People have been cooking, baking, and creating recipes for hundreds of years. Cooking shows, cookbooks, recipe cards, blogs, and so much more exist out there regarding food and mealtime. However, as with everything else, cooking and recipes have changed a lot over the years. These days, depending on quality and reputation, people will spend a lot of money on a meal. The art of cooking has come a long way, but it is interesting to see what people were eating throughout history.

Food has been scarce throughout different points in time, so people got by any way they could. This did make for some pretty strange dishes, though. Once upon a time, everything was suspended in Jell-O or made into a loaf. While these meals might look revolting today, they were once enjoyed by many,

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 dinner foods that people really used to eat and enjoy back in the day.