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Honestly, I didn’t invent this


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 Comments

  1. Andy Havens wrote:

    “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

    Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
  2. Oh dear, Andy, I choked on my breakfast bar!

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 8:39 am | Permalink
  3. Marianne wrote:

    OMG, how funny is that?? LOL…

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 8:52 am | Permalink
  4. Connie Britton wrote:

    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?

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 8:54 am | Permalink
  5. Well, I will caution you all against googling candle salad… leave it to Betty to invent a salad that is NSFW!

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 9:23 am | Permalink
  6. Ravana wrote:

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

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 1:07 pm | Permalink
  7. Angel wrote:

    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.

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 1:30 pm | Permalink
  8. 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.”

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 6:34 pm | Permalink
  9. David Fiander wrote:

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

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7:29 pm | Permalink
  10. I won’t be mentioning what we called creamed dried beef in the Air Force…

    Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7:57 pm | Permalink
  11. Doug Furiato wrote:

    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.

    Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11:34 am | Permalink
  12. You would win that bet ;-)

    Friday, March 7, 2008 at 11:53 am | Permalink
  13. Carolyn wrote:

    I have a picture of me with my mother, aunt and grandmother making that salad at Christmas in about 1952. We were so innocent back then. I have since researched the history of it and have made three quilts honoring that crazy salad. I really don’t think they got it back then.

    Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

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  1. The Luck o’ the Link Love on Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 10:29 am

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