I hate to be catty (well, not really), but...
I hate to be catty (well, not really), but...
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I hate to be catty (well, not really), but...
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Post #1 - August 20th, 2006, 9:39 amI could not stand it this morning! I turned on Food Network (my fave Sunday morning activity) and I swear, is Sandra Lee channeling Farrah Fawcet these days? 1970 just called and they want their hair back......
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Post #2 - August 20th, 2006, 10:59 amFunny you should mention this. Comcast On-Demand has many old Charley's Angels shows running, and I reviewed one last night: unbelievably bad in every way (lighting, writing, plotting and, of course, acting...though Mr. Bosley's suits were quite excellent).
Still, let us recognize some of the good things, food-wise, that the 70s provided us:
• All-you-can eat flavored cream cheese bar at Great Gritzby's
• Pasta Primavera
• Tab
...and there must be more..."Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #3 - August 20th, 2006, 11:04 amDAvid,
Tab was from the 60's! My first Tab was 1970 when it simply tasted like a chemical wash to me. Allegedly it tasted better when it was sweetened with cyclamates.
In the early 70's , there was Shake-A-Puddin' that I was never allowed to buy. It was instant pudding that you put in a shaker to mix.
Regards,Cathy2
"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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Post #4 - August 20th, 2006, 11:09 amCathy2 wrote:DAvid,
Tab was from the 60's! My first Tab was 1970 when it simply tasted like a chemical wash to me. Allegedly it tasted better when it was sweetened with cyclamates.
Right you are. I was thinking of Fresca, which can still be slurped at that godawful Minnie's, which seems the brainchild of someone who enjoyed chemicals of another sort in the 70's."Don't you ever underestimate the power of a female." Bootsy Collins
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Post #5 - August 20th, 2006, 1:26 pmCathy2 wrote:Tab was from the 60's! My first Tab was 1970 when it simply tasted like a chemical wash to me. Allegedly it tasted better when it was sweetened with cyclamates.
In the early 70's , there was Shake-A-Puddin' that I was never allowed to buy. It was instant pudding that you put in a shaker to mix.
Regards,
Tab with cyclamates was sold in Canada for years and tastes about as close to Coca Cola as any other beverage. I haven't seen it is a while although Coca Cola has introduced a Tab "energy Drink" in a can the size of a Red Bull.
We did Skake a Pudding but only once as it well ... had potentials to make a real miss.
Personally, out favorite was Jello 123, the three toned Jello mix.
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Post #6 - August 20th, 2006, 3:19 pmI'd enjoy hearing some reviews from the fruits of labor using an Easy Bake Oven!
And the Lileks site is definitely the go-to destination for '70's edible(?) monstrosities.Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. --Mark Twain
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Post #7 - August 20th, 2006, 4:25 pmjlawrence01 wrote: Coca Cola has introduced a Tab "energy Drink" in a can the size of a Red Bull.
Yeah -- but the new Tab is not really Tab. It's pink and nasty and I can't imagine what possessed them to use the same name -- and even can color -- as that of a drink so widely revered for so long by a large number of confessed "Tab-aholics," myself included.
Nutrasweet makes me sick, so I had to give up diet softdrinks when that started being used. so I actually lost Tab before it ceased being Tab. But for years, though my brother referred to it as "dirty water," I thought of it as "brown champagne" -- or, more often than not, "what's for breakfast."
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Post #8 - August 20th, 2006, 6:35 pmjlawrence wrote:Personally, out favorite was Jello 123, the three toned Jello mix.
My friends in Amsterdam loved Jello 123. It doesn't exist anymore, does it?
Regards,Cathy2
"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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Post #9 - August 20th, 2006, 6:39 pmCathy2 wrote:
My friends in Amsterdam loved Jello 123. It doesn't exist anymore, does it?
Regards,
I think that you can make it by whipping the upper layers of the jello. I have never tried it as I haven't had Jello of any sort at home for years.
As for the brand, I don't think so.
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Post #10 - August 20th, 2006, 11:46 pmMarathon Bars...clearly my favorite candy as a kid.
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Post #11 - August 21st, 2006, 1:09 amAm I more in the 60s when I mention Tang? A good friend has a joke about Tang that I dearly love. He mentions the 3 flavors of Tang: Orange; Grape and.... Prune. The person "not-in-on-it" always replys "Prune Tang?". Priceless.
How about the space sticks? Peanut butter badness in a god awful stick of worseness, that we ate up because the space men ate them?
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Post #12 - August 21st, 2006, 8:07 amTang? Spacefood. Definitely sixties:
http://www.retrofuture.com/spacefood.html"The fork with two prongs is in use in northern Europe. In England, they’re armed with a steel trident, a fork with three prongs. In France we have a fork with four prongs; it’s the height of civilization." Eugene Briffault (1846)
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Post #13 - August 21st, 2006, 11:50 amHI,
A friend who was always a heavy tea drinker took up hot Tang during college. I liked it better than Tang served fresh from tap water.
It was always a big deal with my sisters and I when we were allowed to buy Tang. We pretty much felt we had joined the astronaut corps by mixing up a batch.
Regards,Cathy2
"You'll be remembered long after you're dead if you make good gravy, mashed potatoes and biscuits." -- Nathalie Dupree
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Post #14 - August 21st, 2006, 1:31 pmThe thing that baffles me most about Sandra Lee is how her breasts manage to be both obviously fake and saggy at the same time.
Sorry if that crossed the line from slightly snarky to just plain mean, but I just can't seem to understand it!!!
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Post #15 - August 21st, 2006, 1:35 pmbananasandwiches wrote:The thing that baffles me most about Sandra Lee is how her breasts manage to be both obviously fake and saggy at the same time.
Sorry if that crossed the line from slightly snarky to just plain mean, but I just can't seem to understand it!!!
Semi-home-made?
AAlle Nerven exzitiert von dem gewürzten Wein -- Anwandlung von Todesahndungen -- Doppeltgänger --
- aus dem Tagebuch E.T.A. Hoffmanns, 6. Januar 1804.
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Na sir is na seachain an cath.
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Post #16 - August 29th, 2006, 7:57 amAntonius wrote:bananasandwiches wrote:The thing that baffles me most about Sandra Lee is how her breasts manage to be both obviously fake and saggy at the same time.
Sorry if that crossed the line from slightly snarky to just plain mean, but I just can't seem to understand it!!!
Semi-home-made?
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Post #17 - August 29th, 2006, 8:20 amSemi-Homemade from Jello 1-2-3?
Man, we *are* a twisted bunch! I like it like that!
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Post #18 - August 29th, 2006, 9:22 amWas down in Amish country this weekend and saw an end cap with ... Sugar Free Tang.
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Post #19 - September 6th, 2006, 11:56 ambananasandwiches wrote:The thing that baffles me most about Sandra Lee is how her breasts manage to be both obviously fake and saggy at the same time.
Is it me or is Sandra Lee shows a little too much of her breasts for her show? One episode she was sporting this deep sweetheart neckline that just drew you in to her chest and tuned everything else out. Ick. Someone tell that woman to cover up..... unless her show is trying to draw in more males to the food network??
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Post #20 - September 6th, 2006, 12:52 pmfoodie1 wrote:Is it me or is Sandra Lee shows a little too much of her breasts for her show? One episode she was sporting this deep sweetheart neckline that just drew you in to her chest and tuned everything else out. Ick. Someone tell that woman to cover up..... unless her show is trying to draw in more males to the food network??
Ahem.
E.M.
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Post #21 - September 6th, 2006, 4:03 pmErik, thank you.... that the episode/outfit I was referring to!
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Post #22 - September 6th, 2006, 4:26 pmMy personal opinion of breasts on TV is that there can never be enough. But that is still not reason enough for anyone to watch Sandra Lee's faux-cooking show.Steve Z.
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
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Post #23 - September 6th, 2006, 5:23 pmstevez speaks the truth.
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Post #24 - September 6th, 2006, 5:27 pmShe's got at least one fan:
What's that all about? Pulled from her website...
Interestingly enough, the photos in her gallery tend to "hide" or subtly conceal w/ products, dog's heads, etc. her objects of controversey... perhaps the real culprits to blame are the cameramen and film editors...
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Post #25 - September 6th, 2006, 7:01 pmJay K wrote:She's got at least one fan:
What's that all about? Pulled from her website...
Interestingly enough, the photos in her gallery tend to "hide" or subtly conceal w/ products, dog's heads, etc. her objects of controversey... perhaps the real culprits to blame are the cameramen and film editors...
Why, Adrien, Why?? So sad...he seemed like one of the good ones. Tsk, Tsk.
