very funny, especially if you have ever done weight watchers

[mommax3]

Check this out.

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

Sally

[Auspicious]

That is HILARIOUS--I'll have to finish reading it at lunchtime, because it's making me laugh out loud at my desk and I'm supposed to be, you know, working.

The mid-50s through the mid-70s seems to have been a very bizarre time in the history of American home cuisine.

Related story: When fondue started making its comeback a few years ago, my mom passed on one of her original fondue cookbooks from the late 60s. It is very similar in a tone to the Weight Watchers cards above and features many photos of a group of perky young men and women with helmet-hair lounging around a tacky ski lodge in their atrocious 60s ski-wear. There's something vaguely unsettling about the pictures that makes almost everyone who sees this book make some remark about the "sexual revolution."

The BEST part, though, is that the introduction to this bizarre cookbook ends with the phrase " . . . you, too, can be a breezy day-by-day fondue hostess."

I read that out loud to my boyfriend and I was like "What on earth does that even mean???" We both totally cracked up about it and it has since become a running joke between us. Every time I do something either socially apt (which isn't so often) or at all housewifeish (which is even less often) he'll say something to me like "Wow, you're a regular 'breezy day-by-day fondue hostess'!"

[mommax3]

I agree about that era of cookbooks. I have been obsessed with old cookbooks, child-rearing books, and any other kind of home-making books for quite a few years now, because they range from disturbing to tacky to just plain funny in the illustrations and assumptions they make. Somewhere on that site is a link to a site about "regrettable food" which is also very funny.

Sally

[SueC]

That does look funny, I'll have to look at it closer when I have more time (i.e. when I'm not supposed to be working!)
My mom gave me an old cookbook for kids and I noticed that almost every recipe called for MSG!

[houseelf]

Thanks a ton for sharing this!

I laughed maniacally until I shed tears at my desk while others walked by my office and wondered what I was doing all by myself and having such a good time.

However, I think that I have an off-beat sense of humor. No one else is giggling over my new "Smegal" avatar. Instead they are all wondering what is up with the "freaky" alien thing by my name. DH and I loved this simple character in the Lord of the Rings whose Id and Ego constantly battle. He calls me Smegal whenever I am battling my inner hedonist: "Kelly wants yummy cookies...can't eat cookies, bad for me...MUST HAVE COOKIES". O.K. I'm wacked but I somehow felt akin to this simple enslaved creature.

Kelly

[mommax3]

Kelly,

Having not seen the movie, I have been extremely freaked out every time I see a picture of this little creature, but now that you have provided an emotional description, I find myself strangely intrigued......

I agree that it takes a certain sense of humor to appreciate those recipe cards. My husband and I both died laughing about them and have our "favorites" amongst them. I am also proud to say that I sent them to my sister in NYC while we were instant messaging on Monday, and it ended up bringing all of the work in her office to a screeching halt as she shared them with her colleagues. (She is an admissions counselor at the Manhattan School of Music.)

If I run across more in this vein, I will post the links here.

Sally

[migirl]

DH and I loved this simple character in the Lord of the Rings whose Id and Ego constantly battle.

I love this character too! I actually call my DH "Smegal" every once in a while...

I am with Sally on this one, I haven't seen the movie so I was a little scared of that image....was starting to wonder what kind of "law" you practiced...








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