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I think I have enough old recipes to do a completely soda menu. There's Dr Pepper baked beans, both Coca Cola ham and Duck a la Vernors, and multiple cakes and congealed salads using Coke and 7-Up. Marketing depts were much more free-spirited in the past.

del. totally misread question.

Perez-Reverte is one of my favorite writers. I always get excited when I hear of someone else reading him. What ever you do, stay away from the movie The Ninth Gate which is based on The Club Dumas. They butchered an excellent novel. Didn't they only use half the story? Hence the title change. I've been disappointed in the last couple releases. Recognizing that they're not translated and published over here in the actual order in which they were written. Has anyone read The Dante Club? Came out about the same time as The DaVinci Code, which I haven't gotten to, and disappeared. Still need to get to Dream of Scipio too. It's certainly thinner than Fingerpost. Just got Nigel Slater's Appetite.

Saturday he'd switched to apricot, and the cake was just as deadly. Jim Damn it, Jim I've been doing such a good job of staying out there. But apricot is the one fruit I love possibly even more than rhubarb.

Living two blocks from Ken's is a mixed blessing. Esp when he's doing the single-serving rhubarb upside down cakes.

For Jinmyo Favourite Animal - Steak =Fran Lebowitz

Klink's white trash thread reminded me of this one. You know those Jell-O squares that are usually a mix of the powder and fruit juice? That stay in nice neat shapes so kids can eat them with their fingers? The lemon flavour and then bbq sauce instead of juice. Plop a few squares on a lettuce leaf and call it salad. Apparently done at cookouts in some part of the country.

No offense if anyone knows or is related to these folks, but browse these for some appropriate dessert suggestions. random geocities recipe page sample

Hmm. There's also Eight Can Casserole. Fine line sometimes between 50s LITB food and white trash food. Oddly. Flaming Cabbage Head Weanies with Pu Pu Sauce! That's got to be a band somewhere. Okay, you're sure this isn't a copyright issue? Two 3-oz packages orange Jell-O 1 cup boiling water 1/2 cup pineapple juice 1 quart vanilla ice cream (sorry, not Cool Whip) 7 oz 7-Up 8 Twinkies Dissolve Jell-O in water. Add with everything but Twinkies to blender and mix until ice cream is dissolved. Pour into deep 9" sq pan. Chill until partially set. Arrange Twinkies flat side down in pan, push in. They should bob back up but only partially. Chill until firm.

I have a congealed salad recipe that involves Jello, Cool Whip, 7-Up, AND Twinkies. Also one with maraschino cherries and Coke. Oh and one with big chunks of several types of Jello all surrounded by Cool Whip and you slice it and it looks like a stained glass window. What about those white paper-wrapped cans of deviled ham? On Wonder bread with Miracle Whip. Should definitely fit Cheez Whiz in there somewhere.

Have you already seen this thread? portland pig roast Not sure whether he owned the set-up or rented/borrowed it, but he'd be a good resource regardless.

[shamefully] Kraft Easy Mac

Not exactly a delicacy, but the summer I spent tromping around as part of the backpack/hostel/rail pass crowd, everyone was hooked on HobNobs. All the hostels sold them and it was like we each went through a pack a day apiece. It was several years later before I found them back here and that was a very very happy day. Plain chocolate.

Inauthentic quasi-paella. Specifically 'vegan paella' from the hot deli at the new (to me) natural foods store, improved with shrimp/scallops/calamari and some smoked paprika. With the last of the gift bottle of white bordeaux. Edit to add now motchi. For the first time ever. Mango. Bigger than I expected. Always nice. Didn't know about the strange marshmallow coating.

I never saw them actually doing it themselves, no. But the first time -- when I was the target -- it was in a restaurant in Italy. It's maybe less painful to watch clumsy Americans/Canadians eating their pasta adequately with a spoon than incompetently with a fork.

What happened to charming elderly barons with perfect fashion sense and astute observations about souffles? May as well stay home.

I love WCW and especially that poem. Most of my friends make fun of him. I have noticed that although I eat significantly less in the summer, I spend at least as much. Maybe even more. In the winter, it's all stews and soups and braises. Which allows for less expensive cuts and such. In the summer, quality is so much more important because the cooking methods disguise less. The types of vegetables are more expensive. I don't want any cheap, filling starch. Etc. Also, due to the general lack of energy, I eat out and via take away more frequently. More expense. Heat bad.

Now that is astonishingly rude. And rather stupid of them. More than once?? I have twice experienced elderly Italian men (a waiter when it happened to me, a tourist at the next table when it happened to my dining companion) come over, forcibly remove fork from hand and demonstrate proper way of twirling spaghetti onto spoon. That, however, did not seem rude.

Has anyone seen/tried this? Not clear whether he made it up. article/review recipe - popcorn flour subsequent recipe - popcorn bread 47 total cornbread recipes in the book. Presumably most more traditional than this one. He apparently doesn't feel there is an authentic version. (I was going to make this a new thread but this was a great TDG article and a useful discussion.)

For anyone interested in more on WWII in the US, there is a chapter in the Stern's Square Meals. Including 49 inedible (probably) recipes! Includes information on the black market, the point system, and a drive for increased nutrition (via tomato bread!) when too many draftees were being rejected due to poor health. A lot of hamburger concoctions and a section on meatless meals. Food scientists got very creative -- Butterless Butter Spread (including gelatin, milk and mayonnaise), Mock Whipped Cream (egg whites, confectioners sugar and grated apple) and Soya Cocoa. Some really frightening sandwich spreads for Rosie's lunch pail (peanut butter and compressed yeast, peanut butter and baked beans). Also a section on military-style food, which the govt encouraged wives and mothers to prepare for returning soldiers to aid in the postwar transition. Because the soldiers had developed a taste for the stuff. Well that's what the memos said. Spam recipes mostly, plus two versions of dried chipped beef on toast (nickname included).

I work in truckstops. CFS is an all-purpose punchline in our office. I do like it, but only ever have it for breakfast. With eggs and hashbrowns. Just to add to the cholesterol fest. Although the gravy would certainly be wonderful on fries. I only actually made it once. For a fiance. It was his absolute favourite food. Noteworthy because he was Thai. It was as far from what he'd grown up with as he could possibly get.

Totally unscientific opinion. I do think most people with poor (junk) eating habits do know they are eating the wrong things. Much like smokers. Like someone said several pages back (I just read the whole thing), the problem is knowing what to do instead. Which wasn't my opinion until I read their post. But I think it's like that GK Chesterton quote about the Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting - it's been found difficult and left untried. Most people I know who live off of McDonald's (many coworkers) know they should eat better but really feel their only alternative is undressed salad and rice cakes. However illogical that is. And so it becomes to big a change to bother with. I also think that activity should receive at least as much attention as consumption. I actually eat quite practically in terms of low calories, low fat, high fiber, well balanced meals, etc. But I'm still over 200 pounds because I spend my entire workday at my desk and -- more significantly -- all my waking hours at home on the couch. And I firmly believe that getting more exercise would have a much more significant impact on my weight -- and my health -- than eating less. In terms of a-calorie-is-a-calorie, although that's apparently true biologically (not qualified to get involved there), I do think focussing on more-filling foods is better, because you end up consuming fewer calories and being less inclined to snack later etc etc. So long term you have fewer, even with the same initial number of 500 or what have you. Getting all your food groups and a wide variety of complex flavours should be helpful for the same reason. More satisfying and more enjoyable is somehow more filling. Bland you can eat all day. And frequently do without even noticing. Going back to the activity bit, a different prior post inspired a thought on that. When someone referred to people eating junk for pyschological comfort. That may also be a reason people are so much more sedentary. Television. Escapism etc. Although I had to give up tv when I got a mortgage and I still don't move but still. Hopefully this is more coherent than it feels.

Hot weather/end-of-week laziness/broke until payday menu: Eggs scrambled with cheddar and TJ green salsa White bordeaux

Just started reading novels again for the first time in months. Usually all I can do to get through the paper plus New Yorker and half a dozen food magazine subscriptions. In the last week or so -- Daughter of Time (Josephine Tey) and The Seville Communion (Arturo Perez-Reverte). Current cookbooks - Taste (Rosengarten) and Zuni. Recommending most often - Lamb (Christopher Moore). Recommend frequently but with very mixed success - A Prayer for the Dying (Stewart O'Nan).

Ta da. Can I quote the link to save people from clicking? explanation So it's like airplane armrests.