This wasn't a crappy recipe, but your stories made me think of it. My grandmother used to make these tiny orange cakes in these half round cast iron pans. They were SO delicious. Well, I guess she used to make them a lot when folks passed away, to give to their families.
Anyway, one day I had her at my house and I asked her to make them with me, because she was one of those folks who never wrote down her recipes. 
So, we made orange cakes and my house smelled heavenly. My mom came over to pick her up, took one sniff of my house and said "who died?????". 
7yyrt...What can I say! It's perfect, over the top gross. I have to make this for DH's next party at the Health Dept LOL. They just love this kind of stuff. Way better than my rat & trap cake!!!!
For halloween last year, my sister brought "treats" to my niece's school. A litter box filled with oats and curled tootsie rolls sitting on top. How was it served? With a pooper scooper of course. The kids were thoroughly disgusted/delighted. In case you needed more ideas for the health dept...
As for crappy food, shepard's pie with cream corn on top is where I draw the line. And I ate military food for 7 yrs...
OMG, I am laughing so hard here that I am in tears! 
Win, I think you must be a sister I have never met, because I know MY mother made that same horrific Swiss Steak recipe. There just can't be more than two moms out there who made it, can there? It did have the most horrible smell ever! I wanted to turn and run when I came home from school to that aroma.
OMG, I am laughing so hard here that I am in tears!
Win, I think you must be a sister I have never met, because I know MY mother made that same horrific Swiss Steak recipe. There just can't be more than two moms out there who made it, can there? It did have the most horrible smell ever! I wanted to turn and run when I came home from school to that aroma.
OMG, I am laughing so hard here that I am in tears!
Win, I think you must be a sister I have never met, because I know MY mother made that same horrific Swiss Steak recipe. There just can't be more than two moms out there who made it, can there? It did have the most horrible smell ever! I wanted to turn and run when I came home from school to that aroma.
Make it three LOLOL She also had this yummy stuff in her arsenal.
Mike
mine made some cheap white sifh with butter and lemon baked to death in the oven. It woud make me gag as a kid! I can still smell it, ick.
I lvoe fish now, but I NEVER EVER bake it in the oven. Its the grill or the pan for fish at my house.
I think our moms were trying to conserve money, but really!
Julia
When I was younger, my father was told by his doctor that he was low on iron, and needed to ramp up his intake of foods with iron in them. So my mother would cook liver (sometimes twice a week) with onions. As if liver itself wasn't bad enough, my mom thought that she had to cook it to within an inch of it's life so that we wouldn't get salmonella or botulism or something. Picture a piece of liver on a plate, looking like leather, cooked till the edges are curled, and then topped with onions. Delicious, huh?
7yyrt~ I have to say that that is the nastiest cake I have ever seen! Also thanks...we have a nasty cake category in the county fair and I think I may actually enter that cake next year!!!!
As for recipes, my grandmother did the shoe leather liver and onions thing, terrifies me to this day. I am usally a good cook but there have been times when trying a new recipe has been a BAD idea!!!
Thanks for the laughs everyone!
I remember those days when everyone thought you had to eat liver and onions or you just weren't healthy. My mother never went with that so I never ate it.
My mom was a wonderful cook and I have lots of memories of meals with my 4 brothers and a sister. We always had some kind of canned fruit, pie or cobblers for dessert at every dinner. My mom liked stewed prunes and none of us kids liked it. About once a month, that was our dessert. I hated them but I wasn't ever one to pass on dessert, so ate them anyhow. I have copied a lot of my mom's recipes and menus...but I have never cooked stewed prunes.
Anyone ever have navy beans for dinner growing up???
There were six children in my family, my mom was a stay at home mom...so we always knew it was a really tight month for my parents when she served a big pot of navy beans for dinner. If we were lucky, there was a little ham in it for added flavor.....
Yuk....my stomach is feeling queasy just thinking about it......
We were a 6-kid family, too, so soup beans were a staple in our house.
My mom, the horrible cook, couldn't logically substitute anything. She'd cook beans ... but no ham or bacon was around. Hmmm.....those meats have fat .... crisco is fat .... Hey! Let's add some crisco to the beans! If "some" is good, then 4 pounds is better!!
Yeah ... she'd cook ONE of those bags of navy or pinto beans, then ... I swear on my childrens' lives .... she'd scoop an entire 3 lb can of crisco into them! The bowl of leftovers (we never had leftovers, except when she made beans) that sat in the refrigerator, would have a layer of fat 1/2 inch thick on it!! And she never bought name-brand anything, so it wasn't even the "good" crisco .... it was the store brand cheap-n-nasty stuff!
We always wondered why other peoples' beans and even the school cafeteria beans tasted good?
Thankfully, my sisters and I figured out what NOT to do .... and our families actually LIKE beans now.
When I was younger, my father was told by his doctor that he was low on iron, and needed to ramp up his intake of foods with iron in them. So my mother would cook liver (sometimes twice a week) with onions. As if liver itself wasn't bad enough, my mom thought that she had to cook it to within an inch of it's life so that we wouldn't get salmonella or botulism or something. Picture a piece of liver on a plate, looking like leather, cooked till the edges are curled, and then topped with onions. Delicious, huh?
Yep! I sure remember that liver with extra onions.(SUECO I very vividly pictured that piece of liver).....not only that my mother had to make sure we were good in our iron levels....she also made us eat cooked spinach with pinto beans. Ugh! Very gross. Talk about the extra gas LOL!
7yyrt that was over the top........literaly crap cake HAHAHA
once when i was a teen, i made chicken soup, and didnt boil the noodles first... my parents ate it and then my dad made the comment... which haunts him to this day.... "well, it will keep ya alive..." i dont think he meant that in a good way, but it was memorable!
This wasn't home made, but we moved to a new area of town and were checking out various chinese delivery options. We ordered from this one place and it was so bad I wanted to throw the menu away. My husband stopped me. I was puzzled and asked him why. He proceeded to write in big bold letters DO NOT ORDER FROM THIS PLACE and placed the menu back with the other take out menus. His reasoning was if we accidently got a menu on the door or in the menu he wanted to be sure to know where the worst chinese food came from.
My Mom's horrible dish was salmon croquets. I think that's what she called them LOLOL. They were salmon out of a can, and shaped into lil pyramids then fried to the rock stage. OMG the were bad. We had them once a week. Miserable just miserable. LOLOL
Mike
Oh, Dear, my MOM made the WORST salmon croquettes from a can, because she ALSO put mushy creamy PEAS on it. 
(sing song voice) My mom's cooking is worse than your mom's!!! 
Oh dear, oh dear... You know I couldn't resist!
How to make a crap cake... oh dear!
http://on9now.com/dpics/crapd.html
I have a bit of throw-up in my mouth, now. 
My mom loves giblets from chickens. Well she ordered a whole bag of giblets and hearts and I think there were some chicken livers in there also. She boiled them up on the stove in a huge pot and threw in some dumplings. It was a white flour "stew" basically with tons of gizzards. It was totally disgusting. No one ate it but my mom and dad. I think when they finally tired of it it went into the garbage. Besides that fiasco, the only thing I remember is eating leftovers from Sunday dinner on Monday and as nothing could go to waste, every meal we had after that was added to the leftovers again and again until it was finally gone. I hate leftovers to this day!
My mother used to make almost on a weekly basis was Tuna Noodle Casserole. It was so nasty to taste, yet alone to eat. My mother use to make us take extra vitamins because she said "we ate like birds".. hmmm..
she was just a horrible horrible cook.......yuck!!!
She also use to take lemon cake mix and dump 2 boxes of either lemon pudding in it,, "it was just nasty tasting".. or dump 2 boxes of liquid jello onto it.., talk about it being sappy, it looked liked colorful mush and I wouldn't eat it at all.........."maybe that's why I don't like the smell or taste of lemon cake"...eewwwwwwww.......
My mom used to do so many things I found disgusting. I think it was a generational thing though because I've heard of several other people doing it too.
She used to make stuffed peppers, green bell peppers with rice, tomatoes and hamburger stuffed inside. I hated bell peppers (still do) so I never ate that. I would pick at the filling, but it tasted like peppers, so. . .
She would also cut an onion in half, put a pat of butter on the cut side and microwave it until it was soft. It was her favorite snack and it just made the house reek of onion.
She also liked to melt a piece of cheese over her apple pie. ick.
My mom used to do so many things I found disgusting. I think it was a generational thing though because I've heard of several other people doing it too.
She would also cut an onion in half, put a pat of butter on the cut side and microwave it until it was soft. It was her favorite snack and it just made the house reek of onion.
Um... 
NO! lol I would rather die than eat that.
Ok, so my mom was notorious for "cheap" nasty meals. Her favorite was to take either leg quarters or cheap bone in pork chops, put them on a broiler pan, and smother them in seasoned salt. Then she would bake them until there was not one drop of moisture left in them. blah! She also loved hamburger helper. I can't eat it without gagging now.
Don't know how old your mom is, but some of the weird foods (like the onion snack) could be from the days when there was less than nothing and an onion was a delicacy, or if she's not that old, maybe she learned it from her parents/grandparents.
My Father-in-law, who will turn 80 this weekend, tells the story of how his grandmother LUV'D chicken necks! It was her favorite piece of the bird! To understand that, you have to know that when his grandmother was little, it was common practice for the adults to eat dinner first ..... the kids (and the women?) were not permitted to eat until the men were done eating and had moved away from the table. My FIL remembers being SO hungry and being SO upset because "those old coots!" were just sitting around the dining room table smoking the stogies and talking ... while the kids were waiting in the kitchen so they could get any leftover food. The neck of the chicken was one of the pieces left so it's probably why his grandmother loved it.
He said he was 15 years old before he knew chickens had 2 legs or any breasts at all!
Rose_N_Crantz - are you from New England? My mother did the stuffed pepper thing all the time - YUK! Hated it - of course I didn't even like my foods TOUCHING each other back then, never mind MIXED UP and placed INSIDE another food! :O And I have seen many people here with the sharp cheddar cheese on top of apple pie.
She also used to make American Chop Suey - another one of those "mixed food" recipes UGH!
Of course now I see recipes for stuffed peppers and Chop Suey and feel the urge to make them, I think my Mom's Chop Suey was probably actually good LOL! - BUT I would never try to get my kids to eat them, one taste maybe, but I wouldn't server it to them. 
My husband made me promise a while ago to never accept another recipe from a coworker. He loves my cooking (cuz' I rock) and I kept trying these "delicious" recipies from people at work - complete flops!
And as for nauseating mom-snacks... my mother's favorite snack is the nastiest thing I ever heard of, she invented it as a little girl. Take a slice of white bread, pour sugar over it in a thick layer, then run it under the faucet until it's soggy - must be skanky chlorinated city water, filtered water is not acceptable for this recipe.
She still does this occasionally when we visit my grandmother. Just can't help herself.
I can top all your disgusting dishes with this Norwegian delicacy my grandmother made: you take a quart of pig's blood (had to be PIG's blood), mix in enough flour until it's a dough, wrap the dough around a nice, big piece of suet (that's FAT) and boil. It ends up looking like a grey-brown sponge. I graciously let me aunt eat my share (she loved the stuff!).
He loves my cooking (cuz' I rock)
That made me laugh my a** off! you are just too cool 
OMG GeminiRJ, my ex FIL would make "blood pudding" by taking the hog blood flour, and spices and then baking it in the oven. There may have been suet in it also, I can't remember. BLAH!
His wife, my ex MIL also did some strange cooking. Her most famous dish was "Pickled Chicken". You took one large bottle of ketchup, dumped it in a large stock pot, added a small bottle of white vinagar, heat it to a boil, dump in chicken (she loved leg quarters & backs...) cook it till it falls apart. Voila... pickled chicken. GAG
My mom's favorite sandwich, pb, Miracle Whip (not mayo) and lettuce. Blech.... still turns my stomach when I think about it.
The dinner that had me running for the door.... S.O.S (Stuff/S#!t on a shingle) using packaged chipped beef mix. Ugh, I just remember gloppy white goo mixed with what I guess you could call meat, all on toast.... ugh... <shivers> I was happy when she stopped making that.
I had mouth surgery one time and my step-mother had made homemade chicken noodle soup - well she gave me just "broth" - evidently she didn't remove the grease from the soup - so I got a cup of hot chicken fat!!!! EWWWW! I to this day won't touch her chicken "soup".
Judi
For me it was Split Pea Soup (a new england thing?) Gross....slimy green thick nastiness with chunks of god knows what...just bubbling away on the stovetop. Ugh..not sure if it was the way it looked, or smelled but the combination of the two has scarred me for life. (dry heaving now...)!
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