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, as with everything else, cooking and recipes have changed a lot over the years. These days, meals can get pretty fancy and gourmet. People will pay a lot for a relatively small amount of food because of the quality. Restaurants are expected to have super high standards and there are world-renowned chefs all over the world. Back in the day, cooking looked a little different.

Of course, food has been scarce throughout different points in time, so people got by any way they could. It did make for some pretty crazy recipes, though. Once upon a time everything was suspended in Jell-O or made into a loaf. These days it looks fairly revolting, but at one point that was someone's supper.

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.