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21 Truly Upsetting Vintage Food Advertisements

What, it's not like there's some LAW against mixing Miracle Whip with Jell-O.

1. This truly incredible ad for canned yams:

2. An ad for vegetable and celery-flavored Jell-O, which apparently existed.

3. A Miracle Whip ad that suggests that you should mix it with gelatin, fruit, and lemonade?!

4. This SPAM ad featuring a recipe for "Fiesta Peach SPAM Bake."

5. A Campbell's ad that suggests mixing canned tomato soup with milk and cinnamon.

6. A canned vegetable ad with a recipe for something truly unspeakable.

7. An ad for dessert mixes that looks more like a still from Hannibal.

8. Another ad for Miracle Whip, which victimizes an innocent head of lettuce.

9. A sinister ad for a mysterious canned meat product called Prem.

10. An add for canned seafood that might put you off fish forever.

11. This borderline-NSFW ad for canned Vienna sausage:

12. An ad for canned "meat spreads" that literally have a devil on the packaging.

13. A deeply gloopy ad for Swanson's canned turkey and "Chicken a la King."

14. A canned cranberry sauce ad featuring the least appetizing chicken stew you've ever seen.

15. An ad for what must have been an ill-fated Crisco competitor:

16. A Hellmann's ad featuring not just one but THREE recipes that will probably give you explosive diarrhea.

17. An ad for canned peaches that also involves Miracle Whip, because of course it does.

18. A fried onions ad that seems fine until you see the horrifying onion-fish staring at you.

19. An ad for beans that displays some questionable hot dog innovation.

Many thanks to Jamie Bradburn for collecting these gross gems. You can check out his blog or Flickr page for more.