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I think the worst thing I ever had was some kind of fish noodle soup, which was also rotten. Or at least, it seemed rotten to me- it certainly smelled that way. It was some sort of Khmer (or at the very least SE Asian) dish I believe and was meant to be eaten at room temperature which made it even worse. I can force down a lot of things out of politeness, but that was one thing I simply could not finish. Thanks for watching!

Thank this man for sacrificing his taste buds for us

August, This is a real thing. I swear on my gramma's grave (and handwritten recipe) that this is real. When I saw this, I immediately went and found the recipe to show my husband much to his horror, that this indeed is not made up. Not only my gramma's recipe card, but my mother's as well. I grew up eating this and lived to tell the tale. I think it's a midwestern thing from the 70's. We all must have had an Aunt Myrna lurking in our midst, contaminating our party food.

My favorite part of the party cheese salad video is at the end when Jack is amazed at how good the "salad" is even with all the "green stuff" and insinuates that the concoction is somehow healthy

Honestly this man is the true MVP for going where no man has gone before

Jack's mentality of cooking is like "Yummy things that I like are even better when combined"

Aunt Myrna's Salad is what you make if you are sick of being asked to bring food. You'll NEVER be asked again. Genious!

Considering Jack likes to make things like "garbage stew" it's fair to assume he cracked open his fridge and just added all these things together and blamed poor aunt Myrna for it.

Aunt Myrna definitely exists in Jacks head. Somebody had to take the blame after guests complained about everything 😅

so glad honest tries is going to get some exposure from this. hopefully he’ll be able to get a new stove

It's like aunt myrna had a jello dessert recipe but then got dementia and started adding ingredients from the salad on the next page by accident.

August, you should TOTALLY do this. Make one of Jack's recipes just for the hell of it.

You remember that episode of Friends where Rachel has a cookbook with a page torn out so she ends up making half an english trifle and half a shepherds pie? This seems kinda like that. Half the ingredients seem like they might go together, but then in come the peppers, celery and pimentos. I think if we investigated Aunt Myrna's recipe book we might find a page missing between a couple recipes.

I really respect the attention to detail in him trying to shake the cool whip into the pan just like Jack. He's really trying everything he can to replicate the magic of Jack's recipes. Let's just hope he doesn't like chicken.

What a legend! Not only did he manage to impress Jack, but he also ate food that was straight up made from the periodic table.

Great seeing Honest Tries getting a shout out, he's also done Garbage Stew, Kays Spaghetti and a few others from our favourite internet chefs.

When the words “Aunt Myrna’s Party Cheese Salad” came to my ears, I ran. The world’s gonna end and this is why. Thank for 697 likes

A guy who would paint his stove is a guy who would willingly cook and try Jack's recipes on it.

Aunt Myrna has a totally normal dessert recipe, and just felt like pranking jack and adding random nonsense to what she told him to see if he'd try it

I seriously thought he was trying to replicate Jack's 1-handed method😂

no matter how hard i try i can never even imagine how this would taste, it doesn't even register in my brain as food

In the 70’s weird ass jell-o salads were popular, this might be a remnant of a bygone era 😅 Emmy made in Japan did a video where she made something like this but with seafood, Mayo, and lemon jello 🥴

I live in the Midwest and have tried some abysmal "salads" that seem like someone opened the cupboard picked four things added jello and called it a day. This recipe is truly mind blowing to me in the bad party salad department. Guarantee she's brought it to multiple gatherings with one or two changes throughout the years and this is just the latest resurrection in this ongoing horror franchise.

The guy's reaction after taking first bite was just so epic 😂😂😂😂 he was almost frozen to death

The guy really deserves the shoutout. He does what most humans don't dare to even imagine. What a mad lad

I can see a MeatCanyon video in the future; it shows something along the lines of Jack finishing making his video for his poor aunt Myrna's recipe after suffering from dementia for a few years. Jack wants to make it exactly how she wants, so he can show her the video, so she can see how much people love it. ...She passes with a smile on her face, & Jack sits & sobs by himself. Both feeling grateful & awful about what he's just done, & what is about to flood his comment section.

i love this guys channel! ive been watching a few of his videos for awhile and i like how laid back and honest he is about this stuff. no over the top reactions, its just really nice

This man has both my love and my sympathy.

How do you tell someone you want to break up? Serve them Aunt Myrna's party cheese salad. No difficult conversations, no awkwardness.

This recipe always makes me think of that episode of friends where Jennifer Aniston was supposed to be making a trifle but the cookbook pages were stuck together and the next recipe was like shepherds pie or something like that so it was a mix of trifle ingredients and shepherds pie ingredients. Something like that had to happen somewhere to produce this because it is utterly psychotic.

I feel like a page ripped in the cookbook and she started one recipe and finished another 😂 Edit: After some research it seems to me like it likely started as a “Watergate Salad” that got mixed in with a pimento cheese recipe by accident 😮

I worked at an appliance parts store decades ago. We often had customers ask why they can't paint their stove when they can paint their refrigerator. Basically because the inside of your refrigerator doesn't heat up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

The level of continuity here is amazing. Jack only uses one hand to cook too. Well done Sir.

Also? Aunt Myrna's Party Cheese Salad belongs on a list of things that you shouldn't put in your mouth...along with like...batteries, tiny Calico Critter accessories, and the usual list of items you worry about a toddler ingesting.

This sounds like part of a recipe from the 70s…the ones mom would find in her Better Homes and Gardens magazine or one of the other magazines that were sold at that time. I remember my mom trying all kinds of jello recipes and they usually had cool whip added. They were made in Tupperware containers and served at all kinds of family functions. I recall one had shredded carrots. A lot had marshmallows. They also had a fancy sounding name with parfait or mousse in the name! Lol! Those were the days my friends.❤❤

I felt genuine fear when he cut into this dish and it looked cakey. GENUINE FEAR. Im never going to look at cake the same way again

Party cheese salad....sounds wonderful

This could be one of those unfortunate accidents of a recipe; when I was growing up my aunt wrote down the ingredients she needed for one of her desserts and also a few other items she needed from the store while she was there. Years later after she passed my cousins attempted to recreate the dessert not knowing the other ingredients weren’t apart of the recipe. It was absolutely HORRENDOUS but man did we have a great laugh about it after they realized the mistake 😂

As a chef, I can tell you what the Aunt was going for. They were going for a "cold set cheesecake" with lemon/pineapple flavor. I don't understand the coolwhip being added as that is mostly just made of oil and corn syrup, should have added heavy cream instead. I don't understand her recipe has cheddar but I guess it's to add more "cheese" flavor? And of course, I've no idea why the aunt's recipe has vegetables and pimento... Would make sense with fruit... Not going to lie though, you can in fact make an amazing cold set cheesecake with jello because you can use either corn starch or gelatin, so lemon jello would work extremely well. Gelatin and Corn starch prevent the cheese cake from cracking and hold it together, but most cold set recipes don't use it, doesn't mean you shouldn't or can't, because many recipes do use it.

My grandmother makes some “ congealed salad” it’s only lime jello, pecans and marshmallows, and It’s VERY GOOD! Aunt Myrna is literally a mad scientist because this is too much…. 😂

Discovered this channel a week ago, entertains me when I can't sleep at night. Thanks man. I binge watched all the cooking stuff and I must say, really entertaining.

The reason a lot of old recipes include gelatin is because they didn't have refrigeration yet, it's to prevent whatever's inside the gelatin from going bad.

So glad you found this guys channel. Been watching him for a couple weeks and it’s been enjoyable

The "Should I Series" guy also deserves big ups because he did the party cheese salad video. And some of Jack's other greatest hits like the lazy man enchiladas and romantic dinner.

I started watching this guy a little while back. It's great. I want him to do some of Kay's recipes though.

We need a permanant collab, with august reviewing the recipes on a hypothetical level and this guy on a practical level, not on the raw stuff cuz salmonella and other infections but like the lazy man's omelette or other whacky but kinda reasonable recipes

props to the guy for even having the balls to eat that

That Sonic drowning music when he takes the first bite has me in tears

DeadwingDork also did Aunt Myrna’s Party Cheese Salad and he couldn’t even force himself to swallow it, it was horrible lmao

This channel never fails to deliver interesting content. I literally sat around for 6 hours binging August's videos

Been watching this dude for a couple weeks now, pretty cool you are covering him. Edit: I also am absolutely flummoxed by the painting of the stove.

Man took one bite and traveled to the dark Ether.

I"ve watch his video few days ago, i was amazed to see someone actually do this nightmare of a recipe , i hope you'll watch more of his videos, because he's our hero

this was in my recommended a few weeks ago after binge watching a bunch of videos on this channel about jack and kay. glad to see it finally made the rotation. also to be fair, having had a crazy polish grandma growing up, i've had a ton of 'experimental' dishes like this, and i think the idea of a savory, cheesy fruit salad type thing is definitely doable it's just...not this.

The sonic music took me out 😂 when you're drowning underwater

I feel like this recipe came about like that one episode of Friends where two pages of the recipe book got stuck together. So there was a page of that one "salad" That is cooler, fruit, marshmallows I forget the name of it. I think it's like ambrosia. And then also that got stuck and they added in an actual cheese dip or cheese crisp recipe. Then some idiot was like. Yeah that makes sense

"Foods that should not be eaten." Sounds like something to put on my tombstone. Just kidding, I plan on being cremated and used in Jack's Raw Chicken seasonings.

Imagine if every ingredient he added it made a vine boom 💀💀

A minute in this video, i already respect this man. So much so that i went to his channel and subbed immediately. This dude deserves more attention for risking his life and his tongue cooking these nasty, godawful, horrendous, disgusting, terrible dishes. Respect.

Prayers for Jack, heard he had another stroke and is in the hospital 🙏

Oh God , every time I try to forget about aunt Myrna and her party cheese salad it comes back to haunt me….I can no longer escape

The Party Cheese Salad reminds me of that trifle Rachel made on Friends when the cookbook pages stuck together 😂

Post WWII America was a crazy era. Women were expected to be perfect housewives and mothers and entertain at dinners and parties to help their husbands’ careers and be involved in their churches and children’s schools, ad nauseum. They were not happy or fulfilled, and everyone was taking tons of amphetamines. And many were drinking like fish. Plus everyone smoked or were around those who smoked. Which dulls the taste buds and sense of smell. Smell is a huge part of how we taste our food. So basically lots of recipes were made by passive aggressive cooks who were on speed, possibly drunk, and couldn’t taste as much as we can today. Companies were also writing cookbooks and pamphlets to show people what to do with their products. A lot of recipes were submitted by customers and voted on. Or included because they were extreme and would make people want to get that specific publication to see the weird recipes. So gelatin companies (there used to be more) could have been trolling people for more engagement. I grew up in the 80s and saw a bunch of weird Jello creations. A lot of people thought the recipes were crazy back then. Only sweet ones were popular.

NOT THE FUCKING PARTY CHEESE SALAD NO STOP

This legend of a man "Honest Tries" has earned my subscription. His dedication to our enjoyment and curiosity deserves recognition.

petition for august to create his own version of the aunt myrna's party cheese salad in a future video

We need more of these videos

As soon as I heard “Aunt Myrna’s Party Cheese Salad," flashback of Jack immediately came rushing back to me not even a minute into the video💀

I'm only aware of 2 people who tried to recreate Aunt Myrna's party cheese salad: this guy and Deadwing Dork

Him: "I have no desire to eat it again" Also Him: Takes another bite while explaining it 😂🤯🙈

now I want a video of August, cooking this and trying it out XD

Jack has mutated from eating raw meat to being able to eat spoiled meat. What's next...

im 3 month pregnant so my stomach has been weak anyways, but at 6:08 the mix of those visuals plus you listing the ingredients actually made me gag lmao.

This came straight out of a 1940-50s cookbook..they had some weird shit back then

What a creative idea to get a subscriber base quickly. He knew you would review his channel since you always review Jack and Kay's food. You blew him up August haha

I feel like August should try some of Jacks recipes himself. Call it cooking with August

I’m trying to resist eating in preparation for an appointment tomorrow… this helped.

I like the Sonic The Hedgehog sound effects as he took his first bite..brought back memories

This may sound crazy, but I think I understand the idea behind the dish: It looks like the recipe is trying to make a casserole version of a cheeseball that doesn't require a serving knife. If that's the goal, there are a few fixes for sure that would probably help this dish: 1. Substitute the pepper and pimento with spices like minced garlic and paprika. Get the flavor profile without the odd textures. 2. Drop the cool whip and jello and instead whip heavy cream to medium peaks, and fold it into the mixture. That should make it easier to dip while making it creamier. 3. Add lime zest and/or fresh lime juice to help cut through the fat from the cream, cheese, and cream cheese. 4. For assembly, I'd mix the cheese in with mixture and instead top with the chopped nuts (preferably pecans), making it resemble a casserole version of a cheeseball. I might try making this and let y'all know if it's any good.

We need to pray for this man's health.

I'm sad to say it is very real several of my family members throughout time have brought this to events it's absolutely horrific

I feel like it must be that Aunty Myrna used to make those awful Jello Salads in the 50s and 60s, and she developed a habit from there, then tried to make the dish more like a dessert over time by adding more sweet ingredients.

Ive watched a few of his videos, he seems really wholesome. I'm glad he's getting more exposure.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me the story of August the duck, this is what it said: Once upon a time, there lived a duck named August. He was an ordinary duck that lived in the small pond at the edge of town. Every day he would waddle around, looking for food and enjoying the peacefulness of his pond. One day, a gust of wind blew through the pond, carrying a large brown paper bag. August flapped his wings and chased after the bag, determined to investigate. When he opened it, he found a stuffed toy duck inside. August was delighted. He named the toy duck "Augustina" and they became the best of friends. Everywhere August went, Augustina followed him, and August enjoyed having a companion. One day, August was out looking for food when he came across an old boat. He hopped inside and soon discovered it was the home of a family of beavers. August was scared, but the beavers were friendly and offered to share their home with him. August stayed with the beavers and soon became part of their family. He taught them how to swim and they taught him how to build dams. August also took Augustina with him and she was like a sister to the beavers. August's life was full of adventure and friendship and he was happy. He never forgot the kindness of the beavers and he continued to live with them for many years until one day, he realized it was time for him to fly away and explore the world. So, August and Augustina said goodbye to their friends and set off into the sky, never to be seen again

August you've been shown up. Now you, too, need to try these recipes.

I lost it when HT said .."i guess the question is WHY?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That spatula was trying desperately to save this mans life by not letting go of that slice of death

Awww thank you for boosting this guy! I watched him do this and I really felt like he deserved more views.

YES! I'm so happy you're doing a video on him. I love it!!! ❤️

I wonder if Aunt Myrna was one of those people who just didn't want to be stuck with being the host for family gatherings, so she comes up with exceptionally distressing food dishes to make the rest of the family collectively decide "nope.... anyone but her." Galaxy brain move, if so.

😂😂 the end of him talking always gets me😂

August... You can't be outdone in this manner, you know what needs to be done. For all the jack recipes we must know the truth about

Anyone else remember the guy who worked in a kitchen who literally recreated all the awful recipes found on RU-vid? I miss him

I am so happy he is getting noticed more, love this guy!

Reminds me of the time DeadwingDork made the Partycheese Salad for the new years special. I bow for everyone who is mad enough to try that stuff.

already gonna be a great video

Hola

The answer to "why" is simply the same reason why Jack always adds randomly small amounts of greens to all his creations...so he can have a reason to call it a "salad"

This video actually appeared on my recommended page and I was praying August would do a video on it

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