I never saw these after I was about 7 years old. I believe the ingredients were some of those things that my mom deemed too expensive, especially pineapple and those cherries. I'm sure we were saved from cancer caused by red dye #5.
Oh, the dreaded pineapple/banana candlelight salad--it was one of the treats of my youth. It used to appear, by request, at my family birthday parties. I now find myself wondering if my mom and dad were secretly laughing.
Calliope Street, my reaction was the same when I opened the email from my naughty friend Lapin. Yes indeed, "Unconscious Cheer". What a clever way to put it.
Oh dear! Did you look at this photo carefully? You just know Mad Priest is going to make it one of his caption competitions.
ReplyDeleteRick+, sometimes a banana is just a banana. I'm just saying. :-)
ReplyDeletewe used to get these in the cafeteria at college - only no icing -- but the cherry was cut in half to make the image even more graphic
ReplyDeleteAnn, really? With the cherry cut in half - hmmm.
ReplyDeleteI fear a banana can never just be a banana when we're talking about Mad Priest, dear.
ReplyDeleteBut, Rick, I'm not talking about MadPriest. I doubt that he even reads my blog.
ReplyDeleteHmm, I think I will go down to the kitchen and get a banana. To eat, not decorate. Good for potassium, you know.
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Bananas are, indeed, very good for potassium, Paul.
ReplyDeleteI never saw these after I was about 7 years old. I believe the ingredients were some of those things that my mom deemed too expensive, especially pineapple and those cherries. I'm sure we were saved from cancer caused by red dye #5.
ReplyDeleteThose cherries have almost no cherry content - they are injected with all sorts of bad things.
ReplyDeleteProper, top-quality glace cherries, as opposed to the bad 70s version, are extremely nice.
ReplyDeleteThat banana is one of the rudest things I have seen for quite a long time.
geeeezzz --and all the bananas I have in my kitchen right now aren't so nice and straight.... mine are all crooked... and bent...
ReplyDeleteWhere can I find nice straight bananas like that?
susan s., I never saw a banana like that in my life, but I well remember the dreaded red dye #5.
ReplyDeleteAnn, as a child, I loved the cherries with the bad things on top of a banana split, with the banana lying down, of course.
Cathy, I've had the good glace cherries, and I don't know about nutrition, but they taste better.
You're right. Bad, rude banana!
margaret, really? Bent bananas?
Oh, the dreaded pineapple/banana candlelight salad--it was one of the treats of my youth. It used to appear, by request, at my family birthday parties. I now find myself wondering if my mom and dad were secretly laughing.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing out loud, Mimi, and at a complete loss for words! Surely the 50s were the Golden Age of Unconscious Cheer!
ReplyDeleteBooCat, those were days of such innocence.
ReplyDeleteCalliope Street, my reaction was the same when I opened the email from my naughty friend Lapin. Yes indeed, "Unconscious Cheer". What a clever way to put it.
Margaret, bananas come in all sizes and shapes but as you're a good girl you would not have known that. As a bad boy, I do.
ReplyDeleteBTW Mimi, that's an extremely naughty headline.
ReplyDeleteCathy, the headline is a quote from the magazine in the 1950s. It is all innocent. :-)
ReplyDeleteI can actually see the quote in the text beneath the picture but when you use it as a headline, Mimi, it takes on a whole new charge :-)
ReplyDelete...it takes on a whole new charge :-)
ReplyDeletePerhaps for those with evil minds.... :-)
Well, I think you're a bad influence.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt about that, Cathy.
ReplyDeleteIn a good way, of course :-)
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