My mom had a cookbook from Jello that she had gotten years before I was born. It had all sorts of weird Jello recipes. Meat in jello, meat jello, celery jello, etc. I'll have to look through my boxes to see if I still have it...
I remember she made one for dad, that had condensed tomato soup, gelatin, cream cheese, shrimp..probably celery and mayo and who knows what else in it.
He threw it out, and asked her to never make that again.
My aunt was famous for making one of two 'salads'; one with lemon jello, pineapple, pimento cheese, and cool whip; the other with lime jello, mayo, pineapple, cheddar and nuts.
Collectors weekly has an
article here about some of the bad 1950s recipes. Warning; it mentions hard boiled eggs in gelatin, liver pate en masque (liver, canned green beans in a mold, with a sauce of gelatin, pepper and no fat buttermilk), and chicken mousse 'ice cream'.
When DGS#3 turned a year old, I went to visit. DD#1 invited her in-laws over for a BBQ because I hadn't met them before. (long story) Her MIL brought over the orange jello w/pineapple and carrots mold, and my wonderfully tactless DD#2 blurted out "who in the hell made this monstrosity?". I have never seen anyone get 'visibly miffed' before, but she fit the definition to a tee. (I mean, the woman wouldn't get down and play with the babies, and actually shooed DGS#2 away from her when he went to say hi. There's 3 months difference between the 2 boys. Me? I sat, and laid down, on the floor to play with the babies; I have no shame about it.)