Why the cabbage? The Cabbage Growers Association attempted to take over Halloween from the Pumpkin Growers Association. Lucky for us, they failed; otherwise, Starbucks' offerings would include Cabbage Spice Latte.
That apple, walnut, celery, mayo salad is a classic Waldorf Salad, a favorite of my mom’s. At the time it would have been considered the height of sophistication.
I think it truly depends on how MUCH mayo you add to things. It’s really supposed to be just enough to bind it and keep it from drying out, not turn everything goopy white. There’s also differences in types and brands of mayo, I’ve realized as an adult 😂. I love cream and might try that sometime too. I love a Waldorf chicken salad on crackers or as a sandwich. Excellent party or potluck dish.
AAaand during the twinkle lights rants, Abby could scare a cryptid...LOL My parents have a Twinkly brand Christmas tree. They can set the lights to ANY color and pattern so it mostly just stays up all year and gets decorated for whatever holiday or season is going on. Right now it's covered in skulls, pumpkins, bats, and the like, and the lights are green, orange, and purple. After Halloween, it gets turned into just a fall tree with yellow and orange lights, leaves, and flowers. (Christmas is a HIGHLY planned tree depending on my sister's decorating mood each year - candy one year, vintage stuff the next, snowflakes another...)
Would be fun if you did a round up of adults fancy dress costumes (like what they’d wear to balls before Hallowe’en was a costume thing) from various eras. I know there’s tons up until the 20s, but some evidence of them back to the late 1700s too, right? I find stuff on pintrest but I see the same ones over and over again. Maybe you’d pick an era like Victorian or Edwardian/Twenties and just stick with that for a whole video.
Yes! Please! Please! Please! (also did you know that JRR Tolkien and his buddy C S Lewis went to a party dressed as polar bears when it was supposed to be a normal dinner party?)
The aesthetic whole house decorations for a Halloween party were amazing. 100% goals!! But the oranges and the cursed cabbages....and that foot were highly unsettling. So fun to look at vintage advertisements
I am 100% doing those creepy cabbages but will advertise as “ooo look at these cute decorations I made for our table!” Those are straight up unnerving. I personally love decorating in not so obvious ways like with books: Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty with a holographic skull. One day, though, I just want it to look like the Addams Family home.
I have some vintage Halloween decorations from my grandfather, they scare the heck outta me! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it wasn't evil. 😈🎃🦇 Happy Halloween!
This makes me want to search through my boxes of vintage women's magazines from the 60s-70s. (My mom used the (very large) linen closet for magazines and knitting supplies.)
I am proudly displaying and using my fairy lights all year round! 🧚 Mostly use warm tones during the year (like around fireplace so small battery operated in jars) as esthetic and will occasionally do colors for specific holiday.s
I think if you made that cursed cabbage salad, add some chicken to the mix. That would actually be a good chicken salad. Maybe uhhhh a bit less celery. Swap the celery for chicken and just put SOME celery in it. 😂 ETA the scariest part about those twinkle light decorations is how they would have been attached to electricity at that point in time. A literal fire hazard! Have you ever seen how they had their houses wired? It was literal dangling wires with as many things hooked onto it as possible sometimes. It wasn't sockets which you plugged into, it was A BLOODY LIVE WIRE! There also was NO regulation on power use, so appliances and lights might use an extraordinary amount of electricity, and everything would have their own requirements. Many a house burned down because "Fanny rigged up too many appliances to the kitchen wire." so while the decorations and use of lights is spoopy and aesthetic, the electrical usage would absolutely scare a cryptid!! 😱
When you were looking at a sample from the 1940's, I instantly thought that they may have been using materials easily available at the time. I'm not sure about WWI era (1914-1918), but the WWII era, there was a lot of rationing going on in order to direct food and materials for the troops. I wonder if those ideas were borne out of what they had at their disposal at the time. However, they certain achieved their objective...the decor was very creepy.
Apple salad is actually really good😅. We do grapes instead of orange or orange rind. It’s like arby’s chicken salad without the chicken, in my opinion a huge improvement lol!
I'm 98% sure my mom made that celery/apple/walnut salad mayo monstrosity on the regular. She probably added jello, too. Thank goodness she never put it in a cabbage 🤣
Thanks Abby, this is a fun video! I did a bit of research on Halloween costumes, and found some REALLY creepy paper mache pumpkin head masks, from the 1900's on. My favorite holiday of the year!
Here is my fav poem for Halloween. Halloween is a wonderful time when every leafs a fairy, even though it's make believe it's still kinda scary. Happy Halloween all.
Abby, you’re one of my favorite humans in this world, but we need to stop perpetuating the myth that it’s ok to start decorating for Xmas before Thanksgiving. Every time a person hangs Xmas decorations in October, Kirk Cameron amasses more power. Nobody needs that!
Thank you! One holiday at a time is plenty! If you spread Christmas (or any other holiday) out too much, you only dilute the excitement, because no one can truly maintain it for months at a time. You need time off from the holidays for holidays to have any meaning.
"Twinkle lights are valid for the entire fall and winter season!" YES! My thought exactly! I keep my outside Christmas lights on ALL WINTER because the outside is dull and drab during winter in the midwest!!!
That apple walnut salad minus the orange rind and using Miracle Whip instead of mayo, Granny Smith apples for best flavor, was always at Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas at our house. Midwestern salads yo. Half of them are delicious but could put a diabetic in a coma, half of them could scare the skin off a cryptid, and there's plenty of cryptids in the Midwest.
PS. Miracle Whip is the devil and the scariest part of the salad. Oh, and Mom never bothered to blanch the walnuts to remove the skins so they were oh so delightfully bitter landmines.
I've never seen the cabbage head, but the salad actually isn't bad if you can convince the preparer to not use Miracle Whip, i.e. don't have a Midwestern mom. Lol
The salad is called Waldorf salad. I grew up on it in the '70s. It's delicious. Ours didn't have orange in it. We used Miracle Whip instead of Hellman's. Great for warm summer's night but not really for Halloween.
I can see it being a “fall dish” due to the apples and nuts which ripen/harvest in the fall in the northern hemisphere. We have citrus that is ready on the tree year round if you choose your varieties carefully, but I get the feeling it’s a fall or winter crop as well in the past due to getting an orange in one’s stocking, and the orange clove pomanders.
I watched HPI, as I do every year, while handing out candy. When Alison's house scene happened, my first thought was, "buttons? I'll bet the CosTubers will have something to say about that!"
Looks up at the fairy lights I kept on my livingroom ceiling all year round (because my son didn't want me to take them down). Yes! I'm fashionable! At least in the early 20th century.
Here be the retro crafts of my dreams AND my nightmares! Going to have to save these to investigate for next year! Also, I have that fairy lights image as a wooden puzzle! One of my favorites!
That idea of putting a speaker inside a ghost and having it play scary stories is actually pretty great. You could set it up so there were like, little ghosts sitting around to listen
What really added to the scare, cursed and just plain unsettling factor was the monochrome filter on those images. I mean think about it, Jason in a florescent orange mask with sunflowers, Michael Myers wearing head to toe tie-dye and Godzilla with a bright red sequined bow around their neck not that scary...just me, probably. 🙄
I'm surprised they didn't have those dried apple dolls. Carve apples into heads, hang them on strings and let them dry out. You get little eldritch horrors that look like shrunken heads.
The only tradition we had growing up was turning off all the lights and pretending we weren't home while my dad told us why celebrating Halloween was ACTUALLY worshiping Satan and all those little trick or treaters were going to hell and wasn't God's eternal love better than candy? No dad. Gimme my freaking mini snickers and jack o lanterns. 🎃
My G-Gramna and her 4 siblings were all ghosts for Halloween around 1905-ish. Thing is, when your Irish immigrant relatives make quick and dirty ghost costumes out of old bedsheets and pillowcases in the 1900s Pacific NW, you end up with pictures future generations have to explain Very Carefully.
Hi there. In the case that you did not know, the art on the front of the notebook is called "All is Vanity" and I find it hilarious! She's being vain in front of a vanity table. Bwah-ha-ha. I've seen printings in all sorts of colors.
To find spooky themed decorations in vintage magazines, look more toward November, especially before WW1. That is when kids would go out and wreak havoc, especially in New York.
I was more a fear street kid (was also reading King and Koontz in middle school), but I loved the goosebumps show. And I still am totally creeped out by ventriloquist dummies...
I am also from the Waldorf salad generation, and agree with many points of view in the video & comments: it looks unsettling (I was not fond of mayo as a young person). But, if mayo is fresh and used sparingly, it does make an interesting mildly nuanced accent to both savory & sweet dishes. It's really just oil, egg, mustard, & salt, or some variation thereof. Waldorf salad, and other mayonnaise salads and dishes are things I eat sometimes, but, don't make at home. They're tasty, but, usually not worth the fuss of making & mixing.
I actually really like mayonnaise... like mayonaised corn is one of the best things ever (canned corn with sour cream and mayonnaise) perfect with fish and chips or a roast or something like that
Just what I want for Halloween dinner…raw cabbage stuffed with mayo, some apples , walnuts & celery… ( make your own cole slaw in one hour). Please provide a spittoon on the table when you get the urge to puke…OMG funny😅
Hey! As a boomer, I am offended that you blamed my generation for that creepy-ass foot with a face in the 1907 article - none of us were born until 40 years (or more!) later and we were not asking our grandmothers for decorating ideas...
Halloween wasn't a very big deal during the Great Depression and years following. At least not in rural Louisiana or Mississippi. My dad was born in 1931 and growing up he only went trick or treating once.
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Why the cabbage? The Cabbage Growers Association attempted to take over Halloween from the Pumpkin Growers Association. Lucky for us, they failed; otherwise, Starbucks' offerings would include Cabbage Spice Latte.
Mmm gassy 🥬💨
Now THAT’S a frightening thought.😳😱
*Insert avatar reference here*
Eww. I dont even like pumpkin spice latte🎃
Oh gawd no!
That's it. You've convinced me. Next year's Halloween theme: CURSED CABBAGES.
That apple, walnut, celery, mayo salad is a classic Waldorf Salad, a favorite of my mom’s. At the time it would have been considered the height of sophistication.
My mom always made it with cream instead of mayo. Its fucking delicious. Mayo is gross.
I think it truly depends on how MUCH mayo you add to things. It’s really supposed to be just enough to bind it and keep it from drying out, not turn everything goopy white. There’s also differences in types and brands of mayo, I’ve realized as an adult 😂. I love cream and might try that sometime too. I love a Waldorf chicken salad on crackers or as a sandwich. Excellent party or potluck dish.
@@twobluestripes Agreed. My mom used just enough mayo to barely coat the apples.
AAaand during the twinkle lights rants, Abby could scare a cryptid...LOL
My parents have a Twinkly brand Christmas tree. They can set the lights to ANY color and pattern so it mostly just stays up all year and gets decorated for whatever holiday or season is going on. Right now it's covered in skulls, pumpkins, bats, and the like, and the lights are green, orange, and purple. After Halloween, it gets turned into just a fall tree with yellow and orange lights, leaves, and flowers. (Christmas is a HIGHLY planned tree depending on my sister's decorating mood each year - candy one year, vintage stuff the next, snowflakes another...)
Man anything Twinkly brand is so cool.
Would be fun if you did a round up of adults fancy dress costumes (like what they’d wear to balls before Hallowe’en was a costume thing) from various eras. I know there’s tons up until the 20s, but some evidence of them back to the late 1700s too, right? I find stuff on pintrest but I see the same ones over and over again. Maybe you’d pick an era like Victorian or Edwardian/Twenties and just stick with that for a whole video.
Yes! Please! Please! Please! (also did you know that JRR Tolkien and his buddy C S Lewis went to a party dressed as polar bears when it was supposed to be a normal dinner party?)
Celtic carved turnips definitely are scare-a-cryptid vibes. Doing it next year.
My grandmother did the oranges , it's more than likely not shaved ice. It's a chocolate cake and black icing
Hence why peices of the cake are missing
The aesthetic whole house decorations for a Halloween party were amazing. 100% goals!! But the oranges and the cursed cabbages....and that foot were highly unsettling. So fun to look at vintage advertisements
I am 100% doing those creepy cabbages but will advertise as “ooo look at these cute decorations I made for our table!” Those are straight up unnerving. I personally love decorating in not so obvious ways like with books: Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty with a holographic skull. One day, though, I just want it to look like the Addams Family home.
The Addams Family home: decorating dream goals!
As someone who loves halloween and whose home decor would be described by some as slightly cursed and deranged, I'm so here for this!
I have some vintage Halloween decorations from my grandfather, they scare the heck outta me! Just because it's old, doesn't mean it wasn't evil. 😈🎃🦇 Happy Halloween!
This makes me want to search through my boxes of vintage women's magazines from the 60s-70s. (My mom used the (very large) linen closet for magazines and knitting supplies.)
I am proudly displaying and using my fairy lights all year round! 🧚 Mostly use warm tones during the year (like around fireplace so small battery operated in jars) as esthetic and will occasionally do colors for specific holiday.s
I think if you made that cursed cabbage salad, add some chicken to the mix. That would actually be a good chicken salad. Maybe uhhhh a bit less celery. Swap the celery for chicken and just put SOME celery in it. 😂
ETA the scariest part about those twinkle light decorations is how they would have been attached to electricity at that point in time. A literal fire hazard! Have you ever seen how they had their houses wired? It was literal dangling wires with as many things hooked onto it as possible sometimes. It wasn't sockets which you plugged into, it was A BLOODY LIVE WIRE! There also was NO regulation on power use, so appliances and lights might use an extraordinary amount of electricity, and everything would have their own requirements. Many a house burned down because "Fanny rigged up too many appliances to the kitchen wire." so while the decorations and use of lights is spoopy and aesthetic, the electrical usage would absolutely scare a cryptid!! 😱
When you were looking at a sample from the 1940's, I instantly thought that they may have been using materials easily available at the time. I'm not sure about WWI era (1914-1918), but the WWII era, there was a lot of rationing going on in order to direct food and materials for the troops. I wonder if those ideas were borne out of what they had at their disposal at the time. However, they certain achieved their objective...the decor was very creepy.
Apple salad is actually really good😅. We do grapes instead of orange or orange rind. It’s like arby’s chicken salad without the chicken, in my opinion a huge improvement lol!
I'm 98% sure my mom made that celery/apple/walnut salad mayo monstrosity on the regular. She probably added jello, too. Thank goodness she never put it in a cabbage 🤣
Does anyone else want Abby's sweater??? Because it's amazing
Thanks Abby, this is a fun video! I did a bit of research on Halloween costumes, and found some REALLY creepy paper mache pumpkin head masks, from the 1900's on. My favorite holiday of the year!
Enjoy your aesthetic, spoopy, goosebumpy, nightmarish, cryptid scaring time. Tis the season that gives all of the things 💜
Here is my fav poem for Halloween. Halloween is a wonderful time when every leafs a fairy, even though it's make believe it's still kinda scary. Happy Halloween all.
Not the Ruby Dixon reference! I busted out laughing.
I totally want to make a Halloween-themed gingerbread house.
I hope u do the same thing for creepy Christmas decorations! Great video!
Abby, you’re one of my favorite humans in this world, but we need to stop perpetuating the myth that it’s ok to start decorating for Xmas before Thanksgiving.
Every time a person hangs Xmas decorations in October, Kirk Cameron amasses more power. Nobody needs that!
Thank you! One holiday at a time is plenty! If you spread Christmas (or any other holiday) out too much, you only dilute the excitement, because no one can truly maintain it for months at a time. You need time off from the holidays for holidays to have any meaning.
Intolerance of Christian white men is not ok.
@@charlibrown7745 I agree... what does that have to do with Christmas?
"Twinkle lights are valid for the entire fall and winter season!" YES! My thought exactly! I keep my outside Christmas lights on ALL WINTER because the outside is dull and drab during winter in the midwest!!!
That apple walnut salad minus the orange rind and using Miracle Whip instead of mayo, Granny Smith apples for best flavor, was always at Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas at our house. Midwestern salads yo. Half of them are delicious but could put a diabetic in a coma, half of them could scare the skin off a cryptid, and there's plenty of cryptids in the Midwest.
PS. Miracle Whip is the devil and the scariest part of the salad. Oh, and Mom never bothered to blanch the walnuts to remove the skins so they were oh so delightfully bitter landmines.
I've never seen the cabbage head, but the salad actually isn't bad if you can convince the preparer to not use Miracle Whip, i.e. don't have a Midwestern mom. Lol
The salad is called Waldorf salad. I grew up on it in the '70s. It's delicious. Ours didn't have orange in it. We used Miracle Whip instead of Hellman's. Great for warm summer's night but not really for Halloween.
I can see it being a “fall dish” due to the apples and nuts which ripen/harvest in the fall in the northern hemisphere. We have citrus that is ready on the tree year round if you choose your varieties carefully, but I get the feeling it’s a fall or winter crop as well in the past due to getting an orange in one’s stocking, and the orange clove pomanders.
that is a waldorf salad in that cabbage! they are great! I made one today!
I’ve seen vintage Halloween costumes, but yet to have seen or even considered decorations. This is both fascinating and weirding me out.
I watched HPI, as I do every year, while handing out candy. When Alison's house scene happened, my first thought was, "buttons? I'll bet the CosTubers will have something to say about that!"
"Put out those fairy lights now" implies that I ever took them down
Every time I look at old/vintage Halloween pictures of costumes and decorations, I can't help but think these folks were really twisted. 😆
Looks up at the fairy lights I kept on my livingroom ceiling all year round (because my son didn't want me to take them down). Yes! I'm fashionable! At least in the early 20th century.
Here be the retro crafts of my dreams AND my nightmares! Going to have to save these to investigate for next year!
Also, I have that fairy lights image as a wooden puzzle! One of my favorites!
That idea of putting a speaker inside a ghost and having it play scary stories is actually pretty great. You could set it up so there were like, little ghosts sitting around to listen
That "Ruth" sounded very threatening 😂 I'm here for it tho lol
Instead of getting a baby your getting a kitten... Y'all this spicy witch is needing a kitten shower, we need to make this a thing 🤣
What really added to the scare, cursed and just plain unsettling factor was the monochrome filter on those images. I mean think about it, Jason in a florescent orange mask with sunflowers, Michael Myers wearing head to toe tie-dye and Godzilla with a bright red sequined bow around their neck not that scary...just me, probably. 🙄
I'm surprised they didn't have those dried apple dolls. Carve apples into heads, hang them on strings and let them dry out. You get little eldritch horrors that look like shrunken heads.
The only tradition we had growing up was turning off all the lights and pretending we weren't home while my dad told us why celebrating Halloween was ACTUALLY worshiping Satan and all those little trick or treaters were going to hell and wasn't God's eternal love better than candy?
No dad. Gimme my freaking mini snickers and jack o lanterns. 🎃
Yup. I was full ass grown adult before I could celebrate Halloween without guilt.
The Goosebumps opening song glowy dog eyes...hid my face EVERYTIME.
My G-Gramna and her 4 siblings were all ghosts for Halloween around 1905-ish. Thing is, when your Irish immigrant relatives make quick and dirty ghost costumes out of old bedsheets and pillowcases in the 1900s Pacific NW, you end up with pictures future generations have to explain Very Carefully.
7:35 "boom, that's a foot with a face on it" Jesus, I laughed so hard at that line haha
What?!? No pinned Rachel Maksy comment yet! I can't wait to see her home decorated in these aesthetics! Love Her! (And You)
Hi there. In the case that you did not know, the art on the front of the notebook is called "All is Vanity" and I find it hilarious! She's being vain in front of a vanity table. Bwah-ha-ha. I've seen printings in all sorts of colors.
To find spooky themed decorations in vintage magazines, look more toward November, especially before WW1. That is when kids would go out and wreak havoc, especially in New York.
These are great! Thank you for sharing these.
Love it! Just finished a mildly exhausting weekend and needed to Just Sit Down for 12 minutes.
Love this video the straw dolls were my favorite for nightmare fuel. Definitely something my grandma would've made.
I will need a thanksgiving and christmas addition of ads from the past. Creepy turkey decor must have been a thing
These were fun!!!
Happy Halloween!!!
Cozy Halloween Vibes all the way. Delightful.
I was more a fear street kid (was also reading King and Koontz in middle school), but I loved the goosebumps show.
And I still am totally creeped out by ventriloquist dummies...
I LOVED FEAR STREET! I loved it so much I even watched the movies last year for nostalgias sake even though I don’t like horror films 🤣
The fairy lights!!! If I had those I'd never take them down
You caught me in the feels
I am also from the Waldorf salad generation, and agree with many points of view in the video & comments: it looks unsettling (I was not fond of mayo as a young person). But, if mayo is fresh and used sparingly, it does make an interesting mildly nuanced accent to both savory & sweet dishes. It's really just oil, egg, mustard, & salt, or some variation thereof. Waldorf salad, and other mayonnaise salads and dishes are things I eat sometimes, but, don't make at home. They're tasty, but, usually not worth the fuss of making & mixing.
A bit off topic, but have you seen "The Empress" on Netflix (about Empress Sisi)? The costume choices were, erm, *interesting*.
Enough people have gone on Amazon Kindle to search that book that all I had to do was type "ice" and the rest came up.
And oh my goodness...
Love aesethic and spoopy. Little Abby details lol.
The foot! Just like Gordon in Rocko’s Modern Life!
I love this it's Charming. Im sure the spelling of aesthetic on your chart is intentional?
This came at the perfect time for my procrastination break.....
Edit: for me, nothing is scarier than mayonnaise!
11:10 on the floor in tears!!! OMG!! The truth told!
Some of those pumpkins look like inebriated Veggie Tales characters
A perfect description!! 🤣
Hilarious video, Abby!! Loved it!
Isn't the salad in the cabbage Waldorf Salad? I don't know about putting it in a cabbage but from a bowl it tastes really good.
Love your shirt!
Well I need that jumper
I wonder if by "ice", they meant the coconut dessert? That can be colored, although with what I dread to discover...
I actually really like mayonnaise... like mayonaised corn is one of the best things ever (canned corn with sour cream and mayonnaise) perfect with fish and chips or a roast or something like that
Love that sweatshirt you’re wearing! Where did you get it?
Don’t kind me, just looking for cursed ideas for my pumpkin carving today😅😂
Were the cursed dolls in the last round the ones you make with a dried up apple for a head? I think I tried that as a kid but it went bad 🤣🎃👻
Cabbages might have been used during the WWII period due to scarcity of other vegetables and fruits.🎃
did not come here expecting a spur reference, but I'm not complaining
Just what I want for Halloween dinner…raw cabbage stuffed with mayo, some apples , walnuts & celery… ( make your own cole slaw in one hour). Please provide a spittoon on the table when you get the urge to puke…OMG funny😅
A baby shower but for a cat baby. The idea for the future
Spicy witch!
Fun video!
l loved this video way to much! :D
ABBY!
Good morning 🎃
I'm dying laughing. I'm gonna have an asthma attack!
Speechless. 🤣🤣
Modern folks just paint the cabbage and serve it with PopEye’s chicken
the salad is waldorf salad and it is delicius
oooookay abby i see u with ice planet barbarians 👀👀💙
Where did you get that sweater?! I have a friend that needs it
...that friend is me.
My husband found it for me so I actually don’t know 🥲 I’m sorry
@@AbbyCox aww bummer! That's okay, to the depths of the internet I go. Hope you had a not-so-cursed Halloween!
I like those dolls with the stick arms, do they have names?
Some of that is just f'd up! Actually all of it.
I’m sort of surprised that Halloween has been so popular for so long.
Send that cabbage recipe to EmmeyMade.
ABBY ,YOUR SO FUNNY GIRL
Hey! As a boomer, I am offended that you blamed my generation for that creepy-ass foot with a face in the 1907 article - none of us were born until 40 years (or more!) later and we were not asking our grandmothers for decorating ideas...
Halloween wasn't a very big deal during the Great Depression and years following. At least not in rural Louisiana or Mississippi. My dad was born in 1931 and growing up he only went trick or treating once.
I’ll never escape ice planet barbarians 🙃
Is that a Mythologie candle I spy?🧐👀💜
o_o cabbages...
Hi abby
Eck, you don't need to say "Hocus Pocus 1", its just Hocus Pocus and Hocus Pocus 2.