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DebD
September 11, 2020
I laughed so hard I could barely read the whole article! So funny! I still have my Boys & Girls cookbook and use some recipes. It’s got my go to meatloaf recipe. Yum!
Magdalena R.
December 13, 2017
This is hilarious. I just cracked up. Thanks for the laugh.
Ps, long live Babysitters Club !
Ps, long live Babysitters Club !
Paige W.
May 2, 2017
I knowI'm a bit late to the party but... I was tired of grading really shitty term papers so I started looking up random stuff on the internet instead. My search started with looking up snotty things Anthony Bourdain says and I somehow ended up here; I am a better person for it. Thank you for the laugh. The author of the next paper I grade thanks you too.
lindsay |.
November 19, 2016
I had a later version of that book and loved it. I desperately wanted to make the ghost cake with flaming eyes. But I agree with Atticus re: the prune face.
Heather G.
November 28, 2016
You must have had the same edition I do that includes hamburgers with faces made from olives! I obsessively checked it out from the library as a kid and picked up my own copy at an antique mall last month.
frecklywench
November 15, 2016
This series is the best. I am all about old-school cookbook greatness!
First L.
November 14, 2016
I grew up with that book. Ours was so stained and torn and missing pages, I bought another years later. I ate the candle and pear bunny salad mentioned and learned to cook from this book alongside my mother. Great memories but I guess we were more gullible so many generations ago! Thanks for the "today" interpretation of yesterday's menu.
NCdana
November 14, 2016
I made so many recipes from that book in 1963-64 and still have my copy. Loved the pear/bunny salad. Remember not to say it's good for them!
BakerRB
November 14, 2016
What a wonderful flashback. I made that candle salad! And I remember a canned pear rabbit on a lettuce leaf as well. I'm sure my mom and I prepared half the recipes in that book. I loved it.
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