The Weight Watchers Card Topic

[Malawry]

Click here to visit Poundy's hilarious weight watchers recipe card site. Take the full tour, I really enjoyed the commentary.

[Dana]

That was pretty funny. Too bad she didn't include the recipies - the frankfurter spectacular looked really-----spectacular. yeah, right.

So much aspic, so little time.

[Malawry]

My favorite prop comment involves the mushroom family gathered around the aspic to show the child mushrooms what happens to them if they go wrong en route to becoming grown-up mushrooms.

[hjshorter]

Have you checked out the other links? The gallery of Regrettable Food is, uh, memorable too.

[cew]

i really liked the fish "tacos."

[g.johnson]

Fluffy mackerel pudding.

[jhlurie]

Here's some more of these suckers. The Crown Frankfurter Surprise is particularly grotesque, in my opinion.

[Jason Perlow]

Here's some more of these suckers.  The Crown Frankfurter Surprise is particularly grotesque, in my opinion.

It looks like something served at the banquet scene of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

[babyluck]

My favorite prop comment involves the mushroom family gathered around the aspic to show the child mushrooms what happens to them if they go wrong en route to becoming grown-up mushrooms.

That's my favorite, too.

Wendy was on WFMU (a freeform radio station out of northern NJ) a few months ago and actually did give out one of the recipes for the first time -- I think it was for Fluffy Mackerel Pudding. She performed it like a pretentious spoken-word piece. The show is archived on www.wfmu.org, but unfortunately they had some computer problems so that episode is temporarily unavailable.

[Comfort Me]

OK -- I know it is truly juvenile, but one MUST check out these vintage Weight Watcher Cards from 1974. Click on the first one and then you can fihnd your way through them all. The author's commentary is so funny I had tears running down my face.

It's cold and dreary here in Chicago, and I had to come to work today. This gave me a great lift, and I hope it does you, as well.

Do me a favor though -- don't cook any of these!

[sherribabee]

OMG! I think I actaully cackled a few times while reading through those comments.

Thanks for sharing!

[Comfort Me]

I feel a strange need to whip up a batch of Mackerelly!

[tryska]

mackareally?

Edited December 3, 2003 by tryska (log)

[elyse]

There were a few of these threads going around in the spring.

[alacarte]

I don't care that this has made the rounds before. This is hysterical!!

Did anyone else notice the little headers at the very top of the screen? They change with every new slide, and some of them are really clever.

[Comfort Me]

I also love the Inspiration Soup: "When one first arrives here one may believe the Soup tastes like ass. That is not so, my child. The Soup is Inspiration and the Soup is Love. Your name is now "Harmonia." "

And if someone is going to deny it tastes like ass, wouldn't they have to admit to having a point of reference? Of course, if someone says it tastes like ass, wouldn't they have to admit the same? I'm almost giddy at the thought of THAT dinner table disagreement! "Mom! THis tastes just like ass!" "It does not -- I used the canned asparagus just to make sure!" "No, Mom! Billy's right. This tastes just like ass."

O. My. I wonder how the censors are going to edit this.

Peace & Love,

Harmonia

[Mayhaw Man]

I am sure that many veteran foodie web surfers have seen this website, but if you haven't you should. It carries the Weight Watchers theme out to the hilt.

Regrettable Foods

We have a little walking parade here in my little hometown, which is filled with eccentrics who are bent towards the visual arts (or just generally bent, depending on your point of view) and when given a theme, will carry it out in fine and often hilarious form. Last year's walking parade was in fact themed "Regrettable Foods" and there were some pretty well done and funny costumes. Mrs. Mayhaw and I masked as "Adam and Eve" with Mrs. M leading me around with an apple on a stick. It is a very small town affair and probably not at all what many of you picture as Carnival, but in reality this parade is much more like what the Carnival that many locals experience than the breast baring nightmare shown on late night TV and in cheesy websites

This website gives you an example of what the parade looks like, but for some reason I can't connect to the link for last years parade. So just enjoy photos from last year (incidentally the Power Broker on Page 3 and the After the Parade boy on page 2 are Mayhaw offspring (I just looked at those pictures for the first time in two years and Good Lord how those kids grow)

Abita Springs Krewe of Push Mo'

[marie-louise]

I am sure that many veteran foodie web surfers have seen this website, but if you haven't you should. It carries the Weight Watchers theme out to the hilt.

Regrettable Foods

They also have a book, Gallery of Regrettable Food, which makes an absolutely wonderful present.

[guajolote]

the breast baring nightmare

if i see bare breasts i consider it a good dream

[elyse]

This is becoming the thread on threads gone by. Search Regrettable Food too.

[Batgrrrl]

Thanks, Comfort Me, you made my day. That's mackeriffic! Pee-your-pants funny.

Batgrrrl

Edited for incorrected derivation of mackerel root.

Edited December 3, 2003 by Batgrrrl (log)

[EdS]

Did people really eat like that? I was only six and really can't remember what I ate then other than Cocoa Pebbles and meat loaf (not together).

[Country Cook]

Very entertaining, what was with all the mackerel?

[jhlurie]

I'm bumping this older topic, because we've had a recent resurgence of interest here in these cards (duplicate topics being created on them). Talk about these lovely culinary and cultural antiques here...

...if you DARE!

[laurenmilan]

Hmmm, these look familiar somehow... hmm...

Waitaminute! Aren't those the recipe on Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Cooking site?