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The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s

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Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
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A collection of the notorious retro Weight Watchers recipe cards in all their foul, full-color glory.

In the words of Wendy McClure, author of I'm Not the New Me, blog trailblazer, internet favorite, and fearless discoverer:

I found them while helping my parents clean out their basement. Plenty of the dishes seemed normal enough, but as I flipped through them, some of the recipes began to alarm me. And then I found the card for Rosy Perfection Salad.

I fell over. I mean I Iaughed so hard I started coughing and I fell back on the floor and I waved the card at my mom, who just rolled her eyes."Can I please have these? Please?" I begged. "What do you want them for?" she asked. "To cook?" "No," I said...

And here they are: the disturbing dishes made famous on the Internet and many more. From Fish Balls to Celery Logs to Caucasian Shashlik to Frankfurter Spectacular in all their scary goodness. Mmmmm, Shashlik...


DESCRIPTION:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Riverhead Trade
Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2006-05-02
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Studio: Riverhead Trade


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• The Gallery of Regrettable Food
• Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
• I'm Not the New Me
• Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice
• Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Comment: This book was on the clearance table at the book store so I bought it for fun and I laughed out loud reading it. The one about the frozen cheese log was hilarious. Thanks for making me laugh Wendy.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too funny to read quietly.
Comment: This book is hilarious. It's also hilarious that anyone really ate the meals in this book. People had sterner stomachs in the old days, I guess! I snorted and laughed out loud over several of the entries. It's a fun book, and very funny.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Mackerelease this
Comment: this is some funny stuff and I have no idea how people ate anything back in the 70's if this is the food cook books were pushing on us
Customer Rating:
Summary: Juvenile humour, if that's what you like
Comment: I didn't have high expectations of this book, but at $4.99, I figured it would make a fun addition to my library of vintage cookbooks and culinary history.

The pictures are fun, but any true student of cooking, eating and entertaining will be disappointed to find that only the fronts of the cards are reprinted, so there's no opportunity to review the actual recipes. They're also all from Weight Watchers - with no apparent reference to paying that organization for use of their copyrighted material - rather than a true exploration of the era and the genre.

But the worst thing is the writing. If you like that kind of humour, I guess you also like what's written on bathroom walls of high schools, because that's about as intelligent as it gets. I guess some people think that using the f-word and the s-word makes you funny, but like spices, if you don't know how to use them effectively, it just tastes bad. There are also numerous references to taking drugs - reminds me of the kids in college who thought talking about drugs made them cool.


Customer Rating:
Summary: Quite possibly the funniest thing ever published....really
Comment: I was turned on to this writer through her book "I'm Not The New Me", which contained some of these cards. I shared it with my boss and I kid you not, I have NEVER seen anyone laugh as hard as he did. Tears rolling down his cheeks. So, when this compilation was published I bought four copies of it to give to him, to keep for myself, etc...and as we shared them with people, they tried to buy them off of me. We absolutely collapse in tears, gasping for breath, trying to read the recipes and comments. Words cannot express how totally HILARIOUS this book is. It's hard to imagine how anything so horrifying could have been considered diet food. Honestly, it is SO SO funny, buy two, one to keep and one to share.

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