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Honestly, I didn’t invent this

March 5, 2008 at 9:38 pm by K.G. Schneider · 13 Comments ·


candle salad

Originally uploaded by Ellbeecee

And I have absolutely nothing to say about it. It’s just a salad. In a cookbook for kids. So stop laughing! (Thanks to Twitter friend ellbeecee for the tipoff.)

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13 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Andy Havens // Mar 5, 2008 at 11:05 pm

    “It’s better than a real candle, because you can eat it.”

    Oh dear.

    If you’re still hungry after eating your candle, try this:

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

  • 2 K.G. Schneider // Mar 6, 2008 at 8:39 am

    Oh dear, Andy, I choked on my breakfast bar!

  • 3 Marianne // Mar 6, 2008 at 8:52 am

    OMG, how funny is that?? LOL…

  • 4 Connie Britton // Mar 6, 2008 at 8:54 am

    I have a photo of my mother serving this “salad” to my sister’s friends at her birthday party in the 1950s. As we looked at this photo in later years, we wondered whether Dad was smirking behind the camera…or was everyone really that naive?

  • 5 K.G. Schneider // Mar 6, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Well, I will caution you all against googling candle salad… leave it to Betty to invent a salad that is NSFW!

  • 6 Ravana // Mar 6, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    My grandmother made this all the time! Now you need to find the cigarette smoking pear salad.

  • 7 Angel // Mar 6, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    That is just so wrong, yet so funny on so many levels. I may have to send that recipe around.

    Best, and keep on blogging.

  • 8 Walter Underwood // Mar 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm

    Clearly, you need to find a copy of Square Meals, by Jane and Michael Stern. It includes American favorites like “Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast for 100″ and “Six Can Casserole”. My favorite recipe name in that book is “Flaming Cabbage Head Weenies with Pu Pu Sauce.”

  • 9 David Fiander // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Walter, The BC cookbook from which the above delight is taken does, in fact, have “creamed dried beef,” but not for 100.

  • 10 K.G. Schneider // Mar 6, 2008 at 7:57 pm

    I won’t be mentioning what we called creamed dried beef in the Air Force…

  • 11 Doug Furiato // Mar 7, 2008 at 11:34 am

    I’ll bet it was something on a shingle. I remember a former USAF person telling from New Yawk telling me that was what she thought biscuits and sausage gravy looked like.

  • 12 K.G. Schneider // Mar 7, 2008 at 11:53 am

    You would win that bet ;-)

  • 13 The Luck o’ the Link Love // Mar 12, 2008 at 10:29 am

    [...] (Why can’t we give St. Patrick’s a makeover and turn it into “Talk Like a Leprechaun Day”? “Fer sure, me lad, I’ll be having a bit o’ that Candle Salad…”) [...]

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