A: The Gallery of Regrettable Food. It's a site where a guy posts photos from horrid mostly-brand-name 50s cookbooks, with very funny captions. When my friend got hitched a few years ago, I was mostly excited because I finally had someone to whom I could gift the book version.
What's your favourite site??
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I've never found anything this entertaining! Beezarro... and after the franks and beans ... the GAS!!! arrrgh!
Interesting. This has interesting ties in with the dieting food books of that era, I've recently learned. A friend of mine was looking through her grandmother's Weight Watchers cookbook from the 1950's, and it said things like, "You just have to hate your body enough to make yourself stick to the program." And there were these personal testimonies in which one woman met a "wonderful man" while she was on Weight Watchers, but he ended up telling her that he could never marry a "fat woman." Then there was a panic about fitting into her wedding dress, and she hit her "plateau" right before the happy wedding. And then they were married, at least until she gained weight and he left or she left because he was kind of a shallow asshole, and not as wonderful as she'd thought.
Anyway, the food that my friend told me about was pretty horrific. Like, pour some diet Coke and bran cereal over an apple, and bake it. Then you have "apple crisp" for desert. Absolutely no fat or flavor anywhere either. I just... I'm glad that North American food has branched out over the course of my lifetime and we don't all have to cook from Betty Crocker anymore.
As for fav. sites: I check yours and Ukulele Opera every day or so and this one is my must read aviation blog:
http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/
Kristin: Oh my days!! I'll have to see if I can find something about that on the web for my other blog!! Ugh. It makes me think of the show Mad Men--I can't watch it, because it's just too depressing to think of your everyday life being this way (the sexism I mean.) It makes you understand a movie like The Hours that much more.
@gmc -- That's the one by the woman pilot, I believe? I only read her occasionally when you point to something, but she is engaging.
You know, I just don't particularly like Mad Men anyway... It's not for that reason, though I see what you mean. I just don't think it's a very good show, and the characters aren't well-developed at all. I don't get its appeal beyond "ooh, period piece!" As AMC shows go, Breaking Bad is much, much better.
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