The topic and conversation of food and cooking has always been a popular one amongst people. Cooking shows, cookbooks, recipe cards, blogs, and so much more exists out there regarding food and mealtime. However, with time, things change, and this includes cooking, recipes, and food in general. These days, meals can get pretty fancy and people will pay a lot for a relatively small amount of food depending on quality. Restaurants are expected to have super high standards and people are made famous for their cooking skills. Back in the 1900s, though, food and recipes looked different.

Of course, food has been scarce throughout different points in time, so people got by any way they could. This did make for some pretty wild meals, though. Once upon a time everything was suspended in Jell-O or made into a loaf. Mayonnaise was used in many things as were mini marshmallows, gelatine, spam, and other odd ingredients.

Here we have collected 25 vintage recipes and meals from the early and mid-1900s for everyone to admire or weep over. Enjoy this kind of unsettling collection of supper foods that people really used to eat and enjoy back in the day.