sound a lot like a dish here in Denmark with fresh fruit and ‘råcreme’ which is egg yolks and sugar whipped with vanilla, then gently mixed with whipped cream.
It’s delicious.
That lookw waaaaay better than ambrosia salad…shits gross.
Sure, but you can see how they’re vaguely related, right?
And it will inexplicably have peas in it as well
An actual recipe I grew up having in Minnesota and still occasionally make for events.
Cookie Salad
Pot-Luck, Salads Difficulty: Easy
Ingredients:
- 2 ( 3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 12 oz whipped topping, thawed
- 2 ( 11 ounce) can cans mandarin oranges, drained
- 1/2 ( 11 1/2 ounce) package fudge stripe cookies
Directions:
- In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and the buttermilk.
- Fold in the whipped topping.
- Mix in the pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges.
- Crush cookies and mix in.
- Chill until ready to serve.
- Decorate with any remaining cookies.
Notes: French Vanilla pudding is especially good Some like to add 1 ( 20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained as well
Love how you’re using buttermilk instead of sour cream for salad healthiness!!
If you really hate yourself, you could swap it out with plain Greek yogurt. It wouldn’t be good, but you could do it.
Gack blargh yes indeed
That sounds like a much better version of banana pudding.
Is it only half a package of fudge stripe cookies because part of the process is eating the other half?
Can confirm. I’ll be bringing Marshmallow Salad (a sacred family tradition) to Christmas dinner this year.
In case you’re curious, here’s the recipe:
- 1 big bag of mini marshmallows
- 1 large can of fruit cocktail
- 8oz tub of sour cream
Mix them together in your potluckiest bowl and let it sit overnight.
And yes, it’s delicious.
Have you tried this with full fat, tangy yogurt instead of sour cream? I bet it would be better. Sour cream and fruit just sounds… Awful.
The sour cream has some sort of interaction with the marshmallows that makes it work with the fruit. Not sure if yogurt would do the same. In any case, this is a midwest recipe, and that means it involves either mayo or sour cream.
I’m from the south. Our stuff always has butter. Every dessert has vanilla flavoring, too.
I, personally, just dont like sour cream and replace it with tangy, full fat yogurt when baking. Hasn’t done me wrong so far.
Fair enough. I do typically use plain yogurt in place of sour cream for lots of things. Usually works fine.
And yes, it’s delicious.
No it’s not. Atrocious. Source: was forced fed this abomination in PA one time.
Y’all wouldn’t know majesty if it came up and threw sour cream on your face.
I like them depending on the fruit used
