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July 24, 2004
FLUFFY MACKEREL PUDDING
A colleague in the cube farm was laughing uncontrollably the other day. After checking to be sure my fly was zipped, I asked what was so funny. She pointed me to this Website, which features Weight Watchers diet menu cards from 1974, along with pithy commentary on the meals shown.
After having observed the cards, I can only conclude that in the 1970s, Weight Watchers' philosophy was that if you made people eat stuff that looked like it was grown in a petri dish, smelled like it was cooked in gym sock broth, or had a name designed to induce vomiting upon even hearing it... well, they'd choose not to eat and would thus lose weight.
A "Slender Quencher" made with boullion cubes? "Inspiration Soup?" And the ever popular "Fluffy Mackerel Pudding?" Yummy nummy! Gee, I wonder why Weight Watchers didn't really take off until the 80s?!
(By the way, the author of the comments - which are very funny, by the way - has a blog here. Check her out, she is very funny.)
