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.)
Posted on this day, other years:
- The impact of Random House price increases - 2012
- Stepping Down as LITA Councilor - 2006
- Essays of E. B. White (Repr of 1977 ed) (Perennial Classics) - 2006
- MFA Book Project - 2005
- Kibbles and Bits on a Saturday Morning - 2005
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“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
Oh dear, Andy, I choked on my breakfast bar!
OMG, how funny is that?? LOL…
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?
Well, I will caution you all against googling candle salad… leave it to Betty to invent a salad that is NSFW!
My grandmother made this all the time! Now you need to find the cigarette smoking pear salad.
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.
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.”
Walter, The BC cookbook from which the above delight is taken does, in fact, have “creamed dried beef,” but not for 100.
I won’t be mentioning what we called creamed dried beef in the Air Force…
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.
You would win that bet 😉
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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.