not food

[fileg]

Scarred for life by a link posted by pixel_and_bean, I send you to the commentary on Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974.

I was particularly horrified by "fluffy mackerel pudding."

(I remember an episode of InuYasha where Kagome played Princess Escargot Pudding in the cultural festival play - perhaps whoever wrote it had some of these cards.

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[przed.livejournal.com]

Those cards made me laugh so hard I actually had tears running down my face. And trust me when I say that *never* happens. (I lost it at "Snappy Mackerel Casserole. Man, what was with those people and mackerel?)

[http://users.livejournal.com/fileg_/]

I didn't know whether to be retro-actively offended or not ("mackerel snapper" was a derogatory term for catholics when I was a kid in catholic school)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea. That's just...well, really, I have no words.

[isil-elensar.livejournal.com]

fish is not my friend... i shall not eat fish... no fish on my dish...

fluffy mackerel pudding frightens me...

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Not only doesn't it sound like food - it doesn't sound like anything else I can think of either....ewwww.

Fish is not my friend, either, and now that I am not restrained by the fish on Friday thing of my youth, I seldom even eat the 2 or 3 kinds I do like (except tuna - with blue cheese dressing. mmmm.)

[isil-elensar.livejournal.com]

(except tuna - with blue cheese dressing. mmmm.)

fresh tuna or the stuff out of the can? i find i can tolerate the canned tuna in stuff like tunafish sammiches, tuna helper, and a few other things.

[fileg.livejournal.com]

Canned, always. And it has to be Starkist solid white packed in water. It's a comfortfood of my catholic childhood.

And sometimes, I can't eat it if I see it in the can, (like, if it has too many red spots) so Jim has to make it for me. How's that for weird.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

If I can find a good way to use the phrase "Fluffy Mackerel Pudding", perhaps I can get it out of my head.

But I'm afraid I'm stuck with the Frankfurter Spectacular and the Rosy Perfection Salad. *sob*

[shebit.livejournal.com]

Food was very different in the seventies, it seems. Having seen those culinary delights, I'm glad I missed the dacade.