From the vintage ad file: Shrimp poised to make an escape

[eleny]

[pengillian101]

1. Here's a whole gallery of regrettable food!

By James Lileks of Minneapolis. These old photos crack me up.

http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/

:silly:

[eleny]

2. "The Unbearable Sadness of Vegetables" - omg

[pengillian101]

3. Ungrettable meat :-)

[eleny]

4. Keeping trim with cold cuts?

That's like soothing your throat by smoking Kools.

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, that ad ran concurrently

along with "doctors" telling you to smoke Camels. Unfiltered.

I know just what I want when it's 104 in the shade is a big platter of MEAT.

gag.

[japple]

7. Yeah, doctors and Ronald Reagan!

For some reason, the title of this thread made me think of Tab. Anyone heard from him?

[Denninmi]

6. They were really big on molded gelatin "salads" in the 1950's.

One of the funniest things I own is a copy of the "Golden Fluffo Cookbook" from 1952. Golden Fluffo was an artificially colored, apparently butter-flavored vegetable shortening product. I guess its modern day equivalent would be butter flavored Crisco shortening (does anyone buy Crisco anymore? -- I know I haven't used it since probably the early 1980's, except I bought one once a few years ago to make edible birdseed ornaments for an outdoor Christmas tree, since lard smells nasty when rendering).

Anway, the "Golden Fluffo Cookbook" is a real hoot - these people invented the most unGodly disgusting things using tons of fake butter flavored shortening -- anyone care for a celery rib filled with whipped butter-flavored shortening as an hors d'ouvres at your next party? Because it's in there. How about cake frosting made of whipped shortening (now, buttercream made with butter, yes, shortening, no thanks).?

It reminds me a lot of the "Mocklet" fake chocolate product that was the subject of a Monica storyline in an episode of 'Friends'.

I found this cookbook for sale on Amazon.com for $68. I believe it was free at the time, or probably was sent to the customer when they had saved up a certain number of product labels to turn in for it. I wish I could get $68 for this thing, of course, my copy is falling apart.

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Cooking-Made-Easy-Cookbook/dp/B000O84H98

[pengillian101]

8. It's on Ebay for cheap and you could re-sell at Amazon, eh? LOL

http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=The+Golden+Fluffo+Cookbook&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Isn't it funny, the cost of these old cookbooks? My favorite is my 1969 first edition Betty Crocker held together by layers of duct tape. Copies on Ebay are way spendy.

I bet YOUR book is fun to read!

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