When it’s seafood, it’s Shrimp Fantasia! Unlike the movie, you won’t have to wait years before it’s re-released, so to speak. It’ll probably be back tonight, around 3 AM.
Glorify. There’s that word again. As I’ve said elsewhere, it means “to improve in a magnificent and theatrical fashion, wonderfully so.” Early use of the term: Zeigfield’s Follies. Now it means the opposite, and was used sarcastically: that’s just a glorified X,” intended to deride the item for its pretensions.
Chicken Delight includes chicken that hasn’t just been cut, but washed. And dried! Sure, it sounds daunting, but you’ll get the hang of it. (Note from A-of course, don’t wash your chicken, unless you want to follow up by washing your kitchen with disinfectant from the splashing. We probably already know that, though.)
Set a pretty table, because you’ll be judged by it. People will wonder where you got this stuff – why, it’s Georg Jensen, he’s the most. No, dear, I mean who provided it? You can’t afford this on your shopgirl salary. Daddy help out?
You stare daggers at Betty and her innocent smile, as if she doesn’t know exactly what’s doing, reminding everyone her father owns the factory while your father merely manages it. If only you weren’t serving chicken, but had a dish that called for red wine. Something you could make sure ends up all over that nice white dress of hers.
Garden Salad #1
Imagine you’re hungover. Deeply hungover. Someone presents you with this – and shakes the plate so it wiggles. Frankly, it already looks like someone heaved into a mold and stuck the result in the fridge. But that’s Gel-Cookery!
Meat Thing
Bleached, washed, plucked Scalp of Klingon.
Bleached shrimp or rolls of fatty bacon? If you’re lucky, it’s both. In the middle: One of those rare recipies that include the words “Type AB Negative.” |
| Apologies. Really. There are many meals in the Gallery I’ve described in terms of inadvertent stomach evacuations, but this is perhaps the most vomitous dish I have ever seen. Just Rupe ‘n’ Heat!What were they thinking? Didn’t anyone remark how much this looks like a skillet full of spew? I’d suggest that this entire book was made by vegetarians, a sly piece of propaganda, but even the beans look awful.That concludes the Better Homes Guide to Meat, and I think I speak for us all: Thank God.Not to say you’re out of the woods. Let’s look at the Family Circle Guide to Meat. |
The above and so much more come from here:
Scottie's Playtime 
Does it glow in the dark … ?
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It might?
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I don’t know what it is, there isn’t so much as a trace of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern in me but somehow, on some instinctive level bottom-feeders creep me out. Sea spiders (shudders) …
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😄 Ah, the one where it’s difficult to tell if it’s shrimp, or bacon! All of these are yucky, and I just love looking at them now and again, for fun. When I was very young, my mother, grandmothers, and aunts always had gelatin (not jello) stuff on the table for holidays; I was so happy I was not expected to eat it! Ugly food photos are fun, for me, anyway!
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