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Crown Roast Of Franks
I collect cookbooks. I have many that are vintage that I buy just for the pictures. Last night, while looking through a case of old weight watchers recipe cards, I ran across this one. I was laughing...
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Red Rose Tea!
Remember the Red Rose Tea commercial with the wild jazz band chimps? These guys were The Marquis Chimps, Charlie, Enoch, and Candy. In 1960, they were in three TV commercials. One showed them as...
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Tang, The Space Age Drink!
Tang is short for tangy and is supposed to have the flavor of tangerines. With more vitamin C than oranges, Tang was the breakfast drink of choice during the 1960's.Tang was introduced to the public in...
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New Quick And Easy Veg-All Pie Plate Salad!
I ran across this vintage ad and just had to share it with you. Looking at it brought back the memories of food when I was a kid. As I have said in my earlier food posts, the baby boomer generation...
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game!
Remember eating Cracker Jacks as a kid and digging down inside the box to get the prize? Well, my grandfather figured it out. He would open the box on the bottom and get his prize first. I still have a...
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Kool Aid, Kool Aid, Tastes Great!
Remember drinking Kool-Aid? The sweet fruity drink that dyed your teeth and tongue, and your mom got upset when you spilled it on your clothes?According to Wikipedia:"Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin...
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We Want Ovaltine!
What is this stuff anyway? Only a boomer would know. It seems to me, it's better eating the crunchy little morsels off the spoon, than trying to dissolve the stuff in milk.OvaltineOvaltine Malt...
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Little Miss Muffet Sat On Her Tuffet, Eating Her Curds And Whey
When I was a kid, we ate cottage cheese all the time. I think it was cheap then. Once, in 4th grade, we took a field trip to the local dairy and saw first hand how it was made. Actually, it looked...
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Mmmm...Good...Mmmm..Good!
As I am sitting here eating lunch of my gourmet Campbell soup combo, chicken noodle and vegetable, it suddenly dawned on me that I don't know a thing about the history of the company. Mmmm good. I...
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What's For Supper?
Remember coming home from school and asking your mom, "What's for supper?" In my case, it never failed. It seemed like she was going to make exactly what we had in the school cafeteria for lunch....
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Anyone Got A Cig?
I'm talking about candy cigs. Do you remember them? It was so cool to walk around with one in your mouth and pretend you were puffing on it just like your parents did when they smoked. How swell it...
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Fluffy Mackerel Pudding
OK, here is another classic, I think, from Weight Watchers 1974. The idea of loosing weight comes from the fact that no one would really eat this. I am curious about the mackerel. What exactly is that...
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Follow The Jell-O Brick Road
Jell-O = gelatin. Basically, it's a glutinous material made from boiling animal bones, not suited for the vegetarian diet. That really bums me out because my mother never told me that. I loved the...
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