false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172001321m/131466.jpg 131466 1 Several years ago, while dutifully helping clean out her parents' basement, Wendy McClure struck comic gold when she discovered an intact and well-preserved collection of Weight Watchers Recipe Cards from 1974: <blockquote> They were neatly arranged in their own plastic file box. Plenty of the dishes seemed normal enough, but as I flipped through them, some of the recipes began to alarm me. And then I found the card for the Rosy Perfection Salad. I fell over. I laughed so hard I started coughing, and I fell back on the floor and I waved the card at my mom, who just rolled her eyes. 'Can I please have these? <I>Please?</I>' I begged. 'What do you want them for?' she asked. 'To cook?' 'No,' I said. She let me have them. I think they might have been my grandma's, but she never copped to actually buying them. Nobody else did, either. </blockquote> What McClure unearthed were astonishingly grim, unintentionally hilarious recipe cards (sample dishes: Aspic-Glazed Lamb Loaf and Snappy Mackerel Casserole) containing no nutritional information but illustrated with eerie photos clearly staged by a props department not averse to self-medicating. Compelled to share her discovery with the world, McClure posted the cards on a website, framing each with her own side-splitting and appropriately warped comments. <I>The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan</I>--a titled borrowed from one of the myriad improbably named recipes contained within--unleashes the entire god-awful collection. No review can quite capture the horrors of the recipe cards or the genius of McClure's riotous quips. Suffice to say these are milk-through-the-nose, tears-down-the-cheeks funny and a striking reminder of just how bent the 1970s were. Worth the price for the Molded Asparagus Salad and the Stuffed Apples Ganges cards alone. <I>--Kim Hughes</I> 884174 2006 The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan: Classic Diet Recipe Cards from the 1970s total:62|5:42|4:15|3:4|2:1|1:0| 62 284 75 23 131466 159448208X 9781594482083 62 23 4.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172001321m/131466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131466.The_Amazing_Mackerel_Pudding_Plan_Classic_Diet_Recipe_Cards_from_the_1970s 4 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Sep 06 11:31:44 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 11:32:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 131466 159448208X 9781594482083 62 23 4.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172001321m/131466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131466.The_Amazing_Mackerel_Pudding_Plan_Classic_Diet_Recipe_Cards_from_the_1970s 5 0 false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Aug 14 22:32:53 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 14 22:55:17 -0700 2007
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This is the diet that will be sweeping the nation - The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan (and doesn't that just SOUND yummy???)! So run, don't walk, to your nearest book stor...more...]]> 131466 159448208X 9781594482083 62 23 4.58 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172001321m/131466.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131466.The_Amazing_Mackerel_Pudding_Plan_Classic_Diet_Recipe_Cards_from_the_1970s 5 0 false Sat Nov 03 12:03:59 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 20:24:10 -0700 2007 Sun May 06 22:04:55 -0700 2007 right now and go to this page, which has some of the pages from The Amazing Mackerel Pudding Plan:

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

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please enjoy! and pass it along!
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