>>>>My mom used to make this jello mold made from lime jello, cheese, cabbage, pimentos and pecans! The mother-of-all potluck terrors!!!
>>I remember moms like yours. I think I am scared for life from church socials.
James Lileks generated a book on that sort of thing.
Here's the web page:
The Gallery of Regrettable Food
http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/
Okay.....I'm convinced my mom used every single recipe at the links you provided. I think she still has those books. And, I must confess, that when I went to college I inherited my mom's orange crockpot and the cookbook that went with it. All the dishes in that cookbook were photographed in black and white and the ones that weren't actually look much like some photos at that link.
I need to send him a recipe that is in a church cookbook my mom bought in the '70s (it's funny to see what people considered "Mexican" food back then) for a dish called "Bass Con Queso".