Cthulhoid jello salad

Write-Light dug up this insane, multi-limbed lobster jello salad for the Vintage Ads LJ group. It originally appeared in the Davis Gelatine Recipe Book.

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I wonder how hard it would be to recreate this monstrosity. Does it require anything currently unavailable, like Haddock flavored Jell-O?

It would be fun to spring it on unsuspecting friends.
Antinous / Moderator

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its jello salad ingredients.
allybeag

Heston Blumenthal could make something that looked like this and tasted of fruit.
http://nelc.livejournal.com/ NelC

Man, I’m so putting that in my next CoC game!
antti roppola

Squarely the sort of thing one might encounter in Lilek’s Gallery of Regrettable Food.
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

To be faced with this salad in real life would fill me with more horror than to actually witness the rising of the Old Ones.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  In Sunken R’lyeh, unspeakable horror eats you.
  - SomeGuyNamedMark
    
    And is served buffet style
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

How many years before the sculptural creations of Cake Boss will be (properly) regarded with this level of disdain and disgust? Fondant is an unspeakable batrachian blasphemy.
Legotech

What’s really REALLY funny is that when this ad came out…people actually thought this was an appropriate use for Jello and would serve THIS at a business dinner….erk…
Snig

My brother and I were at a party of one of my parent’s friends, with a holiday buffet. Innocent looking jello mold, we each had a piece. In the fruit flavored jello, in addition to fruit was a large piece of gefilte fish. The horror…
SomeGuyNamedMark

What was with the obsession in the 50s with gelatine?
- miasm
  
  Just look at it!
  - SomeGuyNamedMark
    
    I’m trying not to!
  - bibulb
    
    It’s made with bananas?
Paul Renault

What’s wrong with these people? What’s so wrong with lobster that you have to mask/mould/lose its character by combining it with gelatine?

Lobster tastes perfect all by itself.
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Eat it… before it eats *you*.
- http://lenterakecil.com/pt-commonwealth-life-perusahaan-asuransi-jiwa-terbaik-indonesia/ Lenterak
  
  it’s like junk food?
Vian Lawson

The Necronomicon?! It’s A COOKBOOK!
http://twitter.com/ElfRage Elizabeth Vongvisith

Are those supposed to be edible Yellow Signs up in the top left?