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Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Sunnyboys, Smarties, White Knights, Choo-Choo Bars and Twisties

Ok, there's no real rhyme or reason for this frivolous commercial treatise, except that I happened to be reminiscing about the fav...

Kitsch Kitchen

The Joy of Liberace Was Liberace into cooking? Michael and Karan Feder's Joy of Liberace purports to contain recipes from '...

Vintage Picnic

1950s Twinco thermos set Picnic blanket. Amazon Picnic is an evocative word - it conjures images of idyllic childhood days,...

Easy Pancake Recipe

Cheap and Easy Why buy pre-made pancake mixes in a bottle from the supermarket shelves when it's just so, so easy to throw 3 fres...

1950s Cocktails

The 1950s conjures images of sophisticated men in black suits and women with coiffed hair, in voluminous skirts, sitting on the crazy-pa...

Who Invented the Hot Dog?

Hot dogs are almost universally popular, at least in Western cultures - as a fast food they are tasty, convenient, colourful and easy to ca...

Mr. Whippy

No, I'm not referring to some sort of underground S&M character but rather the wholesome ice-cream vendor franchise Mr Whippy, th...

History of the Donut

Bad, bad donut Never was there a f ood so designed to tempt the taste buds via visual stimulation - pink ones, chocolate ones, jam on...

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