Tuesday, January 11, 2011

"HAVE YOUR CANDLE AND EAT IT"



From Lapin, who says. "Guess you remember those inventive 50's magazine recipes."

I do. I do.

24 comments:

  1.      Oh dear! Did you look at this photo carefully? You just know Mad Priest is going to make it one of his caption competitions.

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  2. Rick+, sometimes a banana is just a banana. I'm just saying. :-)

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  3. we 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

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  4. Ann, really? With the cherry cut in half - hmmm.

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  5.      I fear a banana can never just be a banana when we're talking about Mad Priest, dear.

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  6. But, Rick, I'm not talking about MadPriest. I doubt that he even reads my blog.

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  7. Hmm, I think I will go down to the kitchen and get a banana. To eat, not decorate. Good for potassium, you know.

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  8. Hmmm. Bananas are, indeed, very good for potassium, Paul.

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  9. 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.

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  10. Those cherries have almost no cherry content - they are injected with all sorts of bad things.

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  11. Proper, top-quality glace cherries, as opposed to the bad 70s version, are extremely nice.

    That banana is one of the rudest things I have seen for quite a long time.

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  12. geeeezzz --and all the bananas I have in my kitchen right now aren't so nice and straight.... mine are all crooked... and bent...

    Where can I find nice straight bananas like that?

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  13. susan s., I never saw a banana like that in my life, but I well remember the dreaded red dye #5.

    Ann, 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?

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  14. 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.

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  15. I'm laughing out loud, Mimi, and at a complete loss for words! Surely the 50s were the Golden Age of Unconscious Cheer!

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  16. BooCat, those were days of such innocence.

    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.

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  17. 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.

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  18. BTW Mimi, that's an extremely naughty headline.

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  19. Cathy, the headline is a quote from the magazine in the 1950s. It is all innocent. :-)

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  20. I 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 :-)

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  21. ...it takes on a whole new charge :-)

    Perhaps for those with evil minds.... :-)

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  22. Well, I think you're a bad influence.

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